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I'm so sorry you are having to deal with this. I had a rough case of Covid last year. It ramped up the inflammation I already had in my body. I am very tuned into my body and I knew there was something different & new going on with me after COVID. I just got a diagnosis of borderline Lupus and I am being treated with Plaquenil and it is helping. I am convinced that Covid brought this on as I never had it before. Also, still battling hypersalivation since Covid. Covid does a lot of crazy things to folks...even if they only have a mild case. Some folks, get over it in a few weeks and are fine....I was not one of those people. Do I believe it could have brought on the MCTD in you...... I certainly do. It is a brutal virus. I think it will take years for the medical field & much research to fully understand what all COVID has done. I hope you get relief soon. Again, I am so sorry you are battlng this. Blessings & Hugs....

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Thank you. My liver and kidney and neurological symptoms are now being affected. I don’t really see a turn around as the anti-U1-RNP there are only 50,000 cases in the U.S. less that 1.9 percent it’s called a very rare autoimmune disease that overlaps all of the other autoimmune diseases. I am not afraid to die but I will put this out there, I never in 50 years had an abnormal lab and now showing at some point I had a heart attack. I have slowly started making lifestyle changes but untimely have gone downhill since June 2021 upon developing Covid. I have been sick and could now figure out why as it mimics major depressive disorder as well. It got so bad I was hallucinating that I was seeing and hearing demons and really believed it until my doctor ran a bunch of labs and found it was organic in nature. I went temporarily paralyzed from my feet to my neck for 15 minutes last week then the sensations came back. Sustained a concussion from that. Seeing a Rheumatologist Tuesday