Most of the long covid I’ve seen has been mesenteric lymphadenitis mimicking appendicitis in youth six weeks out, some gnarly pulmonary fibrosis, and one case of crazy MIS-A.
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Most of the long covid I’ve seen has been mesenteric lymphadenitis mimicking appendicitis in youth six weeks out, some gnarly pulmonary fibrosis, and one case of crazy MIS-A.
Last week my daughter went to the funeral of a smart, promising 28-year-old who killed himself, purportedly because of long Covid. Kid was clearly messed up badly by it for more than a year before he'd had enough. I guess that one won't make it into the stats.
If someone has an ACA compliant health plan preexisting condition doesn't matter. If one is unfortunate enough to have a non-compliant plan--well if they can figure out a way to screw you, they will.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Apologies--I should have clarified--the angst is not from you but there has been a lot of it from various people on the forum and people in the media about having to get multiple shots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
Hopefully, your point and take-away is reaching GP’s and others providing primary care. The text in Sneller’s study is not clear about that take-away, which is unfortunate. He’s been clear in his interviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
Hopefully, your point and take-away is reaching GP’s and others providing primary care. The text in Sneller’s study is not clear about that take-away, which is unfortunate. He’s been clear in his interviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
So my mild cough started last Sunday, Monday tested positive and did fluids, some Coricidin HBP starting in the afternoon (one at a time 3 or 4 times out of the day at most), some cough drops if needed for the dry throat, and did the saline Netipot a few times a day. Tuesday cough was getting better, and just a bit more tired than some days. Weds. I tested again and still positive. I was pretty much down to only taking 1 or 2 of the Flu pills. Never had any elevated fever, loss of taste or most of the other symptoms. Yesterday and Today pretty much very little cough, still trying to do fluids, and hope to still very limited contact with masks starting after the holiday.
3rd member of the house tested positive, but just again very minor cough and no other symptoms so far including fever or anything. Doctor suggested Vitamin C and if it got any worst, then one of the prescription Covid treatments would be next step.
Missing the Bicycle Group Rides is the only other thing.
I guess we're in about 10-12 days, daughter, 18, first caught it 2 weeks ago at prom, symptoms 2 days later, the rest of us (me, wife and son, 20) 2 days after that.
Dry cough, dry sore throat, faucet nose for the first 3 days, minor chills, major fatigue. We just did lots of water, vitC, slept.
3rd day in I got ungodly body aches to the point where I couldn't sleep because my hip flexors hurt so badly. No one else had that.
Sinus dried up and flow was replaced by thick snot. Doing neti pots now to clear, looks like some bacterial infection is occurring.
Symptoms much milder now, except sinus clogging leading to drymouth, but sleeping lots better, negligible chills.
I'm super bummed to be missing the last few lift served days, got in 12 days in April, another 6 in May before this onset. Some unusually good corn days in there among the more standard moist gloom.
At least the snowpack is solid and should hold in more accessible spots into July.
Glad you’re feeling better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
On day 5 or so and while everything else has pretty much gone away I suddenly got lower back pain today. Not continuous, but almost like spasms, where I can’t stand or walk at times. Normally wouldn’t attribute it to a virus but seems to be a somewhat common COVID symptom from what I’ve read.
thanks. good to read your fams symptoms have diminished; jealous.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
I've had other people cite the hip and lower back pain and spasms. 3 of the older guys at the porsche/audi place I go reported similar symptoms.
Not out of the woods yet- wife and I on the uptick but kids have just been lucky so far…Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Buster, is your whole family still testing (+) on AG tests?
Daughter (12) tested (+) from a pcr given on Wednesday. Rest of the family tested (-). AG testing every other day since Monday have been (-) for the whole family, including the daughter. She has no symptoms. Everybody else feels fine, too. Her only unmasked opportunity for exposure in the past week has been eating lunch outdoors with her friends.
Daughter tested (-) on an antigen test 2 days ago, wife tested (+) 2 days ago on ag test.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
I'm not bothering since I still have what I consider symptoms, sore throat, tired, normal stupidity, birkenstock clogged sinuses.
But first b00ze in 9 days, some Mongeard Mugneret white burgundy. w00t.
At least it’s easy to tell if your MD takes this seriously or leans in to the “it’s just a flu” thing… 315 deaths per day is a lot
Also MDs in places where most people already had Covid one or more times due to anti-everything might have a warped view of the ongoing infection rate.
Damn. I want to try some of that. I know nothing about wine other than you had me at white Burgundy. Because I like red ones from there so I figure I need to try whiteQuote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Summary - we just don’t know.Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
alternate summary -Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
reinfection poses risk to health ; there remains reason(s) to limit exposure and maintain "immunity" ( better termed as 'resistance' )
this is the vaccination thread, and you know my drum.
Please get your booster(s)
Thank you. skiJ
Please get your booster(s)
Thank you. skiJ
Fairly certain everyone here is boasted. Wife and I are double boasted, hence why our symptoms sound less than Busters . Wife feels good today, 7 days after testing positive. I developed symptoms Wednesday and felt shitty when I woke up today, but better now. I just wish my dry cough would fuck off. Hope i test clean by next Thursday.
Boasted? Double boasted? Shouldn't you be posting in trip reports?
Wifey and I are double boosted too, wife didn't have as bad of symptoms as I, but I'm a cradle robber and a trip reporter.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
So boostedness doesn't seem to be the reason.
I sure hope you feel better before your trip.
boasted -
I laughed.
liv2ski contributes. and
they 've been sick.
I give him a pass.
Wu's columns disappointment -
"years" of vaccinations for covid.
medically and scientifically, two years is nothing. and we demand immediate satisfaction.
ain't (gonna) happen --
Yes - good luck and good wishes to all who are ill...
Get Well Soon.
boastered.
I'm not even sure What that might be (?)
enduring the 'boast's of another (?)
Thank you for being boostered. : )
tj
If I could figure out how to post pictures on my phone I would haveQuote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Update: Whole family is AG (-) today. Daughter was pcr (+) with test given on Wednesday. She's out of isolation now. We’ve been testing the whole family every other day since May 9 for various reasons: severe allergies to cold to multiple direct face to face exposures and have always tested AG (-). We now figure that the pcr (+) was from infection in late April or first week of May. If that’s the case, then whole family, if all infected, were asymptomatic or not infected.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Just went to a huge national STEM tournament for my daughter. 3 day event at the Iowa State campus with teams/parents staying in the dorms and eating in the cafeterias. Huge events in the bball stadium and classrooms all over campus. 5% of about 8,000 people wearing masks I’d say. Fingers crossed…we’re on day 2 since leaving.
Yer fuct. Hope you and yours don't get too sick and have a speedy recovery.Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
Welcome to Iowa. Very small percentage of people wearing masks for months. We went to a wedding a couple of weeks ago and zero percent mask rate. Spent hours in a large room with hundreds.
Then a school orchestra concert for daughter with 1% mask rate.
The die hard mask hold outs where the wife works have all caught it the last few weeks. And others not so careful have also caught it coughing all over her office before turning positive. Maybe v1 Omicron has still kept her from being reinfected so far or maybe she is keeping up with the variants through microexposure. Wishful thinking prolly but that is where we are.
No outbreaks we know of at 97% maskless middle school for daughter which is ending Wednesday.
At this point we have just broasted our arms to the max and living our best lives in the soup. Multiple exposures and vaccines have changed how we operate. The risk of infection with Omicron V3.1415967 is still there but the likelihood it is catastrophic is nowhere near where it was
Personally still waiting to get my ass kicked by covid. Flu kicks my ass so bad.
The only precautions I am taking anymore are my innate attraction to outdoor spaces and natural aversion to indoor crowded places/ group social events unless required by the I'm a dad and husband grid.
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Same boat here. Fingers crossed it avoids me for a while. Happy I run from crowds, (outside of music).Quote:
Originally Posted by uglymoney
reminds me:Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Here's an odd one... In-law relative, substantially lost sense of smell and taste over a year ago for unknown reasons. Just had Covid the last week or two (had it kind of bad too, considering that she's vaccinated etc: Felt somewhat disabled, had considerable difficulty getting muscles to fire for the mechanics of get out of bed). Now, recovered from Covid... smell and taste are back for the first time in over a year.
That is odd, but good news. Wife is much better on day 8 but I am certain we will test positive when we do a Rapid tomorrow. Sweating being able to fly home on the 10th.
My 8 year old just popped a positive test, a week after the wife and I. Youngest is still showing as negative somehow, even though the two of them have been joined at the hip for most of the last week.
Well, I finally got it. I don't really know when- there were lots of ailments at our 16k base camp in Pakistan- were they covid or just being at 16k and eating different food and probably got giardia, etc.. I actually left camp a couple of days early after having some dizzy spells (perhaps early covid?). I had some other weird stuff too- really bloodshot eyes that were sore but getting better. Test in Islamabad was negative so I thought maybe I was past it and flew home, but the at-home test here was positive. Between covid and 11 time zones worth of jetlag I'm a mess and my dreams are freaking weird.
Anecdotally, what I'm seeing with this recent wave is that everyone in a household gets it, but a lot will miss it because they give up testing or don't use PCRs. Testing positive 8, 9 ,10 days after the first person is not uncommon. The CDC guidelines are garbage.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
Yup. Under CDC updated guidelines, my 8 year old would never have tested positive, because she's asymptomatic and wouldn't have been tested.Quote:
Originally Posted by funkendrenchman
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-v...arch-paxlovid/
Did an updated vaccine from Pfizer come out in March as promised?
It was created in March, but the current trial and approval process is still far too lengthy to keep up with the current pace of the variants.Quote:
Originally Posted by Percy Rideout
A coworker came back into the office yesterday 9 days after testing positive. She is still positive. I closed my door and stayed away.
Reminder:
“Are you infectious if your test is Pos but it’s been 5 or 10 days?”
The answer is - ASSUME YES!
*This doesn’t mean you must remain in deep isolation*
Assuming infectious leads to MANY routes to NOT infect others even without isolation
Interesting article in the New York Times about how Omicron was much more deadly to older people than Delta was. I remember plenty of people suggesting here that Omicron wasn't really making people very sick. Perhaps on a percentage basis that's true, but in any case the sheer number of people infected caused a huge spike in deaths for those 65+.
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During the Omicron Wave, Death Rates Soared for Older People
Last year, people 65 and older died from Covid at lower rates than in previous waves. But with Omicron and waning immunity, death rates rose again.
By Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz
May 31, 2022, 12:03 p.m. ET
Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, Covid killed them at vastly higher rates during this winter’s Omicron wave than it did last year, preying on long delays since their last shots and the variant’s ability to skirt immune defenses.
This winter’s wave of deaths in older people belied the Omicron variant’s relative mildness. Almost as many Americans 65 and older died in four months of the Omicron surge as did in six months of the Delta wave, even though the Delta variant, for any one person, tended to cause more severe illness.
Well shit. 26 months dodging this shit and not even a close call. Just found out some folks I did dinner with yesterday tested positive this morning. They felt fine yesterday and one developed symptoms overnight, other one has no symptoms.
Hope my vaccines hold the line!