Hurray for SWMBO. Someone on the local community Faceballs shared how to apply for a vaccination. I have type 1 Diabetes. She entered my info. That apparently qualifies me for 1B. As long as it doesn't screw someone who needs it more than I do out of theirs, I'm getting it just as soon as they contact me.
Appleseed said:Hurray for SWMBO. Someone on the local community Faceballs shared how to apply for a vaccination. I have type 1 Diabetes. She entered my info. That apparently qualifies me for 1B. As long as it doesn't screw someone who needs it more than I do out of theirs, I'm getting it just as soon as they contact me.
How the duck do you do it here? I'm assuming DuPage is different than Lake, but still....
bobzilla said:In reply to ultraclyde (Forum Supporter) :
I wish acetaminophen worked for me. Most days it doesn't even dull the pain in my knees. Hell, even NSAIDS don't do a lot
Acetaminophen doesn't really do anything for me either. Certain NSAIDs do, but ibuprofen doesn't do anything but give me an upset stomach.
We are just over the county line in McHenry county. Maybe that had something to do with it?
EDIT* Its actually 1C. Still happy with that.
Appleseed said:We are just over the county line in McHenry county. Maybe that had something to do with it?
Probably? I'm signed up for a list, I think. Same as my wife. Doesn't seem very "official" honestly.
The only painkiller that really did anything for me was OxyContin.
Not necessarily germane to the coronavirus vaccine discussion, but sort of tangentially related.... My doctor's charting system was bugging me that I was overdue for my annual physical since, uh, 1977 so I went in today to do that. He told me that he would give me a flu shot if I really wanted it but that this year it was "pretty much worthless" - exact words. He said that he's had exactly one case of the flu this season and that with the masks, hand washing, and isolation, there is really not much point to getting the shot this time around.
mtn (Forum Supporter) said:Appleseed said:We are just over the county line in McHenry county. Maybe that had something to do with it?
Probably? I'm signed up for a list, I think. Same as my wife. Doesn't seem very "official" honestly.
those don't kill the pain, they just put me to sleep. I never understood people getting addicted to them. What do you do, sleep all the time?
bobzilla said:Wally (Forum Supporter) said:The only painkiller that really did anything for me was OxyContin.
those don't kill the pain, they just put me to sleep. I never understood people getting addicted to them. What do you do, sleep all the time?
(edited correct quote for 'zilla)
Opiates seem to work differently for people. For me the pain is still there, it just dulls my mind and makes me care less about the pain. I'd rather deal with the pain or use NSAIDs.
Second Pfizer vaccination yesterday. I feel good today, but plan to take it easy.
wae said:Not necessarily germane to the coronavirus vaccine discussion, but sort of tangentially related.... My doctor's charting system was bugging me that I was overdue for my annual physical since, uh, 1977 so I went in today to do that. He told me that he would give me a flu shot if I really wanted it but that this year it was "pretty much worthless" - exact words. He said that he's had exactly one case of the flu this season and that with the masks, hand washing, and isolation, there is really not much point to getting the shot this time around.
I have always questioned the big push to get the flu vaccine this year. They make it sound extra important. As noted, with greatly reduced travel to southeast Asia (where it generally comes from) and other precautions, you would think an absolute minimum year for it.
I think the real reason they wanted people to get it was so that if there was an outbreak, it would not add to the burden of hospitals.
Yet again, if true, another bit of "not all the information" kind of direction that only serves to create mistrust in those making those directions.
I honestly expect, and hope, what we have learned this year might help greatly reduce the spread of the flu in the future.
AAZCD (Forum Supporter) said:bobzilla said:Wally (Forum Supporter) said:The only painkiller that really did anything for me was OxyContin.
those don't kill the pain, they just put me to sleep. I never understood people getting addicted to them. What do you do, sleep all the time?
(edited correct quote for 'zilla)
Opiates seem to work differently for people. For me the pain is still there, it just dulls my mind and makes me care less about the pain. I'd rather deal with the pain or use NSAIDs.
Second Pfizer vaccination yesterday. I feel good today, but plan to take it easy.
And I hate Opiates. I've been given them a few times for different things. They make me itch so bad, I'd rather just deal with the pain with a little booze.
In reply to z31maniac :
Fun story, the wife breaks out in hives from any of the major pain killers. She tries to rip her skin off it's so bad.
aircooled said:wae said:Not necessarily germane to the coronavirus vaccine discussion, but sort of tangentially related.... My doctor's charting system was bugging me that I was overdue for my annual physical since, uh, 1977 so I went in today to do that. He told me that he would give me a flu shot if I really wanted it but that this year it was "pretty much worthless" - exact words. He said that he's had exactly one case of the flu this season and that with the masks, hand washing, and isolation, there is really not much point to getting the shot this time around.
I have always questioned the big push to get the flu vaccine this year. They make it sound extra important. As noted, with greatly reduced travel to southeast Asia (where it generally comes from) and other precautions, you would think an absolute minimum year for it.
I think the real reason they wanted people to get it was so that if there was an outbreak, it would not add to the burden of hospitals.
Yet again, if true, another bit of "not all the information" kind of direction that only serves to create mistrust in those making those directions.
I honestly expect, and hope, what we have learned this year might help greatly reduce the spread of the flu in the future.
I recall hearing repeatedly last fall that it was in the hopes of reducing hospitalizations from the flu, as they were worried about capacity.
In reply to bobzilla :
After my crash the hospital gave me morphine to cope with the variety of broken bones, it was an amazing drug. Once I got to rehab I needed something less enjoyable. First was Vicodin which did little for my pain but made me feel odd mentally. Next as oxy, after I took it I felt no pain and could do PT, fight tigers, pretty much anything but whenever it wore off it was the hulk turn back into a wimpier Bill Bixpey.
eastsideTim said:aircooled said:wae said:Not necessarily germane to the coronavirus vaccine discussion, but sort of tangentially related.... My doctor's charting system was bugging me that I was overdue for my annual physical since, uh, 1977 so I went in today to do that. He told me that he would give me a flu shot if I really wanted it but that this year it was "pretty much worthless" - exact words. He said that he's had exactly one case of the flu this season and that with the masks, hand washing, and isolation, there is really not much point to getting the shot this time around.
I have always questioned the big push to get the flu vaccine this year. They make it sound extra important. As noted, with greatly reduced travel to southeast Asia (where it generally comes from) and other precautions, you would think an absolute minimum year for it.
I think the real reason they wanted people to get it was so that if there was an outbreak, it would not add to the burden of hospitals.
Yet again, if true, another bit of "not all the information" kind of direction that only serves to create mistrust in those making those directions.
I honestly expect, and hope, what we have learned this year might help greatly reduce the spread of the flu in the future.
I recall hearing repeatedly last fall that it was in the hopes of reducing hospitalizations from the flu, as they were worried about capacity.
I read on one of the local news sites today (WLWT, I think?) that said that Ohio typically has 600 hospitalizations for the flu per week but so far this flu season they've had 50 total.
As for pain pills.... I really, really, really like Oxys. Like I have a really dangerous amount of like for those. If those were available OTC, I'd have a damned "subscribe and save" going on for weekly deliveries from Amazon. Tylenol-3's are pretty good too, but for some reason Vicodin just makes me mean.
My dentist recommended that if your mouth is in severe pain, take 400 mg ibuprofen and a double shot of whiskey. She recommended not driving in this condition. In my experience this worked after some complications from a bad third molar removal.
Note: IBUPROFEN/Motrin not ACETAMINOPHEN/Tylenol - Acetaminophen and alcohol are terribly poisonous together and it says that right on the Tylenol bottle.
eastsideTim said:aircooled said:wae said:Not necessarily germane to the coronavirus vaccine discussion, but sort of tangentially related.... My doctor's charting system was bugging me that I was overdue for my annual physical since, uh, 1977 so I went in today to do that. He told me that he would give me a flu shot if I really wanted it but that this year it was "pretty much worthless" - exact words. He said that he's had exactly one case of the flu this season and that with the masks, hand washing, and isolation, there is really not much point to getting the shot this time around.
I have always questioned the big push to get the flu vaccine this year. They make it sound extra important. As noted, with greatly reduced travel to southeast Asia (where it generally comes from) and other precautions, you would think an absolute minimum year for it.
I think the real reason they wanted people to get it was so that if there was an outbreak, it would not add to the burden of hospitals.
Yet again, if true, another bit of "not all the information" kind of direction that only serves to create mistrust in those making those directions.
I honestly expect, and hope, what we have learned this year might help greatly reduce the spread of the flu in the future.
I recall hearing repeatedly last fall that it was in the hopes of reducing hospitalizations from the flu, as they were worried about capacity.
There's also, you know, maybe, just a chance, that the big push for all the flu vaccinations has actually assisted the real impact of very few real flu cases...
The flu basically doesn't exist this year. According to the CDC website, there have been 1084 confirmed flu cases this flu season, compared to 91132 at this time last year. All the warnings about "the flu and covid combining to overwhelm our hospitals" was shown to be of little concern in the southern hemisphere last year, their flu season is 6 months ahead of ours. Australia had only 36 cases total. The easy answer as to why is that it's because of all the mask wearing, social distancing, etc, but there's also theories that there can be only one dominant respiratory illness each year, usually it's the flu but this year it's covid.
In reply to Schmidlap :
I am fairly certain that infectious disease does not function along homeopathic principles 
It makes much more sense that flu transmission is down because people are generally not doing the things that transmit the flu. Flu is something like an order of magnitude less virulent than Covid-19 so it makes sense that precautions that would barely hold back the tide of Covid would pretty much stop flu in its tracks.
My bride and I received our first dose of the Moderna vaccine yesterday afternoon. No real reaction other than arm being slightly sore.
This is strictly anecdotal but seemed interesting for people wondering about side effects and reactions. I've talked to about 50 friends and family that had it. Almost everyone that never had Covid or had mild cases have said they had no reaction or sore arms. Almost everyone that still has measurable antibodies had a reaction of some sort similar to when they were sick, the worst being a coworker who had been on a ventilator in the spring who started running a fever and had his legs go almost numb for a day. I don't know if it means anything but it made for interesting talk today.
https://see.news/norway-23-dead-after-receiving-pfizer-biontech-vaccine/
Warrants further investigation. Not convinced this is the shot's fault, not convinced it isn't
So based on NC's current vaccination rate and where I am in line as an essential state govt IT employee(Phase 2 Group 4). I can get my vaccine in July....
volvoclearinghouse said:https://see.news/norway-23-dead-after-receiving-pfizer-biontech-vaccine/
Warrants further investigation. Not convinced this is the shot's fault, not convinced it isn't
The 'lead' says 23 dead, then the text of the story says two people over 80 and the source is Russian state media. Probably a worse source than NPR these days.
According to Russia, Today website, the agency and the Norwegian National Institute of Health received a message, last Tuesday, stating that two residents of the nursing home died a few days after they were vaccinated with a vaccine against the Coronavirus and that their experts are looking into whether the death is related to vaccination.
In reply to AAZCD (Forum Supporter) :
They claim the Norwegian Agency of Medicines Website states 23. I haven't seen the website so I cannot verify. It also states they we elderly patients, who are both the group they are wanting to vaccinate first and the group most likely to die of...well, almost anything.
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