This virus behaves differently in our bodies than cold and flu—and can do major long-term damage.
  • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    The only 2 things I’ve had that were worse than the last time I had COVID:

    • Pneumonia when I was 15, so sick I had to be carried to the washroom.
    • Whooping cough earlier this year, coughing so much I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t walk more than 3 or 4 meters in a go
    • sverit@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 months ago

      I had the real influenza which was a bit worse, but I wasn’t vaccinated 3 times against that. Covid gave me over 6 months of loss of smell, that was terrible.

      • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        If you have easy access to a booster… fuckin do it!
        I was sick as a dog for 3 weeks, started being symptomatic late Feb, was well enough to work again by mid March…had a persistent cough until early June, and due to health monitoring at work my lung capacity and strength has been verified as having gone down about 5%. It’s almost October and I still have a bit of a cough, not all the time like right after the worst of it, but if it’s cold, or humid, or I’ve been lying down for a few hours(say around 2am)…

        Anyway, definitely get a booster if you can.

        • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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          2 months ago

          I’ll ask my GP. I do not fool around with getting vaccines as needed, that’s for sure. I just don’t know what the policy is.

          Would I be a bad person if I fibbed to public health to get an Mpox vaccine by telling them I have multiple sex partners? I don’t but I would like one because it’s spread by touch.