Health: COVID symptom whack-a-mole?

[elisem]

 tl:dr Silly body is silly.

I continue resting LIKE A POTATO. 

Whatever's going on in there, COVID (or something) has apparently been playing with the sliders and the lit-up buttons on my disabilities and chronic ailments. The good leg because the bad leg for several days. Really bad, pain-wise. Now that seems to be easing up a lot. The bad leg is doing something with sensations on the part of the leg where some nerve rerouting/regrowth happened after surgery 16 years ago; I did not need it to play with pins-and-needles, burning, freezing, and shocks on that leg below the replaced hip. Also, the sudden decrease in my hearing was distressing, though that seems to be mostly back where it was now.

Am using what skills I have to treat everything as temporary, and not decide This Is How It Will Be From Here On Out.  (Fibromyalgia has a ton of temporary things happening, at least for me, that seem like a Big Deal and then suddenly shift or go away.)

So yeah, silly body is silly.

Not as much pain in the temporarily bad leg today, so that is a huge win. I'll take it.

Does your body ever tell you something like "Augh, my toe is broken!" and then go "just foolin'! It's fine!" a while later?

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[keshwyn]

Goodness yes. My ankles are currently made of cottage cheese, and every so often they inform me that they're actually made out of ANGRY JELLO...and then they're fine half an hour later.

Bodies are so maddening.

[(Anonymous)]

That all sounds.... familiar. Bodies.

[ladythmpr]

I have little synovial fluid in my right big toe, and occasionally, it becomes a BIG pain.And other times, it's just fine. Good arch support helps me have less pain.

[china_shop]

> Does your body ever tell you something like "Augh, my toe is broken!" and then go "just foolin'! It's fine!" a while later?

On a lesser scale, but yes, ALL THE TIME. Silly bodies!!

I'm so glad you have less pain today!

[pameladean]

Yes, it's ridiculous. "SHOULDER'S FALLING OFF RIGHT NOW!... just kidding."

I think Covid is known for messing up things that have healed, which is particularly obnoxious of it, I have to say.

P.

[jesse_the_k]

It's a Ferris wheel of symptoms!

May you welcome back your reliable typical miseries soonest. (At least we know how to handle them.)