Originally Posted by 100grNP
I came down with the "Kung Flu" on Monday. Fairly mild flu like symptoms for 2-3 days and low energy was all. My lower back has been hurting ever since. Nothing will help. Anyone else have these symptoms?

Body pain in some joint or other seems a common feature of all the strains of COVID-19. Something about the virus seems to have an appetite for skeletal connective tissues. For me, it was my shoulders. I could hardly raise my arms from the moment I started having flu like symptoms. It improved significantly within a week, but persisted in a milder form for about a month.