feel like shit holy hell.
Headache and shivers
Everything hurts
Fuck this country, fuck it so hard.
If getting a Paxlovid prescription is not an option, 2 other things you can do to reduce the viral load of COVID while you are sick with it, which decreases the severity/lowers your risk of long COVID:
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Use a mouthwash containing .07% CPC (like Parodontax or Crest Pro-Health) twice a day while you are sick [1]
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Use a Carrageenan nasal spray like Flo nasal spray 3x per day [2].
Sources
[1] Efficacy of CPC mouthwash for decreasing the viral load of COVID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8941951/
[2] Efficacy of using a nasal spray while you have COVID to decrease the severity and make you get better faster: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9969373
Although Paxlovid is the first/most important thing to do to decrease your likelihood of long COVID, using CPC mouthwash and nasal sprays while you have COVID is a good idea to do regardless, with or without Paxlovid.
+1 for getting paxlovid asap if you can. a comrade posted some instructions in here this fall/winter for getting a script through telemedicine that really helped me.
this wasn’t it but looks helpful, I had to get mine the day before thanksgiving and paid retail for it from an out-of-network pharmacy because every pharmacy in my area was going to be closed
Unfortunately you can’t get paxlovid in Australia unless you’re over 70 or immunocompromised
https://www.instantscripts.com.au/covid-antivirals-1/
“Yes I was hospitalised before, but was so out of it I don’t remember any details!”
It doesn’t. A one-star review says as much
Reminder that CBD and its metabolites (but not THC, which seems to actually impair this effect) seem to both inhibit infection as well as replication after infected
Strikingly, only 1.2% of the patients prescribed CBD contracted SARS-CoV-2 whereas 12.2% of the matched, non-cannabinoid patients tested positive (p=0.009), suggesting a potential reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infection risk of approximately an order of magnitude.
i still think it’s wild that this study exists and has essentially had 0 impact whatsoever on people taking CBD as a covid prophylactic
but like, ivermectin, hydroxyquinone or whatever? people were eating that shit up. CBD is basically one of the safest drugs that exist, so if it can cause a 90% reduction in infection incidence and severity without causing you to shit out your intestines why the fuck aren’t people on this shit?? That’s HUGE
Unless some studies have come out indicating that this one i’ve linked is bullshit I legitimately do not understand the lack of attention it gets. Breaks my fucking mind.
If nothing else you’d think the CBD industry would have run with this because aren’t we massively over producing (“over producing” in the capitalist sense where they have to mulch so much of it to keep prices up) weed???
I’m not doing it any longer, but I started vaping CBD about 8 10 months after my infection and a whole bunch symptoms I wasn’t even clocking as being covid related (GI issues, non-stop heartburn, panic attacks, issues with my running, focusing issues) turned off like a light switch. Totally anecdotal, and possibly coincidental, I know. But honestly, I’d still be vaping CBD if it didn’t bring it’s own mental focus related issues for me.
edit: fixed the months.
Get some antiviral drugs if you can, they actually do help
get well soon, owl
Get well soon, your shitposts mean a lot to me and I mean this sincerely
