The spousal unit just got a call from her doc telling her she has COVID, and because she is high-risk, she needs to get the monoclonal antibody treatment ASAP. There are plenty of places around here that offer it, only it isn't available any time soon! The Alabama Dept of Public Health is only sending 6 treatments per week to each clinic, and therefore the waiting list is long... so long she will probably either be over it or be in the hospital by the time her number comes up!

This shit really sucks!!!

Check your email.

Sorry to hear that. Is it possible to find it and receive the treatment by traveling to a nearby state?

Schedule the mAB treatment now. The window is 7-10 days.

My wife is also high-risk. We dithered and just barely made the window.

Here's the thing about mAB treatment: It works for some, does little-to-nothing for others, and has negative effects on still others. My wife fell into the "didn't do much, if anything" category. Then again: She received it at the very end of the ten-day window.

I can hunt-down a post the treatment regimen recommended by the America's Front Line Doctors doctor with whom we worked, if you like, and the other measures we took.

I got over it fairly easily. My wife was touch-and-go for a while. (I was seriously concerned I was going to lose her.)

You and your wife have my prayers.

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Schedule the mAB treatment now. The window is 7-10 days.

That's easier said than done. And traveling to MS won't help.

I've got one of the docs I work for whose wife is positive trying to find some, any, in Jackson or any surrounding areas. No such luck. He's the opposite of a passive dude so his ongoing search is both thorough and, well, intense.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Schedule the mAB treatment now. The window is 7-10 days.

That's easier said than done.

Don't we know it!

When it was recommended for my wife we went right to it. Here's what we found:

• The health care system to which our primary care docs belong simply don't do it
  
• Nearly all the health care systems that did limited their treatment to existing patients in their systems
  
• The few that did it, but didn't limit it to their own patients, required a referral. Both our docs had chosen to take that week off at the same time
  

Finally, after giving up for a day or two, and my wife's condition growing worse, we tried again. Finally we found a hospital that was doing it, didn't require you be an existing patient of that system, and didn't require a referral.

Earliest they could schedule her was literally at the 11th hour (11 p.m.) of the last day of her window.

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Originally posted by tsmccull:
Sorry to hear that. Is it possible to find it and receive the treatment by traveling to a nearby state?

Looking into that option now...

Part of our issue, especially with this 10-day "window", is that she's not sure when she actually got it!

She has been sick since January 8th, and went to the doctor the first time a week ago this past Wednesday. She was diagnosed with bronchitis, given drugs and sent home. At that visit she tested negative for COVID. A week later (this past Wednesday) she was worse instead of better, so went back to the doc. She was tested again, but the doc said she didn't think it was COVID but she definitely had pneumonia now, and was treated for that and sent home... even though the doc really wanted to send her to the hospital. She declined that option because she is unemployed and has no insurance.

Just shy of 48 hours later (early this morning around 07:30) is when she got the call regarding her positive test result. So was the first test a false negative, or did she pick it up on that doctor visit from somebody else who had it? She really hasn't been anywhere else to come in contact with it, so we don't really know when it started; she may already BE past the 10-day window; no way to know for sure!

My understanding is that if she has Omicron Monoclonal Antibodies do not help. In my mind her pneumonia should be the biggest concern. I assume they told you what signs to look for with a worsening pneumonia.

Pneumonia kicked my butt to the point I thought I might not make it. Mis-diagnosed as Flu! So her having it is a real concern. Best wishes for her full recovery.

Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance

https://covid19criticalcare.co...d-19-care-providers/

If you're open to Ivermectin treatment, this FLCCC Provider is in your neck of the woods:

Amanda Mitchell, MSPAC, PA-C
Push Health
Fort Payne, AL

https://www.pushhealth.com/pra...#.YTlEePnoHsk.mailto

Keep her lungs open, bronchodilators, spirometers, magnesium and moving, treat the pneumonia to keep the lungs open and working as well as they can with the insult from pneumonia. A friends wife got both pneumonia and Covid together, treatment was antibiotics, albuterol and atrovent, magnesium, zinc and vitamins. She was high risk and pulled through, kept her lungs working didn’t rest and used blow tube spirometer to keep lungs open.

Just moments after my last post, we got a call from a clinic in a neighboring town telling us they just got some doses of the antibody therapy in, and they could treat Dayna this afternoon if we came right away… so naturally we did! Four quick shots (2 in the stomach and 1 in each arm) and we were on our way! The nurse practitioner who administered the treatment said she had COVID recently and took the therapy, and 2 days later couldn't tell she had ever been sick. She reported most of the patients she has treated so far had the same story to tell... 2 to 3 days and almost back to normal.

Thanks for all of the info, support, and prayers!

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
My understanding is that if she has Omicron Monoclonal Antibodies do not help. In my mind her pneumonia should be the biggest concern. I assume they told you what signs to look for with a worsening pneumonia.

No idea if it's the Omicron variant or not, and the doc didn't specify. She is already being treated for the pneumonia, and just got more stuff for it on the way home from the clinic this afternoon, so we're giving it every weapon possible to make her feel better soon.

Sorry to hear about the wife. My whole family is just starting to get over the covid after a couple weeks. My kids had it for about 5 days while it took me x2 weeks to finally feel better and I still feel crappy. I was the only one/able to get the monoclonal antibodies in my family and I swear I felt worse after getting the shots. I didn't get one benefit, while others I have heard have had great experiences with it. Some medical issues can actually be worsened with the shots,( I have heard and researched disorders like M.S.-daughter has it), although it differs from person to person. We are not sure which variant we had,not that I think it matters, as the treatment is pretty much the same for the symptoms.

You might ask about corticosteroids, as they can be beneficial for many people. As far as breathing treatments go, Albuterol, use it when you need it and sometimes it takes a few "tubes" to be able to breath easier. There are some side effects-tachycardias,etc., for some but I have had to use more than one dosage/"tube", on a continual basis while treating some patients enroute to the hospital, as well as for my son when he was younger with asthma. Just my 2 cents.

Good news. Hope she gets better soon.
The omicron variant is currently responsible for 99% of COVID cases in the U.S. so chances are that is what she has.

Prayers up.

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Originally posted by bronicabill:
Just moments after my last post, we got a call from a clinic in a neighboring town telling us they just got some doses of the antibody therapy in, and they could treat Dayna this afternoon if we came right away… so naturally we did! Four quick shots (2 in the stomach and 1 in each arm) and we were on our way! The nurse practitioner who administered the treatment said she had COVID recently and took the therapy, and 2 days later couldn't tell she had ever been sick. She reported most of the patients she has treated so far had the same story to tell... 2 to 3 days and almost back to normal.

Thanks for all of the info, support, and prayers!

Glad to read this update.

Will keep y'all in prayers.

GlaxoSmithKline's sotrovimab is effective against omicron as well as earlier variants.

Oops too late!
Glad you got the MAB...likely it was this one.