Ded & Maddie... hope you both feel better soon! We know lots of people locally here in NE PA who have been uber careful throughout and have gotten covid in the past few weeks.

My 97 yo MIL in assisted living got it 2 weeks ago. Vaxxed and double boosted of course. One of the workers brought it in and 7 residents got it. My DH and his two sisters(all 65+) were visiting her days before. Miraculously, none caught it from her. They all were wearing N95 masks in her room(required by the facility). She had a mild case but still has a persistent cough. She was started on Paxlovid immediately.

@petalique, believe me, I often wonder the same thing. A lifetime of being healthy and then BAM!

DH is much better. No symptoms today, while yesterday he had a terrible cough. ( He is not on the Paxlovid.)

We are both fully vaccinated. Have not gotten the latest boosters, because of our recent health situations.

I woke up today with no fever, only a sore throat and the Paxlovid Mouth. The pharmacist told me that Paxlovid works quickly with some patients, but to not discontinue the whole course of treatment. And to drink at least a gallon of liquid a day.

The doctor who prescribed the Paxlovid also said to add, or continue, Vit C, Zinc and Elderberry.

We have thought about where DH may have been exposed because we have been very careful for the last 2 plus years. He, fully masked, attended a funeral early last week.

Stay healthy friends. Peace.

I’m. So. Sick. Bleah. Aches, sore throat just general yuck. if i dont feel better tomorrowor row, i may call the doctor again.

Wear those masks and use hand sanitizer.

Oh @dedtired, I’m sorry to hear this.

Make yourself move around, that may help keep the crud from settling in your lungs.

@dedtired Bless your heart! Do you qualify for the paxlovid?

Sorry to hear this, ded. Can you take any medication for the aches and sore throat?

My OTC cold/flu combo used to consist of:

Aleve for aches & pains

Sudafed for decongestant

Zyrtec or non-drowsy anti-histamine to keep the runny nose and sore throat at bay. Also helped w the need to cough.

But for the past few years, I am unable to take the Aleve and sudafed. But I also wear an N95 mask everywhere.

I hope you feel better very soon.

Sorry Ded and Maddielee! Hope you are both feeling better soon.

I feel like people around me who never had covid before are now dropping like flies.

D17 just had it. she has allergies and assumed it was that initially. Pollen count was high, her allergy meds were working, but then one night they didn't help. Next morning, she said, I think I'm getting a cold, my nose is stuffy and my allergy medicine didn't work. Since she goes to school daily where no one masks anymore, I knew it was a matter of time. Gave her a test - yep positive! Mild case, just stuffy nose for two days. Scratchy throat those two days when she woke up that subsided later in day. No fever or body ache. Somehow, I did not get it from her - I had the most exposure (H and my boys were at the beach up until the day before her positive test). Ate dinner with her every night, and had ridden next to her in the car/sat right next to her at a lacrosse game the night before her positive. No one in our family got it. D17 was double vax'd and got boosted in December.

Then my mom called me yesterday to say my brother tested positive over the weekend. He's also vax'd and boosted. He's a professional musician and been playing a lot of indoor gigs lately, as well as teaches at a local university so lots of exposure to college students. His symptoms were stronger than D17 - he had a fever for a day or two, but apparently has terrible body aches.

So thankful we did not have our normal Memorial Day gathering with my parents! We had no plans to see them since D17 tested positive a week prior and we wanted to make sure no one else in my family end up getting it and unknowingly expose my parents. I thought maybe my brother and his wife would have gone to my parents but thankfully they did not either! Maybe my brother was already feeling a little symptomatic.

Though H and I are reasonably careful (wear masks in public, not eating in restaurants, haven't been to social events), we have our first "big" social event this weekend. My neighbor/former babysitter is getting married. From what I hear, about 100 guests. I've been to the location (golf course) but never for a wedding so I assume dinner will be indoors. I'm bracing myself for the fact that we might end up positive afterward. We will take as much precaution as we can, but will remove masks to eat. But with three teenagers living at home this summer, working and hanging out with friends, we could just as easily get it from our kids. H and I are vax'd and boosted, but we were scheduled for the second booster (in anticipation of the wedding) the day after D17 tested positive. We had to cancel since we had been exposed. I know it's likely inevitable we will all get it, I just don't want long Covid!

Dedtired and Maddielee, so sorry! Hope it's a light one for you both.

I'm still masking most places, but we have been going to indoor restaurants. I feel like it's only a matter of time. I can't believe I haven't picked it up already, everyone around is dropping like flies.

Oh Ded, I’m so sorry you feel so bad! I had about 1/2 of a day of feeling bad when i had it and sitting in the sunshine, soaking up vitamin D, really helped me that day. I hope that icky feeling goes away soon.

I must say…I was pretty surprised at the complete lack of mask wearing on our trip to New England last week. It was literally no different than down here in the South. Only a handful on the plane wore them, and literally the only people we saw wearing them in both Newport and Nantucket were hotel employees and waiters. The staff in most all of the boutiques in both places didn’t wear them. I am not judging (full disclosure…I didn’t wear mine since I am double vaxed, boosted, and had it literally 14 days prior, lol lol ) but having heard how other parts of the country were more cautious, it just surprised me. That said…now we know why we are all getting it! 😂

4kids, I’m sorry your D17 and your brother contracted Covid-19. Glad they are vaxxed. I wish them both a speedy and uneventful recovery.

Covid is definitely going around. No one enjoys being sick. Hope everyone gets over this quick. My grandson felt well enough yesterday to eat a hamburger and today continues to improve. Covid hit hm hard on Saturday night. So far. DH and I are feeling okay. So is my daughter, SIL, and younger grandson. Grandson's girlfriend is sick now with same exact stomach issues and postive test.

Sorry to hear this happy2b. what sort of stomach issues? ugh. This virus is so contagious.

@happy2b…gw...Sorry to hear that. Hope they continue to feel better!

I just came from Dollar Tree. They had a sign on the front door..."Temporarily Closed"...due to covid.

Petalique, my grandson vomited and felt faint for several hours. Temperature of 103

Happy2b, that must have been awful for grandson. Crazy scary fever. Did he call his doc or go to ER? I guess it’s best not to go to ER with Covid-19, but how would he have known at that point? I hope his girlfriend is okay. Take care.

Maddie, glad you are feeling better!

Ded, I am thinking of you and hope you will be on the mend soon. Keep us posted. I am so sorry you are going through this. Being so sick is horrible.

Oh dear. So sorry for everyone who is sick with this awful disease. I hope your recovery is quick smooth and permanent.

I think i may have turned the corner on this thing. Feeling marginally better. I took a test last night and its still positive. Today should be my last day of quarantine but i will stay in until the weekend. I have the whole house to myself, Im not shut off in one room. My son shoved some groceries in my direction last night!

I just wish I had energy to accomplish some cleanup around the house as long as I am stuck here, but mostly ive been sitting around blowing my nose and web surfing.

Maddie and other fellow covid-ites, hope you are doing better. At least we will be pumped full of antibodies.

Ded, glad you are turning the corner but you’re smart to just sit around and rest! DH had a prolonged covid experience and I think it was because he did too much too soon. He was coughing for about a month. Finally had lung xrays (clear) and got Rx cough meds and an inhaler.

I am starting to wonder if I am having some prolonged after effects. Ugh. I was diagnosed at the very end of March. I felt ”close to normal” within about 2 weeks, but I have not felt fully back to normal energy and these last few weeks I have been struggling with fatique and muscle soreness that can’t be blamed on exercise or anything else. I’m thinking if nothing changes, I may call the dr next week just to make sure it’s not something else.

Sending healing vibes to Ded and Maddie.

It’s good that you are feeling better ded. I hope your body continues to strengthen.

Gosh Sue, call the doctor. Might you have the flu? Flu is hitting hard here.

DH has no symptoms today, thankfully.

I still only have a sore throat, but it doesn’t seem as bad as yesterday. And continued nasty Paxlovid Mouth.

Hope everyone who is feeling puny gets better quickly.

I'm so sorry you've come down with COVID and to all throughout this post who have too. It's no joke, no fun and I watched my 99 yr old Mom go through it. She came down with it while my DS and her DH were staying with her.. The long-haul can happen and I hope for everyone here it does not and that you recover fully and quickly.

We are "suppose" to leave for Mexico on Sunday, by my GF got Covid-waiting to see if she tests negative before then-it will be close. If not, we will have to postpone, which is not a big deal. Her DH (a doctor) -also has covid now, got her the Paxlovid, but after her reading the side effects-especially the part of covid could reoccur after taking it-she decided against it. She is fairing pretty well and we are playing it day by day. All the boys going have had covid already (some omicron) and I've read somewhere that only 10% of those having the original covid-get reinfected with omicron. So, we aren't too worried about the boys and getting stuck in Mexico before coming back.

Wow Sue, I think if you are still having some side effects, calling the dr would be wise. Sorry to hear you are still dealing with it! I agree Ded (and Maddie and anyone else sick) should take it easy for a bit. We watched the late news last night and did see that TN's rates are up, although not here in our immediate area. The Mr. and I need to be more careful again when we are about and about. I had quit my Vit D, Zinc and Elderberry. ( I take Elderberry every year from Fall through Winter - for flu.) I think I am going to start those back up.

@maddielee Flu, already? Just what we need! (NOT!!)

Yes Flu. Last week over half of the students in our daughter’s class were absent with Flu.

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/orange-county/late-in-the-season-surge-flu-cases-reported-central-florida/CK7GGYBA3ZAWBEOVO34L3AH2FU/

Nini — I have been wondering how your trip was! Could you maybe post a thread telling us about it?

I have heard the flu is popping up very late this year as a result (at least partly?) of the masks coming off. I don’t have any flu symptoms, though. I did make a dr appt for tomorrow just to get checked out. I also had a tick bite a few weeks ago so maybe good to get a lyme test. (I know — duh — but when I googled it seemed like such a low % of bites turn into lyme, and I didn’t get a bullseye rash…)

Oh, man. This stuff is rampant. My neighbor is a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and said they are seeing so much flu. I guess we’re catching up for the couple years we wore mask.

My latest symptom is covidmtongue. I have a couple ulcers along the side of my tongue that is making eating anything harder or saltier than pbj on white bread very difficult. I am ready for this to be over.

Maddie, glad you are doing a bit better and the sore throat goes away. I am concerned about long haul covid. Fingers crossed.

Hope you all continue to improve health wise!

My husband is off today due to exposure at work (AGAIN). So far he is showing no signs.

I was hopeful that his antibodies would really help being that he has had it already, is fully vaxed and we suspect he had it a second time (me too) although his rapid test showed negative. That was around the time of the dodgy rapid test results.

This was on my news feed today. Luckily this strand is milder so the death rate is down, that's about all the good of it though.

Federal Data, CBS news

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-boosters-infection-rate/?fbclid=IwAR3CRZwPcJHLB23Z-t0rgWq2RhQalOOsvdISdFNjP-9sKSXTjkHxE-y62V4

I finally went to the dr this morning. I was there for 2 hours. Checked the vitals, got a chest xray (fine) and an ekg (fine). Did a walk around the halls with a pulse ox thingie on, and my number went down more than it should have. So with my shortness of breath and fatigue, there is some concern about a blood clot.. WTH? So among many other blood tests, they also did a test for something-something (I'm not great with med terms!) and, if it comes back elevated, I need to go to the ER. So that's a fun way to spend a Friday. That test result will be available sometime this afternoon/evening. They also checked for anemia, thyroid, liver function etc etc. I don't feel terrible but I am not quite myself. Getting winded from walking up a flight of steps isn't normal for me. I guess the blood clot is something they're seeing with some covid cases but usually closer to the time of onset? (Mine was end of March.) But I have other factors that are also being considered, like the fact that I recently weaned off estrogen meds and also had a tick bite a few weeks ago -- but it is too soon to get an accurate Lyme test, apparently. Covid really is a beast if this is all related. Blah!

Ded, the tongue blisters sound awful! The only mouth thing I had was a couple days of some foods tasting weird.

@Sueb20 I was worried with you, so glad its not a clot. I hope that whatever the tests find is easily helped.

Sue, your symtoms are consistent with what I have read about long Covid. But , obviously your physician is right in ruling out other illnesses. Hope you are feeling better soon.

I really hate Covid. 😡

So glad there is not a blood clot!! At first, those sounded like my symptoms from the sjhot reaction….but out of breath is not how I felt. Hanging high heart rate was how I felt. It made me feel I could not take one more step. I hope you feel better soon.

Thanks…I am sorry to hijack ded’s thread but since I started, I might as well follow up. All other bloodwork results so far have been fine, except some iron numbers. Low iron could explain my blah-ness. I had issues with anemia years ago and now I am remembering that feeling was similar.

Hijack away! i also am concerned about getting my zip back. Nothing like anweek of sitting around the house to make you lethargic.

Cant wait to put all this behind us.

Ugh, sorry to hear ded, maddie, sueb, hope you are all on the mend soon. I also took the Paxlovid. Bad taste but that was about the worst of it. Fortunately, I did not have a rebound.

Just saw 250,000 new cases yesterday and we can assume that’s probably a huge undercount. So few masks. I still wear one in any indoor setting.

We are traveling next weekend for sister and BIL’s 50th anniversary. Flight is short, but there will be about 40 people at the dinner following the Mass and vow renewal. I hate that literally everything is a risk assessment. Also, DH should probably go for his second booster? He was about to go when we got sick.

Gscience, my doc said the boosters are intended to protect you against the original covid and isnt a lot of help for Omicron. i never got my second but intend to asap.

DH went for his second booster yesterday at CVS. No issues other than a slightly sore arm. He said there was a family with kids in front of him and one of them was screaming the whole time.

I have nothing from the study RE: additional boosters. I just got mine mid-January. Maybe Novavax will finally get approval this week.

I cant seem to shake the tail end of this. Still a phlegmy cough and fatigue. Nothing overwhelming but i am ready to move on. maybe i am being impatient since its been ten days since the onset and I am guessing it takes a few more days to be entirely beyond it. I went to the grocery store yesterday, heavily masked and used hand sanitizer before i went in.

All this sitting on my butt is not doing me any favors. I watered a pot of plants at the front door and caught a glimpse of myself on the doorbell camera. Not good!

Gscience, I hope your husband has no worse effects.

Ded, just a slightly sore arm today. He also did some yardwork yesterday afternoon. He's not had any side effects with any of the doses. But he got a sinus infection after the initial period, and he is finally feeling better. I did have him to to primary care to have them have a listen. It took about a month, though, unfortunately.

Sorry you are still feeling poorly @dedtired.

My DH is still testing positive with head cold type symptoms. He’s on day 11 since his first symptom. He’s not happy about not being able to be out and about.

I‘m thankful the Paxlovid worked as well as it did for me. The day after my last dose, I tested negative with no covid symptoms. The nasty taste in my mouth was gone too.

I misinterpreted my blood tests and my iron is fine. Everything else turned up fine too. It’s looking like long covid, now that I’ve read a bunch of articles. All along, I had said if I get covid, I’m not worried, but I’m scared of long covid. Aggh. Anyway, I have a followup on Monday so will have more info then.

Ded, I hope you feel better soon.

I wish I could snap my fingers and all of you would feel completely well again. I hate to hear how it’s lingering. :(

ETA: For some reading while recovering, I’ve rediscovered the Cote de Texas blog. Her latest blog post is very interesting (and verrrry long, as is her style). :)

https://cotedetexas.blogspot.com

This is cool, too:

https://cotedetexas.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2022-05-07T15:06:00-05:00&max-results=1&start=1&by-date=false

I just saw a video which may explain why we had such mild cases! At the first nose or throat tickle, I have taught my family to TAKE the Benadryl. I grew up with SEVERE allergies in Houston….and learned that the histamines must be headed off EARLY.

It turns out that the lung problems caused by C-19 can also be headed off with antihistamines!!

I took some OTC cough and cold meds and it helped. It just takes time to get your zip back.

Thanks for the entertainment, Jinx. That is one heck of a decorating talent.

Spring, my dh always takes a sudafed at the first sniffle. Now, I do to. It seems to stop colds in their tracks.

Thanks, jinx! For some reason I thought she had stopped blogging, IIRC her husband’s health and moving, so I hadn’teven gone looking for it.

I hope everyone gers better soon. So sorry it's a long slog. 🌺

Jinx, thank you! I forgot all about her, plus I love the class she took.

@Springroz last year my allergist mentioned something alomg those lines. i use a daily antihistime spray zo perhaps its helped me avoid covid? @jojoco isnt sudafed a decongestant?