Coronavirus prep
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@Athijade , I hope you feel better soon. 💐4
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Gosh, wishing speedy recoveries to all of you. Parent update to all who offered kind words: Everyone survived. My mom was in heart failure when she got covid, and it is really hard to distinguish between heart failure shortness of breath/fatigue and covid symptoms. After 5 weeks in heart failure, she is finally scheduled for a pacemaker next week. Her care has been a crazy disjointed nightmare. And she pays $4000/yr for concierge care. "The best money can buy" is pretty *kitten* here.
My stepdad, also in his 80's and in kidney stone distress when he caught covid, recovered from both. He almost feels normal. He was still testing positive on RATs 2 weeks after his positive result. He stopped testing because he didn't want to know. Both he and my mom received monoclonal antibody infusions around day 4. My stepdad felt somewhat better after 24 hours. My mom, it's hard to tell.
My stepbrother got his first negative RAT 15 days after testing positive. My stepsister, who was sick when she arrived and we *think* may have been our Patient 0, never tested positive.12 -
I'm 4 weeks out from positive test, and basically symptom free but this morning my train was terminating one stop short from my stop and so I walked the extra. I do this reasonably frequently, though not in the last month and it killed me. Not only was I physically tired by the time I got there, I was SO sleepy. Also my legs felt weak by about half way and I honestly could have just sat and not moved. It was an awful feeling.16
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Sinus infection took a full 10 days to clear up, but feeling great the past week and a half or so. Sense of smell still seems slightly improved from pre-this year's round, still not sure why that would be, but I'll take it. Energy levels have been fantastic - sleeping good now too.
Honestly other than the sinus infection, it was pretty much like a typical flu - couple days of feeling like poo, couple days recovering, then GTG.7 -
HoneyBadger302 wrote: »Sinus infection took a full 10 days to clear up, but feeling great the past week and a half or so. Sense of smell still seems slightly improved from pre-this year's round, still not sure why that would be, but I'll take it. Energy levels have been fantastic - sleeping good now too.
Honestly other than the sinus infection, it was pretty much like a typical flu - couple days of feeling like poo, couple days recovering, then GTG.
I had a weird smell thing with sinuses too! My smell came back probably about 60% after COVID. But last week I had a really bad sinus headache for a couple of days and I could smell EVERYTHING! But then my head cleared up and I’m back to not smelling much. So bizarre…
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Those who have had covid recently, how long did it last? My state just published the weekly numbers with 1400 new cases but only 1100 active cases.0
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800 new and 6 deaths. Hospital is full of tourists and longevity of their symptoms differs. I told my relatives about @Cogypsy's sense of smell clearing up with a sinus infection. Somebody needs to science that. There may be a cure in there somewhere. We have longhaulers who've lost their taste and smell, hearing, too.
This thing lingers on like mono for many people. They're tired and worn out for weeks. I remember mono and many people had a case of strep throat with it. I armchaired sinus infections.
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/a/acute-bacterial-rhinosinusitis-1.html
This thing seems like a combo of many things. I'd like to see someone take it apart, piece by piece and obliterate it - off the face of the earth.2 -
Hiawassee88 wrote: »800 new and 6 deaths. Hospital is full of tourists and longevity of their symptoms differs. I told my relatives about @Cogypsy's sense of smell clearing up with a sinus infection. Somebody needs to science that. There may be a cure in there somewhere. We have longhaulers who've lost their taste and smell, hearing, too.
This thing lingers on like mono for many people. They're tired and worn out for weeks. I remember mono and many people had a case of strep throat with it. I armchaired sinus infections.
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/a/acute-bacterial-rhinosinusitis-1.html
This thing seems like a combo of many things. I'd like to see someone take it apart, piece by piece and obliterate it - off the face of the earth.
Just don't get anybody's hopes up! My smell is back to about 60% of what it was before I got sick. It makes me almost want a sinus infection!
I got COVID at the end of October last year, lost taste and smell both. I was home sick for about 5 weeks and I'd say it was around May before I didn't need to take a whole day during the weekend just to sleep and rest. Vertigo, brain fog, and body aches lasted about that long too. However, I had the delta variant and I understand that symptoms aren't as severe or long lasting with the omicrons. I can't imagine how bad it would have been without my vaccines.
Anecdotally, I've been experimenting with a variety of supplements that seem to have helped. I've wanted so badly to feel like myself again that I was willing to try just about anything I came across. I'm feeling normal enough now that I'm going to start looking at which ones are worth continuing and which I can back off of.
Hope everyone is well again soon--this thing ain't no joke!10 -
@COGypsy A little hair of the dog that bit you...to cure you. We're still intrigued by it.0
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I had my first booster almost a year ago and have been waiting for the updated boosters before getting the second. They are out and my CVS has them. (I did have to get into the scheduling process before I was able to confirm this.) I'm going tomorrow.
Please select your vaccine(s)
Make your appointment today for the updated COVID-19 bivalent booster, ages 12 and up.5 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I had my first booster almost a year ago and have been waiting for the updated boosters before getting the second. They are out and my CVS has them. (I did have to get into the scheduling process before I was able to confirm this.) I'm going tomorrow.
Please select your vaccine(s)
Make your appointment today for the updated COVID-19 bivalent booster, ages 12 and up.
I noticed it just received Health Canada approval and supplies will be rolling out over the next few days, which means a few weeks before it hits my neck of the woods. That's kind of what I've been holding out on my second booster for. Although now that I have Covid, it looks like my provincial guidelines say to wait three months before getting the booster anyway.4 -
I am as far from an anti-vaxxer as you can get...I was literally snuck in through a back door to get the initial vaccines before I was eligible. I have received one booster, and am not old enough to be eligible for the second.
But, I think I'm going to wait a bit on the new boosters, even though everyone over 12 is eligible to get one. I don't doubt their safety...I'm sure they are perfectly safe. I just want to see what their efficacy numbers look like in human trials. So far, we just have animal trials. It's possible this one will also only provide temporary protection.
My immune response from the last booster wasn't fun...high fever, chills, exhaustion. So, I'm just going to hang back a bit on this one. We usually get flu shots at work sometime in the fall. If they offer the new Covid booster at the same time, I'll probably get it. I'm just not going to run out and make it a priority right now.4 -
Such an interesting discussion. Thanks to everyone for their perspective.
I got my 4th shot of the same old formulation today. I have an international trip in 2 weeks, and today optimizes the short term antibody aspect. I have been waiting on my 4th shot hoping the new bivalent would be available in time. It’s close. Local news reported first doses would be arriving in town this weekend but no info on where or if any risk groups would have priority. Similar to @SuzySunshine99 , I decided to opt out of the initial wave of the new formulation.2 -
Bump!!!0
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Yay, I finally got it!
2.5 years of staying away from people, wearing masks, using proper-fitting masks, not doing some nice things. And then a drunken guy runs into me, pulls me down, starts to fight, then needs first aid, then pulls my hastily put on mask some more. The other people who was with me also tested positive yesterday
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I'm deeply sorry for the whole incident. I hope you all reported the incident, and the drunken guy was apprehended by your appropriate authorities. I dearly hope none of you will be laid low by this thing.
I only half caught an item on our UK news this lunch time, our government seems to be saying, covid is over? If that's the true situation, why did my gd go down with it last week! Thankfully she is fine now and none of the family have come out with it as yet, thankfully. Will be retesting in a couple of days.3 -
Yay, I finally got it!
2.5 years of staying away from people, wearing masks, using proper-fitting masks, not doing some nice things. And then a drunken guy runs into me, pulls me down, starts to fight, then needs first aid, then pulls my hastily put on mask some more. The other people who was with me also tested positive yesterday
I'm deeply sorry for the whole incident. I hope you all reported the incident, and the drunken guy was apprehended by your appropriate authorities. I dearly hope none of you will be laid low by this thing.
I only half caught an item on our UK news this lunch time, our government seems to be saying, covid is over? If that's the true situation, why did my gd go down with it last week! Thankfully she is fine now and none of the family have come out with it as yet, thankfully. Will be retesting in a couple of days.
Thanks a lot Fuzzipeg. We reported it to the police but guy ran off and vanished. So that doesn't really help. Fortunately there's good sicktime rules here. If you're sick you're sick, and you get full pay from day one. Thats at least something, right?10 -
Yay, I finally got it!
2.5 years of staying away from people, wearing masks, using proper-fitting masks, not doing some nice things. And then a drunken guy runs into me, pulls me down, starts to fight, then needs first aid, then pulls my hastily put on mask some more. The other people who was with me also tested positive yesterday
Jeez. That stinks. I'm sorry, yirara! I hope you have no/mild symptoms, recover fully and quickly.5 -
Not sure I totally agree that the pandemic is over but I guess if we close our eyes and do not report any #s we can pretend? I listen weekly at work to the case load and it blows my mind how pollyanna HR is when the cases tripled last week from the week before. I must just be one of "those" I guess.
Hey on a different subject, has anyone gotten the Moderna updated vax yet? The only one I see available is Pfizer here in Tx just yet. Wondering what the delays are.1
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