Symptoms

[Mik]

Heartbreaking. Her spirits seem to be good, but how frustrating. Do you mind if I share some of this information with my D1? I think I have she and her roommate convinced that avoiding the DC Metro is essential, but I'd like her to understand that folks her age can get bad cases.

[kluurs]

60 Minutes did a segment on younger people with Covid - not the walk in the park that some have suggested. Worth a watch for younger folks to suggest that even people in superb physical condition can get knocked down - hard, real hard.

Such a weird disease. We still don't know all of what we're dealing with.

[Catseye3]

@Mik said in Symptoms:

looks like incremental improvement.

I very much hope so. Wishing for her soonest recovery.

[Horace]

Sorry to see she's got a bad case, George. Thanks for sharing that.

[Jolly]

Well...crap.

God Bless her, it sounds like it's going to take awhile to get well. What a horrible, crappy disease.

Prayers for her healing and for your family.

[George K]

@Mik said in Symptoms:

Do you mind if I share some of this information with my D1?

Of course not!

[jon-nyc]

Unbelievable. I’m sorry she and you all are going through this.

[Friday]

I don't have anything to add other than my thanks. You really are doing people a service by sharing this George.

[taiwan_girl]

Wow!!!

Sending hugs to you and daughter.

[George K]

[taiwan_girl]

Ouch.

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[brenda]

Yes, if people from outside her household insist on showing up today, she has my permission to lick ALL the utensils.
Love,
Mom

[Aqua Letifer]

@brenda said in Symptoms:

Yes, if people from outside her household insist on showing up today, she has my permission to lick ALL the utensils.
Love,
Mom

+eleventy-thousand.

Spit in the food, too.

[AndyD]

George, my thoughts are with you.
Long Covid is debilitating, but that last comment ( ) is classic and shows her competence.

[George K]

[taiwan_girl]

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Continue to send positive thoughts.

[brenda]

@George-K
George, the inhaler could be very helpful. I was at about the same stage, number of weeks, when it was prescribed for my case. Everything she says sounds so much like what I went through. The symptoms, the timing, the recurrence, etc.

If she ends up with the inhaler, tell her it will likely take a few days of consistent use before she sees improvement. Her lungs need time to calm down and heal, and the inhaler will aid that, but it still takes time.

I was so skeptical about the inhaler. I really didn't think it would help at all. However, for this type of situation, it made a great difference. She will likely need to use it multiple times per day for the first several weeks. Yeah, I know. She's not going to want to hear that kind of time frame. Then she will be able to step it down to a couple times per day, and eventually to an as-needed level of usage.

I still have occasional times when I use it, and it was in April that I first began the prescription. My illness began February 18 or 19. She's right on schedule to track with what I saw. The inhaler could be a big help. It sure was for me.

God bless her, I hope she gets feeling well soon. Not just better, but really feeling well.

[George K]

@brenda thanks, Brenda. She was given Symbicort.

[Jolly]

Hope it helps...

[George K]

She sent an email this am:

It's a small study, but it compares healthy people with COVID to people with comorbid conditions:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7326402/

"Recurrence might have occurred due to a suboptimal control of the SARS-CoV-2 infection, allowing a second episode of viral replication."

Also, a meta analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7537484/

"This study highlights the possibility of COVID-19 relapse. The patients reported were mostly females and less than 40 years old. The common presentations of the relapse are asymptomatic presentation, fever, or fever associated with fatigue within 14 days of discharge, although 27.3% of cases reported after 14 days up to 22 days"

I've seen a lot of variability in the statistics, but it looks like somewhere between 12-33.3% of people my age who get COVID have symptoms for months, including SOB, cough, fatigue, and chest pain. Many of those in that group have a relapsing/remitting pattern like mine.

So, my guess is that I'll be on the roller coaster for a while.

You know, just like the flu.