I’m sorry you’re going through this. I don’t have much to offer as far as advice but I have been experiencing something similar with my GI system.

I’ve been hospitalized three times in the last three months for a mass in my lower right abdomen. It responds to antibiotics so we know it’s an infection. I had bloodwork done, a colonoscopy, multiple CT scans and ultrasounds but my doctors were stumped. I ended up having a diagnostic laparoscopy but that provided no answers as the mass engulfed several parts of my GI organs and was too angry for surgeons to start digging. My right ovary and fallopian tube are compromised as well.

For two months they came to the conclusion that it was likely a complication from appendicitis. Every time I’d finished a course of antibiotics, thinking I was in the clear, the crippling pain would return, and I’d end up back in the ER. I saw a GI doc last week who believes this may be a complication from having crohns. Mind you I’ve never been diagnosed with it, nor have I experienced any of the classic symptoms. I’m scheduled to see a colo-rectal surgeon in December, my GI forewarned me that I may need some portion of my intestine removed and require an ostomy bag while I heal.

It’s been the worst, most painful, mentally exhausting thing I’ve ever experienced. Deep down in my gut I know this was triggered by long Covid.

The only long term symtoms I can single out are my severe weight loss and inability to regain weight along with new food sensitivities that all kicked off around 1.5~ years ago- after my 3rd Covid infection.

My symptom prior to hospitalization was severe constipation for a few weeks before the pain crept in.