To ask about community COVID treatments?

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Sorry, blatantly posting here for the traffic.

I had a positive LFT last night, not surprised as I feel dreadful and DP has it. He isolated on the top floor as soon as he knew last week but too late.

Anyway, I have various medical conditions, including autoimmune, was also CEV, so thought I might be eligible for treatment at home and registered the test…Text has come through which seems to confirm I am, and says to expect a phone call, and have my meds list handy as they’ll want to check what I take.

So…(well done if you’re still with me), I clicked through to the patient information for the three treatment options. The first one lists three of my regular medications as potential contraindications, so I assume that won’t be an option. The second possible treatment is a drip that I’d have to go in to a hospital or a clinic for and the third treatment is capsules again.

Trying to pull myself together a bit here and get prepared. Can anyone tell me how likely I am to be asked to go in for the IV? I haven’t slept all night, so am not quite with it.

I have no intention of getting in the shower with this fever unless I’m likely to have to go out, but my mobility is affected by my condition, so if having to go out is likely, I’ll start shuffling around getting ready now.

Anyone involved in the treatment programme able to give me a pointer of any kind?

Any HCPs about?

Expect the worst and hope for the best! Start getting yourself prepared to be asked to attend clinic for IV, but I would have thought there are to many variables for anyone to say. It really depends on your conditions, your current meds and and availability of Covid treatments.

I really hope whichever treatment you are given you feel better soon!

There's no way of telling I'm afraid.

But you get telephone assessment where you get to tell them everything about how you are - so as well as covid symptoms you could mention your mobility issues

If there are reasons why the IV option is clearly best, then yes that's the one you'll get as the main aim here is to ameliorate the potential severity of the infection. But if it's a more finely balanced decision, then perhaps wider patient circumstances can be taken in to account.

The key factor is likely to be the degree you are immune suppressed - it's not nice to have to think about being not only one of those remaining highly likely to catch covid but also likely to become severely ill. But remember that even in the critically vulnerable category, the odds are with you in terms of having only a mild case (ie not requiring hospital admission)

Thanks. That’s what I thought the answer might be! I just hate surprises and having to do things in a rush.

Im not actually worried about getting a bad bout of Covid, which is probably silly, but it’s taking all my energy to worry about what I might need to do today. 🙂 I just ran a bath with some olbas oils in it. Two birds, one stone and all that. So I’ll start with that.