Covid OTC Treatments

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Im still trying to figure out how i have avoided it this whole time, Im on the road 2 weeks a month going in and out of different hotels and hospitals daily. I see them wheeling people in and out of the Covid units, which the Covid units at these small hospitals i go to are usually just a sheet up plastic strung up in the hallway.  I have people breathing and hacking around me all night. Not a lot of hygiene in a lot of these small communities i go to. 

[Ryan Miloshewski]

18 minutes ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

Im still trying to figure out how i have avoided it this whole time, Im on the road 2 weeks a month going in and out of different hotels and hospitals daily. I see them wheeling people in and out of the Covid units, which the Covid units at these small hospitals i go to are usually just a sheet up plastic strung up in the hallway.  I have people breathing and hacking around me all night. Not a lot of hygiene in a lot of these small communities i go to. 

My buddy has been exposed to it no less than five times directly. Hasn't gotten it yet. He asked his doctor and apparently his blood type, which I do not know, has a lot less rate of infection. Wild how selective nature can be.

[Ryan Miloshewski]

3 hours ago, gotmuddy said:

So far all but 1person I know with Omicron variant was vaccinated. I am not starting anything, nor pointing fingers, but I am curious.  @Ryan Miloshewski you are vaccinated correct?

partially. Got one shot of Pfizer in April and had a bad reaction so doctor's told me not to get the second or any more. Here we are.

[BilletHead]

3 minutes ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

Im still trying to figure out how i have avoided it this whole time, Im on the road 2 weeks a month going in and out of different hotels and hospitals daily. I see them wheeling people in and out of the Covid units, which the Covid units at these small hospitals i go to are usually just a sheet up plastic strung up in the hallway.  I have people breathing and hacking around me all night. Not a lot of hygiene in a lot of these small communities i go to. 

                    Well, we can relate here. Pat nurses in a small-town clinic. Shows you masks work. Patents are asked questions before they visit. Anything suspect and it would be a tele visit with doctor. Made patents mad so they learned how to lie to get in personally especially when they quit taking temps at the clinic door. All wear masks in clinic. This makes them mad too. Well so thy get in and begin to tell doctor after Pat taking temps etc. That they have a cough or feel other ways bad. So, get a covid test and turns out positive. Folks putting others in danger sucks, but masks do work if used properly.  No covid in the office where Pat and her Doc work. Several have got it that work at clinic. One 49-year-old worker died from Covid. He used mask and other PPE at work but did not after work. 

   Patents make it to exam room and strip off their mask gasping saying I can't breathe. Pat tells them to put them back on. Again, mad and some cussing her out. She tells them I wear it when I come in the door until I go home. Eight to ten hours a day so you can wear it for your visit of go home. 

[gotmuddy]

2 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Monoclonal antibodies are tough to get right now.   All of the sudden they are in short supply.  Plenty of shots though.  

dont make me get the tinfoil hat out.

[gotmuddy]

30 minutes ago, Ryan Miloshewski said:

partially. Got one shot of Pfizer in April and had a bad reaction so doctor's told me not to get the second or any more. Here we are.

Sorry to hear that, hope you get better soon.

 

I had what I figure was the original variant thanksgiving 2020.  zero symptoms, had to take a test to find out I was positive.  Been directly exposed to delta when my wife/son had it for sure, no telling how many other times.  I suggest taking the best care of your immune system that you can for sure.

[moguy1973]

I ended up getting Covid delivered by Santa.  Woke up with a fever on Christmas and couldn't get tested until Monday.  Super positive.  Then my wife tested positive last Thursday, then my oldest daughter yesterday.  Youngest still negative.  She might be the one that gave it to all of us by being exposed without symptoms.  Or I got it from work while working in the casino where 90% of the people don't wear masks.

I had 101-102 fever for 2 days with muscle ache, headache, and fatigue and slight cough, then came sore throat and sniffles on Monday.  I went to a hotel to try to limit my exposure to my family but they already had it.  Oh well.  I tested negative on New Years Day and I'm fine now.  I mainly took Sudafed for the sniffles and tylenol for the fever and headache.  I had been double vaxxed, no booster yet though.  Wife was boosted, 9 year old was double vaxxed as well.  Can only think they vaccine helped keep the symptoms relatively mild.  Wife never had a fever, only some congestion.  Daughter just congestion and fever.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I was directly exposed twice at work in 2020 when they recalled us for a 2 weeks.  Nothing.  My daughter had it the week leading up to Xmas and we were with in the car her and her graduation leading up to her showing symptoms. When she got here at home she woke up with symptoms the next day.  Neither my wife nor I got it.  Or maybe we had bit no symptoms I guess.  I took the memory T cell test in mid December came back negatory.  

[SpareTime]

I did some work in molecular genetics and the immune response, and teach University microbiology.  From what I've been able to piece together, the vaccines are more tailored to the Delta variant than the Omicron variant.  Currently, most cases severe enough to require hospitalization are still Delta, which goes against what the computer modeling suggested since the infectivity of Omicron is higher.  Since the monoclonal antibodies are also more specific to Delta, and the advanced models were overzealous in their predictions of the prevalence of Omicron, monoclonal antibodies are harder to come by because it was not thought they would be as useful.  

Now we are seeing people vaccinated who are able to resist Alpha and Delta well, but who are experiencing breakthrough cases of Omicron.  The silver lining is that Omicron (while still making you feel lousy) appears to be more of an upper respiratory and throat infection, and cases are less severe than Delta.  The complexity of this pandemic is beyond anything I've seen in case studies of past epidemics/pandemics, and the confounding variables of individual and group responses coupled with the varying reliability of data and the fast moving pace make it very tricky to nail down with certainty what medical professionals and public health organizations are doing "right" or "wrong".  This is just a very difficult situation, and some good grace towards our neighbors goes a long way.  

Hoping for a speedy recovery!  Treat the symptoms and take heart that your immune system will likely now have robust memory to multiple circulating variants of the virus.  Easy to say from the comfort of my keyboard I know.  

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

                    Well, we can relate here. Pat nurses in a small-town clinic. Shows you masks work. Patents are asked questions before they visit. Anything suspect and it would be a tele visit with doctor. Made patents mad so they learned how to lie to get in personally especially when they quit taking temps at the clinic door. All wear masks in clinic. This makes them mad too. Well so thy get in and begin to tell doctor after Pat taking temps etc. That they have a cough or feel other ways bad. So, get a covid test and turns out positive. Folks putting others in danger sucks, but masks do work if used properly.  No covid in the office where Pat and her Doc work. Several have got it that work at clinic. One 49-year-old worker died from Covid. He used mask and other PPE at work but did not after work. 

   Patents make it to exam room and strip off their mask gasping saying I can't breathe. Pat tells them to put them back on. Again, mad and some cussing her out. She tells them I wear it when I come in the door until I go home. Eight to ten hours a day so you can wear it for your visit of go home. 

I do sleep studies, so first thing i tell my patients when they get to their room they can take off the mask, not like they are going to sleep with it anyways.  Also if i put a patient on a CPAP that has Covid it basically aerosolizes the whole room so unless i was in full PPE head to toe i would be exposed. A lot of sleep labs quit putting people on CPAPs for a while and just would do a diagnostic test