Another Covid thread

Ron

Ron

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Who’s had it who hasn’t?
And what were your experiences?
Did you test positive or just feel bad and “pretty sure I had it”

just curious what the boards experience has been
 
I did early, April of 20.

My daughter worked for a long term care facility and it just happened to be the one in Clayton NC that was ground zero for an outbreak (made the news multiple times for refusing to separate patients and other things).

Keep in mind that at the time very little information was out there. It was unknown what best treatment was or much at all about caring for it.

My daughter tested positive through the health dept. during their investigation. I began to feel weak on Wednesday and by Thursday night I was pretty bad off.

We knew since Erica was positive that I and my wife were probably positive as well. Angie was a county supervisor so she was mandatory tested and had to quarantine for 2 weeks. Neither of them had symptoms other than a mild headache and sniffles. My grandson who was 4 months old had a mild fever.

I had no energy, could barely lift my head at times. Temp went to over 103 for days
Cough wasn’t as bad as some had. The worst was about 10 days of the absolute worst headache I’ve ever had and bone pain. Pain basically all over my body that felt like my bones were being squeezed.

Nothing would touch the pain. I took so much tylenol and naproxen I was afraid I had damaged my liver. Finally I had someone get me some 151 rum and that took the edge off enough I could take it.

I began to feel buildup in my lungs and my fear was that if I went in to the hospital and was put on a vent…I wouldn’t come out.

I was teleconferencing with my doc the whole time and the health dept refused to test me. Keep in mind that tests were scarce in that time. My doc called the county HD supervisor and basically said she would make a shitstorm if they didn’t test me.

I got a call about an hour later with testing instructions. Doc RXd me Azithromycin 500mg 3 times per day to combat the pneumonia coming on. I told her I was not going to hospital.

I began coughing out the craziest stuff you can imagine. Stuff came out of my head and lungs that I can’t describe. The antibiotic was breaking up the secondary infection and in a couple of days I was feeling so much better.

10 days of hell.

I lost smell and taste for about 3 months. It still isn’t like it was but the new normal. I had that cigarette ghost smell for over a year. I finally read that aloe infused saline multiple time per day might help and it did finally remove it.

I still have weakness and my asthma which was extremely mild before is worse, inhaler of Breo every day. Stamina which was like a bear is now like an old panda.

I get coughing spells in the shower from steam. My arthritis is a good bit worse than before and swelling of random joints is common.

I believe we will eventually know what it does to the body in better detail but long lasting or permanent changes are part of it.

My daughter still works in healthcare and is tested twice weekly. No sign of C19 has returned.
 
I'm "pretty sure I had it" back when there wasn't a widely available test. February 2020. Went in thinking I had the worst flu of my life. Tested negative for everything, and Tamiflu didn't help at all. Looking at it now, I had all the symptoms (hight temp, cough, chills, shits, felt like I got run over by a few freight trains) and couldn't breathe good for a few months.
 
Positive in January 21 along with 8 other family members. Everyone in the family was okay most just had Flu like symptoms. I had joint pain and a headache for 5 days and that’s pretty much it.
 
Pretty sure.my wife had it back in Jan of 2020 after a business trip to Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco and Newark in a week and back home. I felt weird for a few days, she was sick as hell for 2weeks,.docs didn't know what she had as testing was pretty rare at that point. Since then I have flown a few times, moved to a new state and work in facilities with 1500+ people in each and probably get exposed weekly. Been in the COVID exposure 2week penalty box a few times, and nothing.

This is usually how it goes with sickness around me, I'm usually the last one to get sick, and I get it worse then everyone else. So you will know COVID is over when you hear about some wild covid case in Hickory where someone's organs liquify and he sneezes them out his eyeballs or something, that will be me and you will know the pandemic is over!!
 
Jan ‘21, the wife and I had it. Reminded me of the flu. Lasted about 2 days. But the recovery was much harder than the flu. I felt it drained my body for about a month afterwards. I lost certain taste and smell. Still don’t have it back fully. And anything fried in oil has a distinct flavor to it that I really don’t like. Kinda weird.
 
I still believe I had 'rona before 'rona was cool. Specifically, Dec 2019. All the symptoms of but they called it "Flu B" for me. I was crushed for about a week. Basically be ridden without much activity. I've had nothing since that time. Maybe one sinus infection.

My wife had the new-ish symptoms about a week ago. Headache, lethargy, sinus stuff. She was crummy feeling about two days and then she was over it.

My son threw up twice in his bed Friday night and woke up with diarrhea. We're taking him to get tested this morning. He's fine though. Bouncing around being his normal jackass self with the exception of the occasional shart.
 
I'm in the unconfirmed crowd. One day great, next day I'm kinda tired to a few hours in What was that truck hauling?

Stuck in the bed, short of breath like a stack of bricks laying on me. I have some some asthma issues. This was different, no wheezing but just felt like my lungs would not accept the air.
The tiredness and headache was the worse until the I'm froooooozen to death then on fire started. I would have called this the flue aside from the breathing til latter, The frozen burning thing left me exhausted but the craziest part is the amount of fluid I lost to sweating. The sheets were like my t-shirt and work pants in summer. Absolutely soaked to the point of heavy and very nasty to lay in. I did this for several days.

Now the completely unusual. As I got better my feet and lower legs got weird. They experienced a very unusual ache connected to tingling and numbness. Then the brain fog hit. I swore to myself I was high or under some spell. I could not focus or concentrate, simple task was like an exercise of note taking. Anything multitask was shot to hell.

I feel fairly normal, no loss of taste. I really have had a hard time with the heat this year and staying hydrated. I have always sweat profusely but I've been generating several comments from coworkers and folks I'm around this year. Not from stank but the fact that 5 minutes into a routine task all my clothes are soaked and so much water is coming off my head my safety glasses are full and the equipment is getting rained on. Retrospectively thinking I wonder if it is connected. I have had some really rough days at work and been really wiped out. I have resorted to Pedialyte the sports drinks do not do much.
 
I am in the crowd of believing we had this crap early on before it was making the news, I was sick as a dog in February 2020 with crazy chills and sweats, coughing until my chest and abdominal muscles couldn't take it any more and just had that hit by a truck feeling for about a week. One night the fever finally broke and I suddenly started to feel better, but like others have said, the heat seems to be worse on my this year. Sweating way more than normal and the scariest part is I've got a new weird heart rhythm and occasional beat that the Dr's can't explain. I actually went to the ER one day thinking I was having a heart attack and they did every test under the sun and found zero zilch nada! So with all this stuff taken in its totality I definitely think I've had the muthalickin r0na!
 
Possibly. Same symptoms as a really bad summer cold, lasted two solid weeks but it was February of last year.
As far as energy levels went, keep in mind I'm very very active/ physically fit and can ignore pain up to and including broken bones without missing a beat.
Slowed me down enough to miss three days of work.
 
McCracken said:
I still believe I had 'rona before 'rona was cool. Specifically, Dec 2019. All the symptoms of but they called it "Flu B" for me. I was crushed for about a week. Basically be ridden without much activity. I've had nothing since that time. Maybe one sinus infection.

My wife had the new-ish symptoms about a week ago. Headache, lethargy, sinus stuff. She was crummy feeling about two days and then she was over it.

My son threw up twice in his bed Friday night and woke up with diarrhea. We're taking him to get tested this morning. He's fine though. Bouncing around being his normal jackass self with the exception of the occasional shart.
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Exact same, late November of 19, sick as hell for 7 days, figured sinus infectio , coughed up some nasty shit, still waiting on several doctors at Va to say yes take the vaccine, I am a special case of my immune system is way over reactive. Lymph nodes go crazy. Not opposed to vaccination, but still don't know if just the Vaxine will put me in hospital.

I am weary because I am the 1% that had a very bad reaction to Anthrax shots, caused immune system to go into overdrive. Lost 18 lymph nodes in neck arm pit and groin and abused crohns disease. My system attacks things it shouldn't, instead of a platoon of got to kill virus it sends the whole battalion.

@RatLabGuy yes dave I am the less than 1% wierdo
Survived cancer too at 9 months, and combat, I really should be dead

Edit again on wierdo..... Ginger, blue eyes, 3 nipples
 
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I’m unconfirmed. It was January or February one of my bosses went to a football conference came back sick, about the time they said that a big conference was a reason it was spreading so fast.
Me and a coworker both got sick and couldn’t shake it for two weeks we both ended up taking a few days off. Before he got the shot he was tested and it came back that he had had Covid at some point
 
I have NOT had it. We were doing "covid precautions" before covid precautions were cool, and were in group 1a to get vaccinated so got that in Jan of this year. Getting my third one as soon as UNC gets the protocol finalized.

Duane
 
Nothing for me. Had both Pfizer shots, & 1 test, negative. Close friend of mine that I usually see every week, tested positive. Company made him stay home for 10 days & retest. He felt nothing, & his wife never tested positive. Another friend had his older brother die from it. I didn't get any details. Friend moved to Cali, & his brother was in Boston.
 
Put me in the same category as McCracken…me and most my family think we had it back in late 2019/early 20…all diagnosed with respiratory infections…took most of us out for a day or 3, but my father was hospitalized with ‘pneumonia’. A couple weeks after that he had another heart attack. A few months later, my father was asked to be a part of a Covid study at Baptist because of his ‘pneumonia’ and heart attack…he showed covid antibodies, so they opened up the test to the rest of the family…and most of us did as well. Since then, I’ve been directly exposed no less than 2 dozen times at work and my FIL/BIL/MIL/my 2.5 yo have all been diagnosed as having it. If a sneezing/coughing in your face 2.5yo can’t pass it to you, I don’t know what will. I’m averaging 1.5-2 tests every month over the last 18 months and come back negative every time.
 
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Wife had co-worker she was close to test positive, we both tested beginning of March ‘21, all 3 of us negative at that time, Wife ended up working with 2 others that went out with it, and on March 15 ‘21 wife said she felt like crap, 101.5 fever (we were actually going to look for a place to get the vax that day) She tested positive that time, I came up positive a few days later.

Wife had some breathing issues, like a bad cold, phlegm, snot, just yuck and feeling drained. Fever lasted over a week., her having a CPAP was actually a plus as it let her breath and sleep.

Once I started developing symptoms, I had some breathing issues and fever, but mostly my hips and thighs started burning from lactic acid build up. That was miserable. No position was comfortable, tried taking a walk, that seemed to make it worse. No sleep for several days, after effects lingered for a week or 2, very cautious how far I roamed from an accessible restroom.
Teen daughter was basically lie the flu, pretty mild, she slept a lot More than usual.

we also all 3 lost sense of taste and smell. That was not fun at all, meat was just yuck, didn’t matter what, sausage was salty as hell, eggs were nasty, had a sulfur taste to them. Lot of salads and veggies. Everything was gross.

All 3 of us have since been vaccinated and will probably do a booster once available.
 
I feel I was one of the "before it was here" people in Jan 2020. I normally dont get sick but I had a "cold" that took me weeks to shake and the cough was non-stop. Felt like hammered ass. Oct 2020, kid had the crud for a day, gave it to me for a day, wife got it a day later for 2 days but also developed a fever and lost taste and smell. She tested positive and everyone else remained negative for every following swab.
 
Haven't had it. Had a couple close calls. Wife and a girl that she works with that tested postive, Work didn't make her quarantine, but my work made me for 2 weeks. My daughter's daycare closed last year for 2 weeks because a couple of kids who tested positive. Wife got sick again, was pretty sure she had it, but ended up testing negative. We both have now been vaccinated and it sort of makes me worry that I or my wife could have it and not know it and end up giving it to my daughter...
 
Had it last November. Started with a dry cough Saturday night, Sunday morning didn't feel human at all. Pounding headache, body aches all over, chills and shivering - could not get warm at all, sinus pain that felt like broken glass inside my sinuses. Never had a fever, even with all the chills and shivering, however. Also never lost sense of taste or smell. Anyone who knows me knows I never had much of a sense of taste (ha ha). Called my boss Monday morning and he told me to go get tested because he had just got a confirmed positive himself after a false negative test. Drove down to Salisbury to get tested and about fell asleep in the parking lot waiting. Sure enough - confirmed positive. By Tuesday evening I felt pretty normal with a light cough. To date, I have had continued occasional "broken glass" sinus headaches, but aside from that pretty normal. I do get out of breath a lot quicker, but I'm also a fat slob.
 
Have not had it. Miracle if you ask me. Wife teaches, I work with 180 folks at the plant. Has been hit and miss at plant with folks who got it. Have not had any person to person infections at plant either. All have contacted it away from work. Due try to avoid crowds for the most part. Was paranoid when we stopped to look at CTB Jeep at Pigeon Forge. Could get out of there quick enough. Family have been vaccinated, but still don’t want to be quarantined for 10-14 days
 
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I had SOMETHING in Feb 2020. Took 3 visits to the doc and stronger antibiotics each time to get it moving out. Went to Daytona bike week while still on the meds, Three of us were in the same boat. They werent even testing for it when I got it. I asked my doc if it was Covid and he said "No it wasnt even here yet"! lol
 
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