(08-27-2023, 06:40 AM)Schmoe Wrote:(08-27-2023, 05:55 AM)Infolurker Wrote: Hmmmm... you have not had the covid either?
May I ask if you smoke cigarettes and or drink lots of coffee? We seem to have both a smokers and coffee paradox on acquiring it. I had done a few threads on it on TOS.
That's interesting, I hadn't heard that before. I had it once, and that was shortly after the beginning when it worked it's way through my coworkers.
I used to smoke and switched to a vape with nicotine, and I drink way too much coffee. But I'm almost positive I've only had it the one time, and it was pretty mild.
Compare that with my supervisor's son, one of those run-20-miles-per-week types, doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, not sure about the coffee, and he was hospitalized with it. It boggles my mind how it affects people so differently.
I've heard the same about nicotine, if you partake your less likely to have a worse outcome - I think studies were actually done but I'm not sure.
I vape, my husband smokes. I have diagnosed COPD..
When we got COVID (the kind that had symptoms, we tested positive and had to quarantine once but weren't ever sick that time so I'm only discussing COVID with symptoms now) I was worse, and I was sick longer.
I wasn't hospitalized or anything, but whenever I get sick with even a cold it goes straight to my lungs, and yes I've had colds turn into pneumonia before when I was still smoking. It's a product of my lungs being poorly I think.
So me being worse than him I believe is due to that co-morbidity and likely genetics. COVID did turn into a mild walking pneumonia with me, but within 10 - 14 days I was better and while I needed my doctor to prescribe what he normally prescribes when I get pneumonia, I never needed anything else (but to be left alone... Lol)
Neither Nin nor I are vaccinated. I think he was sick for a few days, but since we were sick at the same time I paid less attention to how he did... Lol. He never got as sick as myself, according to the genetics people it's actually due to his DNA.
I could taste the entire time I was sick never lost my sense of smell and taste.
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