First hand Covid symptoms

[pddubs]

I caught covid and it felt pretty bad. I lost the sense of taste for sure, maybe smell? I thought that I recovered and I went on an Idaho elk hunt about 6 weeks later.

I noticed that my lungs felt like they were on fire walking up the trail. The pack was kind of heavy but nothing I haven't carried before and I thought that the elevation was moderate but nothing spectacular. It kept happening throughout the hunt so afterwards I went to the doctor. They x-rayed my chest and told me that I had two partially collapsed lungs. Asked him how that happened and he said "I don't know, we are still trying to figure out long covid". Asked them what I should do and they said wait and see what happens.

Seems better now, but I wasn't prepared for that nonsense.

Were you ever vaccinated? Wonder if that contributed to two partially collapsed lungs
Edit: Dont ban me I never cause issues, just genuinely curious if you were vaccinated

 

[thebestusernamesaretaken]

Were you ever vaccinated? Wonder if that contributed to two partially collapsed lungs
Edit: Dont ban me I never cause issues, just genuinely curious if you were vaccinated

I am and I don't believe so. Around here, almost everyone knows of someone who died from Covid. High populations and all.

 

[thebestusernamesaretaken]

I am and I don't believe so. Around here, almost everyone knows of someone who died from Covid. High populations and all.

My wife graduated HS with a woman who is biochemist worked for the CDC. She is genuinely afraid of covid and wants to save lives.

People should be certainly be cognizant on what vaccines they take for sure but they should take qualified advice from an actual medical doctor in the field of concern. Taking medical advice from someone on HT or from the otherwise unqualified could be considered reckless.

That being said, a very nice woman who worked for my wife was anti-vax even after her husband died... of covid.

 

[SwaggyD]

I’m not gonna comment on experts in tariffs also commenting like an expert on viruses, but when I had it, I lost taste and smell. Smell still is off on lotions and stuff like it. 3.5 years later.

 

[Elktrack]

Did all of you that got Covid lose taste and/or smell? mtmuley

Yep. Lost taste for almost 3 weeks. It’s amazing how uninteresting food becomes and some of it just seemed gross even though I couldn’t taste it. When I realized I lost it I had just cooked up some back straps from a buck I killed and commented to the kids how there was zero gamey flavor. They said it was mild but could taste a tad. I thought it was just a really exceptionally mild deer until I realized it had no taste. Smell was gone for over a month and somethings still don’t smell the same as before.

 

[kodiakisland]

My wife graduated HS with a woman who is biochemist worked for the CDC. She is genuinely afraid of covid and wants to save lives.

People should be certainly be cognizant on what vaccines they take for sure but they should take qualified advice from an actual medical doctor in the field of concern. Taking medical advice from someone on HT or from the otherwise unqualified could be considered reckless.

That being said, a very nice woman who worked for my wife was anti-vax even after her husband died... of covid.

Well, around here (here being the hospital I work at), the only people admitted with COVID for the last 1.5+ years all had multiple COVID vaccines. The people who never got the vaccine aren't the ones coming into the ER and getting admitted. Many of us chose not to get the vaccine and don't regret it. And by us I mean doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. I'm not anti vax by any means, but knew right away the pros/cons didn't add up in my favor. If I was an overweight diabetic my thoughts would have been different. Anyway, our hospital hasn't had a COVID death in a long, long time. Fear may have been justified at one point, but now trying to work fear into it probably just drives an agenda. Pretty much every single person I know has had COVID. Multiple times. 99.99% of them hasn't died from it. Vaxed or not vaxed.

Those of us working around people with COVID haven't worried about it in a long time. Not trying to be political or get into any debates as one certainly shouldn't take medical advise from a message board.

As far as first hand COVID symptoms. Basically a bad cold. Certainly not as bad as influenza has hit me.