Are you willing to share what the weird heart issues have been? I still have a somewhat elevated HR but also had an episode of racing heart…had it checked out…it resolved it self. No one was worried, but it did increase my anxiety/freakout level.
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I guess irregular beating would be the best description. It would speed up or slow down. Sometimes I felt like maybe it missed a beat. I never went to the doctor so I guess I can’t say for sure if any of those things are true. It just felt…weird. Sometimes it would feel weird, and I would cough, and then it would sort of feel normal again. It happened slightly more often if I did things like walk up the stairs, but it didn’t require me doing any exertion for it to be off.
I know that is not a very good description! It is one of the reasons I never went to the doctor, I wasn’t really sure what to say besides, “my heart feels weird.” (The other reason is that I don’t have a doctor. We seem to be in short supply of primary care doctors where I live so I have resorted to just going to the urgent care.)
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‘Weird’ is a perfect descriptor. Other than that incident where for no reason my HR spiked to 150 - it all seems normal per Fitbit. Just a bit elevated…but sometimes things feel jittery.
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My Kardia showed supraventricular ectopy, and premature ventricular contractions, both sinus rhythm. Heart rate was up. The hospital caught some afib, very brief. All during COVID but also it seemed Paxlovid made it worse.
Heart rate abnormalities after COVID-19 infection do appear to be fairly common.
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Yes @ucbalumnus I read that. Mine stopped when my COVID got better. (Unfortunately I am now on a bone med that may also cause palpitations.)
My daughter’s blood sugars are now going crazy. Fever 100+. Cough. High blood sugars encourage infections.
Does your daughter have an O2 sat monitor?
I am ordering one for her. Her fever keeps going up. The type 1 diabetes really worries me. Everyone with type 1 is scared of hospitals, where knowledge is very limited.
I had Covid in February and developed post Covid POTS, 10 month later I’m still having dizziness, temperature irregularities and heart rate issues. (Sometimes up to 180)
The oximeter is the apple watch is supposed to be pretty good, if she happens to have one.
Some more recent Apple watches are the subject of a patent dispute with Masimo over more advanced pulse oximetry technology, so availability may be limited: Apple Watch sales resume after federal court blocks ban | AP News
Some other fitness watches have pulse oximetry capabilities.
Just in case the D may have access to an Apple Watch that does offer pulse oximetry. For me, I find the reading often corresponds pretty with my other pulse oximeters. You do have to be very still while trying to get a reading on the watch tho, more so than with my other pulse oximeters.
In any case, the literature only supports the iwatch as a wellness device, not a medical way to monitor oxygen saturations.
Nonin and Mossimo make good pulse oximeters. Nonin’s are more affordable—I have several.
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Daughter finally tested negative yesterday. Took Paxlovid for 5 days and the line on the test on day 5 was faint, but day 7 it was strongly positive again with 101 fever. It took 14 days from first positive test to a negative.
For anyone dealing with type 1 diabetes ( a rare disease so unlikely), insulin basal rate tripled as did boluses. As the illness recedes, insulin needs go down with danger of lows if not careful. New technology helps a lot with this. I used to get up every hour overnight when she was young, and recovering from an illness that raised insulin needs. So grateful for pump, CGM, and integration of the two: she can sleep!
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COVID is rampant here. Know quite a number of unrelated folks that have it. Several plans canceled due to others have it. Although some of my work colleagues had not heard of anyone getting it. DS who is staying with us was closely exposed over the weekend so isolating and testing now.
My H tested positive for five days. I never got it. However, we both isolated (wasn’t easy due to Christmas being day 1). He stopped having his (relatively minor) symptoms in day 4, so once he tested negative we felt comfortable going to our weekly comedy show … we did wear masks, even though we live in an area that doesn’t do masks. We wanted to spare others from getting COVID, and actually, no one gave us dirty looks or anything.
D’s friend’s mom is an urgent care nurse. They had 33 positive cases the day after Christmas.
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it is running rampart. Like in all the years past. Two coworkers have it, and every time I talk to someone they know someone that has it. My 93 yo aunt is getting over it. She got it when she went to get her RSV vaccine at the pharmacy. (she never leaves her house; this was the only time).
Our covid wave seemed to be in November/Early December. RSV seemed to also be present then, maybe running a couple of weeks earlier. I’ve heard of a lot more strep/flu lately. One of H’s co-worker’s DS (roughly 7 years old) is getting out of the hospital from the flu hopefully today. But what seems to be truly rampant is a long lasting general sinus crud that tests negative for all of the above.
Our paper talked about the illnesses last week and said that only 20% of people here got the flu vaccine. But the latest covid shot? That was 5-6%. I’m not surprised.
I really hope the biggest waves have died down. D went back to work/school on Tuesday, but the kids come back tomorrow! Ugh…
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How serious are the COVID-19 cases that you have heard of?
If mild cold-like, what causes people to be suspicious enough to test for COVID-19?
From what I have seen, it seems like COVID-19 has become like a minor cold (with no long COVID, but only short term immunity due to fast mutation of the virus) for probably most people (after 3+ vaccine doses and/or hybrid immunity), but is still a significant hazard for a small but non-trivial number of high risk people (elderly, some pre-existing conditions, possible genetic vulnerabilities that people are not sure if they have).
My H tested because we were going to a party where the hosts had a new baby.