Hi guys
Today, I'm not as energetic as you might think
Because, I've got COVID
I'm going to tell you my experience with COVID after two Moderna vaccination
so today I'm not going to talk about diabetes, as you know I do not have diabetes
But I want to talk to all my audience who have diabetes, pre-diabetes or insulin resistance
and if you are still hesitant to take the vaccine
I will tell you how horrible that virus is even on people who catch the virus
after even vaccination.
Now you're going to be asking right now why my doctor caught the virus even after
his vaccinations. I'll touch base on that.
I'll tell you all the symptoms I went through.
As you can see I still have a little bit of a voice problem.
I'm still affected but I am 90% better.
It has been over 10 days now, so I'm hoping that someone with vaccination
I'm hoping that I'm not shedding viruses anymore. However, I will never ever go anywhere
without a mask. And I made that mistake and I'll tell you why I got it.
So, guys, girls, ladies and gentleman. I am a healthcare worker.
I have been seeing patients since day one COVID hit this country
I took all the measures, I wore my mask
And finally, the day came and I did my shot.
After my shot, after my second shot, I started to get a little relaxed
It gave me a lot of confidence that, well, it protects. Especially Moderna vaccine
protects you up to 95% so I said, what the hell, I'll just relax a little bit
My patients say, "oh this is too hard for me, can I please bring that down?"
"Oh I can't hear you, can't hear you", and I bringed it down.
And then, I started shaking hands
And the worst is I started going to big events and I think that's where I got hit.
So my family came from Turkey. They wanted to visit me, rightfully.
Especially they wanted to see their grandson and, you know how it goes.
And since they're my parents, I wanted to take them out and about
And we started going to places and the latest place I remember being crowded
is the Orlando parks. You know how are, it's super crowded.
We were in the Discovery Cove. At some point, all because of storm
they took people out of the waters and people were on top of each other.
There was no distancing, nobody were wearing masks.
I felt like, "I didn't catch it for two years now, I don't know if I'm going to
catch it from now on. And guess what? Exactly after three-four days later of that event,
I started having a tickly throat. I didn't mind and I kept going
because, I don't know, it's nothing, so I'm vaccinated and I'm not having
running a fever and the next thing is my sore throats are getting worse.
I'm still functional, I didn't mind. And the next thing is I start coughing.
But that put me to a doubt and I took myself to urgent care and
I get tested. Guess what happens? Well, I get tested negative.
I go back to work. Well, the next day, I wake up with a very high fever at 102.
My body, I can't even move. I feel like, I was hit by a truck. And I couldn't even
lift anything. Forget about exercise, I couldn't even lift my child.
And I was so weak. I was also affected in my GI tract. I had a diarrhea.
That's so after I had severe nausea that I didn't experience for years and years to come.
So the nausea was extremely severe and that's because this damn virus unfortunately has
receptors all over your body and that includes your stomach.
You're going to be like: "Wait a minute, you got tested negative and how come
you're talking about that you've got COVID?"
Well I know I have COVID or had COVID, because the next day my wife got tested,
and she got positive.
So, OK, well, you're close to your wife. There's no way she has COVID with
the same symptoms and I don't.
And the reason that my test came back negative is because I didn't actually
know myself I had to look it up. The false positive rate is up to 40 to 50 percent.
So it's basically not any different than flipping a coin. So if they test, if they
tell you, that your test is negative, don't believe them. PCR is typically
a more solid test than a Rapid Antigen Test. But those rapid tests are definitely
not the best tests.
At this point since my wife got positive, I automatically considered myself positive
and I put myself in isolation, didn't go to work. I finished my 10 days and I am
now fairly asymptomatic and I'm ready to go work in a day or two.
So, what other symptoms I got. Nausea, actually, were supposed to be temporary
but with me it did not go away.
So I ended up prescribing myself Dexamethasone and Zofran.
And one of my pharmacist friends sent some Zinc, Vitamin C, and I also
started taking some CBD oil which I believe helped me because I found studies
I found studies that actually CBD can help lower the proliferation of the virus in your system
So, remember one of the reasons people end up in the hospital is that they
overreact to virus. When the virus replicates itself very fast in a very fast fashion
and then your body cannot catch up with it and your immune system catch up with that
later but gives an exaggerated response.
That's why, in some cases, Dexamethasone actually helps, especially in the hospital
and they also use some other infusions of viral inhibitors to reduce the viral replication.
so I believe the kids also don't have a severe disease although there's a lot hospitalizations and remissions
right now, but still their rate of death is very very small compared to older adults
and the reason is that their immunity is not as strong or at least they don't give a super
strong response. And actually a super strong response by your immune system is not
always the best. So Zofran and Dexamethasone helped me a lot. Although I had some side effects
with Dexamethasone. It made me extremely irritable, everything was making me extremely
angry so I definitely cut back on my Dexamethasone the next day.
No, I am not going to be that guy, the angry, irritable guy. I don't want to be that.
So I cut back on the dose.
What is the most nasty side effect, or not the side effect but the symptom
of COVID? Well, you will know you have COVID if you lose your sense of smell and taste.
Because, that is very pathognomonic. Sometimes, if you get a flu. If you have
a stuffy nose or something like that, you may not be able to smell anything.
But guess what? I couldn't even smell the shit of my own son. And when I change
him, it smells "oh god", I can tell you. You probably know that.
I did not smell anything, nothing.
Even the strongest smells was nothing to me.
Of course when you don't smell, you don't taste well.
So everything tastes blend.
A problem with that is, although you may think that's something, nothing to worry about,
but it is, because sometimes that can be permanent.
I know people who told me actually their sense of smell and teste did not come back
months and months later, and what do you enjoy in life?
Taste and smell is like, probably, 50% of it.
If you lose that, especially if you permanently lose that, that is not something to be courageous of.
So, I would tell you guys, please, if you are vaccinated great. If you need to get a booster shot, great.
Also, even if you are vaccinated, keep your mask on.
Why people with vaccination still get the virus?
I think like this, the vaccine will protect you like an umbrella.
The umbrella will protect you in a drizzle, right?
It will also protect you if it's raining like a little bit heavier but if there's a
storm, that umbrella is not going to do anything too much.
So what I did, I got into a perfect storm, with a bunch of youngsters, probably carrying
the virus, don't even have symptoms, swimming the same pool, and you get it.
It's a storm. Even if your body is ready to attack, if there is enough enemy,
it will defeat your immune system.
You're going to recover faster and I did, but, still lost a lot of taste and smell,
a lot of nausea, almost vomiting, bad diarrhea, abdominal pain, sore throat,
weakness, tiredness, all sorts of things happen.
So it's not something fun to just be courageous about and say:
"Oh, well, I'll just get the virus and move on."
And what's interesting is we have heard people, who got the virus, even up to three times and
dying after the third infection. That's horrible. So don't think that you will just get catch the virus,
get over it and you'll be immune forever.
That's not the case, because the virus mutates.
The virus mutates, now we the Delta and Lambda.
These waves, we're almost at the 4th wave. 5th wave, 6th wave, unless as a whole
community, whole humanity, we decide to go against this virus, by vaccinating everyone
and still wearing the mask. And that way, we can eradicate that virus by not allowing
the virus to come into us and we are the host, we are allowing the virus to grow.
We are feeding the enemy. That is not wise, guys. That's not good for anybody.
Not for any reason, not for any political reason.
You have to have these vaccines. And you have to wear the mask at all
times, as much as possible.
Again, if you're not going to believe me, just experience yourself, go ahead,
but, at the end of the day, guys; you're not just hurting yourself.
You're probably hurting somebody else.
Thank you guys for listening, and I'll see you hopefully in the next video.
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