My particular bubble of family and friends just happens to be getting hit hard now. No hospitalizations but suddenly everyone has it and for most its been a rough couple of days. My in-laws. My Dad. My Uncle, my sister, etc. And for some it lingers and lingers. Like 10 days until they tested negative.
My particular bubble of family and friends just happens to be getting hit hard now. No hospitalizations but suddenly everyone has it and for most its been a rough couple of days. My in-laws. My Dad. My Uncle, my sister, etc. And for some it lingers and lingers. Like 10 days until they tested negative.
my question would be are you guys sick and then getting tested? is anyone in the hospital? are they all vaccinated (that would be an unfortunate commonality)
Or is this a head cold/fever/cough triggering a desire to then getting tested? I don't know, i'm guessing. I'm trying to be compassionate but I see lots of f(vaccinated) people self owning themselves with multiple reinfections(test results, none hospitalized/died) and they were not even sick but they got tested.
I agree. Multiple people I know who have not previously had the "RONA" are getting sick and testing positive. Everyone I know are using the Antigen Test which of course doesn't get reported for the most part.
my brother (vaccinated, not boosted) got sick in february. he said it wasn't as bad as the "flu" he had in 2018. still, he went out in the cold, got to the testing center 15 minutes before it opened and stood on line for 3 hours with a bunch of other sick people, tested positive and went home to bed. what was the point?
i've seen testing get real dangerous, lethal even. my best friend started to feel a little bad in march 2020 and wanted a covid test. there were none to be had so she walked to her nearby hospital (columbia pres) for one. she was positive and they had a spare ventilator so they put her on it. two weeks later they took her off and she died. she did have a lung condition but she had oxygen tanks at home. i maintain that if she had stayed put, pushed fluids and used her oxygen when she needed it, she would have recovered.
without the constant covid, covid, covid fear press she would have assumed she had a run of the mill flu and acted accordingly
Its head cold/fever/cough triggering a test and them being positive. Then some contact tracing stuff. Family 4th of july party where younger cousin a day later had symptoms come on and told everyone at the party and then like dominoes.
Or with my inlaws we were set to share a lake house and they had just come back form a trip and had minor symptoms so tested.
No hospitalizations. My Dad sounded miserable on the phone and said he could imagine how this could hurt people. He had did some landscaping and felt extra exhausted but he's getting older so chalked it up to that. For him sore throat and fatigue. No issues breathing. Its getting better now.
For my family while we've been getting head colds off and on I personally take and advise them (nicely) to pound the vitamin drinks found at CVS/Walgreens (2x daily, 1 before bed) the Emergen-C type ones with electrolytes, I like orange and tangerine. Ollie has some good ones with elderberry. Not medical advice and it may be all foo foo but i swear they help us.
My husband and I (un-injected, had the original alpha version in late 2020) are getting over omicron. I didn't believe we'd get it again, because we both have natural immunity. He took a home test; it came out negative. Yet we have all the listed symptoms; I have a few bonus symptoms that he does not have.
For those interested: for him, it started with a sore throat that turned into a bad dry cough. That then turned into really bad fatigue with a low fever and chills for three our four days. He got over the major systems in about six days. He still has an occasion congested sounding cough. I originally thought it was bronchitis, but... no.
I got it three days after I was exposed to him; mine started with a bad cough that sounds just like bronchitis. I had no fever or chills, but I have random night sweats, chest pain from coughing and a really weird metallic taste in my mouth (like going through ketosis) that is lingering. I'm now on day 10. I feel better, but I still occasionally try to hock up a lung.
So... when someone says "oh, it's mild," yeah, I don't know if it's always mild. Do you want to cough so bad for over a week that your chest hurts? Get so sick you can't get out of bed?
And yes, we did all the normal "alternative" protocols, and I'm still doing them. NAC has seemed to help the most at this point.
also get yourself some food grade hydrogen peroxide and a nebulizer. you can make a saline solution of 1% H2O2 and nebulize a teaspoon every hour. alternately you can use colloidal silver. you can also put a drop of iodine in with the saline H2O2. my BF had the worst sore throat and dry cough with no fever. this took care of it for him
Has helped me quite a bit. You can't get it on amazon any more, but you can get it on vitamin sites. Be sure to check for contra-indications; it does work like a drug, rather than a random herb or supplement.
Been going through exactly the same, two weeks tomorrow. The sig oth has same symptoms plus bad tummy and the runs. I have the latter but that could be from the azithromycin I am taking (bought from India a year ago along with HCQ and IVM) to stave off a bronchial infection. Black seed oil 2000 mg is very helpful. Love NAC. Coffee tastes like crap, otherwise no sensory changes. Our immune systems should be tuned like fine violins. The worst part is coughing in public and wondering if they will come for you with torches and pitchforks.
Good to know. But I don't have covid, just good old garden-variety 'flu. I think we both had covid in the spring of 2020; a friend was hospitalized with pneumonia, think he might have passed the original bug on to us. It was a nothingburger, really. Sorta of, "I feel a bit weird - do you?"
None of what you describe is the least bit unusual. I'm still getting over my first case. The acute symptoms were headache for day or two and low-grade fever for many more (worst reading: 101.0 on 2nd day, most "fever" in the 99-100 range.) Never bed-ridden, but took it easy and got plenty of sleep. My energy and appetite were noticeably reduced parallel with fever.
I didn't test every day, but at about Day 21 I tested negative. Today is day 28 and I have had a lingering, slowly improving sinus infection and slight cough caused (I think) by drip, not in the lungs.
Many of my symptoms are like a sinus infection. Lots of nose blowing with clear mucus. But... a cool bronchitis like-cough and headaches. And never had a fever.
My particular bubble of family and friends just happens to be getting hit hard now. No hospitalizations but suddenly everyone has it and for most its been a rough couple of days. My in-laws. My Dad. My Uncle, my sister, etc. And for some it lingers and lingers. Like 10 days until they tested negative.
my question would be are you guys sick and then getting tested? is anyone in the hospital? are they all vaccinated (that would be an unfortunate commonality)
Or is this a head cold/fever/cough triggering a desire to then getting tested? I don't know, i'm guessing. I'm trying to be compassionate but I see lots of f(vaccinated) people self owning themselves with multiple reinfections(test results, none hospitalized/died) and they were not even sick but they got tested.
The amount of people getting sick in summer is extremely unusual. Something very, very bad is going on.
I agree. Multiple people I know who have not previously had the "RONA" are getting sick and testing positive. Everyone I know are using the Antigen Test which of course doesn't get reported for the most part.
my brother (vaccinated, not boosted) got sick in february. he said it wasn't as bad as the "flu" he had in 2018. still, he went out in the cold, got to the testing center 15 minutes before it opened and stood on line for 3 hours with a bunch of other sick people, tested positive and went home to bed. what was the point?
i've seen testing get real dangerous, lethal even. my best friend started to feel a little bad in march 2020 and wanted a covid test. there were none to be had so she walked to her nearby hospital (columbia pres) for one. she was positive and they had a spare ventilator so they put her on it. two weeks later they took her off and she died. she did have a lung condition but she had oxygen tanks at home. i maintain that if she had stayed put, pushed fluids and used her oxygen when she needed it, she would have recovered.
without the constant covid, covid, covid fear press she would have assumed she had a run of the mill flu and acted accordingly
very sad and sorry for your friend... my dad did the same thing in March 2020 "I thought i was helping" he wasn't even sick.. got tested.
Its head cold/fever/cough triggering a test and them being positive. Then some contact tracing stuff. Family 4th of july party where younger cousin a day later had symptoms come on and told everyone at the party and then like dominoes.
Or with my inlaws we were set to share a lake house and they had just come back form a trip and had minor symptoms so tested.
No hospitalizations. My Dad sounded miserable on the phone and said he could imagine how this could hurt people. He had did some landscaping and felt extra exhausted but he's getting older so chalked it up to that. For him sore throat and fatigue. No issues breathing. Its getting better now.
Bless up ЁЯЩП I'm glad nobody is hospitalized.
For my family while we've been getting head colds off and on I personally take and advise them (nicely) to pound the vitamin drinks found at CVS/Walgreens (2x daily, 1 before bed) the Emergen-C type ones with electrolytes, I like orange and tangerine. Ollie has some good ones with elderberry. Not medical advice and it may be all foo foo but i swear they help us.
My husband and I (un-injected, had the original alpha version in late 2020) are getting over omicron. I didn't believe we'd get it again, because we both have natural immunity. He took a home test; it came out negative. Yet we have all the listed symptoms; I have a few bonus symptoms that he does not have.
For those interested: for him, it started with a sore throat that turned into a bad dry cough. That then turned into really bad fatigue with a low fever and chills for three our four days. He got over the major systems in about six days. He still has an occasion congested sounding cough. I originally thought it was bronchitis, but... no.
I got it three days after I was exposed to him; mine started with a bad cough that sounds just like bronchitis. I had no fever or chills, but I have random night sweats, chest pain from coughing and a really weird metallic taste in my mouth (like going through ketosis) that is lingering. I'm now on day 10. I feel better, but I still occasionally try to hock up a lung.
So... when someone says "oh, it's mild," yeah, I don't know if it's always mild. Do you want to cough so bad for over a week that your chest hurts? Get so sick you can't get out of bed?
And yes, we did all the normal "alternative" protocols, and I'm still doing them. NAC has seemed to help the most at this point.
also get yourself some food grade hydrogen peroxide and a nebulizer. you can make a saline solution of 1% H2O2 and nebulize a teaspoon every hour. alternately you can use colloidal silver. you can also put a drop of iodine in with the saline H2O2. my BF had the worst sore throat and dry cough with no fever. this took care of it for him
NAC?
N-acetylcysteine. NAC.
Has helped me quite a bit. You can't get it on amazon any more, but you can get it on vitamin sites. Be sure to check for contra-indications; it does work like a drug, rather than a random herb or supplement.
Been going through exactly the same, two weeks tomorrow. The sig oth has same symptoms plus bad tummy and the runs. I have the latter but that could be from the azithromycin I am taking (bought from India a year ago along with HCQ and IVM) to stave off a bronchial infection. Black seed oil 2000 mg is very helpful. Love NAC. Coffee tastes like crap, otherwise no sensory changes. Our immune systems should be tuned like fine violins. The worst part is coughing in public and wondering if they will come for you with torches and pitchforks.
coffee and covid are a no-no. Coffee will make the symptoms worse. Don't know why, but it just does.
Good to know. But I don't have covid, just good old garden-variety 'flu. I think we both had covid in the spring of 2020; a friend was hospitalized with pneumonia, think he might have passed the original bug on to us. It was a nothingburger, really. Sorta of, "I feel a bit weird - do you?"
None of what you describe is the least bit unusual. I'm still getting over my first case. The acute symptoms were headache for day or two and low-grade fever for many more (worst reading: 101.0 on 2nd day, most "fever" in the 99-100 range.) Never bed-ridden, but took it easy and got plenty of sleep. My energy and appetite were noticeably reduced parallel with fever.
I didn't test every day, but at about Day 21 I tested negative. Today is day 28 and I have had a lingering, slowly improving sinus infection and slight cough caused (I think) by drip, not in the lungs.
Many of my symptoms are like a sinus infection. Lots of nose blowing with clear mucus. But... a cool bronchitis like-cough and headaches. And never had a fever.