ah jeez :/that is all quite a lot!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 July 2022 08:18 (one year ago) link
My guard was let down - I know heaps of ppl locally who got covid and they were all "yeah it was unpleasant but im ok now" and mostly said it was like a bad flu. We assumed the same, I think. I mean maybe he isnt as bad as it seemed? It was mostly just high fever/shivers/short of breath.
Ugh sorry for rambling on. I'm alone and not dealing great with this. I'm ok though, friends and fam are all aware.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 July 2022 08:39 (one year ago) link
you did the right thing to get him into hospital. i reckon youโre doing much more and much better than your giving yourself credit for.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 July 2022 09:08 (one year ago) link
Thanks T.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 July 2022 10:12 (one year ago) link
I am getting text updates of comfy hospital bed, codiene, antivirals and roast beef sammies, so I think things will be ok :)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 July 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
Wow theyre booting him out of hospital already after only 6 hours. I mean thats good, but its also how strained our hospitals are :|
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 July 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
hopefully that's a good sign that they've released him already, and hope it isn't too overwhelming looking after him when he's back!
― colette, Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
he is home and tucked in bed I washed all the bedsheets while he was out, hopefully antivirals and codiene will mean a good sleep.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
Why do I always end up being the carer and taking it so seriously, but whenever I get sick no one ever looks after me. blergh.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
Sorry
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
<3
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
Sorry Trayce, glad he's home. Hope you stay well!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
Clean sheets are the best thing for any illness imo
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
How scary! Glad he's home.
I'm coughing a lot, but at this point I pretty much feel like I'm getting over a cold. The first few days were pretty rough, though: headache, body aches, three days of fever, two days of tachycardia. Glad I was vaxxed when I got it.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 28 July 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Ugh now this morning I have a cough and my taste has gone weird. GOD EFFING DAMMIT
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 29 July 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 July 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
sending love & sanity & bowls of soup? luv to you & b, trayce, hang in there <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 July 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
Faint 2nd line on RAT, starting to feel v achey and coughing.
If I dont survive, tell my wife... hello.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 29 July 2022 06:59 (one year ago) link
how is your partner trayce? are you both sick now or is he coming out the other side?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 July 2022 08:19 (one year ago) link
No, now we are both sick. ugh i feel like shit
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 29 July 2022 10:24 (one year ago) link
Hope it's not too bad and you feel better soon Trayce.
― doomposting is the new composting (PBKR), Friday, 29 July 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
Ugh, I'm sorry! Day 2 was the worst for me, so I hope it's the same for you and you feel better soon.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 29 July 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Fever jumped up to 39C very briefly last night, but as soon as I could stomach taking some paracetamol and codiene, it went away and I felt 100% better and actually slept.
Today I dont feel too bad - slight cough, headache.. maybe it'll get worse again? I dunno.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 29 July 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
when i had it paracetemol was, as i think i documented way near the beginning, like solid gold. i looked forward to it soooo much. but i could only have it three times a day so i'd put it off, put it off, save it up... my life revolved around paracetemol.
the lovely Emma B had it at the same time and to this day i have no idea how we took care of our (young) kids).
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 July 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
We're lucky the kids could be sent to their mums (it was her week anyway as of today). I just dearly hope they dont come down with it but I hear kids usually cope with it ok?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 30 July 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
Every time I see this thread, I feel like singing "The big ol' bug is the new baby now"
Which it is, kinda.
― Mark G, Saturday, 30 July 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
LOL I am ticking off every classic covid symptom one by one. I thought I was rallying well yesterday then I started feeling gluey and coughing again, then I got a dicky tummy, andnow this morning I feel like I have a bad head/chest cold.
i'm cheering myself up with old Fleischer cartoons on Prime sitting under a pile of blankets.
B is still quite poorly with a heavy cacky cough but no fever so I dont think there's any pneumonia concerns.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 31 July 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
may your bingewatching be appropriately soothing
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 31 July 2022 02:12 (one year ago) link
INdeed. Oh! And the loss of taste! God, this blows the most. I can taste salt, pepper, and vegemite and thats about all.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 31 July 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
This is a very confusing illness. Lately it's been making me feel like there's a weight on my chest and I can't breathe quite right, but only for the first half of the day. Then the weight lifts and for the second half of the day I feel pretty normal. (So far, pulse oximeter says I'm getting enough oxygen.)
― Lily Dale, Monday, 1 August 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
Yeah I am feeling that too! Since last night. Like, I *can* breathe, and its not really *actual* chest pain but my lungs feel heavy somehow. And everythign hurts. And B and I are in really foul moods and keep biting each others heads off, we have no one else to look after us :(
I missed a fairly important work meeting today and tomorrow I was meant to go into the city for a face to face with a big client I manage which of course is completely not happening now.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 1 August 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
My wife just tested positive for the first time. She was out of town this weekend (one travelling companion so far has also tested positive), I was at Lollapalooza, no doubt exposed to tons of COVID. I've got no symptoms, one kid is fine, the other is out of the country. Let's see how this goes! Whee!She's got a cough (which she assumed she got from the now out of the country kid, who had what seemed like a mild cold that resolved before she left, and never tested positive). My wife had just gotten her second booster three or so weeks ago.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
feel better everyone!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 03:10 (one year ago) link
After quite a few close calls, it's finally happened to me. Dang it.
Two days in and it feels like a bit of mildish cold with a bit of fever. Hoping that'll be it.
― Keep the Aspidistra TikToking (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 06:00 (one year ago) link
basically the same for me ^
dodged it for 2.5 years, tested positive yesterday
mild headache, mild sore throat, went to bed with chills last night ... mostly a bad stuffy nose so far
i do have one of the co-morbidities that would qualify me for a treatment ... you all have probably paid better attention than me: should i try to get one now? or wait and see if i start to get worse? i'm on day two of feeling more or less the same.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 06:33 (one year ago) link
iirc Paxlovid works only the first five days of your illness, so I'd try now.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 09:27 (one year ago) link
I dunno, I think it depends on whether your co-morbidity is one that puts you at actual risk, or is just a technicality. I know several people in the US that took Paxlovid and hated it- such a terrible taste in their mouth for weeks, they later said they wished they'd just had the few days of a cold it would have been for them. And people seem to be saying "rebound" symptoms are worse with the current variant. Obviously different for those at higher risk, but I probably wouldn't have taken it if I'd had the option.
Not a doctor, obviously, just thought it was interesting reading several accounts from the US, where here in the UK it's very hard to get any of the antivirals.
― colette, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
I think the big hole in paxlovid prescription right now is that there isn't a clear protocol for when you need a second round
― mh, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
I dunno, I think it depends on whether your co-morbidity is one that puts you at actual risk, or is just a technicality.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
And yeah itโs crazy they re not testing a 7 or 10 day course right now.That said, rebound is pretty rare (about 5%?) and is commonly asymptomatic positive tests rather than a second batch of symptoms.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
took Paxlovid and hated it
Yeah, I've heard from a few folks that the side effects of Paxlovid were worse than the feeling of covid, fwiw, but of course one's personal circumstances and risks should dictate one's course of treatment.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
you can get it overnight in the mail from these people if youโre in the US https://www.findcovidcare.com/
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
How useful are these second hand anecdotes given we have massive studies?
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
have there been any studies that were across a large range of ages/risk groups? that was kind of spotty last I checked, but have a couple friends who took paxlovid in their 30s with no risk factors
― mh, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
Hesitant to add even more anecdotal info, but my coworker and her husband who both just bounced back from covid were both dissuaded from taking paxlovid by their doctors because they were both "young and healthy enough not to need it". Can't say I know their entire medical histories, but I do know the husband is a regular triathlete.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
xp https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/14/pfizers-paxlovid-study-fails-to-answer-key-questions-over-benefit-for-broader-populations/By all means have a conversation with your doctor if youโre unsure if you meet the criteria but itโs not a dangerous drug and itโs available directly from pharmacists now for a reason.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
what is molnupiravir chopped liver?? sheesh
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
my brother took it and his COVID was gone in 5 days, no rebound.
an older friend of mine took it and got the rebound with different systems second time.
your mileage may vary, but I technically have a few co-morbidities so I'll probably get it and I'll make my parents do it as well if they do.
Dad somehow managed to not get COVID despite sharing a room with a flimsy privacy screen with someone who got hospitalized for it. still amazed at that.
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
My parents, both with mild COVID last month, took molnupiravir for five days. They're fine.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
Defense wants the jury to come in and out repeatedly with every new piece of evidence introduced to impeach Jones, and the judge says "I bet the jury will *love* that ..."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link