January 2022 contracted covid, was put on ventilator, in coma for 3 1/2 weeks, got a tracheotomy, miracle I lived, was in hospital for 2 months wax a long recovery but grateful to be alive.
First time in aug 22, then again in Jan 24. I have had jabs so I felt my COVID experience was fairly mild thankfully. My elderly mother seems to dodge it, we do our best to shelter her from it
Glad you survived. My cousin had a similar experience-was on a ventilator and had a number of complications. I really didn’t think he was going to make it but he did.
Had an ancestral strain in January 2021. My entire personality changed. That floating, presyncopal feeling never went away. I just went back to nursing after a 9-month hiatus and I’m shaken by the denial of concern out there about the long term damage that’s been done. We are all just pretending we’re okay.
Thanks for sharing that. The public's response to Covid has destroyed my faith in common sense. I'm in Northern California (kind of right wing) and, being a senior, I still wear a mask when I go into stores. There are some stores that are so hostile to me about it that I have to avoid them. The whole thing is just nuts.
I haven’t been sick since about 2006. Never wore a mask and no way in hell did I or would I get the jab. Never. I weigh around 100 lbs and have a good diet, and I am 68. Edit to add: I have been around a few people with CV.
What about other vaccines and flu shots? What about any other jabs, like for shingles etc? Being a teacher I had to get flu shots every year and aslo was talked into the first shingles shot too, and bingo by the age of 55, my health failed and after numerous testings I was sent to IUPUI and was found to have at least THREE autoimmune diseases, including Sarcoidosis?! WTH, how does a reasonably healthy human get all these autoimmune diseases? BTW, I teach nutrition also Health and PE and I keep slim and active, so what's up? I will not get any more jabs or shots and keep up as healthy and active that I can possibly be. I do believe in vaccines up to a certain age and point. Sure with I had thought of this before getting flu shots and the shingles after the age of 50!! And YES,I did get the shingles about a year after the jab for it, the very first sign my health was failing was getting a horrible case of shingles, Ugh!
Me too…. I will never ever take a vaccine since I’ve heard and seen people get seriously sick or die from this jab they call the experimental vaccine….. it’s all a scam to see if people believe the propaganda the msm spread across the planet. Allot more ailments and deaths are now happening since the jab came out!! …. Please do some research and question everything!! 🙏🥺
I didn't get hit by a truck--I got run over by a freight train. It is easier to list the things what were right, in my body, than list the things that were wrong. I didn't have any home tests, and I was in no shape to drive, and no one was going to drive me to a test center, but there was no doubt I had COVID as the person, responsible for me getting it from her daughter, came down with it the same time I did. I was 78 at the time. I had limited exposure to other people and it was just the one woman, and her daughter, I came in contact with. The worst was over after a week of misery but then many of the symptoms lingered. This went on for two months and then I was hit with a cytokine storm which sent clots to my leg, heart, and lung. I wasn't allowed to move for three days while they pumped me with coumadin. I left the hospital, almost a week later, with oxygen, injectable coumadin, and about a quart of fluid in my lungs. I am still recovering over two years later. But at least my lungs are clear. I am able to take short walks, and most of the mental fog has lifted. I recently noticed I could even taste food again. I think having the inoculations saved me. It also helped that I kept active during the pandemic so was in good shape when COVID hit.
@@TH-wu1mw Yes, the inoculations probably saved my life as I was 78, had stage 4 breast cancer, Parkinson's, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and 9 other significant health issues. Two members of the family, much younger, and in better health, died. Neither got inoculated due to political leanings.
Oh my goodness what an experience! I’m 50 and have had my fair share of colds and flus, mainly had them back when my three children attended school and brought bugs home every year. Sometimes I could care for three sick kids and not catch it, other times I was sick with them. Something about this bug just doesn’t make sense. It’s feels lab made because it was like nothing I ever had. The extreme fatigue was scary. For days I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Then the loss of taste and smell. To this day (two years later) I sometimes will notice a smell around my home like passing by a candle or my dog, that I haven’t smelled in weeks. So it’s still fluctuating to this day. Which is concerning to me. Anyway, so so glad you made it and I sincerely hope you never get it again.
I got Covid in 2020, and almost died from it and had long Covid until last year. I have been treated by a metabolic weight loss and hormone specialist, which has taken me from not being able to walk across the room without getting out of breath, to fully functioning!
I’m on all three, estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, which Covid zapped to zero levels. I also had leaky gut syndrome and high blood pressure from Covid and gained a ton of weight due to inactivity and eating what could be heated in the microwave and delivered, because my exhaustion kept me from being able to cook. She helped me heal all that, boost my liver function which was also affected and lose weight, while replacing my nonexistent hormones. So I’ve decreased my blood pressure medication in half and no longer have to use a rescue inhaler. I can do what I want, lost 88 lbs and have all the energy in the world!
I’m so sorry that you have had such a rough go of it. One of our nephews had a stroke after taking the Johnson & Johnson jab. it’s such a mess. The people that really were hit with this crap hard are the ones I’m always praying for. God bless you.❤
I was hesitant to get the Pfizer vaccine back in 2021, but watching you convinced me that it was ok and I should. So I did. And I regret it. I don't even blame the you from back then for your advice. But I don't understand why you haven't moved on and changed your opinion on Covid vaccinations.
So many people regret doing things they watch on TH-cam. But remember what they said. It's safe and effective. So I am guessing you should be fine. And maybe you have long covid.
Dr. Z, I hope you are feeling better each day. I just had to let you know how much you and your videos meant to me during the height of covid. I hung on your every word and your advice and insights were great. I also appreciate all of the guests that you had on. Anyway, please know how much I appreciate you. May God bless you, Frank Manno
I'm a 67 year young, very healthy individual; over July 4 weekend I set up an art exhibit in a local gallery - I wasn't around a bunch of people - I returned home July 6 and felt fine. Sunday & Monday were filled with "catching up"; Tuesday morning I woke up with a small cough and some sneezing. As the day progressed, the coughing got worse and my upper chest started to feel "raw". I had a screaming headache (I never get headaches) and a slight fever - and then I had chills. I didn't sleep well, primarily because of the headache. Wednesday was worse; more coughing/raw chest, lots of sneezing, headaches and slight fever...also FATIGUE. Took my dog for an hour walk and went home and slept 2 hours; was up watching movies for a couple hours - then back to sleep for a couple hours. I basically stayed in bed watching movies all day Wednesday & Thursday; I was taking 4-5 GRAMS of Vitamin C/day, and I did take ONE sauna. Ordinarily I should have begun to get better, but I didn't - I decided to go to Quickcare on Thursday evening for antibiotics, as I "don't have time to be sick".... After describing my symptoms, they gave me a Covid test. The doctor examined me and listened to my chest/breathing extensively - he said "you sound great". He left and came back in a couple minutes later and said "you're Covid test is positive". (now we have the answer). He told me to "keep doing what I was doing"; the next day I started taking TWO saunas/day, 4-5g of Vit C/day and echinacea. I was still walking my dog a total of 5-6 miles/day, but lounging around a lot. On Friday (day after I went to Dr and 4th day after symptoms began) and I was beginning to feel better (I attribute this to the sauna sessions). Each day has been better and better. On Day 7 I felt fairly normal; I went out to work in my art studio and didn't take any naps... Today is Day 13 since symptoms started; I have been asymptomatic for at least 5 days. I've been quarantining (I live alone) and am waiting to do another Covid test on Thursday (two weeks after symptom onset). I'm still taking saunas, but once/day. I have NEVER had a Covid vaccine; I was able to taste and smell throughout this time. I didn't take ANY OTC meds for headache/fever - SAUNA is my "drug of choice".... I spent most of the day in my art studio and I'm going to do the same today. This morning I walked 5 miles, rowed 4000 meters on my rowing machine, and used my vibration machine for 20 minutes........
Covid test? Really? Where have you been? You listened to Kary Mullis who invented it, on u tube (is it still there?) saying it wasn’t for testing infections!? Did you see the fruit bowl contents testing positive!? 😣
I'm grateful to you for sharing this story - especially the part about feeling not quite right in a hard to describe way. That is exactly what happened to me except I wasn't otherwise sick. My main symptom was that sort of lightheaded weird feeling. Very unnerving. I only tested myself because my boyfriend had a raging case. The only other symptom was that I couldn't smell coffee for two days. You have such a wonderful positive attitude! I hope you made a 100% recovery.
Same here I've not had covid, no vaccines, not had a cold nor sore throat nothing for over 20 years don't know why don't seem normal but trust me I'm happy.
Same here. No COVID, and I've tested for antibodies 3 different times. No vaccines for COVID. I travel 100k a year, so I guess I've been exposed but have good immunity. Also, in 2020 I raised my vitamin D from 30 to 70.
Yup! Never tested, jabbed or boosted. Anecdotal but everyone I know who got Covid this summer has been vaccinated. Everyone I know who is unvaxxed is fine.
I got ME/CFS in 1991. I wasn't the only one. There were also a number of viruses going around untested at the time. They blew us off as hysterical and then they forgot about us. I've been sick since. I've now had COVID (Omicron) twice, in addition but don't seem any worse. I'm SO glad for all the people who got long COVID and have had much more acceptance than we did. I am so grateful for the researchers who said "wait, we've seen something like this before." I hope you have a nice short COVID infection. But as someone who is known in the medical community, please pay very close attention to your symptoms, imagine having them for year after year, with nobody believing you, and remind your colleagues that we are still here, we will all still be here when people finally forget about COVID, and please help keep researchers funded and working on research to help ALL of us.
Got it the same year , been sick since also. I agree about how long covid interest is finally shining a light on this, and it being a good thing. Hope. Now I have hope.
@@ellenh278still no treatment for long Covid here in UK even though I know research is going on but it’s not shared. I’ve had LC since early 2020 obviously I didn’t know what it was then and thought the symptoms would stop but no 2024 o still experience a lot of the symptoms but not so harshly. The chronic fatigue is the one that has really been debilitating.
@SassyO100 Sorry to hear you are struggling too. Yes, the fatigue (and for me also brain fog) can make functioning so hard. I feel like I've been robbed of the life I was meant to live. Much work to be done regarding treatment, but at least there is some interest in and funds for it now. For decades, next to nothing. Hope you are finding ways to cope with things.
My case of COVID was minor and I was unvaccinated. My parents case of COVID was major and they were fully vaccinated. No hospital for me, ICU hospital stay for my parents. And a complete no nose dive in their health after COVID
"My parents" Maybe you missed it, but they've known since the early weeks that covid was exponentially more dangerous for you the older you were. Everyone has known this *_from the beginning._* You're not proving anything with this anecdote. Anyhow, they've done enough studies of the vaccine to know that it reduces the incidence of and severity of disease across a population. There's no contradiction between this finding and there being some unvaccinated people who do well and some vaccinated people who do poorly.
Your parents are older. When did u get it and when did they? Also there are people who have more natural immunity. Just because yours was mild does not mean mild cases don’t trigger long haul. I know a few people with mild cases who ended up lh.
@laurad324 Yeah, this person is ignoring one of the single greatest factors involving covid mortality. We've known age to be an *_enormously_* important factor since the first month. How the O.P. could present that anecdote and imagine it shows anything is just baffling. To think that they paid this little attention to the most basic facts about covid yet still thought they knew enough to have anything to contribute.
Just got it while on a bus in Norway. Home boy was coughing on me for 10 blocks, and 48hrs later I was sick. Tested negative at 36hrs and then positive at 50 hrs. Throat felt like glass, dry cough, low grade fever. Today is day 10 and I finally feel back to normal. I’ve had 4 vaccines and had my first Covid 8 months ago. COVID is so fascinating.
My wife and I lost our Novid status in January. I am 73 and my wife is 75. It was pretty much like the worse case of the flu, we ever had. I recovered in a week. It took my wife about 10 days to become functional. My worse symptom was nasal and sinus congestion. I had a cardiologist appointment that I had to change. They told me to come on in and wear a mask. I told them that was a problem with all the gunk coming out of my head. Didn't have trouble with sleeping, in fact that was all I wanted to do.
I had it twice and it was like a cold. You should try having the Rotovirus. I thought me and my kids were going to die. I could not keep their fevers down. They just kept coming back. They couldn't keep any food down, could barely keep fluids down. Covid was nothing.
I am the same age and I went through two pandemics in my life. In 1957 and in 1968. I was only 20 in '68 and remember praying to God to take me then. It was so awful. It seems to me most people people our age if in reasonably good health had it easier than people much younger, and I often wonder if it had anything to do with our exposure to those past pandemics. The virus was indeed a different variety, but perhaps they really gave our immune system a good workout.
I work full-time in a welfare office in California, no jab for me either and no Covid. But I can’t say the same for most of my coworkers though they’re all sick right now in July with Covid have been out for a month.
@@janetmasleid4085I knock on wood daily! I've been exposed so many times at work as an IP, and my daughter had it in April as well. I should enter myself into a study!😂
I have never had COVID either. I'm an introvert, but I work in a Nursing Home as a part time receptionist. Fortunately, I don't interact with the patients all that much. I have been very lucky!
The same happened to me as an ER RN. Vaccinated 12/22/21, COVID Illness on 1/23/22. I’ve never been sick with Covid, and I had it once before my vaccine and two more times afterward.. I lost 10 pounds was in bed a week and had 30 hours of the worst chest pressure I’ve ever had. I have never been sicker. I was seriously worried I would die for three days. There’s absolutely a correlation, not just based on my experience, but based on my observation several hundred times.
@juliejanssen7637 - Yes correlation is not causation, but that doesn't rule out Occam's razor. The OP isn't trying to connect ice cream sales and violent crime, it is plausible and since the RCT control group was destroyed, you cannot argue either way definitively.
I am 55 with LADA and a history of DVT’s. I am a novid. Due to my risk factors I have had all my boosters (7th shot in May) and will continue to get them to give myself the best chance of a good outcome. Glad to here that you are on the mend.
I’m a PA and love hearing this. So many people say.. oh the vaccine gives you blood clots. One did but it’s not on the market now I don’t believe and.. Covid gives people more blood clots than vaccines. I had it twice but very very mild. I almost didn’t even know I had it. I was more bored having to stay in a room than anything. I’ve got 4 or 5 of the shots/boosters.
Im a floor nurse in my local hospital. Got vaxed. Got Covid when the Delta variant was going around, about 3 yrs ago in Aug. Sick as a dog, fainted, called 911, went to ER. Positive for Covid, UTI and the beginning of pneumonia. Totally lost my sense of taste and small and its still only about 50% back. 6 weeks of pure hell later, was finally able to go back to work! Lost almost 15 lbs. Never been so sick in my life!! People still showing up + for Covid regularly in the hospital!
@@bethhayes1 ANY TIME YOU HAVE TO BE COERCED , MANIPULATED , BRIBED , TO TAKE THE JAB 💉 EXPERIMENTAL DRUG PUSHED THRU EUA OR LOSE YOUR LIVLIHOODS 😡 WAS ENOUGH FOR ME . THE ILLEGALS AND REFUGEES UNVETTED AND NOT FORCED VAXXED TRANSPORTED ALL OVER AMERICA WITH GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT FOREIGN DISEASES WITH THEM . REAL VACCINES TAKE AT LEAST 10 YEARS TO DEVELOP MONITOR SAFETY AND EFFICACY MONITOR FOR ADVERSE EVENTS AND DO ANIMAL AND HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS COLLECT DATA THEN DECIDE BY DATA IF BENEFITS OUTWEIGHS THE RISK 🤔 I PRAY 🙏 YOU DIDNT GET A BAD BATCH WE SEE PRESENTING AT HOSPITAL. OVER 1200 SIDE EFFECTS FRAUD FAUCI AND BIG PHARMA KNEW ABOUT, BUT DIDNT INFORM PEOPLE PROPERLY TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES.
My daughter had Delta, it was really a tough one. She fainted as well, and was injured in the fall. I had a much easier case and I am 30 years older. But I probably had omnicron.
Contracted late October 23. Both my wife and I. Both 70 years old. In bathrobes for 4 days. Felt like a bad case of flu, plus sinus infection. After 5-6 days, went to grocery store. Kept distance from all other people. Have had pathophysiology. Both of us had to take a long nap. After 4 weeks, tried to do a little lawn work. Zero exercise tolerance. Was like a stress test. Went back to gym after 6 weeks. 2 mph walk on treadmill for 20 minutes. Yes, it takes a long time to get back to baseline. That said….thought I was having a stroke after my second Covid vaccine injection. Not sure which scenario was most concerning.
I declined to get the covid vaccine. Why did I refuse it. As a very healthy 77 year old Vietnam infantry veteran (today) I believed I could avoid infection. I mention this so that you might better understand my risk/benefit calculus with the perspective of living an extremely difficult experience for 1 year in a Vietnam jungle as a soldier. At 75 I had no comorbidities and felt that my immune system at the time of the covid outbreak was extremely strong and could fend off any potential infection that I might be exposed to. In fact a roommate at the time was diagnosed as being infected and self isolated in his bedroom. I did not get infected. Nor have I since. I remember during the height of pandemic I did not see any professional medical personal publicly emphasize the value of being healthy and eating a healthy diet and exercising etc. No one I saw on any medical podcast ever promoted strengthening your immune system, the message was get the vaccine. I believe that my health education research prior to the pandemic i.e. principally Dr. Greger's book "How Not to Die" had a lot to do with my excellent health status. I highly recommend this world wide bestseller.
I am 74 yo female with no comorbidities. Currently have COVID. Chills, drippy sinuses, fatigue, unable to sleep. Got it at the end of a 10 day European trip (River cruise Basel to Amsterdam plus an extra day in Bruges). First symptoms (drippy sinuses, unable to sleep, mild sore throat) on day 8. Chills and fatigue began last night (day 11). Hope to be over this in a couple of days. I had the original COVID vaccine plus one booster after they were available. The other 3 in my household got COVID 2 years ago but I did not. After getting each vaccine I had chills and fatigue but no cold. Lost a day each time.
I have had Covid twice. First time was at the beginning of the pandemic. I truly was sicker than I had ever been before. Cough, fever, chills, loss of taste and smell. But for me the worst symptoms was this unshakeable feeling of dread that set in about day 7. Very scary!
Got my first Covid on Dec. 2023 with my 97 yr old mom (we live together) getting it from me. I'd been Christmas shopping with no precautions. Suddenly one evening I'm chilled to the bone watching TV. That's odd. Rarely feel chilled. Put on a layer of warm clothes and wraps, etc. A couple hours later feel really hot now. Temp is 102! Next day I get a covid test and it's positive. My first ever, after so many negatives in four years. I asked for paxlovid since my senior sibling had covid the year before and claimed it worked pronto. Exhaustion yes, achy, headache. But not a single sniffle or sinus symptoms. No cough, but extreme tired. Also had some trouble sleeping. But as I got better over reasonable time I also seemed to relapse but not with a positive test just symptoms. However once it was largely gone, the next 90 days or so, I had strange picky little symptoms like: felt I'd breakout in cold sores, mouth felt sensitive and sore (didn't have loss of smell). Weeks after it was long over, i also discovered a high heart rate. Doc said it's hard to sort to out but some do get a higher heart rate. I was overweight, over 60, etc. So they can't be sure what caused heart rate. But not concerning tachycardia, still weird. Later got an ear infection quite out of the blue. Hadn't had one of those for 40 years. And other strange like symptoms came and went. My brother has MS and he got it after I did. It hit him really hard, and was told could take 90 days to recover full strength even though virus ran its course over a week or two. I realized that things were not quite normal until after 90 days had passed and finally I was free of the pesky little symptoms (like gnats flying around). ZdoggMd keep logging your bodily responses for 90 days and see if you don't find you're not really over it fully, til you're fully back to normal. Maybe young folks don't get that 90 day drag.
I'm 69. No jabs. No masks. Sickness? Rare. Was it covid? No idea - no testing either. My focus is: Staying in shape, eating well and good supplements. My life is in God's hands.
Aging. No jabs. I got it (tested cherry-red positive - large viral load). Temperature didn’t get above 100F. It just affected my nasal cavities that stung. Lasted for about 3 days. Ate crap. Smoked heavily. Crappy physical condition. ….. God must like me -- can't figure out why?
Nice that you can be so fortunate. If my brother had went by your playbook, he would have been dead from cancer at age 31. He's still living at age 64 due to intese and prolonged medical intervention.
Congratulations on winning the genetic lottery so far, but anecdotal evidence doesn't trump science. Your disregard for masks and vaccines not only puts yourself at risk but also endangers others. While staying in shape and eating well are great, they don't replace the need for medical interventions proven to save lives. Claiming your life is in 'God's hands' is a convenient way to ignore the collective responsibility we have to each other. Public health relies on everyone doing their part, not just hoping for the best.
@@lawshorizon Did you steal my story intentionally? Lol😊 Except I quit smoking about 5 years ago 🤷♀️ I got Omicron, January '21,just woke up with a Horrendous headache slight fever w/body aches and sore throat and exhausted! Needed Tylenol every 4 hours for 2 days, and I was over it, not a single 💩💉 😊
I am 70 years old and have never had Covid. I have had all the vaccines and boosters. I have asthma and was obese but have since lost 115lbs so no longer obese and asthma is much better. My son who lives with my husband and myself got Covid twice this year and was hospitalized both times and now has long Covid. He has many many preexisting conditions and is immunecompromised too. But we old folks have been very healthy so far! I hope you are feeling better soon.
Get better soon! I enjoyed your Covid discussions (that is how I first found you on TH-cam.). I can understand not wanting to continue down that road and solely identify as such, but would welcome some continued discussions on the topic.
Made it through the pandemic without Covid. Was very careful and had the vaccines. Finally thought it was safe to travel again and went to Alaska a year ago. On my way back home was extremely exhausted. Next couple days were rough but no trouble breathing. Had a couple panic attacks-something I’ve never felt before. Finally on the 5th day I thought to take a Covid test and it was positive. Called the doctor and by then my symptoms were improving. He didn’t think I needed paxlovid by then. I’ll still get the vaccine with my flu shot. Doctor wants me to add RSV shot this year as I’m 75. I was a pediatric nurse and have taken care of many babies with RSV over the years. And flu and whooping cough and croup and rotavirus. Vaccines are a good thing.
This is my 3rd round with covid. You are lucky you didn't get it early on when pneumonia was an issue. I spent a week in the hospital with the delta variant. This round , bad sore throat, lost my voice, fever, chills, fatigue, dry cough, and now loss of taste/smell. I'm over it.
Retired internist and RN who received all the Covid vaccines. Took a world cruise January 2022- May 2022. We had to PCR test daily and wear masks during the cruise. Came home and went to Pri-Med in LA where we both got Covid. One of us had fever, chills, fatigue and took Paxlovid as we are both in our 70s with comorbid conditions. He was better in 72 hours. I had a negative test initially and felt lousy. 12 hours later when I had a fever, I tested positive. I only had fever, headache, and extreme fatigue. I lost my smell and taste. Both returned in a few weeks. Crazy to travel the world and stay safe but came home to a medical convention and get Covid. I remember thinking it strange that the main speaker telling people to stay home if they were sick. 🤷♀️
AS A NURSE MYSELF DIDNT YOU QUESTION HOW QUICK THE SO CALLED VACCINE WAS DEVELOPED? AND REAL VACCINES TAKE AT LEAST 10 YEARS TO DEVELOP MONITOR SAFETY AND EFFICACY MONITOR FOR ADVERSE EVENTS, ANIMAL AND CLINICAL TRIALS, COLLECT DATA TO DETERMINE BENEFITS VS RISK . ONE SIZE NEVER FITS ALL. STILL NOT JABBED 💉 BUT THATS MY CHOICE. REAL VACCINES CAUSE PERMANENT IMMUNITY. NOW PEOPLE UP TO 7-8 JABS INCLUDING BOOSTER 😮
My friend Susan just last week went from Novid to Covid . Her worst complaint was relentless insomnia and feeling like she had been hit by a bus. Interesting.
I thought I was never going to get it. I finally had Covid May 26th 2024- so just 6 weeks ago. started with body aches, sore throat, progressed to fever and chills, severe headache. sore throat went away after 1 day. Lower back pain and leg aches were brutal and lasted a few days. Then started to feel better, although tired. Lost my sense of smell for 8 days. Took a full 3 weeks to feel human again- i was a bit spaced out, fatigued and anxious at the same time. I’ve also had 3 doses in the beginning- initial 2 for healthcare providers and one “booster”. i am 50 but also on pretty good shape- i lift weights and bike. I also had GI disruption. Mild cough. Zero congestion. weird.
I know a Mother, who works as a nurse and her teenage son who got Miocarditis, she has alot of heart issues now, and he can no longer play football this was after they took the COVID Vax.....I opted not to get it, and caught COVID from a couple coming from China that picked up at the International Airport, it was rough almost scary because of everything that was on the news at the time, I was out of energy for over a month, but my body was able to get over it, and I haven't caught it again, Im as strong as an Ox now, no issues, no sicknesses.
I just got Covid for the first time as well and I have to say I resonated so much with your description of your experience. The inability to sleep was huge in the first two days. And the strange light headedness/dizziness but not quite also there. Thank you for sharing!
I had it last fall, and it felt like a cross between the flu and a cold. Lasted 10 days. Wife had it at the same time, and she hasn't been the same since.
The whole family got it early in 2022 (61,52,21,17). Hubs and both kids had their second shots, I chose not to because it was too new for me to be comfortable doing so. Very happy I didn’t. Rest of the family were sick almost two weeks, nasty cold with a day of fever. I was mildly sick a week and had a single symptom every day. They’ve all had it a second time since, not me. I have psoriatic arthritis and my doc tried to hard sell me the shot and update my dTap at the end of 2022. I’ve never had an adverse reaction to any vaccine beyond some achiness or a little fatigue. I agreed to the dTap, I was due anyway. Ended up having a huge reaction, fever around 104 for two days that Tylenol barely reduced (held off on the ER), strong pain in my spine and hips, was ill for a week. It wasn’t covid and I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life. Have often wondered if the cranky nurse mixed up the shot .
I hope you are feeling better , I had 104 fever for days my whole body aches like I got ran over by a truck, I could not move my body to go to pee , I had to hold on to the wall and make it to the bathroom safely, weak , I had a sharp shooting pain from my neck toy brain the worse headache felt like my head was going to explode alot of pressure all over my head and brain and body my taste was not there and I could not smell neither , i had two covid vax and still caught COVID , I m struggling with brain fog long COVID that is and been sick off and on since then COVID is terrible, during covid when I got sick I had brain fog bad i could not think, the only energy i had was to pray that was it , the worse ever , the two vax I had a reaction too weird taste in my mouth the first dose the second dose none and been dealing with tendinitis of my ears and ra flare ups the worse COVID is
@@Yellow-oc4sl oh wow I’m so very sorry, that’s awful. I’ve known so many people that have had such bad effects, and of several that died. My mom developed several aneurysms after her second shot, debilitating vertigo in and off for over a year, and she’s just recovered from getting lymphoma. She was very healthy before her shots.
after 4.5 years of being a novid ..i tested positive last monday . my husband who is a college prof tested positive 4 days prior . because of my ra ,being 68, lost a lot of weight but still medically obese ive had every possible booster per my docs last one in april . . initial sx have been major nasal congestion , profound sneezing , very tight airways / lung congestion . day 6 post paxlovid the only remaining issue is fatigue and my lungs are still irritated . productive cough i’m on albuterol inhaler and expectorant neither my husband nor i have ever been febrile . never lost taste or smell. hoping we’re out of the dark woods . testing now reveals the faintest of lines for each of us . still scared but hoping for consistent recovery for us both ♥️🙏🏻
I’m going through CoVid now and my symptoms were identical to yours. I had some albuterol nebs because I have seasonal asthma, have done a couple of treatments and the cough improved. Hope you getter better soon!
@@lilshaz8378 I heard of someone who had extremely bad tinnitus likely due to COVID-19 or the vaccine for two years. She had heard that nicotine might work. She went to the drug store and got some nicotine gum and the tinnitus was gone in one day. As the good doctor says, results may vary.😉
I was No-vid until 17 days ago when I retuned from Greece. Yea, it’s special all right. Ohhh same! I was lying in bed, in horrible pain, couldn’t move, my bones hurt. Made two people in my household sick.
I can't believe you just got Covid for the first time too. I literally just got Covid this last week for the first time as well. I'm a nurse and worked in the hospitals thru the pandemic and finished my NP during this time. I have been fully vaccinated, boosters included and started to think I was just one of those lucky "immune" people (hahaha...silly lady). So I found this process so fascinating. I started having headaches during the week of the July 4th and some GI/bloating stuff (assumed it was the "you're traveling and your not in your own environment kind of GI stuff). Get home on the 6th from a trip to FL, take an antigen Covid test since I had traveled and had such an awful headache...still negative. 7-8th headache continues, start with weird visual changes, (brain zaps). Evening of 8th...GI symptoms get worse, assuming I had a partial bowel obstruction (have had before) vomiting, abdominal cramps like crazy, and then finally diarrhea. Finally thinking I'm better, then Wed 9th wake up exhausted and thinking maybe I'm getting a cold (I've been traveling). By Wed evening thinking I definitely have a cold (congestion, PND, fatigue, etc) so I take another test...still Negative. 9th feel like it's a full blown cold, coughing starts, slight sore throat. Three quarters thru the day, working at the free clinic (masked of course), I realize my throat is on fire like I've swallowed glass, so fatigued and congested...I have to just go home. Get home still no fever but feels like it, chills start, exhausted...husband says "you have to have covid"...I've tested twice with antigens both negative one was the day before, so I pull out my big guns. Lucira home molecular style test...15 minutes...yep positive result. Now just out of curiosity I take a home antigen test...sure enough, now immediately positive. (I've given and taken 1000s of covid tests over last 4 years so there is no way I mis read any of the tests). Whole thing is just crazy. No Paxlovid here, I'm not high risk. Finally feeling mostly human again, still PND, fatigue, (more brain fog than my usual, lol) and now a suspicious red right eye (unfortunately have had uveitis before so hoping this isn't the start up). And now of course my hubby has gotten it after 4 years free...he's higher risk so on the Paxlovid but literally just said today..."this is the worst I think I've ever felt. I ca not imagine what this was like 4 years ago without being vaccinated ". Sorry so long winded...remember you asked about it, lol. Hope you're on the mend with no long symptoms, fingers crossed for the same here! Always love listening to your channel. Thanks!!!
I’ve never been vaxxed, had it twice working with the public, no big deal. I also have autoimmune problems. I also have a better sense of smell now. Everyone is different. Still against the jab.
@@mariebrick7446 had it 4 years ago, slight temperature for a day, bit of fatigue for two days, then over. Not jabbed. My 80 year old father also got it. Has co morbidities. Took the 4 hooved animal meds and recovered within days. No issues. No jabs
My husband and myself both 62 had covid for the first time about 2 weeks ago. He tested positive first on his 63rd birthday. I work in Healthcare and started feeling bad 2 days later and tested positive at work. We've both had 4 vaccines but none in 2 years. We both felt basically like you did. He took paxlovid but I lived on theraflu. We were both pretty surprised at the timing of this .
Got COVID June 2023. Had 3 vaccines like you did. Worst part for me is the lack of taste & smell. Even now there are things I can’t taste & I think smell is worse. I like many have posted started listening to you during COVID & appreciated your level headedness during the caos. Thanks!
This COVID is weird. This time around, my body and mind has been.. off. Like I feel extreme depression, and the weirdest.. I don’t know. I can’t explain it. Anxiety. Restlessness. It’s making it worse because I can’t rest. It’s almost like the virus has mutated to make people wanna be uncomfortable and restless and exert themselves more instead of being able to rest.
Omg I got depressed too! I thought why the heck does everything feel so hopeless it was so weird I couldn't explain it... but yeah rhe depression lasted as long as my symptoms did and then started going away
I am a 76-year-old woman. I have had all 6 COVID shots (including boosters). Get a flu shot every year, and got RSA vax last year, and never got my annual Michigan cold. I received my free allotment of COVID test kits but never used any of them. Retired and live alone. In excellent health for an old lady; not without issues, but those are age related. I isolated during the early days of COVID but go out now. I have remained COVID-free so far but realize it may change. I figure I am, frankly, just lucky. If I do, I will call my PCP. Be well, my friend. I appreciate all you do.
So sorry you are sick! My PCA had gotten Covid in April. She had to be intibated for 5 days. I was curious if this strain resembled OG. My family had covid back in Nov. 2020. Then I had to both rounds of the vaccine because no one knew what do with people with Natural immunity. Then we contracted Covid almost 2 years ago. We decided not to boost after that first round of 3 boosters. I Remember the horrible headache and the horrible sore throat. Curious....no decreased pulse ox? I know with OG I had a pulse ox as low as 78...but I remember how amped my body was and also the weird craving for vegetables! Hope you feel better soon!
Same here! I got Covid for the first time this week...It's kicking my butt! I have pretty much all the symptoms you had, even that weird light headiness/pre-vertigo too Thank you for the "2 arrow" talk, i've been going down the "2nd arrow" rabbit hole. I really needed to hear that
ER nurse here. Just got diagnosed today and my body HURTS! Glad you’re recovering and look forward to my own! Tylenol x 1 time but no fever (even before Tylenol)
@@AnthonyL0401 Same here, as well as my dad, haven't tested positive. My husband just tested positive for covid about two/three weeks ago, he took paxlovid because he has diabetes, and he tested negative within about 5 days. My dad and I never tested positive, even though we all live in a small apartment and sat here in the living room for a day, when we thought hubby was having bad allergies, until the next day when hubby tested positive he isolated in our bedroom. The funniest thing is I thought I had it before he got it, because I had the weird taste and intestinal symptoms, but when he got it, I took a PCR test at kaiser where you spit in a tube, and it came back as negative, showing I never had it. So bizarre! My dad is in his 70's and has a tumor and diabetes, so you'd think he'd be very susceptible. I'm obese and have asthma.
My mother-in-love, husband and I are all novid-as far as we know. My entire family had kept up with the vaccines but only the three of us have kept up with masks when in indoor public spaces (mostly). The rest of my family have had COVID at least a couple of times. My daughter and her immediate family have had COVID more often, possibly from getting it the first time in early March 2020 after she and a group of friends got back from visiting NYC in Feb/Mar. Two working in the group were officially diagnosed when hospitalized; the rest were denied testing at that time.
my wife and daughter got covid first and it was like having a cold, I got it on Thursday, by Monday I was very sick, went in to be tested and I had covid, I went back the next day for the blood infusion at 7am. While waiting in a wheel chair, I kept feeling worse, they had already starting measuring my o2 levels, they kept getting worse. They called the ER to be ready to receive me. My wife drove me over to the ER. It turned out that I had developed an secondary infection. Pneumonia had set into my left lung. 6 and a half hours later I was able to go home.
67. On keto since 2017. Never had COVID...until today. We had a meeting on Monday where we were all sitting fairly close to each other, at our local community college, and the next day one of our colleagues tested positive for COVID. We were all hoping we didn't get it. Today's Thursday; I couldn't sleep much, felt like I had a fever, tested myself, and yeah. I hear today that two other colleagues at the meeting aren't feeling well. This morning when my temperature was 100.1, I felt REALLY weak, unsteady, couldn't walk well. Yeah..."complete inability to go to sleep." "Felt like I'd been hit by a truck." Exactly. I have to wait until Tuesday to go back to work -- if I don't have a fever -- and will be masking for the next 5 days. Have a clot that recurs now and then (from the vaccines, I think) and turns my thumb and index finger purple. What deals with that the best, weirdly enough, is EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, tapping. Doctor thinks I'll be just fine. My immune system is strong. I've been taking Dr. Berg Vitamin D3/K2 for years; taking his Vitamin C; taking Mountain Rose Herbs herbal throat spray and Beekeeper's immune support throat spray; Quercetin; Turmeric gummies; zinc; oil of oregano; black seed oil. Drinking electrolytes from Keto Chow and beef bone broth from the local butcher's. She said I'm doing the exact right things.
On Saturday, I just felt weird-no energy. On Sunday, chills-everything hurt-including my hair. Could not sleep at all. Called in sick on Monday. Continued fever, cough, horrible headache feeling beat up. Tested positive on Tuesday. Today is the first day I feel ok.
Dr. Z I've followed you since the beginning of the pandemic and your wisdom has been so helpful! i'm fully vaxed and had a booster in late fall of 2023. I'm in the exact same boat! Went from No-vid to currently recovering. My symptoms have been very similar however no congestion and only an occasional wet cough. It sucks but I'm on the other side. Hope you're fully recovered soon!
Both of us fully vaccinated, came back with it from Caribbean cruise in Jan. I tested positive first Monday morning (started with a sore throat at the airport on Sunday). I was working half days Mon-Thu and was fine by Friday morning. I got Paxlovid on Monday. Husband tested positive on Tuesday after a false negative on Monday and his lingered for a long time. No Paxlovid. Turned into sinus infection, fluid in lungs and it took him 5 months to feel 100%
@@pmcardle73 we don't regret the choice to get them and believe without them, the sickness could have been worse. A few family members died because they didn't get the vaccines. We wanted to travel again and that was the requirement so many years ago.
My husband got covid about 2 weeks after getting a booster in the fall of 2022.. He was very sick for almost two days... By the end of the second day he was able to start Paxlovid.. He was already starting to feel better and improve steadily. I didn't catch it. I had been boosted at the same time as he was. I think we did so well because our antibodies were primed. As far as I know, I haven't had covid. Our granddaughter has had covid twice, most recently February of '23. She has long covid and is still mostly house-bound. She's 30 years old, and used to be hard working and full of energy..
I'm 69, only did first vaccine and haven't had covid. My 48 y/o daughter was vaccinated and got covid early on. She has been one of the healthiest people I've ever known. She got long covid and she is still struggling with it. She has neurological issues, the brain fog and severe fatigue still. Sending healthy blessings to you ❤
I work in a community pharmacy & we have seen SO many more Paxlovid Rx's lately. An explosion. My clerk got it & she's got comorbidities (Hashimoto's & diabetes). She had a totally miserable time but was back to work within a week. Never been vaccinated. She's in her 60s. It was her first Covid infection. My first Covid infection was when I was eight months pregnant back in October 2021. Developed preeclampsia then my baby burst both her lungs with her first breath. The neonatologist said it was the worst bilateral pneumothoraces he had ever seen. I'll always wonder if it was related to the Covid or not. According to the L&D nurses at the time, they were seeing preeclampsia in moms who had Covid in pregnancy. I just don't know. I'd had two previous healthy, unremarkable pregnancies & deliveries. Baby is fine now. She spent 8 days in NICU on a ventilator with chest tubes & had severe pulmonary hypertension but she recovered amazingly fast. It was truly a miracle. I had been vaxed (healthcare worker - didn't have a choice & I resented that). Was it the vaccine? Was it the Covid itself? Was it just a freak thing of nature? Idk. I hope you're feeling better now! Thanks for sharing your story.
The most remarkable thing about my COVID experience was the violent uncontrollable RIGORS (shakes) I had. I literally could not make my arms and legs stop shaking despite putting all my might and thought into stilling my extremities! I finally understood what RIGORS were, haha! I learned something new despite being an ER doc for 32 year! Rest of the course: tested positive day 1 of symptoms, started Paxlovid same day, tested neg day #3 with minimal symptoms by then (just fatigue.) No cough, no loss of taste or smell. Just a mild sore throat. Plus the RIGORS! Oh, I had the primary 2 shots with one booster about 18 months before catching COVID.
This is pretty much exactly what has happened to me this week. Negative Monday feeling fatigued and positive for covid the next day. Ive had almost every symptom you have described and I am on Day 3!
My husband had it end of May.(1st time) Started with fatigue and a few body aches. His concerning symptom was racing heart (even resting). He started feeling better after about 5-7 days
Have a disabled person and my retired mother living in my home. I was religious with keeping covid out of the home. HEPA filter air purifiers. No unnecessary outings, masks on in public places, disposable gloves when getting gasoline. Still wiping down groceries. Kept it out of the house for 4 years. In January of this year my disabled houseguest was admitted to the hospital - contracted it there and brought it home to the rest of the house. Fortunately a mild case for everyone involved.
I had to stop what I was doing to watch and comment on this video because I had a similar experience! I got covid for the first time two weeks ago! My husband had it both in 2020 and in 2022 and I managed to avoid it but I had the same experience that you did with the booster. The booster kicked my ass! I was an artist-in-residence at an opera workshop and there were three other people in the ensemble that got infected. Wednesday night, I noticed I had a sore throat which was very unusual for me, Thursday morning I tested negative but I knew I was sick, so I kept my mask on and went home that day. Thursday night, I tested positive instantly. I've literally NEVER been as sick as I was last week, man! I am in good shape and am 47, no comorbidities to speak of. Taste and smell went away. GI symptoms, congestion, cough, chills, fever...NIGHTMARE. I tested positive for 12 days and I definitely had a weird "mouth feeling". I also did not ask for paxlovid. It was so weird to get it in 2024 FINALLY. I've literally taken 30+ covid tests over the years. I thought it was pretty rough. My colleague who also got it at this event was not as sick. It's so weird that it's a different experience for everyone. It's been 14 days and I'm about 85% better but the cough still lingers as well as some chest tightness. I slept like a rock the entire illness though LOL. Ride out the fevers and rest and hydration and sometimes some decongestants when I needed them. Saline nasal rinses helped a ton too. I'm sorry you got covid! We had a good run!
I thank God for extra strength Tylenol. I don't usually take medication but I finally took some because I was in such horrible pain. I only had an expired bottle but after checking online several places said that you can actually still use Tylenol up to 3 years after the expiration date.
Laboratory Scientist here. Was in the thick of it, from the get go. I didn’t get it until this past January (2024). I didn’t try to die or anything, but I felt like crap for 1-2 weeks. Cough hung on forEVER. I don’t know what flavor was going around in January. But I DO know that I don’t want it again!
Wow. Thank you for sharing. I followed you all through 2020-2021. You were my go-to for reason and sanity. I've never had Covid....maybe never will but I love all the information.
It’s so scary. I had covid x2. 2020 version and then October version. I was hospitalized this second go round. I probably needed to be in the hospital the first time but in March 2020 in New York, there was no room. It terrifies me because it affected by heart. I don’t understand how to live in this world. You are right the mental suffering is strong. The hospital isolation was also suffering. Wishing for your speedy recovery, and less suffering.
Just proves the vaccines did little except make people like me suffer with cardiac disrythmia. Children do fine. Us senior citizens not so much! It sucks!! No antiviral drugs? You got the same 3 vaccines but my first was the J&J. It still is screwing up my memory!
I’m a 61yo primary care internist who has never had COVID. I have been tested frequently in order to provide care and access to my nursing home residents. One week ago I tested positive. Very disappointed in myself. I have cared for patients for 4 1/2 years with great caution and diligence. Two days prior to illness, I had updated my M-M-R and blamed the immunization for viral like syndrome. It wasn’t until my peanut butter and jelly didn’t taste appealing, that had my a-ha moment. Unfortunately too late to avoid giving it to my wife. Both of us elected not to be treated with paxlovid. We are both doing very well, but thought we could avoid this plaque.
I don’t understand being disappointed in yourself? You thought you were different? And Of course you’re doing well - it’s just covid. Almost everyone has had it and literally over 95% have survived it. How did you think you were going to avoid it? You were isolating yourselves from everyone? What a strange answer from a doctor.
I’m a first timer just confirmed today. Feels like a sinus infection with loss of smell and taste. I slept for the first two days but feeling better daily
I never had Covid. Two weeks ago after making several trips to Urgent Care, Dr, Er I was diagnosed with "Long Covid". After blood work checking for clots, CT scan everything came back negative. I have a horrible cough, lots of phlegm, headaches and very much fatigued. I am 71 years old with diabetes, copd (second hand smoke) congestive heart failure. I had my 3 first covid shots at the beginning of covid. I have been on 3 antibiotics . Finally the 3rd antibiotic has kicked in. This has been rough. I hope you continues to get better! Thanks for getting information out there to others!
Feel better soon. I got mine 6 weeks after getting the updated vaccine last fall. I didn't take paxlovid either, I treated symptoms at home. positive to negative in 9 days. I was hospitalized back in 2020 with bilateral PE, and still never caught it through the whole pandemic. 3 1/2 years later..BAM. And I know exactly when it happened--I was checking in a patient at work that coughed in my direction before I could move away. I had let my guard down and wasn't masked.
I had Covid March of 2020. Got it from KP pharmacy. I was symptomatic for 9 weeks! Then had Long Covid before it was a thing for about 6 months. My husband died from lung cancer 1-17-20, so I wasn't in a great space prior to getting sick. Definitely followed up with all my Covid shots!
Dr Z, it sounds like you were pretty sick for a couple of days. Did you not consider using the McCullough protocol? What is your opinion about IVM and HCQ after having COVID?
I got IVM, I had Covid in 2021 & it was like having a strange flu & I had it again in early 2022 & the symptoms were more less the second time & it was like having a strange cold, in late 2022 I had influenza & for me that was worse than COVID & it was like I was hit by a train & I was bed bound & I got my wife to reach the IVM because I was too ill to get out of bed to get it myself & after using it I was back on my feet within 12 hours & the next day I was back on my feet & I did a 5 miles cycle ride & back. In October 2023 I had Covid again & the third time it was like a strange cold but only affected my nose but not my throat.
I'm a "never covid" and I got all the shots/boosts and annual covid + flu shots. I do work remote since Covid OG so that plays into it I'm sure. I just wanted to say, "Get well, get well soon. We want you to get well." Love you man.
I have never had documented COVID. My husband got it. He took Paxlovid and it came roaring back when he stopped it. We isolated at home and I avoided it.
Kids are petri dishes and the parent's get everything. I did not have issues with taste, but definitely had the hit by the truck feeling. It took me a full 2 weeks to recover enough around the block.
I got Covid in March. No prior vaccines. Had a 103.6 F for 3 days and no other symptoms. Let the fever burn through me and I asked Covid what message it had for me instead of the arrow of suffering that you mentioned. Had some great insight! 5 days later I was back to skiing. No long Covid.
I came on a sharp "cold", a friend of mine suggested that it was Covid. I have no tests but I find your description most accurate! So now I put myself in quarantine and wait for it to pass by. And try to get some tests. Not sure if I was a nonvid, but it is really sad that one can have Covid repeatedly. Thank you and get well soon.
I have been watching you for several years and enjoy your commentaries. My husband got covid before it was named covid. He had a high fever that we couldn't break for 7 days, we were in Florida and the doctors said it was a flu from over in Europe. He could not smell or taste anything at all. He lost 15 lb very quickly. We were on vacation with the children and I was taking them all to Walt Disney world Polynesian to stay for 2 days as a Christmas bucket list for him. I got so mad he was sick I told him I don't care if we will you in in a wheelchair, I want my pictures of you with a drink in your hand enjoying the sand and your grandchildren! Lol. And I slept right next to him and never got it. A year-and-a-half go by, and my daughter-in-law the doctor becomes pregnant. At that point to be in the delivery room I had to get vaccinated with the first two shots. 4 months later I had my first case of covid. We both came down with it. No long haulers, it felt like the regular flu. We did get it a second time about 2 years later. Mark had been on a business trip and we think he got it in the Atlanta airport. He got really sick once again and I got the regular flu version. We both took Pax-lovid, wonder drug! Thank you Pfizer! And have stayed well since. I hope you enjoyed our little 4 year jaunt through history. Keep up the good work! In our home we consider you friend. Debbie and Mark Peyron, Corydon Indiana, (author and Evangelist) (Miraculous Interventions book series) and owner of Capitol Jewelers
I hope you're feeling better ZDogg. You look healthy in your video. I got the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine in March/April 2021. I got the Delta variant in the summer of 2021, then I caught the Omicron variant in Feb. 2022. I definitely felt worse with Omicron, but my symptoms were not as bad as yours. I did have symptoms similar to yours when I caught the H1N1 flu virus in 2009. I definitely felt like I was hit by a bus. I had extreme fatigue, vertigo and a terrible cough. Three or four nights spent with severe coughing. I remember coughing up pink phlegm, and thinking this can not be good. At the time I did not have health insurance, so it was my immune system against the virus. After getting over the flu it took about 4 weeks for my lungs to get back to normal. Respiratory viruses can be brutal.
I wanted to add.....I'm so glad you shared the mind-body connection. How we may get sick and that's one thing but then what our mind does with it is another. I really needed to hear that!!
I had covid 3 weeks ago for the first time (3 vaccines as you had too) and had exactly the same symptoms as you, apart from my throat was the worst I have ever experienced! I’m all clear now apart from fatigue 🙏
64, healthcare hospital worker, keto diet 5 years, no chronic illness, super Vit D level, never vaxed, showed antibodies via Red Cross blood donations early on, 1 suspected case, 2 tests both negative, no missed work for any reason since before 2020. 🤞 Appreciated your report. Thanks!
so you were -on the front lines (healthcare worker), -have evidence you were exposed, - were never v*xxsed And you are just fine. We never hear these examples in media. never. only fearmongering. Did the advice of Su ch ar it Bh ak di have any part in deciding not to get v*xxed?
You described it perfectly. My cough is dry. I experienced one night of terrible sweats/chills. Otherwise had the exact same experience. I also thought about how challenging the test is when feeling so badly. I am on day 3. Appetite improving (mostly having plant based protein shakes). The dizziness is the worst symptom at this point. Thank you very much for sharing, it really helped to hear. I hope you feel better soon! Oh, and I used a tongue scraper today - it made my mouth feel cleaner. I am a retired clinical RD.
We're still Novids, but both my husband and I have observed almost complete quarantine since the beginning of the pandemic and have recieved all the boosters. My husband has a cardiac hx and I have asthma--and we're both fairly unsocial, anyway--so we are very careful. We have our groceries delivered and wear N95s whenever we are forced to go out. It's less the immediate illness that worries us than the potential long-term effects. We're hoping to remain Novids for the foreseeable future.
3 out of the 5 members of our immediate family got the latest round of COVID. The only 2 who didn't? Our 2 youngest that I refused to let get the COVID jab. It was my first time ever getting COVID. My husband and son have had it multiple times.
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January 2022 contracted covid, was put on ventilator, in coma for 3 1/2 weeks, got a tracheotomy, miracle I lived, was in hospital for 2 months wax a long recovery but grateful to be alive.
Praise God you're alive!❤
Glad you made it through. 🙏
I’m so glad you pulled through…the critical patients were just heartbreaking…😢😢
First time in aug 22, then again in Jan 24. I have had jabs so I felt my COVID experience was fairly mild thankfully. My elderly mother seems to dodge it, we do our best to shelter her from it
Glad you survived. My cousin had a similar experience-was on a ventilator and had a number of complications. I really didn’t think he was going to make it but he did.
Had an ancestral strain in January 2021. My entire personality changed. That floating, presyncopal feeling never went away. I just went back to nursing after a 9-month hiatus and I’m shaken by the denial of concern out there about the long term damage that’s been done. We are all just pretending we’re okay.
Thanks for sharing that. The public's response to Covid has destroyed my faith in common sense. I'm in Northern California (kind of right wing) and, being a senior, I still wear a mask when I go into stores. There are some stores that are so hostile to me about it that I have to avoid them. The whole thing is just nuts.
Didn't you recommend that we all got Covid vaccinated multiple times?
Sleepy Joe had 6 jabs (that we know about !) … And he just got it again. Fourth time ?
Rachel Madow said if you get the jab, you can't get the virus....😅
Steve6269 - imagine thinking Rachel (or any celeb) is a good source of medical information and thinking you're proving a point by saying she isn't.
@@cryptolorne2566 I wasn't trying to prove anything, as it was a joke. Try to relax. 🤙🏻
He probably did … people need to stop listening to influencers. Stop getting 💉 because it’s what is behind spreading it
I haven’t been sick since about 2006. Never wore a mask and no way in hell did I or would I get the jab. Never. I weigh around 100 lbs and have a good diet, and I am 68. Edit to add: I have been around a few people with CV.
What about other vaccines and flu shots? What about any other jabs, like for shingles etc? Being a teacher I had to get flu shots every year and aslo was talked into the first shingles shot too, and bingo by the age of 55, my health failed and after numerous testings I was sent to IUPUI and was found to have at least THREE autoimmune diseases, including Sarcoidosis?! WTH, how does a reasonably healthy human get all these autoimmune diseases? BTW, I teach nutrition also Health and PE and I keep slim and active, so what's up? I will not get any more jabs or shots and keep up as healthy and active that I can possibly be. I do believe in vaccines up to a certain age and point. Sure with I had thought of this before getting flu shots and the shingles after the age of 50!! And YES,I did get the shingles about a year after the jab for it, the very first sign my health was failing was getting a horrible case of shingles, Ugh!
I do wear a mask if I am indoors in a crowd or a medical facility, but NO COVID ...yet.
@@nancylee3424I escaped four years by masking. Hubby gave it to me at home .
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Me too…. I will never ever take a vaccine since I’ve heard and seen people get seriously sick or die from this jab they call the experimental vaccine….. it’s all a scam to see if people believe the propaganda the msm spread across the planet. Allot more ailments and deaths are now happening since the jab came out!! …. Please do some research and question everything!! 🙏🥺
I didn't get hit by a truck--I got run over by a freight train. It is easier to list the things what were right, in my body, than list the things that were wrong. I didn't have any home tests, and I was in no shape to drive, and no one was going to drive me to a test center, but there was no doubt I had COVID as the person, responsible for me getting it from her daughter, came down with it the same time I did. I was 78 at the time. I had limited exposure to other people and it was just the one woman, and her daughter, I came in contact with.
The worst was over after a week of misery but then many of the symptoms lingered. This went on for two months and then I was hit with a cytokine storm which sent clots to my leg, heart, and lung. I wasn't allowed to move for three days while they pumped me with coumadin.
I left the hospital, almost a week later, with oxygen, injectable coumadin, and about a quart of fluid in my lungs. I am still recovering over two years later. But at least my lungs are clear. I am able to take short walks, and most of the mental fog has lifted. I recently noticed I could even taste food again. I think having the inoculations saved me. It also helped that I kept active during the pandemic so was in good shape when COVID hit.
Very glad you survived, but so very sorry that it almost did you in. Thoughts for your continued fully recovery!❤
Got the jab and still going to hospital. Hmmm Could have been worse LOOOL
@@TH-wu1mw Yes, the inoculations probably saved my life as I was 78, had stage 4 breast cancer, Parkinson's, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and 9 other significant health issues. Two members of the family, much younger, and in better health, died. Neither got inoculated due to political leanings.
@@drbettyschueler3235 do you seriously think it's political leanings? good grief.
Oh my goodness what an experience! I’m 50 and have had my fair share of colds and flus, mainly had them back when my three children attended school and brought bugs home every year. Sometimes I could care for three sick kids and not catch it, other times I was sick with them. Something about this bug just doesn’t make sense. It’s feels lab made because it was like nothing I ever had. The extreme fatigue was scary. For days I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Then the loss of taste and smell.
To this day (two years later) I sometimes will notice a smell around my home like passing by a candle or my dog, that I haven’t smelled in weeks. So it’s still fluctuating to this day. Which is concerning to me.
Anyway, so so glad you made it and I sincerely hope you never get it again.
I got Covid in 2020, and almost died from it and had long Covid until last year. I have been treated by a metabolic weight loss and hormone specialist, which has taken me from not being able to walk across the room without getting out of breath, to fully functioning!
What was the hormones?
I’m on all three, estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, which Covid zapped to zero levels. I also had leaky gut syndrome and high blood pressure from Covid and gained a ton of weight due to inactivity and eating what could be heated in the microwave and delivered, because my exhaustion kept me from being able to cook. She helped me heal all that, boost my liver function which was also affected and lose weight, while replacing my nonexistent hormones. So I’ve decreased my blood pressure medication in half and no longer have to use a rescue inhaler. I can do what I want, lost 88 lbs and have all the energy in the world!
Praise the Lord for your recovery🎉
@@sherefulkam2885 No, praise medical science, goof.
I’m so sorry that you have had such a rough go of it. One of our nephews had a stroke after taking the Johnson & Johnson jab. it’s such a mess. The people that really were hit with this crap hard are the ones I’m always praying for. God bless you.❤
I was hesitant to get the Pfizer vaccine back in 2021, but watching you convinced me that it was ok and I should. So I did. And I regret it.
I don't even blame the you from back then for your advice. But I don't understand why you haven't moved on and changed your opinion on Covid vaccinations.
Bioweapon
... because it ain't safe.
So many people regret doing things they watch on TH-cam. But remember what they said. It's safe and effective. So I am guessing you should be fine. And maybe you have long covid.
Search "jeff and erica special guest nurse anne october 2023" for a no holds barred red pill portal to m-w-f covid commentary and analysis
May I ask why you regret it?
Dr. Z, I hope you are feeling better each day. I just had to let you know how much you and your videos meant to me during the height of covid. I hung on your every word and your advice and insights were great. I also appreciate all of the guests that you had on. Anyway, please know how much I appreciate you. May God bless you, Frank Manno
I'm a 67 year young, very healthy individual; over July 4 weekend I set up an art exhibit in a local gallery - I wasn't around a bunch of people - I returned home July 6 and felt fine. Sunday & Monday were filled with "catching up"; Tuesday morning I woke up with a small cough and some sneezing. As the day progressed, the coughing got worse and my upper chest started to feel "raw". I had a screaming headache (I never get headaches) and a slight fever - and then I had chills. I didn't sleep well, primarily because of the headache. Wednesday was worse; more coughing/raw chest, lots of sneezing, headaches and slight fever...also FATIGUE. Took my dog for an hour walk and went home and slept 2 hours; was up watching movies for a couple hours - then back to sleep for a couple hours. I basically stayed in bed watching movies all day Wednesday & Thursday; I was taking 4-5 GRAMS of Vitamin C/day, and I did take ONE sauna. Ordinarily I should have begun to get better, but I didn't - I decided to go to Quickcare on Thursday evening for antibiotics, as I "don't have time to be sick".... After describing my symptoms, they gave me a Covid test. The doctor examined me and listened to my chest/breathing extensively - he said "you sound great". He left and came back in a couple minutes later and said "you're Covid test is positive". (now we have the answer). He told me to "keep doing what I was doing"; the next day I started taking TWO saunas/day, 4-5g of Vit C/day and echinacea. I was still walking my dog a total of 5-6 miles/day, but lounging around a lot. On Friday (day after I went to Dr and 4th day after symptoms began) and I was beginning to feel better (I attribute this to the sauna sessions). Each day has been better and better. On Day 7 I felt fairly normal; I went out to work in my art studio and didn't take any naps... Today is Day 13 since symptoms started; I have been asymptomatic for at least 5 days. I've been quarantining (I live alone) and am waiting to do another Covid test on Thursday (two weeks after symptom onset). I'm still taking saunas, but once/day. I have NEVER had a Covid vaccine; I was able to taste and smell throughout this time. I didn't take ANY OTC meds for headache/fever - SAUNA is my "drug of choice".... I spent most of the day in my art studio and I'm going to do the same today. This morning I walked 5 miles, rowed 4000 meters on my rowing machine, and used my vibration machine for 20 minutes........
You have your life setup rather beautifully-favored for this...Congrats :)
Covid test? Really? Where have you been? You listened to Kary Mullis who invented it, on u tube (is it still there?) saying it wasn’t for testing infections!? Did you see the fruit bowl contents testing positive!? 😣
I'm grateful to you for sharing this story - especially the part about feeling not quite right in a hard to describe way. That is exactly what happened to me except I wasn't otherwise sick. My main symptom was that sort of lightheaded weird feeling. Very unnerving. I only tested myself because my boyfriend had a raging case. The only other symptom was that I couldn't smell coffee for two days. You have such a wonderful positive attitude! I hope you made a 100% recovery.
I had a variant that attacked my joints. The absolute worse pains I’ve ever had. 10 days, high fever, cough…
Don’t wish it on anyone.
A person can have more than one infection or virus at the same time it's terrible this COVID crap
That would be the fever lol
I know exactly
Haven't had Covid. Nor have I gotten the Covid vax either. Haven't been sick for over 6 years and hope to stay that way.
Same here I've not had covid, no vaccines, not had a cold nor sore throat nothing for over 20 years don't know why don't seem normal but trust me I'm happy.
Same here
Same here. No COVID, and I've tested for antibodies 3 different times. No vaccines for COVID. I travel 100k a year, so I guess I've been exposed but have good immunity. Also, in 2020 I raised my vitamin D from 30 to 70.
Yup! Never tested, jabbed or boosted. Anecdotal but everyone I know who got Covid this summer has been vaccinated. Everyone I know who is unvaxxed is fine.
Ok my dear so what are you doing eating and taking.
I got ME/CFS in 1991. I wasn't the only one. There were also a number of viruses going around untested at the time. They blew us off as hysterical and then they forgot about us. I've been sick since. I've now had COVID (Omicron) twice, in addition but don't seem any worse.
I'm SO glad for all the people who got long COVID and have had much more acceptance than we did. I am so grateful for the researchers who said "wait, we've seen something like this before."
I hope you have a nice short COVID infection. But as someone who is known in the medical community, please pay very close attention to your symptoms, imagine having them for year after year, with nobody believing you, and remind your colleagues that we are still here, we will all still be here when people finally forget about COVID, and please help keep researchers funded and working on research to help ALL of us.
I also have ME/CFS, brought on by a respiratory virus I contracted in 2013. Prolonged post-viral illnesses are very real.
Got it the same year , been sick since also. I agree about how long covid interest is finally shining a light on this, and it being a good thing. Hope. Now I have hope.
@@ellenh278still no treatment for long Covid here in UK even though I know research is going on but it’s not shared. I’ve had LC since early 2020 obviously I didn’t know what it was then and thought the symptoms would stop but no 2024 o still experience a lot of the symptoms but not so harshly. The chronic fatigue is the one that has really been debilitating.
@SassyO100 Sorry to hear you are struggling too. Yes, the fatigue (and for me also brain fog) can make functioning so hard. I feel like I've been robbed of the life I was meant to live.
Much work to be done regarding treatment, but at least there is some interest in and funds for it now. For decades, next to nothing. Hope you are finding ways to cope with things.
Same here, ME since 1993. Currently have severe psoriatic arthritis flare up too, its shit isn't it ❤
My case of COVID was minor and I was unvaccinated. My parents case of COVID was major and they were fully vaccinated. No hospital for me, ICU hospital stay for my parents. And a complete no nose dive in their health after COVID
"My parents"
Maybe you missed it, but they've known since the early weeks that covid was exponentially more dangerous for you the older you were. Everyone has known this *_from the beginning._* You're not proving anything with this anecdote.
Anyhow, they've done enough studies of the vaccine to know that it reduces the incidence of and severity of disease across a population. There's no contradiction between this finding and there being some unvaccinated people who do well and some vaccinated people who do poorly.
Your parents are older. When did u get it and when did they? Also there are people who have more natural immunity. Just because yours was mild does not mean mild cases don’t trigger long haul. I know a few people with mild cases who ended up lh.
@laurad324 Yeah, this person is ignoring one of the single greatest factors involving covid mortality. We've known age to be an *_enormously_* important factor since the first month. How the O.P. could present that anecdote and imagine it shows anything is just baffling. To think that they paid this little attention to the most basic facts about covid yet still thought they knew enough to have anything to contribute.
Love the n of 1 stories that are meaningless
@@cactuscanine3531 As though their anecdotes could possibly override the results of mass epidemiological studies.
Just got it while on a bus in Norway. Home boy was coughing on me for 10 blocks, and 48hrs later I was sick. Tested negative at 36hrs and then positive at 50 hrs. Throat felt like glass, dry cough, low grade fever. Today is day 10 and I finally feel back to normal. I’ve had 4 vaccines and had my first Covid 8 months ago. COVID is so fascinating.
My wife and I lost our Novid status in January. I am 73 and my wife is 75. It was pretty much like the worse case of the flu, we ever had. I recovered in a week. It took my wife about 10 days to become functional. My worse symptom was nasal and sinus congestion. I had a cardiologist appointment that I had to change. They told me to come on in and wear a mask. I told them that was a problem with all the gunk coming out of my head. Didn't have trouble with sleeping, in fact that was all I wanted to do.
I had it twice and it was like a cold. You should try having the Rotovirus. I thought me and my kids were going to die. I could not keep their fevers down. They just kept coming back. They couldn't keep any food down, could barely keep fluids down. Covid was nothing.
It is not a flu. It is a very different thing… You know what I mean…
I am the same age and I went through two pandemics in my life. In 1957 and in 1968. I was only 20 in '68 and remember praying to God to take me then. It was so awful. It seems to me most people people our age if in reasonably good health had it easier than people much younger, and I often wonder if it had anything to do with our exposure to those past pandemics. The virus was indeed a different variety, but perhaps they really gave our immune system a good workout.
how many c19 inject1ons did you get ?
@@7QHook the first three. Then we decided you aren’t going to vaccinate your way of a pandemic.
No Jab, never even not even flu shots ever ! I’m 72 ! 😜never had Covid !
Me 67, no jab but had C19 in 2022; lasted 12 days with strong symptoms and recovered just with paracetamol and cough syrup. No fuss.
I work full-time in a welfare office in California, no jab for me either and no Covid. But I can’t say the same for most of my coworkers though they’re all sick right now in July with Covid have been out for a month.
ok good for you, you want a prize or something?
@@seang3538 how many boosters have you had?
@@overworked1084exactly!
I have yet to contract COVID(Knocks on wood). The bonus of being an introvert. lol
knock on wood.. had NovaVax this spring
@@janetmasleid4085I knock on wood daily! I've been exposed so many times at work as an IP, and my daughter had it in April as well. I should enter myself into a study!😂
Exactly
I have never had COVID either. I'm an introvert, but I work in a Nursing Home as a part time receptionist. Fortunately, I don't interact with the patients all that much. I have been very lucky!
Me tooooooo 😊
RN in ER. Lots of exposure. Contracted covid 4 weeks after my forced vaccine. You will never convince me there isn't a correlation.
Yeah ..really could be. Damm criminal mandate....and ruined Medical's credibility.
Correlation is not necessarily causation
The same happened to me as an ER RN. Vaccinated 12/22/21, COVID Illness on 1/23/22. I’ve never been sick with Covid, and I had it once before my vaccine and two more times afterward.. I lost 10 pounds was in bed a week and had 30 hours of the worst chest pressure I’ve ever had. I have never been sicker. I was seriously worried I would die for three days. There’s absolutely a correlation, not just based on my experience, but based on my observation several hundred times.
@juliejanssen7637 - Yes correlation is not causation, but that doesn't rule out Occam's razor. The OP isn't trying to connect ice cream sales and violent crime, it is plausible and since the RCT control group was destroyed, you cannot argue either way definitively.
Also hasn’t it been proven that the “vaccine “ doesn’t stop transmission! Even Pfizer admitted it!!!
I am 55 with LADA and a history of DVT’s. I am a novid. Due to my risk factors I have had all my boosters (7th shot in May) and will continue to get them to give myself the best chance of a good outcome. Glad to here that you are on the mend.
I’m a PA and love hearing this. So many people say.. oh the vaccine gives you blood clots. One did but it’s not on the market now I don’t believe and.. Covid gives people more blood clots than vaccines. I had it twice but very very mild. I almost didn’t even know I had it. I was more bored having to stay in a room than anything. I’ve got 4 or 5 of the shots/boosters.
Im a floor nurse in my local hospital. Got vaxed. Got Covid when the Delta variant was going around, about 3 yrs ago in Aug. Sick as a dog, fainted, called 911, went to ER. Positive for Covid, UTI and the beginning of pneumonia. Totally lost my sense of taste and small and its still only about 50% back. 6 weeks of pure hell later, was finally able to go back to work! Lost almost 15 lbs. Never been so sick in my life!! People still showing up + for Covid regularly in the hospital!
Did the vaccine mRna cause the initial side effects which can take months to show that were exacerbated by covid?
@@bethhayes1 ANY TIME YOU HAVE TO BE COERCED , MANIPULATED , BRIBED , TO TAKE THE JAB 💉 EXPERIMENTAL DRUG PUSHED THRU EUA OR LOSE YOUR LIVLIHOODS 😡 WAS ENOUGH FOR ME .
THE ILLEGALS AND REFUGEES UNVETTED AND NOT FORCED VAXXED TRANSPORTED ALL OVER AMERICA WITH GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT FOREIGN DISEASES WITH THEM .
REAL VACCINES TAKE AT LEAST 10 YEARS TO DEVELOP MONITOR SAFETY AND EFFICACY MONITOR FOR ADVERSE EVENTS AND DO ANIMAL AND HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS COLLECT DATA THEN DECIDE BY DATA IF BENEFITS OUTWEIGHS THE RISK 🤔 I PRAY 🙏 YOU DIDNT GET A BAD BATCH WE SEE PRESENTING AT HOSPITAL.
OVER 1200 SIDE EFFECTS FRAUD FAUCI AND BIG PHARMA KNEW ABOUT, BUT DIDNT INFORM PEOPLE PROPERLY TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES.
Was pre med, studied this 2years, am same as u, gatting worse, 3 years in, no clinic here + my Drs dint know what I'm talking about🙏❤️
My daughter had Delta, it was really a tough one. She fainted as well, and was injured in the fall. I had a much easier case and I am 30 years older. But I probably had omnicron.
Contracted late October 23. Both my wife and I. Both 70 years old. In bathrobes for 4 days. Felt like a bad case of flu, plus sinus infection. After 5-6 days, went to grocery store. Kept distance from all other people. Have had pathophysiology. Both of us had to take a long nap. After 4 weeks, tried to do a little lawn work. Zero exercise tolerance. Was like a stress test. Went back to gym after 6 weeks. 2 mph walk on treadmill for 20 minutes. Yes, it takes a long time to get back to baseline. That said….thought I was having a stroke after my second Covid vaccine injection. Not sure which scenario was most concerning.
I declined to get the covid vaccine. Why did I refuse it. As a very healthy 77 year old Vietnam infantry veteran (today) I believed I could avoid infection. I mention this so that you might better understand my risk/benefit calculus with the perspective of living an extremely difficult experience for 1 year in a Vietnam jungle as a soldier. At 75 I had no comorbidities and felt that my immune system at the time of the covid outbreak was extremely strong and could fend off any potential infection that I might be exposed to. In fact a roommate at the time was diagnosed as being infected and self isolated in his bedroom. I did not get infected. Nor have I since.
I remember during the height of pandemic I did not see any professional medical personal publicly emphasize the value of being healthy and eating a healthy diet and exercising etc. No one I saw on any medical podcast ever promoted strengthening your immune system, the message was get the vaccine.
I believe that my health education research prior to the pandemic i.e. principally Dr. Greger's book "How Not to Die" had a lot to do with my excellent health status. I highly recommend this world wide bestseller.
I'm a fan of Dr. Greger as well. ❤
I want to hit your “like” button twice! Stay healthy!
@@fw4771me too! Well done! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This!!!!
Excellent advice for all! Too bedcDr. Z got on the Mrna Vax bandwagon.
I am 74 yo female with no comorbidities. Currently have COVID. Chills, drippy sinuses, fatigue, unable to sleep. Got it at the end of a 10 day European trip (River cruise Basel to Amsterdam plus an extra day in Bruges). First symptoms (drippy sinuses, unable to sleep, mild sore throat) on day 8. Chills and fatigue began last night (day 11). Hope to be over this in a couple of days. I had the original COVID vaccine plus one booster after they were available. The other 3 in my household got COVID 2 years ago but I did not. After getting each vaccine I had chills and fatigue but no cold. Lost a day each time.
I and my husband- 63 and 68 have not had COVID -yet. The beauty of working from home as it has been several cases in my “designated assigned office”.
I have had Covid twice. First time was at the beginning of the pandemic. I truly was sicker than I had ever been before. Cough, fever, chills, loss of taste and smell. But for me the worst symptoms was this unshakeable feeling of dread that set in about day 7. Very scary!
Got my first Covid on Dec. 2023 with my 97 yr old mom (we live together) getting it from me. I'd been Christmas shopping with no precautions. Suddenly one evening I'm chilled to the bone watching TV. That's odd. Rarely feel chilled. Put on a layer of warm clothes and wraps, etc. A couple hours later feel really hot now. Temp is 102! Next day I get a covid test and it's positive. My first ever, after so many negatives in four years. I asked for paxlovid since my senior sibling had covid the year before and claimed it worked pronto. Exhaustion yes, achy, headache. But not a single sniffle or sinus symptoms. No cough, but extreme tired. Also had some trouble sleeping. But as I got better over reasonable time I also seemed to relapse but not with a positive test just symptoms. However once it was largely gone, the next 90 days or so, I had strange picky little symptoms like: felt I'd breakout in cold sores, mouth felt sensitive and sore (didn't have loss of smell). Weeks after it was long over, i also discovered a high heart rate. Doc said it's hard to sort to out but some do get a higher heart rate. I was overweight, over 60, etc. So they can't be sure what caused heart rate. But not concerning tachycardia, still weird. Later got an ear infection quite out of the blue. Hadn't had one of those for 40 years. And other strange like symptoms came and went. My brother has MS and he got it after I did. It hit him really hard, and was told could take 90 days to recover full strength even though virus ran its course over a week or two. I realized that things were not quite normal until after 90 days had passed and finally I was free of the pesky little symptoms (like gnats flying around). ZdoggMd keep logging your bodily responses for 90 days and see if you don't find you're not really over it fully, til you're fully back to normal. Maybe young folks don't get that 90 day drag.
I'm 69. No jabs. No masks. Sickness? Rare. Was it covid? No idea - no testing either. My focus is: Staying in shape, eating well and good supplements. My life is in God's hands.
Aging. No jabs. I got it (tested cherry-red positive - large viral load). Temperature didn’t get above 100F. It just affected my nasal cavities that stung. Lasted for about 3 days. Ate crap. Smoked heavily. Crappy physical condition. ….. God must like me -- can't figure out why?
Nice that you can be so fortunate. If my brother had went by your playbook, he would have been dead from cancer at age 31. He's still living at age 64 due to intese and prolonged medical intervention.
Congratulations on winning the genetic lottery so far, but anecdotal evidence doesn't trump science. Your disregard for masks and vaccines not only puts yourself at risk but also endangers others. While staying in shape and eating well are great, they don't replace the need for medical interventions proven to save lives. Claiming your life is in 'God's hands' is a convenient way to ignore the collective responsibility we have to each other. Public health relies on everyone doing their part, not just hoping for the best.
@@brockreynolds870 - whats a 33 y/o cancer story got to do with his/her no jab covid approach?
@@lawshorizon
Did you steal my story intentionally? Lol😊
Except I quit smoking about 5 years ago 🤷♀️ I got Omicron, January '21,just woke up with a Horrendous headache slight fever w/body aches and sore throat and exhausted!
Needed Tylenol every 4 hours for 2 days, and I was over it, not a single 💩💉 😊
Feel better, brother. thanks for the story time!
I am 70 years old and have never had Covid. I have had all the vaccines and boosters. I have asthma and was obese but have since lost 115lbs so no longer obese and asthma is much better. My son who lives with my husband and myself got Covid twice this year and was hospitalized both times and now has long Covid. He has many many preexisting conditions and is immunecompromised too. But we old folks have been very healthy so far! I hope you are feeling better soon.
Excellent work on the weight loss. Continue on your quest to stay healthy.
Get better soon! I enjoyed your Covid discussions (that is how I first found you on TH-cam.). I can understand not wanting to continue down that road and solely identify as such, but would welcome some continued discussions on the topic.
Made it through the pandemic without Covid. Was very careful and had the vaccines. Finally thought it was safe to travel again and went to Alaska a year ago. On my way back home was extremely exhausted. Next couple days were rough but no trouble breathing. Had a couple panic attacks-something I’ve never felt before. Finally on the 5th day I thought to take a Covid test and it was positive. Called the doctor and by then my symptoms were improving. He didn’t think I needed paxlovid by then. I’ll still get the vaccine with my flu shot. Doctor wants me to add RSV shot this year as I’m 75. I was a pediatric nurse and have taken care of many babies with RSV over the years. And flu and whooping cough and croup and rotavirus. Vaccines are a good thing.
This is my 3rd round with covid. You are lucky you didn't get it early on when pneumonia was an issue. I spent a week in the hospital with the delta variant. This round , bad sore throat, lost my voice, fever, chills, fatigue, dry cough, and now loss of taste/smell. I'm over it.
Retired internist and RN who received all the Covid vaccines. Took a world cruise January 2022- May 2022. We had to PCR test daily and wear masks during the cruise. Came home and went to Pri-Med in LA where we both got Covid. One of us had fever, chills, fatigue and took Paxlovid as we are both in our 70s with comorbid conditions. He was better in 72 hours. I had a negative test initially and felt lousy. 12 hours later when I had a fever, I tested positive. I only had fever, headache, and extreme fatigue. I lost my smell and taste. Both returned in a few weeks. Crazy to travel the world and stay safe but came home to a medical convention and get Covid. I remember thinking it strange that the main speaker telling people to stay home if they were sick. 🤷♀️
It seems that I always get sick after travelling but no COVID yet
So it's not a vaccine clearly
AS A NURSE MYSELF DIDNT YOU QUESTION HOW QUICK THE SO CALLED VACCINE WAS DEVELOPED? AND REAL VACCINES TAKE AT LEAST 10 YEARS TO DEVELOP MONITOR SAFETY AND EFFICACY MONITOR FOR ADVERSE EVENTS, ANIMAL AND CLINICAL TRIALS, COLLECT DATA TO DETERMINE BENEFITS VS RISK .
ONE SIZE NEVER FITS ALL.
STILL NOT JABBED 💉 BUT THATS MY CHOICE.
REAL VACCINES CAUSE PERMANENT IMMUNITY.
NOW PEOPLE UP TO 7-8 JABS INCLUDING BOOSTER 😮
Masks don't do much of anything unless N95 or better.
They lied and said the vxs would stop transmission too and they don't.
My friend Susan just last week went from Novid to Covid . Her worst complaint was relentless insomnia and feeling like she had been hit by a bus. Interesting.
I thought I was never going to get it. I finally had Covid May 26th 2024- so just 6 weeks ago.
started with body aches, sore
throat, progressed to fever and chills, severe headache. sore throat went away after 1 day. Lower back pain and leg aches were brutal and lasted a few days. Then started to feel better, although tired. Lost my sense of smell for 8 days. Took a full 3 weeks to feel human again- i was a bit spaced out, fatigued and anxious at the same time. I’ve also had 3 doses in the beginning- initial 2 for healthcare providers and one “booster”.
i am 50 but also on pretty good shape- i lift weights and bike.
I also had GI disruption. Mild cough. Zero congestion.
weird.
I had really bad leg cramps too it was brutal
I know a Mother, who works as a nurse and her teenage son who got Miocarditis, she has alot of heart issues now, and he can no longer play football this was after they took the COVID Vax.....I opted not to get it, and caught COVID from a couple coming from China that picked up at the International Airport, it was rough almost scary because of everything that was on the news at the time, I was out of energy for over a month, but my body was able to get over it, and I haven't caught it again, Im as strong as an Ox now, no issues, no sicknesses.
My dear friend was a county level cyclist, incredibly fit … multiple jabbed …
Died very suddenly with myocarditis last year.
Vax injury IS REAL
I'm sorry about your friend 🙏
I just got Covid for the first time as well and I have to say I resonated so much with your description of your experience. The inability to sleep was huge in the first two days. And the strange light headedness/dizziness but not quite also there. Thank you for sharing!
I had it last fall, and it felt like a cross between the flu and a cold. Lasted 10 days. Wife had it at the same time, and she hasn't been the same since.
The whole family got it early in 2022 (61,52,21,17). Hubs and both kids had their second shots, I chose not to because it was too new for me to be comfortable doing so. Very happy I didn’t.
Rest of the family were sick almost two weeks, nasty cold with a day of fever. I was mildly sick a week and had a single symptom every day. They’ve all had it a second time since, not me.
I have psoriatic arthritis and my doc tried to hard sell me the shot and update my dTap at the end of 2022. I’ve never had an adverse reaction to any vaccine beyond some achiness or a little fatigue. I agreed to the dTap, I was due anyway. Ended up having a huge reaction, fever around 104 for two days that Tylenol barely reduced (held off on the ER), strong pain in my spine and hips, was ill for a week. It wasn’t covid and I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life. Have often wondered if the cranky nurse mixed up the shot .
Very real story, hope it doesn't end buried under so many useless and empty comments
I hope you are feeling better , I had 104 fever for days my whole body aches like I got ran over by a truck, I could not move my body to go to pee , I had to hold on to the wall and make it to the bathroom safely, weak , I had a sharp shooting pain from my neck toy brain the worse headache felt like my head was going to explode alot of pressure all over my head and brain and body my taste was not there and I could not smell neither , i had two covid vax and still caught COVID , I m struggling with brain fog long COVID that is and been sick off and on since then COVID is terrible, during covid when I got sick I had brain fog bad i could not think, the only energy i had was to pray that was it , the worse ever , the two vax I had a reaction too weird taste in my mouth the first dose the second dose none and been dealing with tendinitis of my ears and ra flare ups the worse COVID is
@@Yellow-oc4sl oh wow I’m so very sorry, that’s awful. I’ve known so many people that have had such bad effects, and of several that died. My mom developed several aneurysms after her second shot, debilitating vertigo in and off for over a year, and she’s just recovered from getting lymphoma. She was very healthy before her shots.
@@CourtneyLemus same here I know so many people who had terrible side effects from the injection. So scary, no injections for me and no Covid.
@@overworked1084 Exactly!!
G’day from West Oz, hugs to all our sickees. Breathe easy.🇦🇺
after 4.5 years of being a novid ..i tested positive last monday . my husband who is a college prof tested positive 4 days prior . because of my ra ,being 68, lost a lot of weight but still
medically obese ive had every possible booster per
my docs last one in april . . initial sx have been major nasal congestion , profound sneezing , very tight airways / lung congestion . day 6 post paxlovid the only remaining issue is fatigue and my lungs are still irritated . productive cough i’m on albuterol inhaler and expectorant neither my husband nor i have ever been febrile . never lost taste or smell. hoping we’re out of the dark woods . testing
now reveals the faintest of lines for each of us . still scared but hoping for consistent recovery for us both ♥️🙏🏻
I’m going through CoVid now and my symptoms were identical to yours. I had some albuterol nebs because I have seasonal asthma, have done a couple of treatments and the cough improved. Hope you getter better soon!
I’m unvaccinated and had a mild case in November 2021. I’ve been fine ever sinc. Not even a cold.
Covid diminished my sense of smell and taste. They're not coming back, it's been over 3 yrs.
@@lilshaz8378🙏
@@lilshaz8378 I heard of someone who had extremely bad tinnitus likely due to COVID-19 or the vaccine for two years. She had heard that nicotine might work. She went to the drug store and got some nicotine gum and the tinnitus was gone in one day. As the good doctor says, results may vary.😉
I was No-vid until 17 days ago when I retuned from Greece. Yea, it’s special all right. Ohhh same! I was lying in bed, in horrible pain, couldn’t move, my bones hurt.
Made two people in my household sick.
On international flights you will definitely pick up something either going or coming.
I can't believe you just got Covid for the first time too. I literally just got Covid this last week for the first time as well. I'm a nurse and worked in the hospitals thru the pandemic and finished my NP during this time. I have been fully vaccinated, boosters included and started to think I was just one of those lucky "immune" people (hahaha...silly lady).
So I found this process so fascinating. I started having headaches during the week of the July 4th and some GI/bloating stuff (assumed it was the "you're traveling and your not in your own environment kind of GI stuff).
Get home on the 6th from a trip to FL, take an antigen Covid test since I had traveled and had such an awful headache...still negative. 7-8th headache continues, start with weird visual changes, (brain zaps). Evening of 8th...GI symptoms get worse, assuming I had a partial bowel obstruction (have had before) vomiting, abdominal cramps like crazy, and then finally diarrhea. Finally thinking I'm better, then Wed 9th wake up exhausted and thinking maybe I'm getting a cold (I've been traveling). By Wed evening thinking I definitely have a cold (congestion, PND, fatigue, etc) so I take another test...still Negative. 9th feel like it's a full blown cold, coughing starts, slight sore throat. Three quarters thru the day, working at the free clinic (masked of course), I realize my throat is on fire like I've swallowed glass, so fatigued and congested...I have to just go home. Get home still no fever but feels like it, chills start, exhausted...husband says "you have to have covid"...I've tested twice with antigens both negative one was the day before, so I pull out my big guns. Lucira home molecular style test...15 minutes...yep positive result.
Now just out of curiosity I take a home antigen test...sure enough, now immediately positive. (I've given and taken 1000s of covid tests over last 4 years so there is no way I mis read any of the tests). Whole thing is just crazy. No Paxlovid here, I'm not high risk. Finally feeling mostly human again, still PND, fatigue, (more brain fog than my usual, lol) and now a suspicious red right eye (unfortunately have had uveitis before so hoping this isn't the start up).
And now of course my hubby has gotten it after 4 years free...he's higher risk so on the Paxlovid but literally just said today..."this is the worst I think I've ever felt. I ca not imagine what this was like 4 years ago without being vaccinated ".
Sorry so long winded...remember you asked about it, lol. Hope you're on the mend with no long symptoms, fingers crossed for the same here! Always love listening to your channel. Thanks!!!
I’ve never been vaxxed, had it twice working with the public, no big deal. I also have autoimmune problems. I also have a better sense of smell now. Everyone is different. Still against the jab.
@@mariebrick7446 had it 4 years ago, slight temperature for a day, bit of fatigue for two days, then over. Not jabbed.
My 80 year old father also got it. Has co morbidities. Took the 4 hooved animal meds and recovered within days. No issues. No jabs
My husband and myself both 62 had covid for the first time about 2 weeks ago. He tested positive first on his 63rd birthday. I work in Healthcare and started feeling bad 2 days later and tested positive at work. We've both had 4 vaccines but none in 2 years. We both felt basically like you did. He took paxlovid but I lived on theraflu. We were both pretty surprised at the timing of this .
Got COVID June 2023. Had 3 vaccines like you did. Worst part for me is the lack of taste & smell. Even now there are things I can’t taste & I think smell is worse. I like many have posted started listening to you during COVID & appreciated your level headedness during the caos. Thanks!
It's so good to see your face, hear your voice, listen to your experiences. You're a joy!
This COVID is weird. This time around, my body and mind has been.. off. Like I feel extreme depression, and the weirdest.. I don’t know. I can’t explain it. Anxiety. Restlessness. It’s making it worse because I can’t rest. It’s almost like the virus has mutated to make people wanna be uncomfortable and restless and exert themselves more instead of being able to rest.
Omg I got depressed too! I thought why the heck does everything feel so hopeless it was so weird I couldn't explain it... but yeah rhe depression lasted as long as my symptoms did and then started going away
I am a 76-year-old woman. I have had all 6 COVID shots (including boosters). Get a flu shot every year, and got RSA vax last year, and never got my annual Michigan cold. I received my free allotment of COVID test kits but never used any of them. Retired and live alone. In excellent health for an old lady; not without issues, but those are age related. I isolated during the early days of COVID but go out now. I have remained COVID-free so far but realize it may change. I figure I am, frankly, just lucky. If I do, I will call my
PCP. Be well, my friend. I appreciate all you do.
So sorry you are sick! My PCA had gotten Covid in April. She had to be intibated for 5 days. I was curious if this strain resembled OG. My family had covid back in Nov. 2020. Then I had to both rounds of the vaccine because no one knew what do with people with Natural immunity. Then we contracted Covid almost 2 years ago. We decided not to boost after that first round of 3 boosters. I Remember the horrible headache and the horrible sore throat. Curious....no decreased pulse ox? I know with OG I had a pulse ox as low as 78...but I remember how amped my body was and also the weird craving for vegetables! Hope you feel better soon!
You know one of the side effects of the c vax.. is covid.
@@dicomrulzintexas2212 She did'nt say she is sick.
I've had it 3 times; my daughter has had it 4 times. My Mom passed away from pneumonia after having Covid. My 88 year old Dad has never had Covid.
I’m 84 years old and, so far, haven’t had Covid.🙏🙏🙏
Same here! I got Covid for the first time this week...It's kicking my butt! I have pretty much all the symptoms you had, even that weird light headiness/pre-vertigo too
Thank you for the "2 arrow" talk, i've been going down the "2nd arrow" rabbit hole. I really needed to hear that
ER nurse here. Just got diagnosed today and my body HURTS! Glad you’re recovering and look forward to my own! Tylenol x 1 time but no fever (even before Tylenol)
Novid here. Been exposed, but never tested positive. Thought I would have had it by now...
Same here... still novid.
@@AnthonyL0401 Same here, as well as my dad, haven't tested positive. My husband just tested positive for covid about two/three weeks ago, he took paxlovid because he has diabetes, and he tested negative within about 5 days. My dad and I never tested positive, even though we all live in a small apartment and sat here in the living room for a day, when we thought hubby was having bad allergies, until the next day when hubby tested positive he isolated in our bedroom. The funniest thing is I thought I had it before he got it, because I had the weird taste and intestinal symptoms, but when he got it, I took a PCR test at kaiser where you spit in a tube, and it came back as negative, showing I never had it. So bizarre! My dad is in his 70's and has a tumor and diabetes, so you'd think he'd be very susceptible. I'm obese and have asthma.
My mother-in-love, husband and I are all novid-as far as we know. My entire family had kept up with the vaccines but only the three of us have kept up with masks when in indoor public spaces (mostly). The rest of my family have had COVID at least a couple of times.
My daughter and her immediate family have had COVID more often, possibly from getting it the first time in early March 2020 after she and a group of friends got back from visiting NYC in Feb/Mar. Two working in the group were officially diagnosed when hospitalized; the rest were denied testing at that time.
my wife and daughter got covid first and it was like having a cold, I got it on Thursday,
by Monday I was very sick, went in to be tested and I had covid, I went back the next
day for the blood infusion at 7am. While waiting in a wheel chair, I kept feeling worse,
they had already starting measuring my o2 levels, they kept getting worse. They called
the ER to be ready to receive me. My wife drove me over to the ER. It turned out that
I had developed an secondary infection. Pneumonia had set into my left lung. 6 and a
half hours later I was able to go home.
67. On keto since 2017. Never had COVID...until today. We had a meeting on Monday where we were all sitting fairly close to each other, at our local community college, and the next day one of our colleagues tested positive for COVID. We were all hoping we didn't get it. Today's Thursday; I couldn't sleep much, felt like I had a fever, tested myself, and yeah. I hear today that two other colleagues at the meeting aren't feeling well.
This morning when my temperature was 100.1, I felt REALLY weak, unsteady, couldn't walk well.
Yeah..."complete inability to go to sleep." "Felt like I'd been hit by a truck." Exactly.
I have to wait until Tuesday to go back to work -- if I don't have a fever -- and will be masking for the next 5 days.
Have a clot that recurs now and then (from the vaccines, I think) and turns my thumb and index finger purple. What deals with that the best, weirdly enough, is EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, tapping.
Doctor thinks I'll be just fine. My immune system is strong. I've been taking Dr. Berg Vitamin D3/K2 for years; taking his Vitamin C; taking Mountain Rose Herbs herbal throat spray and Beekeeper's immune support throat spray; Quercetin; Turmeric gummies; zinc; oil of oregano; black seed oil. Drinking electrolytes from Keto Chow and beef bone broth from the local butcher's. She said I'm doing the exact right things.
On Saturday, I just felt weird-no energy. On Sunday, chills-everything hurt-including my hair. Could not sleep at all. Called in sick on Monday. Continued fever, cough, horrible headache feeling beat up. Tested positive on Tuesday. Today is the first day I feel ok.
Long COVID and brain fog sucks fatigue and u think u over it heck no it's hits u like building blocks
“Hair hurts” is always a sx for me that I have the flu…
Dr. Z I've followed you since the beginning of the pandemic and your wisdom has been so helpful! i'm fully vaxed and had a booster in late fall of 2023. I'm in the exact same boat! Went from No-vid to currently recovering. My symptoms have been very similar however no congestion and only an occasional wet cough. It sucks but I'm on the other side. Hope you're fully recovered soon!
Both of us fully vaccinated, came back with it from Caribbean cruise in Jan. I tested positive first Monday morning (started with a sore throat at the airport on Sunday). I was working half days Mon-Thu and was fine by Friday morning. I got Paxlovid on Monday. Husband tested positive on Tuesday after a false negative on Monday and his lingered for a long time. No Paxlovid. Turned into sinus infection, fluid in lungs and it took him 5 months to feel 100%
@@pmcardle73 we don't regret the choice to get them and believe without them, the sickness could have been worse. A few family members died because they didn't get the vaccines. We wanted to travel again and that was the requirement so many years ago.
My husband got covid about 2 weeks after getting a booster in the fall of 2022.. He was very sick for almost two days... By the end of the second day he was able to start Paxlovid.. He was already starting to feel better and improve steadily. I didn't catch it. I had been boosted at the same time as he was. I think we did so well because our antibodies were primed. As far as I know, I haven't had covid. Our granddaughter has had covid twice, most recently February of '23. She has long covid and is still mostly house-bound. She's 30 years old, and used to be hard working and full of energy..
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I'm 69, only did first vaccine and haven't had covid. My 48 y/o daughter was vaccinated and got covid early on. She has been one of the healthiest people I've ever known. She got long covid and she is still struggling with it. She has neurological issues, the brain fog and severe fatigue still.
Sending healthy blessings to you ❤
You should look at the elephant in the room & the b00sters!
I have yet to get COVID. I’m 61 and high risk. Never saying I won’t get it but so far so good. 🤞🤞🤞
Great comments on how difficult the test is.
Oh really: I forgot to add that in my comment. The only one I can use, is Binax Now. I can do that in my sleep.The others are very complicated.
I work in a community pharmacy & we have seen SO many more Paxlovid Rx's lately. An explosion. My clerk got it & she's got comorbidities (Hashimoto's & diabetes). She had a totally miserable time but was back to work within a week. Never been vaccinated. She's in her 60s. It was her first Covid infection.
My first Covid infection was when I was eight months pregnant back in October 2021. Developed preeclampsia then my baby burst both her lungs with her first breath. The neonatologist said it was the worst bilateral pneumothoraces he had ever seen. I'll always wonder if it was related to the Covid or not. According to the L&D nurses at the time, they were seeing preeclampsia in moms who had Covid in pregnancy. I just don't know. I'd had two previous healthy, unremarkable pregnancies & deliveries.
Baby is fine now. She spent 8 days in NICU on a ventilator with chest tubes & had severe pulmonary hypertension but she recovered amazingly fast. It was truly a miracle.
I had been vaxed (healthcare worker - didn't have a choice & I resented that). Was it the vaccine? Was it the Covid itself? Was it just a freak thing of nature? Idk.
I hope you're feeling better now! Thanks for sharing your story.
What happened to the regular flu?
Re meditation: I feel great when I play piano while sick. Even my urge to cough goes away (until I stop).
Wish I still had my upright grand piano. I loved to just play for myself
The most remarkable thing about my COVID experience was the violent uncontrollable RIGORS (shakes) I had. I literally could not make my arms and legs stop shaking despite putting all my might and thought into stilling my extremities! I finally understood what RIGORS were, haha! I learned something new despite being an ER doc for 32 year! Rest of the course: tested positive day 1 of symptoms, started Paxlovid same day, tested neg day #3 with minimal symptoms by then (just fatigue.) No cough, no loss of taste or smell. Just a mild sore throat. Plus the RIGORS! Oh, I had the primary 2 shots with one booster about 18 months before catching COVID.
I have genetic tremors (started age 36), everyone thinks I'm nervous or dying 😂 all...the...time.
This is pretty much exactly what has happened to me this week. Negative Monday feeling fatigued and positive for covid the next day. Ive had almost every symptom you have described and I am on Day 3!
My husband had it end of May.(1st time) Started with fatigue and a few body aches. His concerning symptom was racing heart (even resting). He started feeling better after about 5-7 days
Have a disabled person and my retired mother living in my home. I was religious with keeping covid out of the home. HEPA filter air purifiers. No unnecessary outings, masks on in public places, disposable gloves when getting gasoline. Still wiping down groceries. Kept it out of the house for 4 years. In January of this year my disabled houseguest was admitted to the hospital - contracted it there and brought it home to the rest of the house. Fortunately a mild case for everyone involved.
I had to stop what I was doing to watch and comment on this video because I had a similar experience! I got covid for the first time two weeks ago! My husband had it both in 2020 and in 2022 and I managed to avoid it but I had the same experience that you did with the booster. The booster kicked my ass! I was an artist-in-residence at an opera workshop and there were three other people in the ensemble that got infected. Wednesday night, I noticed I had a sore throat which was very unusual for me, Thursday morning I tested negative but I knew I was sick, so I kept my mask on and went home that day. Thursday night, I tested positive instantly. I've literally NEVER been as sick as I was last week, man! I am in good shape and am 47, no comorbidities to speak of. Taste and smell went away. GI symptoms, congestion, cough, chills, fever...NIGHTMARE. I tested positive for 12 days and I definitely had a weird "mouth feeling". I also did not ask for paxlovid. It was so weird to get it in 2024 FINALLY. I've literally taken 30+ covid tests over the years. I thought it was pretty rough. My colleague who also got it at this event was not as sick. It's so weird that it's a different experience for everyone. It's been 14 days and I'm about 85% better but the cough still lingers as well as some chest tightness. I slept like a rock the entire illness though LOL. Ride out the fevers and rest and hydration and sometimes some decongestants when I needed them. Saline nasal rinses helped a ton too.
I'm sorry you got covid! We had a good run!
Wait for it
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I thank God for extra strength Tylenol. I don't usually take medication but I finally took some because I was in such horrible pain. I only had an expired bottle but after checking online several places said that you can actually still use Tylenol up to 3 years after the expiration date.
@@324cmac hope you're feeling better!
I just went on living my life working full time singing in church and kept my kids in mask free school…… got covid once and took a few days off.
Laboratory Scientist here. Was in the thick of it, from the get go. I didn’t get it until this past January (2024). I didn’t try to die or anything, but I felt like crap for 1-2 weeks. Cough hung on forEVER. I don’t know what flavor was going around in January. But I DO know that I don’t want it again!
Yay Clinical Laboratory Science!
Wow. Thank you for sharing. I followed you all through 2020-2021. You were my go-to for reason and sanity. I've never had Covid....maybe never will but I love all the information.
It’s so scary. I had covid x2. 2020 version and then October version. I was hospitalized this second go round. I probably needed to be in the hospital the first time but in March 2020 in New York, there was no room. It terrifies me because it affected by heart. I don’t understand how to live in this world. You are right the mental suffering is strong. The hospital isolation was also suffering. Wishing for your speedy recovery, and less suffering.
Just proves the vaccines did little except make people like me suffer with cardiac disrythmia. Children do fine. Us senior citizens not so much! It sucks!! No antiviral drugs? You got the same 3 vaccines but my first was the J&J. It still is screwing up my memory!
I didn't take a single test.
Never masked.
No injections 😂😂😂
You are the smart one. Not this bozo.
@@Ashley-hv1qu Why did his video come up for me? I stop watching him 4 years ago? This guy didn't learn a thing. Mind blowing.
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Same here.
My covid test is a fever thermometer. If I feel bad and have a fever, I stay home.
I’m a 61yo primary care internist who has never had COVID. I have been tested frequently in order to provide care and access to my nursing home residents. One week ago I tested positive. Very disappointed in myself. I have cared for patients for 4 1/2 years with great caution and diligence. Two days prior to illness, I had updated my M-M-R and blamed the immunization for viral like syndrome. It wasn’t until my peanut butter and jelly didn’t taste appealing, that had my a-ha moment. Unfortunately too late to avoid giving it to my wife. Both of us elected not to be treated with paxlovid. We are both doing very well, but thought we could avoid this plaque.
@@MK-ih6wp Right! If the COVID vaccine doesn't save you from becoming sick and spreading the disease, why do you still get it?
I don’t understand being disappointed in yourself? You thought you were different? And Of course you’re doing well - it’s just covid. Almost everyone has had it and literally over 95% have survived it. How did you think you were going to avoid it? You were isolating yourselves from everyone? What a strange answer from a doctor.
MMR perhaps stressed ur immune system 🤷♂️ a bit
Dig deeper
Environmental hypoxia
☀️💧🌍❤️🥩
@@sfdf1979 I strive to keep others healthy and the fact that I passed the infection to my wife…that is precisely why I disappointed myself
I’m a first timer just confirmed today. Feels like a sinus infection with loss of smell and taste. I slept for the first two days but feeling better daily
I never had Covid. Two weeks ago after making several trips to Urgent Care, Dr, Er I was diagnosed with "Long Covid". After blood work checking for clots, CT scan everything came back negative. I have a horrible cough, lots of phlegm, headaches and very much fatigued. I am 71 years old with diabetes, copd (second hand smoke) congestive heart failure. I had my 3 first covid shots at the beginning of covid. I have been on 3 antibiotics . Finally the 3rd antibiotic has kicked in. This has been rough. I hope you continues to get better! Thanks for getting information out there to others!
So Zdogg now has to worry about possibly being damaged by Covid and the vaccine, talking about taking an L.
Feel better soon. I got mine 6 weeks after getting the updated vaccine last fall. I didn't take paxlovid either, I treated symptoms at home. positive to negative in 9 days. I was hospitalized back in 2020 with bilateral PE, and still never caught it through the whole pandemic. 3 1/2 years later..BAM. And I know exactly when it happened--I was checking in a patient at work that coughed in my direction before I could move away. I had let my guard down and wasn't masked.
Bioweapon
Get well soon. Much more worried about the mRNA vax than about COVID-19.
I had Covid March of 2020. Got it from KP pharmacy. I was symptomatic for 9 weeks! Then had Long Covid before it was a thing for about 6 months. My husband died from lung cancer 1-17-20, so I wasn't in a great space prior to getting sick. Definitely followed up with all my Covid shots!
Dr Z, it sounds like you were pretty sick for a couple of days. Did you not consider using the McCullough protocol? What is your opinion about IVM and HCQ after having COVID?
I got IVM, I had Covid in 2021 & it was like having a strange flu & I had it again in early 2022 & the symptoms were more less the second time & it was like having a strange cold, in late 2022 I had influenza & for me that was worse than COVID & it was like I was hit by a train & I was bed bound & I got my wife to reach the IVM because I was too ill to get out of bed to get it myself & after using it I was back on my feet within 12 hours & the next day I was back on my feet & I did a 5 miles cycle ride & back. In October 2023 I had Covid again & the third time it was like a strange cold but only affected my nose but not my throat.
I'm a "never covid" and I got all the shots/boosts and annual covid + flu shots. I do work remote since Covid OG so that plays into it I'm sure. I just wanted to say, "Get well, get well soon. We want you to get well." Love you man.
Read the DESCRIPTION of the vaccine inserts 🤪🍆💉☠️
I have never had documented COVID. My husband got it. He took Paxlovid and it came roaring back when he stopped it. We isolated at home and I avoided it.
Kids are petri dishes and the parent's get everything. I did not have issues with taste, but definitely had the hit by the truck feeling. It took me a full 2 weeks to recover enough around the block.
I got Covid in March. No prior vaccines. Had a 103.6 F for 3 days and no other symptoms. Let the fever burn through me and I asked Covid what message it had for me instead of the arrow of suffering that you mentioned. Had some great insight! 5 days later I was back to skiing. No long Covid.
I came on a sharp "cold", a friend of mine suggested that it was Covid. I have no tests but I find your description most accurate! So now I put myself in quarantine and wait for it to pass by. And try to get some tests. Not sure if I was a nonvid, but it is really sad that one can have Covid repeatedly. Thank you and get well soon.
I have been watching you for several years and enjoy your commentaries. My husband got covid before it was named covid. He had a high fever that we couldn't break for 7 days, we were in Florida and the doctors said it was a flu from over in Europe. He could not smell or taste anything at all. He lost 15 lb very quickly. We were on vacation with the children and I was taking them all to Walt Disney world Polynesian to stay for 2 days as a Christmas bucket list for him. I got so mad he was sick I told him I don't care if we will you in in a wheelchair, I want my pictures of you with a drink in your hand enjoying the sand and your grandchildren! Lol. And I slept right next to him and never got it. A year-and-a-half go by, and my daughter-in-law the doctor becomes pregnant. At that point to be in the delivery room I had to get vaccinated with the first two shots. 4 months later I had my first case of covid. We both came down with it. No long haulers, it felt like the regular flu. We did get it a second time about 2 years later. Mark had been on a business trip and we think he got it in the Atlanta airport. He got really sick once again and I got the regular flu version. We both took Pax-lovid, wonder drug! Thank you Pfizer! And have stayed well since. I hope you enjoyed our little 4 year jaunt through history. Keep up the good work! In our home we consider you friend. Debbie and Mark Peyron, Corydon Indiana, (author and Evangelist) (Miraculous Interventions book series) and owner of Capitol Jewelers
Melatonin helps with sleep at night when you're feeling too restless to sleep.
I hope you're feeling better ZDogg. You look healthy in your video. I got the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine in March/April 2021. I got the Delta variant in the summer of 2021, then I caught the Omicron variant in Feb. 2022. I definitely felt worse with Omicron, but my symptoms were not as bad as yours. I did have symptoms similar to yours when I caught the H1N1 flu virus in 2009. I definitely felt like I was hit by a bus. I had extreme fatigue, vertigo and a terrible cough. Three or four nights spent with severe coughing. I remember coughing up pink phlegm, and thinking this can not be good. At the time I did not have health insurance, so it was my immune system against the virus. After getting over the flu it took about 4 weeks for my lungs to get back to normal. Respiratory viruses can be brutal.
I wanted to add.....I'm so glad you shared the mind-body connection. How we may get sick and that's one thing but then what our mind does with it is another. I really needed to hear that!!
I had covid 3 weeks ago for the first time (3 vaccines as you had too) and had exactly the same symptoms as you, apart from my throat was the worst I have ever experienced! I’m all clear now apart from fatigue 🙏
"This is special."
I have not contracted COVID-19, and hope I never do.
I've heard from others who have that it is indeed "special."
Omg! Feel better quickly.
64, healthcare hospital worker, keto diet 5 years, no chronic illness, super Vit D level, never vaxed, showed antibodies via Red Cross blood donations early on, 1 suspected case, 2 tests both negative, no missed work for any reason since before 2020. 🤞
Appreciated your report. Thanks!
so you were
-on the front lines (healthcare worker),
-have evidence you were exposed,
- were never v*xxsed
And you are just fine. We never hear these examples in media. never. only fearmongering.
Did the advice of Su ch ar it Bh ak di have any part in deciding not to get v*xxed?
2 tests is not adequate testing especially with exposure .
You described it perfectly. My cough is dry. I experienced one night of terrible sweats/chills. Otherwise had the exact same experience. I also thought about how challenging the test is when feeling so badly. I am on day 3. Appetite improving (mostly having plant based protein shakes). The dizziness is the worst symptom at this point. Thank you very much for sharing, it really helped to hear. I hope you feel better soon! Oh, and I used a tongue scraper today - it made my mouth feel cleaner. I am a retired clinical RD.
We're still Novids, but both my husband and I have observed almost complete quarantine since the beginning of the pandemic and have recieved all the boosters. My husband has a cardiac hx and I have asthma--and we're both fairly unsocial, anyway--so we are very careful. We have our groceries delivered and wear N95s whenever we are forced to go out. It's less the immediate illness that worries us than the potential long-term effects. We're hoping to remain Novids for the foreseeable future.
3 out of the 5 members of our immediate family got the latest round of COVID. The only 2 who didn't? Our 2 youngest that I refused to let get the COVID jab. It was my first time ever getting COVID. My husband and son have had it multiple times.