RL Peeves

junipersky

Got Covid

Pyrephox

mietze

I heard someone comment downstairs about no fudgesicles in the box in the freezer, and yet still the box has not yet made it into recycling. Sigh. I gave up and am now going to get rid of it. Alas, trolling fail.

Snackness

@mietze Fill it with rocks and leave it

Aria

I’ve had the same cough since June. Since June.

No, it’s not COVID. I’ve tested negative multiple times. I’ve also been sent for a chest X-ray, which looks completely clear. I’m now on antibiotics to see if that will knock it out and while they don’t seem to be helping, they have done a fantastic job of giving me horrible stomach cramps since Wednesday.

I apparently have Schrodinger’s fucking cough, and my doctor’s brilliant response at this point is “Have you tried cough drops?”

cough asshole

lucidmaus

@Aria If I get a cold, I always end up coughing for a good 6-8 weeks after the fact. It’s apparently A Thing (post-viral cough) and it’s stupid and bodies are just dumb. I hope it goes away soon!

DrQuinn

@Aria so this might be a long shot, but a friend of mine noticed their son was always coughing every few hours for months. Wasn’t sick, doctors were a bit baffled, cough didn’t seem to be bothering him, but mom is a scientist and started keeping track of various things and it turned out…to be gluten. Once she put him on a gluten free diet he was fine. Cough never returned.

TNP

Another potential cause of a cough is if you take an ACE inhibitor for high blood pressure. I’d think a doctor would have warned about this but it’s best to never assume. So if anyone out there takes one and is always coughing, that could be it.

KarmaBum

@Aria Any chance you’ve been to California’s central valley recently?

GF

If you were ever curious, manic phases are a lot less fun than they sound.

Aria

@KarmaBum said in RL Peeves:

@Aria Any chance you’ve been to California’s central valley recently?

Nope. I am, however, going to contact the pulmonary specialist that I ultimately badgered my doctor into recommending to me.

I’ve been given inhalers before, once for what-is-this-horrible-wheezing-sound-this-person-is-making back before they had COVID tests available in hospital ERs, once for bronchitis, and once for “Holy shit, someone who is allergic to mold had major mold exposure and now their lungs are doing a big-big mad.”

They marked it down in my chart as asthma in the first and last cases because they didn’t really have medical codes to use for that. But now I’m pretty much sitting here like, “Uhh, guys. Do you think, y’know, maybe I straight up have always had mild, intermittent asthma and now it’s not so mild? That those were asthma attacks brought on by various forms of ick and I just didn’t know what was happening because no one had ever told me I had asthma before?”

Arkandel

Before civilization collapsed I quite enjoyed going to FanExpo (the biggest comic book etc convention in Canada).

This year they are opening their non-virtual doors again, and of course my mailbox is blown up… The question is, do I want to go, given all the various plagues that still linger? Thousands of nerds, not exactly known for hygiene to begin with, all in close proximity and indoors seems like a not so great idea.

On the other hand… there will be so much merch and stuff there.

eye8urcake

That out here and most parts I can reach, everything is built around the assumption that one possesses and operates a reliable personal vehicle.

My daughter, whom we have spent the past year supporting through a major personal tragedy, is moving two states over/up in about ~~three~~ two weeks now and her car is dodgy as fuck, even after we’ve put all the time and money we can all pool into it.

ETA: This is her second car, after some asshole failed to yield and turned left into her at a major intersection April 1, which totalled a vehicle that was running and behaving perfectly, and was also bigger enough where that would be really nice right about now.

This shit really stresses me out.

Faraday

@Aria said in RL Peeves:

“Uhh, guys. Do you think, y’know, maybe I straight up have always had mild, intermittent asthma and now it’s not so mild? That those were asthma attacks brought on by various forms of ick and I just didn’t know what was happening because no one had ever told me I had asthma before?

That seems plausible. The pulmonologist should hopefully be able to rule that in or out pretty easily.

I had a similar thing where apparently I’ve had asthma all my life and nobody noticed because it was never severe enough for me to have a proper “attack” (thank goodness). Like… oh, wait, so that’s why I always cough for weeks after every cold, have never been able to run for long even when in the best shape of my life, etc? Who knew?

The only bummer was finding out as part of a screening for taking a SCUBA class I was really looking forward to. I guess it’s kinda bad if your lungs trap air deep underwater and then explode.

Aria

@Faraday said in RL Peeves:

I had a similar thing where apparently I’ve had asthma all my life and nobody noticed because it was never severe enough for me to have a proper “attack” (thank goodness). Like… oh, wait, so that’s why I always cough for weeks after every cold, have never been able to run for long even when in the best shape of my life, etc? Who knew?

The pulmonologist had a cancellation and was able to see me today, much to my boss’ irritation. (It was that or wait until October. I regret nothing.)

They’re going to do some more tests to confirm but it’s basically exactly your experience – mild, intermittent asthma with very specific and obvious triggers. Those triggers just also happened to be things that make people sick in general and instead of just coding them in that way to get my insurance to cover a one-time prescription, I should’ve been referred to a pulmonologist, like, ten fucking years ago.

asthma

ETA: If anyone who has had asthma for a long time has tips on managing it for someone swearing and figuring out how to live with this for the first time, that would be aces.

Faraday

@Aria said in RL Peeves:

ETA: If anyone who has had asthma for a long time has tips on managing it for someone swearing and figuring out how to live with this for the first time, that would be aces.

I’m glad they got you in quicker and you’re on the path to sorting things out.

Everyone’s different, but for what it’s worth as a frame of reference…

Not a whole lot changed after I was diagnosed, other than the aforementioned SCUBA training being nixed. Mostly it was just a relief to finally understand what was going on.

I got some medicine that helps some, including a “rescue inhaler”. There are various kinds of meds, so don’t be discouraged if the first crack at it isn’t perfect. Some kinds help with specific triggers, like exercise.

My asthma is pretty self-limiting. I get out of breath exercising, I can just stop and rest. And the post-viral (or allergy-induced) coughs are more a nuisance than anything, though the inhaler sometimes helps. (“I promise it’s not covid I just have allergies and asthma…”)

Good luck!

crawfish

Fuck covid. I’m tired of feeling exhausted.

eye8urcake

Fuck having to solve a major problem with someone who freaks the fuck out about it to the point of yelling at me whether I make suggestions or not, especially given the decades this person has spent being fucking useless at many of the shared problems we’ve had that I’ve had to sort out my own self.

This is the kind of shit that ends up on ‘Snapped’.

Grr.

grr

junipersky

@crawfish this

GF

I have so much good food in the kitchen waiting for me, but the only thing that sounds good to me is some greasy pile of poorly cut beef handed to me in a brown paper bag through the window of my car. Addiction sucks.