So who’s had the Rona?

My wife and I have both tested positive for the antigens, but neither of us has been sick from anything for more than a year. Last time I was sick fat all was Dec '18 into Jan 2019

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I flew out to Arizona in late February last year for work. Stayed out there for the better part of a week and then flew back. Three days later I started to feel like crap. I thought it was a cold or the flu. Woke up on Monday to go to work and felt like hell. My wife looked at me and said, “You’re not really thinking about going to work today, are you?” I was out for a week. I had muscle aches, my joints hurt, I was extremely tired and I had this crazy cough. I wasn’t like the typical cough you have when you have a cold. I could feel it building until it was one, very loud, extremely powerful cough. And then it would slowly build and repeat. Y. Just hurt every time i coughed. Felt like I had a bunch of shit in my lungs and expected to cough up something, but every time I coughed it was a loud, dry cough and nothing came up. I had a lot of pressure in my chest. After a week I went back to work but I was exhausted for 2 more weeks. Would come home from work, eat a little dinner and go straight to bed.

I had a doctor’s appointment in early June and since he was ordering blood work I asked him if I could get the antibodies test. He asked why and I explained what I experienced in March. He said at that time there wasn’t an antibodies test that Duke recognized because teach test showed just as many false positives as false negatives. He said he couldn’t tell me I had it without running a test, but there was no reliable test out there. He told me if we were bullshitting over a few beers at a cookout and I told him I had those symptoms, he said he would tell me I had the virus.

My wife got sick about a week after me but had some different symptoms. She had a fever and she had what I would consider a normal cough if you had a cold. She was able to cough up some shit when she coughed. She also had the muscle aches and extreme fatigue.
 
Question, which I'll google too but thought you guys might know. How long after an actual infection does the antibody test still work? Weeks, months? I had a rough patch last spring of coughing I thought was going to take me out, but no other symptoms at all. Curious if it was Rona, but figure it's too late to tell?
 
/dev/yj said:
Question, which I'll google too but thought you guys might know. How long after an actual infection does the antibody test still work? Weeks, months? I had a rough patch last spring of coughing I thought was going to take me out, but no other symptoms at all. Curious if it was Rona, but figure it's too late to tell?
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Nobody knows for sure and ymmv. Reports are from 3 to 6 months, maybe longer. So yeah, nobody knows.lol
 
I had it...felt kinda like the flu for a few days and my kidneys hurt. It got me out of work for a few weeks but I still didnt get shit finished in the shop.
 
Haven't had granola, but I was born with almost no sense of smell. Oddly enough I can taste. I got a scrap Jeep Commander a while back that when I got in it I nearly hurled. I could taste the odor. Steph said it was the worst thing she has ever smelled.
 
UncleWillie said:
Haven't had granola, but I was born with almost no sense of smell. Oddly enough I can taste. I got a scrap Jeep Commander a while back that when I got in it I nearly hurled. I could taste the odor. Steph said it was the worst thing she has ever smelled.
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Do you know the cause?
 
I had it in August. Had an outbreak at work. Fever of 103 and in bed for a few days. Followed by fatigue and terrible body aches for a week. Never lost taste or smell.
wife was pregnant and never got it then.

she got it in mid December as well as my 2 month old. They both had milder symptoms. Wife lost taste and smell and had a sore throat.
I didn’t get it again. They wouldn’t even test me.
2 month old wouldn’t tell me what was wrong, but was fussy. I guess she hasn’t learned how to talk.
 
Van-go said:
wife was pregnant and never got it then.
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Be glad that she didn't have it in August. She likely would have tested positive when the baby was born and the hospital would have behaved accordingly.
 
shawn said:
Be glad that she didn't have it in August. She likely would have tested positive when the baby was born and the hospital would have behaved accordingly.
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Absolutely. She was 8 months pregnant when I had it.
they only tested her when we went to the hospital thankfully.
 
My best friend called tonight, telling me he had it. His business has closed the maintenance department he worked in, & 4-5 others in the same building have suddenly got it. They follow all the protocols, mask, hand sanitizer & distancing. He seems to have the Mild case. Said it started with a runny nose. Didn't mention much else. He's home on 14 day quarantine. I asked about taste, & he said hell he hasn't tasted anything since he had throat cancer! I was telling him last week his Doctor should order the vaccine for him, since he recently had Cancer. Can't tell some people anything! It probably would have been too late getting it anyway.
 
I had it, didn't know it until the wife lost taste and smell ,we went and got tested. I had a little sinus headache and mild congestion, honestly my seasonal allergies bother me worse (and they are mild). My symptoms lasted a few days and we're gone. There's no telling how many people I infected. By the time I knew it was Rona , she'd been with me for more than a week. My 11 year old daughter tested positive as well with little to no symptoms. My 9 year old son tested 3 times negative. My wife got the worst of it and she said it was like a very mild flu. I guess we were lucky. If that's how my body would handle the virus, I'd be ok with getting it yearly versus getting a rushed vaccine. I will say ,unless everyone who gets a runny nose or cough goes and gets tested, we'll be passing this around until herd immunity takes over.
 
Interesting lingering symptom/side effect. Like I said earlier, I lost some sense of taste and smell. With that I can’t smell farts or excrement. Meaning either my shit don’t stink or I just can’t smell shit. Not complaining this by any means.

It dawned on me today that I haven’t smelled or tasted anything that a person would deem nasty. Yesterday, the wife and I took the day off and went over to Universal Studios Harry Potter World. She bought some of those Bernie Bots Jelly beans with the nasty flavors. I didn’t know and she kept feeding me beans and she was getting mad. I told her maybe she was picking the wrong ones and to try one herself. She grabbed 2 vomit flavored ones and we ate them at the same time. She about puked and I ate it with a smile. Tastes sweet and like candy to me.
 
mbalbritton said:
Interesting lingering symptom/side effect. Like I said earlier, I lost some sense of taste and smell. With that I can’t smell farts or excrement. Meaning either my shit don’t stink or I just can’t smell shit. Not complaining this by any means.

It dawned on me today that I haven’t smelled or tasted anything that a person would deem nasty. Yesterday, the wife and I took the day off and went over to Universal Studios Harry Potter World. She bought some of those Bernie Bots Jelly beans with the nasty flavors. I didn’t know and she kept feeding me beans and she was getting mad. I told her maybe she was picking the wrong ones and to try one herself. She grabbed 2 vomit flavored ones and we ate them at the same time. She about puked and I ate it with a smile. Tastes sweet and like candy to me.
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there was a hilarious video from Reddit of a guy eating an onion, then downing a bottle of tobasco sauce with a straight face.
 
I think I have now had it. Came home on a Thursday and went down like a scud missle. Frooze to death no fever. Aches all over and the most drained I've been in years. Felt absurdly hammered like back to back iron man motorcycle races. Only wearing layers and froozen. Next few days switched to froozen to sweating bullets and soaking clothes and sheets. At points I did have some heavy chest and hard breathing felt like my old asthma attacks without the constricted airways and weezing. My sinus hurt and felt at times on fire but no drainage or pressure. Even my eyeballs hurt. The hurting all over almost mimicked sore muscles and cramps. Got dehydrated. As I got better I noticed my hands and more so my feet felt frozen and a sleep. Next was incredible brain fog and mostly feeling out of sorts and stupid, could not focus or concentrate to get,much anything done. It was almost as fustrating As freezing with three layers and winter time bed coverings. During the peak I had no appetite but got dehydrated and stupid thirsty.

Duration about 10 days. For it all. 5 to 6 I was absolutely misserable and tired.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
I think I have now had it. Came home on a Thursday and went down like a scud missle. Frooze to death no fever. Aches all over and the most drained I've been in years. Felt absurdly hammered like back to back iron man motorcycle races. Only wearing layers and froozen. Next few days switched to froozen to sweating bullets and soaking clothes and sheets. At points I did have some heavy chest and hard breathing felt like my old asthma attacks without the constricted airways and weezing. My sinus hurt and felt at times on fire but no drainage or pressure. Even my eyeballs hurt. The hurting all over almost mimicked sore muscles and cramps. Got dehydrated. As I got better I noticed my hands and more so my feet felt frozen and a sleep. Next was incredible brain fog and mostly feeling out of sorts and stupid, could not focus or concentrate to get,much anything done. It was almost as fustrating As freezing with three layers and winter time bed coverings. During the peak I had no appetite but got dehydrated and stupid thirsty.

Duration about 10 days. For it all. 5 to 6 I was absolutely misserable and tired.
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That is a pretty good description of what I had, but mine was bad for 2 days
 
interesting tid-bit to share...

My in-laws both tested positive and had multiple symptoms with my father-in-law being knocked down for the count for awhile. However, NEITHER of them EVER ran a temperature. Even the Dr.s for both of them were stumped. They were tested two times each to confirm. Since then they have read about others having the same thing happen - never running a temperature.

Just bringing it up because as anyone who goes out for an appointment, take kids to school, specific work locations, etc.. the way we are checked is by temp and asked questions if we've been near anyone, experiencing symptoms, etc. During the days they were contagious yet not showing any symptoms and obviously not a fever they went multiple places including the hospital for standard check ups on my father-in-law's pacemaker and passed that entrance test with flying colors.
 
Wait, how did you get Covid? I read on this site that it was over.
 
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