Finally, something positive, even if it only cut recovery time from an avg of 15 days to 11 days. @B-Bob is this the treatment you were talking about? Or something else?
Sorry. Maybe it's a blessing though. Was this the Abbot test others have mentioned? Did you test positive for COVID-19? What were your symptoms and how severe were they? I'm wondering if I should get the test done myself. I hesitate to spend the money (or risk venturing into a lab right now) because, aside from a painful sore throat and some tiredness, my symptoms were... weird. (I'm not saying I had it, but would like to know.)
Might as well rip that bandaid if they have hospital availability. I'd double check local availability if I were living in the boonies. A plague like this would probably be like that slow moving fog in horror movies that hits a neighborhood unexpectedly. For a state like OK, I wonder what health insurance coverage is like. Not sure if it's a good or bad thing for people to wait it out in fears of not being able to afford proper care.
If you go to Quest don't worry. They make you wear a mask, the seats are about 8 feet apart so you might have to wait outside a bit, and they make you use hand sanitizer before you leave. I was in and out in 10 minutes. Also all nurses wear full PPE including face shields and masks along with gloves. My symptoms were major headaches which I never get, low grade fever every other day, GI issues bad, very achy and tired. Very mild and nowhere near as bad as the Flu. I started feeling them the Monday after Easter and just today am finally feeling better, but still running a 100.1 fever. No loss of appetite at all, never lost sense of smell or taste and no cough. The chest pains were super minor and I honestly think those were due to allergies. It's a long ride, not like the flu where you just feel better after 3 or 4 days. It just hangs on so long it turns annoying.
Thanks for replying. I hope you're able to clear this thing soon. I think I will have to go to the LabCorp office near me for it. I've been there before to have some blood work done. Nice people, but it's a small facility and they're totally in your face. Thankfully there aren't many people working there--so there are at least fewer potential carriers wandering about. I never had any fever (at least that I ever checked). But what was very, very strange (and this hit me at least ten days after the sore throat had passed) was some God awful muscle soreness in my upper back/shoulders and some terribly sore glands in my neck that have never been sore in the past. By sore I mean I could barely run my hands across them they hurt so bad. I have other health issues so it could be related to those, or even the stress I was under, but my wife has been complaining about issues too and is spooked...
So it seems as though things are going to start getting better for the summer, which means I have to stop eating like a lazy, fat piece of poop. Darn. Back to eating healthy and exercising so when I finally do emerge from quarantine, I won't scare my friends who think I've turned into the Blob.
heh it's because they have found that somehow nicotine offers significant protection against getting infected by this virus. Why quit now when it is the first time it may be useful? I am not stupid.
@robbie380 The UK is taking the step of taking all healthcare workers of ethnic minorities off the frontlines. Considering the situation in their healthcare system ( severe lack of doctors and nurses) and that ethnic minorities make up a very significant part of it, it is a very strong indication that it is not only about vitamin D. Vitamin D would be extremely simple to check and fix in a short time. To take off so many hundreds of thousands of people, they would have checked it first.
I didn't test positive for COVID-19 nor did I experience any symptoms. But I do live in NYC and have been exposed (including to someone who has passed away). The test was $100, which seems stupid high but I wanted to know if it'd be relatively safe for me to ease up on the 6 week long house arrest I've been under. I do plan on going back to work in May or early June, so I was hoping that I was an asymptomatic carrier and that this mess was behind me.
Are you getting any very lucid long lasting dreams? That was one weird thing about this. They seemed to last forever, felt real life and vivid and I could remember them all day. I rarely ever dream that I can recall, but I was also sleeping hard for 8 or 9 hours straight through. I do have shoulder, neck and back pain but I think it's mainly working at home on my bar height kitchen table for 10 hours a day. Never any swollen glands or anything. Just very achy and very, very sluggish.
I hear you. We don't have it bad in my area and I'm still nervous. On the bright side, people in your area have to be taking this seriously by now. If you get enough people wearing masks in public and you're wearing one (plus eye protection if possible) your odds of catching it should decrease significantly. I'm of the mind that it's only a matter of time before I get it (for sure), so I'm doing what I can to exercise, eat well, and all that stuff. Hopefully it helps. Stay safe!!!
I don’t get the idea that nicotine is a treatment. In the PRC people smoke like chimneys and Chinese cigs are pretty strong. That didn’t stop the virus from taking off in Wuhan.
I've been having 1-3 vivid, movie-like dreams every night for the past few weeks. Strange how someone else is pointing it out.
No lucid dreams. I've heard about that symptom, but you're the first person to actually describe having them. It sounds wild. I would probably enjoy them. LOL. I'm thinking I might hold off on the antibody test. I've been spending like crazy the last month and I'm less sure about it after talking with you. Maybe the prices will come down if other groups start offering them.
Have they indicated anything else that might be going on? And have they specifically been testing those levels? I'd love to see the research if it's there. I've been focusing on vitamin D because it seems like it is sticking out like a sore thumb when you look at extreme deficiency rates among blacks, complications with covid, and with the things that it helps to moderate with infection and in autoimmune diseases. A little tangent, but I think people don't realize that vitamin D is a steroid hormone and not just a simple "vitamin". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447083/ Certainly it is not a perfect match with everyone having more severe problems since women generally have lower vitamin D levels than men and are hit less hard than men, but I think there is enough there to consider it might play a role. I've had some doctors reinforce my viewpoint so I don't think I'm totally off base here.
