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Post by Taildragger on Jan 31, 2024 15:12:16 GMT -5
Started feeling kinda crappy last Saturday: dry cough, mild fever, headache, congestion (no discolored mucus that would indicate sinus infection) spacey, etc.. I assumed that the flu shot I had gotten had failed to target whatever strain I'd picked up. Took a home COVID test on Monday and it came back positive.
2023 was the first year I failed to get the then-current version of the vaccine. My doctor says that my previous vaccinations are probably why my symptoms are relatively mild. Rest hydration and Tylenol are my strategy. So far, there is no deep, respiratory involvement, but I'm glad I did get a pneumonia vaccine a couple months ago in the event that that should change. Pneumonia is, after all, a major cause of death among people of my demographic.
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Post by reverendrob on Jan 31, 2024 15:37:30 GMT -5
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 31, 2024 15:46:56 GMT -5
Alice: such a bedside manner has he...
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Post by Leftee on Jan 31, 2024 15:57:07 GMT -5
🙏
Hope you feel better soon.
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Post by Ragtop on Feb 1, 2024 4:01:27 GMT -5
It got us the first week in January, despite being fully vaxxed.
Bad stuff. I had three days there where I considered taking myself to the hospital. A cough that had me on my hands and knees.
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Post by bluzcat on Feb 1, 2024 5:55:09 GMT -5
My turn was the week before Christmas, my wife and son around New Year’s…Hope you feel better quickly!
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Post by oldnjplayer on Feb 1, 2024 7:30:27 GMT -5
both my wife and I got it in January. She tested positive first with mild symptoms, raging headache cough fatigue. Her doctor told her to rest etc no Paxlovid. A week later I tested positive with no real symptoms. As per my Oncologist, I called asap and started the Paxlovid. I had minimal side effects from the Pax, and no real symptoms of COVID. Very lucky..... six days later My wife and I were both Negative. I feel fine, she still has fatigue and nagging cough. We think the Paxlovid made the difference.I did retest 10 days later to make sure there was no "rebound" COVID like some on Paxlovid had reported. we were both vaxed. Because of my Leukemia my vaccinations only seemed to work the last two times I got them though I have been getting them since the beginning. It seems this strain while milder is much more contagious. What new world we live in.... Hope you feel better,.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 1, 2024 10:52:41 GMT -5
I had my first Covid test (ever) Monday of last week. It was negative.
I feel like an ended my streak for nothing. 😂
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 1, 2024 10:55:43 GMT -5
The first two days were the worst, mainly because I couldn't get any sleep on account of the headache, coughing and congestion. When I was younger, I generally only got 4 or 5 hours of sleep per night, mostly because I worked odd hours, pretty much opposite to what the rest of the family was doing. I functioned fine on that regimen then, but as I've gotten older I don't do well on short sleep. Now that I'm feeling a bit better, this sitting around the house doing very little is starting t'drive me nuts since I'm normally pretty physically active. But that sure beats laying in an oxygen tent in the ICU, so quit whining, dude! Glad I seem to be slowly coming out of it because now the wife seems to be coming down with it: it would've sucked if we'd both been flat on our backs at the same time. Hope her symptoms don't wind up being any worse than my own. It's encouraging to hear that you guys ran the gauntlet of this current strain seemingly without suffering long-term, negative effects, despite however miserable you might have felt briefly.
Thanks for the well wishes: appreciated.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 1, 2024 11:55:41 GMT -5
I absolutely hate that “coughing, can’t sleep” scenario.
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Post by Larry Madsen on Feb 1, 2024 12:07:05 GMT -5
Best wishes on a quick recovery.
I’m on a turn around from one as well. Feeling fine now, but still clearing my lungs of residual.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Feb 2, 2024 8:47:02 GMT -5
I had a relatively mild thing during my trip to Florida the other week. Sinuses, coughing up a bit of the green meanies, body aches, etc. I stopped at a CVS and bought a covid test just to rule it out before coming in contact with people, negative. I got over it pretty quick, usually once I get to that stage I'm in for the long haul. But the other day I donated blood and it was the first time I did a double red blood cell donation. The tech, while masked, was clearly sick with the sniffles and he hovered quite a bit. I'm hoping whatever he had was what I just got over and didn't donate his own strain of funk.
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 2, 2024 13:08:29 GMT -5
Now feeling much better and testing negative. Still not back to my normal, "baseline" energy levels, but that'll come.
Wife is following the same progression of symptoms that I just went through. She's about 3-4 days behind me.
I'm just happy that this has been a pretty mild case for both of us (knock on wood) because it's been the first time either of us has had it (so we had no idea what to expect).
Glad we didn't catch an earlier strain during one of the previous years (my impression is that those were far more virulent) and that neither of us has any underling, chronic comorbidities to complicate matters.
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Post by reverendrob on Feb 2, 2024 14:38:20 GMT -5
Now feeling much better and testing negative. Still not back to my normal, "baseline" energy levels, but that'll come. Wife is following the same progression of symptoms that I just went through. She's about 3-4 days behind me. I'm just happy that this has been a pretty mild case for both of us (knock on wood) because it's been the first time either of us has had it (so we had no idea what to expect). Glad we didn't catch an earlier strain during one of the previous years (my impression is that those were far more virulent) and that neither of us has any underling, chronic comorbidities to complicate matters. Be sure to send Alice a thank you card for providing moral support. |
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 2, 2024 15:29:35 GMT -5
Be sure to send Alice a thank you card for providing moral support. But isn't school out for summer? |
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Post by langford on Feb 2, 2024 15:45:44 GMT -5
Glad your feeling better, TD. I've been lucky so far. I'm one of the last remaining "Covid virgins" in my neck of the woods. We'll see how long that lasts.
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Post by reverendrob on Feb 2, 2024 17:15:48 GMT -5
Be sure to send Alice a thank you card for providing moral support. But isn't school out for summer? Gratefulness has no season in the nightmare. |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Feb 2, 2024 17:35:05 GMT -5
My wife and I got the thing on Christmas day 2021. The most disturbing thing for me was the prolonged loss of taste and smell. That's been our one and only so far. 2 months later we both got something else that didn't test positive but kicked our butts real good. The last of our kin to get it was my wife's sister and her husband. She is slim and very fit, he well, not so much. He was deathly afraid of getting it and both took all precautions. His was like a mild cold and hers knocked her out for weeks.
I don't think I know anyone who's still the rona virgin. Several have had it multiple times. I still think whatever my wife and I got shortly before it's emergence could've possibly have been, based on symptoms. But we both tested negative for antibodies early on.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 2, 2024 17:56:23 GMT -5
Glad your feeling better, TD. I've been lucky so far. I'm one of the last remaining "Covid virgins" in my neck of the woods. We'll see how long that lasts. I'm a COVID virgin as well. Aside from my wife, I don't know any one else, around here, that is.
Does this make me desirable?
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 2, 2024 17:57:01 GMT -5
The last of our kin to get it was my wife's sister and her husband. She is slim and very fit, he well, not so much. He was deathly afraid of getting it and both took all precautions. His was like a mild cold and hers knocked her out for weeks. There ya go: that's why we were apprehensive about how it might develop. I'm much more physically fit than the wife, but how this disease affects people seems to vary more than just according to how "in shape" an individual is. Really seems to hit some people harder than others and there doesn't seem to be any way to predict how it will go til it actually gets you. |
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Post by langford on Feb 3, 2024 15:30:52 GMT -5
Glad your feeling better, TD. I've been lucky so far. I'm one of the last remaining "Covid virgins" in my neck of the woods. We'll see how long that lasts. I'm a COVID virgin as well. Aside from my wife, I don't know any one else, around here, that is.
Does this make me desirable?
It's doing diddly for me. I don't seem to be able to get anything these days. |
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Post by rickyguitar on Feb 3, 2024 15:52:49 GMT -5
We both may have had in in December 2019, before it became a thing (we have always been trend setters). We were just very sick, then a couple months later the story broke. Symptoms matched. We have been EXTREMELY careful since as she is immuno compromised. Still mask, don't go out etc.
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Post by bluzcat on Feb 3, 2024 16:13:59 GMT -5
I did the Paxlovid, had a weird aftertaste (which is a common side effect). It went away after I got off the medication. I coughed for another month, so not sure it did a lot.
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Feb 3, 2024 18:40:18 GMT -5
PaXLovid Mouth is what my Dr called it, a nasty metallic fungus like taste that was horrible for me. Worse than Biaxin mouth, if you have ever had that joy.
Did go away once meds were finished, but for me it helped since I have like 5 underlying conditions.
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Post by ninworks on Feb 5, 2024 7:19:32 GMT -5
AFAIK I haven't had it yet. My wife has twice but neither of hers were serious. I have had three sinus infections/bronchitis since 2020 that I thought could have been COVID but tested negative every time. I took the first round of vaccines but haven't since. I suppose it would be a good idea to get the updated ones. Last week I got my annual flu shot as well as a tetanus. As much mechanical stuff as I do I'm always getting cut or scratched so it was time to update my tetanus vaccine. I was way overdue.
I keep all the dog's vaccinations current but I'm not so good about doing that with mine. I suppose I should do an investigation and see what others I should get updated.
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 6, 2024 12:04:35 GMT -5
Finally starting to feel more "normal" today in terms of energy levels, etc...
My poor wife got hit a lot harder by this than I did, but she has finally "turned the corner" this morning as well. She was really miserable over the weekend.
Fortunately, neither one of us had this crap get down into our lungs and we'd both gotten the senior pneumonia vaccine a couple months ago, which took a bit of worry out of it in that regard. Also, no secondary sinus infection for either of us. That used to be a common problem for me back when our kids were little and would bring flu home from school.
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Post by reverendrob on Feb 6, 2024 12:22:32 GMT -5
Finally starting to feel more "normal" today in terms of energy levels, etc... My poor wife got hit a lot harder by this than I did, but she has finally "turned the corner" this morning as well. She was really miserable over the weekend. Fortunately, neither one of us had this crap get down into our lungs and we'd both gotten the senior pneumonia vaccine a couple months ago, which took a bit of worry out of it. Also, no secondary sinus infection for either of us. That used to be a common problem for me back when our kids were little and would bring flu home from school. Yea, I got it once going to a concert (worth it!) a couple years back, it was as mild sinus cold that lingered for about half a week. Tested positive, as did housemate who went to the show with me, both of us....in all the risk groups, and....we were nonplussed. I get that it's worse for a lot of folks, but....I'm using the prevention method my doc laughed at (before he moved to avoid a ...requirement in the state) - "I don't lick anyone I wouldn't normally lick." |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Feb 6, 2024 14:00:43 GMT -5
Well....not "it", but "something". Last night we went out for Sushi and both had their hot and sour soup, which we love. Near the end of the bowl I had something stick in my throat, probably a piece of hot pepper. All evening long I felt my throat irritated and thought it was from the soup. By late evening it was unmistakable. Today my throats on fire, inner ears itch, body aches. Dang it.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 6, 2024 14:02:49 GMT -5
I have a cough and sore throat right now. Ears are bothering me a little, as well.
It’s been a brutal flu season.
And we just did a family round of norovirus. For about half it was the double dragon.
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