We live in amazing times. In the span of 5 minutes, I signed up for my employer’s telemedicine service (teledoc) and saw a doctor from my bed and had a prescription called in to a local pharmacy for paxlovid.
@jerry I’m glad you’re doing the Paxlovid thing. My wife started it several hours after she woke up with symptoms and tested + on a home test, started feeling better the next day, and was pcr- 5 days after starting her course.
@jerry Hope this works well. One thing I've seen a lot of people say is that avoiding exertion whenever possible is key to avoiding long COVID risks. Not sure if there's any literature backing it up, though.
@jerry speedy recovery to you! Fair warning - paxlovid can give you a pretty nasty metallic taste in your mouth for the duration, so have something to cut it on-hand if you can.
If somebody really wants to use paxlovid it should be taken withing 5 days after confirmed Covid but because its pretty new nobody really knows about the side effects of it.
And within 5 minutes confirming Covid, checking paxlovid against other medications to avoid side effects is really fast.
@kmj I don’t take any other medication or have any other health issues, so that part was pretty fast. Also, I started having symptoms last evening, so should be in the window for it to help.
@jerry our profit-oriented healthcare system has made us all so critical (and broke) that a system which would have seemed semi-miraculous in my youth is greeted with cynicism about money.
@jerry That was almost beat-for-beat what happened for me when I caught COVID. It was honestly kind of surreal.
Also, paxlovid is great, but if you haven't had it before, watch out for the "huh, I actually feel okay" towards the end of the dosage cycle--misreading that probably set me back a few days on its own.
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