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After almost five years of bouncing between specialists, I finally found a doctor who actually diagnosed me with Long COVID instead of telling me, “Everything looks normal.”

For context, I’ve seen cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, GI, etc. Most of my standard testing has been reassuring, but I still deal with fatigue, PEM, brain fog, air hunger, chest tightness, migraines/visual symptoms, and the usual roller coaster that so many of us know.

This doctor has an MD/DO (not a chiropractor or naturopath), accepts insurance, and also had Long COVID herself. She ordered some testing that most of my previous doctors never did, including a spike protein blood test, and based on everything she put together, her working diagnosis is Long COVID with ongoing immune dysregulation/inflammation.

Her plan is:
-Continue methylene blue (already started)
-Consider Thymosin Alpha-1
-Consider BPC-157
-Start bovine colostrum (Cowboy Colostrum) for gut healing
-Daily iron to get ferritin above 70
-One Brazil nut daily (my reverse T3 was high relative to T3)
-Avoid sesame (confirmed allergy)
-Recheck symptoms in 6 weeks and repeat labs in 3 months

I’m not posting because I think this is the answer. Honestly, after five years, I’ve learned nobody has all the answers. But this is the first doctor who’s actually given me a cohesive plan instead of another referral, and that alone feels like progress.

I'm reaching out to y'all because I'm curious if:
-anyone here tried Thymosin Alpha-1?
-BPC-157?
-colostrum?
-methylene blue?
-treating your Long COVID improve your cholesterol or other inflammatory markers?
-anything in this plan that you’d personally question or wish you’d known beforehand?

I’m planning to give this an honest shot, but before I dive in I’d love to hear from people who’ve actually been down a similar road.

Thanks in advance!

I’m trying to remember a bedding brand (or possibly a specific sheet collection) that was popular with tween girls around in the late 90s/early 2000s.

The sheets had a light blue sky background with repeating puffy white clouds all over them. There were some gray lowlights in the clouds. The clouds were pretty uniform in shape, not realistic sky photography. It was very much that late ’90s/Y2K tween aesthetic.

I remember it being trendy enough that the cloud pattern felt iconic. Multiple friends had the sheets, and I associate it with the same era as Limited Too, Delia’s, inflatable furniture, butterfly clips, etc.

This is driving me absolutely insane because I can picture the sheets perfectly, but I can’t remember a single other detail and no search results are showing up on Google Images. 😅

I’m trying to remember a bedding brand (or possibly a specific sheet collection) that was popular with tween girls around in the late 90s/early 2000s.

The sheets had a light blue sky background with repeating puffy white clouds all over them. There were some gray lowlights in the clouds. The clouds were pretty uniform in shape, not realistic sky photography. It was very much that late ’90s/Y2K tween aesthetic.

I remember it being trendy enough that the cloud pattern felt iconic. Multiple friends had the sheets, and I associate it with the same era as Limited Too, Delia’s, inflatable furniture, butterfly clips, etc.

This is driving me absolutely insane because I can picture the sheets perfectly, but I can’t remember a single other detail and no search results are showing up on Google Images. 😅

I’m trying to remember a bedding brand (or possibly a specific sheet collection) that was popular with tween girls around in the late 90s/early 2000s.

The sheets had a light blue sky background with repeating puffy white clouds all over them. There were some gray lowlights in the clouds. The clouds were pretty uniform in shape, not realistic sky photography. It was very much that late ’90s/Y2K tween aesthetic.

I remember it being trendy enough that the cloud pattern felt iconic. Multiple friends had the sheets, and I associate it with the same era as Limited Too, Delia’s, inflatable furniture, butterfly clips, etc.

This is driving me absolutely insane because I can picture the sheets perfectly, but I can’t remember a single other detail and no search results are showing up on Google Images. 😅

I gained weight after the birth of my second and have 5+ trashbags of all types of women's clothing that no longer fit. It is in good condition, and some pieces are from brands like Madewell, Free People, Abercrombie, etc. My goal is to keep these clothes in use for as long as possible. Having them end up in a landfill is an absolute last resort.

I've considered giving them away through Buy Nothing/Facebook groups, donating to a women's shelter, donating to Goodwill or another thrift store. What I can't figure out is which option is most likely to result in the clothes actually being worn and used, rather than discarded or shipped elsewhere.

For those of you who are knowledgeable about textile waste and donation systems, what has been the most effective route in your experience? Are there organizations or approaches that tend to maximize reuse?
I'd especially love to hear from anyone who has worked in thrift stores, shelters, textile recycling, or related fields. My biggest concern is all the tshirts I'ce accumulated over the last 20 years. Who's going to want those?? 😩

I appreciate your help and expertise so much!! 🤍

Quick summary of my story:
-Had a baby in Sept. 2021
-Got COVID and my booster vaccine on the same day in Dec. 2021 (mild case)
-Symptoms reached a peak in June 2022 and remained there for a year (most notably high HR, PEM, SOB)
-Throughout it all, I continued to teach and be a mom to young kids
-Summer 2022: extensive testing by cardiologist, neurologist, pulmnologist, and more. Spent thousands. No problems found.
-By approx Dec. 2023, I'd learned how to manage my symptoms well enough that I could live a somewhat normal life just slowed way down
-Present: Right back to square one. Even 15 minutes of moderate activity will send me straight to my bed for a two hour nap. Went on a walk the other day and felt like I was going to pass out. This started maybe a month ago, and I've slowly been getting worse.

Super curious to know if anyone else is on a similar timeline or has a similar trend occur. This last few months have been extra busy for me, but mostly just due to attending my kids' activities.

I was BIG into tge LTK culture in the mid/late 2010s, and I'm trying to remember the name of a Instagram fashion/lifestyle influencer from the mid-late 2010s. She was a teacher at one point and used to post a lot of outfit mirror selfies in her classroom, usually in front of her bookshelves.

She had short blonde hair (kind of a bob), had a couple kids, and her style was very boho/modest-ish. She wore a LOT of long maxi skirts with tied up graphic/basic tees. I remember following her mostly for teacher outfits/style content.

I think she eventually quit teaching and moved, maybe to Florida? She wasn’t a huge influencer like Dede Raad level, but definitely big enough to do content full time eventually.

This has been driving me insane for over an hour 😭