SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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So, finally had it, around three weeks after getting the booster.
First day: moderate fever in the evening.
Second day: a bit of fatigue (but completely functional and able to work), throat ache.
Third day: same as second
Fourth day: throat ache
Fifth day: very mild throat ache
Sixth/seventh/eighth day: nothing at all.
In general, it was as severe as a mild cold, likely less than flu.
I assume that a lot of this was because of the vaccine and I had pretty high protection. My fiancee who had covid a year before and was double vaxed, had similar experience. My two brothers (double vaxed but no booster and no covid experience before) had it much worse.
Moral of the story: get the fecking booster. We are all gonna get omicron, probably several times, be prepared for it and get the booster(s) to maximize your chances of doing well and converting a potentially. very bad experience into a very mild one.
First day: moderate fever in the evening.
Second day: a bit of fatigue (but completely functional and able to work), throat ache.
Third day: same as second
Fourth day: throat ache
Fifth day: very mild throat ache
Sixth/seventh/eighth day: nothing at all.
In general, it was as severe as a mild cold, likely less than flu.
I assume that a lot of this was because of the vaccine and I had pretty high protection. My fiancee who had covid a year before and was double vaxed, had similar experience. My two brothers (double vaxed but no booster and no covid experience before) had it much worse.
Moral of the story: get the fecking booster. We are all gonna get omicron, probably several times, be prepared for it and get the booster(s) to maximize your chances of doing well and converting a potentially. very bad experience into a very mild one.
Is that saying 58% of people were in hospital for other things and just happened to have (unsymptomatic) Covid? Or people in Ireland just like rocking up at hospital for fun?
In other news for those who question restrictions on the unvaccinated, the biggest anti vaxxer in my office has just got herself jabbed. The reason? She was not allowed to watch her daughter perform in the school nativity play this Christmas. The restrictions do work.
So my father tested positive. He was fine after a day with vitals under control. Spoke to a doctor and he was asked to take like 15 tablets a day for a week. doctors in India are insane.
I then picked it up and like my father I’m takingjust paracetamol.
just getting better.
my mother got symptoms and was fine in a day but the next day again she got a fever, which she again cleared in three hours. She also has a persistent cough which worries me but her spo2 levels for now are good at 98. Pulse is high at 100. Am hoping she will get better with sleep and as the days pass but am concerned and want to check with a doctor because she’s been fragile and bed ridden for a decade now but all doctors here seem to hand out drugs like candy..
I then picked it up and like my father I’m takingjust paracetamol.
just getting better.
my mother got symptoms and was fine in a day but the next day again she got a fever, which she again cleared in three hours. She also has a persistent cough which worries me but her spo2 levels for now are good at 98. Pulse is high at 100. Am hoping she will get better with sleep and as the days pass but am concerned and want to check with a doctor because she’s been fragile and bed ridden for a decade now but all doctors here seem to hand out drugs like candy..
The former. We are a joyous and fun loving nation but we draw the line at being admitted to hospitals for the craic.
Just to throw in a piece of anecdata, which I'll justify on the grounds that it might help someone on here who's dealing with an infection at home.
It seems a significant proportion of overnight stays are basically being treated for dehydration, coupled with general fatigue. Self care says stay hydrated, try and eat something, rest. Sounds obvious but easy to forget if you're feeling rough and your usual preferred food/drink doesn't appeal, also important if you're looking after kids/oldies or anyone else who's feeling queasy or who's got a sore throat and just doesn't fancy anything.
Manchester has got a particular problem at the moment that's keeping some cases in longer than are strictly medically necessary - not enough carehome places, not enough home care packages, especially for someone who may still be infectious.
That was my and my fiancee's therapy (adding a couple of paracetamols and throat pain killers). We ate like normally and drank a lot. I guess staying hidrated is the key for most mild cases.
You say that, but I know a lot of people (myself included) who have been in direct contact, even isolating with, people who had Covid... and they didn't get it. That's surely the vaccines at work. We'd probably be at a fecking 80% positivity rate or something mad without them
I went abroad for the NY with one of my mates. I am triple jabbed, he's had covid in the summer (not vaccinated). Even if we spent basically all the time together, he tested positive on the 4th day, I didn't. Long story short, I am back in UK and he is still self-isolating in the hotel.
Mum is confirmed now, she’s x3 Pfizer. Spent the whole day with her yesterday, let’s see how previous infection (8-months old) + Pfizer will hold up against it. Though I just had a cold, so my immune system might not be in the best shape atm.
I hope they both get better soon
Thank you
Good decisions on paracetamol only. The only other treatment which might help would be an oral steroid (prednisone) but can cause nasty side effects, so not worth it for mild illness. 15 tablets/day is nuts.
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Ivermectin, favripiravir(a dosage of 2g in the morning and again at night, so you have to pop five 400g pills), some vitamin d, famocid, budesonide, some vitamin supplements, something to clear phlegm, a cough syrup. This is not some rando doctor, he’s a well established general physician.
this was his prescription.. I got fomo that I was doing the wrong thing. Am still concerned about my mother who has always been very immune weak. Persistent cough. Spo2 is normal all day though. Spoke to an ENT who prescribed some anti allergy meds for the cough and a cough syrup. Just doing that and revisiting day on day.
this is now super common in India where doctors just go nuts in their own way. There are people criticising it in the news but just seems very tough to find a good gp for covid without trial and error
What’s the protocol in U.K. if someone tests positive in terms of medicines prescribed?..
Well shit. My mam has covid now. Hopefully I'll get lucky and don't have it. Last time we met was 3 days ago and we kept our distance. Least she's got the booster.
I have it. Feel completely fine but I did get my booster last week
England’s restrictions are likely to be removed in a couple of weeks.
A very risky move in my opinion considering we are still hitting over 100k cases a day .
A very risky move in my opinion considering we are still hitting over 100k cases a day .
Hospital numbers falling rapidly @Pogue Mahone . In the end game now. Soon I’ll be able to have a lovely creamy Guinness after 8pm again 
Have a creamy chocolatey one on @HecticHospital numbers falling rapidly @Pogue Mahone . In the end game now. Soon I’ll be able to have a lovely creamy Guinness after 8pm again
There's no risk about it. Your hospitalisations are going down. Your ICU numbers haven't been this low since July.
Hospital numbers falling rapidly @Pogue Mahone . In the end game now. Soon I’ll be able to have a lovely creamy Guinness after 8pm again
Yup. Looking forward to those myself. Doing dry January, which enhances the appetite!
Pretty sure I got it. About 24 hours in, massive headache, bad fever, & a nonproductive dry cough that just won’t fecking quit. Will be taking a test in a few hours to confirm.
Similar to mine, although my initial symptoms were headache, nasal drip with nasal congestion, facial pain, feeling hot and tired but not feverish. Feels like sinusitis for me.
My toddler had watery eyes. Bizarre how omicron has such different symptoms to previous variants.
Another wonderful aspect to this is that I just cannot stop farting. It’s almost exactly every minute I’m blasting one out like fecking clockwork.
I’m been farting all day which has turned into diarrhea. It feels like someone has sneaked moviprep into my food
In the UK, if you're in the category known as "clinically extremely vulnerable" you may be on a list to get hospital based treatment - monoclonal antibodies (sotromivab) or a home based one - molnupirivar (an antiviral pill from Merck).
For most people, including most over 70s, it's just routine virus homecare. Things like stay hydrated, rest, try to eat, take paracetamol for a fever - monitor your temperature if you can, monitor your blood oxygen level with a pulse oximeter if you've got one.
Call a GP or the triage number (111) if it's getting scary - that's when the temperature and pulse oximeter ratings can save a lot of time, when trying to get taken seriously.
Standard NHS homecare advice:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...-and-treatment/how-to-treat-symptoms-at-home/
Wait, is that a symptom? I had a very random couple days last week where I was farting non-stop. No other symptoms aside from a bit of discomfort down there.
If there's a virus going round making people fart all day, that's just hilarious.
I don’t know, but it all started when I realized I had a fever & began the cough.
Its finally got us. Schools are safe me hole.
Don't think there is any really other than how to treat seasonal flu/cold - paracetamol, vitamins and rest up.
You wouldn't get any medicines prescribed based purely on a positive test, only if things started to deteriorate.
You got it from your little ones?
No, Big-Red is the biggest kid in 9th grade.
He’s basically one of the O’Doyle’s from Billy Maddison
When I had it in November the drizzling shits was definitely one of the symptoms of mine. 2nd only to two days of fatigue.
Curious if anyone has had similar: my wife had it - with a really high 'ct' score I think it's called - and we lived normally together for the whole period. I never tested positive nor had a symptom.
Does that mean I've likely been 'exposed' - surely?
Same deal with our son, though kids can burn through it so quickly it's hard to tell.
We're coming out of our 2.5 week quarantine and I'm weighing up going to the office.
Does that mean I've likely been 'exposed' - surely?
Same deal with our son, though kids can burn through it so quickly it's hard to tell.
We're coming out of our 2.5 week quarantine and I'm weighing up going to the office.
@zing
This is was what my mother was prescribed, it was back in April last year, so before omicron. She's in mumbai. Her main symptoms were sore throat, nasal congestion, tiredness, fever and bodyache. She had 1 dose (AZ) at the time she got it.
I think the antibiotic (augmentin) was there because she had already started it before her covid test.
The main message the doctor kept saying was to rest, not exert, drink a ton of water. She said she's over-prescribing medicines because she wanted to avoid any hospitalisation (with black mould/low oxygen stories going around at that time). i think she eventually prescribed some steroid too, but I'm not sure.
This is was what my mother was prescribed, it was back in April last year, so before omicron. She's in mumbai. Her main symptoms were sore throat, nasal congestion, tiredness, fever and bodyache. She had 1 dose (AZ) at the time she got it.
I think the antibiotic (augmentin) was there because she had already started it before her covid test.
The main message the doctor kept saying was to rest, not exert, drink a ton of water. She said she's over-prescribing medicines because she wanted to avoid any hospitalisation (with black mould/low oxygen stories going around at that time). i think she eventually prescribed some steroid too, but I'm not sure.
The irony being that ‘black mould’ was caused by over-prescription of medicines, specifically oral steroids. The risk is highest in diabetics/pre-diabetics.
Although your mum’s script doesn’t look too egregious. Mainly vitamins and OTC stuff which probably won’t be much help but also unlikely to harm. I dunno what “Dolo” and “Rinifol” is though.
Thanks. I appreciate it.