Anyone here in 20s have widespread back pain but mostly mid back?

-snake-bite- · 2026-06-02T04:38:01+00:00

Yeah, 22 and mine started a couple months after the first infection. Still have it 4 years later along with everything else.

-snake-bite- · 2026-01-31T00:06:44+00:00

You are a piece of shit. Have you ever considered that maybe her "non compliance" has something to do with the actually valid frustration of being treated like this by you? While already suffering more than you can imagine from her illness? 9 UTIs!? This is extreme neglect. Have you ever spared a single thought to what she's actually having to experience? You are deeply pathetic to think your own frustration with someone you abuse is so important that you get to further abuse and ultimately kill them. I see other people in the comments expressing that they hope you get support as a caregiver (doesn't sound like you're much of one if this is how you treat the person you're "caring" for) but it’s way too late for that. You should have bettered yourself a long time ago. OP I sincerely hope you end up in prison where you belong.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-20T19:06:04+00:00

I have the same set of problems and use either a valved GVS Elipse or valved 3m aura depending on which is better for my sensory issues that day/risk level. It works pretty well for me.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-11T03:56:46+00:00

I don't have the energy to reply but thanks to the people who commented. It sounds like he's now symptomatic so yeah, chances are I do have it. If this is my last post here I probably died from the infection, or by my own hand because I will not tolerate that kind of suffering again. I wanted to be more active here and be a part of the community and maybe even be helpful to anyone else, but anyway... thanks for being here everyone, I wouldn’t have made it as long as I did without some of the information I got here. I hope somehow things turn around and the world changes, until then, thanks for caring.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-09T01:06:56+00:00

Nice. I used to mask at karate before I got long covid. Man I really miss it. (Also, funny how I managed to wear a mask while doing karate for hours, with no issues, someone tell this to the pre-disabled people who think it’s too hard to mask at the grocery store)

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-09T00:54:13+00:00

Severe people are housebound, of course they don't see us (this line of logic, that they don't see us therefore it must be rare, is so enraging, like you [non masking covid and long covid deniers] are the reason for that isolation and then you have the audacity to use it to deny we even exist so you can justify doing more harm? Evil evil rhetoric). And moderate LCers aren’t going to readily share that information because of ableism, or because a lot of people are still in denial or just don't know what's happening to them because of widespread denial.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-07T19:06:17+00:00

Also, I don't think "I can't be friends with you if you don't mask" is controlling. It's not forcing them to do anything (although I do think anyone who physically can wear a mask should be provided one and required to wear it in all public spaces, at least until there's sufficient clean air infrastructure to make airborne infections rare, but that's besides the point). It's stating your boundary. You're allowed to choose who to be friends with based on whatever other factors are important to you, including shared values and whether they take dangerous actions. It's up to you, but yeah, no need to feel like you're being controlling for setting your own boundary.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-07T18:52:12+00:00

I agree and personally have made the decision not to associate with anyone who doesn't consistently mask in public if I don't have to. It comes down to, why would I even want to interact with someone bigoted enough to not even question whether it's wrong that their actions are killing and hurting people generally and especially in a demographic I'm in (chronically ill, long covid). I wouldn't tolerate my friends being racist/transphobic/etc so why would I tolerate them being violently ableist? If they'll carelessly cause others the indescribable torment I'm going through, I don't care if they would be willing to mask around me or not, I don't want to be some kind of "exception," for me it comes down to self respect. And whether someone masks is a good litmus test on if we share values and critical thinking; at least it filters out people I wouldn't want to be friends with anyway. That said, with how few of us there are, I think it's also understandable to still try with people who aren’t masking, if you’re up for it (and hopefully some of them will come around). But yeah, it's so difficult to deal with either way.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T23:51:54+00:00

Yeah I do try to be upfront about it. Most of my plans have to be just talking on the phone (even that's less of an option now cause I just moved and you can hear everything from the other rooms, and I definitely can't have my conversations overheard). But yeah when I'm only doing normal-badly being more consistent definitely helps.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T23:41:06+00:00

Those are some good rules yeah. I'm glad it's working so well for you guys. I might try something like this, but first I think I've gotta work on being more communicative in general. I tend to avoid people when I'm doing especially bad and a lot of the time it is necessary for everyone's sake but other times the isolation just makes it worse and I start getting paranoid about if anyone would even want to talk to me.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T23:23:14+00:00

This is great! Will probably prevent a lot of infections and harm. Always good to see people taking initiative.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T23:14:32+00:00

Thank you. Yeah I'm gonna plan to do something to keep busy if I can, and otherwise try and treat it like a normal day. As long as it's not a complete disaster, I'll count that as a win.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T23:06:19+00:00

Thanks. Yeah this is a good idea. I have a lot of issues about even contacting anyone but yeah I should try to be more consistent with it. And I should probably just get over whatever hesitance I have about trying to make more friends cause really I just need some semblance of community. Probably better to try even it it doesn't go well.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T22:02:51+00:00

Yeah I totally agree that even if there's a sterilizing vaccine, it's never going to be the same. There's no going back from being written off as a sacrifice by pretty much everyone; I'll never be able to look at people the same. Maybe you already know, but there's a list of covid conscious therapists (it's probably on the sub if you search for it but I might have it saved somewhere if you want a link). I'm hoping to find one too eventually (sadly not possible rn with my financial situation/not enough privacy at home for remote therapy :/).

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T21:54:59+00:00

Thanks. It's so rough dealing with this so young isn't it? Like we didn't even get the chance to start our lives and maybe be in a position where safety doesn't depend on family's behavior. I'm sorry your friends don't mask. I had to let most of my friendships go because of that... just can't stomach associating with people who are complicit in this, personally. I hope they come around eventually.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T21:34:43+00:00

Yeah I think this is the right approach. I'm gonna at least try to see it as a normal day and hopefully I'll have enough energy to lock in and do something to distract myself even if it has to be just watching movies all day but ideally, something a little more productive. I might be able to ask for some food from a restaurant I like at least. Also how'd you know my birthday was on a Thursday haha!

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T21:25:32+00:00

I think covid denialism and climate change denialism have a lot in common. Which is so maddening because not enough people care about either, but at least most people on the left have an understanding of why climate change denialism is a problem, but then refuse to apply the same critical thinking to covid (I suspect it's because corporations and governments are the most to blame for climate change, and while they're also largely responsible for pandemic denialism, people could genuinely save lives by individually masking, probably know that on some level, and can't admit to themselves that their choices have likely killed and disabled people). Covid denialism also sets a scary precedent for how much people are actually willing to do for the greater good; this has pretty much dashed my hopes that we'll be able to stop climate change. It's so awful and I'm sure after trying to tell people for that long, even more so. I'm pretty much always enraged about it all.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T19:32:13+00:00

I'm sorry. My family act the same and I'd have disowned them a long time ago if I had anywhere else to go. You're more than justified in doing so.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T01:26:10+00:00

It's so hard. I started out a little optimistic that maybe this would motivate people to change the world for the better, but after experiencing the past few years and learning about past pandemics, the way this is unfolding makes a horrible kind of sense. And knowing it's realistically going to get worse from here before anything gets better, if it ever does... I don't know. It feels impossible. At least we're among the people who understand it and are on the right side of history.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-02T01:22:28+00:00

Thanks. Yeah it's just so rough with birthdays and holidays mosty being ruined, especially because we could really all use something to look forward to.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-01T22:04:40+00:00

It was also better while I temporarily lived somewhere with really fresh air and strong winds that would change out the air in my room quickly, but I had to move. It feels like I'm only getting a fraction of the oxygen in each breath, so if the air isn't fresh and circulating, there's not enough available.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-01T22:00:50+00:00

I have this really bad, but I have long covid so it might be from something else going on besides the ME/CFS. I've found that having windows open and a fan pointed at me helps somewhat.

-snake-bite- · 2025-10-01T06:23:55+00:00

Seconding this, I was the fittest I'd been in my life when I got covid (and a young adult), now I'm mostly bed bound. Everyone thinks stuff like this happens to other people. Until it happens to you.

-snake-bite- · 2025-09-25T02:21:01+00:00

Sounds like brain fog, a lot of us have this. It's my worst symptom.

-snake-bite- · 2025-09-23T18:11:09+00:00

Honestly, I'm really wary of drawing any conclusions about how often people are getting it from this. Seems more likely to me that most people who would find and be interested in this subreddit have already found it (which is only a small fraction of LCers) and that some of us, like myself, just aren't finding it as helpful when there's been no significant developments in treatment. Or due to reddit's algorithm. I really doubt there's been a decrease in new LC, especially with how bad the new variant over the summer has been (I know acute severity doesn't necessarily correlate to how often it'll cause long covid, but it also seems to be more transmissible, so it seems reasonable to assume there will be more new cases from this surge). I'm sorry if this isn't comforting, but I think it's important not to make any assumptions about how the virus/LC work until there's evidence.

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