What y’all are describing is pretty much every cold I’ve ever had in my life. If anything COVID was milder for me (perhaps due to vax). That why I’m on #TeamMask4Lyfe, if I can even cut out one cold a year through masking in public more, then I’ll happily do it.
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Wife having some scary symptoms today (white tongue, nerve pain all over her body) She has a 2 oclock video appointment where we hope she will be prescribed paxlovid, but im really worried right now. I guess semi-permanent nerve damage can be a thing?
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Sorry to hear that. Hope she fully recovers.
Ouch. We had to beg a little for the Paxlovid as we were borderline. I thought they were relaxing that.
Also sorry to say but those sound more like Zombie symptoms.
Hope she feels well soon.
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It looks like I’m not eligible for Paxlovid according to CVS screener. I assume it’s because of two medications I take that showed up in their questions.
I am feeling a better today. Not coughing so much, and don’t feel the restriction on deep breaths like yesterday. O2 is 95-96. Yesterday it was 91-92.
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that’s likely bullshit.
Bedside manner needs some work imo.
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As someone who had experienced multiple Respitory infections every year of my life I agree. I haven’t been sick once since Covid started.
/knocks on wood
/puts on mask
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Somebody explain this to me. Wife and kid are pozzed. I slept in bed with my wife the day before she tested positive. I am exhibiiting her exact signs in order that she got before taking her test. 99.8 fever, sore throat (increasing by the hour) stuffy/runny nose and headache. The only thing I dont have is stomach trouble, and now my lungs are starting to hurt a bit.Ive tested negative both yesterday and today and I dont fucking get it.
Lost count of the number of stories I’ve read where people have 5 +/- negative tests before they finally test positive. Variance?
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Do a PCR if you really want to be sure. If you do a RAT swab throat and cheek as well as nose. Given the symptoms abs her being positive seems more likely than not you are positive too. Some thought that the newest variants dont pop positive as soon.
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Rapid antigen tests take a bit sometimes. Very likely have it.
Yeah, if you really need documentation of a positive test, then get a PCR. Otherwise, just assume you’ve got it.
When we were low on tests, we just tested kid 1 and didn’t bother with kid 2 to conserve tests (and it wouldn’t change anything we did).
I see we let Djokovic back into the country.
Boston considering the return of indoor mask mandates. I believe LA county is as well.
LA’s been threatening to bring back mask mandates for a while now but I don’t think they actually will.
Don’t think Boston will either, but do think they’ll bring them back in schools temporarily.
My wife is winning the shit lottery. Any help appreciated. This morning she woke up with pain in the right side of her head and neck and numbness in her right feet. This afternoon those symptoms went away to the point that she was feeling almost completely normal, and tonight its back. Pain and pressure inside her head and down her neck. I dont know what to do to help at this time. I see things that say this is normal, this is severe, this happens a lot, etc but nothing concrete. She started taking Paxlovid and thats when the symptoms came back. They wax and wane, and we are going to call the pharmacist in the morning. Anything we should do in the meantime?
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Typically best initial headache treatments are fluids, 1000mg of Tylenol up to 3x per day and 6pm of Motrin 3x per day
We havent tried the motrin, ill give it a try. Her brother has had it twice, said the symptoms were similar to what the doctor described as covid fatigue.
He seems to be calming her down, she has some general anxiety and Ive read Covid can really ratchet that up