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Clean sheets are the best thing for any illness imo

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.

Ugh now this morning I have a cough and my taste has gone weird. GOD EFFING DAMMIT

<3

sending love & sanity & bowls of soup? luv to you & b, trayce,
hang in there <3

Faint 2nd line on RAT, starting to feel v achey and coughing.

If I dont survive, tell my wife... hello.

how is your partner trayce? are you both sick now or is he coming out the other side?

No, now we are both sick. ugh i feel like shit

Hope it's not too bad and you feel better soon Trayce.

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.

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.

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).

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?

Every time I see this thread, I feel like singing "The big ol' bug is the new baby now"

Which it is, kinda.

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.

may your bingewatching be appropriately soothing

INdeed. Oh! And the loss of taste! God, this blows the most. I can taste salt, pepper, and vegemite and thats about all.

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.)

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.

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.

feel better everyone!

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.

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.

iirc Paxlovid works only the first five days of your illness, so I'd try now.

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.

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

I dunno, I think it depends on whether your co-morbidity is one that puts you at actual risk, or is just a technicality.

And yeah it’s 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.

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.

you can get it overnight in the mail from these people if you’re in the US https://www.findcovidcare.com/

How useful are these second hand anecdotes given we have massive studies?

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

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.

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 you’re unsure if you meet the criteria but it’s not a dangerous drug and it’s available directly from pharmacists now for a reason.

what is molnupiravir chopped liver?? sheesh

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.

My parents, both with mild COVID last month, took molnupiravir for five days. They're fine.

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 ..."

I do in fact wish the worst kind of covid on Jones though.

Jones and his lawyer will be lucky if they leave this trial with *only* damages.

whoops,

No positivity here YET but today is the day I would normally drop my kids off at their mom's house (we're joint custody, weekly switch). She called this morning and SHE has COVID. Both kids have been over at her house for periods of an hour or more over the past few days, so they're definitely both exposed. And of course we're keeping them here now for the duration, so we have at least secondary exposure. I tested this morning just to be safe, negative. We'll watch for symptoms and see how it goes. I totally feel like we're on a rubber raft with sharks circling. Meanwhile I'm working on an article about how our schools are getting ready to open next week with not only no masks (mandates now prohibited by state law) but no reporting at all. The school system has shut down its COVID data dashboard and is essentially treating it like a cold or any other illness. But the community level is at least as high as its been for the start of the last two years of school, and both of those saw big jumps in infections the first few weeks of classes. Gonna be interesting to see how the "don't ask, don't tell" approach works.

The school system has shut down its COVID data dashboard and is essentially treating it like a cold or any other illness.

Sorry to hear that, though this seems to be the way things are moving. No word yet on our kid's school, but he doesn't start until the end of the month, but I'm hoping the dashboard is up again this year. My workplace, as I think I mentioned, didn't just stop updating their dashboard, but nuked it completely - along with any links to COVID information.

The thing is of course, people are still going to stay home if they're sick — and damn well ought to! Which, if the past two years are any guide, suggests a fair amount of likely mayhem, particularly if/when teachers are sick.

I'm still testing positive today and B's meant to get the kids back tomorrow. We hate that we'll probably have to tell them to stay with their mum/gparents for a few more days cos a) I'm still germy and b) we are both as weak as kittens and can barely feed/look after ourselves let alone 2 not-sick teenagers.

Thought I was rallying, today I feel like I have glandular fever or something. Blerugh!

Ugh. I tested negative at the ten-day mark, but I'm still coughing and feeling the pressure on my chest. I'm figuring that doesn't mean much now that I'm officially covid-negative, but it still gets a bit stressful at times.

So sorry for you all, it sounds like it pretty much sucks.

Woke up really exhausted this morning but starting to feel better.

So I had a severe exposure to COVID on Saturday and on 1:30 AM Monday I got symptoms so I called my provider's office to leave a message for them, except I couldn't just leave a message for them, they had to transfer me to the after-hours nursing hotline. So I got to sit through 20 minutes of questions to give my information to an intake person who said a nurse would call me right back as soon as possible.

Well, nobody called me back by 8 AM and at this time my actual doctor's office was open, so I called them and spend 20 minutes going through their phone tree and answering questions and then they said "Oh you're a healthcare employee, you have to call our Special Healthcare Employee Hotline"

So I called their Special Healthcare Employee Hotline and went through _their_ phone tree and said "OK we can send you in to be tested, here's the nearest testing site, our next appointment is at 2:15"

So I went in at 2:15 and they said "Do you want the rapid test or the definitive test", like I would wait half an hour in line for a rapid test I could fucking get at home, so I said "definitive please" so they said "OK one definitive coming right up, you'll have results in 24-48 hours, we'll send it to you through our portal, by the way you have to sign up for our portal"

Joke's on them because I was ALREADY signed up to their portal for some goddamn reason, so that's an hour I saved right there. Anyway so this evening they write back and say "Hey! Guess what! You have COVID!" And that's it. I have COVID. I kind of knew that already. Are you going to do something with that information? OK, yeah, because I'm an employee from the healthcare system I can't get healthcare from my _doctor_, I have to get special urgent support from people who will spare no expense to do as little as possible.

So because it's after-hours I call the after-hours employee hotline _again_ and get a very nice person who takes calls for the on-call nurses to not respond to. I have to give her my complete health history, I guess because she's just an admin person and she doesn't get access to my medical information. In order to protect my healthcare privacy, I have to reveal all of my most personal health information to every single person in the healthcare system I talk to every time I talk to anybody.

"So what are your symptoms?"
"I, uh... I had a definitive test for COVID and it came back positive. I have COVID."
"OK, but what are your symptoms?"
"Uh... sore throat?"
"OK, just sore throat, then."

Right. Just a sore throat. Probably nothing to worry about. Also, I have COVID, just so you know.

So anyway I spend another 20 minutes going through their phone tree and giving every piece of personally identifiable information I can think of to this person and she said "Hope you feel better soon."

Gee. That's nice. That's really nice of her.

You know what would fucking help me feel better soon? IF YOU COULD GET ME SOME FUCKING TREATMENT FOR THIS DISEASE I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU I HAVE SINCE FUCKING 1:30 AM MONDAY MORNING. I BET THAT WOULD HELP.

But, you know, I appreciate her thoughts and prayers. I appreciate that our healthcare employee COVID hotline is run off thoughts and prayers. Benefits of working for a faith-based organization, I guess.

unfortunately, if you are generally healthy and are having mild symptoms (in other words, can breathe without assistance) there's very little a doctor is going to say you should do besides rest, isolate, monitor your temperature and oxygen levels, and maybe take dayquil/nyquil if you aren't feeling great.