Topic: Flunked another test today....

[britman]

I am sorry to report it was a Covid one.  I have had a dry cough for a couple of weeks and just felt very run down.  This morning it hit big time, with a sore throat, coughing, chills, and feeling somewhat like a dump truck had backed over me.  Took the test and that lovely pink line popped up immediately.  Doctor has me on Paxlovid again this time around, my mouth tastes like it is full of pennies and 14 gauge copper wire, it leaves an awful metallic taste while on the medication.  I also seem to lost some of my ability to taste so the Wife is going try some new recipes since I won't be able to complain.  I believe this gift from across the pond  is going to be a part of our lives from now on matter what precautions you take.....

[RAFster122s]

Sorry to hear…

Paxlovid is one of the treatment methods, one from Moderna doesn’t have that metallic aftertaste issue and works just as well. Forget what it is called though.

Hope you recover quickly.

There is a new strain that has been hitting  California pretty hard with the new strain taking over the number of cases. It is reportedly no worse than the previous for causing hospitalization.

Yes, this lab experiment of germ warfare they unleashed on the world is not nice…

[jgger]

That sucks. I had it backing June of 22 and pretty much slept it off. No jab and still will not go there. Worst neck and back ache I have ever had, plus tired.

Praying you kick covid's ass quickly. You haven't been buying Chinese parts for your projects, have you?

[newday777]

That's no fun.... yuk
Get well soon

[Kevin]

How many times have you caught it?
Did you hear about the recalled tests...they were not only giving false positives but were actually making people sick.

I was lucky enough to catch the WuFlu very early. It was pretty miserable and took a while to recover from it, but I did. I was living overseas at the time.

I do believe I have built up an immunity to it. I have refused all of the hocus pocus injections that have proven to be useless and possibly harmful to your health.

I was threatened with termination of employment and retirement benefits, but I didn't cave in.

I highly recommend the book " The Real Anthony Fauci". 

I hope you recover soon!

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[BenelliSEI]

Sorry to hear your news. Get better fast!

[Stev-o]

Sorry to hear, Britman.

I've had it twice and the last time was prescribed Paxlovid.  I did not get a metallic taste in my mouth and I really didn't think it helped much, stopped taking it before the all pills were gone.
But my case was very mild, felt very weak and had no appetite. Hope you are well soon.

[HondaMan]

Sorry you're sick, Britman!
I had the full Monty Covid in 1/2020, brought into the company where I worked then by the COO from flying in airplanes to/from China.
I was sick with all 3 stages for nearly 3 months, but stayed on my feet and fought back with orneryness and just plain bein' pissed at bein' sick.
My wife didn't get it until 8 months later, AFTER she got the first Moderna shot. When she got the 2nd one, she ended up in the hosptial emergency room twice from cardiac problems (myocarditis, they finally figured out...) and extremely high blood pressure that has left her with bleeding eye retinas and now 10 months of shots and laser treatments in her eyes. The blood pressure is settling down now, 2 years after the last shot - hopeful that the eye troubles will too.

My 2 pence' worth: AVOID the jab, period. Get horse dewormer: it works MUCH better, and costs about $5.

[RAFster122s]

No COVID, but...

[Kevin]

No COVID, but...

Haha!


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[britman]

Not to get political or claim I have more medical knowledge than the so called experts, I am done with vaccinations.  I played by the rules in the beginning and even got a booster last year at my Wife's urging, but IMHO the vaccine does not work, or at a minimum does not perform as it is touted.  In the beginning it was supposed to have a 96% prevention rate, then people who had the full regiment of shots started coming down with Covid.  All of a sudden it changed to if you were vaccinated the symptoms were milder.  This is the second time around for me with this crap, and I very seldom get sick and have always been fairly healthy.  I must admit I really do feel bad this time, it is the second day of sitting in the recliner with a constant cough and every damn old joint I have aching along with a pounding headache.  I know it will pass, like you Mark I will hit the point where the boredom and the pissed off old man attitude will contribute to the cure.  My grass needs cutting and there is a stack of parts that have come in for the project on the lift that need installing.  My personal observation on this delightful little disease after being a two time winner, we are going to have to live with it for a long time to come, and no way in hell Covid was natural in origin, this is no ordinary flu virus........

[Stev-o]

Britman....I agree with most of your post above but the bottom line is that is different for each individual. Here are some of my personal observations:

- My brother contracted Covid fairly early in the Pandemic but had no symptoms or ill effects [his wife had severe symptoms at same time]
- The 2nd time I contracted the virus was after vaccination, symptoms were very mild but I had the most severe sore throat I have ever experienced, severe pain just swallowing.
- My wife has not had the virus, tested negative a couple times when not feeling well for a day, but didnt contract from me either time I had it [when I tested positive, I was isolated but still living in our home]
- I also rarely fall ill, last time I had the flu was 20+ yrs ago, never had a flu shot.

There is just so much we dont know about it and at time it sometimes defies logic.

Hang in there, you will be back soon.

[Don R]

 We stayed home for 2 1/2 years, finally went somewhere and got it on the plane to Scottsdale last January. We stopped wearing the masks but maybe should have used them on the plane.
 It was a weak case for both of us. We had all of the vaccines previously, so I declined the most recent vaccine since we just had the real thing. 
 I lost three cousins and a couple friends when it was most rampant. Yes, they had health issues already but weren't dying. Two friends have lasting side effects.
 Your mileage may vary, consult a professional.

[HondaMan]

Britman-
yep, I hate being sick more than anything else! Maybe the adrenaline of getting mad fought back at it, or maybe it's just 'cuz I don't want to lie around and be sick, it seems like such a waste of time...when I got my back 'repaired' in 2019 I got up the next morning after 3.5 hours of major surgery and checked out, had lunch in their cafeteria, and drove home. When I went in for my follow-up visit 10 days later they were surprised I drove myself there: then I told them what I'd done to go home and they looked like someone had hit them in the face with a frying pan or something. 

But, hey, after having a broken back all my life until they worked on it, I thought it felt BETTER than the day before!

Same thing when I got Covid. Sick? Oh, yeah. Lie around? No, thanks, got too much to do, including all those Honda engines in the garage... I might be slower than normal and gotta triple-check everything, but it beats staring at the ceiling! 

[RAFster122s]

When I caught it the headache was awful as was the sore throat and fever. It took me about 3 days to break the fever and then a couple weeks before I felt anything close to normal. I rarely get sick but after having it I got sick from several other viruses that next year. It was over a month before I felt like I was even close to normal energy levels as long as I wasn't pushing it.

It really does affect everyone a little bit differently and heaven help you if you develop long COVID as you are in for a long haul and struggle. Have a high school friend whose daughter and her daughter developed blood issues after having it with extreme BZp problems still I think. It is an engineered virus and that is not disputed. Personally, I think they introduced several new variants of their test virus after it had infected things world wide to track it in the wild and see their handy work and it's spread. Some of the variants did not seem like they were likely to be the progression of a natural virus, even one mutating frequently.
But, we will never know.

Hang in there and eat healthy and take your vitamins and rest and give you body plenty of fluids too.

[Tracksnblades1]

Get well soon….

That coronavirus has gotten a lot meaner than it was in 1965..

Grap it by the horns  and kick the #$%* out of it and hang on…

Stay healthy and don’t wait to long….

[britman]

Finally getting back, I would say I am about 95% there.  Overall synopsis in my case, about 3 to 4 really bad days, a lot of coughing and mucus, felt like crap, very low energy level, lost of taste, and a constant headache.  Doctor had me on Paxlovid and a heavy duty cough suppressant, as soon as I took the last dose of the Paxlovid I started to feel better, it made me somewhat nauseous and leaves a horrible taste in your mouth.   Funny thing I never ran a fever or had any substantial  appetite loss.  Currently I am back to daily exercise and cut grass yesterday where I promptly found a new yellow jacket nest with the push mower, when I have too I can still haul arse.  I still have a cough and the taste thing is coming and going, basically I feel pretty much my old self.  I will say this, the bout I had this time was a lot more severe than the first time around.  I just hope that means the immunity factor lasts much longer.......

[Kevin]

Glad to hear that you are feeling better, Britman!


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[HondaMan]

Hey, good to hear you're UP! That's the way to kick it in the ass...
Now you've reminded me of the day I fould a yellow jacket nest, too, about 40 years ago. I was in a rented house, went out to mow the shaggy lawn with a push-type power mower. All at once I was enclosed in a huge swarm of the beasties, got stung twice before getting away. I was looking at the mower: they were attacking it! Just then, it ran out of gas, and all the wasps disappeared.

WTH?

Then I walked back toward the mower and saw what was going on: at about the end of the mower's handle, there was a hole in the ground right where I was standing when they swarmed me, and a few of the buggers were going in & out of it. I got a rope and tied a big wrench to it, then threw it at the handle so it looped around it to let me pull the mower back over the hole, and they ignored the movement so I could get the mower back, at least. That night I killed off the nest. The next day I discovered that the previous renters had buried 6 large coffee cans in the ground back there, another WTH?

Next day, the neighbor tells me they had a dog and would put its poop into the cans. He said there were probably about 20 cans buried back there. 

Glad I don't live THERE anymore. 

[newday777]

Glad you are back at it.
Yah ground wasps are a bugger to get into. I've found many nests over the years and been stung many times.

[Don R]

 I thought it took me a while to get over the remnants of covid from late January but on Easter I discovered I had a deceased gall bladder. That was probably what I was feeling. The Doc also did my hernia from pushing a no power goldwing out of an intersection a little too vigorously. Of course, it got infected.
 All good now except a cyst on my pancreas that they will drain in a couple weeks. Probably caused by the gall bladder too.