Commiseration Post #1

[petra]

This post is for your frustrations, irritations, and general venting. Whatever you need to get off your chest about being stuck inside, heap it here.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

I'm currently too busy feeling bad because of the surgery to worry properly about the virus. I just read that my painkiller of choice (ibuprofen) would be very bad to take while ill with covid-19, so I'm trying to decide if I should continue taking it or just stay sore and grumpy.

Tomorrow I not only go back to work (fortunately from home) but need to do a project. I don't wanna.

[petra]

I don't think the virus needs you to worry about it; it's doing okay on its own. As for whether you should mix NSAIDs and COVID-19, I think as long as you're not expressing symptoms of the latter, you're probably okay. But what do I know?

I hope that going back to work and starting your project take your mind off of your ouches and worries rather than exacerbating them.

[lethe1]

But do you suspect you are ill with COVID-19? If you have no symptoms, you can probably safely take ibuprofen.

[minoanmiss]

There's the asymptomatic incubation period, though, where one is infected but before the symptoms start. Not least since going to have surgery meant going to the microbial disco club that is a hospital, I didn't want to risk it.

(Thank you for the encouragement, though. :)

[petra]

Ah, that's true. I'd forgotten you'd had to go to the hospital lately. My fault entirely.

[mific]

I reckon you'll be okay taking ibuprofen - looks like the warning against it may be fake news: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/no-evidence-to-back-covid-19-ibuprofen-concerns/?platform=hootsuite, and there's no real evidence it'd be harmful.