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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

My doctors adviced against it if you have other health issues.[/quote]

Your doctor is a dangerous incompetent.[/quote]

DP. My mother's wouldn't do it either. Part of the problem is that there's a very long list of common medications that are contraindicated with Paxlovid. So, you either need to suspend those medications, which is bad, or take anyway, which can also be bad.[/quote]

When the President took it, he suspended his other medications. It's actually not uncommon to suspend medications when you have a more urgent issue that needs to be addressed.[/quote]
Dose changes or stoppage of medicines can be done, however, it requires careful management by the PCP. The scale of this issue is large - the FDA found that "greater than 50% of Paxlovid-eligible Medicare and VA patients were taking medications that were identified as having a drug-drug interaction with Paxlovid." Unfortunately, not all adverse drug interactions are avoided. "From an updated analysis cumulatively through October 4, 2023, FDA identified more than 400 cases of serious adverse events assessed as possibly or probably related to Paxlovid drug-drug interactions. ... Many of these cases reported hospitalization, and a fatal outcome was reported in a few cases."   https://www.fda.gov/media/155052/download  (page 6)[/quote]

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