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MLAA

(18,512 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 07:57 PM Jan 2024

Darn it, after 4 years of outwitting it, Covid caught up with me.

Monday my sister came over to watch college football with us. Around 3 pm she started getting chills and went home. She has a walker and I always help her by taking it out and putting it bank in her car. It took me a few minutes to realize I needed to wash my hands and wipe down the end table she used. 26 hours later, I had the same symptoms. At first I thought it was the flu. We (dear husband, sister and I) are all vaxed and boosted. The minute something becomes available I make an appointment for all of us. This morning I took a Covid test, it was positive. Thankfully, husband who has serious health issues tested negative and has no symptoms. My sister and I have chills, runny nose, fever, and stuffed nose. I called my primary care Dr’s office he and the nurse practitioner are out until Monday. I made an online appointment with CVS Minute Clinic for late this afternoon. Meanwhile I was feeling so crappy I signed up for a telescope call. One time typically call you 2 hours after the credit card clears. 3.5 hours later it was time for my Clinic live appointment. Amazingly I was seen on time and efficiently. After reviewing my symptoms and meds, looking in my ears, nose and throat, and taking my BP and listening to my heart he gave me the prescription and told be to pick it up in the drive through. In about 1.25 hours all told, I was home and took my first dose. Oddly, it seemed to make me feel better to move around. Symptoms been going in waves all day from medium severity to medium low severity. Just the stopped up nose driving me crazier. 😉

All tips are welcome!

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Darn it, after 4 years of outwitting it, Covid caught up with me. (Original Post) MLAA Jan 2024 OP
I hope you recover quickly. I slept for 3 days and then felt much better. brer cat Jan 2024 #1
Thank you! I'm so stuffy that sleeping is on and off, but I'm hopeful tonight I'll turn the corner! MLAA Jan 2024 #7
Possible that you didn't get it from her. usually takes about 3-5 days to incubate, I'm told. SharonAnn Jan 2024 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author dweller Jan 2024 #2
I hope that CVS gave you Paxlovid LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #3
Yes indeed, about a 15 min visit and I left the clinic to go thru the driveway to pick up Paxlovid. MLAA Jan 2024 #8
The Pax made a metallic taste viva la Jan 2024 #12
I had the metallic taste for 24 hours but hadn't had paxlovid Easterncedar Jan 2024 #13
After my first dose last night I too had that metallic taste. Then I sleep a solid 12 hours and already fell much MLAA Jan 2024 #14
My first time over Christmas Easterncedar Jan 2024 #4
Thanks for the warning! I do feel so much better this morning after my first dose and sleeping a full 12 MLAA Jan 2024 #15
My 91 year old friend... Easterncedar Jan 2024 #17
Whew, so glad your friend weathered the storm so well. Especially good to hear as so far my 88 year old MLAA Jan 2024 #18
Sorry about your husband's issues Easterncedar Jan 2024 #19
It sounds like your sister and I are both lucky that our husbands remain charming and cheerful. Despite MLAA Jan 2024 #20
I have had it twice, thatdemguy Jan 2024 #5
You've got a great constitution! MLAA Jan 2024 #9
I'm sorry. Mickju Jan 2024 #6
Thank you! MLAA Jan 2024 #10
So glad Goddessartist Jan 2024 #16
Thanks for the reminder! Getting some right now. MLAA Jan 2024 #21

MLAA

(18,512 posts)
7. Thank you! I'm so stuffy that sleeping is on and off, but I'm hopeful tonight I'll turn the corner!
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 09:54 PM
Jan 2024

Response to MLAA (Original post)

MLAA

(18,512 posts)
8. Yes indeed, about a 15 min visit and I left the clinic to go thru the driveway to pick up Paxlovid.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 09:55 PM
Jan 2024

Thanks for the kind wishes!

MLAA

(18,512 posts)
14. After my first dose last night I too had that metallic taste. Then I sleep a solid 12 hours and already fell much
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 11:43 AM
Jan 2024

better this morning.

Easterncedar

(3,331 posts)
4. My first time over Christmas
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 08:27 PM
Jan 2024

I’m also vaxxed, except for the last one. 5 days of feeling bad with chills and aches. I was very very thirsty all the time. Drank lots of ice water and tea. Just had to ride it out. Nurse friend recommends gargling with warm salt water. It did seem to help.

Sleep as much as you can. Don’t push it.

2 weeks later and I’m still napping, but otherwise ok. I hope you have an easy time.

FWIW, three people I know who took paxlovid felt better at first quite quickly but then had a minor relapse after many days.

MLAA

(18,512 posts)
15. Thanks for the warning! I do feel so much better this morning after my first dose and sleeping a full 12
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 11:45 AM
Jan 2024

hours.

Easterncedar

(3,331 posts)
17. My 91 year old friend...
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 02:04 PM
Jan 2024

who shared the virus with me had very much the same suite of symptoms in the same sequence as I had, but a little less severe and for a shorter time, until her brief relapse. We both had several days of two steps forward and one step back. As she is not only over 90 but also a cancer survivor, we were worried for her, and very relieved at her recovery. Sleep was the best thing!

MLAA

(18,512 posts)
18. Whew, so glad your friend weathered the storm so well. Especially good to hear as so far my 88 year old
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 04:34 PM
Jan 2024

husband hasn’t caught it and being super careful to make sure he doesn’t. If he didn’t have memory issues he or I would have gone to a hotel to wait it out.

Easterncedar

(3,331 posts)
19. Sorry about your husband's issues
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 05:21 PM
Jan 2024

That must make everything much harder.

My sister’s husband is nearly 99 and his memory is shot. He doesn’t understand masks or anything else about the pandemic of course, but he is still getting around and is still quite charming. Keeping him safe has been a constant challenge.

Please take care of yourself as much as you can.

MLAA

(18,512 posts)
20. It sounds like your sister and I are both lucky that our husbands remain charming and cheerful. Despite
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 06:57 PM
Jan 2024

the short term memory loss. He can still make me smile and laugh daily. I just gave him another test today and still negative! I’m quite healthy at 63, can’t imagine going through this in my super golden years 😬.

thatdemguy

(502 posts)
5. I have had it twice,
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 08:44 PM
Jan 2024

Both times very minor runny/stuff nose the first day, then I have felt perfectly normal after that. First time it took 14 days to get a neg test, the second time 5 days to a neg test. Yes vaxed.

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