" Day 8: COVID is kicking my ass"

[babylonsister]

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Edit to add: I am fine. This is jazzmaniac's diary on Daily Kos.

8 days?? So much for mild reactions. And I was not aware of the possible trauma to hearing.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/3/2072445/-Day-8-COVID-is-kicking-my-ass


Day 8: COVID is kicking my ass
jazzmaniac
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Monday January 03, 2022 · 12:55 PM EST
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Half-way through my eighth day of symptomatic break-through COVID I’m beginning to wonder when, if ever, I’ll be back to where I was before this insidious virus penetrated my mask and my triple vaccination.

In a previous diary I noted how this past Thursday night I had been up all night with an excruciating ear ache that radiated down into my jaw and up into my temple. Those symptoms passed within 12 hours, but I was left with perhaps a one-third loss of hearing in that ear, the left, which I didn’t have to spare as I am already seriously hearing impaired and wear hearing aids.

Last night it was time for the right ear to catch up. The same symptoms, the same sleepless night (making a make-shift heating pad out of a nuked, wet kitchen towel in a zipper lock bag helped a little.) And this morning I find myself in the isolated world of the near deaf. I can hardly hear my phone, be it an alert sound, a music file, or a call.

I of course did what any insomniac who couldn’t sleep does: I did a web search. And sure enough, hearing loss is an uncommon, but nonetheless recognized complication of COVID. Multiple sites described it as a medical emergency and said to seek treatment immediately, the proper treatment being steroids.

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[brush]

1. Thanks for posting. Besides the hearing...

any other symtoms?

[babylonsister]

2. Lots.

And this is NOT me but a kos diary.

Here is day 3 and 6...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/29/2071772/-Day-3-With-COVID-It-is-to-laugh

[brush]

5. Thank you for the daily kos link. You have an easy reading...

writing style. Were you in the publishing/writing field?

[Grasswire2]

3. something not widely discussed is increased tinnitus due to the vaccine

I'm experiencing just that.

Here's an article from ABC News:

[link:https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/unheard-concerns-one-covid-19-vaccine-notes-tinnitus-as-reported-side-effect|

[The King of Prussia]

14. I've had tinnitus since 1984

I've recently had 2 x Astra Zeneca vaccinations and a Pfizer booster. Plus a flu shot. No impact of the tinnitus either way,

[TheBlackAdder]

17. I remember getting really bad tinnitus on a Saturday morning back in 1990.

.

There was a work problem where the license keys to a mainframe product expired. My boss was pissed at me for not coming in to try and fix it, even though it was a software product I was just 'gifted' to support. He was mad because he was able to hack the license key and said I should have been able to do it too.

Meanwhile, I was already en-route to an emergency coverage doctor appointment 30 minutes in the opposite direction and he didn't want any excuses. I told him no, I wasn't going to cancel the emergency doctor appointment as the doctor was going into the office just for me. The ringing was driving me nuts. I could barely hear over it. Needless to say, my boss gave me shit for it for weeks, and would mention it for over a year--because he had to drive into work instead of me.


The doctor gave be a prescription decongestant, and I thought, "This is going to work?"

Sure enough it did. The tube between the ear and the nasal part of the pharynz often can clog and causes this. He instructed me to use this to dry up the blockage and then slowly create a mild vacuum by sucking in periodically with mouth and nose closed to pull the buildup down into the nasal area, which resulted in a horrible taste when it freed up. Sure enough it freed up.

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[Sgent]

4. Call your doctor or do an online visit

and ask if a steroid taper is appropriate. A lot of times if started within 24-48 hours of hearing loss from a viral cause it will reverse the hearing loss.

[Fla Dem]

11. NOT babylonsister. Person named "jazzmaniac " who posted on Daily KOS.

[Sympthsical]

6. Lasted 4 days with me

Started Wednesday (pretty awful). Thurs/Friday was like a chest cold or bronchitis. Saturday was getting there. Sunday, 90% fine. Residual sniffles.

Today, totally fine.

Was interesting. Feeling oddly well-rested and refreshed. Probably because that was the most sleep I've gotten in like a year. If I weren't quarantined, I'd be out running errands all day. So bored.

[BadGimp]

8. I wish you the best...

and hope you feel better with each passing moment.

[Fla Dem]

9. NOT babylonsister. Person named "jazzmaniac " who posted on Daily KOS.

[Celerity]

12. +1

It's a Dirty Job (But Someone's Gotta Do It)

[mjvpi]

13. One of my best friends had a two week breakthrough case. Sorry about that.

I’m sooooo glad you’re vaccinated and can share your misery with all of us and not in an ICU. Cold comfort.

[paleotn]

15. Unfortunate but anecdotal.

The vast majority of vaxed and boosted people are unphased by omicron. A much smaller % develop mild symptoms. Very few get significantly ill. Even fewer get hospitalized. And so on and so on.

Long story short, the odds are very much in our favor. Not 100%, but odds I'd bet really serious money on.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. "Mild" means "you won't need hospitalization." It doesn't necessarily mean "short," "easy," "can

work through it," "is linear," and so on.