i caught corona when my boyfriend's shithead boss went to a 100+ person chud thanksgiving and then had a mandatory in person meeting with every single person in my boyfriend's office. i had relatively minor symptoms. however my heart and lungs hurt enough to make me consider going to the hospital once during it, but it subsided after i burped a lot???? my heart and lungs seem to have went through some degree of atrophy and are now back in somewhat normal shape. i'll probably begin my normal exercise regimen at the end of the month after seeing a doc and making sure everythings good to go.
i did not have any sort of coughing, though i did sneeze a lot.
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drink lots of gatorade, you get dehydrated fast while dealing with corona. i got migraines multiple times from dehydration even though i was chugging gatorades all day.
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eat lots of protein. now i know some vegans might not like this, but meat seemed to make me feel better. eggs seemed to work pretty well, but chicken was better. i tried beans and other kinds of veggie protein, nada. this made my heart aches and lung aches way more bearable. i continue to eat a ton of eggs and it just made me feel better and better every day.
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eat multivitamins. combine this with protein and youll feel almost normal.
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keep your environment as clean as you can. that seemed to help me a bit, could have just been a placebo.
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dont do physical labor or exercise, you will regret it. i was exercising before i knew i had it and i felt like i got thrown in a dumpster the next day, it was awful. took me days to start to feel normal there.
i caught corona when my boyfriend’s shithead boss went to a 100+ person chud thanksgiving and then had a mandatory in person meeting with every single person in my boyfriend’s office.
Jesus christ. Just thinking about the exponential growth of this idiot and then all the employees (1 on 1 meetings holy shit I'm mad) and every person they associated with. No wonder things are so far out of hand, especially in the US where we have a few million of these guys
yeeep. that guy probably killed a good handful of people. no way for repercussions it seems either.
Glad you're feeling better, but please continue resting for the time being. COVID has a habit of subsiding before coming back stronger.
To add some more information to why your suggestions are good:
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We all know gatorade has what plants crave: sugar. Sugar is technically an electrolyte and can save someone from dehydration. If sugar is a concern for you, there are better electrolytes like magnesium and potassium. You can find sugarless electrolyte supplements that are a bit cheaper than gatorade.
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Your immune cells require a lot of protein to function. Vegan discourse aside, its easy to miss an Essential amino acid with plant proteins. Eggs are a complete protein, meaning they have all the amino acids your immune cells crave.
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Multivitamins vary largely in quality. Make sure you get Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol), as research suggest D3 levels correlate strongly with recovery. Don't fall for that Ergocalciferol trash.
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Feng Shui has long taught that obstacles in your home are obstacles to your recovery. Catch is, you don't want to be cleaning while sick. Clean your home now, in case you get sick later. Don't allow a mess to pile up while sick, you'll feel like you're wasting away in a coffin of your own filth.
Totally, but when Americans think of eating plants they think of iceberg lettuce or carrots, not soy or peas. There's also the caveat that a sufficient amino acid profile only comes from sufficient calories, of which plants have dramatically fewer by volume. Then there's the issue of fiber intake, which must be increased gradually; Suddenly it becomes a whole big conversation.
Personally I believe a pescatarian diet is optimal, something 90% plants 10% fish.
But during an economic and safety crisis we really can't afford to aim for optimal.
One thing about D3, aka cholecalciferol, is that most of it is made from lanolin, an animal source. D2 isn't which is why some people try to talk it up, despite it being inferior. And of course capsules are usually gelatin based as well.
D3 is still superior though, and while it's up to the individual, not dying is probably better than keeping vegan, but I think there's vegan D3 made from lichen or something, it's just super specialty, so you have to specifically seek it out.
i actually dont eat sugar when i can lmao, it really fucks me up. i get the sugar free kind.
Sugar sucks ass. It causes this thing called "cross linking" which can fuck up protein structures in the body. But hilariously, sugar-substitutes can fuck up your digestive flora. Which is less bad, but man we really are born to lose!
yeah almost all my sugar comes from fruits i try to avoid food with sugar in it like the plague.
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i get a lot of eggs from a guy i know so the chickens are being treated well, kinda wanna get some of my own chickens one day, did you know those fuckers lay eggs every day almost?
those fuckers lay eggs every day almost
if you don't take their eggs away and they're not horribly inbred chickens lay once a month
gatorade is pretty high in sugar, there are a lot of alternatives to getting electrolytes like broths and pedialyte
I mean, if you're not not eating much, or at all, does it really matter, though?
glad youre feeling better.
when I had it I pretty much lived off of pedialyte popscicles that we just so happen to have bought for my partners nephews. It's the only thing I could eat the first two days.
since i had it in late november I've personally noticed its a bit harder to catch a full breath but I also have really bad allergies rn so I'm hoping that is at least part of it. definitely a little concerning in the back of my mind tho.
yeah i feel you. I definitely hope it doesn't become a problem for me later in life.
hope you stay safe
so my lungs have always been a bit shit and i even had a persistent cough before covid, which is funny enough gone. so covid cured my persistent cough. i havent gotten back into exercising but i feel roughly normal now. maybe slightly less, but that could be because i havent exercised in a month and have been a couch potato. we'll see where im at when im back in the full swing again.
Good summary and suggestions. I think I was in the middle of mine when you first got it. And one of the big things that helped me was tea! I was drinking tea all night and day. So much so I stopped drinking coffee once I was better. Also I got prescribed cough syrup which helped me sleep and took the general edge off that I was feeling because I was sick.
I tested positive for COVID back in November and I got really lucky. I had a hacking cough and runny sinuses. Every two years, like clockwork, I get Strep Throat so I thought it was that. The nurse who tested me thought it was that, and got me a test for it too. I only went to the hospital to get tested because we're in a pandemic (and I'm an essential worker). I never ran a fever, never lost my taste or smell (well, beyond the whole blocked sinuses thing).
Within five days of my diagnosis my symptoms were mostly gone.
My father got it around the same time. He had full body aches and was bedridden for three days plus lost his sense of smell and taste, but never really had any respiratory symptoms.
I got it in mid-November, also through someone I live with getting it at work. I was mostly fine - fever and a cough for a few days, and then it seemed to subside (although the doctor did prescribe us a bunch of stuff, the antivirals might have helped, and I had already started taking Vitamin D beforehand).
But the weird thing is, a few weeks ago I started feeling my pulse in the left side of my head (mostly at night, and just generally when it's quiet and I'm not focusing on anything else). I also occasionally feel something kind of weird with my chest, but it's not actually pain, or tightness (although I haven't been able to figure out what "chest tenderness" is actually supposed to be, so maybe it's that), but I don't know if I'm actually feeling that something's off, or if it's just some kind of hypochondriac hyper-attentiveness and I'm simply noticing random muscle stuff that was going on before this.
Really hoping this is just university-related stress and anxiety, and then me stressing out about it making me even more stressed. Developing heart problems in my early twenties would be kind of unfortunate.
I'm not an expert but as someone who's dealt with health anxiety a lot in the past, what you're describing sounds really familiar. I wouldn't worry about it being covid related. Mindfulness and better awareness of my body help with the racing thoughts a lot.
