POST COVID weirdness for 9 months+ POST INFECTIOUS LUNG FIBROSIS?

aloha from the Big Island of hawaii

my name is Mike, 41 years old, Father of two, I have decided to join any forum I can to seek information from others about their experience following a positive Covid diagnosis.

normally I'd more than likely simply follow my doctors advice but I have had Covid confirmed 4 times since its official onset and this 4th round has been an absolute masterpiece of confusion and odd symptoms.

if anyone is willing to read this and has anything relevant to kick down I'd really appreciate it.

so this 4th time of getting covid coincided with the birth of my daugther and incidentally I did take paxlovid (2nd time) in order to speed up the positive time so I could aid my wife in the recovery from birth. I did not get super sick, just like the previous 3 times I have had covid, but did have mild flu like symptoms and my biggest symptom would have been malaise.

THAT SAID this 4th time I did get sick AFTER Covid in quite a pronounced way approxiamately 1 month after testing positive.

however this time (the previous 3 times I had taken moderna? and this go round had switched to a different flavor of vax) the symptoms of long Covid or whatever were VERY different than that of the previous go rounds with the disease.

this time I came down with excessive phlegm, a wheeze when I tried to wheeze (sounds stupid but only way to describe it) and an occaisonal mild cough. never at night. when I say excessive phlegm I mean for months I was convinced I was dying of COPD or lung cancer.

I am a pot smoker but extremely light pot smoker (like one joint would last 2 weeks) and I have seen 2 primary care physicians who wouldn't test me for pneumonia, 2 er docs who similarly wouldn't test for pneumonia - then eventually after months of asking I did recieve a sputum test which came back positive for bacterial staph and haemophelous which I did take cephdenir for (symptoms immediately returned post medicine) - finally after dropping two primary docs and countless trips to ER I did end up at infectious disease doc who surmised most likely allergy or potentially a post covid thing.

was forwarded to allergy specialist who prescribed Prednisone and multiple inhalers recently and that hasn't been particularly helpful either, am seeing a new primary and naturopath combo that I pay monthly out of pocket for who both are very convinced this is long covid and that I need to work on my "foundational" wellness which I don't disagree with but am reaching out here because I feel like those of us suffering from long covid have to help each other where doctors cant because they haven't been able to advance the science?

I am reasonably active, lifelong surfer, jog a tad. haven't smoked weed in months and recently kicked dairy out of my life. don't drink the last couple of months. no real changes in my symptoms despite my best efforts.

does anyone here know anything about post infectious lung fibrosis?

any help is greatly appreciated.

mahalo nui loa,

mikel cumiskey

mikelcumiskey.net