Dunno, I went into the hospital on it already, and they continued using it there, except that they'd run out of tablets and were using powder dissolved in water (or Ora-Blend, maybe. I didn't ask the pharmacy how they compounded it.) Would have tasted like suck, except that I had lost most of my sense of taste for bitterness by then.
Reports coming out now that Covid has removed the sense of smell from a lot of people (not sure if it's temp or perm) and we all know taste is affected by smell (hence pinching your nose to eat something nasty)
Pretty sure dysgeusia (derangement of taste) and anosmia (absense of smell) are both present; they came on in me at different dates, and I got the smell back a day or so before the taste.
I also think that at least some of the dysgeusia was a side effect of the zinc, and not necessarily related to the COVID.
I almost wonder if they tell some patients in hospitals (in NY especially) that they are getting it and it is a placebo and they are not, (& maybe the docs do not even know supply was replaced w/ placebos?) so the Left can say it does not work, when the people do not recover. I know that sounds insane, but they have done so many other underhanded to murderous things, NOTING surprises me anymore.
Nah, as a pharmacist myself I'd recognize a placebo. They gave me the real stuff. Can't say what they were giving other patients, of course. (Although I did talk to the inpatient pharmacy a couple times, just talking shop, and they'd have told me if any such fuckery was afoot.)
Thank goodness for your Dad - he raised a bright kid. (Yes, he still thinks you are a kid, no matter what your age, no matter what you have accomplished. LOL.) So, how did your dad get it??? It is NY I am really thinking abt, HIGH NUMBERS ... yet now they really do not need ventilators or ship after all, and I really wonder if they are faking these numbers, a lot of things I will not even say here, to make the president look bad and destroy economy. I thought that right off, I will not change my mind after seeing all of this - and seniors in particular in rehabs, assisted living, whatever you may call them situations, etc.) I do not trust they are not trying to magnify this and also even maybe make it worse. We cannot argue with their numbers. They can report any numbers, and we do not know what is real or fake, but why so many elderly residential locations and cases/deaths? A lot of examples are very strange when you get into the facts. Especially when we get into the numbers of the docs elsewhere, who have had huge success with large numbers of patients. It does not add up. So many questions, all fluid answers depending what day it is almost.
I'm not the OP, my dad (76) thank G_d hasn't got it and I'm staying far far away from him until I'm positive I'm not still infectious. (He had pneumonia back in '04 and never entirely recovered, so he'd be at risk.)
It was right around the same time of year, as a matter of fact; we both wound up having the first Passover seder in the hospital
But yeah, even in my early fifties my parents still see the kid I was. It doesn't bother me.
Edit; how come my cursor disappears when I'm on TD.W? Can't see where I'm typing.
Dunno, I went into the hospital on it already, and they continued using it there, except that they'd run out of tablets and were using powder dissolved in water (or Ora-Blend, maybe. I didn't ask the pharmacy how they compounded it.) Would have tasted like suck, except that I had lost most of my sense of taste for bitterness by then.
Reports coming out now that Covid has removed the sense of smell from a lot of people (not sure if it's temp or perm) and we all know taste is affected by smell (hence pinching your nose to eat something nasty)
Almost sure I had the CV after reading about altered taste as a result.
Pretty sure dysgeusia (derangement of taste) and anosmia (absense of smell) are both present; they came on in me at different dates, and I got the smell back a day or so before the taste.
I also think that at least some of the dysgeusia was a side effect of the zinc, and not necessarily related to the COVID.
Zinc is supposed to help to restore the sense of taste.
I almost wonder if they tell some patients in hospitals (in NY especially) that they are getting it and it is a placebo and they are not, (& maybe the docs do not even know supply was replaced w/ placebos?) so the Left can say it does not work, when the people do not recover. I know that sounds insane, but they have done so many other underhanded to murderous things, NOTING surprises me anymore.
Nah, as a pharmacist myself I'd recognize a placebo. They gave me the real stuff. Can't say what they were giving other patients, of course. (Although I did talk to the inpatient pharmacy a couple times, just talking shop, and they'd have told me if any such fuckery was afoot.)
Thank goodness for your Dad - he raised a bright kid. (Yes, he still thinks you are a kid, no matter what your age, no matter what you have accomplished. LOL.) So, how did your dad get it??? It is NY I am really thinking abt, HIGH NUMBERS ... yet now they really do not need ventilators or ship after all, and I really wonder if they are faking these numbers, a lot of things I will not even say here, to make the president look bad and destroy economy. I thought that right off, I will not change my mind after seeing all of this - and seniors in particular in rehabs, assisted living, whatever you may call them situations, etc.) I do not trust they are not trying to magnify this and also even maybe make it worse. We cannot argue with their numbers. They can report any numbers, and we do not know what is real or fake, but why so many elderly residential locations and cases/deaths? A lot of examples are very strange when you get into the facts. Especially when we get into the numbers of the docs elsewhere, who have had huge success with large numbers of patients. It does not add up. So many questions, all fluid answers depending what day it is almost.
I'm not the OP, my dad (76) thank G_d hasn't got it and I'm staying far far away from him until I'm positive I'm not still infectious. (He had pneumonia back in '04 and never entirely recovered, so he'd be at risk.)
It was right around the same time of year, as a matter of fact; we both wound up having the first Passover seder in the hospital
But yeah, even in my early fifties my parents still see the kid I was. It doesn't bother me.
Edit; how come my cursor disappears when I'm on TD.W? Can't see where I'm typing.