What’s this muscle pain?

Symptoms:

You’re in your late Intermittent See your doctor for

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50s and when you claudication where the confirmation and a walk any distance you arteries supplying the thorough cardiac check get a pain in the calves muscles of your lower legs because furring up of your leg of both legs that stops become furred up and the arteries could also affect the you walking. It goes oxygen supply to the arteries to your heart. If you away when you rest. muscles is diminished. smoke, stop.

You’re in your 70s Polymyalgia See your doctor for blood

6 6 and when you rheumatica, an tests and scans. wake the muscles in inflammation that causes Treatment with low-dose your hands, shoulders muscle pain and stiffness, it steroids brings relief in two or and hips are sore and hardly ever affects people three days and you’ll continue stiff, your scalp feels under 50. The cause is them for a year or more. tender, you feel unknown, but it’s thought it exhausted. could be down to a virus.

Your muscles are Covid-19, infection Self-isolate for 10 days,

6 6 achy and sore, with the coronavirus get tested, tell the people you’re coughing (SARS-COV-2) which is you’ve been in close contact non-stop, you’re responsible for our current with you have symptoms. Get feverish and you’ve pandemic. Another classic lots of rest, drink plenty of lost your sense of symptom is fluids and take NSAIDS for taste. You feel awful. breathlessness. the temperature. Make sure

someone checks up on you.

6 6 It could be: Stop it:

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