Do any of you have experience with Paxlovid?
After managing to avoid Covid-19 for 2.5 years, it is going through my family now, and it has got me. (All of us were vaxed and boosted. 7 year old granddaughter, daughter and son-law in their 30s, and my wife and I in our early 60s)
Dr. suggested I consider Paxlovid based on age and risk factors.
My daughter who was about a week ahead of me tried it, and it made her so nauseous she had to stop.
Various articles are all over the place about efficacy and side effects.
Any first hand experience with it?
Replies to: Do any of you have experience with Paxlovid?
One more piece of information (see link)...apparently, there are no reports of serious illness in
rebound cases with Paxlovid...
Link: https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2022/pdf/CDC_HAN_467.pdf
Thanks. Good to know.
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Not first hand, but a friend who is a "Super Senior" just took Paxlovid and felt better rather
quickly...I just called him to see how he was doing...he's done with the AV...no discernible side effects...definitely believes it kept him out of the hospital.
It's too early to ask him about a phenomenon of "Rebound", where symptoms return after the AV treatment...but you might want to ask about it...not that it's any reason to not take the AV, but more for knowledge and expectation setting (i.e. don't freak out if that happens).
My boss said it was a game changer for him. When we all got COVID last week...
our first call was to our Doctor friend who leads all things COVID at our region's largest health care network. He never brought up Paxlovid and said we just needed to isolate, rest and recover. I'm the only one over 50 (54) and don't have any other risk factors. I assume that's why he didn't suggest it.
Over 60 is part of the criteria. (My daughter is immuno comprised.)
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Makes sense. I'd think it an important treatment for immuno compromised.
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My mom took it - said it gave her a very mettalic taste
And covid surges a bit when you go off it.
Sorry to hear you got it. Seems like everyone I know has contracted it in the last three months or so.
It’s that rebound that concerns me.
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Link: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7125e2.htm
Both parents took Paxlovid. They got better. Covid then rebounded. They are fine now.
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Not personally. Just had a good friend who was not a good candidate for vaccine get COVID and she
took it. She is fine now...but it did not seem to alter her symptoms much from her other family members who got it at the same time.
Freely admit though that what her symptoms would have been without is an unknown
Thanks.
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