@cathytruden Regarding Loss of Taste and Smell: I've posted in other Mayo Clinic Long Covid forums about the use of the 7 mg Nicotine patches under my chin. It sounded like a 'wild story' when I first read about it working, but my dermatologist recommended it for my sensory losses. The other path I am following for the swollen taste buds, which is still a problem: I have been reading the Long Covid support groups on Mayo Clinic's web site and I noted many with my nasal and tongue conditions were having tests for mycotoxins (molds, fungis).
Qualifications: Dr. Hooper and Dr. Bolton founded RealTime Laboratories in 2005 after extensive research and studies into the harmful effects of mycotoxin poisoning on the human body. They offered 3 options for the Mycotoxin kit:
1. Have primary care provider use the RealTime Lab web site and sign up to become a provider using them as the lab for mycotoxin testing. If local physician does not wish to become a provider for mycotoxin lab work...
2. You as a patient can sign up directly and have the urine sample kit sent to your home, then send the sample back for lab work and they would mail be the final results in detail. You can then take details of labs to Primary or if they do not wish to be a supporter of this mycotoxin work...
3. RealTime Labs sends you a temporary password so you can visit their web site and review local doctors, NPs, clinics, naturopathic healers, etc. anywhere in American working with RealTime Labs on mycotoxins. You can select a local expert in mycotoxin work.

@cathytruden
My Dr is starting me on low dosage natraxone, I’m getting it at a compounding pharmacy. Her other long Covid pts are starting to notice improvement with fatigue. I was just diagnosed, I’ve always was suspicious I was never right after the initial infection with my balance being off, taste issues, that I got two of those stupid vaccines I had a reaction to the first one passed out. But I had Covid two other times , the fatigue so bad . I just have very strong intuition and I knew! I had to find a function medicine doc to get anywhere. We just did the Covid 19 spike protien and she said we look for anything over 1000, well mine positive and was 5001. Now here’s a flunk and my intuition again, back in April my GP doc sent a email offering the titers for MMR, we had a break out here in VA and they were finding people who were born 1947-1970 may not be covered. I emailed doc and said what the heck I’m going to do it and as she said it’s always good info to have, I said I know I had mumps as Kidd but not measles . Last minute I said can we throw in the antibody test first mono, I said I was so sick back in 1992 two of my kids had had mono. I lived on a army base and they kept telling me I had the flu, I kid you not I asked to be tested for mono and they did but never got results they couldn’t find them! So here 30 years later and from my research says if you had it antibodies should show up, and because I was suspicious if I had long Covid by my symptoms we added that test, low and behold positive and flagged it was so high, so I have chronic Epstein Barr reactivated by Covid, I finally got validation on both and so the journey begins! Good luck to you and ask about natraxone.