Honestly, I thought I was probably immune at this point.I mean sure, I got the first vaccine back and the first booster in 2021 but after that nothing. Managed to avoid getting after my wife and son went through it. I remember finishing his half eaten apple the day before he tested positive!
Well finally happened, holy shit no joke. First day I was basically in the fetal position with a 40° fever in full sweatsuit and blanket just writhing. Didn’t sleep much for like 30 hours. Things felt a lot better day 2 until the blocked nose and everything starting tasting super bland. Most surprising almost no cough for me.
It’s now day 3 and I feel almost fully recovered, I assume 1 or 2 more days and I’ll be fine. Sort of relieved to get it over with but really don’t want to go through that again. Just in case there are others out there like me 3.5 years COVID free, we are probably more lucky than immune.
Anyway, don’t know why I posted this other than the fact I’m starved for attention after isolating for 3 days in my room.
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We didn’t get it until the beginning of the year and it laid the household low. The younger people recovered more quickly than us middle-aged ones did. I think it was about two weeks before I really had my energy back.
It only took one person to take their mask off to eat indoors one time to get us all sick and he was really pissed at himself. 😐 We still mask because we have elderly parents, cancer patients, and a transplant patient in the family, and really don’t want to infect them.
Glad you’re feeling better!
We were pretty careful as well, and I didn’t get it until last year. I went to visit a friend, and she was sick when I arrived, passed it on to me. Her symptoms were mild, mine were fucking insane. I got an eyelid infection during it, and I was freaking out thinking it was eye herpies, lol.
I think the most shocking thing to me was how exhausted I felt afterwards. It took a good month after I was negative to feel like I wasn’t out of breath just walking to the kitchen or bathroom, but luckily I recovered quickly and had no other side effects.
Damn, sounds like you got a serious case. I finally got it on December 23rd 2022. Excellent timing. I was sleeping 19-20h the first day and had a very, very mild fever (like .5 degrees outside of the normal spectrum), had minor headaches the next morning, and that afternoon I was already feeling like 95%. Company policy was to stay at home until you test negative, so I had 5 days of paid holidays.
When my wife got it the week after, she said she felt like she was dying. Full body aches, high fever, skull-splitting headaches, the full program. She literally stayed in bed for 5 days, and I had to carry her to the toilet.
I have a similar story. My partner and I had gotten sick right after thanksgiving. Something that one of her family members had. We tested negative for everything, but we felt absolutely fucking awful. What started as a minor sinus infection quickly spread to our throats and chests, and the coughing kept us awake every night.
After the first week, we went to the local doc-in-the-box urgent care. He officially diagnosed us with “The Gunk.” He assumed it was viral, so there wasn’t much to do besides wait for it to go away on its own.
My partner can’t take decongestants due to some other medicine interactions, and the pharmacies were all backordered anyways. They told us it’d probably be a one month wait before we could fill my prescription. Gee, that’s helpful. So we settled in for what we hoped was the downward curve. Turns out, it wasn’t. We were sick for another two weeks, so three weeks total.
By this time, it’s nearly Christmas. I had been gone from work for too long, but the office was planning on taking a break between Christmas and New Years. So I go back into the office to hurriedly play catch-up before the Christmas break. I briefly spoke with my coworker at the coffee maker, but besides that it was just me at my desk.
She went home halfway through the day, because she started feeling sick. She tested positive for COVID. She was literally the only person (besides my partner) I had spoken to in the past two weeks. Three days later, (just in time for Christmas) I tested positive. I spent the entire Christmas/New Years break holed up in my room, isolating from everyone (including my partner!)
Merry fucking Christmas to me. I go back to work for one day and catch it, after having been COVID-free for the two years prior.
For what it’s worth, The Gunk was way worse than COVID. COVID just gave me some mild chills and body aches. The Gunk was a fucking nightmare, but COVID was practically a (very lonely) Christmas break.
It’s now day 3 and I feel almost fully recovered, I assume 1 or 2 more days and I’ll be fine.
Heh. Heh. Heh.
Okay–I hope you’re right. I really do. It’d be nice if you got out of the woods that quickly!
Me? I get this really weird version of it, where it’s relatively mild compared to how I experience regular colds and at some point when I have it, I THINK I’m better…but if I exercise or do anything that would’ve been fine with a non-COVID common cold that was giving me the same symptoms…the COVID comes roaring back.
It’s this 4-6 week thing where collectively the symptoms are generally milder than a common cold for me…but last on, and on, and on, and on, and on…and on. Far, far longer than a common cold does. And they get worse/come back if I dare to do any sort of normal everyday thing, like take a short bike ride. It basically tricks me into thinking I’m better, when I’m not. (I also get it every few months, even with booster vaccinations.)
Anyway. My point is–take it easy. Even if you feel good, don’t immediately jump back into things at full pace. That’s how it gets me every time, and anecdotally, I’ve heard it does that to other people to.
I think you got Long Covid. Don’t overdo it or you could end up in bed permanently. I think the medical community is finally coming around to the idea that it’s just another way to get ME/CFS.
I made a community on [email protected] but it’s pretty empty. Most of those guys decided to stay on Reddit. Can’t really fault a community of people too tired to do much of anything to not move over to a new platform.
I thought it was Long Covid too at first, but what happens to me doesn’t seem to fully align with what happens to others that clearly have Long Covid. I don’t have brain fog or lack of energy once I’m better, or any of the other common ailments.
It’s more that when I do get Covid it just…lingers, at a mild level. I basically start with the dry cough and loss of appetite, and have that for a week or two, then the fever/aches/caffeine intolerance develops (the fever being spiky rather than sustained), and sometimes gastro stuff, and those all bounce about like popcorn in a popcorn maker with brief periods of feeling totally ok while still dry coughing, then those go away while the dry cough remains for another few weeks. It’s like I have this long dry cough intro/outro each time I get Covid. Whereas with a common cold, it’s here and gone in 1-1.5 weeks with a clear, fast ramp-up and ramp-down and sharper, more-obvious symptoms.
With Covid, in between cases–when the dry cough has finally ceased–I’m back to normal. Totally fine. Then six or seven months later I pick Covid up again. As far as I’m aware, that’s not the pattern for Long Covid. (Although I could be wrong…I gave up researching it a while back when it was clear I probably wasn’t going to get the really bad effects others got.)
I did that DNA test with 23andMe, and Ancestry, and I have some markers that make me resistant to certain other common viruses, so I half-wonder if they also have some mitigating effect with Covid that’s yet-undiscovered. I’ve never lost my sense of smell or taste with Covid, for example, and I was sick in early 2020 when the severe versions were still running around.
Long Covid is an umbrella term anyways. CFS is just the most common one. And even that can be very mild.
I think I actually very mild CFS before I got Covid. It kinda sounds like what you describe. I’d get cold-like symptoms very often. Reliably after exercising too much. But I didn’t have brainfog or anything else. That just came after Covid.
Are you me? Just going through the exact same lol.
So far I’m still COVID free! I’m shocked actually because I am a nurse. I’m sure my time is coming though.
How often are you tested? It’s absurdly unlikely to not have had it at this point, especially working with patients every day.
I’d say it averages out to weekly it’s been a bit longer between lately. My wife said I’m a anomaly because I’ve never had a mosquito bite, I’m not allergic to poison ivy or poison oak. I got vaccinated very early. If I had it I never had a single symptom. 🤷♂️
I never got Covid. Maybe I had it asymptomatically.
I think that is the case for the vast majority of people who think they didn’t have it. Especially since no one does routine tests anymore.
Feeling better ar day 3?? I was in misery for over 18 days straight.
People keep leaving out the important bit. Vaxxed or not vaxxed?
Both you and OP. From what I’ve heard, the 1-3 day experience is for vaxxed people and the 18 days is for unvaxxed.
(Some people got Covid well before a vaccine was available. We don’t have to assume that being unvaxxed was a choice.)
OP got the vaccine and booster in 2021.
If this is their first exposure (shockingly unlikely, unless they’re something of a hermit) then their immunity may have waned somewhat since then.
The second or third time I had COVID I only found out I had it because of work, I was working on a clinical trial with cystic fibrosis patients so we were getting tested daily before we went on site. This was maybe 6 weeks after my third vaccine. I tested positive but at no point did I display any symptoms whatsoever, not even a cough or a fever of any kind. Had I not been doing regular testing for work I would have had no idea I’d had it.
I had it only once, before vaccines were available. Terrible experience. But I’m kind of an hermit.
Watch yourself. I had it twice and a 4 month depression followed both times…
Got earlier this year. Shit was rough. First 7 days were miserable, never got sick this bad, then started getting better. But the cough lasted for almost a month. Not lasting effects though, thankfully.
Good luck and hang in there. I got it for the first time in January from a friend that swore she only had allergies. Drinking water felt like I was swallowing shards of glass. The fatigue hit me like a truck and I could do nothing but lie down for 2 days. Shit sucked.
I haven’t had COVID because I’m a recluse who never leaves the house. Though I’m also lucky my nurse spouse hasn’t had it and brought it home.
Still dodging somehow. If I can’t get it after kissing the hell out of my gf who tested positive 8 hours later, to sitting in a car with my kid for 2 hours who tested positive 3 hours later (both events were within 12 hours) I’m not sure I will.
I did feel odd a couple days later for a few hours, but I think it was all in my head.
