Thank you, @shashig, for responding. On bad LC days, I want to just scream at anyone who might help. It's that those who are fortunate to never having had any problems that just think it's 'not real' - that too many do not have long COVID -- tho' you can't tell by looking at most of us and until/unless we kvetch (I do!) they don't know. Since I'm self-employed, it's tough to admit having an illness or that I can't work the hours I always did. Yet, I can be, in hopes brain fog doesn't become the next symptom, work well.

THAT too is the other surprise: the more I read the more it is fascinating that it can be a number of years later when symptoms occur or worsen. My hearing was a gradual loss and I probably didn't notice it because of the tinnitus. That then is the question of what and for how long will this impact us and I realize it's impossible to know except for those who experienced this in 2020 and are continuing to experience it. That too makes me wonder, because I traveled for work with long airport layovers, in early March (returning just before long-down), if I had it then too. We weren't masking - just wearing gloves and wiping down anything that moved or didn't. No tests yet. And I was always tired after travel and don't remember if I had other symptoms; I wasn't looking. They know the virus can live on in people. Hoping there will be tests to find out.

To us!
JE