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solidarity and aloha! here's wishing you well with my whole heart <3

davey, Saturday, 8 January 2022 03:10 (two years ago) link

same!

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 January 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link

I hope the lingering effects resolve for you soon Chinaski.

PM Dawn FM (PBKR), Saturday, 8 January 2022 12:50 (two years ago) link

there was an interesting chart i saw on twitter, so many long covid symptoms...

A very cool graph showing the average *onset* of these #LongCovid symptoms. 5/ pic.twitter.com/otoDqTp257

— Hannah Davis (ON HIATUS FOR JANUARY) (@ahandvanish) December 27, 2020

koogs, Saturday, 8 January 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link

Well, that's cheered me up! Especially the use of TIE fighters.

Thanks for the well wishes folks. I'll kick this fucker in the end.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 8 January 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link

Tested myself again with a rapid antigen test and I'm still positive (not too surprising because my mild symptoms haven't yet cleared up) ... but the test line on the faint this time. Everything I've read says to treat any visible line, no matter how faint, as evidence of COVID. But does a fainter line mean that there are lower levels of the virus, i.e., that I am becoming less contagious? Or is it just a quirk of the tests that the line can vary in visibility?

jaymc, Saturday, 8 January 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link

*test line is faint

jaymc, Saturday, 8 January 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link

That's good question. We took my daughter's rapidly positive rapid test and the very obvious line as further proof that the results were accurate. (She tested positive again today, btw, four days after the first test, though her symptoms are even slighter.)

My wife tested negative for the second time at home, which combined with a total lack of symptoms makes her think the first shipping container clinic test was perhaps not accurate. Rest of us continue to test negative.

Meanwhile, that crazy litany of long covid symptoms, I wonder if the (self-reported?) results would be different today vs. Dec. 2020? Regardless:

On reproductive health in #LongCovid - I won't repeat everything but a few new datapoints:

15% of men reported sexual dysfunction. 11% of cis men and 3% of nonbinary respondents reported pain in testicles. 3% of cis men reported a decrease in genital size. 17/

— Hannah Davis (ON HIATUS FOR JANUARY) (@ahandvanish) December 27, 2020

3% of cis men reported a decrease in genital size? I don't doubt that some people reported it, but even humoring stats like this is not how you gain faith in the methodology and results.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 January 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

my luck finally ran out

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link

oh no!

how do you feel?

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link

scratchy throat, that's it.

sealing myself in my room to avoid contact with parents. fortunately they're boosted and I caught this early (PCR test positive, antigen test negative).

just in time for dad's 74th birthday. meh.

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:42 (two years ago) link

dude!!!! that sucks, i’m sorry.

SEES! TURNS! (cat), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link

Ugh, sorry. So many friends have had this experience during Omicron, dodged it for two years and then bleah. Good thing is they've all been vaxxed, mostly boosted, and as far as I know nobody's had anything worse than a few flu-like days. Hang in there.

Hope it’s mild, Neanderthal.

removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link

My experience, just as Tipsy describes.

I'm fully vaxxed, came down with a bad head cold about 12 days ago, my wife who was feeling rough too got pinged by the app about 5 days later and we've been isolating.

It's not been too bad, I guess, I work from home so I've been able to keep working. Started as a head cold, then got my throat pretty bad then wheezy chest stuff. My main problem has been lack of sleep, most people I talk to say they slept for 4 days straight, I wish, 4 hours a night max for about 10 days now.

Tested myself again this morning, still got it, was hoping I'd be clear so I could test again tomorrow and return to the wild, feeling very sorry for myself :)

Maresn3st, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 09:09 (two years ago) link

imo any virus that infects Neanderthal two years into uprooting his entire life to try and protect his parents from it is a bad guy

bad luck banging, or Lorna Doone (sic), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 10:29 (two years ago) link

had it - chills, fever, crampy lungs for a week, weakness for two. lingering asthmatic throat since

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:51 (two years ago) link

Sorry all, hang in there.

Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link

Sending good thoughts to everyone, ride it out safely people!

chip? (Matt #2), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link

Best wishes to everyone currently suffering from this - hope it's mild and you feel better soon with no lingering effects!

Sorry Neanderthal, hope your parents stay safe (and the same to anyone else living with/afraid for their loved ones), though I'm hopeful they will since you caught it early and I know a good few people who didn't catch it when those they live with were stricken.

a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link

had it, mostly just felt like a bad cold for a week, feel nearly totally better now except for this cough that will not fucking go away arrghhh

donna rouge, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link

still no symptoms other than scratchy throat. like my friend who got it, my voice changed a bit yesterday.

however my throat kinda feels better today. not normal or 'good' per se, but I just tried quietly humming the falsetto to "After the Love is Gone" and did so without issue, which i wouldn't usually be able to do with a sore throat even.

no fever still.

i loaded up on rapid tests for the folks. mom tested negative yesterday (I told her it was too soon to test, but she insisted), but we'll retry every so often.

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link

the Philip Bailey Test

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link

my voice changed a bit yesterday.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RMvsEuT7gnU/hqdefault.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link

lolz x 2

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link

well, now this is fun.

tomorrow, I have to go in for my study and get officially tested there, as part of my original agreement.

I decided to confirm yesterday's result by going to a rapid PCR place. it was also self-collected, and I did it the same way I collected my result yesterday that was positive.

results....negative.

so now....is that test wrong? was the first one false positive?

now I gotta go in tomorrow and get it done a third time at my study, where they will collect sample. if that's negative, then maybe it is a false positive.

until then, not changing anything I'm doing. meh. this is annoying.

also going to keep an eye on the folks, so far they seem fine, but it's been short while.

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link

and yeah, it doesn't matter if I'm taking precautions either way, but I would like to know definitively if I had it or not, as that has a bearing of my likelihood of immediate risk in the near future. antibody tests are good for that, i ain't taking one right now though.

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link

went to my COVID study and got swabbed, but they told me results could take 3 days to a week. by then, they'll be useless to me. they're also having me do saliva tests, which don't start until the 19th.

I went to another facility and had another rapid PCR done (the Mesa-Accula, one of the best out there), and once again, negative. have also done about four rapids timed 12 hours apart over the last few days, also negative (and they should have started popping positive by now if PCR popped positive Tuesday at 9 am).

so what I have now is a likelihood that it was a false positive, esp since I feel normal, and the scratchy throat was probably the byproduct of drinking a lot for two days, yelling at the tv during the super bowl, and not hydrating. but....who knows. i'm staying cautious for at least one more day, might take one more rapid at midnight and then talk to the fam.

folks have been testing, negative so far all times. but that could also be due to our isolation working.

i hate this!

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 February 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link

Hang in there, Neanderthal. At worst it's the mildest of cases; at best you'll be rarin' to go in 24 hours.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link

Look at it this way, if you are positive then you're in the clear for a few months! And if you're negative, you've still got a shot at getting it! It's a win-win!

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 February 2022 19:18 (two years ago) link

So I've had quite the journey the last few days, physically and psychologically. Backstory: Last weekend I was a parent chaperone on a middle-school band trip to Disney World. I KNOW. An insane thing to do even under ideal circumstances, even more so in a waning but still present Omicron wave. I was admittedly lax about masking, mostly because so was everybody else, I admit it. Disney required masks on their buses, but that was it, so for three days it was just wall to wall mostly unmasked people, indoors and out. I of course had trepidations about this, but my kid had lobbied me to go last fall and I had agreed (and paid a whole lot of upfront money), so I just figured, what the hell. I'm vaxxed/boosted, this was one of those once-in-a-lifetime "worth getting COVID for" things.

So. The trip was ... I mean, kind of a nightmare, as you would expect, but overall the kids had fun and the grown-ups more or less did too, and we were all totally exhausted by the end. My son and I got home Sunday night. Monday, I started experiencing fairly severe intestinal upset. My first thought was that I'd picked up either food poisoning or a norovirus, if that gives you an idea of the symptoms. As it went on, I figured I should go ahead and do a rapid test, since such symptoms are also a fairly common COVID onset indicator. It was negative. From what I read, it's common for those particular symptoms to be followed by fever about a day later. Tuesday morning, still suffering, I went and did a PCR test, and also took another rapid test. The rapid test was again negative. By Tuesday afternoon I started feeling a teensy bit better and thinking that it probably wasn't COVID — and then BAM, out of nowhere, I got hit by severe shaking chills and fever. My temperature jumped from 99 to 101 in 20 minutes. Miserable. My wife and I went into total lockdown, she moved out onto the couch, we started masking whenever she came into the bedroom to check on me. Fever spiked to 102 before gradually subsiding through the night. At this point, I was 100 percent sure I had COVID, and in my feverish state started running through all kinds of thoughts and feelings about the whole situation.

This morning, temp continued to fall until it was normal by midday. Stomach is still funky but recovering. But I was still waiting on the PCR that I knew was going to be positive, and figuring I had at least 3-4 more days of lockdown ahead. BUT. The PCR results arrived late this afternoon and — it was also negative (for both COVID and flu). So now, after having basically accepting that I had COVID and also thinking that I was getting over it — and also would have some more immunity to it — it appears I don't have it at all. I have some other damn Florida nastiness. Swamp flu or alligator pox or what have you. Of course, at Disney I would have been exposed to any number of things from any number of places. Plus also it could still be food poisoning.

I don't know. I'm still pretty beat, probably need at least one more day in bed before I'll be functional. But now I'm having to adjust to NOT having COVID. Sort of pisses me off tbh — if I'm going to be this sick, I ought to at least get some useful immunity from it. It's a weird headspace to be in. (And I know this is the thread for people who actually have COVID, so I apologize, but it's been quite an experience overall.)

Shit, tipsy, that sucks. I follow a couple Disney blogs who've said the last couple weekends have been the busiest since before COVID, and I forget if I read indoor queues still required masks.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 March 2022 00:18 (two years ago) link

No apologies necessary, tipsy.

Gary Gets His Tonsure Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 March 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link

It finally got me - tested +ve and I'm now living on the sofa. felt like I had a mild cold yesterday that I'd put down to a string of late nights. today I feel somewhat worse but nothing really outside the realm of your average bad cold. Am coughing and sneezing a little bit which makes me worry about passing it on to the rest of my family (my wife has a compromised immune system due to a long-term medical condition). really want to open the windows in here to ventilate the area and let the germs out, but they seem to have seized up due to the wet weather (they're old wooden sash frames that swell up when they get damp), so that has upped the claustrophobia. have spent the day either sleeping, or digging through my records trying to find good tracks for a radio set I'm supposed to be doing, so it's not been all bad. Talking to my family through a closed door really sucks though and im a bit worried about my loss of income - I'm self-employed and only just getting by at the best of times, and this has wiped out at least 3 or 4 days of work. Just hope it doesn't drag on too long.

Good luck tipsy though, at least I don't have the shits! :)

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 3 March 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link

good luck, tipsy and Nick

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 March 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link

yeah <3 to you both

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 March 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link

Thanks all, and best wishes Nick. My Covid-chondriac brother reminds me that even PCRs return 1 in 5 false negatives so who knows. Whatever this is does not appear bent on killing me, but I sure am tired. (And yeah, no masks required anywhere inside the Disney parks, just on the buses — which I guess is probably because of federal regs?)

that's kind of misleading because that assumes one test. if you get tested more than once, a day or two apart, the chances of you testing negative twice on PCR but actually having it is much lower.

not sure if you have taken more than one or just the one, but wouldn't hurt if possible. Regardless, I hope you beat whatever you got <3

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 March 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link

xpost My wife's theory is that you caught a bug, but did so when you were run down from chaperoning, which made you even more susceptible.

Hope you both feel better!

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 March 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link

I've done multiple rapid tests but just the one PCR. I don't know if it's worth doing another PCR at this point.

And Josh, your wife is definitely right about being run down, I had that thought too.

by all means

I had a false alarm two weeks ago, and the PRCs exonerated me.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:43 (two years ago) link

The People's Republic of China?

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 March 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link

Don't ask me about the bribe I paid.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 March 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link

definitely through the worst of it here, had one day of being completely wiped out but feel mostly on the mend now. still snotty, still testing positive though. three days of living on the sofa in my underwear, eating crisps and weeing in a bottle and that's just the highlights reel. but inevitably, my wife tested positive today, so we're waiting for some sort of treatment plan from the support team for her condition. i sense she's quite cross with me about it, but i know she's just worried about it and annoyed in general. hope i'm clear soon so i can be of some actual use, but the kids really seem to have stepped up and are being really helpful, bless them. eldest even bought me beer tonight. so yeah, hanging in there!

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 4 March 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link

living on the sofa in my underwear, eating crisps and weeing in a bottle

Living the dream is more like it.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 March 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link

Lol

Gary Gets His Tonsure Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link

Odd postscript to my situation: I did take a 2nd PCR, which also came back negative today. I feel better though still fairly weakened, but my digestive stuff is returning to normal. So, figure some kind of stomach bug. BUT. Then I heard from one of the other chaperones in my group — i.e., somebody I spent many hours in close proximity to, inching through Disney lines with the kids — that she just tested positive. Her symptoms are mild, sinus infection type stuff. So she has mild symptoms and a positive test. I've had moderately bad illness and a whole bunch of negative tests. I even did another rapid test after she told me that, just out of extra caution, still negative. Who knows man.

I would be surprised if you had COVID, with three negative tests spaced out that far. esp given how similar to a stomach bug those symptoms sound.

glad the digestive stuff returning to normal. out of all symptoms I ever get when sick, that's the one I always pray to avoid.

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 March 2022 23:33 (two years ago) link

Yeah, food poisoning is the closest I've ever felt to death (knock on wood).

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 March 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link

anything that involves rapid dehydration because then that causes a myriad of other physical maladies

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 March 2022 23:37 (two years ago) link


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