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@shelleyr I’m so sorry your doctor doesn’t believe you and your symptoms. There are a lot of non-believer doctors out there, but there are also some that do believe us. My doctor recently retired and he ran every single test I asked him to to try to figure this thing out. There are a lot of skeptical doctors out there ENT’s especially and they say, everything looks clear so I don’t know why you can’t smell or taste! It’s flipping Long Covid!!! They don’t want to hear it! When you have your Thyroid Labs run, ask them to run TSH, T3-Free, T4-Free, TPO Antibodies and Reverse T3. Those are the markers they ran for me, but they may run more for you as you’re a new patient. I wish you all the best on your health journey.
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@lkirnbauer The doctor I had when this started listened and gave me the side-eye treatment with every symptom I listed. There was nothing physical for her to see and nothing showed up in my labs at the time. Her verbal diagnosis while I was in the office, "I don't see anything wrong." When I got home and looked up the Patient Notes online.......her formal diagnosis in my chart was "Post Viral Fatigue Syndrom".
Since then, I've been to two other doctors. They ALL in this small town have access to the same Patient Notes online. They ALL don't SEE anything. They ALL don't beleive anything is wrong. Even though they see the same final diagnosis....they either ignore it or avoid a patient with it!
I did find an online teledoctor website yesterday who believes long Covid is real and they have the ability to order labs. I may contact them to have labs run and see what shows up for the thyroid and other possible vitamin deficiencies. I made a list of all the markers you gave so I can spcifically ask for those too. Thank you so much for the information and for pointing me in the right direction.