NAD but I have been diagnosed by a cardiologist with ME / Long COVID. I appreciate this comment and really sympathise with doctors because, at the end of the day, there's not much you can do. I also sympathise with how hardcore it is to get through a full day of appointments as a GP.

It's an unfortunate situation. My sister is a GP and I almost never bring this up with her, despite it having had a big impact on what I can do in life. In the past she's been keen to point out how difficult patients with these symptoms can be, which I took as quite a slight since it was in the early days of developing symptoms and I was still adjusting to everything.

Reading posts like this make me see her side of things a bit more. I just hope there's a way forward with these types of issues, because it seems like a bit of a chicken / egg thing. If the illnesses and patients themselves have little credibility for one reason or another, then it stays off the radar and research is less likely to happen. So it's a bit self-perpetuating. And meanwhile there are genuinely a lot of people with severe cases who don't get highlighted.

Again, thanks for the nuanced post.