Covid for pain relief

[bedrock]

I just saw a long term patient. Her family all got Covid and all of her family had diffuse aches etc as expected.
However, She had a paradoxical reaction in that all of her pain went away for a week and then returned to baseline after her Covid. She is s/p cervical fusion, RFA, also has cervical myofascial pain.

Have any of you seen this Covid response in your patients?

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[Ducttape]

the ones i have asked - no.

except in the acute phase when they to a one all stated they thought they were going to die from the severe body aches.

during that phase, their chronic pain was not an issue.

 

[Agast]

Did she get monoclonal antibodies? I saw a lot of anecdotal reports about MABs helping chronic pain

 

[Orin]

SARS-CoV-2 infection can block pain, opening up unexpected new possibilities for research into pain relief medication

The SARS-CoV-2 virus usually infects the body via the ACE2 protein. But there is another entry point that allows the virus to infect the nervous system and block pain perception.

theconversation.com

Seems a little jazz handsy to me...but okay.