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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This makes no sense: "We decided on prescription cough meds instead of paxlovid as I tend to get very bad bronchitis with all viruses."

Everyone, take paxlovid if you get covid. It basically zapped all my symptoms within 12 hours. But I took it very quickly after the onset of symptoms.[/quote]
I called my pulmonologist and asked for Paxlovid yesterday because I tested positive for covid. He said it’s really only for people 65+ years old or who are immunocompromised. I have 4 other risk factors for severe covid, but not those two. He said he didn’t think I’d benefit from taking Paxlovid. Consider yourself lucky that you got a prescription.[/quote]

Sorry that your doctor wouldn't prescribe it. If anyone runs into a similar situation, try googling paxlovid prescription and clicking on one of the ads for online doctors. You'll answer a bunch of questions to make sure you have no contraindications, maybe have to upload proof that you're covid positive, pay maybe $20-$40, and in about an hour, a prescription will be at the pharmacy of your choosing.

The US government returned about a third of the stockpile to Pfizer because not enough people are using it, so it's baffling that doctors continue to put up hurdles to people taking it. It can shorten the duration of symptoms and can prevent long covid so it's beneficial for many people.[/quote]
It's an EUA medicine which interacts with a lot of other medicines and "may cause serious side effects". There's also a lot they don't know about it yet. "It is not known if PAXLOVID can harm your unborn baby." "It is not known if PAXLOVID can pass into your breast milk." "PAXLOVID may affect how your hormonal contraceptives work." With all these unknowns, the recommendation is to only use it for those "who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death." The latter are the people for whom the benefits are judged to outweigh the unknown risks. In time, it may be judged to be safe for broader usage but we don't know yet. https://www.fda.gov/media/155051/download[/quote]

Every medicine has a lot of unknowns. Remember that the covid vaccine isn't that old either, so lots of unknowns there also. OP got rib fractures. Others go to the hospital. Everyone can do their own risk-benefit calculation, but having gotten covid twice (one before paxlovid existed, and once after), I was glad to have taken paxlovid the second time around and would do it again.[/quote]

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