The President claims he is on drugs

[Just Paul 4,595]

On 5/20/2020 at 8:26 PM, 90DayFinancier said:

hydroxychloroquine

I was given it, with zinc, but already had covid.  And I don't remember if it was before or after the first ER Visit.   I think it helped. Could have been a placebo?

 

I also started to have a uncontrollable cough and fluid in my lungs so they added Benzonatate.  About 5 or six days later I was feeling much better.

 

For those keeping score at home - now that "that" is over, I'm back to the 6 meds I've been taking under the Trump administration.  Down from the 10 or so under Obama.

[90DayFinancier 910]

11 minutes ago, Boiler said:

I have tried to parse that but can only comment English only in the upper forums?

? 

Would it be easier to pronounce all of the threads in current events a BS session?

[Boiler 45,476]

5 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

? 

Would it be easier to pronounce all of the threads in current events a BS session?

Might be easier, would not be true.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

5 hours ago, Boiler said:

I have tried to parse that but can only comment English only in the upper forums?

Dear god, no one speaks biden or nature boy.

 

She said. Show me any thread that is not more or less a BS thread.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

8 hours ago, Paul & Mary said:

I was given it, with zinc, but already had covid.  And I don't remember if it was before or after the first ER Visit.   I think it helped. Could have been a placebo?

 

I also started to have a uncontrollable cough and fluid in my lungs so they added Benzonatate.  About 5 or six days later I was feeling much better.

 

For those keeping score at home - now that "that" is over, I'm back to the 6 meds I've been taking under the Trump administration.  Down from the 10 or so under Obama.

Impossible.  Far too many people here in CEHST who hate Trump have told us over and over that it doesn't help.  Please stop this spread of #fakenews before someone else doses their husband with fish tank cleaner!

(Seriously though, glad you are feeling better!)  Care to share your experience as to how severe the symptoms were?  Were you taking anything like Mucinex DM or similar?

[Just Paul 4,595]

16 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Please stop this spread of #fakenews before someone else doses their husband with fish tank cleaner!

Yup that happened here too . . . almost another Darwin Award Nominee!

 

17 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Care to share your experience as to how severe the symptoms were?  Were you taking anything like Mucinex DM or similar?

Mary and I both had the first sign of high fever the same day.  We are pretty sure she got it from work.

 

First I had a fever of 103 and low SpO2.  Called the teledoc early in the evening, they wanted me to try cough syrup and tylenol or ibuprofen. And to go to ER if it didn't help.  We have both Mucinex and generic Dayquil/Nyquil. Fever went down and (we) got drive thru testing next afternoon.  Got ahold of GP, fever was staying over 100 with just aches and  muscle pains.  Just had well visit and EKG a few days before.  GP says a few people from his office tested positive.  I asked what are the options were that could work.  Long talk for a GP.  He asked if wanted to try it. The Pharmacy across the street ordered it in and I started the next day.  Wasn't feeling better but stayed the course and stayed hydrated.  Wife was positive and only had a fever. We differ on what we think the timeline was but I think my cough was getting worse so called teledoc and they setup the ER and get x-rays.  Drove myself to ER about midnight, got x-ray at the outdoor triage, doc gave me the cough pills and I went home.  Slept another day.  Got a call from radiology saying I should come in for another because there was more fluid then they liked.  Went back that night - watched a baby being delivered in the parking lot.  Got put into the waiting tent and then wheeled in to the isolation ward, started an IV and did a blood draw, hooked up all the monitors without sole nurse really saying anything.  I called my wife and told her I didn't think I'd be back that night and not to worry.  The ER doc talked to me from the door and said they were going to do another x-ray and then she would be back.  I was there about 4 hours, she did a complete physical and sent me home because I was in better shape than others there and taken care of at home.  Told to stay the course, labs looked good, EKG looked good and x-rays weren't worse.  Basically slept another day with on and off low fever, woke up for meds and really felt better but still coughing and no fever from that point out.  I had 10 days of cough meds and stopped coughing about day 8. By that time my wife was all better with no signs for 3 days and they wanted her back at the nursing home ASAP.  The county health department cleared her.  I was just really tired as I finished out the hydroxychloroquine with zinc and for about a week afterwards. 

 

The only thing they took me off of was migraine medication.  I didn't have one at all for those 3 weeks.  My GPs office checked in on us as did my uncle a retired cardiologist.

 

So the treatments were:

Hydroxychloroquine w/ zinc

Benzonatate

Cough syrups some cough drops

Tylenol or Ibuprofen

Lots of Gatorade / Pedialyte

 

Symptoms were:

High Fever*

Fatigue*

Diarrhea

Cough

Loss of taste/smell  ( I don't know when it happened but was around the ER visits)

Chills*

Muscle Pain

(I always have breathing issues)

 

* Mary only had these.

 

I survived . . .  according to https://ncov2019.live/calculator I had a 71% chance of death.

 

I feel like I slept thru most of it.  I've been stuck longer in the hospital/ home recovery with double pneumonia.

 

I would not have done the Hydroxychloroquine if I didn't think I was going to be monitored.  The second ER trip made me feel that the treatment was not hurting anything.  Like I said the GPs office keep contact and the hospital did too for about a week from first contact.   When I told the hospital I was feeling much better they just said to let them know if it changed.

 

I just finished with the Insurance and they ended up covering everything but the $10 Benzonatate.  I figure I was $10,000 ahead since that is our annual deductible and the negotiated rate pharmacy and hospital bills were twice that. Mary's job gave her a check for 88 hours of work in addition to the sick time we used not knowing they were going to pay her that.  And since then she has been working another 1 or 2 weekly shifts because her facility has been trying to limit exposure to the unit that had covid.   All of that ended this week as they haven't had any new infections in over 2 weeks.

 

 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

  Nowadays we give convalescent plasma to people with severe symptoms. Two doses of 250ml of plasma usually does the trick. Some people also get remdesivir.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

4 hours ago, Paul & Mary said:

Yup that happened here too . . . almost another Darwin Award Nominee!

 

Mary and I both had the first sign of high fever the same day.  We are pretty sure she got it from work.

 

First I had a fever of 103 and low SpO2.  Called the teledoc early in the evening, they wanted me to try cough syrup and tylenol or ibuprofen. And to go to ER if it didn't help.  We have both Mucinex and generic Dayquil/Nyquil. Fever went down and (we) got drive thru testing next afternoon.  Got ahold of GP, fever was staying over 100 with just aches and  muscle pains.  Just had well visit and EKG a few days before.  GP says a few people from his office tested positive.  I asked what are the options were that could work.  Long talk for a GP.  He asked if wanted to try it. The Pharmacy across the street ordered it in and I started the next day.  Wasn't feeling better but stayed the course and stayed hydrated.  Wife was positive and only had a fever. We differ on what we think the timeline was but I think my cough was getting worse so called teledoc and they setup the ER and get x-rays.  Drove myself to ER about midnight, got x-ray at the outdoor triage, doc gave me the cough pills and I went home.  Slept another day.  Got a call from radiology saying I should come in for another because there was more fluid then they liked.  Went back that night - watched a baby being delivered in the parking lot.  Got put into the waiting tent and then wheeled in to the isolation ward, started an IV and did a blood draw, hooked up all the monitors without sole nurse really saying anything.  I called my wife and told her I didn't think I'd be back that night and not to worry.  The ER doc talked to me from the door and said they were going to do another x-ray and then she would be back.  I was there about 4 hours, she did a complete physical and sent me home because I was in better shape than others there and taken care of at home.  Told to stay the course, labs looked good, EKG looked good and x-rays weren't worse.  Basically slept another day with on and off low fever, woke up for meds and really felt better but still coughing and no fever from that point out.  I had 10 days of cough meds and stopped coughing about day 8. By that time my wife was all better with no signs for 3 days and they wanted her back at the nursing home ASAP.  The county health department cleared her.  I was just really tired as I finished out the hydroxychloroquine with zinc and for about a week afterwards. 

 

The only thing they took me off of was migraine medication.  I didn't have one at all for those 3 weeks.  My GPs office checked in on us as did my uncle a retired cardiologist.

 

So the treatments were:

Hydroxychloroquine w/ zinc

Benzonatate

Cough syrups some cough drops

Tylenol or Ibuprofen

Lots of Gatorade / Pedialyte

 

Symptoms were:

High Fever*

Fatigue*

Diarrhea

Cough

Loss of taste/smell  ( I don't know when it happened but was around the ER visits)

Chills*

Muscle Pain

(I always have breathing issues)

 

* Mary only had these.

 

I survived . . .  according to https://ncov2019.live/calculator I had a 71% chance of death.

 

I feel like I slept thru most of it.  I've been stuck longer in the hospital/ home recovery with double pneumonia.

 

I would not have done the Hydroxychloroquine if I didn't think I was going to be monitored.  The second ER trip made me feel that the treatment was not hurting anything.  Like I said the GPs office keep contact and the hospital did too for about a week from first contact.   When I told the hospital I was feeling much better they just said to let them know if it changed.

 

I just finished with the Insurance and they ended up covering everything but the $10 Benzonatate.  I figure I was $10,000 ahead since that is our annual deductible and the negotiated rate pharmacy and hospital bills were twice that. Mary's job gave her a check for 88 hours of work in addition to the sick time we used not knowing they were going to pay her that.  And since then she has been working another 1 or 2 weekly shifts because her facility has been trying to limit exposure to the unit that had covid.   All of that ended this week as they haven't had any new infections in over 2 weeks.

 

 

Sorry for your ordeal, and thanks for the concise details.  I think the only thing I would have done differently would have been to skip the Tylenol and bundled up, keeping the fever longer.  I've found that this kills whatever I have quickest and most thoroughly. and covid seems to be very temperature sensitive.

 

Glad you are both out of the woods!!

[90DayFinancier 910]

I just lost my sister in laws mother to this virus. It was so fast:(

[Steeleballz 7,550]

5 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

I just lost my sister in laws mother to this virus. It was so fast:(

 

   My coworkers mother passed away with this. I asked one evening before she went home and she said her mom had tested positive but was doing OK and no real symptoms except mild fever. The next morning when I got to work, they told us she would be out on bereavement leave. It's tough because they tell people to stay home and monitor symptoms, but the progression of the illness is faster than people can respond to at times.

[yuna628 9,674]

11 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

I just lost my sister in laws mother to this virus. It was so fast:(

My condolences to you and your family...  Our family friend passed from it last night.

[TBoneTX 45,267]

May you be comforted among all who mourn.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

5 hours ago, 90DayFinancier said:

I just lost my sister in laws mother to this virus. It was so fast:(

Sorry for your loss.  What was the underlying issue?

[90DayFinancier 910]

12 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Sorry for your loss.  What was the underlying issue?

Being 70? I am not sure what you are looking for.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

35 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

Being 70? I am not sure what you are looking for.

No one dies from being 70.  They do, however, die from heart disease, cancer, obesity, organ failure, etc.  in the vast majority of cases, people don't die FROM covid, they die WITH covid.