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@annewoodmayo

arichards3,

I agree completely. The doctors are at the limits of known science.
It is unfortunate that the lived experiences of people with Long Covid were ignored or dismissed for so long at the beginning of the epidemic.
It continues to be unfortunate that some doctors are "deny-ers." My sympathy to their patients!!

Like you, I also went to: cardiologist; ENT; neurologist; another ENT. Add in gastro-enterologist, dermatologist, and my usual rheumatologist. At the very beginning, my PCP had the decency and the intellectual honesty to admit that he did not know what was going on, and so referred me without hesitation to all of those specialists. I'm guessing that his network wasn't really happy about all of those referrals and all of the tests that the specialists ordered. Unrelated to Covid, I also had to go to heart nutrition counseling; 2 different genetic counselors; mental health counseling; and gynecological oncology in that year-18 months. I think I can say that my PCP is not in it for the money.
Oh, I forgot the pulmonologist! Multiple visits to him as well.

Sadly, none of those doctors was able to prescribe or suggest anything that helped significantly, except the inhalers and steroids at the very beginning. But this was in 2020. I'm slowly improving, but not back to pre-Covid.

PAXLOVID really, really helped when I got Covid a second time. I highly recommend it.

Good luck to all of us who are suffering emotionally, financially and physically-- and slowly recovering, I hope.

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Your Paxlovid comment is interesting. While I am feeling better I am not full recovered. My Mayo Doctor is holding Paxlovid in reserve presently and he seemed to infer that if needed he would 'nuke' my symptoms with Paxlovid.