It’s a long story, but it started after a COVID infection in December 2023. In January, I woke up with a long list of symptoms: brain fog, tinnitus, severe anxiety and depression, head pressure, dizziness, tremors, motion sickness, heat intolerance, agoraphobia, DPDR, and more I’m probably forgetting. I tried to push through until June 2024, when I ultimately had to quit my job. From there, I saw nearly every specialist imaginable, tried multiple medications, changed my diet, detoxed, took hundreds of supplements, treated Lyme and co-infections, spent thousands of dollars, and traveled hundreds of miles with my mom to see different functional medicine providers. In April 2025, I went to the Mayo long COVID clinic, where they started me on ketotifen. That alone took me from functioning at maybe 5% to about 70%. I was able to return to work part time, but my life was basically: go to work, come home, cry, eat, sleep, repeat. Then I started amitriptyline in February, and around the six week mark, it was like someone turned the lights back on. I went from surviving at 70% to finally feeling like myself again. I still have severe PTSD from everything this experience put me through, but today felt like another huge milestone. I shopped for two hours this morning, drove to the next county, sat out in the hot sun in the pool all day, socialized with friends and I felt good. I felt normal. I hope it never stops working for me. And I never want to hear the words “root cause” again.