How many of you have muscle weakness and muscle pain where it feels like you lifted weights and your muscles are sore? Is it inflammation, lactic acid build up, or what? and does anything work to ease the pain?
It's in my arms, calves, back, and neck and it seems like it's been getting worse the past 12 months. The pain level seems to coincide with my Fatigue level too. Also, I always type at the computer with my palms resting on the desk, but it's still been a challenge and it feels like weights are attached to them
Also, there are certain tender spots in the muscles like knots that feel good but hurt when I have them massaged. Isn't that more like Fibromyalgia? I hope I don't have that too
My (virtually) cronical aches, which were my companions for many years, did finally abade after some years of taking Ketoprofen and after living over a year much closer to the equator (at the latitude of Florida).
I can't say for sure how much either of the climate/sun or the Ketoprofen contributed.
During the first ~10 years, I got pains after (mild) physical exertion. They seemed to originate either from the membrane that covers the outer surface of muscles and/or bones, alternatively from the muscular tissue. At that time I was fairly convinced the aches were the result of some kind of autoimmunity.
The role of lactic acid seemed to be minor.
Later I got never-disappearing generalised aches from all over the body.
They could get worse or milder. But it took years and years before they left.
Diklofenac and large doses of ordinary low-cost painkillers did help somewhat.
High doses of SSRI-medications might have helped. Maybe! But I'm far from sure.
I was treated by a rheumatologist who couldn't diagnose any known illness, although my pains were obvious and unquestionable, tested for fibromyalgia and some other diseases.
Those generalised aches varied, more or less synchronised with fatigue and brain fog.