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Significant weight loss guaranteed, or your virus back!
Noticed today that my fingers looked thinner than normal, and my wedding ring slid off very easily.
So, I weighed myself. Last time I did that was 24th April (before I got this) and I registered as 74.4Kg. Today ... 69.5Kg - Five kilos in under two weeks.
So far rapid weight loss you can see, get all your mates together and go have a barbie until you catch it.
What makes me laugh is that brings my BMI down to 22.7, which the means to NHS is describing me as "Healthy". 
How am I doing? Not well - today's Surprise symptom is "Thick, solid, dark brown mucus" which if it continues is going to need a call to the doctor, as it's probably blood, and that's a bad sign.
O did manage to eat three small "biscuits-for-cheese" last night and kept them down, but nothing today, and it's been a week without coffee and that's not helping at all.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Yeah, clotting in the lungs is definitely a thing with Covid-19. You or Herself start having any trouble breathing, don't wait. GO! My Mrs. is slowly getting over her blood clots.
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This is not a healthy way to lose weight! Keep getting better. We need you healthy and well here in the Lounge! Same wishes for a speedy recovery to your better half! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Get better soon Griff!
Real programmers use butterflies
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Rapid weight loss like that is usually fluids. Dehydration, all on its own, can cause a lot of bad feelings (think: hangover).
I, and most of us, must keep looking over our shoulder as we are still the game in Covid's hunt.
For you and your Mrs., a wish for better days to come.
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Good to hear from you.
As Balboos said; hydration. Water and salts, which is why I recommended broth. Any "sports" type energy drink would do.
And just call the doctor - don't wait. Better to call once too often than once too late 
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I have just activated the positive energy thought sender 3000. Sending a 1,000 well wishes, your way, per minute.
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Without coffee for a week, then it must be serious !
My thoughts are with you
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I decaffeinate myself about once/year - but I taper off over a period of 8-10 days. For the purposes of this, had I not decaffeinated I'd suffer a most distressing headache. It could readily compound other symptoms from other causes.
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Severe headache is the brain's revenge for depriving it of caffeine! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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And where's the Designated Survivor when you need one !
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I decaffeinate myself about once/year
Just curious, if you know caffeine is terrible for you, why not just stay off of it?
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Answering for Balboos, even though I share the same reasons. 
because I am addicted to caffeine and it is my last vice. I gave up tobacco and alcohol a long time ago.
If I give up caffeine, then all I have is water, and that is no reason to keep on living. 
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Slacker007 wrote: water, and that is no reason to keep on living.
Or, it's the only reason for living.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Slacker007 wrote: because I am addicted to caffeine
It is the world's most popular legal drug.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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First, it is not terrible for you. Not why I drink it, but it is now essentially proven to prevent prostate cancer. Rather Unterrible.
And I like how it tastes.
And I like getting lit in the morning, when I'm already at max attention, to take advantage of the caffeine-makes-you-smarter (temporarily) effect: magic coding powers ensue (until about 1:00 PM or so).
A saying I made up some years ago: "Sometimes you just need better vices" and this one is really better than most (along with single malt scotch).
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: it is not terrible for you
That's your opinion and I allow it. Not sure why you think being addicted to a drug is not terrible for you.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: how it tastes.
How does caffeine taste? Maybe you meant coffee? Caffeine has a bitter taste.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: it is now essentially proven to prevent prostate cancer.
Nope. You mean coffee? I think your whole response might be around coffee which is not what I had said. Regardless, tomatoes also help prevent prostate cancer. So, why choose an addictive drug over a vegetable?
I can also lose weight by cutting off my leg. Doesn't make it a good idea.
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Now that you mnention it, it suddenly occurs to me that after we were sent to our home offices about seven weeks ago, I haven't used my coffee machine even once!
At the office, I might drink at least one liter, sometimes two, during a normal working day. At home, I usually stick to tea (black, strong - usually Lapsang Suchong). I really was expecting that I would be brewing a lot of coffee for the home office, but that hasn't happened.
It certainly is not that my Home Coffee is any lower quality - quite to the contrary! From a rational point of view, you would expect a huge increase in my coffee budget, especially now that I am out of Lapsang Suchong and my tea provider is corona closed. It just hasn't happened. I might employ some researcers to try to find out why.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Lapsang Suchong
In the world of tea, it doesn't get any better than that!
Some good Loong-Jing, if in the mood for green tea, but in some ways (for what I can afford, at least) it would just be settling.
I wonder if my taste for Single Malt Scotch is related to Lapsang Suchong being my favorite tea, or is it the other way around?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Noticed today that my fingers looked thinner than normal, and my wedding ring slid off very easily.
So, I weighed myself. Last time I did that was 24th April (before I got this) and I registered as 74.4Kg. Today ... 69.5Kg - Five kilos in under two weeks.
Pneumonia certainly does that to you.
I had pneumonia three years ago.
Mycoplasma is considered a mild form, but I lost ten kg. And my stamina was gone for half a year.
OriginalGriff wrote: today's Surprise symptom is "Thick, solid, dark brown mucus" which if it continues is going to need a call to the doctor
No, do call the doc tomorrow. If you believe it's blood, it's bad!
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Jesus .. ain't no point being big & tough & in a pine box .. please call the Dr..the NHS isn't that bad
take care
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But at least Immanuel tried.
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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable! 
I've got it from the most reliable source! 
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Socrates himself is particularly missed. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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To "miss" a guy, is that when he has a sex change operation?
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