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"Confidence is a state of being clear-headed either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective.
Confidence comes from a Latin word 'fidere' which means "to trust"; therefore, having self-confidence is having trust in one's self.
The concept of self-confidence is commonly defined as self-assurance in one's personal judgment, ability, power, etc.
One's self-confidence increases as a result of experiences of having satisfactorily completed particular activities.[1]
Self-confidence involves a positive[2] belief that in the future, one can generally accomplish what one wishes to do." Wikipedia
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I work at a school of 3000+ students so it was inevitable that I would eventually get covid, especially as I have contact with 12 classrooms, teaching literacy skills.
I had a meeting on Tuesday about my work and, later that night, I received a phone call from the person I had a meeting with that she had just tested positive for covid.
That was Tuesday and by Thursday afternoon, I was starting to feel unwell.
That night, the headaches, fever, body aches, and sore throat started. Followed by constant coughing.
I had my booster 3rd vaccination 3 weeks prior to this. It was awful.
I had a different booster to my first two vaccinations, which were Astra-Zeneca. The booster was pfizer as it had the omicron elements added.
The symptoms were quite severe for a week. I went back to work the following week but it was very difficult getting through the day.
I went home and just collapsed on the couch as my headaches were bad and my body was aching terribly.
The following week I felt better and that's when I had the meeting and contracted covid. Neither of us had been wearing masks and we sat quite close to each other.
I had taken mine off as I was working in my office and simply forgot to put it on, as we were not always wearing masks at school.
I had a fever for 2 days and occasionally afterward. The sore throat took a week to subside but I had facial numbness on the right side of my face. Even my ears! I liken it to getting a strong injection from the dentist to numb your mouth.
I could not stop coughing and eventually tore a muscle along my left rib cage, which made coughing painful. My back also hurt from the coughing.
The coughing was unproductive and the tickle would not go away.
At night, I started to wheeze as I lay down, and my nose would block up, making breathing difficult.
The headaches were constant for one and a half weeks. Sometimes, they would subside for a few hours but then they would come back.
Same for the body aches and pains and exhaustion-just carrying the groceries they had delivered to my kitchen left me breathless.
I think I started to panic as, unlike colds and flu, you do not get cumulatively better each day. When you think you're getting better, boom! Back to square one.
As I'm older now and need medication for blood pressure problems, and I have a history of cancer, I was quite worried as I kept hearing that I needed to be monitored as things can change quickly with covid.
I suppose, at the back of my mind, I was anxious thinking I might be the one it changes to the dangerous level.
The fact that a healthy school teacher in her 40's had died on her second day of being tested positive did not allay my subconscious fears.
So the psychological effect of covid is quite impacting on mental health, along with the need to isolate when sick.
My doctor just said 'take panadol and rest' but it wasn't working.
I was really panicking about my endless cough so my daughter bought me some Benadryl and some vaporizers to help me breathe at night.
I put eucalyptus oil in the water to help me breathe and stop the coughing.
I also used Vicks Vaporub (this is my 'go-to' for many things-read my post on its other uses that will benefit you) under my nose and on my chest to help open up my nasal passages and help me breathe.
I drank copious amounts of lemon tea, laced with Apple Cider Vinegar. Our chiropractor advised us that this would help.
A few days after I had initially contacted my doctor, he rang me to check on me. I think he heard my foghorn voice, as my chest was congested, and he finally prescribed some antibiotics and Ventolin.
I was wheezing slightly when I went to bed but found that the Vicks Vaporub and vaporiser helped to stop the wheezing.
In Australia, we have to contact the relevant government department when we have a positive covid result. They put you in contact on a daily basis with doctors and nurses, who call you each day.
I cannot even praise them enough as they helped me enormously through a difficult time.
This was such a great service for me as the doctors and nurses ring you daily for a week to monitor your symptoms. You can extend this service if you feel the need.
Unlike doctors in these finance model clinics, they have all the time to chat with you. I needed that as I was waking up at night in a heightened state and they could talk me through it.
They gave me the number for the Nurse On Call, which is a 24-hour access number, in Australia.
They sent me medical equipment e.g. oximeter to measure my oxygen levels, at no cost to me. They informed me how to get my meds delivered and my groceries, and asked if I needed any other type of help.
They asked about mental health issues as people are not coping with being ill and being in 7-day lockdown. They were great as my doctor only has a few minutes to talk about the essentials I needed and how I felt.
It's been a week and 5 days since I became ill.
I am not suffering headaches all day long but just get occasional twinges throughout the day.
I am not challenging myself with physical activity but still get very tired. Some nights I sleep well while other nights I just can't sleep and feel anxious.
I am still coughing but it is bringing up small amounts of phlegm and it's more settled. But my back is still hurting, my chest still feels heavy, and my voice is still a bit hoarse.
My work entails me going up and downstairs to 12 different classrooms. This amounts to 10 kilometers of stair walking in 3 days.
I have a Health app that I used to measure my walking at school.
There is no way I feel ready for work at the moment as a healthy person can get quite breathless with the distances walked at this very large school.
I'm hoping to be back on board next week!
Have you had covid?
What's your experience been like?
* update: Been back at school for two weeks and am absolutely exhausted and having difficulty thinking as I am still having headaches!
So glad I am having an Easter break and resting. This covid is crap.
**further update: had to have another covid test as headaches severe and spent last night shaking with cold sweats, then alternating with burning up with fever. It's been 5 weeks now since the original positive tests.
I had to revisit my resource How To Keep Your Brain Mentally Fit? as it doesn't feel great at the moment. It's a free resource.
Cold sores are a common viral infection. They are tiny, fluid-filled blisters on and around your lips.
After the blisters break, scab forms that can last several days, or even weeks, and they can be quite painful.
They are also called fever blisters.
My very first experience was when I was about 4 years old and we had been to church. My parents decided that they would like to visit friends, after church.
I was absolutely starving as I hadn't eaten since breakfast and it was going onto lunchtime.
Thankfully, our family friend offered me some delicious Hungarian Csabai sausage, without bread, and sweet tea. It was delicious and I scoffed it down but I broke out in huge blisters on my lips later.
I still get these blisters if I eat this sausage without bread, when I'm hungry.
Strange- I can eat it without any side effects when I'm not particularly hungry but I get blisters if I eat it when I'm hungry. So that indicates an allergy for me.
However, they usually pop up on my lips before a viral infection, such as the flu. They will appear a few days before I get sick with a viral infection.
My mum discovered this when she became very sunburnt. She was very fair and her lips were covered in blisters, even though she did not usually have cold sore blisters.
She rubbed petroleum jelly (which was one of the Gods in our medicine cabinet) all over her lips. The pus started oozing out and they healed very quickly.
This works like a dream so I stopped using Zovirax and used it instead.
You will notice the ooze as soon as you apply it. Sometimes, a large cold sore would be flat by the morning and completely healed in 3 days.
No painful, cracked lips and no more cold sores for 2-3 weeks.
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I would like to share my experience with hypertension/high blood pressure and my management strategies that helped me overcome it. Yes, I went beyond high blood pressure and was in the hypertension zone.
While taking medication to get me out of the danger zone, my search for other remedies helped me find a natural remedy that I incorporated into my daily regime successfully.
I trialed days of taking medication and ginger and compared them to days that I took medication only.
The results when taking ginger were always favourable.
It has now been about 7 months that I initially visited the doctor and found out I had hypertension.
My readings are now consistently excellent and I attribute that to the natural remedy I used.
Note: I am not a medical practitioner and I do not advocate that you do not follow your doctor's advice, regarding blood pressure medication.
As a young woman, I had excellent blood pressure readings. So good, that the doctor always commented on it. My father was the same while my mother always had high blood pressure.
As I’m older now (67), I was starting to struggle with walking, getting up and down from sitting positions, and having swollen feet and ankles. This had started to get worse over the years and I put it down to aging and arthritis.
High blood pressure never occurred to me.
However, in 2020, I had a relatively easy, non-physical job during the pandemic, teaching a student 1:1, with multiple mental health diagnoses.
It became quite stressful when students returned to classes after our covid lockdown as he had substantial issues with making friends and his high-level misbehaviour and aggression were impacting my wellness.
Each day felt like I had been climbing mountains-extreme tiredness, muscle and joint pain, foot and ankle swelling. I also had vertigo.
There were many times I just shut up and didn't tell others how bad I felt. Upon reflection, I should have prioritised my wellness.
At work, they had provided me with a special chair to make it more comfortable and easier for me to get up and down.
Finally, I went to the doctor and told him how each day was such a struggle to get through and my symptoms. I thought anxiety and arthritis was impacting my body.
He took my blood pressure and I was shocked-it had gone past high blood pressure, and was in the hypertension zone ie. almost 200/99.
He prescribed medicine as he said I was risking a heart attack or a stroke. I am not averse to taking medication but I usually do research and see if I can try natural methods.
The doctor said that, if I did not take the medication, he would take my Driver’s Licence away from me. He wanted me to understand the seriousness of hypertension.
I started taking the tablets and, slowly, my blood pressure started to come down but it was still erratic. Also, I started to cough and this usually became worse on going to bed each night.
I remembered my mother taking her medication and how she coughed so badly over a few months until her doctor realised that it was this particular medication that made her cough.
She was quite angry as she had been going to the doctor about her persistent cough for many months and her ribs hurt from coughing. She had many sleepless nights too.
So I told my doctor about my coughing and he changed it to Telimarsartan and slowly my cough disappeared.
Previous medication was Perindopril arginine 10 mg.
I have always been interested in natural remedies for ailments so I researched natural remedies for blood pressure problems online.
Although the medication I was taking took me out of the danger zone, the readings were erratic and not low enough for my liking.
It would sometimes be in the high 140’s, then jump up to 150’s and 160’s.
I read that ginger was good for blood pressure so I bought a jar of ginger and drank it with my tea in the mornings. I put half a teaspoon of crushed ginger in my tea.
Whenever I drank ginger tea, my blood pressure dropped to 130’s! Same as when I was a young woman.
I would highly recommend taking ginger in some form, if you have blood pressure problems as it consistently works for me.
Note: my blood pressure is excellent now (7 months later), even if I forget to include ginger each day. However, I will still include ginger throughout the week in my tea or in my cooking.
I hope these reflections will help you, if you have blood pressure problems.
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PS. I continue to have great BP readings! My doctor was dubious at first but is now telling me to continue with the ginger as it is working for me.
I’d love to hear how you cope and your story so I look forward to reading your comments.
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