Getting tested tomorrow
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My doctor told me to not bother with the antibody test. What does it really change? We still don't really know how much (if any) immunity it confers. Also, it looks like the antibodies fade so quickly in many cases that it doesn't even really give you an idea of spread.
Quite a few friends and colleagues came down with something at NAMM (Late January) or shortly after that sounded a LOT like COVID. Several of them have now had the antibody test and they came back negative, but we don't really know...
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My doctor told me to not bother with the antibody test. What does it really change? We still don't really know how much (if any) immunity it confers. Also, it looks like the antibodies fade so quickly in many cases that it doesn't even really give you an idea of spread.
Quite a few friends and colleagues came down with something at NAMM (Late January) or shortly after that sounded a LOT like COVID. Several of them have now had the antibody test and they came back negative, but we don't really know...
@LuFins-Dad said in Getting tested tomorrow:
My doctor told me to not bother with the antibody test. What does it really change? We still don't really know how much (if any) immunity it confers. Also, it looks like the antibodies fade so quickly in many cases that it doesn't even really give you an idea of spread.
Based on my extensive, zero years of medical training, I think that if you have had the virus before and have recovered, your body would at least on some level be able to combat the virus more easily a second time. The docs here can correct me if I'm wrong, but I kinda doubt that this is the sort of illness where you start from zero every time you get infected.
Please love yourself.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Getting tested tomorrow:
My doctor told me to not bother with the antibody test. What does it really change? We still don't really know how much (if any) immunity it confers. Also, it looks like the antibodies fade so quickly in many cases that it doesn't even really give you an idea of spread.
Based on my extensive, zero years of medical training, I think that if you have had the virus before and have recovered, your body would at least on some level be able to combat the virus more easily a second time. The docs here can correct me if I'm wrong, but I kinda doubt that this is the sort of illness where you start from zero every time you get infected.
@Aqua-Letifer well that in a nutshell, is really what no one knows.
Antibody titres definitely can go down with time. What is not clear is the degree of immune memory. Meaning does subsequent exposure elicit a stronger and quicker response.
It’s possible. But it’s also possible that it doesn’t happen. Which is why for some vaccines, once is enough. And others require boosts along the way. Tetanus is boosted very ten years. Also pertussis is boosted.
We may need corona shots every year. No one really has a fucking clue.
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@bachophile said in Getting tested tomorrow:
@Aqua-Letifer well that in a nutshell, is really what no one knows.
We may need corona shots every year. No one really has a fucking clue.
Then I’m covered
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@Aqua-Letifer well that in a nutshell, is really what no one knows.
Antibody titres definitely can go down with time. What is not clear is the degree of immune memory. Meaning does subsequent exposure elicit a stronger and quicker response.
It’s possible. But it’s also possible that it doesn’t happen. Which is why for some vaccines, once is enough. And others require boosts along the way. Tetanus is boosted very ten years. Also pertussis is boosted.
We may need corona shots every year. No one really has a fucking clue.
@bachophile said in Getting tested tomorrow:
We may need corona shots every year. No one really has a fucking clue.
Hell I'd go in once a month, I don't give a shit.
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Infectious disease doc said go home and open a bottle of champagne but wear a mask.
@bachophile said in Getting tested tomorrow:
Infectious disease doc said go home and open a bottle of champagne but wear a mask.
let us know how that works out. Filtred champagne.
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@bachophile Interesting. Make sure you "trademark" your sera
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@LuFins-Dad said in Getting tested tomorrow:
My doctor told me to not bother with the antibody test. What does it really change? We still don't really know how much (if any) immunity it confers. Also, it looks like the antibodies fade so quickly in many cases that it doesn't even really give you an idea of spread.
Based on my extensive, zero years of medical training, I think that if you have had the virus before and have recovered, your body would at least on some level be able to combat the virus more easily a second time. The docs here can correct me if I'm wrong, but I kinda doubt that this is the sort of illness where you start from zero every time you get infected.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Getting tested tomorrow:
@LuFins-Dad said in Getting tested tomorrow:
My doctor told me to not bother with the antibody test. What does it really change? We still don't really know how much (if any) immunity it confers. Also, it looks like the antibodies fade so quickly in many cases that it doesn't even really give you an idea of spread.
Based on my extensive, zero years of medical training, I think that if you have had the virus before and have recovered, your body would at least on some level be able to combat the virus more easily a second time. The docs here can correct me if I'm wrong, but I kinda doubt that this is the sort of illness where you start from zero every time you get infected.
I have twice as much experience as you.
It seems to me if the immune system makes it go away without symptoms, you should be able to do it again. Even if the immune system doesn't remember it. Assuming the original conditions still exist.
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That's fascinating, bach. Post any additional information you can, too
LuFinn, hubby and I also were ill in February with symptoms exactly like what we later learned were common for COVID. Got tested much later, as in three months later, and no antibodies detected. I still think we could have had it. Probably will never know.
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https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.48.2001690
Bumping this up because this paper was just published.
If you recall, or you can read thru the thread to see, I was IgA positive way before getting vaxxed. No one had any clear idea about why.
This publication is basically about me. And a few others who were IgA positive.
Not sure what it all actually means but at least I can follow up on this thread.
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And you didn’t even get your name on it?
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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@jon-nyc dont think the idea hadn't occurred to me, but ive got enough publications in my own field
getting my name on an infectious disease paper doesn't really yank my chain
