For the doctors on here, what treatments are being used on patients with the COVID pneumonia when it has been more than 10 days since they were diagnosed.

The doctors aren't prescribing any of the COVID treatments stating that it has been to long and they would not do any good.

Other than steroids what other treatment options are there that have given good results?

Summary - 51 year old Female:
- First symptoms on 7/31
- Positive test on 8/2
- ER visit on 8/6 diagnosed with pneumonia
- given Z-pack and dexamethasone (completed on 8/10)
- told to come back if oxygen drops below 91
- Admitted to hospital on 8/10
- unable to get blood oxygen above 88

last night 8/11 - bpap lowered to 3lpm and able to maintain her oxygen level above 90
this morning 8/12 - bpap increased to 6lpm and struggling to get to 90

Is there anything I should be asking the doctor to do or is there anything that is recommended?

Just looking for any sort of guidance. Since I can't visit my wife, she says that they are just giving her vitamins, zinc and steroids.

Thanks for any help

You STILL cannot visit your wife. It's after 10 days, and its a secondary, non spreadable infection. The medical community is who we are supposed to look to for mitigation policy yet they enforce needless policies like these. Stupid

Visitation for COVID patients is 2p-4p for a single person.

I'm not there whenever the doctors are checking on her, hence my request for what I should be asking about.

My wife is 36 and had Covid pneumonia. She knew immediately that something wasn't right, O2 went down to 86-87 -- doc prescribed zpack and another med over the phone -- a day later, she was perfectly fine.

BLB_95 said:

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Doctors are still giving her Steroids injections and an inhaler breathing treatment and that's all so far.

Mentioned tocilizumab but said that there are no supplies in our area and that the last two doses the hospital received were out of Oklahoma. That doesn't sound very promising.

Starting to get worried as they continue to keep increasing her oxygen inputs to keep her levels above 90.

Just keep hoping that she will turn the corner and start improving.

Anyone with suggestions?

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I was in the hospital for 5 days with pneumonia. Get her out of bed. Get her constantly doing the breathing treatments. Have her lay on her stomach as much as possible.

I laid on my back for two days before the lung doc asked why I was on my back. No one mentioned that I should be on my stomach as much as I could. He wanted me doing the breathing exercises 10x a day. I did it 20. I also got out of bed and walked the room as much as I could. It sucked but I didn't want to escalate things.

Praying for her.

Yesterday said:

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BLB_95 said:

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Doctors are still giving her Steroids injections and an inhaler breathing treatment and that's all so far.

Mentioned tocilizumab but said that there are no supplies in our area and that the last two doses the hospital received were out of Oklahoma. That doesn't sound very promising.

Starting to get worried as they continue to keep increasing her oxygen inputs to keep her levels above 90.

Just keep hoping that she will turn the corner and start improving.

Anyone with suggestions?

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I was in the hospital for 5 days with pneumonia. Get her out of bed. Get her constantly doing the breathing treatments. Have her lay on her stomach as much as possible.

I laid on my back for two days before the lung doc asked why I was on my back. No one mentioned that I should be on my stomach as much as I could. He wanted me doing the breathing exercises 10x a day. I did it 20. I also got out of bed and walked the room as much as I could. It sucked but I didn't want to escalate things.

Praying for her.

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This is exactly what she is doing. Finally after two days they gave her some pain meds to help her. That is making it easier for her to push without her lungs screaming at her in pain.

Today she was able to sit and have a conversation without the oxygen. Now if she even thinks of exerting herself it drops to 80 really quickly.

When she was admitted her left lung was full and her right had only a small pocket. Today they said they could hear some air in her left lung so fingers crossed she is starting to recover.

Warsteiner said:

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What's a decent oximeter to buy

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Buy one with 7,000 5/star reviews on Amazon.

They are all the same.