[traceroute66]

> What's going on here?

Perhaps its a reflection of how hard it is to get the medical community to take Long COVID seriously ?

I would say there is more chance of them (sadly) telling you to go home, take a couple of paracetamol and get some rest. Or if you're lucky, they might mis-diagnose you with something else....

(No first-hand experience here, just going by one or two anecdotal stories I've heard on the grapevine)

[xienze]

> Perhaps its a reflection of how hard it is to get the medical community to take Long COVID seriously ?

Well let’s think about why. You’ve got an illness (Long COVID) that you can’t detect and manifests itself in a myriad of ways, most of which are very vague and subjective (“brain fog” or “I can’t exercise as much as I used to”) and also not detectable.

Is it any wonder doctors might think of it as today’s fibromyalgia?

[PaulKeeble]

Ironic perhaps that Fibromylgia has been chosen given there are tests for the small fibre neuropathy that causes and it now has a firm diagnostic pathway.

The same will happen for Long Covid and ME/CFS, the diagnostics are there in research, they even show up in scans and tests that can be run in healthcare systems today, its just there is a resistance to run them.

[pixl97]

>Perhaps its a reflection of how hard it is to get the medical community to take _____ seriously

There are a myriad of illnesses here that this seems to apply to.