Because I’m not allowed to get the vaccine because of a heart birth defect, I’ve been overly cautious. Unfortunately, I caught Covid 4 times, yep, lucky me. Number 1, late May and all of June 2020. It was the worst because no one seemed to know how to treat it including my pcp. I must have built up some antibodies because it took till December 2021 to catch it again, first variant, but I had mild symptoms.

Then in March 2022, I got regular Covid again. Without any protection, I was clobbered, really nasty symptoms. On day 25, I lost my sense of taste, 6 days later, I lost my sense of smell and turned into a long hauler. Sick as the proverbial dog for weeks and weeks, my nonexistent immune system wasn’t ready for a sneak attack. May 10th 2022, yep, lucky me again. Covid invasion #4 with BA #4 variant. July 17th 2022 BA 4 was only a mild case thankfully but I’m still suffering form being a long hauler from original Covid. I’m so desperate, I went to Walmart on Monday and begged my pharmacist to give me the vaccine. Knowing my full medical history, he told me to ask my doctors. The 3 of them said absolutely not I told him. I figured as much and said to my pharmacist, gee, have they reported suicide by vaccine yet? He just shook his head no and waved goodbye.

I told you all this because Covid can mimic many things, just look at me and other long haulers, You can smell things you swear are real but are only in your head because no one else can smell them. I have a serious medical condition that allows a toxin to seep up to the surface of my lower legs. It’s real and since I can’t feel pain, I literally claw myself bloody. I’m in an episode right now and the last 3 days and I read your post. If the body can produce itching so intense for me, I thought, why can’t your brain imitate that feeling for you in your nose? It seems possible to me but you have no way to stop it. Good luck, I have no fingernails I clip them so short, now I must put my gloves on because the itching in my legs is driving me crazy.