Long Covid - What Other Things Can Cause Something Along These Lines?

[joko]

I'm just wondering what other viruses etc can leave people with these kinds of symptoms?

ive heard glandualr fever can
but what else

i havent had covid, but i've had problems quite similar to long covid type ones for a long time, so wondering if i may have caught a virus or something years ago

thanks :)

[Peter Pedant]

well there are the old one - chronic myalgia, chronic fatigue....
now given a new least of life ( they arent all mad) thro long covid

some of the tropical viruses - chikungunya - very debilitating arthritis in 20% I think
and .... Lyme disease.

Guillain Barre - but there are secure tests for that

bed

[Buenchico]

"Latent viral infections in humans include herpes simplex, varicella zoster, Epstein-Barr, human cytomegalovirus, adenovirus, and Kaposi's sarcoma."

https://www.genengnews.com/news/viruses-go-lytic-or-latent-based-on-viral-dna-mechanics/

HIV is another latent virus, as is Ebola:
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2020/viruses-come-stay

Although malaria is a parasitic infection, rather than a viral one, some people who've had malaria once can then experience symptoms periodically for the rest of their lives. (Back in my schooldays in the 1960s, my friend's father periodically suffered from malaria, having first contracted the disease while serving in the Middle East in WWII):
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-01-malaria-recur-pieces-puzzle-slowly.html

[davebro]

My ex bridge partner had these type of symptoms and was treated for a number of different things over the years (including being doubted for psychosomatic chronic fatigue syndrome) - none of which worked or some even caused worse problems.
She was eventually diagnosed with a problem with her pituitary gland. She had an operation (removal? dunno) which is very delicate because of the nearness to the optic nerves. She seemed better afterwards.