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If you are an adult with T1D and have tested positive for COVID-19 at some point since January 2022, did your health care provider prescribe Paxlovid to help with symptoms?
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Paxlovid was worse than Covid. I suffered from most of the secondary effects it has. Had to be taken to hospital for dehydration and 104f degree fever.
: – ( I am so sorry to hear. Hope you final recovered without much incident.
I had COVID in August 2022 but had very mild symptoms and didn’t take any prescription or OTC medications for it. I was fully vaxxed & boosted at the time.
same here
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I have not had Covid, but if I do get it, I will not take Paxlovid. Too many stories of severe side effects, including hospitalization. I am also not going to get any more boosters.
👍 and I also have never been/ or will be vaccinated for C19.
I’ve had Covid twice. The first time I was asymptomatic so nothing was needed. The second time, in June, I took Paxlovid with no problem. It was 17 days before I tested negative though.
Yes, I’ve taken Paxlovid twice. It made a HUGE difference in my symptoms. I went from being hardly functional to very functional. As a mom, yada yada, I ain’t got time to lie on the couch with COVID. Paxlovid was critical.
Other – I have never taken a C19 test.
I had covered last June and the doctor said that he would not give me Paxlovid. Not too sure why but I was assuming the side effects from it would make my symptoms worse than what they already were. My husband had covered the same time as me and he did get it and seem to help him to get over it quicker than me. But he is not T1D
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Darn voice text 🙄
I have T1. Was tested for Covid 2x per week (employer required) and always NEGATIVE! I was even exposed on 2 occasions and never got it. To this day I’ve never had the Covid 19 virus.
Honestly, unless you are testing everyday or one a week…can you really answer this question accurately. It’s a 98% exposure rate.
I got my first case of Covid 19 in May, 2023. My doctor prescribed Paxlovid, which I started immediately. I hope the Paxlovid helped, but I felt that the symptoms were harsh, similar to a very bad case of the flu. It took over 2 months for my lungs to clear up.
I have not been diagnosed with COVID-19, yet. Five boosters so far and I will get number six next week.
I was diagnosed on a cruise (I think picked up in Miami prior to cruise). They did not offer paxlovid. I worked as a nurse during whole pandemic and got Covid on vacation last March. I was quite sick. Took about three months before I felt back to normal.
Everyone around me got COVID pneumonia – they need to take erythromycin, inhaler and steroids. They were boosted and vaxxed to schedule. So, it doesn’t seem very effective to me – perhaps due to Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE)???
I had COVID in June 2022. Did not take Paxlovid. I don’t think I notified my doctor. I did take a few extra vitamins and baby aspirin based on doctor’s recommendations given to a friend who had recently had it. Was sick in bed a couple of days with what felt like a really bad cold. Took 11 days to test negative. I am fully vaccinated.
So far, so good. Covid clear, with an abundance of precautions. Still being respectful, but enjoying more freedom, to be sure.
Here’s to good health!
I am still getting over the side effects of the paxlovid now. It was a mess when I returned from travel by air and tested positive the next day. At the same time as I got COVID, my CGM readings were low, constantly low. In my foggy head I didn’t think to use a meter to compare, I just sort-of enjoyed the experience of stuffing sweet stuff into myself to raise up my blood sugar. After low after low with no abatement, I called Dexcom, and it was a sensor fail, which I’ve never experienced with that problem before in at least 10 years of using a cgm. The sensor read “43, then LOW”, but the meter recorded 545. Which explained why I was sleeping so much and not thinking clearly. I called my healthcare provider for paxolovid, took it the required days, and after the described incident, now have terrible itching and pain in my eyes. I don’t know that I will ever be able to determine what was COVID symptoms versus high blood sugar effects.
I said no, but I didn’t actually go to my HCP while I had it. I just took OTC medications.
I’m am fully vacc’d and boosted and have never had COVID, at least not symptomatic COVID. I’ve been taking precautions to avoid it since the start of the pandemic to be ready for knee surgery as soon as the opportunity arose and because I just don’t want to get sick. I find I don’t mind masking to stay healthy and protect others. When I see people masking, it feels like a warm gesture of mutual concern. I would take Paxlovid if I did test positive. My neighbor took it and hated her gastrointestinal side effects, but I don’t think everyone experiences that.
My endo discussed this with me but we both decided not to because I thought I may have had for several days before being tested positive. It works best when taken early is what I undertood.
I was offered rather than suggested Paxlovid but together we decided I didn’t need it.
I never had COVID until after I was “fully vaxed” against it. After getting the full faccine dosages, I’ve had COVID 3 times and every time my Doctors have told me to just treat it the same as I’d treat a bad cold or mild flu with OTC meds for the symptoms, so the heaviest medication I’ve ever taken for any of my 3 bouts with COVID has been Alka-Seltzer Plus and ibuprofen.
Had COVID in 2021. After having both vaccines. Was given an infusion of monoclonal thru an IV. Haven’t been sick since! Not a cold or flu either!
I wasn’t prescribed Paxlovid because I didn’t want it. I would have if symptoms went into my lungs within their 5-day recommendation of when to get Paxlovid
Yes. But I opted to take Ivermectin instead and within 2 hours after first dose temperature was gone and chilling stopped and other than tiredness couldn’t tell that I had been sick as a dog.
I got Covid for the first time just a week ago upon arriving home from Norway/Sweden. Since I had been fully vaccinated prior to the trip, I feel like I didn’t have a bad case. So, Paxlovid or even calling my Doctor didn’t happen.
My provider handed me the prescription right there at the office. I have had it twice and each time they have just given Paxlovid to me. Normally I just go to the urgent care
Yes, Paxlovid prescribed within 24 hrs of symptoms and positive test. Minimal symptoms and quick recovery.