I am waiting to contact my primary care doctor re: my chronic fatigue and pain potentially being a long-covid-like post-viral syndrome from really bad childhood infections. However, after reading this article about a possible cause of long covid, I have been taking periodic high doses of sodium bicarbonate.
I take it for a short period, then stop for a longer period, then try it again. Each time I dose the bicarbonate again, the intensely deep muscle aches lessen for a short period, maybe half an hour. It has a peculiar feel to it unlike any pain meds I've ever taken, and seems to be consistent in quality, but brief.
I think there's something to this, and I am annoyed thinking about how it might be correct but have no real interventions that my doctors are willing to try.