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Anyone with extended long Covid get Covid again? Now what?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Jan 9 12:59pm | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
My first covid diagnosis was January 2022. I was fully vaccinated with all available vaccines and boosters. Was out of town and went to the local urgent care. PA said even though you meet criteria for medication due to age, you are in relatively good health so i am not giving you a Rx. Muddled through that. Started having cardiac issues a few months later. I continued to get Covid boosters. Tested positive for Covid on December 24 2022. Called the on call number for my EnT. The doctor gave me a Paxlovid Rx. I was back to normal in less than 48 hours. December 26 this year started having drippy nose. I was out of town The runny nose contiwith sneezing during a 9 hour drive home on December 27. I started to develop headaches and eye pain. I had chills today with cough and headache. Did an at home Covid test that was positive. Went to see my Ent wjo told me they don’t do covid tests and treat it as a cold /sinus infection. They gave me a steroid shot, antibiotic shot and a RX for antibiotic with instructions to take Mucinex DM, vit C D3 , zinc and lots of water. I am hoping i feel better Monday!
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So a follow up to my earlier post. The next morning i called my PCP office and told them i had a positive home test for Covid and would they prescribe Paxlovid. They called back àd said they were calling in the Rx. So glad i did that and now i know not to see the ENT for Covid. I am doing much better. Still have some nasal congestion and a cough. The brain fog which was starting to get better is now worse. I hope that will eventually improve.
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Hmmm... How does an anti-biotic shot help fight a common cold or covid?
But this post is troubling in that I bad a friend who tested positive for covid with a home test kit and called his Aurora clinic (2 days into symptoms) . His doctor was on vacation and they advised him to go to an urgent care clinic. He asked if he could speak to a back-up doc as he had covid previously and had tested positive twice and it seemed illogical and unnecessarily risky )and inconvenient) to have him go to a clinic where he could spread it? Keep that in mind when setting an apt. two months out and they ask you if you've had, or exhibited symptoms of covid within the last 14 days.
He finally went online and got a prescription for Paxlovid w/in 45 minutes later...I've encouraged him to question Aurora and to see if that is their official policy. This is not a case where they do not prescribe Paxlovid and I am troubled since I use the same healthcare provider where in that or a similar circumstance a primary doc won't take a call even if on vacation, and use an urgent care as back-up (this was the week of Christmas). Has anyone else encountered this same thing? I mean this is a person who did due diligence and tested twice but also was familiar with smptoms, but also was considering others when questioning going into a clinic. Was the online doc/healthcare provider negligent? I don't think so...Has anyone else experienced this type resistance with their primary clinic/care provider?