It’s like lupus or fibromyalgia. No way to diagnose except by the self reporting of symptoms. I have seen people with chronic pain and fibromyalgia and others who said they had lupus. It always seemed they were able bodied. I think these are the illnesses that hypochondriacs end up being diagnosed with. Long Covid is the latest and there are people who welcome the diagnosis because they were so worried about Covid in the first place and long Covid is validation of their concern. I would then wonder about the medical histories of the patients, like how many of them had previously to 2019 reported symptoms of fibromyalgia.
They tried to dump me in the fibromyalgia category and said I could try Lyrica. I said I am not accepting that..it’s a catchall when you can’t figure it out. I am not taking Lyrica if it is really something else...and as it turns out..it was really something else.
I am hacked off at what I have been through but apparently it is pretty common with people dealing with autoimmune issues
Right.