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underpants

(182,966 posts)
Thu Sep 30, 2021, 09:25 PM Sep 2021

"COVID restless anus syndrome" Google said it was a reading search so I looked it up

Yeah it’s the New York Post butt I just had to look it up. There are other sources too.

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

A newly published medical report by doctors in Japan has revealed a mysterious condition associated with the disease called “restless anal syndrome.” Its name is likened to the more commonly discussed restless legs syndrome (RLS) and describes exactly one 77-year-old patient’s afflictions.

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.”

That’s when doctors reckoned his awkward condition must be neurological, noting that his symptoms had manifested similar to RLS, which has been detected in at least two other recovered COVID-19 patients.

The connection between the disease and RLS (Restless Leg Syndrome) is not yet understood, said report author Dr. Itaru Nakamura. Nakamura’s patient, however, may be the first documented case of restless anal syndrome associated with COVID-19, he wrote.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/30/covid-19s-latest-odd-side-effect-restless-anal-syndrome/


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"COVID restless anus syndrome" Google said it was a reading search so I looked it up (Original Post) underpants Sep 2021 OP
So that's what it is. TexasTowelie Sep 2021 #1
aaaaand.....NOT the Onion.... bahboo Sep 2021 #2
Beano will fix that right up. ornotna Sep 2021 #3
What a coincidence C_U_L8R Sep 2021 #4
Fucking, goddamn Covid!! Leave our taints alone!!!! nt Carlitos Brigante Sep 2021 #5
Those are Taint Tremors Nevilledog Sep 2021 #6
I thought Don Jr was the first restless anus. marble falls Sep 2021 #7
Nobody in all this knows the word 'perineum?' /nt localroger Oct 2021 #8
Taint a commonly used word. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2021 #10
Women do! burrowowl Oct 2021 #11
One of the lesser-known cowboy legends. Buns_of_Fire Oct 2021 #9

TexasTowelie

(112,558 posts)
1. So that's what it is.
Thu Sep 30, 2021, 09:32 PM
Sep 2021

And to think that I made a special trip to the store today to get some Preparation H.

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