Post-Viral & Chronic Fatigue
You got sick. You were supposed to get better. You didn't. Whether the trigger was a virus, a vaccine, a tick bite, or something that happened so long ago you can't pinpoint it anymore — the pattern is the same. Your body is fighting something the standard tests can't find, and the medical system keeps handing you a clean bill of health you know isn't true. This section was built for that exact experience. Pick the page that fits your situation. If nothing fits cleanly, start with When They Stack.
ME/CFS
You've been told your labs are normal. You've been told to sleep more, stress less, maybe try therapy. You've been handed a diagnosis that sounds like tiredness and sent home without a plan. You know something is catastrophically wrong. You are not imagining it. ME/CFS is a serious, complex, multi-system illness with documented biological mechanisms — and this page was built by someone who spent years in that same waiting room. Start here.
Long Covid
You know exactly when it started. You can name the month, maybe the week. You got COVID, you were supposed to recover, and something didn't come back online. The fatigue isn't laziness. The brain fog isn't stress. The crash after a short walk isn't deconditioning. Long COVID is real, the research is finally catching up, and this page exists to show you what the science actually says — and what it still doesn't know.
Post-Viral Syndrome
It didn't start with COVID. It started with mono, or the flu, or something nobody ever identified — and you never fully came back from it. Post-viral syndrome has been documented in the medical literature for decades, long before anyone had heard of Long COVID. The pattern is not new. The dismissal is not new. The research is finally starting to name what patients have been describing for generations.
Post-Vaccine Syndrome
Something changed after the shot. You reported it. You were told it was anxiety, coincidence, or something unrelated. You know your own body and you know that isn't the full answer. Post-vaccine syndrome is documented in the peer-reviewed literature under ASIA syndrome — Autoimmune/Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants. It is real, it is rare, and it disproportionately affects people with specific genetic predispositions. This page covers what the research actually says — without politics and without dismissal.
Lyme Disease
The bull's-eye rash is textbook. Everything else about Lyme disease is complicated. Late-stage, chronic, and post-treatment Lyme symptoms have been dismissed, debated, and underfunded for decades. The tick bite is the beginning of the story. For some people it is not the end of it. This page covers what is documented, what is contested, and what to ask for by name when you're trying to get answers.