stillkickin
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Good luck and fast recovery Buzz, those elk will be waiting for you
First hand Covid symptoms
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noharleyyet
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Best Buzz, that crap is no picnic. We too are getting the new booster asap.
Dr GoogleMayo Clinic website for the win!
If Dr Google says to take your Plavix or other thinners for the appropriate amount of time, I’d follow that instruction too.
Glad you acted when you did, and got medical attention before the unthinkable happened.
@BuzzH J&J has the reputation for higher blood clot issues. Was this your vax?
If Dr Google says to take your Plavix or other thinners for the appropriate amount of time, I’d follow that instruction too.
Glad you acted when you did, and got medical attention before the unthinkable happened.
@BuzzH J&J has the reputation for higher blood clot issues. Was this your vax?
BuzzH
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Moderna, heart doctor said it's 90-95% chance it's Covid related and the science says so. He's a good egg, and he's a no bullshit type guy, just my style.
I'm a lifer on blood thinners from here on out.
BuzzH
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That CT dye was something I won't forget.
You'll feel flush, they say, yeah, face followed by twig and berries in a brushfire.
You'll feel flush, they say, yeah, face followed by twig and berries in a brushfire.
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Hoping for a quick recovery, @BuzzH
Loaded up my tractor and brush hog Wednesday and drove 3 hours to a farm I hunt. Couple meadows had not been hayed in about 6 years, and the farmer wanted them brush hogged. After a few hours of work, the dust, mold, and other flying crap plugged the tractors radiator and air filter. I drove up to the shop and blew out all the debris. I had to do this several times over the day and a half I was there. I was experiencing allergy type symptoms that I attributed to the brush hogging. The next morning I woke up in my motel room feeling like a really severe allergic reaction to the field debris was happening to me. I worked all day. Around 5:00PM , I drove up to the barnyard. By then, I was cycling through periods of sweating followed by violent shivering. I was still convinced it was allergies. I stopped at a local Pub. I knew I was in trouble when I couldn't finish my beer ! It was a long night in the motel room. I loaded up the gear and headed home Friday morning. At home, I thought ... can't be Covid. It had to be all the chit I inhaled into my lungs. I took a home test kit - positive. I took a different home test kit - uh-oh, positive ! CRAP !!
I called my Dr. He said that I was a healthy 65-year-old, and it would pass. He said to call him back if I couldn't breathe ! Saturday morning now. Not so stuffy and the fever symptoms are subsiding. Still very tired and body aches. I'm double vaxed and double boosted.
I called my Dr. He said that I was a healthy 65-year-old, and it would pass. He said to call him back if I couldn't breathe ! Saturday morning now. Not so stuffy and the fever symptoms are subsiding. Still very tired and body aches. I'm double vaxed and double boosted.
NEWHunter
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I had a similar experience with fever and chills. Hopefully a full and speedy recovery for you.
TheNorthStar
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My kids brought it home from school week 2. 2nd time now going through it, and again, it doesn't seem too bad, but I am healthy and in good shape. What I hate the most about it for me is the inflammation in my tonsils. Every head or chest cold starts out with it for a day or two, but covid seems to really attack my throat for an extended period of time. I've waken up in the middle of the night with my throat on fire and could barely swallow cold water for a couple nights in a row earlier this week, but the worst is over now.
Luckily my experiences with covid have been much along the lines of a head/chest cold with the severity of a respiratory flu. Better now than during hunting season proper.
Luckily my experiences with covid have been much along the lines of a head/chest cold with the severity of a respiratory flu. Better now than during hunting season proper.
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Well, after two and a half years of somehow dodging this thing, I tested positive this morning. I’ve taken so many of these at-home tests in the last year that I was starting to believe that the dreaded second line on the test was just a myth.
So far it’s been pretty much medium sort of flu symptoms—achey, no energy, mild cough. I’m wearing a mask in the house and trying to steer clear of my wife and kids as much possible in the hope they don’t get it. We’ve done the-whole-family-is-sick thing before and it sucks.
Vaxed and boosted, hopefully it passes quickly.
So far it’s been pretty much medium sort of flu symptoms—achey, no energy, mild cough. I’m wearing a mask in the house and trying to steer clear of my wife and kids as much possible in the hope they don’t get it. We’ve done the-whole-family-is-sick thing before and it sucks.
Vaxed and boosted, hopefully it passes quickly.
Elkmagnet
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Despite the warnings I have never felt it hit the twig and berries. Now I kinda feel like I have missed out on part of the experience. Like an elk hunt without the pack out.
I hope you get well soon.
Twodog
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42 Years old, pretty good shape, not vaccinated. fever and chills came on fast, lasted about 12 hours. Body aches for 3 days very fatigued. then just a lingering cough and sinus drainage for a few weeks after.
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@BuzzH maybe I missed it but how has the recovery been since your ordeal?
Day two and I already feel a fair bit better than yesterday. Still pretty fatigued, but no longer a worthless lump of turds.
Day two and I already feel a fair bit better than yesterday. Still pretty fatigued, but no longer a worthless lump of turds.
BackofBeyond
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Back to the plain ol lump of turds you normally are?
Glad your on the way up homie.
rtraverdavis
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Not quite. Need to eliminate some more fiber from my diet. You know, to be more firm and crispy.
BuzzH
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Got over covid pretty quickly.
The blood clots gave me grief for a couple days. Only missed about 10 hours of work all total to sick leave.
Been out hiking, doing normal field work.
Had couple follow up visits with a blood specialist and I do have some mitigating things that make me more susceptible to blood clots (factor V Leiden)
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/factor-v-leiden/symptoms-causes/syc-20372423.
Still no question it was covid that instigated it.
Specialist still recommended blood thinners for life, but did say things are changing so rapidly that it may not be the case in the future. Also a follow up to make sure the medication I need to take is correct. Did another battery of tests for that via a half a pint of blood or so.
Just have to deal with it...
Good to hear you've recovered well.
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I’m not positive it was Covid, but on Labor Day weekend I went to a bar packed with college kids in Flagstaff, and then a few days later developed congestion, sore throat, followed by a dry cough that persisted for weeks.
On September 10 I hiked into the Beartooth wilderness and felt like a foggy brained clumsiest, tiredest, the laziest, stuffy headed, coughing my lungs out POS.
I covered about six hours of country in 11 hours, and forced us to camp short of our destination the first night.
By about day 5 of the hunt I was feeling a lot better, but that was like day 12 of being sick.
It may have been one of the other respiratory viruses going around but whatever it was wasn’t pleasant and was about 5x what getting omnicron in January felt like, which was a minor cold.
On September 10 I hiked into the Beartooth wilderness and felt like a foggy brained clumsiest, tiredest, the laziest, stuffy headed, coughing my lungs out POS.
I covered about six hours of country in 11 hours, and forced us to camp short of our destination the first night.
By about day 5 of the hunt I was feeling a lot better, but that was like day 12 of being sick.
It may have been one of the other respiratory viruses going around but whatever it was wasn’t pleasant and was about 5x what getting omnicron in January felt like, which was a minor cold.
44hunter45
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It's finally my turn.
Home test positive this morning. I've had zero energy all week, with muscle aches and headaches. Persistent sore throat, now sharp (but mild) lung pain.
Had icepick in the ear pain, but WebMD says that ain't a symptom. It is now...
I couldn't do my hike Friday, I just thought I had let myself get that out of shape over the holidays. Not saying I'm happy with a positive test, but it explains a lot.
Home test positive this morning. I've had zero energy all week, with muscle aches and headaches. Persistent sore throat, now sharp (but mild) lung pain.
Had icepick in the ear pain, but WebMD says that ain't a symptom. It is now...
I couldn't do my hike Friday, I just thought I had let myself get that out of shape over the holidays. Not saying I'm happy with a positive test, but it explains a lot.
It’s definitely going around our neck of the woods. Both of the family members that have had it in the last few weeks got bad ear infections and had eardrums burst. Get yourself some Mucinex!!! That stuff seemed to help with the gunk in the head. Good luck brother, you’re in for a couple of rough weeks
