Post-Covid effects, lower back pain 11648...भारत
A 33-year-old female had Covid (Delta) in Apr 2021 and recovered after two months. However, she started having pain and stiffness in all her joints every morning, and this would reduce only after she moved around for a couple of hours. She felt extremely weak and had little energy the whole day. She got infected again with Covid (Omicron) in June 2022 and recovered after 15 days of treatment with steroids but she felt even weaker all-over, practically all the time.
In October, after a house-move when she lifted heavy household items, she developed lower back pain, which would show some improvement only after she took complete rest overnight. If she sat for over two hours, the pain would increase and become unbearable. Her doctor diagnosed it as disc prolapse and prescribed a muscle relaxant and a painkiller and advised her to move very slowly and carefully. These gave her only some relief. Also for the last 3½ years, she used to get occasional mild migraine but post-covid, it became severe, recurring every week and so she had to resort to painkillers. On 2 Jan 2023, she was given:
For post-Covid issues:
#1. IB Recuperation*…OD
For lower back pain:
#2. CC20.5 Spine + CC20.7 Fractures…BD in mustard oil for external application
She was advised to go for walks and do gentle stretching exercises for 10-15 minutes daily. She started feeling better and by 17 Jan, her lethargy was reduced by 50% but her joint pain and stiffness vanished. By 1 Feb, lethargy and weakness went down by 70% but the back pain by only 30%. She stopped taking the muscle relaxant and painkiller in March. By early May, all her post-Covid symptoms including lower back pain, had vanished, so she stopped #1 and #2 in the second week of May.
As of 3 Aug, there has been no recurrence. Encouraged by this improvement she has now sought treatment for PCOD and the occasional mild migraine she gets at the pre-Covid level.
*Refer to Sep/Oct 2022 Issue #5 of vol 13 for update on Remedies for Covid-19.