First hand Covid symptoms

[SO7mm]

Our turn. Positive test. Mama pretty sick the last couple of days. She kept saying she could smell and taste so it couldn’t be COVID. Guess what.

Good luck. Everyone I know that had Omicron maintained their smell and taste. They also all started getting better after 1 to 3 days.

 

[mrbluesky]

I got COVID on January 8 and my worst symptoms lasted about four days. I isolated in my house, but with this new variant, it was inevitable that others in my house would get it. During this entire time of the pandemic, I have been most concerned about my daughter and wife getting it. My daughter is disabled and has a lot of neurological issues and my wife has COPD. On my twelve day, they both came down with it. Two days later, my daughter was in the hospital with COVID pneumonia. This was the worst possible situation. Kudos to the doctors and nurses that cared for her because she made it through without going on a vent and came home this past Tuesday after a thirteen day stay in the hospital. All our prayers were answered. My wife's lasted about ten days, but got through OK. Prior to me getting COVID, I only personally knew 12 people that had gotten it. Since I got it, I personally know 20 people. They are vaccinated, boosted and unvaccinated. All having similar symptoms and similar outcomes, except my daughter was the only one that got the pneumonia and was hospitalized. Only one person lost taste and smell with this variant.

 

[Hunting Wife]

I got COVID on January 8 and my worst symptoms lasted about four days. I isolated in my house, but with this new variant, it was inevitable that others in my house would get it. During this entire time of the pandemic, I have been most concerned about my daughter and wife getting it. My daughter is disabled and has a lot of neurological issues and my wife has COPD. On my twelve day, they both came down with it. Two days later, my daughter was in the hospital with COVID pneumonia. This was the worst possible situation. Kudos to the doctors and nurses that cared for her because she made it through without going on a vent and came home this past Tuesday after a thirteen day stay in the hospital. All our prayers were answered. My wife's lasted about ten days, but got through OK. Prior to me getting COVID, I only personally knew 12 people that had gotten it. Since I got it, I personally know 20 people. They are vaccinated, boosted and unvaccinated. All having similar symptoms and similar outcomes, except my daughter was the only one that got the pneumonia and was hospitalized. Only one person lost taste and smell with this variant.

Very glad your family came through ok, and that your daughter is back home.

 

[44hunter45]

5 days since her first inkling of symptoms and Mama is through the worst of it, I hope. I have a tight burning chest and occasional cough. I'm not sure yet if this is sympathetic or I actually have symptoms.

 

[Irrelevant]

Man, we're the last people I know to have avoided it, everyone else we know has had it. We leave for Kauai Monday... my son woke up with a dry cough this morning. FML....

 

[westbranch]

We avoided it until this past month. Then mid-Jan my wife had a fever two nights in a row and then tested positive. Then mild symptoms a few more days. I had mild cold symptoms so just assumed positive and worked from home for a week +. My wife did not have the booster yet but I did.

It seems to have ran through our office in the past month. Pretty sure >50% out of 25+ people had it in Jan. Most were vaccinated, but not all had the booster. Only one that said they lost sense of taste and smell, majority of symptoms were very mild. Some only got tested because they planned to travel. One ended up in a Mexico quarantine hotel for two nights which they said was not pleasant. But tested negative and were able to leave.

 

[David658]

Here is a suggestion you may not have heard. If you get a hint that you might be coming onto a migraine, take a Claritin. Often migraines are food-triggered. And the crud may have sensitized you to some foods. This works for me, and would be easy and inexpensive to try.

Migraines are usually the result of dialated blood vessels, thus claritin, or pseudofed or similar can work. I found that when I could feel one coming on, often a bottle of one of those Starbucks double shot coffees, the ones with the sugar (dunno why) could help stave it off.

 

[4ohSick]

We'd somehow avoided covid all this time, but my wife and I both caught it at our wedding on Jan 15. Both had a solid 10-14 days of pretty dandy cough and sinus congestion, but we were finally starting to feel close to 100%. Then, yesterday morning my wife woke up with a sore throat and her cough got worse throughout the day. This morning she tested positive on a home test. Hard to evaluate how to handle it - she works at a hospital and is waiting on guidance from employee health, but my research to this point has suggested that a positive antigen test generally means a high enough viral load to be contagious, and she has a fever which pretty much means quarantine recommended. I tested negative and have no new symptoms aside from the very slight lingering cough.

Anyone else had experience with reoccurrences, and what was the guidance you received?

 

[44hunter45]

Mrs45 went back to work on Feb 8th. I have not gotten sick. I had a booster in January.

 

[MTGomer]

My wife and I both had it last month. I guess you could say we got it on purpose in a way. i mean, I didn’t try to get it but it sort of comes with the territory when you I go to sheep show and SCI and a concert at T-Mobile arena in a 12 day time period when positivity rates were aprox 30%. Seems inevitable. There’s always something going around to catch during show season.
We are going to Costa Rica in a couple weeks, and you must test negative to come back to the United States, so I would rather have had it a couple weeks ago than get it a couple weeks from now. I’m sure I could screw around in Costa Rica and work remotely, in perpetuity, my wife has to be able to get back up here on schedule to work at the hospital in person

I would be exaggerating if I called my symptoms cold or flu like. I would say my wife’s symptoms were cold like, and while she did not lose her taste or smell entirely, she reported things tasting off for a few days.

I had the JJ vaccine in late August.

My wife had one dose of one of the mRNA vaccines around the same time but didn’t get the second because she got a minor case of Guillan Barre from the first that lasted 3-4 months.

 

[recon6036]

My wife and I got COVID for the second time in January. Low fever off and on for me over a few days, otherwise I was fine. This time was milder for me than the first, even though the first time didn’t seem bad either thankfully.
My wife got hit at a bad time this time around, as she had been having complications with chronic hives and Bronchitis, just prior to COVID. COVID and entire-body hives had her down for about 3 weeks and a couple ER visits because the hives wouldn't go away.
The DR’s said they’re not sure why she all of a sudden got hives out of the blue with no history of it, but they say it wasn’t because of COVID….maybe the Bronchitis she had prior….who knows. She’s been hive free now for about a week and feels back to normal so .
And to answer the question, neither one of us are vaccinated jfi.
She will kill me but here are a couple pics of the hives….specialist said its the worst he’s ever seen. I’m still not convinced it wasn’t because of COVID

 

[BenInMT]

I’m on day 6. I’ve had some congestion and an unsatisfying dry cough that doesn’t get anything out. The only symptom that is annoying is being drained of energy. If there weren’t a global pandemic I would probably be going about life as usual right through it. I wanted to get it and get it over with before some upcoming overseas travel. Vaxxed but not boosted.

 

[NoWiser]

3 Pfizer shots here. I’m in the tail-end of what I’m assuming was omicron. I had one night of some mild muscle aches, about a week of feeling tired, and 4-5 days of horrible diarrhea. That was a fun surprise. I took a test for travel purposes or I’d have never known I had it. I just assumed one of the kids had given me a stomach bug.

 

[glass eye]

So recently my 7 year old grandson got sick and gave it to his family. His mom ( my daughter) and her husband are fully vaccinated and they gave it to my wife and lastly to myself. My wife and I are not vaxed.
First of all, if the vax works then you shouldn't get covid. Period.
They say "Well you can still get it but to a lesser degree". Lies !
My daughter and son-in-law who are fully vaxed had the exact same symptoms as my unvaxed wife. Fever, vomiting, coughing, loss of appetite.
As for me I had coughing, chills, fever, night sweats, loss of appetite. No vomiting for me.

So I saw firsthand how the vax was utterly useless.

My wife bought the test kits and we were all confirmed to be covid positive.

 

[brush_buster]

I’m into my second week getting over Covid. I never lost sense of of taste or smell. My worst symptoms were sever headaches and severe sore throat. My throat got so bad I couldn’t stand to even swallow my own saliva. I had to use a spittoon.

I also have been very tired with little energy until this week. Much better this week.

BTW I had been vaccinated. We lost a dear friend who was also vaccinated last Friday.

 

[kansasdad]

From this morning:



Low grade fever, very slight cough, taste and smell intact.

I couldn’t have picked a worse time to have this happen. Surgery was scheduled for Tuesday, and a niece’s wedding in Denver happens this weekend. At least I already have my schedule cleared of patients Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.

Hopefully Delta Airlines will refund some of the airfare.

 

[kansasdad]

If I hadn’t taken the test, I would have thought it was just a cold. One weird lingering symptom……my balance is a little wonky. Maybe like someone who has a touch too much to drink.

 

[Nick87]

Just giving this one a bump. Haven't heard a thing about it lately or anyone with covid at least locally. Is it gone now? Hbu?

 

[Gr8bawana]

Just giving this one a bump. Haven't heard a thing about it lately or anyone with covid at least locally. Is it gone now? Hbu?

No it's not gone. There is a new variant BA.2 beginning to go around.

 

[Nick87]

No it's not gone. There is a new variant BA.2 beginning to go around.

Oh no.