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?
It felt like a bad cold, but not as bad as typical influenza. I take a lot of vitamins, especially D, so that probably blunted the effect. My wife had it before I did and had big head and body aches for a few days, but nothing more. I didn't develop symptoms until almost two weeks after she did, so I question how much person-to-person spread there really is. I've always suspected contaminated surfaces are the more likely source for most infections.
I can see where an overweight, out-of-shape diabetic might have real problems with COVID - so those people should lock themselves down and government should leave the rest of us alone..
I have a friend whose husband got covid, when
she got tested her results came back negative.
However, she did have a slight temperature and
a headache, so we told her she probably had it.
Forgot to ask her if she tested before she started
having symptoms. My nephew got covid, his wife
had a sore throat, her test came back inconclusive.
For Christmas we had a group of about 14, 2 had
already had covid...The day after we got together,
one of the individuals started having a headache,
by the Monday, she went to get tested and tested
positive for covid...The rest of the family did not
get sick, except for the person who lives with her.
I have another relative who had visitors over the night
before he started getting sick, for him, it started
with a sore throat in the morning when he woke up..
None of his visitors got sick.
I know of people who got sick with covid but initially
did not think it was covid, so they went about their
normal business...I think it’s the ones who start feeling
sick yet go about their normal routine who are more likely
to spread covid, not so much the people who have yet to have symptoms.
My family had it in July....my wife had it in January we think
Her symptoms were worse
Flu like
Very tired
Loss of taste and smell
Difficulty breathing
Tiredness was worse
It lasted two full weeks but she never tested positive for flu after two tests
My boys had same but varying severity...from nothing to moderate
My son in law same but slightly more severe
At biz associate same...but fairly mild
Lasted one week for him....got better when I dosed him chloroquine and z pak and zinc liquid....putrid stuff
My elderly aunt and uncle in Texas had it and ...85 and 86....she was ok ...he was very sick....for 3-4 weeks but got all the meds including what I sent and he lived
My 96 year old uncle in Mississippi died from it
As did my 94 year old mother in law
Alone...it was medieval and I blame media and stupid pussy ass medical people
Last week I met with a lady whose husband had been on chemo for lymphoma and got it and died in short order even after being given every known treatment
Alone....on zoom...semi conscious...in July
Again the ignorance and depravity of that infuriates me
Me...I’m not sure...i never caught it from my wife and had a some serious congestion and weird feelings when my kids were sick but I don’t know...i was tested in the hospital three weeks ago and was neg
The loss of taste is the tell tale symptom it seems
I think false negatives are common
You both have it. Depending on which area in the body gets more covid is where the symptoms will show up. All those symptoms are covid.
I tested negative On day 6 after exposure. On day 13, actually the evening after day 13, I came down with the 103 fever and severe body pains. I tested + the next day. It isn’t fun. I’m fine 4 months later, no long lasting effects
You ay have tested negative if you has the raid test. We have been advised by a medical professional in the family that the rapid test produces a high rate of false negatives for the UK and SA Covid variants.
Wife and I both had it. It was nothing.
I had to 2 - 4 hour stints of pains and chills on two subsequent days, no fever no other symptoms. Symptoms were easily dealt with with ibuprofen.
Wife had a very slight fever for a few days and a weird cough that would be one cough maybe every 10 minutes or so. She had no aches or pains
For both of us it was far less than a cold and we are fine now that was the end of January and early March.
We are both 75 and she is the picture of health. I had open heart surgery 12 years ago I’m a little bit overweight but have good blood pressure and no other issues. I walk 3 miles regularly and I’m pretty and I am in pretty good shape.
We are grateful for the grace of God that made it nothing for us
My brother-in-law in Tennessee tested positive, got the result on the 21st, a Saturday, online. He’s 68 (69 on Mar. 22), he’s insulin dependent diabetic and has high BP. He hadn’t felt good for a week or week and a half prior, headaches and fatigue. On Wednesday, the 18th, he went for a scheduled epidural pain shot around 6 a.m.. (can’t recall what the pain shot was for, possibly an ailing hip and he was to have surgery for it too.) Thought it was odd that no one asked him if he was feeling okay. By Friday he was super fatigued, was going to take my sister to a dentist appt. but he was too tired to do it, one of their sons took her instead.
By Saturday, the 21st, he was really out of it, called his doctor who then called an ambulance for him. Once at the ER, his blood sugar was 500 and his oxygen level was in the 70’s. He was touch and go for a while, put on 7 liters of oxygen I think it was. In days that followed he was very belligerent, in a total fog or haze, didn’t know where he was, kept ripping out his IV, unresponsive to questions asked. Around Christmas he was given vapotherm, to push more oxygen than regular oxygen therapy. Because of his belligerence, he was sedated and treated for alcohol withdrawal symptoms, not sure he was really in withdrawal, not a full blown alkie but perhaps a daily drinker of sorts. He was also moved to ICU once given the vapotherm. By Christmas he was no longer on any sedation medication and he was given remdizivir, plasma and steroids. He was still in a fog throughout the first month.
After his hospital stay he spent 2 or 3 weeks in a rehab. He was weak, lost 20 lbs. Came home January 27th.
Somehow my 66 yr. old sister (67 tomorrow) didn’t catch it from him. She has pretty bad COPD. But she tested positive last week, possibly caught it from her cleaning lady who had it. Guessing the cleaning lady didn’t know she had it when she was there and she had been visiting her father in Florida who had it. My sister, thankfully, only felt like she had a head cold and then lost her sense of taste and smell. She tested her sense of smell by smelling some clorox, one of her sons’s suggestions, and she smelled nothing. My sister is totally fine, no fever, no other symptoms. Her and her husband live separate lives in their house, separate bedrooms, they don’t eat supper together, don’t watch tv together, 43 yrs. of married bliss, lol. I think that may have helped her not to catch it from him. Her blood type is 0+ and his is B or B+..think her blood type saved her, too.
Ours varied. Hubs, who has muscular dystrophy, had nearly unbearable muscle aches, cough, chest congestion and hoarseness.
I lost my sense of smell, taste and appetite for several days, had some muscle aches and fatigue that drug on for 2 or 3 weeks. With no smell or taste, the kids were giving me flaming hot Dorito’s, which I normally can’t eat ... ate one and told them it was like plain cornmeal.
DS2 is still at home ... he lost his sense of smell for a couple of days then was fine.
Had it last spring. Tightness in the chest, a dry persistent cough, and a loss of smell and taste. Didn’t even know I had it. I’m 66 and otherwise healthy.
Not certain I’ve had the wuhan. I may have had a flight related cold from flying jan/feb 2020. ( I flew 11 flights jan to march)
No nauseated stage, no diarrhea, and I haven’t had a real sense of smell in years, so I’m not certain.
Starting in October I’ve been tested every 2-4weeks, PCR and haven’t tested positive though I’m flying and traveling amongst the world masses.
Perhaps I’m immune from having had it, though never identified.
Or I’ve just never caught it with all the traveling I’ve done in the last year and half.
I had it early on in this brought in with a group of Chinese students that study in my area. I felt bad for a week, slept it off, and felt fine. It ran through the area fast and all the doctors said it was a “new flu strain” they hadn’t seen before. This was before the hype when no one really knew much about it aside from reports out of China and Italy.
Family with eight positive tests over three households. Daughter 1 had it right before thanksgiving. So, all gathering was cancelled because of her positive test. Very tired and achey. No altered taste but low fever. Passed it on to my wife, second daughter and myself. I (mid 50s) “had a cold” for a few days and then had two days of migraine-like headache and slept a lot. Believe I slept through a fever as was quite sweaty after a long nap. My windpipe would burn if I yawned or took a big breath and had altered taste (somewhat metallic). A week later I was running without the windpipe issue. Wife lost taste/smell for a couple of weeks and was tired for a day. Had several days of unpredictable bowels. Other daughter was very tired, moderate fever and had a sore throat. We remember H1N1 as hitting us harder.
Wife’s parents (both 78) had no contact with us until we were out of quarantine but picked it up somewhere else in meantime. Neither had taste issues. She “had a cold” for two weeks. He was very tired, moderate fever and had some chest tightness. He got a steroid shot and an R infusion on a Saturday was and by Monday was right as rain. Aunt (94) in a care home tested positive and had no unusual symptoms (she sleeps a lot normally).
I personally know dozens of people who have tested positive. However, only a few older than 70 or with serious health conditions. Most have had slight to moderate symptoms. Two have had more trouble. One is a late fifties woman whose diabetes is difficult to manage. She had trouble breathing, was hospitalized for a couple of days and had supplemental oxygen for a week. The other was a late forties man with asthma (a bit overweight and not active enough) who had lots of congestion, was completely wiped out for a couple of days plus high fever and sought the ER after having difficulty breathing. He had developed pneumonia and that added a week to his recovery.
Thanks for posting this excellent thread: It demonstrates not only the unusual spread of symptoms in terms of severity, but the (I almost hate to use the word) exceptional diversity of symptom types. Instead of a general “run” of symptoms and complications, with a few outliers, it seems as though once one gets past those with very mild symptoms (admittedly a large portion of those infected), then the symptoms are all over the place.
At the time, I was commuting daily into Manhattan via Metro North and then frequently I was on the subway visiting clients. If you remember, NYC was one of the hardest hit areas early on.
I had a few days of chills, fever, nausea and didn't have much of an appetite. In fact, I think food was mostly tasteless at the time. I shook it off in just a few days and quickly got back to normal. Have not been sick since. Never got tested (tests were hard to get in those days anyway).
Since then, I've had a normal existence. I still travel a lot, still go into the city, still ride mass transit, go to a lot of restaurants and try to walk a few miles a day outside though with recent winter weather, I've done it less. Only mask when I absolutely have to such as going into stores or other places of business.
Hope to get exercise back on track with coming spring weather next week.
I think the shutdowns and the mandatory masking are utter nonsense and have done great and unnecessary harm to our economy and small businesses. People who are afraid are the ones that should just stay home for the remainder of their lives. Let the rest of us live our lives.