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Suggestions for recovering from COVID? [1]
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Date: 2023-12-16
I’d like to hear your favorite home remedies and things that bring you comfort while recovering. The fatigue and the accompanying low mood makes it diffficult to think clearly about self-care. (I’m grateful I have just enough mental focus and energy to do this blog post for Daily Kos this morning)
Background: I’m 70, with no other health condtions, on day 3 of COVID. Symptoms include headache, cough, sniffles, fatigue, ). The pharmacy is supposed to deliver Paxlovid today. I don’t know how I got COVID. I have been moderately careful with masking, but am frequently doing childcare for a 4 year old grandson (unmasked).
So far, what I am doing for home care: tea, chicken soup, aspirin for headache. Lay on couch dozing, listening to audiobooks from public library, watching TV (but if I watch too much TV, I get a headache). I have to remind myself periodically to get up and move around a little, because if I am lying down too long, I get more stiff and sore.
Depending on my recovery and how long I’m infectious, I may need to miss family Xmas gatherings. (I may like having an “excused absence”).
A friend advised me to avoid the news while recovering. , but, l’m a news addict, and this is a challenge.
“According to health experts interviewed at Verywell Mind, too much exposure to sensational and negative news elevates stress levels and causes nasty things like anxiety, poor sleep, depression, and fatigue. Your sympathetic nervous system gets activated, causing you to release cortisol and adrenaline, both stress hormones.”
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