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What are the clinically significant differences between long covid and things like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome that have been around for quite a while?

I don't appear to be the only one asking these questions.

https://www.jwatch.org/na56219/2023/06/15/long-covid-and-chr...

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/long-covid-really...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10117846/

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i always thought long covid is a variant of ME/CFS - it just got it's own name due to the novel virus, while non-covid cases of CFS are caused by viruses which usually have a far lower chance of causing CFS (epstein-barr/herpes/...). no idea if that's actually the case though.

"A review of long COVID research found half of those affected met diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9839201/

They're very similar and if you work in these fields you wink wink know what it means that the disease profiles are so similar.

Examining Association of Personality Characteristics and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Post-COVID Syndrome

"Conclusions: Our study shows higher levels of neuroticism in patients with post-COVID syndrome. "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819212/

What does it mean?

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