What should I do if I catch COVID?

Like me, I am sure you are hearing about the number of cases of Covid among people who are vaccinated.

Last month I saw Andrew Marr talking about this when he interviewed Sir Peter Horby (chairs the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, Nervtag) Marr on catching Covid after being double vaccinated – BBC News

Just last week I heard Sir Patrick Valance inform the Downing Street news conference that 60% of the people in hospital with Covid were double vaccinated. He explained this by giving the reason that the vaccines are not 100 effective and said it is inevitable that we will see large numbers of double vaccinated people in hospital. (NB He later corrected himself to say those 60% were actually unvaccinated)

This makes me think we will see a lot more of Covid over the next year and I am finding the stories of infection and recovery very interesting.

Below is a Covid story from a friend of mine who recently caught the virus and kindly told me all about it. I thought I would share it here as one example that might help anyone else who finds out they have caught Covid as well. Please note, she had no underlying medical conditions.

A Covid story

A couple of weeks ago I had Covid. My sister is a doctor working at the John Radcliff in Oxford and caught Covid from one of the patients. After being in contact with her, I was also isolating for ten days, which I wasn’t very happy about until I realised I actually had the symptoms and it was suddenly very obvious that ten days at home was very attractive.

My sister was always a couple of days ahead of me with symptoms so it was so good to know we were going through the same thing and could talk about it. It made a big difference to me so I thought I would write it out for you in case it helps anyone else who might not know what to expect if they get it as well.

The virus was very strange! It made me so fatigued that I basically slept for a week. The first few days were fever and fatigue – obviously the body fighting something and shutting down to do so. I wasn’t really confused or tired mentally/emotionally, but a feeling of needing to lie horizontal for a while. Then five hours later I woke up. I didn’t lose my appetite which was a good sign and I made sure to eat as much healthy food as I could.

Then after the fever came a few strange symptoms! One was that the soles of my feet really sore and sensitive for a couple of days. I looked it up online and lots of other people had it as a symptom too. It was sore enough to wake me up for a couple of nights and very unusual. Then that disappeared and I had a couple of nights of bad nightmares and a sense of foreboding which kind of lingered for a couple of days and was also very strange. Then that disappeared. Also I lost a bit of sense of smell and taste, but it came and went with no lasting problem.

Then I started feeling better and having a bit more energy and the last of the strange symptoms: nausea for three days. I have never experienced sea-sickness, but I would definitely describe those last few days of the illness like being sea-sick. I was so nauseous I couldn’t eat very much and couldn’t concentrate on doing much and couldn’t sleep it off. Then suddenly that lifted and I felt so much better. Within three days I felt fully recovered – but I did just stay at home in the garden in the sun getting more rest, exercise and sunshine for those days.

Considering that Covid is a respiratory disease, I was so surprised and so pleased that I had no problems breathing at all. Perhaps once I took a couple of puffs of an old inhaler and once I held my head over a bowl of steaming water to see if it would help me sleep better, but actually I didn’t even need that. I was so happy about that because I have a history of pneumonia, pleurisy and bad chest infections. I thought Covid would go straight to my chest and I would be really labouring to breath, but it didn’t. I can honestly say I have suffered far more with head colds that turned into bouts of bronchitis.

What did I do to prepare when I knew I was coming down with Covid?

• I did an online shop to get lots of healthy things to eat! Fresh vegetables and fruit to make juices and smoothies, bone broth, vitamin C, vitamins, chicken, anything else I thought would tempt me to eat if I lost my appetite.
• I made sure to have all my vitamins and extra support handy to make sure I took it all – I increased in take of Vit D, Vit C, and Zinc. I just took the cheap Vit C powder and added drops of Echinacea. I took Floradyx twice a day. Also paracetamol whenever I needed it.
• I searched on line for ways to get hold of Ivermectin and ordered two (very expensive) doses for us both. I find the research of the use of Ivermectin for early treatment compelling (you can see real-time meta-analysis of 60 studies here) and I know of Dr Peter McCullough’s research and experience using it, alongside other drugs, for his successful treatment protocol (He is a cardiologist, epidemiologist, and full professor of medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Dallas and can be seen testifying to the Texas Senate HHS Committee here). I was willing to do my own bit of medical research and willing to do anything that might help keep me out of hospital to do my bit in not overwhelming the healthcare service. I actually didn’t even need to take it!
• Prepared to fight it out and stay at home for 10 days! Interestingly, the virus did run its course within 10 days, then a few days of nausea.

So all up, I stayed at home for two weeks. Now that I’m fully recovered, I feel great and I am so amazed that my fitness level hasn’t really change. My chiropractor said that he was not surprised by that because a week of sleep does wonders for the body.

Finally, I should say that I don’t have the vaccination and I am so pleased to have been exposed to the virus so that I have the antibodies which will protect against future infection.

I hope you found that story an interesting perspective from someone who has no underlying medical conditions.

Every blessing,

Emma

Emma Maitland-Carew – Registered Nutritional Therapist

Dip.ION, mBANT, CHNC Registered Practitioner,

Metabolic Balance® Coach, HeartMath Coach.