Leg pain after Covid

wfreiling

wfreiling

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I recently tested positive for Covid. I’m feeling much better and am tested negative now. However, I’m having some bad cramping/soreness in my legs. I haven’t trained legs in over a week. Anyone else experience this? I read it’s pretty common but just wondering how long it lasts?
 
wfreiling said:
I recently tested positive for Covid. I’m feeling much better and am tested negative now. However, I’m having some bad cramping/soreness in my legs. I haven’t trained legs in over a week. Anyone else experience this? I read it’s pretty common but just wondering how long it lasts?
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This has been happening to me as well but with some activity. After I got better, the first day off quarantine I did my stairs 10 times throughout the day and me legs were jello. Since then, I seem to decondition very quickly and go through the jello legs again. It's happened 3 times I think in the past few weeks. I plan on starting actual weight training this week.

Although, I did the 4 flights of stairs test in 45 seconds exactly so I guess my general conditioning is still decent.
 
GreenMachineX said:
This has been happening to me as well but with some activity. After I got better, the first day off quarantine I did my stairs 10 times throughout the day and me legs were jello. Since then, I seem to decondition very quickly and go through the jello legs again. It's happened 3 times I think in the past few weeks. I plan on starting actual weight training this week.

Although, I did the 4 flights of stairs test in 45 seconds exactly so I guess my general conditioning is still decent.
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What can you attribute it to?
Were you pretty sick?
 
Renew1 said:
What can you attribute it to?
Were you pretty sick?
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I had just a few bad days, but it was very hard to eat so I lost 16 pounds. That's my guess. But I've also had some terrible hormone issues after trying to tweak my protocol so maybe it's that.
 
GreenMachineX said:
I had just a few bad days, but it was very hard to eat so I lost 16 pounds. That's my guess. But I've also had some terrible hormone issues after trying to tweak my protocol so maybe it's that.
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Ahhhh ... I see.
 
I’m hoping it’s just the fact that I haven’t been doing **** until today. I did do a push workout that went just fine. Legs are Tuesday so we shall see. It’s just weird .
 
might be best to treat it as if it's not covid related and just treat the symptoms. to me it sounds like maybe you need potassium?
 
I had bad leg pain post covid. Just in one spot. It was so bad one day, I was having to use my hands to put my leg in my car. Started taking gotu kola. Seemed to fix me up. I think mine was a circulatory system issue. Leg wasn't hot, but hurt like hell.
 
wfreiling said:
I recently tested positive for Covid. I’m feeling much better and am tested negative now. However, I’m having some bad cramping/soreness in my legs. I haven’t trained legs in over a week. Anyone else experience this? I read it’s pretty common but just wondering how long it lasts?
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Back to normal? 'rona hits everyone different it seems. I went back to check my log when I had it to see what I did differently and how I recovered. I was on a massive vitamin regiment and bounced back very fast.

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but my buddy who is an extremely athletic xfit coach needed about 6 weeks longer than I did to recover, and it didn't help that his recovery was also during his worst allergy season...

like mentioned before, I think i'd set the covid portion aside for now and treat the symptoms, build back into it. hope you are doing well-
 
Dustin07 said:
Back to normal? 'rona hits everyone different it seems. I went back to check my log when I had it to see what I did differently and how I recovered. I was on a massive vitamin regiment and bounced back very fast.

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but my buddy who is an extremely athletic xfit coach needed about 6 weeks longer than I did to recover, and it didn't help that his recovery was also during his worst allergy season...

like mentioned before, I think i'd set the covid portion aside for now and treat the symptoms, build back into it. hope you are doing well-
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All good now but it took a while
 
GreenMachineX said:
I had just a few bad days, but it was very hard to eat so I lost 16 pounds. That's my guess. But I've also had some terrible hormone issues after trying to tweak my protocol so maybe it's that.
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losing 16 lbs in short time due to illness is pretty drastic, imo...in my entire lifetime i have never lost over 5-7 lbs due to illness and i'm 63.
 
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