it’s not the infection lingering. it’s your baseline shifting permanently. that’s onset. you’ll spend weeks thinking you’re recovering.
you’ll have days that feel okay and convince yourself it’s proof. then you notice: the crashes are on schedule now. twenty-four hours after any activity, always. the pattern is the only consistent thing.
labs come back fine. ur doctor says you’re fine. but you’re not fine. you can’t do what you could before.
the normal test results don’t mean the absence of a condition. they just mean the tests aren’t built to catch what’s actually wrong. the only thing that mattered was tracking three weeks of the same timeline. that’s when it went from ‘i’m recovering’ to ‘this is my life now.’ how long did it take you to see the pattern before you stopped waiting to bounce back?
dunno.