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Paul, hope she feels better real soon!

Best wishes. I've been dealing with the effects of Covid since right after Thanksgiving. Its been miserable

First of all, Paul, hope your wife gets through it quickly....Bad timing with the Holidays.

Then Mike, The more I hear about cases such has yours, I wonder if the vaccine would be beneficial to me.

Most of the people that I know of who've had it, recovered in a few days, others were not so lucky.

Hopefully everything turns out well and wishing your wife all the best for a quick recovery.

I hope she gets better soon.

Spread the love, right?

Prayers from here, Paul.

If the vaccine works and is safe I'm all for it. I wish I could gave gotten it before Covid got a hold of me

Prayers for her speedy recovery.

Paul, Praying now. Fat says to get a new doctor and I agree. The wife says she watched a video saying even though you can feel strong enough, this stuff can move fast on taking over your lungs. No way to tell when to act.

Jag had some recommendations on my thread about my "lifelong friends daughter". Might look at that.

Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea are symptoms. The Mrs tested positive earlier this week . Her other symptoms are low grade fever and Fatigue.
Dr said Tylenol to control fever and hydrating. .and watch for breathing issues

I had something 2 years ago. I lived on over the counter cold and flu medicine that had tylenol and some kind of antihistamine in it, NyQuill and aspirin. Don't forget the aspirin since this thing clots the blood. I had some really hard coughing that I needed to get control of. That was the hardest part. I had 3 bad days then 3 really bad days I thought I had pnuemonia and then 3 more bad days. By day 10 I was almost human again. It took me another 10 days to be "normal".

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Spoke to a doc friend who had it bad a few weeks ago. He said take 50 of zinc 2x a day, Vtamin D, Pepcid 20 mg 2x a day and 5 days after symptoms set in, steroid to address the inflimation in the lungs along with Zithromax, to prevent or treat any developing pneumonia. Pretty simple formula to stay ahead of it.

I tested positive for it three weeks ago. I had two of the rapid antigen tests and a PCR test, all three came back positive. I have a cousin that's a pharmacist and this is what he gave me:


50 mg zinc twice a day
500 mg Vitamin C twice a day
20 mg Famotidine (pepcid AC) twice a day.
600 mg mucinex ER twice a day
4000 IU Vitamin D3 once a day
10 mg cetirizine (zyrtec) once a day
250 mg Azithromycin (Z pack) taken once a day for the first five days.

All of these are over the counter except the Z pack I think.

My symptoms were minor and I'm back at work now. It didn't really rise to the level of an average cold for me. I also essentially confined myself to bedrest for my 10 day quarantine, I pretty much just moved between the bed and the couch, I slept a LOT and rarely went outside in the cold. I've known several people that had it worse than me and all of them used the quarantine time to do work around the house, go hunting, etc.. I think that's a bad idea, you need to keep it out of your chest and the way to do that is by not exerting yourself.

I can't swear that this regime of medicine and bedrest is what kept it minor for me, but I feel it had a lot to do with it.

If you have 45 minutes to spare, google up the senator Johnson hearing with the 3 MDs who discuss outpatient care. Then figure out how to get your hands on what they recommend. If you do nothing for 7 days as recommended by your MD and others, and her case blows up, that's on you.

That blows Paul.

Best wishes to you both.

I tested positive 2 weeks ago today. Lost my sense of taste and smell, had some minor body aches, ran a low grade fever at night for a couple days, and had a really stuffed up nose and sinuses. Thank God I had a minor case and was over it within a week. I was given a Z-Pac and a cough medicine to take as needed but fortunately I did not need it. Somehow, my wife did not get it, nor did our son get it. That was my biggest fear that my wife and son would get it.

My son is 22 and works as a RN on a unit that keeps up to 5 Covid patients at a time. I take Vitamin C & D anyway but he had me taking Zinc and 10mg of Melatonin every night right before bed. He said he does not know why, but every Covid patient he has worked with is given Melatonin at night. I'm not sure if this batch of meds did anything but I did a lot of praying, did a lot of resting, drank a lot of water, and forced myself to eat.

Prayers and best of luck to you and your family.

I forgot to add....I also took Mucinex and Alka Selzer Cold Plus really loosened up my sinus and nasal congestion.

Laurie is slightly worse today. I am much worse than I was yesterday. Still not horrible. At this point it's about like a moderate cold. Hoping to tomorrow finds us better.

Take two shots of whiskey . You’ll live

Excellent post, thanks for the complete info on doses and the part about rest.