Covid

[Yak54]

Anyone got Covid ?

[karstopography]

Not yet or ever for me, knock on wood. My dad has been battling long covid for months, since the end of May 2024.

[Shule]

I don't know anyone who says they have it right now, but a few weeks ago it seemed abundant.

[bower]

I had influenza over the christmas season, for the first time in probably a decade or more. The classic two weeks working it's way through your respiratory system, I hate that bug. But I haven't had covid at all.

[SpookyShoe]

To my knowledge I've never had it. I suppose it's possible to have to have Covid and be asymptomatic. My husband had it in January of last year. He was prescribed Paxlovid and made a complete recovery.

[Whwoz]

It is still about in this part of Down Under. Where the MIL is recently had a run, with one resident whom probably should be in the dementia ward but isn't, due to family denial, spreading it to 20 others. I believe everyone recovered

[TX-TomatoBug]

I had it back in Aug 2024, thanks to air travel. Took all future joy out of traveling...
@Yak54, are you battling Covid?

[worth1]

I had it back in Aug 2024, thanks to air travel. Took all future joy out of traveling...
@Yak54, are you battling Covid?

I got so sick of being sick traveling it was ridiculous.
That and living in a closed environment all the time at work in Alaska with other sick people.
I think commercial air travel has got to be the most unsanitary thing on the planet.

[Yak54]

I had it back in Aug 2024, thanks to air travel. Took all future joy out of traveling...
@Yak54, are you battling Covid?

No my wife and I managed to avoid it in 2024 even though we did a bit of flying. Had it in 2023 though and just after my tomato crop was getting ripe in August. Messed up my taste buds for two weeks.

[GoDawgs]

I've not had it nor has anyone that I know in my immediate area. I'm retired and don't travel much. I'm not worried about it since by now the real virulent strain has probably mutated enough to be a lot less of a problem.

What's going on now though is being called a "quad-demic"; four viruses all out and about at once. There are the three respiratory viruses of Covid, flu and RSV plus the norovirus gastro problem. I do know folks who have one of them and the infections are hard to get rid of.

Here's a link about it:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/quad-demi ... =117747763

[rxkeith]

ok here.
probably have had it, never tested.
2023 i had a bad couple of months, toughened me up i guess, because
i skated through last year without getting anything, and i was exposed to
pretty much everything as a retail pharmacist, now retired.
couple families at church had a bug go through the household, but everyone
has recovered.


keith

[ddsack]

Husband and I both had it twice. First time near the end of the first epidemic, second time last spring. His was worse than mine both times, I'm sure he caught it from the guys he regularly has coffee with, and I got it from him within a week. We have had all boosters, no long lingering effects from Covid that we can tell. He had 4 heart stents put in a couple of years ago, is back to an active life, but nothing to fool around with.

[pepperhead212]

I just tested positive for the first time today. It started like a bad cold, with a sore throat about 2½ weeks ago, and also got some chest congestion, so I tested myself for covid a few days later, just to be safe, and tested negative. It still wasn't going away, so I tested about a week later again, and still negative. So I figured that it was one of those many other viruses, that are in the news lately. It just wasn't going away, and worst when I'd wake up in the morning, so I tested myself again today, and tested positive for the first time. So I went up to Patient First, and they tested me, for Covid, as well as other antivens, and this was all I tested positive for. The doctor wired me in a prescription for Paxlovid to my pharmacy, which in right across the street from the place! They had it ready for me when I got over there. Hopefully it will work as well for me as I've heard that it has for others.

[bboomer]

Got it twice, once in September of 2023 and again in September 2024. The first time was scary! and I was vaxed up. I had brain fog for months. The second time was like a very bad cold or case of the flu. Minimal brain fog. My greatest fear was infecting someone else with a compromised immune system.

[worth1]

I just tested positive for the first time today. It started like a bad cold, with a sore throat about 2½ weeks ago, and also got some chest congestion, so I tested myself for covid a few days later, just to be safe, and tested negative. It still wasn't going away, so I tested about a week later again, and still negative. So I figured that it was one of those many other viruses, that are in the news lately. It just wasn't going away, and worst when I'd wake up in the morning, so I tested myself again today, and tested positive for the first time. So I went up to Patient First, and they tested me, for Covid, as well as other antivens, and this was all I tested positive for. The doctor wired me in a prescription for Paxlovid to my pharmacy, which in right across the street from the place! They had it ready for me when I got over there. Hopefully it will work as well for me as I've heard that it has for others.

Get well soon.

[worth1]

I don't need a test to tell me a loss of taste and smell for over a year wasn't COVID 19.
I'm
Still not totally recovered with the taste and smell thing and never will at this point.
Some things taste and or smell different.

[MissS]

I'm so sorry to hear that you are down for the count @pepperhead212. Hopefully those meds will kick and you will be on the mend soon.

I have had them all this year and then some. It's not safe to go out of your door anymore. Drugs, muggers, rapist, shooters, contaminated bugs to bite you and all these new diseases. Sigh...

[bower]

I hope the paxlovid puts the boots to it, @pepperhead212 .
Your story spooks me because I tested negative on day 2,3, and 4 but never bothered to test any more afterwards.

[pepperhead212]

@bower I hope whatever it is that you have you get rid of. Even if it isn't covid 19, it could be one of the other widespread viral infections. I'm not sure what medicine is available for the other infections.

[bower]

@pepperhead212 it was over in two weeks, counting the little bit of congestion that lingered for a couple of days.
Aside from favorite foods (involving lots of lemon and garlic!) I use the same basic meds for any respiratory virus - vitamin C 1000 mg at a time, ad libitum, and eucalyptus oil which I put on a tissue and lay somewhere handy to breathe it in while sleeping at night.
The eucalyptus at night makes a huge difference in how congested you get, which is really the lingering and dangerous part. I felt better in the mornings but tired out in the afternoons until it was done.
My son had long covid, and eventually tried a taurine supplement, which finally actually worked after many everything elses had failed. They also picked up covid again last August, and he said the taurine helped him to get over that too - he had run out but renewed his supply through amazon after they got sick. For some reason it's not sold locally. I bought some this fall to have in the home first aid stash, in case I do end up with covid at some time. But I would still use Eucalyptus and vitamin C anyway for the anti-inflammatory and decongestant help they provide.