Posted on 09/03/2023 9:22:52 AM PDT by A Cyrenian
Symptoms? Changing lanes without the use of turn signal lights
I caught in Alaska in August. Felt like the flu. I was out a couple of days and diminished for a few days after that. I took antivirals and that helped. I’m back to normal and grateful that it wasn’t too bad. I tested positive
My energy was drained for about two months. It took took that long to get my stamina back up. Other than being extremely tired all the time, I had no problems with fevers, coughs, sinus infections or respiratory issues. I am back up to half walking and half jogging between 2 and 3 miles a day.
Where do you get your ivermectin?
My wife and I caught it on an Alaskan cruise three weeks ago. Started with a sore throat. Sense of smell disappeared which was a strong clue. That was weird. Then I got lots of muscle aches like the flu. I never ran a temperature. I never got headache and only a few sniffles / runny nose. The peak was like a moderate cold and lasted three to four days, then it waned. The listlessness and lack of energy lasted about two weeks and slowly went away.
I got a positive home test and then a positive test at Urgent Care. I was at Day 5 or 6 from the first notice of a sore throat when I went to Urgent Care. Doc said Paxlovid wouldn’t help as I was beyond the five day mark from first symptoms, but he gave it to me anyway. I seemed to get better one or two days faster than my wife.
Interestingly, her first two home tests were negative, then the third was positive. She never went to Urgent Care. She coughed more than me.
Neither of us got any respiratory symptoms. I use a recording pulse oximeter at night because I use a CPAP machine (it’s a good, easy way to see if the machine is effective). I never experienced any decrease in blood oxygen.
I used all the normal supplements since April 2020 - Quercetin, Vit C, Vit D, zinc, NAC, melatonin, and nigella sativa (black seed oil). My wife only takes Vit D in the winter (we are almost at 48 degrees north).
We are both 72 and in good health and just slightly overweight. We walk and hike a lot and she plays pickleball five days a week.
My sense of smell slowly came back, but I don’t think its as good as it was before COVID.
So what to make of all this?
It’s easily survivable if you are in good health and only a minimal inconvenience. Like many have said, “it’s a cold.”
1) Mask wearing
2) Shot getting
3) Shutdowns
4) Plexiglass
5) Mail-in voting
mail in ballots will be the cure.
Re #25, we are both vaxxed and one booster. After all the news about lack of efficacy, cardiac problems, and myriad other problems, we both said “that’s it” to boosters. No more.
My son’s family had it the week before last. He’s in his late 30s, with two boys aged 2 and 3. The kids got sick first, for an evening. One ran a temperature (not unusual) and the other coughed for about 12 hours, and then they were all better. Mom came down with it a day or so later ( a Monday) and tested positive for COVID. She was recovering by Wednesday.
My son came home from work on Wednesday, spiked a fever to 102.9, and sounded all stuffed up for a couple days, but was mostly better by Sunday.
We think it was COVID because the mother got a positive test result, and that the kids brought it home from preschool. We have no idea what version of COVID it was. Also, both parents got original Pfizer shot package (two shots) a couple of years ago.
Thoughts?
ps: They are in the greater Dallas/FW area.
I’ve been asking myself the same questions for a while. Should I continue the supplements? Discontinue them? Did they do any good?
Since we have a direct A-B test with me and my wife (I forgot to mention our unvaxxed daughter and son-in-law were on the cruise and they also caught it), I’m starting to lean toward discontinuing.
I normally got at least one cold per year for decades. I went from February 2019 to August 2024 without a single cold. I started the supplements April 2020. I think a lot of that was probably due to me retiring in 2019 and getting out of the office as well as greatly increased hand washing and avoiding touching my face, eyes, nose and mouth. After retiring, we have not been to places with huge concentrations of people. We have been to maybe a dozen shows with up to a couple thousand people since 2019 including some during the pandemic.
The cruise was the first time being in an event with 4,000 people.
I discontinued the supplements about ten days ago when my weekly pill planners ran out.
I cannot find any information or studies anywhere that have endeavored to answer the basic question: do supplements do any good?
Thank you for your help.
I have been reading that people who get it don’t know they have it and only learn of it from mandatory testing. Aside from the fear mongering I haven’t heard anything terrible.
N-Acetyl Cysteine or just plain Cysteine itself 600 mg/day or 1K mg, and if one is high blood pressure treated— ACE blockers... work to block the ACE2 receptors on lung lining cells which the virus Spike S Proteins on the surface of coronavirus seek out (when virus inhaled) as the “key” to insert the S protein into the “lock” of the ACE2 receptor— which then lets the rna/dna material inside the virus particle virion— into the lung cell for infection.
Block the ACE-2 receptor with prescription Losartan or Candesartan (generic names). ACE inhibitors quinapril and others as an alternative but direct dosed ACE blockers add another layer to all the prevention of infection actions of the supplements. You’ll also never get the flu, whatever it is this coming year (which oddly during covid was a “zero” flu virus year— how convenient and how untrue).
See: Dr. Schuelte MEDCRAM youtube continuing med education.
Full explanantion of the covid infection modality— and what to take to prevent. DAILY, and with 7 hours minimum of good sleep.
ACE blockers prescription added if hypertensive. Losartan or candesartan or.. ACE inhibitor like quinapril if tolerating.
Daily don’t miss supplements. Not “all those” the specific ones in the correct dosages. From the cme MEDCRAM used to be #45 from 2020== may be renumbered or... censored. They absolutely censored Dr. Marick of the Univ. of VA Norfolk treatment protocol— which is outrageous. Can still find the protocol— and it works very well.
signed dr. kildare so to speak. No quack I.
What was it like? Cold, flu, whatever. Who cares?
How long did it last? Seriously? People get sick ALL THE TIME and recover.
Did you take anything (ivermectin) to combat it? Drink plenty of fluids and get plenty of rest. Age old advice.
Can you share any information with us? Life is too short to be afraid of a cold or the flu. Pretend it's 2019 and no one cared if you got a runny nose.
Thanks.
Covid was made in China.
Most Covid masks are made in China.
And my FDA Covid test kit was made in China.
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