My journey to a debt free life

Suffolksue

sorry you’ve got Covid again
as you’re taking high dose steroids,should you be telling the medics and should you have the antivirals? 

Onebrokelady

Suffolksue said:

sorry you’ve got Covid again
as you’re taking high dose steroids,should you be telling the medics and should you have the antivirals? 

I don't know, maybe I will call 111 tomorrow 

Willowtree222

Sorry you’ve got Covid again. 

I can’t comment on the meat/veg. I just try to avoid anything processed.

Hope you start to feel better on all fronts soon x

Onebrokelady

Willowtree222 said:

Sorry you’ve got Covid again. 

I can’t comment on the meat/veg. I just try to avoid anything processed.

Hope you start to feel better on all fronts soon x

I think I will carry on and see how I go. Thinking of eating meat is making me feel ill 🤢. I just need to crank up the veg and fruit I think. I mainly eat Quorn chicken pieces and Vivera mince as my meat substitutes at the moment 

Willowtree222

If it makes you feel sick then stick to what you like. No point adding that pressure when you’re already going through a lot x

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

I don’t eat meat, haven’t done so for 35 years, although I do eat some fish occasionally.  I don’t have any health issues at all. I don’t eat any meat replacements apart from plant based mince. Some of the vegan/vegetarian meat replacements are highly processed. I don’t like the taste, texture or look of meat so they don’t interest me. Do you like beans and pulses? They are a good alternative especially green lentils. 

My meat replacements are Quorn chicken pieces and Vivera mince for anything requiring either of those ingredients but I do eat Richmond meat free sausages and Quorn Escalopes which must be processed. I do like lentils and chick peas but have to really be in the mood to eat them. I'm hoping that now I'm getting some form of treatment I will have more motivation to cook proper meals. I end up having things like egg on toast for my tea because I'm too tired/ill to cook a proper meal. I do cook some of the recipes we saved from the Gousto meals we were having so will try some more of these too 

badmemory

Could it be that you would be better giving the pretend meat a miss.  When I was cutting down on meat I tried them & frankly was not impressed.  I've cut my meat down to under a quarter of what I used to eat, not that I ate a lot, but I have just replaced meat by veg type things.

Onebrokelady

enthusiasticsaver said:

Sorry you have COVID again. I can’t comment on the issues re eating meat or not except to make sure you are getting enough iron in your diet. If you work in a hospital you are obviously at higher risk than the rest of us for catching stuff. Hopefully the joint pain is sorted now though. 

I used to have chronic anaemia so take iron tablets but my haemoglobin and ferritin levels are the highest they have ever been at the moment so that's good, I think not having periods any more helps too.
It just funny that I've been off for 9 weeks and I've managed to get Covid again. My daughter had it a few months ago and we had to be in the house together and I didn't catch it then 🙄. I have been out for shopping so must have picked it up while out in town or on the bus, there was a woman sat behind me the other day coughing away without putting her hand over her mouth 😡

Makingabobor2

I think buses and trains etc are the worst places for catching things, and shops and anywhere indoors come to that. I still wear a mask every time I go shopping as DH is on the vunerable list. You would also be classed as vunerable now you are on steroids and I suspect that fact that you have been quite run down made it easier for you to catch anything as well.  Think you should definitely ask your GP about antivirals now you are on steroids and get your booster as soon as you can once you are free of covid.  As for people putting their hands over their mouths when they cough....no!  They should be coughing into their elbow, so as not to spread germs onto their hands and then spread it everywhere. TBH, I think anyone who goes out with any sort of cough or cold should wear a mask, its just common sense and being responsible.   
Hope you feel better soon.

foxgloves

Sorry to hear you have Covid again, @OBL. I bet it was that coughing woman on the bus. It's amazing how soon some of the basic anti-infection spreading measures (such a basic hygiene) have petered out since all the Covid rules ended. I was in the loo at a supermarket this week & out of the 3 of us members of the public in there, only me & one other woman washed our hands. The other...so 1/3 of us, didn't bother & went straight back out to do her shopping. Then yesterday, I read an online article from the Independ*nt about some scientists who had been gathering data on disease risk from various public surfaces & one of the highest-scoring for the presence of bacteria capable of causing d & v (so I'm thinking Noro) was self-checkout terminals in supermarkets! Ewwwww.....I always wash my hands thoroughly when I get home from shopping trips & this is exactly what the article recommended. I don't think I will use a self-service check-out again without thinking of this study. Then, when you add in people like the woman on your bus coughing over people without turning away or covering her mouth......it's no wonder that these lergies spread so easily.
Hope you feel better soon, 
F x