FWIW, in terms of a Long Covid wrapup discssion (I am getting better, rapidly),. the two symptoms I didn no tmention above were Colitis (1 fyear chronic diarrhae) and I forget now..........Ah. Short term membory problems.

A Neurologis diagnosed my memoryh issues a "memory retrieval mechanism" problem, because once I did rember even a little a flood of details come back. On the surface thts sounds a bit like the names and places trouble all geezers have. But it was worse. More widespread. That symptom is still weith me now, but not as bad as it was a year ago.

People mention liquid runs here occassionally, but not often. Perhaps it is hard to talk about.

I FINALLY saw a gastro guy, who did a colonoscopy. He diagnosed "moderately severe" Colitis.
She actually, gave me a prescription for criminally expensive Butesonide pillls ($1400 for a month), $600 of which I had to pay. It fixed my diarrhea instantly. It is apparently a steroid that somehow targets teh gut.

Once gone it did not come back, which leads to the punchline. Is all of Long Covid a form of auto-immune inflammation, as a feedback loop where inflammation causes inflammatino? Where....at the right time...strong anti-inflammatory drugs can break the viscious positive feedback loop of new inflammation caused by old inflammation.

I will award myself the No Bell prize?