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Bronchiectasis and Covid

Posted by srsmith3802 @srsmith3802, Jan 23 11:04am

I was just diagnosed with Covid/coronavirus and wondering about peoples experiences taking Paxlovid while on the Big 3.

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lp8 | @lp8 | Feb 23 8:45am

I have mac and be. I got covid last year
I did not take paxlovid even though my pulmonologist highly recommended it.. my only symptom was chest pain that moved from front to side to back. Lasted about 12 days . I'm so glad I didn't take it.

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sdconger | @sdconger | Feb 23 9:59am

I had COVID for the first time this past September and didn’t take paxlovid. My doctor just recommended vitamin c , Zinc flonase and mucinex. I did fine and recovered within a week. I had been really worried about getting COVID so was relieved it wasn’t too bad.

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reneemc | @reneemc | Feb 23 11:18am
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I had Covid for the first time this Feb.. I mask all the time and use wipes when out in the grocery store most times. Two friends I haven't seen for a while also had it this Feb. for the first time. It must be an easier strain to "catch" this year.
I am not on any medications other than the 7% Saline and really didn't want to take the Paxlovid but not fully knowing all that could come of it, Covid and BE, I did take it.
Are there any other BE patients that had Covid and did not take the Paxlovid.?
If not having taken it, how did you do.?
I wonder how many BE patients get Covid and do not take Paxlovid and how they did without taking it?

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They gave me Lagevrio for Covid

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blm1007blm1007 | @blm1007blm1007 | Feb 23 12:25pm
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They gave me Lagevrio for Covid

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Thanks. A lesson I just learned.
Go onto Mayo Clinic Connect and ask questions, review others experiences and thoughts before taking new medications to understand how others have dealt with matters
their outcomes etc. etc. to give one more 'food for thought' and therefore having given it more thought before starting. Before having Covid I asked the very special pulmonary BE doctor what I should do if I get Covid.....her answer.....take Paxlovid. I wish in a way I had waited for the fourth or fifth day to decide about taking the Paxlovid, after the first two days of symptoms, before starting the Paxlovid.

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Rick | @rstel7272 | Feb 24 9:36am
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@sdconger

I had COVID for the first time this past September and didn’t take paxlovid. My doctor just recommended vitamin c , Zinc flonase and mucinex. I did fine and recovered within a week. I had been really worried about getting COVID so was relieved it wasn’t too bad.

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My first was in October, immediately started paxlovid but still deteriorated and wound up in the ER and got remdesivir and quickly recovered.

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