Dang this thread is getting scary..get better op

Cliffs?

Are you doin any better OP?

This thread scared the chit outta me srs.

I now know of at least 5 young and healthy people who have have severe cases of Coronavirus. 3 are on ventilators. I’m talking in the 20-40 age range. It seems like these are the types of cases that are skyrocketing lately too. This thing is no joke.

There are over 50 confirmed cases (and counting) within a 2 miles radius of me. Some of these people undoubtedly shopped at the same grocery store I’ve been going to. I’m starting to worry about even getting food at this point. The flu symptoms don’t phase me as much as the lung issues. I suffered from asthma as a kid and have been to the point where I had to practically gasp for air before getting put on a nebulizer. It’s sheer terror to experience this. Once you can’t breath you can pass out within seconds and you’re fully aware of it.

Brb loading up on zinc, vitamin C, D, probiotics, elderberry and whatever other immune boosting supps I can find in my cabinet.

I hope you and your girl are doing better, OP. I can’t even imagine. I think if you’re having any trouble breathing, you should go see a doctor. Better safe than sorry. You’re gonna make it tho. Please keep us updated.

I forgot to mention one more thing about the oximeter

Make sure your finger/fingernails are clean because if they're dirty it can give an incorrect low reading

Me, my 94 y.o. gma, my mom and dad are all sick. Been sick for like 2 weeks and chit isn't getting better. We don't really have any coronavirus symptoms but we all are congested and coughing up our lungs. Did the s health app and al of our oxygen o2 levels are 97 and higher. Made us feel a little better. Hope your symptoms ease up soon op. Hope you lady doesn't get it too bad either.

Yes, it should. That's a good idea actually.

Pursed lip breathing generates positive end-expiratory pressure which helps alveoli (the tiny air sacs in your lungs) from collapsing and getting stuck in the collapsed state. To be more specific, there's a hypothesis that certain lung cells called type II pneumocytes are more greatly impacted by the virus. One of the jobs of the type II pneumocytes is to produce surfactant, which reduces surface tension, helping collapsed alveolar walls from getting stuck together and allowing the alveoli to fill up with air. If there's no surfactant, they collapse, don't reopen, and your lungs don't work as well.

COVID can cause silent hypoxemia. Translation = Your pulse ox drops, but you don't feel short of breath. Scary ****. monitor yourself OP

Silent hypoxemia ... not to be a fearmonger, but that reminds me of a patient I took care of.

We had a woman in her mid-20s admitted to the ICU for fever and hypoxia. She had crappy looking lungs on CT scan. Weirdly enough, she had a lot of boil scars on her back, like from prior infections. But she looked otherwise fine. She was speaking full sentences, she could laugh, maintain eye contact, etc. But we knew she was very sick. Young people have a strong physiologic reserve until the final straw breaks the camel's back.

Within an hour or two, she started to become very short of breath, and non-invasive supplemental oxygen wasn't enough. We had to intubate her and put her on mechanical ventilation. Her oxygen saturation wasn't improving much, so we put her RotoProne bed and put her in prone position to help her oxygenate. Her blood cultures came back positive for Staph (I don't remember if it was MRSA or methicillin-sensitive).

She stayed intubated for a few days, and it looked like she was in severe sepsis/acute respiratory distress syndrome. Eventually, even ventilation wasn't enough for her as we maxed out the ventilator settings, but her oxygenation was getting worse. The next option was ECMO, and she was transferred out to another unit for that.

Although she was in another unit, I kept tabs on her situation, hoping she would improve. One of the nurses noticed the patient had a blown pupil while under ECMO; she was rushed out for an emergent CT scan of her head. It revealed that she had multiple brain bleeds which looked like they developed from septic emboli, infection that had seeded her brain. When you're on an ECMO circuit, you're anticoagulated, so you're more prone to bleeding. She bled enough that her brain herniated, and she was essentially brain-dead.

The family came to terms that we had to pull the plug on her when they realized she was never going to come back.

My friend who had this said it helps. (disclaimer this doesn't mean its for everyone) He posted live vids of the symptoms each day. The virus hates heat so he would take Extremely hot baths that mirrored a fever, and used vicks or a bathbomb, loaded up on Vitamin C and other citrus fruits, Zince helped take care of the upper part. Then he went outside for 30 minutes to sweat.

This guys has heart issues. He's doing much better following this routine. His belief is the virus hates heat.

Edit: Also if you can hold in your breath for 10 seconds flat with out having a cough or irritability you're ok for respiratory(I read this on chinese's news article and somewhere else.)

Take lots of vit D, Zinc and C, you will be fine. Proven by endless research and field observations.

Obviously you must also be healthy and fit etc.

If you are not, then you gon die.

Hey Allianc3 my dude.


Monitor your oxygen saturation levels, you can do this without needing to go a doctor or hospital. In a healthy person it will be 95+ if it drops below 90 go to hospital.

You’re young and fit so you will (ironically?) be given priority for a ventilator if it comes to it.

Look after yourself, my natty king.

i feel like theres multiple strains of this and they arent telling us mostly due to how differently ppl are hit

I've seriously upped my immune support regimen and it seems to be helping.

Emergen-C packet (1000mg Vit C) every 3-4 hours.
Zinc Lozenges
Elderberry Lozenges
Turmeric Powder
Quercetin 500mg 2x a day
Oregano Oil
Different teas such as Peppermint and Licorice teas
+normal daily vitamins

Is "lots" a medical term or can you be a tad more detailed?
LOL

I was told to take as much vitamin C as you can, if you take too much you’ll get diarrhea. So let that be your guide, try to keep taking more without chitting yourself. 1000mg every 3 hours seems tolerable for me.

Ok cool, i was doing 2,000 throughout the day.

OP do you know anyone that's had symptoms as severe as you've had it? If I get it, I hope to god I get one of the milder strains, needless to say lol

No I don’t know anyone personally who has it. I sure hope most cases are more mild than this, if the intensity of my symptoms is the average id actually have a hard time believing 80% of the cases can self resolve at home.

I don’t have a single risk factor and I’m young, it should have been much easier to fight this crap off.

the doctors tould you that?

How much of these ? Source? I take all those daily anyways

That was my general understanding. There’s been a lot of reports on super dosing vitamin C.

1000mg every 3-4 hours for say a total of 4000mg a day is too much?

FDA approved hydroxycholoroquine for covid
Might ask a doc for it

Maybe it’s a coincidence but the regimen I described earlier this morning + upping vitamin C has made a pretty significant difference in my breathing/lungs.

Your body will get used to it, much better than having the kung flu. Vitamin C doesn't build up in your system...

This is the dose they are giving intravenously in hospitals, in combination with other meds.

can still be prescribed “off label”

This. See about a phone script or something

no, saying op can still get it without going to a hospital or being hospitalized

There’s a doc out of NY prescribing it early, which is key in his opinion, to anyone with difficulty breathing or is older than 60

He explains it in this video, starts around 13 mins in


He sites the French and South Korea studies

If they need it for hospitalized patients, then OP should leave it for hospitalized patients.