Posted on 08/06/2020 4:02:54 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
Are you having, or have you had, COVID?
I am highly curious about actual symptoms and duration.
My nephew got it the other week. Like a normal cold for him. His MIL got it also but hers was more intense with plenty vomiting. But she had it about a week and is OK now.
I hear many like the short cold and other that are terrible for weeks on end. Even if any of them not deadly.
Nobody is on lockdown that Doesn’t have the virus .... right ?
If you come back negative twice get an influenza test. H1N1 is also going around right now.
Everyone has Covid-19
Common Cold is so last millenia
Flu is a joke and no one gets that anymore
Pnuemonia? Whut the Fluh evuh....
I had it. First symptoms on a Sunday night. Low grade fever and headache. Started to lose sense of smell and taste. Monday tired and low grade fever. Tested Tuesday. Wednesday headache. By the time my test came back positive on Thursday I was ok. It took about two to three weeks for smell and taste to return.
I know 5 people who have been CoVid positive. I am going to copy and paste what I wrote on previous threads about this.
***I know three people personally who had or currently have CoVid. The first was an old college buddy (~60 y.o.) who was one of the early cases, He lives in Georgia. He was sick in mid March, and hospitalized for 10-ish days. He spent about a week in ICU. He begged them not to use a ventilator on him, and that he would work hard by being a good patient. He spent 2 + days on the regular floor before he was allowed to go home. He is one of the success stories of the early days.
The next person is a nephew by marriage. Late 30s, lives in Florida. He got a sore throat after attending a bachelor party at a bar for one of his best friends. He had chills and body aches a day or two later, but never had any fever. Also had a mild cough. It never got any worse than that, and that part lasted only 3 or 4 days. This happened in mid June.
The third one I know is probably just finishing his quarantine. Good family friend in his late 20s in Ohio. He works at a restaurant, and one of his coworkers was positive, so they wanted everyone to get tested. Turns out he was positive. He didn’t have any symptoms, but said he felt a little “blah”, his exact words. Never developed any other symptoms. No sore throat, no fever, no cough, nothing. His time in quarantine should be finished yesterday or today.***
***Oh and I forgot 2 more. One was my husband’s aunt, 90, almost 91. She is a victim of Cuomo’s nursing home policy. Another resident was positive, was sent to the hospital, then Cuomo’s orders sent him/her back to her the facility where Aunt J lived. After a few weeks they started having more problems, so tested everyone there. Aunt J was asymptomatic but tested positive. They isolated her. It didn’t take long before she said food didn’t taste good anymore. Maybe 3 days. Then it ravaged her body and she succumbed. It was late April.
The next person I know the family personally. My daughter’s boyfriend’s grandmother was in assisted living memory care facility in New
Jersey. Same story as with Aunt J. Someone who was CoVid positive was sent back to her facility. Then she got it. She was sent to the hospital, and they also returned her to the facility where she passed 3 days after being released. This was early May and she was 87.***
I don’t know if this helps you in any way, but I hope it helps you.
I live in New York City. Out of the hundreds of people I know I don’t know one who has had it. I don’t know one who knows someone that had it.
Sorry you guys are getting so hard hit wherever You Are
I am 99% sure I had the chinese virus 5-6 weeks ago. On a Saturday afternoon starting having chills, felt fevered bad cough then Sunday afternoon started to have semi hallucinations/really weird dreams while semi asleep and had some lost of taste maybe 25-30%
Was planning on going to family doc to be tested or get permission to be tested Monday morning.
Monday morning woke up and felt 50% better. Monday afternoon continued to get better and by Tuesday 75% better.
Stayed down in basement bedroom by myself for a week after that.
Took about 2 weeks to feel back to normal.
I have zero health conditions except very mild HBP and and fit.
Of the people I know, who had it, the one over 70 did not feel quite as bad overall as when she had a flu or bad cold, but there were three days she was the much more tired than with the cold or flu.
The one who was 40 felt really tired a couple of days, had a moderate headache, diminished smell and taste for a week or so, and had a really good time on most of her paid two-week quarantine doing various home projects she never had time to do before.
I think I might have had in January. I rode a public bus back then to work with a couple Chinese people who I think may have gone back their for Christmas.
I was tired, as in once 8pm rolled around, I was good for nothing. This went on for about two weeks. I was stuffy and had not much sense of taste or smell. My brain was kind of foggy and had this weird paranoid feeling.
My eyes were really funky for days, more than they ever were with any colds or allergies.
But all in all, I got over it faster than some bad colds that have lingered in my lungs and ears for weeks.
I think my BIL and I caught it in October flying back from Israel. Bad sore throat and lethargy. Hot toddies helped.
My mom’s doc thinks she got it in early Nov when she almost died. It was horrible for her as she is 88....but she survived. Pneumonia and sepsis. Hypoxia. Delusions. Headache. Sore throat. Incontinent.
Little more than “huh, must be coming down with something”.
Tipoff for testing was inability to smell a Yankee Candle.
No meds, just some vitamin c, zinc, and Flonase.
14 days later, seems to have passed; smell slowly returning.
Your mileage may vary. Can be nasty, even lethal. I got lucky, or divine providence.
I’ve had bronchitis about 6 times in my life and this cough was totally different. It was dry and occurred about every 5 minutes. I had no other symptoms of a respiratory illness so I doubt it was just a cold. Unfortunately Arizona was doing pretty much no testing in March and even though I’m 66 with hypertension, I was told to stay home and quarantine. I might get the antibody test in the future just to be sure, but until then I consider myself a Covid “survivor.”
Like everything the deep state does, this virus was mostly lies with a tiny bit of reality.
The political virus was highly virulent and deadly.
The biological virus was mild.
I’m 57 and last August, I developed a “cold” that just wouldn’t go away.
Dry cough that kept me up all night; wheezing that led to a coughing fit if I breathed in too deeply or laughed. I felt exhausted and really achey and crummy.
I fly out for work every weekend and we were super busy. But if I don’t work, I don’t get paid. I figured I just was overworked and needed a break.
After a month, I started going to the doctor. Mentioned that I used to have slight asthma as a teen as well as allergies. We tried the usual - inhalers, Singular.... no improvement..
By my third or fourth visit, they took X-rays and said it had developed into pneumonia. But that it was the weirdest case they’d seen.
Bet it was the Wuhan Red Death.
Of course, I eventually got a break at Christmas time and improved a bit but when they shut us down for all this nonsense, I got rear and back to normal.
Holy cow, I get worse bugs every year.
Why aren’t we seeing people on deaths door in hospital wards for this - like they do with every other serious illness?
6 months of it and the news hasn’t showed ONE case on camera.
bttt
Father-in-law just died of it.
My boss and his young daughter came down with it, both had mild fever, aches and tiredness and some mild congestion on the back end. Both were essentially told just to stay at home and get some rest and quarantine for two weeks afterwards, and they both fully recovered in about a week. My boss said he had swine flu in 2011 and swine flu was orders of magnitude worse than COVID 19, which he said was little more than a minor inconvience.
No! I had H1N1 in 2010 and spent week in hospital. Have had lingering issues since.
Good to see some anecdotes in one place.
I have been having big problems for 3+ weeks but not what I would expect we’re COVID. Only started to wonder if I was atypical last week. Then came the unrelenting “fatigue” in my arms especially, burning, leaden, slight pressure. All across my shoulders and thru my fingers. Today it’s so bad I feel worn out typing this. I have the fatigue down my body in the legs, too, but it is ever-present down my arms.
Other things happened, but this is what scares me.
ER thought just with that I was a candidate for testing, but it’s negative. So I’m trying to arrange another tespt ASAP.
So sorry!
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