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Yeah, gf's dad got it a while back but her mom never did somehow. Then she somehow did get it before Thanksgiving and accidentally shared it with every (fully vaxxed) person in attendance who hadn't already gotten it (all of whom had tested negative earlier in the day). It was a true holiday miracle.

I've been negative since the weekend and no longer feel sick but, man, the post-COVID fatigue and brain fog is no joke. Back in the office yesterday for the first time in almost three weeks and I was severely flagging by the middle of the day. And things are comparably way slower than usual at work, so thank the lorb that I didn't get this shit during normal business.

My wife and daughter didn't isolate from me when I had it in 2020 (pre-vax days) and they both missed it. Hope Mr. Jaq feels better soonest and you miss the bug entirely, Jaq.

Welp.

So far just a little tired, lots of congestion and a very mild fever. Let's hope being update to date on the jabs helps me out here.

"up to date", brain fog already?

Day four, still mostly just fatigued, even the cough has faded away. Guessing the Paxlovid has helped. Miraculously, both my wife and son are still testing negative.

How is everyone getting Paxlovid except my family? Two different doctors said my sister with numerous health issues “didn’t qualify” even though she was within the time frame. Same thing with my 75 year old mother. Fucks sake.

have you tried molnupiravir? My parents used it in June to equally impressive effect.

I don't know. I didn't even get a chance to ask about it, my doctor immediately said she was going to prescribe it.

I ended up testing negative and having no symptoms the full 10 days, so yay. Mr. Jaq has some coughing still but very minimal compared to the day before he started taking Paxlovid. I'm unclear what criteria are being used for the antivirals but he was also offered it immediately. My brother-in-law was able to take a different drug (Lagevrio?) and is doing better.

that's good to hear on all counts!

went to a sold out (probably oversold) shoulder to shoulder show at a small venue on thursday and popped a very very frail second line on sunday so guess i have the novel coronavirus. been mostly a pretty much ignorable sore throat, low-grade fever, and occasional headache, like the world's least intrusive cold. feeling lucky!

congrats, Jaq!

cheers recovering folks

Took my last Paxlovid this morning, probably going to take my first post-infection test this evening. Unfortunately my wife tested positive this morning, so all of our Christmas plans are definitely canceled now.

:(

It is what it is and perhaps catching it was inevitable (I mean, I was literally the last person in my office to still wear a mask), but the timing sucks. It would have been our first mostly "normal" holidays since 2019 but... welp. Just thankful mine has been mild and hoping my wife's is the same.

Ugh, so sorry, jon. That sucks hard. Admittedly, once my gf tested positive after Thanksgiving, I made zero effort to distance from her, assuming I would catch it eventually anyway and hoping I would do so before Christmas. A rare gamble that paid off.

I hope it stays mild and you can have a cosy time regardless.

Thanks!

Yeah, I tested negative for the first time last night, which was a relief. Wife is feeling pretty rough today though.

Has your wife taken Paxlovid, as well? It seems to really be doing the trick. My gf's mom took it and turned around quickly, whereas my gf and I opted out and the 'VID just sank its claws in. I really only started feeling 100% in the last day or so, nearly three weeks after initially testing positive.

Ugh, sore subject at the moment. She called her doctor immediately after getting the positive test result and the doctor prescribed it, but something got fucked up in sending it over to our pharmacy and she wasn't able to get it yesterday. Hoping to remedy that today.

I'm certain Paxlovid really made a huge difference for me.

side effects?

Terrible taste in mouth! But it cleared up quickly when I finished my round.

Absolutely terrible, bitted taste in the mouth and (sorry) some diarrhea, which are two of the most commonly reported side effects.

"bitter"

did it help to eat afterward? That's what my buddy who took it in October did; he even chewed gum.

Temporarily, I guess. But the taste always kind of hung there, even shortly after brushing my teeth. It was annoying for sure.

That said, it's been more than 24 hours since my last Paxlovid course and the taste is gone now.

good to know. i had heard horror stories about the flavor but not how quickly that faded.

Actually as an update to my wife's Paxlovid thing and the sore subject I alluded to - she called the doctor's office yesterday and spoke to a different doctor in the office, because her usual doctor was off. That doctor prescribed her Paxlovid, but the prescription never came through to the pharmacy. Find out this morning finally that her actual doctor said she wasn't high-rick enough to warrant it. Huh.

So I feel kinda guilty. Not sure if being four years older or having had a history of high blood pressure kicked me up a category, but feels weird to have something that really helped me not be available to her.

We had avoided it for years but my husband now has it. Looks like it was from a family get-together we were all at - us, our two kids, three other adults and kid. The three other adults are all positive, me and our kids negative and no symptoms yet. Wondering how much to bother 'isolating' him from the rest of us as we have all been at the 'spreader event' and in the same rooms for the past 3 days.
Family member with cancer decided not to come to the gathering so that's a bullet dodged at least.

Ugh, sorry. I know what you mean about isolating, in some ways it was a relief when my wife tested positive 2 days after me because at least we didn't have to try to isolate. otoh I know several people in households where one person's gotten it and the rest didn't, so it's not a given that you'll get it. Either way, sympathies.

Sorry to hear that kinder. Yeah, it’s wild how it works. Amazingly, our son never caught it despite us both having it. I mean, we all wore masks and distanced the best we could, but with both parents having it, true isolation from both of us the whole time was impossible.

Yeah, from my friends that have had it I think it's almost more common that both/everyone doesn't get than they do! Thanks all - good to know a 2-day lag is possible too!

We can just file that under "Vaccines work", right?

My other half who has it had a booster recently - my last one was Dec 2021!

My husband came down with it about five or six days ago. Thankfully we have a basement rec room for him to sequester himself in; so far I’m remaining clear and pretty amazed as for the few days prior to his diagnosis we were joined at the hip

Hope you stay clear! <3

Hope you do too! <3

second time around the covid block, also much worse this time, lol

Sorry to hear that Brad, and get well soon all of youse!

it finally got me. I've had the worst sore throat of my life for the last day or so and mild other symptoms but until this morning had tested negative (but assumed I had it). that's almost a week from initial exposure and I guess further exposure from my husband.

trying to gauge which of us is less infected to deal with the kids!

paxlovid pretty miraculous btw, feeling 80 percent this morning compared to hovering around oh let’s say 10 on friday

I wonder if the increasing lack of anxiety among friends who've gotten COVID has a lot to do with whether they get prescribed Paxlovid.

My best to all of youse!

my personal experience getting prescribed paxlovid, in the hopes it helps anyone else: there's a telehealth service in new york that i contacted. i told them i had asthma, and immediately after i had a prescription delivered to me (asthma is not known to increase the potential mortality of covid but no one in the medical community seems to have absorbed this knowledge. also did they do any kind of due diligence to check if i actually had asthma? no. (i do.))

New York apparently has very liberal standards for giving out Paxlovid. Anyway there isn’t a shortage of Paxlovid so it’s not like you have to worry you took it away from someone else, Brad.

Meanwhile in Minnesota, based on my family’s experience, they apparently give Paxlovid to nobody.

Lotsa doctors worried about interference with other drugs, even though it's been well established for some of these competing drugs you can lower/miss dose temporarily to avoid that

My sis and parents took Molnupiravir and it had the same miraculous effects.

sister getting it for the third time is making me wonder if people don't have certain unconscious habits (nail-biting and eye rubbing, not washing hands after going on public transit, etc) that lead to contracting this more easily/often? but don't want to suggest it's a moral/ethical issue. just can't help but wonder how i keep dodging the bullets. imagine it's still a matter of time and will straight up kill me when we dance.

I’m a disgusting person and have never gotten it. Dumb luck I guess.

i don’t think it has anything to do with any of those things