Damn. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes to you and your family.
Did you consider lying the second time you went in wanting a test and saying that you had traveled to China or SK just to get a test? Do they ask for proof of something like that?
Damn. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes to you and your family.
Did you consider lying the second time you went in wanting a test and saying that you had traveled to China or SK just to get a test? Do they ask for proof of something like that?
Star wrote:
negative nancyboy wrote:
That said, don't you have a primary care doctor? Through all of this you went to urgent care or emergency care 3 times and never once called your doctor?
I don't know about the OP, but I lost my primary care doctor this year.
So did my wife.
It had been just over 3 years since my last physical plus I hadn't been sick and didn't need to see any doctor and I was dropped from my provider group. They are not taking new patients, and I'm considered a new patient right now.
My wife also didn't have an official physical in 3 years but saw her OBGYN regularly plus had a major procedure last year through our group.
She was dropped. We found out when she needed to get looked at for a lump under her our arm and she was refused a visit.
I took her to urgent car to look at and get antibiotics. It went away and she's OK.
We lost our doctor because we were healthy and didn't bother taking up appointments to get our weight and blood pressure checked often enough.
I called around and couldn't find anyone that could see either of us in the next 4 months.
My family doctor gave me the boot when he went “concierge” about 15 years ago. I was in my mid 20s then and rarely needed a regular doc so I never established with another one. Urgent care / doc in the box works just fine and is very convenient.
negative nancyboy wrote:
That said, don't you have a primary care doctor? ?
I'm 55. I haven't had a primary care doctor since I was in high school.
When I was 55 I went to the dentist for the first time since I was a high school junior.
They said it looked like I hadn't been there for a year.
never needed one wrote:
negative nancyboy wrote:
That said, don't you have a primary care doctor? ?
I'm 55. I haven't had a primary care doctor since I was in high school.
If you’re 55 and not getting checkups then you get what’s coming to you in situations like OP. This is one reason we have to shutdown society in a crisis? Because you idiots are irresponsible and clog up emergency services when a trusted doctor could handle it. Your as bad as the fatties with their diabetes
have to be honest wrote:
Why did you go to the hospital so many times? I have to be honest, I've been way more sick than your symptoms and I just stayed home until I got better. What was it about your condition that made you think you needed to go to the hospital and then Emergency?
I have to be honest: I say things like this because it makes me feel better to think I sound tough to counteract the shame I feel inside.
Thanks for posting this. It sounds scary; I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Hey, get well man, that's scary. But I wanted to mention that there is anecdotal evidence that azithromycin may somehow reduce viral load in COVID19, so if you didn't take it - take it now (It could be useless, but I'd say use all possible weapons. In a small sample of patients, those who took hydroxychloroquine reduced viral load; those who took hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin - erroneously prescribed for a bacterial infection - improved MORE. Is it effective without hydroxychloroquine? What mechanism? Was it coincidence? We don't know).
LoneStarXC wrote:
Thanks for posting this. It sounds scary; I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Yeah, good info from OP.
Interesting that even with asthma, he ended up bouncing back pretty fast. He's the type I would have thought would have ended up on a ventilator.
Dr. of Nothing wrote:
Precisely. The media has everyone convinced that you are doomed if you get it when the experts admit that most experience only mild cold symptoms. The majority of people who get the flu experience worse symptoms.
Ummm.. no, it's a bit worse than "mild cold symptoms"
justthefacts wrote:
Late Sunday night 8 March, started to feel Body Aches and what could have been the beginnings of a fever. Did not suffer from cough at that moment. From there, the aches intensified and I developed a low grade fever (99.5). By Tuesday Morning, I felt bad enough to go to the Urgent Care and drove myself to one that is affiliated with a large hospital in the city where I live. I immediately alerted the staff I was having symptoms and that I had just returned from overseas. They responded they couldn't test me for COVID because I had not been to China, S Korea, Japan, or Iran and at that point CDC was only authorizing tests from those origins. Doctor then proceeded to diagnose me with an URI and sent me home strong cough syrup and a Zpack with instructions to only take it if necessary.
Thursday 12 March my wheezing started to get bad along with the cough. At this point, I returned to same Urgent Care and explained I had been there 2 days previous. Doctor took blood work and a chest x-ray. Blood work came back totally normal and Chest Xray showed no signs of an infection. Doctor concluded I suffered an asthma attack and gave me prednisone. I again asked about the testing and mentioned again my trip to Switzerland and UK. Response was they are still not authorized to test for it and Doctor told me they saw people who fit the symptoms but they had to send home without testing them so the conventional thought was that the COVID was already present in the community. They felt somewhat powerless to stop what they thought was about to become a big issue.
There are definitely way more cases in the US than are being reported/tested for. I wouldn't be surprised if there were at least 50,000 cases that just haven't been tested for yet.
never needed one wrote:
I'm 55. I haven't had a primary care doctor since I was in high school.
I've never had one either.
Star wrote:
negative nancyboy wrote:
That said, don't you have a primary care doctor? Through all of this you went to urgent care or emergency care 3 times and never once called your doctor?
I don't know about the OP, but I lost my primary care doctor this year.
So did my wife.
It had been just over 3 years since my last physical plus I hadn't been sick and didn't need to see any doctor and I was dropped from my provider group. They are not taking new patients, and I'm considered a new patient right now.
My wife also didn't have an official physical in 3 years but saw her OBGYN regularly plus had a major procedure last year through our group.
She was dropped. We found out when she needed to get looked at for a lump under her our arm and she was refused a visit.
I took her to urgent car to look at and get antibiotics. It went away and she's OK.
We lost our doctor because we were healthy and didn't bother taking up appointments to get our weight and blood pressure checked often enough.
I called around and couldn't find anyone that could see either of us in the next 4 months.
I understand exactly what you are saying. The Yanks like to bash on socialized medicine with its long waiting list, but there are long waiting lists here as well.
You are penalized for being healthy in this country. You have to book a routine Two Finger Mexican Oil Change months in advance.
How many times do you hear these words "The Doctor is not accepting new patients at this time".
Now tell me how this is any better than socialized medicine?
I read every post and still don't know the OP 5k time.
+1. The patchwork and profit-driven nature of our 'system', such as it can be called, it's all being exposed for the broken piece of garbage that it is right now. A thin sliver of world-class and extraordinary care veneered over a broken pile of badness.
Maybe the silver lining in this disaster will be a centralization of our completely broken-down sick care system. It's a matter for a later day of course.
For now, hunker down, stay home, stay safe!
Um. No. 80% affected have only mild symptoms of which up to 50% are asymptomatic. My math teacher claims that 80% is the majority.
Thank you for sharing. Good luck with rest of recovery.
Dur wrote:
I read every post and still don't know the OP 5k time.
Finally a sensible posting.
noclue wrote:
have to be honest wrote:
Why did you go to the hospital so many times? I have to be honest, I've been way more sick than your symptoms and I just stayed home until I got better. What was it about your condition that made you think you needed to go to the hospital and then Emergency?
Are you kidding me? Have you ever had pneumonia and asthma and were fighting for every breath? I have, back during the swine flu outbreak I had swine flu that turned into pneumonia. Its terrible and scary. I've never gone to the hospital for any other "seasonal flu".
Sure, a bad cough, or fever in isolation, generally isn't enough of a prompt for me to go to the hospital in isolation. But add those things plus pneumonia? I highly doubt you have had worse symptoms and stayed home. If you have, that's not something to brag about, that's being stubborn.
OP, thanks for sharing your story and glad you are recovering.
I spoke to justthefacts and his story is here:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/03/whats-it-like-to-have-covid-19-a-letsrun-com-visitor-shares-his-story-of-being-infected-with-the-coronavirus/One thing I didn't include was he didn't go to a primary care doctor as he has moved fairly recently and did not have one yet so he went to urgent care. He didn't say this but if you have asthma and a serious breathing condition you're going to go to a doctor.
For people outside of the US urgent care is not the hospital.
In 2016 after going to Rio and trashing my body I got the flu. I usually don't go to doc but felt like shit so I went to urgent care. It was a Sunday so my doc wasn't available. They gave me tamiflu and said I'd be better in a few days. 5 days later I was coughing so much I felt it wasn't safe to spend another night by myself. I've never felt like that where breathing was a concern. Went back in . Was diagnosed with pneumonia. And as far as I know I don't have asthma. If I had asthma I'd have been back in way before. You need to realize justthefacts has asthma.
Dur wrote:
I read every post and still don't know the OP 5k time.
17 minute guy. I found a few race results for him even.
rg2 wrote:
I hope you feel better. But, I’ve had pneumonia and the swine flu didn’t go to the hospital. And I wouldn’t go because I had a 101 fever. I think the paranoia is the bad part, not the sickness. People are so panicked that they are rushing hospitals cause the media has made this out to you’re going to die.
Did you also live in a shoebox in the middle of the road growing up? FFS