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I dont know if this will help but have you tried to see a FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE Dr? Conventional med dr's will not help you. They only treat symptoms and wont try to figure out why things are the way they are. If it can't be seen on an xray, MRI or simple typical blood tests, they will not keep digging. There is a lot of info out there now about long covid being a MAST CELL issue. Find a functional medicine dr and see if they will help with certain antihistamines (not benadryl) and low dose anti inflammatory meds like Naltrexone which is used in low doses for post viral inflammation. I am only 11 weeks in to my meds (Ketotifen 1 mg every 12 hours and Naltexone 4.5 mg nightly before bed) but I know so many people that are bedridden from long covid and these meds seem to at least help me feed myself and keep house. Believe me I am NOT healthy like I was before. I was on a horse drill team with teenagers prior to getting long covid and I cannot do that now but I am at least 40% functioning. There is no way I could work if I were still nursing at the hospital though. My body is in too much pain with the muscle cramps and skin burning to be able to focus on a job. My heart pounds 50% of the day but my dr Rx'd Low dose Ativan 0.25 mg for that and it helps a little. It also helps with the tremors and the skin burning. It's not perfect by no means. There are moments where the med fails but the majority of my day is no longer filled with contemplating suicide.

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Thank you for advice on what to do

When you say skin burning, is it like a prickly burning feeling? Did you ever feel it inside your mouth?
I had very bad covid and took months for all symptoms to go away, but a year later, a life event stressed me so badly that I started to have very bad symptoms and have for months now. I’m convinced the virus living dormant has taken up with another and I’m as you were wondering how long I can live like this.
I have to find a functional med dr. The ones I’ve seen are useless. Completely useless.

Low Dose Naltrexone has been a huge help in relieving the worst of my pain. I'd been using edibles mostly at night so I could sleep, but they are expensive. My pain was 6-9 24/7. I used pain cream during the day so I could function to some degree. But the LDN keeps my pain bearable. I still have to pace, as my pain increases if I don't stay in my energy envelope, but it has been a huge help in getting some relief. Pepcid and Zyrtec are what I'm on for the Mast Cell Issue. I still have gastrointestinal issues that she gave me a gastropathies diet to follow. And while my oxygen levels are fine, I'm short of breath often through out the day.

That med did agree with me
I also took steroids and what happen-now I have cramps in my leg and very hard to walk or sleep
I feel like what ever I take it make me worse