{"id":3614,"date":"2026-01-23T02:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:14:12","slug":"incredibly-painful-says-ellen-degeneres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=3614","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Incredibly painful,\u2019 says Ellen DeGeneres"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ellen DeGeneres Reflects on COVID Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n

As her talk show ended after 19 seasons, Ellen DeGeneres<\/p>\n

revisited personal challenges, including contracting COVID-19 in 2020.<\/p>\n

She later revealed she suffered \u201cexcruciating\u201d back pain, a symptom that caught her off guard.<\/p>\n

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A Surprising Symptom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> in April 2021,<\/p>\n

DeGeneres said, \u201cI feel fantastic.<\/p>\n

What they don\u2019t tell you is that you will have<\/p>\n

severe back pain.\u201d She added, \u201cI had no idea it was a symptom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Limited Early Awareness<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the time, back pain was not widely recognized as a COVID symptom.<\/p>\n

Health agencies focused on fever, cough, fatigue, and<\/p>\n

loss of taste or smell, though \u201cmuscle or bodily aches\u201d were noted.<\/p>\n

Why Back Pain Increased<\/strong><\/p>\n

Experts later linked pandemic-era back pain to illness-related<\/p>\n

inactivity and more sedentary lifestyles.<\/p>\n

DeGeneres\u2019 experience echoed what many learned only after living through it.<\/p>\n

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Ellen DeGeneres Reflects on COVID Experience As her talk show ended after 19 seasons, Ellen DeGeneres revisited personal challenges, including contracting COVID-19 in 2020. She later revealed she suffered \u201cexcruciating\u201d back pain, a symptom that caught her off guard. A Surprising Symptom Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in April 2021, DeGeneres said, \u201cI feel fantastic….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}