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.
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.
While I have not had it my sister and one daughter had tested positive. After speaking with them they both said it was like the flu but more severe. Neither said they felt their lives were in danger.
Mine started out with a barely noticeable tickle in my throat on the 3rd morning after I got exposed (Thursday evening to Sunday morning). Went to church with mask on, got instant tested that afternoon. Had a moderate fever 3 nights running, each one broke middle of the night. Had a little chest congestion with cough - treated with OTC cough syrup.
No other symptoms - none! Wasn’t tired, no lower-GI distress, never lost sense of smell or taste, didn’t get achy or fatigued.
No one I was around after getting exposed (except those knuckleheads who made me sick all got it and were worse off than me). Not my girlfriend, not my adult son who I helped move house with friends, nobody at church.
Oh, and I’m 66 years old.
Mrs. JimRed and I both had the virus back in November and recovered. We are in our 70s and have other medical issues. I had the symptoms first, cold-like discomfort and a slight fever (never exceeded 101) on a Saturday afternoon. I emailed a warning to the guys I’d played b-ball with that morning and went on line to schedule a COVID test for both of us. We were able to be tested on Tuesday and the results came back on Thursday, both positive.
By then she was running a fever worse than mine (which was gone by Thursday) and peaked at 104. We were not prescribed any medication, only advised to treat it like a bad cold or the flu, with rest, fluids and Tylenol or aspirin. Her fever subsided by the weekend, but we both felt crappy for several more days.
We both lacked appetite and neglected to eat on a couple of days until I scheduled myself to make meals even if not hungry. The lingering effect we have is a diminishing of taste and smell, though not a total loss.
Our Jewish sister-in-law sent over a half gallon of chicken soup; I’m sure that was the cure!
I pray that you folks will come through it as well as or better than we did.
My daughter works in a hospital emergency room, and since she loves me, she gave all of us the ChiCom Flu the last week in January Last Year before it was a Political Fashion Statement.
Her and her husband had a mild flu for a week or so, their kids barely a sniffle and it didn’t slow em down a bit. I had a Weak Cold for a few days and just felt a little off, My Wife was Sick as a dog for 2 weeks.
Male, 59. I’m pretty sure I had it about a month ago. I woke up with a sore throat and then pretty quickly got a huge headache, congestion and extreme fatigue. I had a slight loss of taste and smell. Here’s the treatment that worked for me:
It was a nice sunny day, so I moved our couch close to our big picture window. I turned up the heat, and I spent the day lying on the couch in the sun. I only wore shorts so my skin would absorb as much vitamin D as possible. I sucked on zinc lozenges all day. I made sure that I perspired a lot. I drank lots of hot fluids and urinated frequently. 24 hours later, all of my symptoms were gone.
Persistent dry unproductive cough. Loss of smell and taste, fever,fatigue etc. She thought it was a cold or minor flu and commented about the strange loss of smell AND taste. It self resolved although pertussis like symptoms persisted for around 3 additional weeks and she had to use steroidal inhalants to resolve.
I followed around 10-12 days after the onset of her symptoms although it was just 5-6 days of a what seemed like the start of a cold then I shook it off. All this was long before Covid was a thing in the news. In retrospect I believe we had it and would test positive for antibodies.
No one was testing for it at the time because “covid” wasn't a thing yet. I believe I have partial natural immunity as in previous times when my wife got something I followed with similar symptoms and duration.
Tested positive on Ash Wednesday and admitted to hospital with respiratory problems on Thursday (which I never have) and still here. It turned into pneumonia in both lungs and on a high flow respirator. Was at 100% oxygen till a few days ago and now slowly but surely getting better.
My brother died from it this past Tuesday. He first caught it in mid-December and was on a ventilator starting in January.
Our neighbors, a couple around 70, had same experience as you and your wife, except both tested positive.