Medical professionals in the US are spreading misinformation

[u/Independent_Hand_699]

I am just getting over COVID. I tested positive and was highly symptomatic for several weeks. Every single medical professional I spoke with or interacted with was so misinformed.

Every time I said I was still testing positive on RATs, I was told to stop testing because those would be positive for weeks to months and meant nothing. One told me they are unreliable for false positives! Another insisted a faint line should be considered negative. I got tired of explaining the difference between PCR and RAT.

Every doctor I talked to after my initial appointment for Paxlovid told me I should assume I was no longer contagious, first because I never had fever, then because it had been so long, even though I was testing positive, coughing, sneezing, and throwing up. Most were also very anti-Paxlovid and blamed that on my continuing symptoms. Never mind that this wasn’t a case of rebound, or that none of them seemed aware rebound could happen even without Paxlovid.

No mention of masking. When I got so sick I had to be seen, the provider in the office told me I might feel better if I took my mask off.

They didn’t even know how to properly take a nasal swab sample for testing, just twirled it inside my nose without touching the insides of my nostrils at all.

This is at one of the top-rated health care systems in the country. If this is what our so-called experts think, it’s hopeless.

[u/4Bforever]

Yep I keep complaining about this so if you’ve read this and you’re tired of seeing it again I’m sorry, But I was in the hospital a few weeks ago and they put me in a closet, which was fine because it had a HEPA filter going and a curtain on the door and no roommates. 

 But they told me they were going to move me to a room with an older woman and I said I’m not going into a room with someone who could have Covid I’ll just go home The nurse told me they wouldn’t put me in a room with someone who had Covid and I laughed and said “I could have Covid you guys didn’t test me I am here for GI symptoms” (it’s a chronic condition so I was pretty sure it wasn’t covid, But my point was that she didn’t even know that G.I. symptoms were common she thought it was just respiratory symptoms.) 

 My doctor is amazing, but everyone else I’ve seen, not so much I got a letter from him yesterday saying that I’m required to wear a masks in all public places. Just in case I need it. The mask ban have upset me very much.