Posted on 03/06/2021 8:35:03 AM PST by VeniVidiVici
I created this thread to solicit input on one's experience with Covid. NOT to debate Covid, its origins, etc.
If you had it, tested positive for it, then I'd like your input.
Last Tuesday, my wife started feeling poorly - fatigue was the main symptom, but no congestion and no fever. I told her she had to get tested Wednesday as if for some reason she was positive, I can't go back to work for two weeks.
Well, golly gee. Her test came back positive! Now neither of us has been sick in over a year and not being a big believer in coincidence, I find it odd we came down with different illnesses in the same week.
But her's was/is a great deal different than mine. She has NO congestion but Thursday night her fever soared to 103. She had bouts of diarrhea and nausea. Couldn't get out of bed.
She's feeling better today but I've moved into the basement while she's feeling poorly. I still have congestion, no fever and tired so being the more "energetic" one, I make sure she's comfortible and get what she needs.
My point to this post is I feel we BOTH had Covid regardless of what my results were. But our symptoms were vastly different. Either that or I may still come down with what she has.
So if you've had Covid, or multiple people in your household have had it, did your symptoms vary from person to person? How are you feeling now?
wife and I both tested positive. sneezy and felt like it was a sinus infection. we wouldn’t have known we were positive if we hadn’t been tested for a different reason.
I know everyone’s different, but from our perspective, it was a stupid reason to kill a national economy.
That’s how my boss described his encounter with it. I did have “sneezy” too but just prior to getting sick with other symptoms.
My whole household (7) had it in January. I had a sinus headache, which is not usual, but then I completely lost my sense of smell, which is unusual. In the first week, my husband and I and two sons tested positive, and in the second week, two more sons - one previously negative - and a daughter were positive.
It took like 3-1/2 weeks for it to run through the family. Main symptoms were headaches (short-term), runny nose, and tiredness. Nobody ever had fever. My sense of smell is back.
My mother-in-law, 83, tested positive. She had a mild raspy cough, some congestion, moderate chills, and a slight fever. After two days, she was back to normal.
My wife, 57, had it in October. She experienced mild flu symptoms and lost her sense of taste and smell. Her flu symptoms lasted three days, and her taste and smell returned after about a week.
Three of my buds caught Covid at a saloon on the same day. They're all in their 70s. They all tested positive.
They all had different symptoms. One had a bad cough. One had a fever. One was just mildly ill...feeling yucky. They all survived and with no meds.
The one common thing was loss of taste and smell....so if you're not smelling your coffee...it may be a sign.
I bought a $10.00 oximeter and do that and temp every couple days.
I'm thinking the third stage of the disease is a blood disorder that prevents blood cells from binding to iron to 'hold' the oxygen from the lungs.
Do you have different blood types? Might explain difference in symptoms.
I had it during Halloween. I actually thought it was a weak sinus infection starting and called dr for antibiotics and steroids. Two days into it my oldest son tested positive and told us get tested, I was positive, wife negative. I had pressure and pain in sinuses and a wicked headache for seven straight days. Meds would take the edge off but wouldn’t stop it. For day and a half had touch of diarrhea.
My son and my daughters fiancé had congestion for a day but lost taste and smell and it’s just no coming back for both. My daughter lost taste and smell for a day and was down miserable for a day and bounced back fine.
I live in rural Nevada. No one I personally know has had this disease.
We were on a Carnival cruise ending on February 29th 2020. At that time covid news was just beginning, the cruise made us sign a form saying we had not traveled to China recently and that was the extent of it. The cruise ship was packed, we never missed any shows and other venues on ship. After the cruise was over, I had a dry cough for almost 2 weeks. I usually get a productive cough so this cough was different. And my spouse felt more tired than usual but we chalked it off to her stage-4 cancer and the cruise was more activity than normal.
Looking back, I am thinking it was a mild covid infection. Almost all of the crew on ship was from SE Asia and the ship was crowded.
Wife works at a nursing home. Says 35 got it and a couple died but had underlying conditions. Not bad for some back water rural town. She gets tested every week now but they didn’t start that until a few months ago so I don’t know if she ever brought it home or not. If she did and we got it, we didn’t notice. Most people out here don’t wear masks and don’t social distance. Kids have been back in school 2-3 months, no masks. No outbreaks. My sister in FL had it. She’s 64 and had loss of smell and fatigue.
My wife and I are pretty sure we got it back in February 2020. Pretty short onset with dry cough, aches and pains. We implemented our anti-viral protocol: Quercitin, tonic, zinc, colloidal silver spray. Mine was over within a week, but I did get two black toenails out of it. My wife’s lingered on for about a month, and she got a sinus infection. Her COVID test was negative, but who knows. We have kept up the anti-viral protocol since then and have been cold and flu free since then.
Had a feeling of “I’m coming down with something”. Tried sniffing a candle that I KNOW I could smell - couldn’t. Got tested, positive. Continued working from home, felt kinda crappy but not awful. Two weeks, done.
Wife has same symptoms same time, assumed she had it. Tested positive for the antibodies afterwards.
What’s lousy: got it during a family summer vacation designed to avoid it.
we didn’t even have a temp. I wonder how many other tens of millions of ppl were like us, and would not/did not know.
That would work :) Unfortunately for us, I work for FedEx and she's a teacher. We both have frequent interactions with the public.
Weird because sneezing is not on the list of symptoms; https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html
BTW: no elevated temperature, no sniffles, no other “if you have these symptoms...” issues. Just couldn’t smell and felt crummy.
LOL! Earlier in the week just before she got sick, my wife showed me her one black toenail! She asked me if I had any ideas about why it was like that.
Yeah my br in law worked the checkout at Lowes, had a lot of co-morbidities and is 78 yrs old. It was a bad trip, and even off the ventilator he’s in bad shape.
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