Oh no! - my 'cold' turned out to be Covid!

[Sissyleslie]

Neighborly love may be rarer than it once was but it still exists. I’m glad your neighbor is looking out for you. That’s a sign of a healthy neighborhood for sure!

I'm very lucky in that I know (and get on well with), my neighbours. I've known them for a long time. This one of the advantages of village life.

 

[dogboy]

When I had Omicron, my son and daughter in law live down my road and she would buy me Campbell's chicken noodle soup and other food she knew I liked. She'd leave it on my porch so I didn't infect her and I was must appreciative. I'm glad you have a neighbor who cares.

 

[StrawberryPan]

Got covid a few years ago. Barely noticed it. It was like a slight cold with general muscle fatigue. Kind of a let down to be honest.

Perhaps its because I eat very healthy. Before getting covid I don't think I have been sick once since I was a kid. Also I think it helps that as a kid I was always playing around in dirt and getting messy, and generally not being very clean lol, I think that is an essential part to building immunity and a strong immune system as an adult.

 

[babykeiff]

Better find your self some ivermectin 12g knocks it out in 3days

...Any NSAID will handle it but increase the dosage 50% above the label-specified dosage...

One member is suggesting an anti-parasitic drug, while another is suggesting non steroidal anti-inflamatory drugs at 50% above maximum dosages ---- all to deal with a viral infection I half expect someone to prescribe an anal dose of chloroquine, the antimalarial drug...and a diet of Pedigree Chum or Winalot! Is this some crazy school of medicine?

Everybody - when one gets an infection the following happens as it is the immune system ramping up:-

• body temprature increases
• gets a headache
• gets tired
• bones and joints get sore

Most doctors tell paitents to increase water intake. Taking medication to handle the 4 above is directly effecting ones immune system. Anything that reduces ones immune systems ability when one is dealing with a virus similar to Covid19 can severely effect the ability of the paitent to handle the virus. What a paitent needs is sleep, and loads of it, and that is what @Sissyleslie is doing - relaxing, binge watching films and/or porn or whatever makes her happy, and staying safe. If she is dressed in pink frills from head to toe and it makes her happy, let her be.

@Sissyleslie it is presumed that your own doctor / team are dealing with this for you and not a group of anonymised internet members!

Take care of yourself, and from the comments here, I'd suggest that you shut down your computer and ignore them.

 

[Sissyleslie]

It's OK babykeiff, - the only thing I'm taking is some Sudafed decongestant tablets. But I think that resting will probably help. Anyway, I'm going to do another lateral flow test on Saturday morning and keeping my fingers crossed that I will test negative.

 

[BobbiSueEllen]

What's really odd about these last few years of flus: I had COVID right before Christmas of '20...the idea of having tested positive was a real wracker but aside from the inability to do things out in the world, it was a cakewalk with lots of easily-managed symptoms (the worst being unable to taste or smell for 4 days)...

...then along came the one-shot vaccine. The aftereffects were worse than having COVID! But taste & smell remained.

Then...two bouts of non-COVID flu (tested negative both times), one in Kentucky and one here. Those knocked me on my diapered bottom, HARD. Symptomatically, they had worse body aches, no appetite whatsoever, headache...and bed-sweats mixed with hallucination-dreams. In hindsight, those made COVID seem like a cakewalk.

Anyway, bookmark your COVID symptoms, see what happens if ya get a non-COVID flu later. No flu is easy but COVID is quite the curious conundrum. Stay warm, hydrated, nibble when ya can, stay engaged in life and keep comin' back here! Y'hear?

 

[Labrador]

Taking medication to handle the 4 above is directly effecting ones immune system.

It can also make life more comfortable. If you have a splitting headache and a fever, sleep will be very difficult and low quality. So if people take Tylenol to deal with pain fever, I personally don’t blame them.

 

[Labrador]

Better find your self some ivermectin 12g knocks it out in 3days

So did my immune system. It’s like the second doctor said when he noticed I had tested negative for an infection but had still been given antibiotics anyway.

 

[foxkits]

I hope you get over this fast .
Sick people should not be at work.
Sadly a lot of companies don't have sick pay

 

[Sissyleslie]

I am annoyed at my own arrogance. You see, every lateral flow test I have done before Monday this week have all been negative, including last Friday. I had developed this assumption that somehow I'd built up a resistance to Covid. So when I checked the result of Monday morning's lateral flow test, I was genuinely shocked that it was positive.

It just goes to show that you should not make assumptions or jump to conclusions. Life has this nasty habit of biting you back.

 

[Labrador]

I tested positive even at the end of isolation, which they told me is normal— dead viruses and all that. I did.

 

[babykeiff]

I am annoyed at my own arrogance. You see, every lateral flow test I have done before Monday this week have all been negative, including last Friday. I had developed this assumption that somehow I'd built up a resistance to Covid. So when I checked the result of Monday morning's lateral flow test, I was genuinely shocked that it was positive.

It just goes to show that you should not make assumptions or jump to conclusions. Life has this nasty habit of biting you back.

Due to the makeup of a virus, there is no way to be 100% immune to one unless one has recovered from it / inherited the immunity, so although you may have had numerous vaccines plus boosters, your immune system still is not 'resistant' to the virus but the chance of survival with the vaccine can increase. The actual percentages of increase has not been published, but it is usually in the 70%+ range rate of survival with an *educated immune system.

Secondly, the lateral flow test is known to be inaccurate, with a range of 34% - 88% with the average being 72%. This means that 28% of test results that show negative are actually positive. The reverse is also true, in that 28% of the times it shows positive, the paitent is negative for Covid19.

There are multiple ways to get an *educated immune system -

• #1. Get the full dose of the virus and attempt to recover -
  • Method : Self exposure to primary virual source.
  • Disadvantages : highly risky due to the way Sars_CoV_2 infects.
  • Advantages: No known advantages
• #2. Get multiple 'clinically clean' weak doses
  • Method: Multiple vacinnes & booster shots forever until virual strength weakens
  • Disadvantages:
    • needs one to be Mr/Ms average
    • needs immune system to be stupid enough to make a mistake
    • needs medical science to be ahead of virual mutations
    • will be sick / recovering from booster shots multiple times a year until battle is lost between virus and medical science.
    • is transmittable - i.e. can pass virus to others.
  • Advantages:
    • Higher chance of survival than #1.
• #3 Get multiple 'dirty' weak doses
  • Method : Catch mutated weak copy of virus - from another i.e. Irish catch it from English cousins & visa versa.
  • Disadvantages
    • will be sick mutliple times during year, each less severe than the previous.
    • will still need to wear a mask etc - not to protect from the virus but to protect from human mutation errors due to variance of human reaction to normal clinical reactions
  • Advantages
    • enhances immune system
    • non transmittable
    • no damage to taste/smell
    • higher chance of survival that #1 and #2

To me, I know what I would choose.

It can also make life more comfortable. If you have a splitting headache and a fever, sleep will be very difficult and low quality. So if people take Tylenol to deal with pain fever, I personally don’t blame them.

Tylenol / Paracetamol etc are acetamiophen, which in laymans terms, mucks around with the body temperature to increase ones threshold level for pain. Some also include anti-inflamatory properties. When the bodies immune system ramps up, the body temperature increases to enable certain chemical and biological processes to occur. Taking something to drop the body temperature to increase ones threshold for pain is of no help.

If you have a splitting headache, first, solve the core issue, the lack of fluids (water) around the brain - by drinking a glass or two of water. Then, lay down on your bed with all the lights off (including the lights from a computer/TV/phone) and ensure that you have quiet - you should be able to hear your own heartbeat. if you need light to see around the room, use a candle or a bit of natural light. Otherwise, you are going to mess around with your circadian rhythm. Is that too advanced thinking?

Everyone, these processes existed before western medicine and the formation of companies like J&J etc.

 

[Sissyleslie]

Due to the makeup of a virus, there is no way to be 100% immune to one unless one has recovered from it / inherited the immunity, so although you may have had numerous vaccines plus boosters, your immune system still is not 'resistant' to the virus but the chance of survival with the vaccine can increase. The actual percentages of increase has not been published, but it is usually in the 70%+ range rate of survival with an *educated immune system.

Secondly, the lateral flow test is known to be inaccurate, with a range of 34% - 88% with the average being 72%. This means that 28% of test results that show negative are actually positive. The reverse is also true, in that 28% of the times it shows positive, the paitent is negative for Covid19.

There are multiple ways to get an *educated immune system -

• #1. Get the full dose of the virus and attempt to recover -
  • Method : Self exposure to primary virual source.
  • Disadvantages : highly risky due to the way Sars_CoV_2 infects.
  • Advantages: No known advantages
• #2. Get multiple 'clinically clean' weak doses
  • Method: Multiple vacinnes & booster shots forever until virual strength weakens
  • Disadvantages:
    • needs one to be Mr/Ms average
    • needs immune system to be stupid enough to make a mistake
    • needs medical science to be ahead of virual mutations
    • will be sick / recovering from booster shots multiple times a year until battle is lost between virus and medical science.
    • is transmittable - i.e. can pass virus to others.
  • Advantages:
    • Higher chance of survival than #1.
• #3 Get multiple 'dirty' weak doses
  • Method : Catch mutated weak copy of virus - from another i.e. Irish catch it from English cousins & visa versa.
  • Disadvantages
    • will be sick mutliple times during year, each less severe than the previous.
    • will still need to wear a mask etc - not to protect from the virus but to protect from human mutation errors due to variance of human reaction to normal clinical reactions
  • Advantages
    • enhances immune system
    • non transmittable
    • no damage to taste/smell
    • higher chance of survival that #1 and #2

To me, I know what I would choose.


Tylenol / Paracetamol etc are acetamiophen, which in laymans terms, mucks around with the body temperature to increase ones threshold level for pain. Some also include anti-inflamatory properties. When the bodies immune system ramps up, the body temperature increases to enable certain chemical and biological processes to occur. Taking something to drop the body temperature to increase ones threshold for pain is of no help.

If you have a splitting headache, first, solve the core issue, the lack of fluids (water) around the brain - by drinking a glass or two of water. Then, lay down on your bed with all the lights off (including the lights from a computer/TV/phone) and ensure that you have quiet - you should be able to hear your own heartbeat. if you need light to see around the room, use a candle or a bit of natural light. Otherwise, you are going to mess around with your circadian rhythm. Is that too advanced thinking?

Everyone, these processes existed before western medicine and the formation of companies like J&J etc.

Thanks for the info- I will certainly bear in mind what you have said.

 

[Labrador]

Tylenol / Paracetamol etc are acetamiophen, which in laymans terms, mucks around with the body temperature to increase ones threshold level for pain. Some also include anti-inflamatory properties. When the bodies immune system ramps up, the body temperature increases to enable certain chemical and biological processes to occur. Taking something to drop the body temperature to increase ones threshold for pain is of no help.

If you have a splitting headache, first, solve the core issue, the lack of fluids (water) around the brain - by drinking a glass or two of water. Then, lay down on your bed with all the lights off (including the lights from a computer/TV/phone) and ensure that you have quiet - you should be able to hear your own heartbeat. if you need light to see around the room, use a candle or a bit of natural light. Otherwise, you are going to mess around with your circadian rhythm. Is that too advanced thinking?

This is a valid point, and I have heard that fever reducers are sometimes a bad idea. But as I said above, I can’t sleep if I’m running. A fever. I just have really vivid dreams and wake up feeling like a truck hit me. So I take Tylenol during the worst of it to take the edge off. So I don’t think taking Tylenol is always a bad idea. It may be a matter of personal philosophy.
(One of my diaper dreams was actually the result of me trying to sleep with an unmediated cold.)

Also, not all headaches are due to dehydration, though I imagine many are. Sinus headaches are due to a discrepancy in pressure between the sinuses and the outside world. So drinking water is a very good idea when sick, but it won’t always cure a headache.

 

[babykeiff]

This is a valid point, and I have heard that fever reducers are sometimes a bad idea.

Thank you.

...Also, not all headaches are due to dehydration, though I imagine many are.

You are correct in that roughly 5% of headaches are not due to dehydration... but drinking water does not harm and it is a good step to address a headache.

The 5% of headaches that are not due to dehydration include a foreign object in the head, like a bullet / hachet etc... and it doesn't mater how much water you drink... it won't cure that.

Sinus headaches are due to a discrepancy in pressure between the sinuses and the outside world.

You are partially correct, it is more due to inflamation in the frontal (above the eyelashes) sinus and ethmold sinus (both sides of nose at the bridge) which puts pressure on the fluid around the brain, but that is very rare and always from an infection of the sinus and requires medical intervention to address the infection and inflamation and also to protect against the relevant sinus possibly bursting and contaminating the brain. Some people I have met wouldn't have a problem with that - bacteria consuming their brains .

...but it won’t always cure a headache.

It will 95% of the time, and is a lot better for you than adding chemicals / medication. Most medication one needs water to take same.

The real question is - is the medication curing you or is the water that has been taken with the medication curing you.... I've yet to see / hear of a certification test where water is not used with the medication! Is the FDA apoving the water or the medication? If water didn't cure you, please explain why placebo's work so well.

 

[StrawberryPan]

Due to the makeup of a virus, there is no way to be 100% immune to one unless one has recovered from it / inherited the immunity, so although you may have had numerous vaccines plus boosters, your immune system still is not 'resistant' to the virus but the chance of survival with the vaccine can increase. The actual percentages of increase has not been published, but it is usually in the 70%+ range rate of survival with an *educated immune system.

Secondly, the lateral flow test is known to be inaccurate, with a range of 34% - 88% with the average being 72%. This means that 28% of test results that show negative are actually positive. The reverse is also true, in that 28% of the times it shows positive, the paitent is negative for Covid19.

There are multiple ways to get an *educated immune system -

• #1. Get the full dose of the virus and attempt to recover -
  • Method : Self exposure to primary virual source.
  • Disadvantages : highly risky due to the way Sars_CoV_2 infects.
  • Advantages: No known advantages
• #2. Get multiple 'clinically clean' weak doses
  • Method: Multiple vacinnes & booster shots forever until virual strength weakens
  • Disadvantages:
    • needs one to be Mr/Ms average
    • needs immune system to be stupid enough to make a mistake
    • needs medical science to be ahead of virual mutations
    • will be sick / recovering from booster shots multiple times a year until battle is lost between virus and medical science.
    • is transmittable - i.e. can pass virus to others.
  • Advantages:
    • Higher chance of survival than #1.
• #3 Get multiple 'dirty' weak doses
  • Method : Catch mutated weak copy of virus - from another i.e. Irish catch it from English cousins & visa versa.
  • Disadvantages
    • will be sick mutliple times during year, each less severe than the previous.
    • will still need to wear a mask etc - not to protect from the virus but to protect from human mutation errors due to variance of human reaction to normal clinical reactions
  • Advantages
    • enhances immune system
    • non transmittable
    • no damage to taste/smell
    • higher chance of survival that #1 and #2

To me, I know what I would choose.


Tylenol / Paracetamol etc are acetamiophen, which in laymans terms, mucks around with the body temperature to increase ones threshold level for pain. Some also include anti-inflamatory properties. When the bodies immune system ramps up, the body temperature increases to enable certain chemical and biological processes to occur. Taking something to drop the body temperature to increase ones threshold for pain is of no help.

If you have a splitting headache, first, solve the core issue, the lack of fluids (water) around the brain - by drinking a glass or two of water. Then, lay down on your bed with all the lights off (including the lights from a computer/TV/phone) and ensure that you have quiet - you should be able to hear your own heartbeat. if you need light to see around the room, use a candle or a bit of natural light. Otherwise, you are going to mess around with your circadian rhythm. Is that too advanced thinking?

Everyone, these processes existed before western medicine and the formation of companies like J&J etc.

It's true. As much as fever/headache/symptoms sucks, its a part of the biological healing mechanism. The key is to only take something when it becomes really unbearable, and even then, as little as possible.

... Brb while I let some poorly-educated doctor stick an untested vaccine cocktail in me and hope I live without permanant damage xD