Anyone else unable to play since getting COVID?

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I got COVID back in October, 2023. It turned into Long COVID. Among many other symptoms, I lost a significant amount of strength and stamina (20lb weight loss, mostly muscle.) and arthritis-like pain in all of my joints. That being said, I can't really hold a barre chord, and playing for just a few minutes causes a fair amount of pain and fatigue.

Anyone else find themselves in a similar predicament?
 
We dodged the bullet up until last October. Missus brought the darn bug home from a medical conference of all things. Suffered no serious effects and zero long term carry-over. Had to cancel a few things as a result but never passed it on to anyone as we did the house arrest thing until we were clear. Still makes you think about how another person's carelessness (or not knowing they are even a carrier) can affect many down the line.
Sorry you have a lasting issue from it. Hopefully you can return to better health.🤞🙏
 
I got COVID back in October, 2023. It turned into Long COVID. Among many other symptoms, I lost a significant amount of strength and stamina (20lb weight loss, mostly muscle.) and arthritis-like pain in all of my joints. That being said, I can't really hold a barre chord, and playing for just a few minutes causes a fair amount of pain and fatigue.

Anyone else find themselves in a similar predicament?
Damn that sucks ;~(( I hope you get your strength back! I hate to say it, but it sounds like if you still want to play, at least for now, you may have to choose to play through the pain. I know this will not be possible at times, but I got nothin' else ;~(( Best wishes on recovery, I have two friends with the long covid and it definitely has changed their daily routines for the time being.
 
While I'm not convinced that the two times I had Covid were solely responsible for all lingering of negative aftereffects of bugs and viruses in life, I do feel it put a hit on the system that can be felt as detrimental to this day. Other diseases that weren't specified on radar factor in as well though. I try to stay stronger for longer, but life gets rough from things including Covid.

I'm not gonna play doctor on the internet but I personally think I benefit from certain supplements I take in the attempt to be at my best.

I hope it improves for you.
 
Sorry to hear about the nasty effects for you. Being a type 1 diabetic, my immune system is not exactly the greatest, and as a result I've been hit with four different strains of COVID going all the way back to the beginning in 2020 (and one suspected occurrence in 2019 before the big spread). Ironically, being locked up indoors rekindled my desire to get back to the guitar, and I consider myself very fortunate to not have suffered any debilitating effects. COVID sucks, but if there's an upside, lots of time for practice! Praying for you to regain the strength to enable you to get back to playing regularly.
 
Sorry to hear this.
I had long covid also, still have issues with smell & taste, but it did not affect my playing whatsoever. You might want to talk to your Dr. about your ongoing limitations, they may be caused by other health factors.
Best wishes on getting back to snuff on gtr.
 
Exercise would help build up your strength-whatever type you like.
I would suggest one thing to try would be exercise bands:


There are bands at various strengths and it costs a lot less than a gym membership. Even if you only do 2-3 repetitions per day, they will slowly build up your strength. And you can use them in the privacy of your own home.

Doug
 
I have long covid. I had it so bad a few years ago, I was told I was 'a moment away from a one-way ride to the hospital'. Had gotten vaxed about six months earlier, saved my life. Since, though, always having to clear my throat, or frequent lung butter. Like allergies, but not allergies. Took several months to reacquire reasonable stamina. It was also surmised that the osteoarthritis I suddenly developed after in basically every joint it seems was triggered by it. It was murder on my hands, but playing something was better than not. Just keep pushing through it, it may not get perfect, but it gets better. Motion of any kind is lotion. Hope you're feeling better soon!
 
Covid hit me hard....but it was pretty short term. I mean, it DID have me down for a solid 12 or 13 days....but once it was over, it was over. Thank God, as I have heard stories of long covid.

My singer is currently down with covid. Missed as studio session this past Sunday. But she seems to be recovering well.

Let's hope things come back around for you. And that you get it back on track.
 
This is going to get political fast, but does anybody have any real evidence to support the theory that the vaccine is the root of the problems. My doctor insists that these ideas are not correct and there is plenty of real evidence to support it. And to show that many unvaccinated people who had covid have these same issues afterwards and had no vaccine
 
This is going to get political fast, but does anybody have any real evidence to support the theory that the vaccine is the root of the problems. My doctor insists that these ideas are not correct and there is plenty of real evidence to support it. And to show that many unvaccinated people who had covid have these same issues afterwards and had no vaccine
There Is Nothing Political About This Topic. There Is Plenty Of Real Evidence Out There To Support The Fact That The So Called "Vaccine" (Or Better Yet In Reality It Is An mRNA Bioweapon) Is The Cause Of All Kinds Of Issues. You Just Need To Make The Effort To Look For The Information. Your Doctor Insists The Facts Aren't Correct Because He Is Financially Benefitting From Administering The Product And Is Being Told What He Is Repeating. What Is He Going To Do, Admit He Is Wrong And Knowingly Be Complicit?

The Covid Numbers Are Almost Identical To The Flu Numbers The Years Prior. During The Covid Timeframe The Flu Numbers Essentially Disappeared. Did Covid Somehow Cure The Flu? Did They Switch The Numbers Of The Flu And Call It Covid? One Has To Wonder Or Should Wonder. The Virus Has Never Been Isolated And This Was Proven So In Court. Myocarditis, Turbo Cancer, New Cancers At Incredible Rates, Reproductive Issues, Blood Clots, Arthritis, Inflammation In The Body, All Kinds Of Other Health Issues Are Popping Up Right And Left In People Who Took It And All Of This Started Happening At The Same Time As This Product Rollout. We Were Told It Was Safe And Effective Yet It Was Anything But Safe And Effective. Many People Who Took The Product Got Sick...Multiple Times Or "Died Suddenly"....Remember All These Athletes Just Dropping? The Notion Was Encouraged To Take More...Get Your Boosters...Yet People Continued Getting Sick And Sometimes Getting It Multiple Times. What Is The Definition Of A Vaccine? Not That...This Product Was Rolled Out Under Emergency Use Authorization Without Proper Testing And Knowledge Of The Long Term Effects To The Public. Rolling It Out That Way Gives The Drug Makers Essentially Zero Accountability And That Is Why They Did It That Way. Remember The Government Wanting To Keep These Results Away From The Public For 75 Years Or Have You Forgotten That? It Has Come Out That There Were Already Medicines Available That Could Help People But Those Medicines Were Demonized And Withheld (Ivermectin And HCQ).If It Was Disclosed That Those Medicines Work (And They Do) And That They Were Already Available (And They Were) Then They Couldn't Use The Emergency Use Authorization Angle To Roll Out Their Product. The Government Kick Backs And Profits These Companies Made Are Astronomical And Provable If One Wants To Look Into It. The Hospitals Made A Fortune As Well. Remdesivir Is Deadly Yet That Is What They Were Putting People On Along With The Ventilators.

Nobody Wants To Believe This Stuff But There Comes A Time Where One Has To Dig Deeper And Look Harder At Things. There Are Way Too Many Coincidences For This Side Of The Conversation To Be Dismissed As A Conspiracy Theory. I Had A Hard Time Believing Things Initially As Well But When It Hits Home And You Lose Loved Ones Because Of The Poke (And I Have) And When You Lose Friends From The Poke (And I Have) It Changes Things. Those People Are Gone...They Aren't Coming Back. They Were Perfectly Healthy And Pressured To Take The Product For Their Jobs And In My Mother's Case She Had Broken A Tooth And No Dentist Would See Her Unless She Took The Poke. She Refused For Nearly Two Weeks And Couldn't Take The Pain So She Gave In Just To Get Some Relief And Less Than Two Weeks Later She Died Suddenly After Getting Out Her Her Car To Get Gas. She Was Perfectly Healthy Prior. Her Autopsy Revealed All Kinds Of Abnormal Blood Clots That Were White Fibrous Things Which Is What Coroners Are Finding In Most Of The Autopsies That Are Done On People Who Are "Vaccinated". This Isn't A Political Thing...This Is A Life Thing And People Need To Talk About It And Be Open No Matter What They May Think. Ignoring It Doesn't Make It Better Nor Does It Make It Go Away. Fighting About It Doesn't Make It Better Or Make It Go Away. Being Dismissive Solves Nothing And I Get It That Nobody Wants To Admit They May Have Been Lied To. I Understand All Of The Sides As I Have Been Through Them All And Had To Come To Terms With Them In My Own Life, Research And Very Painful Circumstances. The Facts Led Me To A Place I Didn't Want To Be But Here I Am. Whether Anybody Wants To Believe A Thing Is On Them And Their Willingness To Dig Outside The Convenient Realms. The Deeper And More Important Question Is This...Are You Prepared And Able To Handle The Truth (Whatever You May Believe It To Be) And Deal With It? What If Your Worst Fears And All The Things You Doubt Are Actually True? Are You Prepared To Handle That Truth? How Would You Deal With It? That Is The Bigger Question And Picture In All Of This IMO. I Had No Choice But The Follow The Facts (Truth) And "Trust The Science" And That Is What Has Led Me To Where I Am Now. It Wasn't Always My Stance But Life, Reports And So Forth Showed Me Different.

Hopefully This Helps Somebody And Inspires Them To Dig For Their Truth. I Do Know This Though...What A Person Can't Talk About Owns Them And If A Person Can't Or Is Unwilling To Talk And Listen To All The Sides They Are Already Owned And Don't Even Know It...Sadly.
 
There Is Nothing Political About This Topic. There Is Plenty Of Real Evidence Out There To Support The Fact That The So Called "Vaccine" (Or Better Yet In Reality It Is An mRNA Bioweapon) Is The Cause Of All Kinds Of Issues. You Just Need To Make The Effort To Look For The Information. Your Doctor Insists The Facts Aren't Correct Because He Is Financially Benefitting From Administering The Product And Is Being Told What He Is Repeating. What Is He Going To Do, Admit He Is Wrong And Knowingly Be Complicit?

The Covid Numbers Are Almost Identical To The Flu Numbers The Years Prior. During The Covid Timeframe The Flu Numbers Essentially Disappeared. Did Covid Somehow Cure The Flu? Did They Switch The Numbers Of The Flu And Call It Covid? One Has To Wonder Or Should Wonder. The Virus Has Never Been Isolated And This Was Proven So In Court. Myocarditis, Turbo Cancer, New Cancers At Incredible Rates, Reproductive Issues, Blood Clots, Arthritis, Inflammation In The Body, All Kinds Of Other Health Issues Are Popping Up Right And Left In People Who Took It And All Of This Started Happening At The Same Time As This Product Rollout. We Were Told It Was Safe And Effective Yet It Was Anything But Safe And Effective. Many People Who Took The Product Got Sick...Multiple Times Or "Died Suddenly"....Remember All These Athletes Just Dropping? The Notion Was Encouraged To Take More...Get Your Boosters...Yet People Continued Getting Sick And Sometimes Getting It Multiple Times. What Is The Definition Of A Vaccine? Not That...This Product Was Rolled Out Under Emergency Use Authorization Without Proper Testing And Knowledge Of The Long Term Effects To The Public. Rolling It Out That Way Gives The Drug Makers Essentially Zero Accountability And That Is Why They Did It That Way. Remember The Government Wanting To Keep These Results Away From The Public For 75 Years Or Have You Forgotten That? It Has Come Out That There Were Already Medicines Available That Could Help People But Those Medicines Were Demonized And Withheld (Ivermectin And HCQ).If It Was Disclosed That Those Medicines Work (And They Do) And That They Were Already Available (And They Were) Then They Couldn't Use The Emergency Use Authorization Angle To Roll Out Their Product. The Government Kick Backs And Profits These Companies Made Are Astronomical And Provable If One Wants To Look Into It. The Hospitals Made A Fortune As Well. Remdesivir Is Deadly Yet That Is What They Were Putting People On Along With The Ventilators.

Nobody Wants To Believe This Stuff But There Comes A Time Where One Has To Dig Deeper And Look Harder At Things. There Are Way Too Many Coincidences For This Side Of The Conversation To Be Dismissed As A Conspiracy Theory. I Had A Hard Time Believing Things Initially As Well But When It Hits Home And You Lose Loved Ones Because Of The Poke (And I Have) And When You Lose Friends From The Poke (And I Have) It Changes Things. Those People Are Gone...They Aren't Coming Back. They Were Perfectly Healthy And Pressured To Take The Product For Their Jobs And In My Mother's Case She Had Broken A Tooth And No Dentist Would See Her Unless She Took The Poke. She Refused For Nearly Two Weeks And Couldn't Take The Pain So She Gave In Just To Get Some Relief And Less Than Two Weeks Later She Died Suddenly After Getting Out Her Her Car To Get Gas. She Was Perfectly Healthy Prior. Her Autopsy Revealed All Kinds Of Abnormal Blood Clots That Were White Fibrous Things Which Is What Coroners Are Finding In Most Of The Autopsies That Are Done On People Who Are "Vaccinated". This Isn't A Political Thing...This Is A Life Thing And People Need To Talk About It And Be Open No Matter What They May Think. Ignoring It Doesn't Make It Better Nor Does It Make It Go Away. Fighting About It Doesn't Make It Better Or Make It Go Away. Being Dismissive Solves Nothing And I Get It That Nobody Wants To Admit They May Have Been Lied To. I Understand All Of The Sides As I Have Been Through Them All And Had To Come To Terms With Them In My Own Life, Research And Very Painful Circumstances. The Facts Led Me To A Place I Didn't Want To Be But Here I Am. Whether Anybody Wants To Believe A Thing Is On Them And Their Willingness To Dig Outside The Convenient Realms. The Deeper And More Important Question Is This...Are You Prepared And Able To Handle The Truth (Whatever You May Believe It To Be) And Deal With It? What If Your Worst Fears And All The Things You Doubt Are Actually True? Are You Prepared To Handle That Truth? How Would You Deal With It? That Is The Bigger Question And Picture In All Of This IMO. I Had No Choice But The Follow The Facts (Truth) And "Trust The Science" And That Is What Has Led Me To Where I Am Now. It Wasn't Always My Stance But Life, Reports And So Forth Showed Me Different.

Hopefully This Helps Somebody And Inspires Them To Dig For Their Truth. I Do Know This Though...What A Person Can't Talk About Owns Them And If A Person Can't Or Is Unwilling To Talk And Listen To All The Sides They Are Already Owned And Don't Even Know It...Sadly.
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I got COVID back in October, 2023. It turned into Long COVID. Among many other symptoms, I lost a significant amount of strength and stamina (20lb weight loss, mostly muscle.) and arthritis-like pain in all of my joints. That being said, I can't really hold a barre chord, and playing for just a few minutes causes a fair amount of pain and fatigue.

Anyone else find themselves in a similar predicament?
Not due to COVID, but age and genetics related in my case. I inherited some twisted fingers that crowd together when bent, and only crowd worse when spread while bent. Also, due to age and abuse, things don’t work as they used to, and normally with a measure of pain. So I adapt. I never could play a decent barre chord. So became proficient at playing partial barres. I discovered that in many band settings, a partial barre, involving just a few notes, is often plenty and prevents stepping on other band members or muddying the sound. So yeah, what I’m suggesting is to adapt; and to keep playing.
 
This is going to get political fast, but does anybody have any real evidence to support the theory that the vaccine is the root of the problems. My doctor insists that these ideas are not correct and there is plenty of real evidence to support it. And to show that many unvaccinated people who had covid have these same issues afterwards and had no vaccine

Tons of evidence pointing to the inefficacy of the vaccines, as well as injuries caused by them. Literal lies were told. You just have to watch information sources other than CNN & MSNBC. And that's all I'll say about that, I don't come to music forums to talk medicine. Oh and you'll likely have to use a search engine other than Google to find it LOL.

I think it's entirely possible that either the virus itself or the vaccine is causing the issue for the OP, as both have autoimmune repercussions. It may only be in a relative minority of people, but that doesn't matter if you are IN that minority.

I'd recommend getting some x-rays, and then an MRI if your insurance will pay for it, tot try to track down what's going on. Could be many things, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic inflammation... the only way to find out is to start jumping through the hoops of doctors and tests. Don't ask me how I know. :(

Question: have you taken NSAIDS for it (aspirin, Advil, Aleve), and do they help?
 
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