COVID infection is terrible

Oh my gosh, someone should step in and help you so you are not alone in this. You didn't mention age but that probably doesn't matter except things do seem to hit people harder as they get older. If you have a minister, I would contact him and perhaps he/she can get neighbors of members of the congregation to step up to the plate and help you. "Blessed are the encouragers." I have included you on my prayer list. Yes, prayer does help. I am here 52 years after I almost died from Toxemia when our first son was born at a small town hospital during an electrical storm and power outage. The hospital did have a generator but as I said, small town USA and the nuns and staff were looking for a much-needed medication I needed. Time for me to get into my Sewing Studio and finish projects with deadlines. Hoping my message is helpful.

It's true, some people really suffer under COVID-19. Others don't ever seem to get it because they have the right genetic makeup.

I don't know that we'll ever have a preventative vaccine the way we have it for polio and smallpox. The COVID and its variants are a different ball of wax, a different type of virus, like the rhinovirus and flue...they change every few weeks, and all we have to call on is our body's natural immune response. The COVID vaccines give the immune system a script to follow, but the script still has to be read....each time. It takes a few days, and then the body catches up to the action. Meanwhile................ 🙁

Thanks! I'm 54 y. Still going on and lieing on sofa. Thanks to the Olympics, I have something to look at from TV, nothing too serious. I've little bit smeland taste, coffee, liquorice (in Finnish salmiakki), Salt, same pepper taste. But although lack of energy. If I do something homework in the kitchen, I feel totally tired, like never before. This is much more difficult than pneumonia. I think that my Ig-problems (too much IgA, too little M and G) makes my situation with COVID to this. I don't know, but no knowing by the doctors either.

I got contacted by my local research facility that they are starting an oral Covid vaccine study. Interesting. I guess it is still an mRNA vaccine.

Still going on. I've felt myself very sick, neverending flu or so. I've worked for three weeks now. Cough, sore throat, my voice hoarse, I'm very tired all the day. I think I've got mycoplasma too. We have it a lot of here in Finland, we have adenovirus too. So, let's see, when I will be better, it's not going to be very soon. Maybe some kind of long covid too.

You have elevated IgA, IgG, and M proteins? I have IgA kappa MGUS and caught covid March '23 (I'm 70 and also have celiac and IgA collagenous colitis). It would be good to see a doctor; long covid takes many forms. My covid lasted 10 long sick days, followed by 8 months of long covid. It mostly hit my cardiovascular system. My main prescription was rest, exercise in small bits with rest between. Consider keeping a food log in case covid triggers any food intolerances, and getting tested for celiac (Finland has one of the highest incidences in the world at ~3%).

Well I know this post won't be popular by some. I'm 76 been treated with hydroxyurea for 2 years. When the covid came around I took one vaccine, that's all. I've never had covid, I haven't taken the flu vaccine and never had the flu. Because I'm an asthmatic I did take the pneumonia shot just before I started treatment with hydroxyurea...My hematologist wanted me to take the shingles vaccines but I refused simply because I never even had a cold sore. One day I may be sorry but it's my opinion,, my choice and never wished I had handled it any other way...Everyones immune system is different so I'm not saying I'm right..What I'm saying it's diffinatly works for me....To those who are suffering with multiple cor
morbidity's and covid I wish you well.

Cumulative life experience for everyone leads to different choices. I had chicken pox as a kid, and my grandmother's shingles led to painful lesions and permanent scars, so I had the vax. My dad died of COPD, so I quit smoking. I would not have open heart surgery after taking care of my mom post AVR so am waiting for transcath procedure approval. I have two cousins who died of covid in their 60s, so I get the vax.

Your personal choices are fine by me.

But the irony of coming into a "support" group and implying that people who are covid-vaccinated are part of some "hysteria" conspiracy is not lost on me.

Have a great day!

Two different viruses, Jakie. The herpes SIMPLEX virus causes cold sores, not shingles. It lies dormant in the trigeminal nerve, under the nose and sideways out around the upper teeth, and that is why cold sores appear there, including inside the nostrils (don't ask!). Shingles is from residual viral activity left over by chicken pox, or the herpes zoster. Shingles, as we should all know, can show up on the neck, , in the scalp, on one's temples, around the eyes, BEHIND the eyes !!, the ribcage, the midriff...

Two different sources.

I don’t know but if you have a lack of IgG you will probably get things worse than others. I don’t know if this would be applicable for you but there are infusions people can take every 4-8 weeks of a medication called Privigen that help people with compromised IgG deficiencies.