This is just part of the deal if you want to vacation in 2023.
Had mild to moderate symptoms days 1 and 2, started pax day 3 and started to get better a bit each day. Felt close to normal by day 7/8. Awful taste in mouth and constant diarrhea for duration of pax, gone within 24 hrs of final dose. No rebound
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I started pax yesterday, which was the second day for me. The taste is awful. No diarrhea (yet) thankfully.
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Good luck
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Proven mortality benefit, but the group it was tested in were unvaccinated olds. How to extrapolate that data to the rest of the population is difficult.
Get some hard candy to suck on. Really helps the lingering taste. Hope you start recovering quickly.
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Thanks. I have some hard candy. And I do feel much better than yesterday (not saying Pax did itā¦I think I was already trending better when I got the first dose). Weāve all seen a lot of people with ups and downs though, so Iām by no means sure the headache and fever I had yesterday wonāt return at all.
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Canāt go wrong with taking it easy and drinking plenty of fluids. At least thatās what earned me my google md.
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Iām increasingly that convinced that Iām gonna take a pass on the Paxlovid when my time comes. Iām not in a high risk group. Iām maximally vaxxed. Iām not convinced that my risk of long COVID is significant. Iām not sure that itās proven that Paxlovid will even change that risk. Also, rebound would be annoying AF. Iād rather just get it over in one go.
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I donāt think my risk of long covid was especially high, nor my risk of severe covid, and I could have gone either way, but I got it. Shrug. I think the expectation is slightly positive andā¦wellā¦my wife and children prefer that I take it and Iām close to indifferent, soā¦why not?
Honestly, my main reason is that when Iām sick I donāt want to jump through all those hoops. I just want to lay in bed until I get better.
When I had COVID I called my doctor to ask if I should take Paxlovid and he didnāt call me back.
There were really no hoops for me. I called Kaiser and got a phone appointment. Someone called me back later that day. That person put in the prescription. My wife picked it up. I never got out of bed.
Yeah, that kind of convenience might tip the scales. I donāt have Kaiser or even a primary care doctor. I should probably fix that.
I would. The side effects arenāt that bad, and frankly there should be some theoretical benefit to slowing viral replication. Itās just really hard to show morbidity and mortality benefit when easily measurable things are going to be hard to come by.
That being said, the above is 100% opinion, and a lot of smart people that I respect disagree with me
I agree with that, but it would seem that the theoretical benefit would be more related to immediate disease rather than effects months later (although, I suppose even that is conceivable).
Furthermore, if there is a benefit in the short term, it seems it is offset by the rebound, which I would be probably more annoyed by than the average person.
The other factor I should have mentioned is that my first bout of COVID was quite mild. So that makes me even less worried.
ah sorry clovis that sucks, but goddamn I thought it wasnāt that transmissible through bodily fluids
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Itās not if you follow the Canadian governmentās advice and visit glory holes.
At least we know patient zero for the crossover for Covid to venereal disease.
Exactly how common are these in Canada that they would think to include that in a general recommendation? I wasnāt even sure they were a real thing.