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Is acute lower abdominal and pelvic pain normal post COVID? I had COVID recently and it was over 2wks before I tested negative. Experienced migraines after. It's like migraines migrated south. It was like a Charlie horse in my abdomen that wouldn't stop. I am healthy, I am not pregnant, I have no risk factors - except the recent COVID. It was as out of the blue as COVID. The agony was like nothing I had ever experienced. It was just shy of traumatic. Is this normal? I have no doctor to ask. Pain lasted 90 minutes. I used electric foam roller on abdomen to alleviate pain. I had to crawl across my room to get it. I tried coughing to see if I could and i involuntarily yelped from pain. Crawling itself took significant effort. I palpated my abdomen which was significantly distended. I had no tenderness or hardness. I had no fever, vomiting, or diarrhea. White hot knife like pain in low abdomen and pelvic floor. A 90 minute charlie horse in the lower abdomen and pelvic floor. Is this part of long covid?
The pain with the bloating (abdominal distention) which lasted ~90 minutes could have been due to “ileus”. Paralytic ileus, a longer-term gastrointestinal pain with immobile intestines, has been observed with Covid infections. Paralytic ileus would be associated with complete constipation for the duration of the immobile intestines. It sounds like you may have had a very short lasting episode of something that could have been a very temporary state of ileus.
