Each of our stories is a bit different, but all are heartbreaking...though I've posted a few times, I'm not even sure I have Long Covid, except it's the only thing that makes sense with basically OK lab and scan results yet the weird symptoms that so many of which you all describe. I've had chronic sinusitis for a bunch of years (two surgeries, balloon and antrostomy), but though my sinuses now look clear to the ENT, I've still got congestion, PND with gag coughing, now accompanied by muscle aches, insomnia, depression, brain fog, and post-exertional fatigue. This syndrome started after my second Covid bout in June 2023. At month's end, I go to NYU for an official assessment. But I'm beat. My life partner died in 2018. After three years of caregiving, then death chores, grieving, doing Covid solo, I'd been hoping to hit the ground running in 2024 to jump-start whatever I could conjure up as "my new life." Now this. It feels like a cosmic joke. Then again, I ask myself, "Well, why not me? Why would I be exempt?" Reality, yes. Mood-lifter, no. I'm reading everything, buying herbs I never even heard of, meditating with Insight Timer...but, by far, this Mayo board is my best go-to. Thanks, everyone, for so honestly sharing it all. It's a gift. Sending good vibes to all with hopes for breakthrough research findings.