Day 4 and I'm very near well....

[Boxerfan]

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I'd be ready to say this is just a mild Flu based on my symptoms. But after reading Tom Hanks description of the symptoms they were diagnosed with Covid 19 - they are identical. I hope he also recovers soon.

It still worries me that this will lay dormant then go to the lungs. I really hope not. For whatever reason my lungs have not been affected so far. I have done a few things right I believe. I have mild Asthma and use a inhaler. I am taking my BP meds and I have a great Dr to help me keep the rest of the meds in order for various ailments. My family and I are taking Elderberry supplement daily also.

A year ago I was determined to be diabetic. I went on a diet & got a exercise bicycle. I used them and in 2 months they reversed my Diabetes diagnosis. But I am still borderline. I gave up on the diet and concentrated on the exercise doing a average of 60 miles a week 12 miles a day 5 days if I'm able.

I went from gasping for air and having the can't get enough air feeling to reasonable function. I still have a cough and allergies but this has been clear for the most part lately. I honestly feel that without the exercise this would or could have been much worse(knock on wood not totally over just yet). I wish I could be tested it would help me make decisions on isolation and help them get a handle on who has this & how it is transmitted.

My Wife and kids are all fine except for her having me to deal with.

[USALiberal]

1. Did you go to doctor? Diagnosed? nt

[Boxerfan]

4. It's in the old thread

I called & they wouldn't test w/o a confirmed contact -so a full name of a stranger who coughed on me if they ever got treated -stupid at best.

[htuttle]

2. I would stay isolated if you can

Results aren't clear yet, but I'm reading that the virus might stay in your lungs for up to a month after you feel better.

Hopefully it isn't still contagious at that point, but they aren't sure yet.

[morillon]

3. Has your doc recommended extra care with toothbrushing?

I was saying in another thread that when I had a pleurectomy* a few years ago, my thoracic surgeon and pulmonologist had the entire floor I was on brushing teeth and using mouthwash 3+ times a day. They'd found that good mouth hygiene reduced in-hospital pneumonia 80%, and this finding has been borne out in other studies and published in the literature.

I'm also an asthmatic, and anything I can do to keep mouth germs from heading south into my lungs is a good thing.

Hope you feel better soon!

*An adverse reaction to a breast cancer drug collapsed that lung with external fluid, and a pleurectomy was the only way to fix it.

[Boxerfan]

5. Dentures!

They get washed & cleaned every night.