After avoiding it for over 3 years, the lovely wife Morticia and I both tested positive today.

Mild symptoms, cough, scratchy throat, fever (101.4) headaches, body aches and general malaise.

My doctor said, as long as the symptoms stay mild, We should just wait it out. Paxlovid, he says, has too many side effects and actually prolongs your symptoms. He is an infectious disease specialist, and chief of medicine at the hospital we use, so he is knowlegeable.

What experience have you had if you contracted this virus? I would like to know what to expect.

 

Mine lasted 7 days after testing positive. Here's a day-by-day breakdown of what I had (because I took notes):

1. Day 1: Sore throat, runny nose, mild headache, stiff joints, sensitive skin
2. Day 2: constant medium headache, stiff, achy joints, fluctuating body temperature (or perception of it), exhaustion, occasional cough, runny nose (more so than prior day)
3. Day 3: stiff/achy joints, sore muscles, faint persistent headache, sore throat, occasional harsh cough, runny nose, exhaustion, "sore" eyes, cloudy head
4. Day 4: sore muscles, stiff back, congestion, cough, normal temperatures but feel like I'm overheating, about 75% reduction in capability to smell, about 50% reduction in capability to taste (could still smell and taste garlic, but it was...wrong somehow)
5. Day 5: Tired, a little sore, similar to day 1 with congestion, no headaches, cloudy head
6. Day 6: Tired, congestion, occasional cough
7. Day 7: same, negative test, smell partially back

It took almost another 3-4 days before my senses fully returned.

Hope this helps, and hope you both recover quickly!

 

Refuah shalayma, @BobTPH, to you and your wife. And a rapid recovery as well.

 

May your misery be short lived and get well quickly.

For reasons unknown to me neither my wife or I have experienced COVID. Just about everyone I know has been nailed by COVID. My sister who followed all the rules including booster shots has developed COVID three times. It's like she is a COVID magnet. Typical symptoms from family and friends range from loss of taste and smell to miserable flu like symptoms only more miserable in some than others. There seems to be no rhyme or reason. Heck my sister not only had all her shots but she lives a pretty clean lifestyle. I haven't a clue why my wife and I have been spared to date. My sister's last go around included pink eye which apparently some people develop with COVID. While most people I know, in general, have exhibited the usual symptoms of loss of smell and taste some exceptions are like my sister with the pink eye. That was only on her third bout with the pink eye.

When my son developed COVID his senses of smell and taste took weeks to return while some people had those senses restored in a day or overnight. It's like some people get some symptoms and others have different symptoms. Some miserable for a few days and others a week. I can't find a common denominator in all of it. Again wishing you and your wife a quick recovery and light symptoms.

He is an infectious disease specialist, and chief of medicine at the hospital we use, so he is knowledgeable.

I would heed any and all advice from him.

Ron

 

May your misery be short lived and get well quickly.

For reasons unknown to me neither my wife or I have experienced COVID. Just about everyone I know has been nailed by COVID. My sister who followed all the rules including booster shots has developed COVID three times. It's like she is a COVID magnet. Typical symptoms from family and friends range from loss of taste and smell to miserable flu like symptoms only more miserable in some than others. There seems to be no rhyme or reason. Heck my sister not only had all her shots but she lives a pretty clean lifestyle. I haven't a clue why my wife and I have been spared to date. My sister's last go around included pink eye which apparently some people develop with COVID. While most people I know, in general, have exhibited the usual symptoms of loss of smell and taste some exceptions are like my sister with the pink eye. That was only on her third bout with the pink eye.

When my son developed COVID his senses of smell and taste took weeks to return while some people had those senses restored in a day or overnight. It's like some people get some symptoms and others have different symptoms. Some miserable for a few days and others a week. I can't find a common denominator in all of it. Again wishing you and your wife a quick recovery and light symptoms.


I would heed any and all advice from him.

Ron

Not a drop of COVID here.

I'm thinking those military vaccines from the 70's is the root of the protection.
Cholera, influenza, measles, meningitis, plague, poliovirus, smallpox, tetanus-diphtheria, typhus, yellow fever, various Soviet germ warfare agents, the list goes on and on.

 

Hope the two of you get well quickly. People's response to COVID is all over the map. Not only does it depend on which specific variant of COVID it is, but also on their particular state of overall health and their particular immune system response to it.

My wife and I have been lucky and, to the best of our knowledge, have not gotten it. This is in spite of our daughter popping positive a year or so ago. She was definitely sick, but no more than one expects from a typical cold, probably less, and bounced back pretty quick.

We have a couple of friends that have been fighting with ongoing issues following COVID infections, but most people we know that have had COVID have recovered completely. The severity of their infections has ranged from mild (including only knowing they have it because of popping positive on multiple tests) to being hospitalized. It really is all over the place.

Aside: Our daughter loves school and hates to miss it and hates remote learning. She got contact-traced and had to stay out of school for two weeks and do remote learning. Just as the two weeks was up, she got contact traced again and had to spend another two weeks doing remote learning. She was not a happy camper. Then, just as that two weeks was up, cases at the school spiked and they sent the entire school into remote learning. I expected her to come unglued, but bless her black little heart, she was downright giddy because now everyone else got to share in her frustrations.

 

I’ve had COVID three times. The first time my symptoms lasted about as long as you. But it was just like a severe flu. I had no loss of smell or taste symptoms. I had received three courses of the vaccine at the time. I’ve currently received five shots.
But the second and third times, I only had severe fatigue. And it completely ran its course in 3-4 days. A common cold was more bothersome.

 

Thanks to everyone who has replied. Sounds like the experience is all over the place, which is what I thought already. I’ll just watch our symptoms, and do what I am doing as long as it doesn’t take a turn for the worse. I am through my first two days now, and at this point I feel better than yesterday at this time, so I guess that is encouraging.

 

Last summer the entire family was vacationing in France. I think everyone got it with symptoms ranging from a scratchy throat and mild cough to general malaise. Others tested positive. I did not test because I didn't want to know. I was the one with the scratchy throat and a mild cough that lasted for about three days.

 

After avoiding it for over 3 years, the lovely wife Morticia and I both tested positive today.

Mild symptoms, cough, scratchy throat, fever (101.4) headaches, body aches and general malaise.

My doctor said, as long as the symptoms stay mild, We should just wait it out. Paxlovid, he says, has too many side effects and actually prolongs your symptoms. He is an infectious disease specialist, and chief of medicine at the hospital we use, so he is knowlegeable.

What experience have you had if you contracted this virus? I would like to know what to expect.

I wish you a speedy recovery (but I cannot comment as I have never caught it)

 

I haven't had any type of illness since around ~1985-ish,
that's when I started studying-up on Nutrition/Vitamins/Minerals,
and the extremely significant factor of "Stress-Management".

I'm 65 now, and I'm much more healthy than I was at 20-years old.

I won't go further into exactly how all this works because I'd likely be
banned from the Forum for being some kind of "Wacko-Conspiracy-Theorist".
Oh-well ........
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I am sorry to hear that you and your wife got Covid.
My wife and I followed the rules (masks, vaccine shots and social distancing) and did not get Covid.
But all anti-maskers, anti-vaxers and party-goers that we know got Covid.

 

'cept fer me !!!
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I haven't had any type of illness since around ~1985-ish,
that's when I started studying-up on Nutrition/Vitamins/Minerals,
and the extremely significant factor of "Stress-Management".

I'm 65 now, and I'm much more healthy than I was at 20-years old.

I won't go further into exactly how all this works because I'd likely be
banned from the Forum for being some kind of "Wacko-Conspiracy-Theorist".
Oh-well ........
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There is ample evidence that the most important factor is one's lifestyle. This includes diet, exercise, sleep, stress management.
There is nothing wacko about it.

 

Most healthy people have normal weight. My dog and I are old, active and frequently hungry.

 

'cept for me !!!
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Many people were asymptomatic with Covid. You might have had it and simply not known. Whether it is genetics or your lifestyle, no one can tell for sure.

 

Many people were asymptomatic with Covid. You might have had it and simply not known. Whether it is genetics or your lifestyle, no one can tell for sure.

If you had it and didn't know it, did you really have it?

Only your hairdresser knows for sure.
https://apnews.com/article/pandemic...siness-labor-fb1d9a9eb24857efbe4611344311ae78
The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted

An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents 10% of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has so far disbursed in COVID relief aid.

That number is certain to grow as investigators dig deeper into thousands of potential schemes.

 

And we did not have it either until we did. Our last booster was about 9 months ago, so possibly a booster after 6 months could have saved us.

We take ballroom dance lessons and attend a dance party every Friday evening. I can’t think of any other activity that one does in public that would be more conducive to transmission than spending 3 minutes with multiple partners with the head about 1 foot away from another person and holding one or both of their hands.

Edited to add: practically everyone we know contracted it during the Omicron wave.

 

"" Many people were asymptomatic with Covid.
You might have had it and simply not known.
Whether it is genetics or your lifestyle, no one can tell for sure. ""

It's extremely easy to make a fool out of almost anyone,
but virtually impossible to get them to admit that they have been fooled.


A healthy Immune-System can take care of almost anything, before it becomes a problem.

You (everyone) has been lied to for your entire Life,
start getting used to the fact that You have been duped on at least hundreds, if not thousands, of subjects.

You won't be aware of any of the following facts if You get your information from the "Propaganda-Box".
Google is part of the Propaganda-problem, NEVER use it,
use "Duck-Duck-Go" Search-Engine instead, and even then,
completely ignore the entire first page of results, maybe even the second page.
Always question the validity of everything on Wikipedia.

Completely ignore any source that labels any other source with a derogatory name,
or spreads derogatory gossip about other sources.
You wouldn't believe how much garbage and noise this simple rule will eliminate.
Name-Callers are ALWAYS LYING,
and some even believe their own lies, or they are terribly mis-informed, and drank the Kool-Aid.

Most people are in terrible Health, all the time, and have no clue about it.
They think it's "normal" to get sick .........
It's definitely NOT normal to get sick.

Viruses can not be transferred from person to person though the Air.
But Germs most certainly can be transferred from person to person through the Air.

Everyone has millions of various Viruses, ( and Germs ), ALL THE TIME,
many of them can "kill" You, given the right conditions.
And most of them remain "asymptomatic" for your entire Life.

Covid is nothing more than the common "Flu" with
a new scary name and a continuous barrage of "Fear-Porn" thrown into the mix.

Nobody officially "died from the Flu" during the Covid scare event.
Doctors were paid serious Money, PER PATIENT, to fill-out the "Cause-of-Death" as "Covid-Related",
whether it actually was or not.

The supposed, ( and extremely dangerous ), "vaccines",
and the supposed Covid-19-Virus it's self,
( nothing but the next yearly edition of the synthetic "Flu" Virus ),
as well as the proposed testing procedures,
were all PATENTED IN 2014 !!!
You can't Patent anything that occurs in Nature.
And, You especially can't Patent anything supposedly "Natural" that doesn't exist yet.
The Patent-Office has been thoroughly corrupt from it's inception,
and attempted to "Classify" the Patents.

So, does that mean it's a "Bio-Weapon" from China ????,
No,
it's a completely made-up narrative which created a deadly panic,
similar to the "War of the Worlds" Radio-Broadcast by Orson Welles in 1938,
and which ushered-in drastic new Laws,
permanently eroded all manner of Personal-Freedoms,
destroyed Thousands of small businesses,
made the Multi-National-Big-Pharma conglomerates multi-Billions of Dollars,
and kept people in a constant state of fear,
( which makes them really easy to control and manipulate ).

Masks were much worse for health than no-Mask at all.
Masks also created a substantial increase in Crime.

It's very difficult, or even impossible, for normal, good people to
imagine the thought process of an insane person.
Insanity is contagious,
and a person usually has no idea that they've caught some form of it,
or are actively participating in it somehow.
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LowQCab, I guess you never got the 10(?) vaccinations that allowed kids to attend school, therefore you never went to school.
How many millions of antivaxxers were killed by the flu and by Covid?