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I'm kind of one of those people. I'm a medical layman and saying "long covid" is kind of a meme/joke. I know it's not real long covid as some people are battling much harsher consequences from having had covid.

But, what I'm trying to say in my layman way is, I feel like I get sick differently after having covid. It's more frequent and lasts way longer. I'm currently at the tail end of a ~4 week long "cold" during which it felt like I'd improve/regress each week and it varied from my being completely functional to having fairly bedridden days. It was all just a "common cold", I think; who knows I might have had covid again (I'm not getting tested each time I get sick any more). These "colds" have been happening roughly every 3-6 months the last couple years since I got covid. Prior to that, I'd get sick only about once a year and sometimes 2-3 times without getting sick. Duration of sickness previously was typically 3-5 days, very rarely ever >1 week. Not sure if it's related, but the time of year is off too. I almost never got sick in the summer months before. Where I live it's been above 100F most of the past several weeks and typically I get sick in shoulder season months (Nov-Dec / Feb-Mar for my locale).