Posted on 09/29/2021 4:22:31 PM PDT by Trillian
An elderly Japanese man developed 'restless anal syndrome' after catching Covid, in what doctors claim is a world first.
The unidentified 77-year-old was admitted to Tokyo Medical University Hospital after testing positive for Covid.
Despite his age, he did not require any oxygen during his stay and managed to start breathing normally again 21 days after being admitted.
However a problem of another kind emerged several weeks after he was discharged.
The man began to suffer 'deep anal discomfort' about 10cm above his perineum, the region between the genitals and the anus. This gave him an 'essential urge to move', according to medics who treated him.
Defecation did nothing to relieve the man's discomfort, wrote Dr Itaru Nakamura who detailed the case in BMC Infectious Diseases.
But the man noticed that exercise such as walking, running or playing motion based video games alleviated his symptoms, while taking a rest and staying still made them worse.
He also noticed the symptoms got worse towards the evening.
Dr Nakamura said a colonoscopy, where a thin flexible camera is inserted into the anus, revealed the man had internal haemorrhoids but no other rectal damage.
Testing the man's nervous system also revealed no abnormalities.
Dr Nakamura said the symptoms of 'suffering' in the anal region; the urge to move, the worsening with rest, improvement with exercise but worsening at evening, led medics to diagnose him with restless anal syndrome.
They classified this as a variant of the relatively common condition restless leg syndrome, and directly attributed it as being caused by his Covid infection.
Dr Nakamura said how Covid impacted patients' nervous system was not fully understood a number of neurological conditions had been reported following infection.
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Pete Bootygig?
Uh, I’m no doctor but can’t they remove internal ‘roids thru surgery?
The Japanese are extraordinary people...
People in new York city pay good money for that kind of pain and humiliation
‘restless anal syndrome’
Biden does that to me.
sounds like a load of crap...
Bad enough to have any side effects post vaccine, but to be the absolute first with restless anal syndrome...well, that’s too much to suffer.
I gotta poo..
If Biden had this he would walk around aimlessly all the time...hey wait a minute...first case? Maybe not...
Don Lemon wants to know where he can sign up for this
A bean burrito would probably kill this guy!
Another unintended consequence that testing and “clinical trials” did not even attempt to discover in spite of the fact that human produced mRNA was an unknown as to what effects it might possibly have anywhere in the body irrespective of any value towards the Wuhan Virus.
I got something similar from the epidemic: Dr. Fauci has been a pain in my ass for nearly two years
Hemorrhoids along with Neuropathy more like it.
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