Coronavirus prep
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cwolfman13 wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »Speaking of sore arms post shots, I recently completed a 6 month course of Lupron, where I had one shot per month, preferably in different parts of the body. I had the first in my arm, the second in my thigh, and the rest in my glutes, because THERE WAS NO SORENESS WHATSOEVER IN MY GLUTE.
When I got my latest COVID booster last month I requested it in the glute and she said she could not do that. This was not due to privacy concerns, as we were in a little room. Also, apparently when it comes to giving injections, the glutes are much higher than I thought. Probably I was thinking of Gluteus Maximus and they are injecting in the higher Gluteus Medius.
So now I am going to try to get my flu shot at my doctor's office so I can get this in my glute.
You definitely can't get a rabies vaccine in the glutes, the antibody response is lessened. I don't know about other vaccines but I imagine it would be similar.
Does Lupron trigger an antibody response, or is it something different? If not maybe that is why the glute is an acceptable spot for it.
Typically they don't want to give vaccines in the glutes because there is a major nerve trunk running through and it's pretty easy to hit something like the sciatic nerve and mess you up pretty good.
With the rabies vaccine it's because of the risk of vaccine failure. It's well documented that the antibody response is lower. (And if there is one vaccine you don't want to fail it's rabies - believe me I have had it
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ETA: I have had the vaccine, not rabies.
Yep, I had the serious too. Wasn't actually exposed afterall... turns out the cat likely licked a mushroom or toad it shouldn't have and was acting normal again before I even left the ER lol but I'm up to date on my rabies shots!3 -
Went out with friends yesterday for the first time since NYE, which was a lot of fun. I was more cautious than usual though, wore a mask on the subway, tried to social distance from strangers, used lots of hand sanitizer, etc. I'm still easing back into life, work, and exercise so I don't overdo it and end up getting long COVID. My neck is still strained but slowly recovering, but I can't do stuff like vacuum or lift heavy bags of laundry for the time being because I don't want to re-injure it (now I wish we had gotten that robot vacuum last year).
The most annoying lingering effect is that my sleep schedule is still really messed up. I usually go to bed late and wake up late compared to most people because I have a delayed sleep phase, but when I was sick with flu/bronchitis/COVID I couldn't get to sleep until 6 or 6:30 AM because I was coughing so much I would have to wait until I would basically pass out from exhaustion to be able to sleep without having a coughing fit. So now I'm still going to bed really late and then either waking up really late or not getting enough sleep and taking naps during the day. The last couple of days have been the latter option and today I ended up taking a nap in the afternoon that was supposed to be 10 minutes and ended up being 4 hours. We were supposed to go grocery shopping and my partner kept waking me up and I was trying to get up but was so tired that I couldn't. Now I'm probably going to be up until 5 AM since I took such a long nap so...the cycle continues.5 -
I'm very sorry your sleep cycle is really off. I hope in other ways you are feeling easier.
I've recently read, it can be possible to reset your sleep cycle, though yours is more than a couple of hours adrift from the majority of us. Its a matter of letting the body know when its supposed to be awake, when you wish to be starting your day.
Three things, take 15 deep as you can manage deep breaths on waking. Doing this will start different systems into action.
Drink 15 oz of room temperature water, could be stood over night. do this over half of to and hour, this counteracts the effects of nighttime dehydration.
Now get into the morning light, preferably be out in sunlight for 15 minutes as early as you can manage. I'm up before the sun for the time being. I did the school run, walking part without my glasses this morning when the sun was up.
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GIVE ME 10 DAYS – ROUND 212
Round 212
January 22 – February 1, 2023
Round 212. Simple goal. To stay thoughtful in my actions the whole round.
History:Round 126 153.0 equivalent 9/14/20
Round 127 149.2 9/24/20
Round 128 147.2 10/4/20
Round 129 145.8 10/14/20
Round 130 144.4 10/24/20
Round 131 142.2 11/3/20
Round 132 139.4 11/13/20
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Round 137 132.0 1/2/21
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Round 188 135.8 5/26/22 Harry 10 lb 10.5 oz Han Solo 11 lb 12 oz
Round 210 146.6 1/02/23 Harry 10 lb 15.5 oz Han Solo 11 lb 12 oz
Round 211 144.4 1/12/23
Round 212 147.2 1/22/23 Harry 10 lb 14 oz Han Solo 11 lb 11 oz
SW: 146.8
Day/Weight/Comment
1/22 – 147.2 So round 210 was on target, 211 started great, then distractions came in again. I have to figure out how to not swing extremes. This morning was more up from yesterday, but DH and I went out to eat last night and I made choices without regard to calories (cocktail, pad thai, and half a huge dessert). But I am back here today. Round 212. Thoughtful breakfast choices and will plan out my day as I will be “out” for most of the day and will need to face one meal out of the house.
1/23 – 146.2 yesterday went well enough. Spent the day at my parents’ assisted living apartment. I worked through cleaning the place up. They collect things and also seem to not be able to put things away. Tracked well, but no exercise.
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Cleaning is exercise. You are moving as you do it, you could be reaching up for cobwebs, reaching down for something dropped, moving your arms when cleaning windows or a dusting, moving items about, anything from a pencil to a pile of laundry, it all takes more effort than sitting watching the tv. Its varied and true you could say done with "light effort" or something but if you are doing things for two or three hours, it all builds up. Alternatively have you thought of counting your steps, there are gadgets to do it for you. Is it 12000 which is said to be a number to aim for. I can't remember the average step count of the average UK post delivery person its probably a little higher. Its not necessarily as repetitive as a gym session some would say its more effective for all that.2
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True I responded to SModa61.
Chronic conditions are related to long covid, long covid shares much of the symptoms found in CF and other long term depleting conditions, different people's symptoms are expressed differently. I felt accrediting "work within the home" as one way of taking exercise was essential, even if as SModal61 was doing in a parents, assisted living apartment, sheltered housing, in the UK.
If the only exercise you have energy or time to do is "house work", probably seen as menial therefore seemingly dismissed by many overtly healthy folks, being active to your personal level has to be better than being confined to you bed. By choosing "house work", for those with limited mobility in my view would show, they have an interest in their quality of life, they are not giving in to what ails them.
Please SModa61, I am not inferring you are deplete in any way, you like many have much to do. I took the opportunity to say, "house work", any activity has it benefits for those who's health is very poor or who's time is restricted. I'm sure you were intending to be read as restricted choosing to help parents over going to the gym. I wonder if you cross/miss posted. I wish everyone health, without health we are nothing, from my experience.
Long covid has many similarities to those found by CF suffers, and those with other similar disabilities. Understanding on the medical functioning of the immune system is strongly suggesting having a stronger immune system by consuming many and various veg and to some extent fruits, even in supplement form to provide the body with the quality of minerals and vitamins at levels to support, as well as restore the immune function to the persons personal usual level of immunity can reduce the severity of the long covid or other severely depleting conditions such as CF. This paragraph is a much simplified version.
Please do your own research, keep to accredited medics, even check their qualifications. Always do what is best/right for you. By this I mean, your understanding of the information you find chimes with your inner feelings and everything you feel internally, to help you achieve better health at any age, "go for it". Please don't miss out on the chance of feeling better and getting your life back.
Best Wishes to all.
Then live well. Be well and enjoy everyday.3 -
@Fuzzipeg Thank you for your thoughtful note. What is interesting about me, is I did great doing COVID. My doctor even commented on it. Then we decided to sell family home, find a new home for us. Meanwhile my father breaks his hip mid stride which started a whole cycle of having to help my parents who did NOT fair well with COVID. Mother was afraid to go in her yard - despite distance from neighbors. She would not go for walks. They would let no one, including us family anywhere hear them. They sat in their hoarded home watching TV for close over a year and a half before the break. They physically declined and mentally declined. They are now both in assisted living and we cannot get their home empty to sell, and they are now hoarding their tiny apartment. Yes, their age is a piece of the puzzle, but I am confident that their locking down during COVID and getting no physical or mental stimulation has accelerated what nature would have done. Sad and scary.
Oh, I said all this because I have forgotten to take care of myself. Getting back to MFP, and I need to smarten up!!16 -
@Fuzzipeg Thank you for your thoughtful note. What is interesting about me, is I did great doing COVID. My doctor even commented on it. Then we decided to sell family home, find a new home for us. Meanwhile my father breaks his hip mid stride which started a whole cycle of having to help my parents who did NOT fair well with COVID. Mother was afraid to go in her yard - despite distance from neighbors. She would not go for walks. They would let no one, including us family anywhere hear them. They sat in their hoarded home watching TV for close over a year and a half before the break. They physically declined and mentally declined. They are now both in assisted living and we cannot get their home empty to sell, and they are now hoarding their tiny apartment. Yes, their age is a piece of the puzzle, but I am confident that their locking down during COVID and getting no physical or mental stimulation has accelerated what nature would have done. Sad and scary.
Oh, I said all this because I have forgotten to take care of myself. Getting back to MFP, and I need to smarten up!!
My mother is in cognitive decline too. She's making terrible decisions. I tried getting multiple family members to help, and her doctor, and the senior center, to no avail. She doesn't want my partner and me living here anymore.
If your parents' home is in the western part of the MA South Shore, send me a direct message 7 -
kshama2001 wrote: »@Fuzzipeg Thank you for your thoughtful note. What is interesting about me, is I did great doing COVID. My doctor even commented on it. Then we decided to sell family home, find a new home for us. Meanwhile my father breaks his hip mid stride which started a whole cycle of having to help my parents who did NOT fair well with COVID. Mother was afraid to go in her yard - despite distance from neighbors. She would not go for walks. They would let no one, including us family anywhere hear them. They sat in their hoarded home watching TV for close over a year and a half before the break. They physically declined and mentally declined. They are now both in assisted living and we cannot get their home empty to sell, and they are now hoarding their tiny apartment. Yes, their age is a piece of the puzzle, but I am confident that their locking down during COVID and getting no physical or mental stimulation has accelerated what nature would have done. Sad and scary.
Oh, I said all this because I have forgotten to take care of myself. Getting back to MFP, and I need to smarten up!!
My mother is in cognitive decline too. She's making terrible decisions. I tried getting multiple family members to help, and her doctor, and the senior center, to no avail. She doesn't want my partner and me living here anymore.
If your parents' home is in the western part of the MA South Shore, send me a direct message
Ah, parents in decline--we should start a club. My mother is 93 and refuses to go to assisted living while my brother is on vacation in Mexico for 3 months. She's in Minnesota, out on a farm, watching TV. I'm in Rome, Italy and try to call. One of my brothers lives on the farm, but works during the day. The other siblings are trying to step up, but she's making everyone jump through hoops. When I call, she doesn't sound happy. Now, you may ask why I don't jet off to Minnesota in January or February to stay with her? Well, since Christmas, I've got a lot of pain in my right leg, and am trying to find out what's causing it. I may have to have a hip replacement. We're all getting older.11 -
@Kshama2001 @snowflake954
K - My parents home is north of Boston in Middlesex county. Sorry, does not wound like a match.
K & S - I am hoping I am remembering all this when I am my parents (86/88)/your parents ages, so I can be better to my own children. In general, I think I got "lucky" with my father's hip breaking. It forced him, and my mother came as well as we got a two bedroom, into assisted living, and over time my parents came to realize they CANNOT return to their home. Their house is a multilevel with stairs everywhere. My father cannot do stairs, and my mother barely can do them any more (that is the negative to assisted living, there are zero stairs to work on those muscles). I am actually leaving for the florida Keys for 3 months shortly as we purchased a place there just before COVID and before my parents. Trying to have things as straightened as possible before I leave. One sister is cross country. The other sister is local, but three kids, college, high and middle.8 -
The isolation and stress brought about by the COVID crisis might not have directly impacted our health, but the situation certainly didn't help the general decline my husband and I (both in our mid-70's) have been experiencing. My husband had a devastating heart attack in 2021 that left him with physical and cognitive issues. I struggle with mobility and brain fog as well. Fortunately, my youngest daughter and son-in-law moved in with us early in the 2020 shutdown, a living arrangement not without its own challenges, but a huge help overall.9
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Honestly my feelings about lockdowns are controversial (maybe not so much anymore considering the criticism of the zero COVID policy which many people used to criticize us for NOT doing). But suffice to say I know way more people whose lives and health were negatively impacted by lockdowns than by COVID. Lockdown negatively affected both me and my partner permanently. I have PTSD from childhood abuse so lockdown was triggering in many ways, and I got certain extremely awful and scary symptoms as a result of lockdown that I will have to deal with the rest of my life (ie. even if the symptoms themselves go away I will have to deal with the ramifications of it for the rest of my life). And our car got stolen in 2020 because crime rates went up and my partner has never been the same since, he's become a lot more distrustful, angry, and bitter. And after all that we both got COVID anyway so what was the point...?
My dad has a bunch of COVID cases in his building (he lives in an assisted living facility). We were supposed to visit this weekend but obviously are holding off on it. He is wearing a mask and gloves and using copious hand sanitizer whenever he has to leave his apartment and avoiding going out as much as possible. He has a lot of obesity related health conditions so this is concerning. He hasn't caught COVID thus far and hopefully he can avoid it this time too. I've told him several times to get Paxlovid if he does get it.11 -
siberiantarragon wrote: »Honestly my feelings about lockdowns are controversial (maybe not so much anymore considering the criticism of the zero COVID policy which many people used to criticize us for NOT doing). But suffice to say I know way more people whose lives and health were negatively impacted by lockdowns than by COVID. Lockdown negatively affected both me and my partner permanently. I have PTSD from childhood abuse so lockdown was triggering in many ways, and I got certain extremely awful and scary symptoms as a result of lockdown that I will have to deal with the rest of my life (ie. even if the symptoms themselves go away I will have to deal with the ramifications of it for the rest of my life). And our car got stolen in 2020 because crime rates went up and my partner has never been the same since, he's become a lot more distrustful, angry, and bitter. And after all that we both got COVID anyway so what was the point...?
My dad has a bunch of COVID cases in his building (he lives in an assisted living facility). We were supposed to visit this weekend but obviously are holding off on it. He is wearing a mask and gloves and using copious hand sanitizer whenever he has to leave his apartment and avoiding going out as much as possible. He has a lot of obesity related health conditions so this is concerning. He hasn't caught COVID thus far and hopefully he can avoid it this time too. I've told him several times to get Paxlovid if he does get it.
I'm sorry lockdown was so triggering for you. Are you in therapy? I started in April 2020. It's been 100% virtual, which I love.
I would answer your "what was the point" question but I fear you might feel invalidated by that and since I don't want to diminish your difficult experience, I won't.7 -
@siberiantarragon My parents made it all the way to this past October without getting it. Then the bivalent shot came out and their assisted living set up a clinic. Everyone wanted it, so everyone shoved themselves together waiting to get the shot. 27 out of the 75 residents ended up getting COVID, directly or indirectly from that day......7
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kshama2001 wrote: »I'm sorry lockdown was so triggering for you. Are you in therapy? I started in April 2020. It's been 100% virtual, which I love.
Yes I've been in therapy since October 2021 and mine is all virtual too. I also have a psychiatrist and take medication although it hasn't been going well. It just feels like things are never going to get better. I feel dead inside and like nothing is real and nothing matters, and I think I am probably stuck that way forever.I would answer your "what was the point" question but I fear you might feel invalidated by that and since I don't want to diminish your difficult experience, I won't.
Well that's a better reaction than all the people who called me a "murderer" and a "N*zi" for questioning lockdowns (even though I followed all the lockdown rules despite disagreeing with them, and a lot of the people trashing me broke the rules). Now I see the NY Times saying some of the same stuff I was saying back in March 2020, so what does that make them?@siberiantarragon My parents made it all the way to this past October without getting it. Then the bivalent shot came out and their assisted living set up a clinic. Everyone wanted it, so everyone shoved themselves together waiting to get the shot. 27 out of the 75 residents ended up getting COVID, directly or indirectly from that day......
Wow. That's...ironic.
Were they ok?
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siberiantarragon wrote: »
Wow. That's...ironic.
Were they ok?
Ironically, if it were not for the test, I doubt they would have known they had anything other than a cold. They were very fortunate!! From rumors I have heard, not everyone at the facility faired as well. But I am hoping that was wrong.
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siberiantarragon wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »I'm sorry lockdown was so triggering for you. Are you in therapy? I started in April 2020. It's been 100% virtual, which I love.
Yes I've been in therapy since October 2021 and mine is all virtual too. I also have a psychiatrist and take medication although it hasn't been going well. It just feels like things are never going to get better. I feel dead inside and like nothing is real and nothing matters, and I think I am probably stuck that way forever.
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Have you told your psychiatrist about this? This could be a side effect of the meds or a sign they are not the right one(s) for you. I'd been taking Wellbutrin off and on for 20 years and it stopped working 18 months ago. We've tried 4 (?) meds since then. Remeron was awesome for sleep and good for depression, but unfortunately also stimulated my appetite - thanks to this forum for giving me the headsup about that. I started Trintellix last week and didn't like the way it made me feel during the day and think it may have been interfering with my sleep, so need to reach back out to my psychiatrist.8
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