I’ve been real sick with Covid for 12 days now. My lungs are fucked. My blood oxygen has dropped from 97 to 94, and tonight I fainted after a fit of coughing.
I ain’t winning…
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Dude! That’s SHITTY!
Don’t let that shit getcha brother.
Hopes for a recovery. Bad Juju right there.
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I’m very sorry to hear that.
Mine dropped to 89 at one point. It was fucking brutal. 94% isn’t great, but it’s not the worst, either.
When it gets hard to breathe, a humidifier helps a lot. Turn on a hot shower and breath steam if you have to.
Sometimes it helps when it’s very hard to breathe to either lie prone face down if you’re able to do so comfortably, or on your hands and knees if you have to. Might sound silly, but it works.
At twelve days in you’re hopefully going to start reaching the other side of the illness. It took about two weeks for me to start feeling like maybe I’m not gonna die after all 
Best wishes, I hope you start feeling better soon!
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I hope you’re you’re seeking medical care or at least talking to your doctor. Anytime you lose consciousness/faint/pass out you should be getting medical attention.
I hope you’re on the mend soon 
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This right here. Gotta rule out pulmonary embolisms/pneumonia. Best case scenario you get a fluticasone inhaler and some oral steroids to dial down your over active immune response.
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Yeah. I have an appointment this afternoon to see my doctor again.
The weird thing is, I’ve taken 5 home tests, and even got a state PCR test last week. All 6 tests have shown negative. But it’s pretty clear I’ve got a raging bad case of Covid.
This morning when I woke up, my blood oxygen was back up to 97.
But as the day goes on, it keeps going down.
I am feeling a lot better today, but my lungs sound like I’ve got a bad case of bronchitis or pneumonia
Can’t wait for this crap to be over.
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Increase your salt intake, it will lower the mucus build up in your lungs.
Sounds like you have walking pneumonia, if your not testing positive it’s probably not the Vid. Those tests are more prone to false positives.
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Yup. Doc says it’s not Covid, even though all symptoms match 100%. He says it’s a bad viral bronchitis I picked up.
I’m starting to feel a little better today, but still can’t breath well and get tired easy.
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Drink soda water and increase the salt on your food, you will be surprised how much your breathing will improve.
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I was skeptical about this, so I started googling and although I didn’t (yet) find anything about that particular subject, I did find some very interesting information about halotherapy (inhaling salt-laden air like in a salt mine) and ended up ordering a cheaper small halogenerator 
I’m looking forward to seeing if it helps.
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I will see if I can find the info I read, it was about 8 months ago. I started getting a lot of mucus/flem and would be hacking it up for an hour in the morning.
It was in a study for the health authorities recomended daily salt intake level being to low and the lack of sodium/salt causing insulin resistance and also as a seperate issue for reducing mucus in the lungs, as well as insulin resistance by increasing sodium uptake.
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gonna do a pcr test can’t shake the cough and chest congestion, but I keep smoking so… my fault. Negative yay, only one who didn’t get it was my wife…shared joints the whole time, she has got a great immune system rarely gets sick. We came through fine, my daughter and her 2 yr old got it again (just sniffles for them), me and my daughter just ha a nasty flu-like cold for a week. Still not vaxxed.
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The misses and I got covid for the first time ever, this last week. No fun the first couple days were heavy with fever for both of us.
Now we’re both just really tired and lethargic but improving at day 4-5. It didn’t take any doctors visits, just over the counter stuff, electrolit, and sleep. Luckily besides a cough the first couple days we have not experienced lung issues thus far
Side note it’s a helluva way to lose 10 pounds
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Covid is on the rise again, here in my little town and the rest of the state, I believe. Time to get that last booster for me. Might be a messed up winter if it starts back up this easy in summer.
Wow, this is interesting, as I’m hacking violently when I first get up, and the amount of clear mucus that accumulates over night is crazy.
I’ve been on low sodium for a long time, and recently was told my doctor to reduce sodium after a TIA (mini stroke) last summer. I’m going to try the uptake. I haven’t been able to figure out a reason for the morning build up so this is really interesting.
Any good ways to increase it other than on top of food?
Stay safe peeps. Covid is back out there, and each new variant potentially brings new problems. peace
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ever had bronchitis? tends to kick in after a cold or flu is gone.
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That seriously happened to me one year! I got infected with the flu a week before the vaccination, then came down with bronchitis afterwards. Worst Month Ever!
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it was pretty normal growing up for me, after every cold. acute lasts two weeks and chronic longer. I haven’t been sick in over a decade so I am not sure if I still get it. Change of season is typically when./if I get sick. My mom used to throw a bunch of onions and garlic and maybe vikcs perhaps other things, a crazy concoction and boil it then put a towel over my head, over the pot to huff for a while. Ironically bronchitis was a sign I was getting better. lol
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yeah and asthma. That would explain the hacking and phlegm, I always chocked it up to incessant toking during recovery, and sickness. Taste is all weirded out, apetite is low, but getting stronger. Probably another week of getting back to normal. Lucky here I guess.
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My mother always threatened a Vics and Peanut butter sandwich if we didn’t get better fast. LOL
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I am going to preface this, with, when I post stuff like this, what I am saying is check out this information I am posting, I am not saying just go and do it, as that may be how it comes across. I read a lot of studies and info can get crossed over with other info, it’s surprising how much overlaps in some ways but not fully.
Yeah, that’s it, I was a little blurry on my recollection, as it came up when I was looking for info on low sodium diets increasing insulin resistance and pushing people into diabetes.
There are a couple of studies on sodium intake added to food but we’re inconclusive as they never followed through fully with the study, when using it to help deal with systic fibrosis. It was a positive effect for my experiment on myself.
The idea being that the more sodium in the diet the more hydrated you become, as for every 1 gram of sodium in the body, the body will hold 250ml of water roughly. So the more fluid in the body the easier it is to clear the mucus in the lungs as it’s more loose.
Salt pipes or those machines are very good not just for the lungs but also other body conditions as well.
That was me 6 months ago hardly any now, I increased my salt intake as I was more concerned about the insulin resistance on low sodium diets. Since tripling the government health recommendations for salts I have hardly anything needing coughing up at all.
My BP has dropped significantly so I no longer need BP medication, but that is mainly due to the fasting, low carb diet and weight loss.
I check my BP regularly, 20 to 30 minutes after coffee or eating a handful of nuts with a half teaspoon of Himalayan pink rock, or 5 minutes after runing up and down the stairs to see what my recovery time is like, my BP is always back to normal after a small rise in pressure within 30 minutes.
Any un needed sodium by the body is flushed out of the blood and excreted, that’s why your body increases it’s water being held in the system for increased salt intake, as it uses it to flush out what is not needed, provided you are getting enough water through the day. Lack of water will increase BP as your blood platelets get sticky and don’t flow so easily.
If you are using the salt inhalers it will still be absorbed by the body, so it’s going to give you a temporary BP increase before it returns back to its base level what ever that is for you.
The low sodium diet is now being shown to be counter productive for BP control, as it causes more problems than it solves and BP will return to its base level 30 minutes or so after ingestion anyway.
The studies were flawed by who ever did them, as they were only looking for effects of salt intake directly after consumption, no checks were done to see if BP returned to base line, which they do.
Everyone is different though, we are all unique and why pharmaceutical’s create problems for some, as its not a one size fits all therapy, that the docs and drug companies like us to think it is.
If you want good health you have to go look at the information out there from the gov and big pharma and alternative natural and internal medicine and figure out what works best for you, and whether the long term side effects are worth it, for just masking and reducing symptoms of a problem as with pharmacuitacles, or finding the root cause of the problem and treating it holistically to reduce further damage to the body.
I treat all medicine as buyer beware, I look at the pros and cons long and short term use. I used BP pharmacuitacles as they work fast, as my BP went dangerously high after taking anti inflammatory pain killers or Nsaids after I fucked my neck up.
Now it took me 3 months to get my BP back under control naturally, without the need for the drugs, it just took dietary and lifestyle changes that take longer to be implemented, and was a safer route for my kidneys, with short term use and eventual replacing with holistic treatments.
A lot of lung and immune problems are caused by Zinc deficiencies, Zinc protects cells from viruses and is extreemly important for many body functions, something else I increased with a daily supplement as the food we buy is becoming more deficient in minerals with the industrial farming practices.
Pink Himalayan rock salt has about 80 trace minerals in it and is low in sodium, another good reason to replace your table salt with it.
I am not saying do this, I am saying check out the info that’s out there and make an informed decision. What I do is not for everyone, some may call it extreem.
I don’t trust my health to anyone but me because I am unique in my physiology, I research a lot and test the information on myself, if it works I keep using it, if it doesn’t I stop. Some things work but are too complicated or not life style compatible for me, and get adapted or put on the shelf for later, for when it makes better sense or I really have to change something.
Remember, the science is constantly being updated about our incredible bodies, and what they can do, when given the correct nutrition and exercise, it’s a constant learning and changing process.
What a lot of western medicine is based on was developed 30 to 40 years ago but the medical system is not updating to the new knowledge that is now being found.
There are leading experts in nutritional health and internal medicine on YouTube that I use as well as pubmed sites. The info is out there you just have to spend time and effort to figure out what works for you.
A bit like growing weed, there are different view points and ways to grow it and different sites that give you the info. You just have to research and test to see how well it works for your unique environment, situation and strains.
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