Thread by @danaparish

I’m noticing many friends, colleagues, acquaintances developing strange, new symptoms yet not attributing them to Covid.

This is eerily reminiscent of my experience w #Lyme; migrating, hard-to-describe, bizarre symptoms that no one has answers for that you just pray will stop.

I feel strongly this needs to be addressed and that the medical world needs to consider not only persistent Covid, but other common reactivated infections other than EBV. The # of tick-borne disease pts who crashed after Covid but got better w retreated shld not be discounted.

I would have my docs look for common persistent pathogens like #Lyme, #bartonella, #EBV, #babesia, etc and treat empirically if symptoms are suggestive w/o + tests, since testing for most of these (not EBV) is terrible.

I see very, very few doctors who are even aware of this possibility and many, many patients suffering because of it. Please. Educate your doctors. Advocate for yourselves. No one can do it better.