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Is this long Covid?

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Stopsnowing · 01/03/2021 06:42

Stiff neck
Joint pain in wrists hips knees and ankles and bizarrely all over my feet
Extreme fatigue. Can’t sit up in bed for several hours after waking.
Insomnia

I had put all this down to hrt wearing off but found out the other week that my oestrogen levels are normal. And I have had all this for nearly a year.
I think I had cv19 very early in the first lockdown so at a time when there was no testing.
Or it could be just the ongoing stress of it all?
Trouble is I wonder what a gp can offer at a telephone appointment and I doubt I am bad enough for referral to a special clinic as I can get out of bed and through the day albeit I feel like I am on my knees.
I read an interesting article in the telegraph about how oestrogen protects women from covid and how long Covid symptoms overlap with peri menopause.

OP posts:
lightand · 01/03/2021 07:22

Not much sounding like it to me, but not an expert.
I would definitely contact a GP with those symptoms though, rather than trying to self diagnose.

Angrymum22 · 01/03/2021 18:43

Sounds more like peri menopause. During lead up to menopause oestrogen levels vary wildly. You may have had test done a day that they were normal but they may be quite low at other times.
I think you need to speak to your GP.

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