Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2025 Poal.co

232

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.

(post is archived)

You are currently inside a comment thread.
Click here to see all the comments (51).
[–] • 0 pt

I have always wondered about the grapefruit juice warning with medications, but I have been to lazy to actually read why it's dangerous.

[–] • 1 pt

There's some kind of enzyme that increases the effect of a multitude of drugs, including blood pressure and cholesterol medications.

I first learned this when caring for my elderly grandmother, doling out her daily medications. She always liked to eat half a grapefruit with breakfast, and I told her to stop until we could clear it with her doctor.

For that particular medication at that dosage, and with my grandmother specifically, it was okay to eat half a grapefruit a day for her. It might not be the same for everyone.

[–] • 0 pt

That exact scenario played through my mind and made me shudder. It's one thing if you're drinking and taking it, you know you're getting fucked up big time. Someone eating a grapefruit is prime for a potential sneak attack. Scary thought

[–] • 1 pt

Hm, now that I think on it... I can't recall the last time I've received a medication from a doctor and been warned about anything listed on the bottle.

Dirty secret of the medical industry... so I was a pharmacy technician for a while. Most doctors don't know shit about the medications they are prescribing. They don't understand how it affects the body, long-term effects, interactions, etc..

In the USA, we call them "pharmacists", but most of the world knows them as "chemists". These are the people who studied the effects of chemicals on the human body. These are the people that often catch POTENTIALLY LETHAL mistakes made by doctors.

It would terrify you if I told you how many times I went to fill a prescription, saw the list of meds the patient was on, and immediately realized "Holy shit if this guy takes this he might die". Then I tell the pharmacist, he/she confirms this, calls the doctor and tells him/her they are a dumbass, and find an alternative. This is like 50% of the job of a pharmacist, fixing doctor's fuck-ups.