rona moved in: ilx0rs with the bug report on their progress

officially positive as of yesterday. stay safe out there!

For sure, seems to be making the general rounds again.

Fwiw my own case was mild by any standard, but despite pretty much no or minimal coughing, my cardio-vascular recovery has been curiously slow. I feel fine, but I can also sense that my body is not quite at full capacity. I've heard this from a few folks, that for whatever reason even recovery from mild cases can take longer than expected.

So I'm pretty sure this bug I've had for the last week or so is Covo. Not been terrible, just ambient symptoms making life hard.

One thing I'm finding is difficulty to focus my vision along with eye-floaters, and I'm not sure if this is symptomatic of Covid, or just so happens that my eyesight is just getting bad.

Can't find much online about eyesight being affected by Covid. It certianly wasn't when I had it before. Anyone else experienced this?

god this hurts

"covid is over"? fuuuck off

It’s so alienating

I’m comfortable with the assumption that everyone at my work thinks I’m crazy

There was an all hands yesterday where the CEO was joking with a couple of lower level people about how “their whole team got COVID” while visiting a factory in Mexico. As an illustration of how much team spirit they have and why they are getting a special recognition award. Haha lol we all got Covid at work.

Fuck youuuuu

Sorry to hear it though sleeve and sorry for my outburst

JnJ otm <3

plus side: I am 4x vaxxed so my risk of long COVID has been minimized about as much as it can be

Is there a smoking gun re: where u got it?

our new roommate, my nephew, but not sure where he picked it up yet

in hindsight, I am guessing it was at this stupid crowded indoor Baha'i thing he went to like a week ago

I definitely feel like I recovered from typical symptoms but I am still fuzzy in the head and coughy in the throat - years past my first bout and months past my second.

Plus the psychosocial "covid broke society" stuff

I don't know what to do about it but there it is.

oof brutal, crossing my fingers. I already feel better, symptoms kicked in Tuesday evening.

it really says a lot about how contagious this shit is that I got COVID pretty much immediately after adding our first house-sharing roommate in many years

Good luck, sleeve. Just went on a school tour where we were two of three parents across four different tour groups who were masking. I think in the half dozen classrooms we visited there were half a dozen kids wearing a mask total. I'm sure most people out there regard me as worrying too much (at best), but I just prefer to keep kicking the covid can down the road.

the agonizing lower back pain has finally subsided. I have retained taste/smell throughout. thank god we have a hot tub.

I refuse to even look at the idiotic masking thread anymore (possibly the worst ILX thread ever created), but I feel compelled to note that I got COVID for one reason and one reason only - PEOPLE NOT WEARING THEIR FUCKING MASKS

I spoke too soon on Thursday morning, Thurs night was the worst

Ugh sorry sleeve.

I have not read or even noticed the ilx masking thread and I don’t think I’ll bother

stay far away

I really do feel better today! gonna shoot for a rapid test on Wednesday and hope I'm clear

my wife is down with it again, which means my kid will probably also get it or may even have it (he is blaming his sneezing on 'allergies'). I managed to get vaxxed three weeks ago (they weren't able to yet) so we'll see about me.

good luck man. my wife got the new vax right before this and she has not tested positive or gotten sick, so hopefully you will be the same

hope you're not laid out for too long and it's more like 'shitty cold' than 'near death experience'

"especially bad flu" is how I would describe it w/ the achy pain

prob the sickest I've been since I was 20 and had pharyngitis

pharyngitis! I had this during exams back in college, got my ass kicked, and was able to reschedule a couple of exams as a result. But it sounded made up to me and you are literally the only other person I have ever heard of that had it.

FWIW a woman I know my age — mid-50s — was just diagnosed with a pulmonary blood clot, about 3-4 months after her first case of COVID. Fortunately they were able to find and address it, but it was very painful and scared the hell out of her. One of the nurses who treated her said they are seeing unusual numbers of blood clots in otherwise healthy people, which tracks with all the findings about increased clotting risk post-COVID. So ... that's fun.

is paxlovid worth it or no? I had friends who took it last year and hated it but they also maybe took it too late and they got rebound covid. My wife is two days into serious symptoms.

FWIW a woman I know my age — mid-50s — was just diagnosed with a pulmonary blood clot, about 3-4 months after her first case of COVID

interesting, a friend of ours (50) had the same thing plus a mild heart attack this summer. i'm not sure when she had covid but she did at some point.

paxlovid was worth it imo

same - it helped my serious symptoms in a major way. i kept testing positive for 3 weeks which was annoying but at least i didnt feel like total garbage

I did not go for the Paxlovid because 1. I didn't feel like I was going to die and 2. I felt like other people might need it more? my doc said it was recommended mostly for 65+

also shoutout to PBKR, you are also the only other person I know who has had pharyngitis

catching up on this thread inspired me to sign up for a vaccine appointment later this afternoon, so thanks for that everyone

I took Paxlovid over the summer, and my worst symptoms - fever, sore throat - were mostly gone in about 36 hours; I tested negative after about five days, with a lingering cough. My wife did not take Paxlovid this past week, and her worst symptoms - fever, sore throat - were mostly gone in about 36 hours; she tested negative after about five days, with a lingering cough. My dad (a pediatrician) would always joke when I had a cold (a coronavirus!) that I could take medicine, and my illness would be over in 5-7 days, or I could not take anything, in which case my illness would be over in 5-7 days. Then he would joke that I owed him $200. Ha ha.

The catch with covid and all the vaccines, treatments, etc., is of course that there is no control. There is no way to know how things might have been if you didn't take Paxlovid, and vice versa. I still feel that there is so much that remains up in the air or unknown, like why my wife's boss has caught covid five times (once a month apart) and other people I know have not caught it once. Very knock wood, but I know more people that had a worse run after getting vaccinated than they did when they (inevitably? I guess not!) got covid. Why? Dunno.

I'm getting my vaccines on Thursday. Gonna try for a Novavax, just to shake things up.

Anecdotally i took paxlovid and had meaningful symptoms for 48 hours which seems on the short side.

I think I read that studies showed Paxlovid was most effective among high-risk, unvaccinated adults, with less established results for everyone else (especially younger people). But with no real downside (with the exception of interactions with certain medications) I figured it was worth a shot (pill).

Vaccine reactions seem as all over the place as COVID reactions, though of course considerably milder. But I know several people who have had their most severe reaction yet to the latest booster — like, sick in bed for a day — while I did it in combo with the flu shot and really noticed almost nothing beyond the sore arm. ymmv, basically.

A good friend of mine got a few days of pretty severe vertigo (dizziness, vomiting) and tinnitus reactions after the initial modernas. Because of that she made sure her subsequent doses were Pfizer, but she is still going for Novavax this time and hoping for better results.

shingles was far worse than any of the COVID ones for me

and ooh, since I had to cancel my appointment maybe I will go with Novavax next time (all so far were Pfizer)

Currently shaking off my third bout. Each time seems less severe than the time before.

oh man I got my shingles vax and a covid vax at the same time last year and that was dumb

xp iirc the virus is still on the "more contagious, less deadly" trajectory?

also, is there any good "what we know now" article y'all can share? what ever happened to the "blood type affects symptoms" theory?

I get most of my state of the union understanding in dribs and drabs from Katelyn Jetelina and Eric Topol’s substacks, though the latter is sometimes beyond my depth. Essentially IME- more contagious, less likely to kill or hospitalize you, maybe less likely to get you long covid but that’s not certain (and remains the key concern for me)

thanks Jon

The more jabbed you are, the lesser the chances of long COVID.

hope yr feeling even better today, sleeve.

I am, thank you!

Hugs, sleeve.

also, yes, my own anecdotal observations tend toward the “this is seemingly wildfire and while predictable, not assured.”

the one time I had it? a dinner party with another couple. three of us got it— one of them was spared— but we were literally sharing joints, playing videos for each other, etc. for hours.

in june, my mom got bumped to first class on a trip that she had taken with us to visit my husband’s family. my dad was seated a few rows behind her. she got Covid, he did not, and neither I nor my husband got it— we sat in an uber together on the way home from the airport, unmasked.

My wife tested positive last Monday. A couple of days before that, that Friday, she and my daughter were at the Taylor Swift movie, sitting next to each other for hours, sharing a drink and popcorn. My daughter didn't get sick.

My older son and I both had it over the summer, but 6 weeks apart — neither of us caught it from the other, and no one else in the family caught it from either of us. Definitely feels like a crapshoot.