🦀Karstanization🦀

Hey folks! Have any of you ever successfully gotten a 6-month covid booster? If so, where/how? Walgreens let me make an appointment but when I showed up they told me I'm only allowed to have it once a year. Which is funny because a year ago a pharmacist at the exact same locations that I could get it every 6 months.

I'm going to a large conference here in a couple of weeks and I'd like to have an additional booster.

Mar 2 at 8:06pmWeb
Show thread🦀Karstanization🦀Mar 2
I'm livid about this. I maayyy have made a bit of a scene on my way out of the pharmacy. I tried very hard not to, but alas, was not 100% successful.
Show threadsonjaMar 2
@Karstan i get one once a year. when did you have your last dose?
Show thread🦀Karstanization🦀Mar 2

@emily_rugburn I've gotten it once/year up until now. I'm trying to get a 2nd booster dose prior to the large conference I'm going to in a couple of a weeks.

Everything I've read backs up that this is not only possible, but advisable for people with high-risk factors.

Show threadsonjaMar 2
@Karstan could you just lie to the pharmacy?
Show thread🦀Karstanization🦀Mar 2
@emily_rugburn apparently not at this one. I'm going to try at a different pharmacy here later this afternoon.
Show threadsonjaMar 2

@Karstan i remember when i was getting a booster one year when it was still a free vaccination and the tech started telling me i needed to have insurance info on file to get one. i said OH BULLSHIT RUN IT UNDER CASH AND GIVE ME MY VACCINE.

usually im not like that but i think i had been sitting there for an hour.

Show threadsonjaMar 2
@Karstan i should note i dont really interact with people but i do mask almost 100% of the time, even when covid was at its worst (and i was working with covid patients), i never caught it....maybe im immune? i dunno
Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.Mar 2
@Karstan Safeway pharmacy in Oregon.
Show threadmizblueprintMar 2
@msbellows @Karstan
I was going to say the same thing.
Show threadsara sparkleMar 2
@Karstan I got one from a local pharmacy. This was last year so I just told them I was immune compromised
Show threadcrowdotblackMar 3
@sarasparkle @Karstan This
Show threadtrying bear 🕊😺🕊🐼Mar 4
@Karstan hit multiple antihistamines pretty hard to help protect yourself. i'll look up the info i have somewhere in my emails....
Show threadtrying bear 🕊😺🕊🐼Mar 4
@Karstan https://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/800951.html
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A post and a conversation elsewhere made me realize I stay on top of COVID-related news a lot more than a lot of people do and therefore this probably isn't common knowledge: there is a small but growing body of evidence that nasal barrier/antiviral agent sprays are a useful component of a defense-i

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Show threadtrying bear 🕊😺🕊🐼Mar 4
@Karstan i realize this is a weird image, as the author also posts about things not covid-related, and also i didn't anticipate that it would show up. but it really is all about using antihistamines to boost immunity should you not be able to mask.
Show thread🦀Karstanization🦀Mar 4
@bearofroses I don't see anything about antihistamines in this. Good info about nasal antivirals/nasal rinses though!
Show threadtrying bear 🕊😺🕊🐼Mar 4
@Karstan oh shoot, it must have been in a different piece of writing. i ended up using generic flonase, diphenhydramine, and prilosec for the part of a day last sept when i had to unmask to eat. (i met 2 mutuals in person, still recovering from the social stress.)
Show thread🦀Karstanization🦀Mar 4
@bearofroses I already take prescription strength Prilosec for my eoe. So I guess that's something
Show threadtrying bear 🕊😺🕊🐼Mar 4
@Karstan what do you think about profi / covixyl?
Show thread🦀Karstanization🦀Mar 4
@bearofroses 🤷 I don't know anything about them