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I will try to relate to your daughter’s sudden onset nerve pain in feet. In mid-November, I had the same condition. I now have minor discomfort occassionaly.
I found online that it was shin tendonitis.

The medical sites said to just rest, elevate the foot and apply ice packs for about 15 minutes and repeat a few times a day. That fights the inflammation.
I also found it helpful to wear a compression sock during the day and take it off while sleeping. That reduces the swelling.

A major help was to have 2 cups of homemade bone broth per day to help rebuild the tendons. Bone broth has the protein collagen that is needed to repair the tendon damage. But I emphasis homemade. The store bought bone broth is water downed and does not have much collagen. I roast a chicken or turkey, cut off the meat when it comes out of the oven and place the bones and scraps in a large pot with water to the top of the bones and simmer for the rest of the day. It does freeze well.

In Australia, (Monash University), they say after a few days of rest, go with light, limited exercise and slowly increase the level of exercise.

In November, I thought the tendonitis was caused by overdoing the fall cleanup in the yard (1/2 acre). I did not blame it on Long Covid. However, after further review, it looks like LC may be the culprit.

From: Your Covid Recovery https://www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk Muscle aches and pains are described as ‘myalgia’. It can involve your ligaments, tendons, soft tissues and it can also cause joint pain. Myalgia can be a common symptom if you have a viral infection such as COVID

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Thank you very much for your response.
I really appreciate the link you provided also. Thank you.
It seems like there’s not 1 thing COVID does not affect.
My daughter notices that when she gets the foot pain the LC extreme fatigue comes shortly after. She’s seeing a pattern with the symptoms.
She needs to get to a new dr so she can address some of these things but she’s been dealing with her hip issue (a tear in hip labrum from the fall due to COVID dizziness). She can only deal with so much at once (emotionally it’s been extremely difficult). She went back to the orthopedist and he needs to do surgery but not until she can reduce the pain from the 4 bulging discs she also got from the fall. In order to do that she needs to go to a pain clinic. So that is the next step. And Medicaid insists she get that referral from a regular dr instead of the ortho. I don’t understand that but we must jump through the hoops.
My hope is that she can begin to address these other issues when she goes to the regular dr apt.
Again, thank you so very much for your reply.
It is heart-breaking for me to watch her suffer so much with all of these issues. I wish I could take it on for her.