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My case was not that bad, but some days I still feel a little like I am recovering, especially my throat and postnasal stuff, which is weird, since I didn't have a cough or anything. But like you said, kind of random, once every several days (so far). Btw, my wife heard a report on the radio the other day which absolutely nailed the onset of my illness. Apparently the current strain typically starts with a very mild sort throat, so mild that most people don't bother testing, and then a couple of days into it the sore throat suddenly gets much worse. That's exactly what happened to me.

I only brought up weed stuff because I read that cannabis products supposedly interact chemically with paxlovid, amplifying the effects both positive and negative. So I've read accounts of even some regular users "greening out" or whatever and getting dizzy, nauseous or paranoid with their regular dose.

Anyway covid... a year after my first encounter and months after the second, I feel generally fine, but the cough is persistent and I get a day or so of lethargy once every few weeks. Is this just how thing are going to be from now on?

i know a lot of people personally with similar stories. months later and they're foggy and wiped out. it's also suggested after you get it, you don't push yourself for a few weeks or even several months.

Omar, I would personally be okay with never pushing myself ever again.

Like, I would be okay with another year or so of taking it easy. Focus on bed rest and hydration.

Unfortunately the universe has other plans. My children wish to eat food and live indoors.

pffft buncha spoiled brats ;)

maybe fortunately i think it's just not pushing oneself in terms of exercise or stressful physical activity beyond the usual norm. as much fun it'd be to chill like Oblomov for a long time it probably isn't realistic.

Ha yes, I have dramatically scaled down on playing drums in a dive bar thrice weekly. Also dialing down on my previous habit of either walking 2 miles or biking 5.

I took about a month off from any exercise at all after my first bout. The second one tho was so mild that I was back at the gym with no I’ll effects the next week. (Having had both moderate and very mild cases, I strongly endorse the latter, tho how you engineer that I do not know.)

No ill effects. I was not illin’.

national wastewater curve seems to be bending according to latest data from Biobot. still increasing but at slower rate. hoping to see plateau or decline shortly.

Dang, COVID rules everything around me right now — my 18-yr-old is down with it now, and he’s supposed to start his first semester at community college next Weds. Pretty dicey whether he’ll be clear by then. This is his second time, but the first he was totally asymptomatic. This time he’s fevered — over 103 at some points yesterday, tho it’s down so far today. Poor kid. Meanwhile I have a half-dozen friends locally who either have it now or have had it in the last month. (Plus me, who had it 6 weeks ago. I’m still masking etc around my son because I know you can actually get reinfection in short order, especially with a lot of exposure.)

Not much of this is showing up in our official case counts of course, but there appears to be a shit ton of it around. Our hospitalizations ARE trending up — the only real barometer we have left — but still pretty low so hopefully most people’s cases are being managed ok at home.

Can you check waste water? That's the best barometer.

No we don’t have a local monitoring station

Finally tested positive this morning after dodging it 3.5 years. It’s funny, a couple weeks ago I made a Walgreens appointment for a booster shot, having some instinct to do it (whether or not I would qualify — have gotten previous boosters immediately as they became available).

Was out in the 100-degree heat in Portland yesterday, and thought I was overheated last night: woozy, hot, dehydrated. But did the test this morn to make sure.

(Oh, and I didn’t follow through with that Walgreens appointment, talking myself out of it by knowing I wasn’t eligible yet for a new boosters, so would’ve just hoped they were handing them out without checking closely.)

Sorry to hear it, Eazy. I hope it's a mild case.

I lied to get a second bivalent booster in March 2023.

Thanks, Alfred. The first day was a blur -- mostly asleep/groggy and in bed, a mix of fever and shivers, and then the fever broke overnight (in a gigantic pool of sweat) and I was lucid again the next morning.

Been OK since then, hoping it keeps diminishing. Just congestion, and have had a temperature go up and down from normal to 101. Main issue is living with someone (for the first time in years) and being cautious not to give it to them, while they also stay home so as not to transmit it to the world.

officially positive as of yesterday. stay safe out there!

For sure, seems to be making the general rounds again.

Fwiw my own case was mild by any standard, but despite pretty much no or minimal coughing, my cardio-vascular recovery has been curiously slow. I feel fine, but I can also sense that my body is not quite at full capacity. I've heard this from a few folks, that for whatever reason even recovery from mild cases can take longer than expected.

So I'm pretty sure this bug I've had for the last week or so is Covo. Not been terrible, just ambient symptoms making life hard.

One thing I'm finding is difficulty to focus my vision along with eye-floaters, and I'm not sure if this is symptomatic of Covid, or just so happens that my eyesight is just getting bad.

Can't find much online about eyesight being affected by Covid. It certianly wasn't when I had it before. Anyone else experienced this?

god this hurts

"covid is over"? fuuuck off

It’s so alienating

I’m comfortable with the assumption that everyone at my work thinks I’m crazy

There was an all hands yesterday where the CEO was joking with a couple of lower level people about how “their whole team got COVID” while visiting a factory in Mexico. As an illustration of how much team spirit they have and why they are getting a special recognition award. Haha lol we all got Covid at work.

Fuck youuuuu

Sorry to hear it though sleeve and sorry for my outburst

JnJ otm <3

plus side: I am 4x vaxxed so my risk of long COVID has been minimized about as much as it can be

Is there a smoking gun re: where u got it?

our new roommate, my nephew, but not sure where he picked it up yet

in hindsight, I am guessing it was at this stupid crowded indoor Baha'i thing he went to like a week ago

I definitely feel like I recovered from typical symptoms but I am still fuzzy in the head and coughy in the throat - years past my first bout and months past my second.

Plus the psychosocial "covid broke society" stuff

I don't know what to do about it but there it is.

oof brutal, crossing my fingers. I already feel better, symptoms kicked in Tuesday evening.

it really says a lot about how contagious this shit is that I got COVID pretty much immediately after adding our first house-sharing roommate in many years

Good luck, sleeve. Just went on a school tour where we were two of three parents across four different tour groups who were masking. I think in the half dozen classrooms we visited there were half a dozen kids wearing a mask total. I'm sure most people out there regard me as worrying too much (at best), but I just prefer to keep kicking the covid can down the road.

the agonizing lower back pain has finally subsided. I have retained taste/smell throughout. thank god we have a hot tub.

I refuse to even look at the idiotic masking thread anymore (possibly the worst ILX thread ever created), but I feel compelled to note that I got COVID for one reason and one reason only - PEOPLE NOT WEARING THEIR FUCKING MASKS

I spoke too soon on Thursday morning, Thurs night was the worst

Ugh sorry sleeve.

I have not read or even noticed the ilx masking thread and I don’t think I’ll bother

stay far away

I really do feel better today! gonna shoot for a rapid test on Wednesday and hope I'm clear

my wife is down with it again, which means my kid will probably also get it or may even have it (he is blaming his sneezing on 'allergies'). I managed to get vaxxed three weeks ago (they weren't able to yet) so we'll see about me.

good luck man. my wife got the new vax right before this and she has not tested positive or gotten sick, so hopefully you will be the same

hope you're not laid out for too long and it's more like 'shitty cold' than 'near death experience'

"especially bad flu" is how I would describe it w/ the achy pain

prob the sickest I've been since I was 20 and had pharyngitis

pharyngitis! I had this during exams back in college, got my ass kicked, and was able to reschedule a couple of exams as a result. But it sounded made up to me and you are literally the only other person I have ever heard of that had it.

FWIW a woman I know my age — mid-50s — was just diagnosed with a pulmonary blood clot, about 3-4 months after her first case of COVID. Fortunately they were able to find and address it, but it was very painful and scared the hell out of her. One of the nurses who treated her said they are seeing unusual numbers of blood clots in otherwise healthy people, which tracks with all the findings about increased clotting risk post-COVID. So ... that's fun.

is paxlovid worth it or no? I had friends who took it last year and hated it but they also maybe took it too late and they got rebound covid. My wife is two days into serious symptoms.

FWIW a woman I know my age — mid-50s — was just diagnosed with a pulmonary blood clot, about 3-4 months after her first case of COVID

interesting, a friend of ours (50) had the same thing plus a mild heart attack this summer. i'm not sure when she had covid but she did at some point.

paxlovid was worth it imo

same - it helped my serious symptoms in a major way. i kept testing positive for 3 weeks which was annoying but at least i didnt feel like total garbage

I did not go for the Paxlovid because 1. I didn't feel like I was going to die and 2. I felt like other people might need it more? my doc said it was recommended mostly for 65+

also shoutout to PBKR, you are also the only other person I know who has had pharyngitis

catching up on this thread inspired me to sign up for a vaccine appointment later this afternoon, so thanks for that everyone

I took Paxlovid over the summer, and my worst symptoms - fever, sore throat - were mostly gone in about 36 hours; I tested negative after about five days, with a lingering cough. My wife did not take Paxlovid this past week, and her worst symptoms - fever, sore throat - were mostly gone in about 36 hours; she tested negative after about five days, with a lingering cough. My dad (a pediatrician) would always joke when I had a cold (a coronavirus!) that I could take medicine, and my illness would be over in 5-7 days, or I could not take anything, in which case my illness would be over in 5-7 days. Then he would joke that I owed him $200. Ha ha.

The catch with covid and all the vaccines, treatments, etc., is of course that there is no control. There is no way to know how things might have been if you didn't take Paxlovid, and vice versa. I still feel that there is so much that remains up in the air or unknown, like why my wife's boss has caught covid five times (once a month apart) and other people I know have not caught it once. Very knock wood, but I know more people that had a worse run after getting vaccinated than they did when they (inevitably? I guess not!) got covid. Why? Dunno.

I'm getting my vaccines on Thursday. Gonna try for a Novavax, just to shake things up.

Anecdotally i took paxlovid and had meaningful symptoms for 48 hours which seems on the short side.