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.

 

[longbow51]

There's a lot of interesting work going on regarding immune status following covid/covid vax. And, yes, vaccinated people are more likely to get recurrences, that's pretty clear at this point.

Normally I would post a paper or two, but we're tariff experts this week.

Also, I have to study my war in Eastern Europe notes so that I remain an expert in that field.

 

[thebestusernamesaretaken]

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.

Like you said, I would still seek out actual medical advice from a actual medical doctor.

I think as far using covid as a fear to drive a agenda - I would think that you are in a one sided fight on that one. I don't think that anyone else (other the people who's jobs it is warn people or folks you actually associate, live, or love with), actually cares if another person gets vaccinated or not unless you are the one responsible for getting them sick.



I would think that vaccination is a personal choice as long as your choice doesn't inhibit the freedoms and life of another. The obvious solution to that would be exclusionary measures.

 

[Gulf of America]

And, yes, vaccinated people are more likely to get recurrences, that's pretty clear at this point.

I really try to have an open mind, but you're going to have to share studies because I can't find anything in an admittedly brief search that supports that assertion. Perhaps a Facebook poll?

 

[grizzly_]

I really try to have an open mind, but you're going to have to share studies because I can't find anything in an admittedly brief search that supports that assertion. Perhaps a Facebook poll?

I can find nothing to support that claim, though I could conceive of a situation where the oldest and highest risk were the most likely to get vaccinated and are also the most likely to be hospitalized.

That in no way means vaccinations result in hospitalization; in fact, when controlled for the population, it is clear that vaccinations prevent COVID hospitalizations. The claim above could simply be an example of somebody who doesn't understand causal and corollary relationships and therefore misinterpreting data.

My brother is an ICU doc. In all his time working with ECMO (heart-lung machine) patients, he's not had one vaccinated person with COVID. Every single ECMO COVID patient has been unvaccinated... many of them young pregnant women who were given the ECMO machine by the ethics committee due to their young age and the 2 lives in 1 balancing act with other needy patients. He says it's horrible to watch a young healthy woman with small children at home go through that when a simple vaccine at Walgreens would've prevented it.

 

[YukonGold]

And, yes, vaccinated people are more likely to get recurrences, that's pretty clear at this point.

Maybe because you can't get a recurrence if you're dead?

In all seriousness...I've had 4 covid shots (original 2 + 2 boosters), only got covid once (last year), and it was still not super. Flus/colds never fun but covid went instantly for my lungs on day one. I could tell it was different or I wouldn't have even taken a test. Trouble sleeping because of the pressure on my chest, was afraid I'd just stop breathing in the night. Scary...for 2 days, then I recovered pretty quickly and was testing negative again after less than a week.

If I hadn't been vaccinated, it could have been much worse. Or not. Trouble with vaccines is it's harder to prove something works when the purpose is prevention, and/or when there's so much variation in how a virus affects people. Me, I like vaccines and I don't like gambling.

 

[gouch]

Ther hasn't been too much covid going around here this year, but RSV has been running ramped. My oldest daughter just had a new baby and at the same time her 6-year-old and 2-year-old daughters both came down with RSV. The doctor said that under no circumstance should the new baby be in the same house as the two older kids until they are completely over the virus.

So, for eight days my wife and I got to take care of two sick children. The older had a mild case and wasn't too bad but the younger was sicker than a dog for three days. They're fine now but after having two sick kids coughing in my face for a week, I came down with it. Not too sick, mostly just a lot of coughing, but I still haven't been allowed to hold the new baby.

I'll tell you what though. Taking care of two kids 24/7, sick or not, is a young person's job. Not fit for old farts like me and the Mrs.

 

[SAJ-99]

I can find nothing to support that claim, though I could conceive of a situation where the oldest and highest risk were the most likely to get vaccinated and are also the most likely to be hospitalized

That may be part of it for sure. Also, there is no mandate to do testing. Some patients don't believe in Covid so they say don't test for it. Without the test, the denominator for unvaccinated is crap too.