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This is a follow up for a sub I posted a few days ago when I suddenly came down with a 100.8 fever and a weird headache.

Two days later, my temp is 99.0 and the headache is gone. My nose is a little clogged and runny.

I have seen no doctor, taken no tests of any kind. I've just been sunbathing for about 30-45 minutes, slamming down pure orange juice and homemade chicken soup, taking zinc and vitamin C and D supplements. Also a low dose of benzo for good, deep, unbroken 10 hours of sleep. Had to change my bedsheets after that first night, woke up soaked in sweat (at least I hope that's what it was!).

I honestly was kind of shaken up. I know covid is bullshit. I question its existence, but even if it exists, I'd survive it just fine. This just shows how powerful being told the same lie over and over for 2 years can be- it can make me question what I know, make me feel like I'm in far more danger than I truly am.

I wanted to thank you users who commented on my original sub. You gave me a morale boost, hardened my resolve, helped me to stop questioning myself. My immune system is doing what it's evolved to do. Getting upset and worrying about covid bullshit does not help.

This is a follow up for a sub I posted a few days ago when I suddenly came down with a 100.8 fever and a weird headache. Two days later, my temp is 99.0 and the headache is gone. My nose is a little clogged and runny. **I have seen no doctor, taken no tests of any kind. I've just been sunbathing for about 30-45 minutes, slamming down pure orange juice and homemade chicken soup, taking zinc and vitamin C and D supplements.** Also a low dose of benzo for good, deep, unbroken 10 hours of sleep. Had to change my bedsheets after that first night, woke up *soaked* in sweat (at least I hope that's what it was!). I honestly was kind of shaken up. I *know* covid is bullshit. I question its existence, but even if it exists, I'd survive it just fine. This just shows how powerful being told the same lie over and over for 2 years can be- it can make me question what I *know,* make me feel like I'm in far more danger than I truly am. I wanted to thank you users who commented on my original sub. You gave me a morale boost, hardened my resolve, helped me to stop questioning myself. My immune system is doing what it's evolved to do. Getting upset and worrying about covid bullshit does not help.

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[–] • 2 pts

Used to take benzos every night for years, no bueno (not saying you do that).

[–] • 2 pts

They're a wonder. You just need to be careful and disciplined with them.

That's difficult though, because their chemical action on the body is very similar to alcohol; lowers your inhibitions. You take 1mg of, say, alprazolam just to calm yourself down.. two hours later, you see your bottle of 29 more pills, and something tells you that it'd be a great idea to take two more.

Before you know it, the bottle is empty and you can't remember what happened in the last two days. This never happened to me, but I know folks who went through shit like that.

[–] • 1 pt

The problem with benzos is that people who take too many will never accept the idea that they better get rid of the stuff. With every other drug there is the moment people want to stop, and if they get help in exactly this moment, they can. This never happens with benzos.

For covid, better take melatonin instead of benzos for sleep. You need every antioxidant you can get to protect the blood vessels, and melatonin is a much better antioxidant than, for example, vitamin c.

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah, fortunately I didn't care for the feeling, took them only for sleep (but it's a faux sleep really).

I did love Vicodin, but now I just do Kratom and need to quit, I don't take much though.

If I get Covid I'm gonna load up on Kratom, it'll take away the suffering, or at least cut it down.

[–] • 2 pts

I know a guy from high school who got hooked on painkillers, and moved onto shooting up heroin.

His life was falling apart, I tried to offer him help, but you know how addicts are....

One day he asked me to research Kratom for him. I came to him with my findings, and talked him into trying to kick the smack by using kratom to help make the wall-climbing less severe.

He ordered some, supposedly super strong shit, I think it came from India or Pakistan- so I would question the quality. So the guy called out of work for a week, and locked himself in his home for 10 days, drinking tea made from the kratom. I saw him in early withdrawals (I think it's called "precipitated withdrawal"?), and holy shit did that change my view on addicts. I always looked down on addicts, thinking "You should have the discipline to just stop." This is a naive outlook.

The agony this man was in for the first two days was fucking terrifying. The physical withdrawal symptoms were so severe, we almost took him to the hospital because he was really dehydrated and we saw something that looked like seizure activity. He refused and agreed to drink more water.

The tea seemed to ease a lot of his symptoms, specifically the stomach issues that come in withdrawals. At the end of those 10 days, we went and bought a home drug test kit. My friend did it- he was clean, all of the poison was out of his system. We had a "before and after" photo, and it's amazing- initially he was like a wilting flower. After those ten days.. it was like he was resurrected. He relapsed once since then, but has remained clean and in recovery otherwise. He didn't continue to use kratom after kicking.

[–] • 1 pt

Good, glad to hear it. Stress can exacerbate the effects what you're already fighting and introduce some new ones to the dog pile.

Try melatonin & 5HTP for sleep though, much better for you and the effect is more in tune with your natural chemical process.

[–] • 3 pts

I appreciate your well wishes, cousin.

Unfortunately, melatonin supplements never seemed to work for me. I've struggled with insomnia since I was a boy.

Perhaps a different delivery method of melatonin is worth trying? I wonder if there is a liquid form?

Isn't there a lot of melatonin in turkey meat? My grandmother (she was a widow, she and her husband owned an 80+ acre farm) would always give us turkey (along with homemade chicken soup, chicken slaughtered nextdoor in the shed) to help me and my dozen or so cousins sleep. We know that vitamins and most nutrients are absorbed far more efficiently when taken from actual food; like taking a vitamin C capsule might get 10% of its dose into your bloodstream, but eating a legit, good orange might get it into you far more efficiently.

I am aware of the dangers of benzos, but I think taking a low dose really helped me relax, put my mind at ease, and helped me to focus on healing rather than worrying. Does that make sense?

[–] • 1 pt

I don't know if turkey has melatonin, I'll have to look that up, but it does have tryptophan & 5HTP is basically tryptophan. Maybe that would help you more than just the melatonin alone. I noticed a significant difference once I began taking them together at bed time. There is cbd oil with melatonin, that may be something to look at. Yeah, getting your nutrients and vitamins through food is always better than getting it from supplements, much better absorption. Supplements shouldn't be a thing we need, but we're not living like we're designed to any more.

How you describe using the benzo doesn't strike me as too worrying, not like you're abusing it. Plus you are aware of the dangers. I have very minimal knowledge about them though. I experimented a little some years ago and quickly found it wasn't my thing.

[–] • 2 pts

I've got an amusing benzo story for ya. This was about a decade ago, I was not there to witness this, I heard this through second hand accounts.

My buddy, we'll call him Phil, went to a party. The party was at an apartment, where you open the door to the first floor, there is a flight of stairs that leads to the upstairs apartment. On the left is a door that leads to the apartment of the people living downstairs.

The party gets going, and Phil takes around 4-8 Xanax "bars": this is the highest dose of Xanax that is prescribed, typically. One of those can turn a grown man into a shambling, zombified person for a few hours. He also drank about half a fifth of vodka. This combination is ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE, AND CAN KILL YOU AND PUT EVERYONE AROUND YOU IN SERIOUS DANGER.

Phil was very, very fucked up. Eventually, people started falling asleep. At some point in the night, Phil took all of his clothing off and walked outside, wandered around in the street for a bit, and then went back into the front door of the apartment. Rather than going up the stairs to his friends' apartment, he opened the door on the ground floor- it was unlocked. He stumbled in and passed out on the nearest couch.

He awoke to police and EMTs dragging him out of this frightened family's apartment. Phil says his memory of the night is very foggy, he remembers going outside, doesn't know why, and everything else is absolutely blank.

This is a funny story because nobody got hurt... but Phil could've died. If I walked into my living room one morning and saw some strange man laying on my couch... well, let's just say the police wouldn't be needed so much as the EMTs would be. Fortunately, one of the family members knew Phil, who is actually a good, nice kid who makes some bad decisions (he was in his late teens I believe).

[–] • 0 pt

My doc said, and same for testosterone, if you supplement it you're in danger of your natural output shutting down.

That skeered me.

Besides, melatonin never helped me either, nor did 200 dollar CBD oil.

[–] • 0 pt

Actually its tryptophan that is in turkey. However, it is in small enough amounts that it really is more of a myth that it makes you sleepy. Its more because people eat to excess on Thanksgiving in the US which more or less leads to a food coma / food crash. Apparently tryptophan supplements can promote better sleep though.

[–] • 0 pt

My brother and his wife both got it, she got pretty weak and fainted a couple times, freaked my brother out, because, like you say, all the hype...in the back of your mind you're saying oh my gosh, what if all that crap is true, what if I'm going to die cause I made fun, cause I questioned it, lol.

[–] • 2 pts

It's good to know that I'm not alone in how this affected me.

Two years ago, if I came down with this exact same illness, I wouldn't have mentioned it. I would barely have thought about it- I probably would've called out of work for two or three days, until the fever was gone. That's out of courtesy to my co-workers, since having a fever is often an indication that you might be contagious at that moment.

[–] • 1 pt

Two years ago, if I came down with this exact same illness, I wouldn't have mentioned it.

Indeed. Just shows how prone we are ourselves to be affected by the fear mongering, none of us are bulletproof.

[–] • 3 pts

Just shows how prone we are ourselves to be affected by the fear mongering, none of us are bulletproof.

I am on record, and will state this again with a high degree of shame: I was a perfectly indoctrinated faggot leftist when I came out of high school. I believed everything they told me, I advocated for fag marriage and "equality" with races, shit on the USA, basically your perfect leftist shabbos goyim. That was me at age 17.

However, after a few years in the real world (military and then workforce), I began to realize I'd been lied to. I started to wonder: "Why does it seem like everyone hates me for being straight, White, and male? I've never hurt anyone who didn't deserve it, I've never been bigoted- but everyone's telling me that I should feel guilty." So what did I do? I researched "White history". I discovered that the various breeds of White peoples (I'll just refer to them as "humans") are the saviors and stewards of the earth. I discovered that all of this hatred directed towards my race, my sex, and my normal sexuality was a manifestation of SHEER ENVY.

That was my red pill moment. It sounds cliche, but it was a true epiphany, like I was sitting in a dark room for years, feeling around on the walls and stumbling through the bullshit until I found it- a light switch. I flicked that switch, and the truth was laid bare before me.

[–] • 0 pt

Funny thing is, you'd be feeling pretty similar again from benzo withdrawals had you taken them long enough. Like u say, perspective is key.

Glad all is well,

[–] • 1 pt

Huh, what is benzo withdrawal like? I don't think the dose and frequency that I take my prescribed benzo is enough to cause dependence.

0.5mg at the most per day, but typically the most I'll take in a week is 3-4. Sometimes I'll go two weeks without feeling like I need it, so I think I'm okay there.

I'm very familiar with opiate withdrawal- I went through a little bit of it after surgery, and I was on painkillers for several months at way too high of a dose. After I stopped getting them, I thought I came down with a flu... but I couldn't fall asleep no matter what I did. This was probably withdrawals. I am glad I did not know at the time.... if I knew that I could make that agony go away by popping another pill, I might have sought it out. I think that's where true addiction begins- when your mind makes that connection between "I can stop feeling awful like this if I just take more opiates", you'll now prioritize getting a fix daily above all else, out of fear of withdrawal.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Welp, you survived because you did the right things. The rest, vitamin C, D, zinc, and chicken soup helped you get through. Chicken soup is very good for you if made with onions, and garlic. Onions have quercetin, and garlic is anti-bacterial, and it thins your blood a bit. The chicken itself has cysteine which loosens thick mucus. All very good stuff for when you're sick.

[–] • 0 pt

My family chicken soup recipe involves boiling the bones in the broth, getting that nutrient-rich marrow released into the broth.

Also, by now I am feeling almost 100%. Fever is gone. I'll probably be 100% tomorrow morning.

[–] • 0 pt

You need a ventilator. Can I have your computer when you die.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt (edited )

I keep Oscillococcinum (homeopathic) on hand, just in case. It stopped a throat/sinus infection dead in its tracks, a couple months ago. Have heard it works on covid. Available from Amazon and WalMart, that I know of. Rhinocort nasal spray is also supposed to stop the virus in your nose. Keep taking the zinc, C, and D, they're good for you all the time.

Glad you're doing better!

[–] • 0 pt

Good job in getting better, but next time avoid the orange juice. That much sugar is never good for any infection (or cancer, or life in general). There are other sources of vitamin C with much less sugar.

[–] • 1 pt

That much sugar is never good for any infection

And this is because most infections literally eat those sugars that you consume, right? They use it as fuel to continue their "attack" on your body.

So if you reduce your sugar intake, you essentially starve out some of the infection? Is this correct? I remember learning something like this in biology.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah basically. Simple organisms run on simple sugars (no cellular respiration or fatty acid oxidation), and the increased metabolism in virally infected cells also take advantage of high sugar levels to fuel their viral replication. Cancer cells can “go glycolytic” and basically only use glycolysis to produce energy (since they need fast energy, too fast for the TCA cycle). Cutting down sugar starves those cancer cells. Also high sugar levels suppress your immune system too, which is seen to an extreme degree in diabetes. Just avoid sugar.

[–] • 0 pt

But I just now had a "tall mocha Frappuccino with extra whip."

[–] • 0 pt

Yes, and cancer loves sugar too.

[–] • 0 pt

Thanks for the follow-up. If you get a dry cough that hangs around for weeks, and if you lost your sense of smell, you'll know you had Covid. If not, you probably contracted some other cold virus -- your symptoms are too mild for it to be the flu.

[–] • 0 pt

Not to be a debby downer but prolonged fever can cause brain damage, if you know your ABCs and can remember what you had for dinner over the last week your loss is probably marginal though, but 3 days is a lot of fever, over 101 and up for more than 2 days can begin a tailspin to vegetation.

[–] • 0 pt

The height of my fever was 100.8, which is not good.

I have not taken any NSAIDs or other fever reducers- fever is your immune response trying to burn out the infection. I'd only try to reduce the fever if it remained that high for a long time.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

outstanding! well done mate. Glad to hear a poalie is on the mend! Keep up with healing, rest, good clean foods and supplements. Cheers!

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