Taking a Creatine dietary supplement might be helpful.
Thank you Charles, I will look at that!
I have been taking a CoQ10 supplement to help with metabolic function - apparently the virus can f*** up your mitochondria (!) - but it's unclear if that is the root cause of my stuff. Cytokine storms are another possible cause, which the creatine may help with.
Look at me! 15 minutes with Dr. Google and I'm a COVID myalgia expert! Other than possibly improving your mood, Creatine isn't likely to help with 3 1/2 more years of Trump.
LOL. Tru dat.
And GFTNC, sorry to hear about your stuff. Nothing worse IMO than not being able to sleep, for whatever reason.
Better days, y'all!
2025-08-05 13:16:22
Also, too: Do you morons not know?
Yes, they definitely know. But for some reason, or collection of reasons, a remarkable number of people and institutions are amazingly reluctant to name things for what they are. At least, when it comes to Trump.
What we're seeing is the failure of the institutions that are meant to preserve constitutional governance and the rule of law. Not just failure, they seem to be actively running away from the responsibilities of their role in our grand experiment.
Everybody is afraid of the bully. Nobody wants to upset the apple cart, even though the apple cart has already been smashed to bits and the apples rolled into the gutter.
One way or another, the reign of DJT will end. I really don't know what we will be left with.
One thing that does seem to be clear is that everybody else on the planet is figuring out that a MAGA United States is a fickle and utterly self-interested actor, and are taking steps to deal with that. Among other things, some of them are discovering that they don't really need us all that badly. We can be worked around.
Another 3 1/2 years to go.
2025-08-05 13:08:54
At the risk of stepping on wj's comment, I'll take another hard turn in a different direction.
We mostly talk about politics and related stuff here, but sometimes share from our personal lives as well. Apologies in advance if this is inappropriate or unwelcome.
Back in early June, I came down with COVID. After five years of somehow avoiding the stupid virus, it finally caught up with me. The week or so of having the active virus was definitely no fun, but was really (in my fortunate case) only incrementally worse than a bad case of the flu. Fever, headache, body ache. I drank a lot of fluids, took a lot of ibuprophen, ate a lot of Indica gummies, and basically slept it off.
A few days after all of that, the post-COVID stuff kicked in. Profound fatigue - like, I would brush my teeth and need a rest afterwards - for about a week.
And then, and continuing to now, intense myalgia. And weirdly specific - shoulders (can't raise my arms), hamstrings, calves and shins. SImple things are painful. Sleeping through the night is out of the question, I have to get up every hour or two and walk around the house to shake off the cramping pain in my legs.
None of this is meant as a complaint, really. A lot of folks get this much worse than what I'm experiencing. What it is, for me, is a wake up call.
I'm within shouting distance of 70, and I've been remarkably lucky, health-wise. Never had a serious illness, never broken a bone, never had surgery, never had a joint replaced. Still have all my original teeth, for crying out loud. A very lucky guy.
This experience has been my introduction to the world of chronic illness, and specifically the world of chronic pain. It's been eye-opening.
My wife suffered with PMR for about a year during 2023-2024, the symptoms of which are a lot like what I"m dealing with now. While I could sympathize with what she was going through, and picked up as much of the household stuff as I could so she could rest, I don't think I really understood what she was experiencing.
Now, I have a better idea.
It has been a sobering, even chastening, experience. So many people live with this, or similar, for years and years. All their lives, in some cases. The best information I've been able to find about my stuff is that it should pass in "weeks to months". Which sucks, but at least I know there is an endpoint to it. At some point, I'll be back to an acceptable version of normal.
I am, frankly, grateful for the almost-70 years of good fortune I've had, and oddly enough am grateful for the crap I'm dealing with now. I've had to cut some stuff out of my life because it's just too hard to do right now, and that has been the occasion for a lot of reflection and re-focusing. Mostly, I'm learing the hard lesson of accepting limitations with grace, which is not something I've really had to do much of before now.
It's an interesting adventure.
Anyway, I hope this isn't TMI. These thoughts have just been banging around in my head for the last couple of weeks, and I felt the need to share them somewhere. I consider all of you friends, even if in the weird Internet age way of connecting with people online. I appreciate the opportunity to spill all this tea here, it's actually helpful, and I appreciate your forbearance in putting up with the rambling.
Better days, y'all! Onward and upward.
Taking a Creatine dietary supplement might be helpful.
Thank you Charles, I will look at that!
I have been taking a CoQ10 supplement to help with metabolic function - apparently the virus can f*** up your mitochondria (!) - but it's unclear if that is the root cause of my stuff. Cytokine storms are another possible cause, which the creatine may help with.
Look at me! 15 minutes with Dr. Google and I'm a COVID myalgia expert!
Other than possibly improving your mood, Creatine isn't likely to help with 3 1/2 more years of Trump.
LOL. Tru dat.
And GFTNC, sorry to hear about your stuff. Nothing worse IMO than not being able to sleep, for whatever reason.
Better days, y'all!
Also, too:
Do you morons not know?
Yes, they definitely know. But for some reason, or collection of reasons, a remarkable number of people and institutions are amazingly reluctant to name things for what they are. At least, when it comes to Trump.
What we're seeing is the failure of the institutions that are meant to preserve constitutional governance and the rule of law. Not just failure, they seem to be actively running away from the responsibilities of their role in our grand experiment.
Everybody is afraid of the bully. Nobody wants to upset the apple cart, even though the apple cart has already been smashed to bits and the apples rolled into the gutter.
One way or another, the reign of DJT will end. I really don't know what we will be left with.
One thing that does seem to be clear is that everybody else on the planet is figuring out that a MAGA United States is a fickle and utterly self-interested actor, and are taking steps to deal with that. Among other things, some of them are discovering that they don't really need us all that badly. We can be worked around.
Another 3 1/2 years to go.
At the risk of stepping on wj's comment, I'll take another hard turn in a different direction.
We mostly talk about politics and related stuff here, but sometimes share from our personal lives as well. Apologies in advance if this is inappropriate or unwelcome.
Back in early June, I came down with COVID. After five years of somehow avoiding the stupid virus, it finally caught up with me. The week or so of having the active virus was definitely no fun, but was really (in my fortunate case) only incrementally worse than a bad case of the flu. Fever, headache, body ache. I drank a lot of fluids, took a lot of ibuprophen, ate a lot of Indica gummies, and basically slept it off.
A few days after all of that, the post-COVID stuff kicked in. Profound fatigue - like, I would brush my teeth and need a rest afterwards - for about a week.
And then, and continuing to now, intense myalgia. And weirdly specific - shoulders (can't raise my arms), hamstrings, calves and shins. SImple things are painful. Sleeping through the night is out of the question, I have to get up every hour or two and walk around the house to shake off the cramping pain in my legs.
None of this is meant as a complaint, really. A lot of folks get this much worse than what I'm experiencing. What it is, for me, is a wake up call.
I'm within shouting distance of 70, and I've been remarkably lucky, health-wise. Never had a serious illness, never broken a bone, never had surgery, never had a joint replaced. Still have all my original teeth, for crying out loud. A very lucky guy.
This experience has been my introduction to the world of chronic illness, and specifically the world of chronic pain. It's been eye-opening.
My wife suffered with PMR for about a year during 2023-2024, the symptoms of which are a lot like what I"m dealing with now. While I could sympathize with what she was going through, and picked up as much of the household stuff as I could so she could rest, I don't think I really understood what she was experiencing.
Now, I have a better idea.
It has been a sobering, even chastening, experience. So many people live with this, or similar, for years and years. All their lives, in some cases. The best information I've been able to find about my stuff is that it should pass in "weeks to months". Which sucks, but at least I know there is an endpoint to it. At some point, I'll be back to an acceptable version of normal.
I am, frankly, grateful for the almost-70 years of good fortune I've had, and oddly enough am grateful for the crap I'm dealing with now. I've had to cut some stuff out of my life because it's just too hard to do right now, and that has been the occasion for a lot of reflection and re-focusing. Mostly, I'm learing the hard lesson of accepting limitations with grace, which is not something I've really had to do much of before now.
It's an interesting adventure.
Anyway, I hope this isn't TMI. These thoughts have just been banging around in my head for the last couple of weeks, and I felt the need to share them somewhere. I consider all of you friends, even if in the weird Internet age way of connecting with people online. I appreciate the opportunity to spill all this tea here, it's actually helpful, and I appreciate your forbearance in putting up with the rambling.
Better days, y'all! Onward and upward.