COVID-19’s latest bizarre side effect: ‘Restless anal syndrome’

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COVID-19’s latest bizarre side effect: ‘Restless anal syndrome.’ The Doctor said, “Sorry, taint nothing we can do for you.”

He told physicians that he began suffering “deep anal discomfort” in the area between his anus and genitals, prompting him with the “essential urge to move” his bowels — which gave him no relief, according to their paper, available to read via “BMC Infectious Diseases.”

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    • No, that's Restless Asshole Syndrome. They're easily confused because they're both a pain in the butt.

  • LOL. My mother suffered from RLS and took clonazepam, and both my siblings have RLS and take something, I don't know what. I probably have it too but like I do with allergies I simply refuse to admit or medicate for it. I can spend a whole day sneezing and still refuse to admit I have allergies. I'm stubborn. And I figure some things only get worse when you cater to them.

    My sister, in her seventies, got up one night when she was staying here and she was screaming, because the muscle in her leg was cramped up so bad. That's her RLS. I get that every once in a while but instead of admitting it or medicating for it, I just force myself to concentrate on relaxing that muscle, just like we learned to do back in high school football when we got a charley horse.

    If it ever starts affecting my anus, I think I'll just shoot myself.

    • Check your potassium level. Mine was low, when I started taking potassium pills it almost completely disappeared and when it does it's not near as bad.

      • Good idea. Or I could just gag down a banana. I hate the damn things but I know they're good for you and full of potassium... and absolutely the cheapest food source I know of. Every time I buy a bunch of bananas I laugh because I cannot imagine how the stupid things can generate any profit for the farmers who grow them, since I'm paying pennies for them thousands of miles away from where they're grown.