Long COVID doesn't follow the Western medicine playbook of one cause, one fix. Instead, the infection triggers a sprawling inflammatory cascade that hits your body's weakest points, which is why symptoms look different in every person and why standard diagnoses often miss the mark.
This is why it is so incredibly frustrating for patients to get this sorted out, but also, especially in Western medicine, where we tend to try and categorize things and we tend to try and have one cause giving us one problem and one set of symptoms and treatment. Now, that works really well if you have a broken bone. It's a fairly linear pathway there. You used to have a bone that was not broken. You had an injury, you broke the bone. Now we have to do something, and there are not that many options for what to do once you have a broken bone. It's going to be pretty similar treatment. Also, the diagnosis of your broken bone is going to be fairly straightforward. When you get these things that go into the human body that literally trigger the immune system, you can see that the multiple levels of outflow from the triggering event of the infection could go in one person one direction, another person another direction, another person in 3 directions. Literally, roll of the dice that usually starts out with an immune inflammatory complex and then has an output that hits you usually wherever you're either the weakest or the most imbalanced.
