was having my ass kicked by covid yesterday, legit felt worse than i did without a vaccine (back in like november of 2020 i think when vaxes werent out yet). had maybe 3 days of symptoms up till then. cue my shock when i go to sleep for 14 hours and wake up feeling awesome. as day goes on im still not 100% but i feel way better. maybe in another 4-7 days i'll be at 100%.
shit dragged on forever on my first run with covid. so my impression is that the vaccine, at least for me, drastically reduced the length of covid but not the severity of it
nowhere else to post this so im doing it here
mRNA vaccines are a medical breakthrough on par with the discovery of penicillin. The ability to get cells to produce proteins is the culmination of thirty years of research. Here is a good article about it:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-are-mrna-vaccines-so-exciting-2020121021599
We are incredibly lucky that this technology just happened to be commercially viable right as it was needed most— this is why they were able to produce a vaccine in less than a year. It’s truly a miracle of modern medicine.
This of course makes it all the more regrettable that it’s being spit on by the chuds, and of course, that the patents behind this amazing technology are being locked away for profit instead of freely shared among all peoples
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It's a fucking insane breakthrough. mRNA vaccines:
- Can be manufactured 1000% faster than traditional vaccines.
- Are at least 95% cheaper to manufacture than traditional vaccines.
- Require facilities 99% smaller to manufacture - like a single room in a traditional facility would be enough to produce more than the entire building previously.
This is what many antivaxx people are missing when they talk about how "usually it took years to produce a vaccine"; we had a breakthrough, and it stands on decades of research. We were, indeed, lucky.
It is pretty mindblowing if you think about it. Any protein you want we can get your own body to print it. The possibilities for different diseases seem endless.
Remember when Polio patents were waived because of fucking course you would do that. Imagine any fucking firm doing that today?
also i hate that covid fucks up my hormones :sadness-abysmal: thank you dysphoria virus very cool
fun fact in the past i actually measured my dysphoria with my doc at one point out of curiosity. whenever my estrogen levels dropped below something like 120 (cant remember unit of measurement) estrogen a dysphoria switch would just flip on in my brain and id go insane for a day or so. also learned that my skin hardens at that point as well, as well as a couple of other signs (can feel pain a bit easier or very slight facial changes). legit thought i was just imagining things until i did like 7 blood tests that always confirmed increased dysphoric feelings at sub 120 estrogen, even when the other symptoms werent there.
hol up, covid fucks with hormones? I don't want to get it even more now :agony-deep:
yeah really fucks mine up hardcore, apparently it can do it to cis people too cause its known to affect the thyroid. talked to my doc about it
thank you for the random boners covid very cool :screm-a:
no clue, i just know men tend to have rougher/harder skin and women have softer. first effect of hrt for me was softening of the skin
My skin softness changed so fast on HRT that's basically what I use as an indicator lol. Within like two days there's a tactile difference on my arms depending on if I take my E orally vs. sublingually
god i remember my first month of hrt. my body reacted to it so quickly that it legit felt like my nips were being touched with hot prongs for like 6 months. had really gross dead skin on them that i didnt dare scrub off cause it was so painful. :kombucha-disgust: went from flat chest to b cup in 3 months
i had to buy this like silk bralette cause silk was the only thing that wouldnt make me wanna jump off a bridge lmao. showers were impossible, and i had to do a weird fucking crab dance to keep my boobs out of a bath so they didnt hurt
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Umm hi I just hatched and am still figuring all this out. How did you get HRT to kick off that fast? I'm trying to do research on all this so I can start HRT.
Also reading your comment gave me a nice gender euphoria hit, so thanks.
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hey, so i usually just absorb drugs real fast. like one shot gets me drunk or like weed in liquid form you keep under your tongue is said to take 4 hours to properly absorb but i do it in 1
when i first started hrt i took spironolactone 100mg and 4mg estradiol sublingual which is pretty standard
Okay thanks! Fingers crossed then! Was spiro gnarly to get used to? I'm kind of nervous about how much it supposedly makes you pee because I'm already on some meds that do that. 😓
i was on some other diuretics and it made me pee a little bit more but it wasnt super noticeable. just gotta stay hydrated and eat sodium
i had some complications with spiro later but ive got a weird body so youll probably be fine xD
Thanks, I'm so nervous and just want to be pretty.
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Which one works better for you? I'm trying to figure out HRT and there's so much info it's kinda overwhelming.
I'm on a fairly low dose, 2mg E 50mg Spiro. So to make up for that I tried sublingual E after like 3 weeks to see if it made a difference in the right direction and it did! About a month later I started feeling breast growth.
Wow thanks for this. So to confirm: you do 2mg E sublingual and 50mg Spiro then?
Yeah, 1mg E twice a day sublingual and 25mg Spiro twice a day orally.
Obviously everyone is different. But just take stock of the changes that do happen quickly and I think you can use those as a rough estimate of how well the dose is working.
A lot of people move to higher doses over time, but I'm probably going to stick with this for now since I've had minimal mood swings and haven't even noticed the diuretic effects of Spiro. It kind of caught me off guard but I had to remember there's probably lots of trans people who don't post about how their HRT is going just fine with no complaints...
it can be a fat thing too, but hormones also effect it. like the underside of my thighs feel softer than my fingers for example
Glad to hear from you comrade! Was just thinking I should make a post asking if anyone knew how you were doing.
yeah idk what the deal is with the tests. first one i did said no covid but second one said yes
oh yeah home rapid
i def have it though its punch for punch the exact same thing as i had before. including weird little things like mouthwash being EXTREMELY painful all the sudden
though some things are more effected this time than last time. heart and throat feels like a bigger issue
Pretty sure I had COVID in December '19 - if could talk about where I worked it would make sense. Lasted 2 weeks before I showed any inkling of recovery. Probably another 7-10 days more before i felt more or less normal. It was pretty much the worst cold I've ever had. The cough alone was excruciating.
I just had the booster in late November and while it wrecked me (REKT ME), I'd take 100 boosters before taking on COVID unvaxxed (again).
Glad you're on your way to feeling better.
Glad you're getting through it so quickly. Did you get boosted as well? I have several friends who got 2 doses but not boosters and they all got hit hard by this new wave.
yeah i got boosted 1 week before catching it cause i intended to go to christmas party. didnt catch it at the party
Gotcha, thanks for sharing your experience comrade. I'm desperately hoping that the sheer contagiousness of Omicron convinces some of the anti-vax crowd to start taking this shit seriously, but I know it's far too late for that anyway :deeper-sadness: I hope you feel 100% very soon!
Doesn't it take two weeks to kick in? I think you weren't even at full boostification yet
so happy you are feeling better! that had to have been an amazing transition going from crap to a nice long sleep to waking up almost totally better.
That's great that you recovered quickly. I don't think I'm in a super at-risk category, but the prospect of randomly getting long COVID scares the shit out of me.
