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I'm recovering from strep throat. I didn't go to the doctor until after 5 days of severe sore throat because sore throats have always gone away pretty quickly so I expected this to go away, not turn into a throat-blocking hell-cough-inducing nightmare upon waking. Now I'm on both amoxicillin and steroids. And I just want to say that while I've been sleeping a lot more than usual, when I was awake I was working on nostr. This is just the only place to be.

Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

I'm on day 13 of my viral sore throat and it has not abated (without medicine, I can hardly bear to swallow). I don't think I'm the only one, I think it is going around these parts. Less serious if you don't have tonsils (I have tonsils). It is extra difficult for me because I just moved into my new house but I cannot run the wood burner until it passes code of compliance testing, and without running the wood burner the house is sitting at 13C.

And I wanted to take this time to thank all of mankind for the inventions that have gotten me through so far:

1. Ibuprofen

2. Paracetamol

3. Hot showers

4. Warm wool clothes

5, Warm blankets

6. Freezers offering up soothingly cold ice

7. Motor vehicles, fuel, roads, and the entire food chain, so I can drive to the store and restock

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I've removed my lud addresses so you can't zap me because this is not a sympathy post designed to pull zaps. I just wanted to share.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

Sorry it is day 11. Off by 2 error.

Alain 2y ago

Been there. Missed the entire first month of my sophomore year due to something similar. I sympathize. Like you, it surfaced a lot of humility and gratitude. Speedy recovery!

LuisSP 2y ago

before c19, 2x/3x a year I had serious flu: 4 days of heavy running nose (2 full toilet papers rolls spent on it), including 2 days of feeling bad in general (headaches, fever, tiredness)

now, flu means 2 days of running nose ( < 1 roll spent) and a only a few hours of general badness.

never got c19 vax, and learned better:

- when sick, on the first two days, ivermectin, vit D

- and everyday vit C , Zn , propolis, honey, warm stuff

besides, I started supplementing vit C, D, Zn, Se. My vit D and Zn levels were too low before (blood tests). Also increased exercise (that was easy, as before I did nothing)

Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

I'm on day 16 now (started July 15, today is July 31 where I am at). Still have a (now burning) sore throat with occasional painful productive cough and now I have mouth ulcers to boot.

A co-worker started having symptoms on July 9 and she's still sick. She came in briefly this morning to drop something off and she had lost her voice. Day 22 for her. My boss has it. He got it about a week after I got it. One of my neighbors has it.

Somebody should analyze this thing. WTF is it? Did it escape from a lab? Does it ever go away?

BitBees 2y ago

RSV?

Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

I had RSV (I think) 6 weeks before I got this, an intense cold that turned into bronchitis. This is different, this is tonsilitis without cold symptoms.

BitBees 2y ago

Oh no! I don’t know what that is called, other than horrible. Hope it gets better fast. And your colleagues, too. Keep us posted.