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Do spend the few bucks for that finger oximeter thing.
My sister's first week of symptoms were cold-like, and then she felt better. But then she started in with diarrhea, and became very weak. She called her doctor and asked at what point she should go to the hospital, and he told her to buy the oximeter and if her oxygen was below 90, to go to the hospital. Hers was 74, and it was almost too late. She got out of the hospital seven weeks later, and at one point her husband was told she had less than a 50-50 chance to survive. That's why they find those people dead of COVID in their houses. They had no idea the oxygen wasn't getting through.
My husband had two days of intermittent fever/chills, body aches, headache. He didn't stay in bed; he took Advil and went to work (he has a physical job, but he works alone). The third day, he was all better except for a bit of a cough.
I would never have known I had Covid if my husband hadn't taken a test. His was positive so I assume my two days of mild sniffles (tiny bit of headache, tiny bit of sore throat, slightly runny nose) were also Covid. It was more mild than a cold.
I'm vaccinated; he's not. We're in our 50s. As soon as my husband started with symptoms, I doubled us up on some of our usual supplements (D, C, B, zinc, turmeric, grape seed extract). I also feel sure this was Omicron because we did not have typical symptoms of earlier strains like loss of taste or extreme fatigue.
I've had two shots plus a booster. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I started coughing, sneezing, and my nose started running, but no fever. It persisted on Sunday, so on Monday, even though most of those problems had pretty much gone away, I got a test and the results were positive. Since I am 81, I was worried, but by Wednesday, except for feeling tired, I had no symptoms at all. The tiredness lasted, but it may have been boredom because of the 10 days of isolation.
I got Covid a couple days before Christmas and it has just been like a mild cold. I never felt tired and could go about my day like normal. I'm vaccinated. My husband, who kept putting off getting vaccinated, got it much worse. He's finally starting to feel better, but still gets tired easily.
Do spend the few bucks for that finger oximeter thing.
My sister's first week of symptoms were cold-like, and then she felt better. But then she started in with diarrhea, and became very weak. She called her doctor and asked at what point she should go to the hospital, and he told her to buy the oximeter and if her oxygen was below 90, to go to the hospital. Hers was 74, and it was almost too late. She got out of the hospital seven weeks later, and at one point her husband was told she had less than a 50-50 chance to survive. That's why they find those people dead of COVID in their houses. They had no idea the oxygen wasn't getting through.
Check those oxygen levels.
Please take MightyQueens advice to grab a blood oxygen meter. You can get one the next day from amazon for under $30.
Make sure you read the reviews because the cheaper ones had bad reviews. I made sure to grab my daughter the next price range up. I linked it below. It's gone up in price since I bought it in October for $30. My daughter is happy with it.
I didn't need one for myself because my Samsung cell phone has a health app that includes a blood oxygen meter under the section labeled stress. It works really well.
You do not want to end up like MQ's sister who is a miracle for having survived all that she did. Thankfully she was advised to grab one. It saved her life!
Do spend the few bucks for that finger oximeter thing.
My sister's first week of symptoms were cold-like, and then she felt better. But then she started in with diarrhea, and became very weak. She called her doctor and asked at what point she should go to the hospital, and he told her to buy the oximeter and if her oxygen was below 90, to go to the hospital. Hers was 74, and it was almost too late. She got out of the hospital seven weeks later, and at one point her husband was told she had less than a 50-50 chance to survive. That's why they find those people dead of COVID in their houses. They had no idea the oxygen wasn't getting through.
Check those oxygen levels.
Thanks for this. I knew about the oxygen issue with Covid, but needed a reminder. Even when I was in the hospital for major lung surgery my oxygen wasn't that low. Very scary. Glad your sister is OK.
A couple of days felt worn down and a bit achy. I attributed it to some of the physical work I had been doing around that time. I had a sore throat and runny nose, no fever. The post nasal drip made me cough at times but it was never in my lungs. It was all pretty mild and I attributed it to allergies as I had been going through closets and stirring up dust in the process. It all lasted about 3 days. I took cold medicine in order to alleviate my stuffy/runny nose and that really took the edge off of my symptoms.
I was getting plenty of vitamin C and D which I always do. Found out after the fact that this was almost certainly due to Covid not allergies (people I had been around had tested positive with the same kinds of symptoms). I recently had an oximeter reading of 99% so I'm no worse for the wear. Fully recovered.
Thanks for this. I knew about the oxygen issue with Covid, but needed a reminder. Even when I was in the hospital for major lung surgery my oxygen wasn't that low. Very scary. Glad your sister is OK.
She's recovering, but has some permanent damage to her trachea and lost the use of two fingers, a neurological issue that they haven't been able to figure out. Still some lung scarring, too.
When I went for a COVID test in November to travel, they put the thing on my finger, and I was happy to see it was at 99.
I tested positive last monday for Covid, felt bad for 2-3 days, but I continue to carry a bad headache, and no smell or taste. The headache seems to originate in the spot they roll the test swab around, Thats what Im feeling anyway.
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Thanks for this. I knew about the oxygen issue with Covid, but needed a reminder. Even when I was in the hospital for major lung surgery my oxygen wasn't that low. Very scary. Glad your sister is OK.
