#long-covid

[plarnston]

Does anybody else have experience with developing chronic widespread severe joint and muscle pain after contracting COVID?

More information below the cut:

My husband @gatorenthusiast got COVID in May or June of 2025, he was unvaccinated (not by choice). He got very sick and was unable to work for about a month, but even though symptoms improved and the respiratory symptoms faded, he's been developing more and more severe pain. For the past few months he's been experiencing daily full body pain, fatigue, muscle knots, stiffness, joint pain, joint stiffness, joint inflammation, chronic fatigue, sleeping 12+ hours a day but never feeling rested, and he throws up at least twice a week. It seems to be getting worse. Our doctor thought he had gout, but after 2 months of treatment and lifestyle changes, doing everything we can for his pain and inflammation, the doctor doesn't seem to think it's gout as the symptoms have not improved whatsoever. He was referred to a rheumatologist, but that's about a month out.

If anybody has any ideas on what this could be, experience seeing a rheumatologist, or having long covid, please DM me, send an ask, or comment! Please do not hesitate to reach out, and feel free to reblog if you think that would help get us answers and advice.

[doodleoo]

Please pray for me, I'm speaking to my GP tomorrow about using low-dose naltrexone against post-exertional malaise and neurological symptoms and I'm quite afraid to be rejected or doubted (I'm not speaking to my usual doctor sadly).

[liminalweirdo]

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Here is a google doc with a script for opposing Lopez’s Proposed Ordinance Introduced to Chicago’s City Council on May 22, 2024, and includes information on how to find your alderman

If you are frequently in Chicago for medical appointments, visiting family or friends, etc., find out what ward you spend the most time in here and make note of the Alderman’s email and phone number. Otherwise, you can focus on Alderman Lopez at [email protected] / 773-823-1539.

“I visit Chicago frequently for _________________ and I am writing to express my strong opposition to Ald. Lopez’s proposed amendment to Title 8 of the Municipal Code of Chicago, “Enhanced penalties for concealing or attempting to conceal identity.”

If passed, this ordinance would prevent me from safely traveling to Chicago while wearing a mask, which is an essential safety device for me and all immunocompromised people. Furthermore, it would increase the number of people being sent to Illinois prisons, disproportionately affecting Black and brown Chicagoans; and it would undermine both public health and our constitutional right to protest.

Please oppose this ordinance so that I, and others like me, can continue traveling to Chicago. Thank you.

[helenwhiteart-blog]

Just because you could doesn't mean you should

I think this is one of the biggest stumbling blocks of mild to moderate ME/CFS…just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should (and by the way, if you have severe ME/CFS the chances are you couldn’t even if you wanted to, which is the only reason I leave it out). Really, I suspect that this mindset of always doing as much as we are capable of is one of the commonest things to trip-up,…

Just because you could doesn't mean you should

[alighted-willow]

As the seasons change and the weather gets colder, I must ask; Spoonies, how're we feelin’?

[terraoliveira]

two & a half years into the pandemic, wildfire smoke thickens the air, every year growing dark & more westward, our breathing shorter & hardened. capital consumes the quality of sky, & day after day, more of us enter the fog — heavy as metal — our bodies turned hot in the crucible, chests fluttering, airways tightening. you are so young & healthy, the doctors tell me. your tests have all come back normal. you have so much ahead of you. i sit in front of them, gasping for air.

Long-COVID (Seattle, 2022) by Terra Oliveira, published in The Rising Phoenix Review

[doodleoo]

My symptoms: <get so bad I am visibly ill 100% of the time>

Me (to myself): This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in being ill, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,