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Swabbing throat for omicron
Spencer, a Manhattan ER doctor
"Every patient Ive seen with Covid thats had a 3rd booster dose has had mild symptoms. By mild I mean mostly sore throat. Lots of sore throat. Also some fatigue, maybe some muscle pain. No difficulty breathing. No shortness of breath. All a little uncomfortable, but fine," Spencer wrote. From there, it goes downhill, depending on your vaccination status or lack thereof.
But Spencer's comment about sore throats gets to a recent debate about COVID testing and whether the omicron variant is more common in some parts of the body than previous strains of the virus.
The #SwabYourThroat trend on Twitter grew out of a series of anecdotal reports from symptomatic people who tested negative on rapid antigen tests with nasal swabs, repeated the test with a throat swab and came back positive immediately.
The trend picked up steam with a Dec. 27 tweet from a biologist at University College London, who said she'd tested negative repeatedly until swabbing her throat.
For now neither the FDA nor other public health authorities have changed any instructions or recommendations on how to use at-home COVID tests, which primarily rely on nasal swabs instead -- even though in the UK, authorities have been offering instructions on how to take at-home throat swabs since early 2020.
Walleye
(31,022 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Many nasal tests over holidays. People sick but since tested negative continually thought ok . Grrrrr
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)...like to keep from eating snot. Thats how I took it.
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)People have been reporting this for a week and the first I've heard about it was today.
Link to tweet
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Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,467 posts)My cervical spine that push against my throat.
If my throat swells I will have to go to the ER.
Last time my throat swelled with strep, I discovered something bad was happening when I drank some water and it just swirled around my throat,I had to spit it out.
By time my ex got me to the ER my throat was swelling shut. My breathing was hard and it made a high pitched whistle. They triaged me
Like after I was there 2 minutes in the waiting room. They hooked up an IV and put inflammatory
Drugs in it,and antibacerial stuff. They painted my throat with something. The throat swelling went down and I was ok. Was sent home with kickass antibiotics.
I am scared shitless of omicron for this reason.
Second is if the hospital is full of asshole magats with covid,would I even get help before I suffocated?
Would I just die of suffocation waiting on exhausted healthcare people who are too busy taking care of the unvaxxed motherfuckers?
I don't want to find out.
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,832 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)With omicron. Is that typical with strep?
All that I've read so far is soreness.
Is having the bone spurs removed an option? I don't mean now I'm just curious about long-term
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,467 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,467 posts)Actually I am more scared of murder hornets. I definately want to stay the fuck away from them.
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