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Like you, fatigue is my daily companion. It only started to get better a few months ago. I started taking collagen peptides, and that's the only thing I can attribute to my improvement.

I also still have brain fog. But I had a seizure last year and that's made it worse.

I still have issues with food. Couldn't eat bread until about a month ago. Ever since I got covid, it has tasted like cardboard. Interesting that we both have had the feeling that we're eating cardboard. Had to give up all animal proteins. Couldn't stand looking at it, let alone tasting it. Everything I ate tasted either utterly horrible, or tasted like something that it wasn't supposed to taste like. Macaroni and cheese tasting like fish? Ketchup tasting like rust?

I definitely aged from having covid. Not only in the way I feel, but in the way I look. It really took a lot of years out of my life.

You said your taste and smell is pretty much back, but I want to know if you've had any kind of phantom smells? Those actually showed up for me after I recovered from covid. I smell used cat litter all the time. Really disgusting used cat litter. I don't have a cat. Sometimes the smell changes. Never pleasant, always icky.

People who think that they are protected because they have the vaccine, they don't realize they can still get long covid and it may never go away.

Hang in there. I can relate and I feel for you!