"I Battled COVID Last Week. I'm Triple Vaxxed & It Was Still Brutal" (Under 65, No Comorbidities)
- Daily Kos, May 13, 2022. - Edited.
A month or so ago, people stopped wearing masks. I was one of them. They basically said that the new variant is mild and if you are vaccinated, you will be fine. I attended an Alzheimer’s fundraiser and there were about 300 people in attendance. It was in a large tent. They had a full open bar and every twenty minutes they would bring in a new appetizer to eat.. It was a wonderful evening with live music. I had a great time. Two days later, my throat became really scratchy. Then it became one of the scratchiest throats I ever had. I tested for COVID with the home tests that President Biden sent everyone in the mail. I followed the instructions and waited 15 minutes. Positive. Oh no, I have COVID.
I started to really feel awful. I was exhausted, all my muscles ached. I had a fever, my skin was tingling like I had a thousand ants crawling on them. My eyes hurt. I would close them and it would seem like the lights were still on and there was a ceiling fan was spinning, blocking the light creating a strobe light effect. I couldn’t sleep. My body was fighting this disease and was acting like if I fell asleep that I would never wake up. I have a Fitbit and it says I got 59 minutes of sleep that night. My tingling skin turned into small rashes that looked like little patches of poison ivy. They did not itch but were super painful if you popped them. They mainly formed on my hand and ankles.
I was able to call my doctor and schedule a video visit. They would not let me come in since I was COVID positive. I explained my symptoms and inquired about being put on the new antiviral drug Paxlovid. He really hesitated and made it feel like this should only be given in extreme cases. He said the fact that I am under 65 without any co-morbidities that I was not a suitable candidate. So, he said that I would be fine. Drink lots of water but if I started to have trouble breathing, if I couldn’t keep any food down, or if my oxygen levels were constantly in the 80s, go immediately to the ER. Luckily, It never got to that. My lowest oxygen reading was 92. I really felt awful over the next couple of days. I really didn’t feel like eating anything and I was constantly nauseated.
I was very upset in that I got all my vaccines & I still got so sick. My booster was back in Nov. & I know the efficacy wanes after 3 months. More frustrating was a friend that was 88 years old tested positive around the same time & all he got was a mild cough. I was extremely happy that's all that happened to him because when you are 88, it can be deadly. It feels like the Omicron completely got around the vaccine. I most likely contracted the new variant BA2.12.1. I've read that it's better at evading detection & can have more severe symptoms than BA1 & BA2. I really believe this. If I could have prevented this by wearing a mask that night, I would have done that, no question. I believe this new variant is more evasive, stronger, goes deeper into the lungs & is highly, highly transmissible. Like measles transmissible. This is a warning that we need to keep masking & distancing. It’s not over & I really regret not taking it more seriously...
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Very happy to hear that you are on the other side of the active phase of COVID. Your experience vividly demonstrates that, as much as we all want to be done with COVID it is most certainly not done with us.
*In addition to taking personal precautions such as masking indoors with a high quality mask, please take a few minutes to call or email your Senators & Reps. to convey the urgency of the COVID funding package that is stalled in Congress. We really need an updated vaccine to better combat the newer, more vaccine evasive variants. Both Pfizer & Moderna are working on this with a view to launching them in the fall, but the US will be not be able to secure supply until the funding package is approved.
*Equally concerning, at current uptake rates, even the supply of existing vaccines will run out in around Sept. if new funding is not forthcoming.
* Let that sink in - by October 2022 (just as the fall/winter respiratory disease season kicks off), the US will have NO Federal COVID vaccine supply if the stalled funding package is not approved. With no vaccine supply and just about the entire vaccinated & boosted population being past the 6 month mark from their last dose, the US will be extremely exposed to a major COVID wave (potentially with high hospitalization & death rates) just in time for the midterm elections. If there is a major resurgence of COVID in Oct./Nov., a significant part of the electorate (with ample encouragement by the Republicans & the media) will blame the Dems since they are the party allegedly in power. Given the already precarious position inflation has put the Dems in, this additional negative factor would all but assure that the Republicans will win the House in November.
* Make your voice heard - Congress must pass the COVID funding package as matter of urgency both for the health of the country & to bolster the Dem’s ability to keep control of Congress in the rapidly approaching midterms.
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Get a second opinion. Chris Hayes of MSNBC also got Covid and he received Paxlovid. He is only in his 40s.
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Yes, that doctor seems complacent in the extreme.
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Maybe complacent, but my experience is that for some f*cking obtuse reason, some medical staff do not want to prescribe it.
My mother is 92, fully vaxxed and two boosters. She tested positive on Wed. evening. She lives in her own apt. in an independent living facility ($$$$) in Palm Beach County. Thursday morning I call the nurse practitioner(in charge since no doctor is currently on staff)and tell her my mother tested positive twice and is ill. The nurse refuses to prescribe Paxlovid: I ask why, and she tells me there isn’t any Paxlovid in Palm Beach County, and it might cause stomach upset; instead my mom should just suck on some cough drops. I tell her that having my mother in ICU is a much worse scenario than stomach upset AND that I have already called the CVS across the street from the facility and lo, the CVS has Paxlovid. After much wrangling and mild threats to escalate the situation to a higher authority, the nurse gives in and calls in a presciption for Paxlovid. After a day and a half of Paxlovid she is doing pretty well. Who knows without the anti-viral what state she would be in?
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There’s tons of Paxlovid all over the country because doctors are not prescribing it. It’s insane. That’s mail practice IMO.
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schedule also if they have not done so. I also convinced a cousin to do so. 
so sick of the selfish assholes who have quit masking 
I know that's not an easy thing to do for many people, but if there's any chance of finding another Doc, do it.
Your Doctor's brain must have been scrambled during her many bouts of COVID.
We can't risk losing a single Democrat, especially one from western New York. 
Best of luck with your search. 
The latest thing they seem to be finding with it now is that in some people, it seems to have triggered previously "dormant" viruses the person may have been exposed to, like Epstein-Barr, to suddenly reactivate.
And more recently, they are FINALLY taking a look of what they keep dubbing "a mysterious outbreak of Hepatitis in children" and a possible role of COVID-19 exposure, since it appears that most of the children who contracted the liver inflammation (some even needing transplants), were unvaccinated - mostly ineligible due to their age, and this "worldwide outbreak" started happening right in the midst of Omicron..
I.e., a COVID infection may be triggering an aggressive auto-immune response that causes the severe inflammation - in this case, in the liver.
Lauren Pelley, Adam Miller · CBC News · Posted: May 14, 2022 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 9 hours ago
Unexplained severe acute hepatitis cases among children continue to emerge in Canada and around the world, and while health officials desperately search for a cause of the mysterious illness, researchers are pointing to a possible link to COVID-19. The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday there are now at least 348 probable cases of severe acute hepatitis — or inflammation of the liver — in children under investigation worldwide, which aren't caused by the usual hepatitis viruses or any other clear source.
In Canada, more than a dozen possible cases have been reported across multiple provinces since the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) confirmed earlier this month that some cases of the severe liver disease were under investigation. While an early line of investigation from U.K. health officials emphasized possible links to adenovirus, a family of viruses typically known for causing mild cold or flu-like illness, global teams are also zeroing in on potential impacts from SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19.
Research suggests possible link to COVID
A recent American case study published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition analyzed a previously healthy three-year-old girl who developed acute liver failure a few weeks after recovering from a mild COVID infection. "The patient had liver biopsy findings and blood testing consistent with a type of autoimmune hepatitis which may have been triggered by COVID infection," said Dr. Anna Peters, a pediatric gastroenterologist at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Peters, the lead author on the study, said that while it was impossible to prove that COVID directly caused the liver disease in this case — it is possible the virus triggered an "abnormal immune response" that then attacked the liver. "I think it's important for physicians to be aware that this is a rare condition that may happen during or after COVID infection. It's important to check liver tests in patients who aren't improving as expected," she said.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/severe-hepatitis-children-covid-suspect-1.6451267
It's just like early on with the wild-type COVID-19 and Alpha/Beta, where some children were experiencing what they dubbed as "MIS-C" (Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children) which was causing this same type of thing again - "inflammation".
That timing was just under 6 months from my original booster last 11/15/2021.
Some of the research I've seen published the past year has suggested that because the doses of Moderna were higher (by design) than PFizer, that this may be a contributor to Moderna's longer-lasting efficacy.
I.e., each dose of Pfizer's "regular" 2-dose series is 30 ug and each booster dose is the same 30ug, whereas each dose of Moderna's "regular" 2-dose series is 100ug each, and a "typical" booster dose (unless immuno-compromised) is 50ug (immuno-comprised would get a 100ug booster which would then be considered like a "3-dose series" ).
Am sorry to see posters in this thread dealing with this thing right now. It's just nightmarish to have to try to maneuver through a landmine not knowing how each step might impact you. 
Thankfully many people where I venture are still masking (or have started masking again since the Philly Health Dept. recommended it last week because of course, the cases are back up again as are the hospitalizations, despite the bullshit media "shaming" of the city for trying to enforce mitigation).
and I'll give it some time, I have not had any symptoms at all with this 2nd booster.
My original first dose resulted in a brief metallic taste in my mouth and some injection site pain. Then 3 days later I got shoulder ache, the lethargy and cold-like symptoms, and was down for the count much of that day.
The 2nd dose was much less of a reaction, with some longer-lasting arm pain and a little bit of fatigue the day after.
The first booster was nothing but a couple days of the injection site pain - actually lasting longer than the 1st/2nd dose ache.
And this last booster? Nada, not even any injection site twinge.
I think my body must have been like - WTF? This stuff yet AGAIN?????? 
not anywhere near over and will keep mutating. Keeping a positive outlook is tough. At least we know it is not a "Democratic
hoax."
prescribing paxlovid. 
But forewarned is forearms. If I or Mr. B ever get covid, I'll be ready to fight like our lives depend on it. 
