I have now officially tested positive for Covid on both the Antigen and PCR tests. I started experiencing symptoms (fever, chills, nausea) Sunday afternoon and started Paxlovid today. I am not really understanding the comments here on the taste of the pills as I haven't noticed any bad taste at all (and I have not lost my sense of taste). I am wondering if the posters here are dry swallowing it or else savoring it and swishing it around the mouth like wine or candy? When I take pills like this, they barely hit my tongue. To me flagyl has a noticeably much worse taste, but I flush it down and off my tongue quickly with copious, aggressive chugs of liquid. I don't suck on the pills like they are Jolly Rogers, because they aren't. The Paxlovid pills touched my tongue only briefly, but long enough for me to sense any foulness, and I had no such sense. I took them with a meal, which was pork and shrimp dumplings that were quite tasty.
My doctor told me to stop taking two of my medications, cialis and tamsulosin which I am taking for some urinary difficulties. These interact with Paxlovid.
I am mainly concerned about the other side effects like diarrhea and nausea. We will see how that goes.