March Covid: lockdown anniversary edition

[gretchenindisguise]

Mar 4, 2023 18:18:45 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I have the weirdest thing that seems to have occurred since having Covid - I’ve developed lactose intolerance. This is not making sense to me, but apparently it’s not unheard of to develop it after a viral GI illness. And Covid can have a GI component. So maybe there is a plausible route to a connection. But even my H said “you’ve been having GI problems since you got back from the cruise.” Which is, since I got Covid. (Also, thanks babe, I know. You are supposed to say I always smell like roses 😂)

I eat far too much cheese. Like, almost every meal gets a dusting of cheese. I’ve been fine all day and then for dinner we had Indian, and I had paneer. And sure enough, within 15 minutes…

L developed lactose intolerance after a virus last year (not covid). She is still angry.

[rubytue]

gretchenindisguise, oh, I am PISSED. My bit of googling suggest it could be temporary. But I need a *SIX WEEK* elimination period. I’m willing to try 2 weeks, then reevaluate. I will stomp around with L and have a big pity party

[goldengirlz]

After three years — and half-thinking I must have super immunity or something — I finally caught covid. It’s a little surreal, mostly because there have been many, many times I wasn’t particularly careful or when I had an actual exposure … and yet I probably caught it from some random person in my office cafeteria. Eating by myself.

I’m trying to decide whether to take Paxlovid. I probably will but will talk to my doctor tomorrow.

[InBetweenDays]

Mar 5, 2023 21:32:10 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

After three years — and half-thinking I must have super immunity or something — I finally caught covid. It’s a little surreal, mostly because there have been many, many times I wasn’t particularly careful or when I had an actual exposure … and yet I probably caught it from some random person in my office cafeteria. Eating by myself.

I’m trying to decide whether to take Paxlovid. I probably will but will talk to my doctor tomorrow.

This was me last Sunday 🙂 Had numerous exposures including covid in our house twice, and have been living life pretty much as normal for the past 8 months or so. I didn't truly think I was immune but I was surprised that I had avoided it. Covid got me for the first time last week.

My doctor wouldn't prescribe Paxlovid but thankfully the worst for me was about 36 hours of a bad sore throat. The rest felt like a moderate head cold.

[InBetweenDays]

Mar 5, 2023 21:32:10 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

After three years — and half-thinking I must have super immunity or something — I finally caught covid. It’s a little surreal, mostly because there have been many, many times I wasn’t particularly careful or when I had an actual exposure … and yet I probably caught it from some random person in my office cafeteria. Eating by myself.

I’m trying to decide whether to take Paxlovid. I probably will but will talk to my doctor tomorrow.

Hope you're feeling ok and you can get the paxlovid.

[akayf]

I’m going to ask my dr about this but I’m curious if anyone has heard of something similar. I have really bad acid reflux plus a hiatal hernia. I’m on daily prescription meds. I still frequently have gastric issues(get full quickly, regurgitate food a couple times a month)

My first round of covid was in the beginning of August 2022. Very mild. One day of misery(sore throat, body aches, etc) then just tired for a couple days. The first week of September, I started throwing up and wound up in the ER a couple times for dehydration. Wound up eventually getting admitted overnight with colitis. Also tested positive at admission with a rebound case of covid. A colonoscopy done weeks later was showed no abnormalities.

I had covid again in late January. Similar to august. This past week, the gastric problems started again. After my 3rd er trip in 5 days and after spending 12 hours Friday night with vomiting and uncontrollable nausea, they admitted me on Saturday. I have colitis and gastritis. I’m haven’t been discharged because there was a mixup with my orders. I was supposed to have 1-2 liquid meals and if I tolerated that, then the next meal was solids. Then if I tolerated that, go home and follow up with GI dr for an endoscopy since it’s been 2 years. The order wasn’t placed to change my diet(my nurse tried but failed) so I had to stay a second night.

Have you heard of anyone with similar issues? It’s just weird that I both times I had covid, a month later I have a gastric attack so severe I wind up getting admitted to the hospital.

[NewOrleans]

Feb 28, 2023 19:21:59 GMT -5 fortnightlily said:

Feb 28, 2023 17:57:46 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Can you explain what you believe is thoughtful? It synthesizes a lot of info, to be sure, but I’m finding it problematic. 

I meant thoughtful as in thoughtfully written -- like does a good job of stepping through the different theories about how to reconcile the numbers. Not thoughtful as in considerate. 

I didn’t mean considerate either.  It is ableism with hyperlinks, so I question viewing it as sound. 

[rubytue]

akayf , while I am not in a gastric attack so bad I’m at the hospital, I have some pretty severely stinky GI issues. I thought it was lactose intolerance (mentioned above), but, I stopped with the cheese yesterday and I’m still having issues within an hour of eating. So either it’s not lactose intolerance, or I have suddenly developed an intolerance so sever that even the lactose remnants in nacho cheese Doritos triggers it.

I have a couple inquiries on the plausibility in to some MD friends. No response back (and I phrased it as plausibility so as to avoid being that annoying friend with medical questions 😂)

edit: found this just now 🤷‍♀️ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9393939/

[NewOrleans]

www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

CDC updated this. But nothing else. I hate it here.

“Emerging evidence suggests that #SARSCoV2, that causes #COVID19, can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system of the body weeks, months, and potentially YEARS after infection.

Consequently, when completing the death certificate, certifiers should carefully review and consider the decedent’s medical history and records, laboratory test results, and autopsy report, if one is available. For decedents who had a previous SARS- CoV-2 infection and were diagnosed with a post-COVID-19 condition, the certifier may consider the possibility that the death was due to long-term complications of COVID-19, even if the original infection occurred months or years before death.”

[fortnightlily]

Mar 6, 2023 18:44:40 GMT -5 rubytue said:

akayf , while I am not in a gastric attack so bad I’m at the hospital, I have some pretty severely stinky GI issues. I thought it was lactose intolerance (mentioned above), but, I stopped with the cheese yesterday and I’m still having issues within an hour of eating. So either it’s not lactose intolerance, or I have suddenly developed an intolerance so sever that even the lactose remnants in nacho cheese Doritos triggers it.

I have a couple inquiries on the plausibility in to some MD friends. No response back (and I phrased it as plausibility so as to avoid being that annoying friend with medical questions 😂)

edit: found this just now 🤷‍♀️ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9393939/

If you notice a pattern with fatty foods it could be related to your gallbladder.

[curbsideprophet]

Mar 6, 2023 18:47:05 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

CDC updated this. But nothing else. I hate it here.

“Emerging evidence suggests that #SARSCoV2, that causes #COVID19, can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system of the body weeks, months, and potentially YEARS after infection.

Consequently, when completing the death certificate, certifiers should carefully review and consider the decedent’s medical history and records, laboratory test results, and autopsy report, if one is available. For decedents who had a previous SARS- CoV-2 infection and were diagnosed with a post-COVID-19 condition, the certifier may consider the possibility that the death was due to long-term complications of COVID-19, even if the original infection occurred months or years before death.”

And yet no one in charge who can do something about this seems to care. We continue to act like the risks of catching Covid has magically disappeared.

Biden continues to disappoint with his Covid response.

[rubytue]

Mar 6, 2023 19:52:44 GMT -5 fortnightlily said:

Mar 6, 2023 18:44:40 GMT -5 rubytue said:

akayf , while I am not in a gastric attack so bad I’m at the hospital, I have some pretty severely stinky GI issues. I thought it was lactose intolerance (mentioned above), but, I stopped with the cheese yesterday and I’m still having issues within an hour of eating. So either it’s not lactose intolerance, or I have suddenly developed an intolerance so sever that even the lactose remnants in nacho cheese Doritos triggers it.

I have a couple inquiries on the plausibility in to some MD friends. No response back (and I phrased it as plausibility so as to avoid being that annoying friend with medical questions 😂)

edit: found this just now 🤷‍♀️ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9393939/

If you notice a pattern with fatty foods it could be related to your gallbladder.

That was evicted 14 years ago. 

[fortnightlily]

Mar 6, 2023 20:14:20 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Mar 6, 2023 19:52:44 GMT -5 fortnightlily said:

If you notice a pattern with fatty foods it could be related to your gallbladder.

That was evicted 14 years ago. 

Ah, well there goes that idea! Hope you get some answers or that it resolves itself soon.

[akayf]

Mar 6, 2023 18:44:40 GMT -5 rubytue said:

akayf , while I am not in a gastric attack so bad I’m at the hospital, I have some pretty severely stinky GI issues. I thought it was lactose intolerance (mentioned above), but, I stopped with the cheese yesterday and I’m still having issues within an hour of eating. So either it’s not lactose intolerance, or I have suddenly developed an intolerance so sever that even the lactose remnants in nacho cheese Doritos triggers it.

I have a couple inquiries on the plausibility in to some MD friends. No response back (and I phrased it as plausibility so as to avoid being that annoying friend with medical questions 😂)

edit: found this just now 🤷‍♀️ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9393939/

I’ll definitely be asking my GI dr when I have my outpatient followup. However, when I mentioned it to a very med savvy/knowledgeable family member, their response was colitis is typically an autoimmune related so it is possible that because my immune system was triggered by covid, these were autoimmune reactions. Autoimmune issues run in my family(mom, dad and brother all have different autoimmune problems) and I previously had an autoimmune reaction in 2011 and needed 2 doses of intravenous gamma-globulin. So I am predisposed to autoimmune problems.

[curbsideprophet]

Long-term gastrointestinal outcomes of COVID-19

www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36223-7

In sum, in this study of 154,068 people who survived the acute phase of COVID-19, we show increased risk and burden of post-acute gastrointestinal sequelae spanning several disease categories including acid disorders, functional intestinal disorders, pancreatic disorders, hepatic and biliary disease. The risks were evident even among those whose acute COVID-19 did not necessitate hospitalization. Our findings suggest that post-acute COVID-19 care strategies should include attention to gastrointestinal health and disease.

[rubytue]

curbsideprophet, thank you! Also 😭

[ssmjlm]

This is a high school friend's younger brother: www.today.com/health/coronavirus/man-thought-bronchitis-was-heart-failure-rcna73744?fbclid=IwAR1RTQ3scUdqcCIwy_Yh1flEFqY-46PdlMFCdEf6BM6QewRp8SF0ygXwFBE

Man, 39, thought he had bronchitis. It was heart failure
After having COVID-19 in September, Fielder Smith never quite recovered. His exhaustion and cough made him think he developed bronchitis. But it was worse.

[rubytue]

Tomorrow marks 3 years. We put out GSD down 3 years ago today at what was likely the last opportunity to do it with a home visit. The stay at home order was issues the next day. There is a weird memory, TYVM FB.

[gretchenindisguise]

Mar 8, 2023 12:49:01 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Tomorrow marks 3 years. We put out GSD down 3 years ago today at what was likely the last opportunity to do it with a home visit. The stay at home order was issues the next day. There is a weird memory, TYVM FB.

Yes - FB memories for the past 2 weeks and next 2 weeks are just so blerg. It's a weird timehop and so Idk the right word that we're still here in it. I really never imagined we'd still be quite as in covid times as we are 3 years later. 

[tacokick]

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is telling stores to have customers remove their face masks

www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161623700/nyc-stores-masking-eric-adams-robberies-shoplifting-bodegas

[mpm]

Mar 8, 2023 13:09:20 GMT -5 tacokick said:

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is telling stores to have customers remove their face masks

www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161623700/nyc-stores-masking-eric-adams-robberies-shoplifting-bodegas

It is so distressing to see this coming out of a place like New York. It feels like only a matter of time before everything here follows suit and masks are banned everywhere.

[wanderingback]

Omg how dumb and ridiculous. No, I don’t want to live in a surveillance state.

[scm1011]

Mar 8, 2023 13:13:00 GMT -5 mpm said:

Mar 8, 2023 13:09:20 GMT -5 tacokick said:

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is telling stores to have customers remove their face masks

www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161623700/nyc-stores-masking-eric-adams-robberies-shoplifting-bodegas

It is so distressing to see this coming out of a place like New York. It feels like only a matter of time before everything here follows suit and masks are banned everywhere.

My corner bodega put up a sign that masks are not allowed (due to an uptick in brazen theft). I really like the owner and his family and we've chatted about how he's been hit hard with shoplifting/robberies since Covid, so I sympathize. But also, ugh. 

[noodleoo]

Mar 8, 2023 12:53:19 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Mar 8, 2023 12:49:01 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Tomorrow marks 3 years. We put out GSD down 3 years ago today at what was likely the last opportunity to do it with a home visit. The stay at home order was issues the next day. There is a weird memory, TYVM FB.

Yes - FB memories for the past 2 weeks and next 2 weeks are just so blerg. It's a weird timehop and so Idk the right word that we're still here in it. I really never imagined we'd still be quite as in covid times as we are 3 years later. 

Same.  We went to a restaurant right before everything shut down and I vividly remember H and I discussing whether we should be there or not.  That memory just came up on FB today.  Pretty sure we shut down 4-5 days later.  It is very surreal to relive those memories.

[Velar Fricative]

Mar 8, 2023 13:09:20 GMT -5 tacokick said:

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is telling stores to have customers remove their face masks

www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161623700/nyc-stores-masking-eric-adams-robberies-shoplifting-bodegas

Let the record show I ranked five candidates in the D primary and he wasn’t one of them. But then I had to vote for him against the crazy R candidate in the general. I can’t believe even de Blasio wasn’t this terrible.

[curbsideprophet]

Mar 8, 2023 15:12:18 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Mar 8, 2023 13:13:00 GMT -5 mpm said:

It is so distressing to see this coming out of a place like New York. It feels like only a matter of time before everything here follows suit and masks are banned everywhere.

My corner bodega put up a sign that masks are not allowed (due to an uptick in brazen theft). I really like the owner and his family and we've chatted about how he's been hit hard with shoplifting/robberies since Covid, so I sympathize. But also, ugh. 

This seems like a violation of the ADA.

[aspentosh]

Mar 1, 2023 18:46:19 GMT -5 AJL said:

400 deaths per day is scary, but admittedly I'm probably even more scared of the unknown long term effects of COVID infection. We've all add it once (diagnosed, at least) in my household. I feel like I had fatigue for a good five/six months after I was no longer testing positive. Also cognitively, things feel much slower/mushier, if that makes sense. But on the other hand, I don't know if that's COVID or being 45 or being a grad student or still grieving my parents who died during the pandemic. There is just still so much unknown.

Sorry to tag you a week later, but I am here.

My case of COVID in December was nothing. A minor head cold with a slight fever (like 99*) for a couple days. Thankfully I have no long term issues yet, but I am always worried about it.

My mom got it back in June and she still naps and sometimes fumbles (?) for words. She's in her mid 70s and otherwise very healthy, so no idea what is age, what is COVID, what is just life in general... but I keep my eye on it very closely.

[basilosaurus]

Mar 8, 2023 19:05:25 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

Mar 8, 2023 15:12:18 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

My corner bodega put up a sign that masks are not allowed (due to an uptick in brazen theft). I really like the owner and his family and we've chatted about how he's been hit hard with shoplifting/robberies since Covid, so I sympathize. But also, ugh. 

This seems like a violation of the ADA.

For instance if someone was immunocompromised would they be banned?

[curbsideprophet]

Mar 9, 2023 12:05:27 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

Mar 8, 2023 19:05:25 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

This seems like a violation of the ADA.

For instance if someone was immunocompromised would they be banned?

Yes, some(many?) immunocompromised people would not enter without a mask.

I am also assuming they are not posting indoor air quality readings.

[nothingcontroversial]

Okay, one of the things that keeps bothering me ever since this started is that a lot of media outlets have been using the terms "immunocompromised" and "vulnerable" a lot.

However, I suspect that certain people are considered by decision makers to be either "immunocompromised" or "vulnerable" or both, but these people don't actually consider themselves to be either of these two things.

I also suspect that a lot of media outlets and journalists use the terms "immunocompromised" or "vulnerable" without having any clear idea themselves about what either of these words mean.

For instance, I suspect that there have been a lot of people walking around who don't actually consider themselves to be either of these things, and then they get sick, and they show up in the statistics as being one of those "vulnerable" people who are "immunocompromised" and have "several underlying conditions."