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I think I got the 'rona

Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:25 am
Posted by southpawcock
Member since Oct 2015
17953 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:25 am
Haven't been able to smell or taste anything since sometime Friday afternoon. Nose is sort of stopped up but not terribly (can still breathe through it). Random dry cough but nothing that is nagging or persistent.. very minor chest pains occasionally. RIP. I heard I might not be able to smell or taste for a whole fricking week. Sucks arse... work is about to get super busy (have been at home working) and can't even enjoy my weekend.
Posted by Privateer 2007
Member since Jan 2020
7951 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:26 am to
Get tested I suppose.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
76227 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:27 am to
#thestruggleisreal
Posted by tigerdup07
Member since Dec 2007
22268 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:27 am to
sounds like you might. do like i did, get you about 4 bottles of nyquil. i think it's the secret medicine.
Posted by Sterling Archer
Member since Aug 2012
8472 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:27 am to
Def sounds like it
Posted by Displaced
Member since Dec 2011
33054 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:28 am to
Go join the protesters.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
132704 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:28 am to
Oh snap! You got mild flulike symptoms!
Posted by TulaneFan
Slidell, LA
Member since Jan 2008
14092 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:28 am to
Covid is so last week.. we’ve moved on to social justice
Posted by LSU1018
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2007
7401 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:30 am to
I’ve heard a lot of people can’t smell or taste for over a week.
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
129146 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:31 am to
Call your provider or urgent care and ask what the process is for getting tested.

If you do have it, follow guidance from your provider for when you are ok to go out in public around others again.

Usually that is 10 days after a positive test and you have been free of symptoms for at least 72 hours. But again...follow guidance from your provider.

Hope you feel better and that you only suffer mild symptoms from this.
Posted by tiger91
In my own little world
Member since Nov 2005
40274 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:31 am to
Go get tested. It’s worth it to not pass it on if by chance you are positive.
Posted by buford4LSU
Thibodaux, LA
Member since Jan 2008
2683 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:31 am to
Better start hydroxychloriquine immediately
Posted by Pelican fan99
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Jun 2013
39661 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:32 am to
Go infect all the rioters
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
12257 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:34 am to
You have enough energy to type that for TD. You probably don't have it.
Friends who have it say they became the most tired they had ever been in their lives. Just lying there was sufficient.
Posted by tzimme4
Metairie
Member since Jan 2008
33912 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:34 am to
If you're healthy enough to post on the OT, you're healthy baw
Posted by southpawcock
Member since Oct 2015
17953 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:37 am to
I'm 32... I feel crappy but not incapacitated. I don't think it makes a lot of young people completely useless? I'm still going to work all this week.. it's going to be insanely busy. I've also been reading the smell/taste thing is happening to a lot of people that are truly asymptomatic to the virus. I mean these are symptoms but I don't really have a fever (I think) or terrible breathing issues. In fact if I could taste and smell shite I'd be great... it would just feel like a little cold or something. Maybe someone who knows more about this can elaborate on my behalf.
This post was edited on 5/31/20 at 9:40 am
Posted by LeClerc
USVI
Member since Oct 2012
2841 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:39 am to
Is it too late to inject Lysol?
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
129146 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:40 am to
quote:

I'm 32... I feel crappy but not incapacitated. I don't think it makes a lot of young people completely useless?


It really has been kinda random. Some young people barely sick...some get pretty sick. Maybe not sick enough to be hospitalized...but sick enough to be pretty miserable.


FYI...the test seems scary but it isn't painful. It is unpleasant that is for sure...but fairly quick. Just know they have to leave the swab in your nose for several seconds before they swirl it around and that feels like eternity. Your nose will feel like you got water up your nose while swimming for about 30 minutes after the test and then you are fine.
Posted by southpawcock
Member since Oct 2015
17953 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:41 am to
I don't really see the point in testing myself.. I just am going to isolate myself to not spread anything. Was going to adopt a pet Monday/Tuesday but looks like I won't be doing that now. Someone is fostering and taking them to a shelter and I was going to get a bunch of crap this weekend to be ready. Oh well.

The only reason I see to test is to get a potential negative so I wouldn't have to isolate myself, but I'm working from home anyway. And if I can't taste or smell shite I'm certainly not going out to hang out with friends at the bar/etc.
This post was edited on 5/31/20 at 9:44 am
Posted by blueridgeTiger
Granbury, TX
Member since Jun 2004
22416 posts
Posted on 5/31/20 at 9:42 am to
quote:

Is it too late to inject Lysol?


Fish tank cleaner?
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