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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:beef stew cough coworker went to the local university (UW medicine) who had him see a NP who told him he had asthma and gave him an inhaler. lol at least they gave something instead of marking it down as anxiety and possibly allergies. maybe cause he's a dude and not a woman?
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Oct 6, 2023 17:56
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probably making fat stacks on inhaler kickbacks
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Oct 6, 2023 17:56
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Soap Scum posted:can't take this thread seriously, full of doctor-havers smh Back when China opened up, there were already stories about black market Paxlovid.
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Oct 6, 2023 17:56
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Oh yeah, not a judgment, just an observation of the different realities we all must navigate. "Her doctor should be managing it" yeah, SHOULD, lmao
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Oct 6, 2023 17:57
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:beef stew cough coworker went to the local university (UW medicine) who had him see a NP who told him he had asthma and gave him an inhaler. Hasn't he had the cough for a while (maybe I'm mis-remembering your posts about it)? He'd probably be negative for either at this point and just dealing with the after effects since a lingering cough is one of the most COVID symptoms that doesn't go away after the acute infection. I know my wife still has one from her bout two months ago.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:02
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I presume he has long covid but also based on how he just does whatever and doesn't care about COVID i presume he's just riding the dragon all the time. he said he tried to work out last weekend and couldn't do it. "other than that and the cough I'm fine though"
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Oct 6, 2023 18:05
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Strep Vote posted:You are so privileged lmao He has insurance, the issue seems to be her doctor is swamped and can’t work on the authorizations to support her. If she’s not at the university hospital and they take his insurance that’s where I would go. I’ve gone through all this poo poo before so gently caress off with the privilege garbage. You have to advocate for your health and push and push until you get what you need.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:06
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don't know if it matters if beef stew coworker has RSV because apparently the monoclonals are only intended for like age 2 and under
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Oct 6, 2023 18:08
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Rescue Toaster posted:It's definitely privilege. But I know for me, if my wife hadn't pushed me to go to Mayo clinic (or if my insurance hadn't let me), I'd very likely be dead or have been seriously disabled because of the rank incompetence of the doctors I had locally. This was way before COVID and I'm sure things are even worse in many places in terms of access to competent specialists. I was chatting with the driver of a shuttle bus I was taking the other day and he shared that his dad had just been diagnosed with some sort of cancer or tumor or something in his throat. He spent 2 years randomly losing his voice and being told it was nothing until last week when he took himself to the hospital and had a doctor pull the Door opens: You have cancer Door closes like a loving cartoon or something. And then finds out its likely completely survivable and the doctor should not have said that.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:09
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Glumwheels posted:I’ve gone through all this poo poo before so gently caress off with the privilege garbage. You have to advocate for your health and push and push until you get what you need. gently caress off yourself 
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Oct 6, 2023 18:19
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Rescue Toaster posted:It's definitely privilege. But I know for me, if my wife hadn't pushed me to go to Mayo clinic (or if my insurance hadn't let me), I'd very likely be dead or have been seriously disabled because of the rank incompetence of the doctors I had locally. This was way before COVID and I'm sure things are even worse in many places in terms of access to competent specialists. Mayo has one of the only specialist clinics in the country for one of my wife's things. She tried to enroll there once and they sent her a form letter telling her her case wasn't interesting and to gently caress off (politely).
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Oct 6, 2023 18:30
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In case anyone doesn't understand that, 'magnet' clinics defacto choose their patients and they can and will only enroll people who look like they will juice their stats or create cash-flow.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:34
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:I was chatting with the driver of a shuttle bus I was taking the other day and he shared that his dad had just been diagnosed with some sort of cancer or tumor or something in his throat. He spent 2 years randomly losing his voice and being told it was nothing until last week when he took himself to the hospital and had a doctor pull the In my case, before I went to mayo, the lovely local doc came in after doing a test, while I was still asleep from anasthesia and told my wife "Yep! Test was positive!" and turned around to walk out until my wife started yelling at him. That was the last straw when she demanded I get a second opinion. The Oldest Man posted:Mayo has one of the only specialist clinics in the country for one of my wife's things. She tried to enroll there once and they sent her a form letter telling her her case wasn't interesting and to gently caress off (politely). I have no idea why my case was interesting enough to them although the words "unusual and aggressive" were used which is not what you want to hear at Mayo. Eventually they did say 'Ok this is stable enough, we'll send you to one of the satellite mayo clinics, but it is with a doc who did their fellowship here.' So I'm still very lucky in that regard.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:35
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Rescue Toaster posted:I have no idea why my case was interesting enough to them although the words "unusual and aggressive" were used which is not what you want to hear at Mayo. Eventually they did say 'Ok this is stable enough, we'll send you to one of the satellite mayo clinics, but it is with a doc who did their fellowship here.' So I'm still very lucky in that regard. Could be because they can bill aggressively for your thing, could be because it looked like you would make an interesting case study, who knows. It's just hosed up to read a letter to your loved one with a condition so rare that you could go your entire life without ever meeting someone who has it, telling them that they're not interesting enough to see a doctor who actually has any hands on experience whatsoever treating it.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:41
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Advocating for your health and pushing doctors sounds a lot like not trusting science and credentials 
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Oct 6, 2023 19:01
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An older couple I know are on holiday in Europe and are currently in the UK, and even though they've been catching a lot of flights etc they haven't been wearing masks at all. She started developing cold symptoms around Friday or Saturday and he started developing symptoms on Sunday, and although her symptoms have stayed fairly mild he steadily grew worse over the next few days. They took covid rapid tests but came up negative so they kept visiting tourist places and visiting friends. Whoops, he just just tested positive a day ago, who didn't see that coming? They "isolated" in their hotel for about a day but kept going out to get food because they're "morally opposed to delivery apps" (but not morally opposed to spreading covid?). They cancelled several events where they were going to meet up with people but were SUPER unhappy about it. He's still pretty sick and not really well enough to be walking around a lot but today they realised that the UK no longer has compulsory isolation for people who have covid so they hired a wheelchair for him and went back to visiting tourist spots, claiming that they're masking up and "trying to keep socially distanced as much as possible" from everyone else. They're planning on visiting friends on Monday and then catching an international flight on Tuesday come what may. And there ain't a drat thing I could say which could possibly change any of that so I've just been biting my tongue.
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Oct 6, 2023 19:04
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Pingui posted:In other plague news: Had to double-check to see if this is the one I remembered where there's several variants and if you get a different variant after your initial infection you're probably in big trouble. It was. lmao
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Oct 6, 2023 19:08
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Zugzwang posted:Kill all the mosquitoes.
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Oct 6, 2023 19:15
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Pingui posted:This one is for you: Pittsburgh once again dunking on Philadelphia, haunt of Paul Offit.
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Oct 6, 2023 20:02
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Apologies, I am way behind in this thread but I just got my covid and flu shots. How sick am I going to be? The last booster wasn't too bad.
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Oct 6, 2023 20:37
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Greg Legg posted:Apologies, I am way behind in this thread but I just got my covid and flu shots. How sick am I going to be? The last booster wasn't too bad. who knows! Honestly every time is different and we've had the gamut among goons this current go-round already!
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Oct 6, 2023 20:39
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:An older couple I know are on holiday in Europe and are currently in the UK, and even though they've been catching a lot of flights etc they haven't been wearing masks at all. She started developing cold symptoms around Friday or Saturday and he started developing symptoms on Sunday, and although her symptoms have stayed fairly mild he steadily grew worse over the next few days. They took covid rapid tests but came up negative so they kept visiting tourist places and visiting friends. Whoops, he just just tested positive a day ago, who didn't see that coming? They "isolated" in their hotel for about a day but kept going out to get food because they're "morally opposed to delivery apps" (but not morally opposed to spreading covid?). They cancelled several events where they were going to meet up with people but were SUPER unhappy about it. He's still pretty sick and not really well enough to be walking around a lot but today they realised that the UK no longer has compulsory isolation for people who have covid so they hired a wheelchair for him and went back to visiting tourist spots, claiming that they're masking up and "trying to keep socially distanced as much as possible" from everyone else. They're planning on visiting friends on Monday and then catching an international flight on Tuesday come what may. At this point the bar is so low that, "socializing with active COVID infection but masking" is laudable behavior.
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Oct 6, 2023 20:41
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Greg Legg posted:Apologies, I am way behind in this thread but I just got my covid and flu shots. How sick am I going to be? The last booster wasn't too bad. I sauntered in here saying I was worried that I wasn't feeling bad at all - someone said they were the same until ~15 hours later and that turned out to be almost exactly correct. I skipped on the flu shot, but the Big P booster hit me like a truck at about 16 hours post shot. I had trouble the whole next day, but was able to sleep alright at about ~24 hours later. So - several hours of misery, but not so bad. Girlfriend started feeling bad after about 6 hours post shot, which was one reason I was worried. So, you may or may not feel like poo poo, somewhere between a few hours or over half a day later. Good luck, enjoy your titers.
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Oct 6, 2023 20:46
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Greg Legg posted:Apologies, I am way behind in this thread but I just got my covid and flu shots. How sick am I going to be? The last booster wasn't too bad. Yeah it's a total dice roll. I was fine for a day then my upper shoulders started feeling like they were being crushed and my arm was incredibly sore for around 5 days.
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Oct 6, 2023 20:47
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wrestling with crossing kaiser picket lines to get a vax shot
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Oct 6, 2023 20:52
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He’s still pretty sick and not really well enough to be walking around a lot but today they realised that the UK no longer has compulsory isolation for people who have covid so they hired a wheelchair for him and went back to visiting tourist spots lol
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Oct 6, 2023 20:53
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Thanks friends. I guess I'll just skip the weights this weekend.
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Oct 6, 2023 20:58
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Greg Legg posted:Thanks friends. I guess I'll just skip the weights this weekend. Cardio post-vaccine may boost immune response: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159122000319
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Oct 6, 2023 21:02
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Serfer posted:wrestling with crossing kaiser picket lines to get a vax shot I am going to thread the needle by crossing the picket line to get vaccinated and then screaming at everyone inside that they are a scab U-DO Burger has issued a correction as of 21:09 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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Oct 6, 2023 21:05
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:At this point the bar is so low that, "socializing with active COVID infection but masking" is laudable behavior. The world will never know if the quote:😡 person died a villain or lived long enough to become a hero. Raskolnikov2089 posted:Cardio post-vaccine may boost immune response: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159122000319 This time around, I gave Spikevax a few hours to kick in. I felt fine, so I did three hours of moderate cardio. I was prepared to quit and take NSAIDs if I needed to, but I continued to feel fine during and after the exercise. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 21:09 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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Oct 6, 2023 21:06
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Turned my earstrap breathteqs into headstrap breathteqs with 20 inches of woven elastic and 4 staples. Excelsior!
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Oct 6, 2023 21:21
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Platystemon posted:three hours of moderate cardio. You mean a marathon?
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Oct 6, 2023 21:36
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Fansy posted:You mean a marathon? I did in fact go a marathon distance in three hours. It was on a bicycle though so much less impressive.
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Oct 6, 2023 21:55
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euphronius posted:He’s still pretty sick and not really well enough to be walking around a lot but today they realised that the UK no longer has compulsory isolation for people who have covid so they hired a wheelchair for him and went back to visiting tourist spots How the gently caress do people enjoy anything while being in that state of health, been wondering this the whole goddamn pandemic. Just having a cold or loving allergies for me means gently caress everything I'm just gonna be a sack of poo poo for a couple days.
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Oct 6, 2023 22:27
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Strep Vote posted:Turned my earstrap breathteqs into headstrap breathteqs with 20 inches of woven elastic and 4 staples. Excelsior! report back if the nose wire holds up. That’s my primary worry with hacking those.
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Oct 6, 2023 22:28
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Serfer posted:wrestling with crossing kaiser picket lines to get a vax shot I think that would be ok given everything, also as I'm sure everyone is annoyed with me continuing to say, I have Kaiser and got mine covered by Kaiser at not-kaiser-pharmacy.
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Oct 6, 2023 22:45
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space chandeliers posted:How the gently caress do people enjoy anything while being in that state of health, been wondering this the whole goddamn pandemic. Just having a cold or loving allergies for me means gently caress everything I'm just gonna be a sack of poo poo for a couple days. 
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Oct 6, 2023 22:54
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Ugh, I didn't schedule an appointment for a shot since I sustained a foot injury and couldn't walk to the pharmacy/wasn't sure on when I'd be able to commit to the 2 mile trip. Now I'm all good and appointments are a month out, first week of November. For flu alone or covid and flu together. What the heck? Two pharmacies right next to each other and one doesn't even show up as offering any vaccinations on their online scheduler. This is just a suburb of Seattle, it's not even out in the sticks somewhere. 
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Oct 6, 2023 23:21
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Yay!! https://twitter.com/WSUNews/status/1710312447691932047
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Strep Vote posted:Turned my earstrap breathteqs into headstrap breathteqs with 20 inches of woven elastic and 4 staples. Excelsior! The breatheteq masks are great. One of my favorite finds from this thread.
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