It’s day 5. Just feels like a bad sinus infection. Stuffy head. Lungs seem fine, any coughing I’m doing is definitely from post nasal drip. Foggy and tired. Sometimes with a headache.
This Paxlovid stuff makes your mouth taste bitter so I’m sitting around being crabby about this bad taste. I’d like to be sucking on candy all day but I’m sure my sugar is high so I’m avoiding it.
I held out until today. Headache and a bit of a cough. 39Celcius but falling. The test said positive though.
My wife’s school went back this year without masks. It’s now three weeks into the term and the first wave of teachers are coming down with Covid. My wife hasn’t tested positive yet but she’s testing multiple times a week and this morning the principal recommended that the teachers go back to wearing masks.
She’s held out until now, but she can’t see getting through the semester without catching it.
Yeah, mine felt like a bad sinus infection, too. I was “down” with it for a little over a week, but the worst part of it was having DoorDash (or similar services) stop at the drugstore on the way with my food.
Did you read the NPR article this month about super dodgers? They mentioned 2 things I found interesting. One being that they know that there are two other illneses that some people never get or never have any symptoms of: HIV and the norovirus, so they wondered if it might be true of covid too. And two being that they therorize an HLA mutation might keep some people from getting symptomatically sick.
The reason I find these interesting is I’m probably one of the people who is immune to the norovirus. I can’t say for sure, but I’m 45 and I’ve never gotten a stomach bug. That’s astronomically good luck if I’m not immune.
And it’s not just me, my brother is 39 and also has never caught a bug that causes vomiting or diarrhea, either. And while our parents say they did once a few months before I was born, what they described could have been food poisoning because everyone who went to the same party “caught a stomach bug” the next day. They all ate the same food, of course.
The part about HLA interests me because I was written a heartfelt letter by the bone marrow registry a few years back begging me to make a lifelong commitment to being a potential donor (which I thought was the deal going in but apparently you can change your mind before age 60 after all). Why? Because I have an HLA profile that is so rare I’ll probably never match, but if I am a match there are very high odds that I’ll be that person’s only match.
Anyway, I wonder if some people in this thread will never catch it due to genetics rather than vigilance or keeping current on shots.
Me, too. But my evidence is different. I’ve had mild stomach bugs. But I’ve twice been to events with a norovirus outbreak where i stuck my hands into the same cookie jars and jelly bean bowls as everyone else, and i didn’t get sick. Once, i felt slightly under the weather. The other time i commented to my husband that i had smelly gas. And that was it.
In contrast, i catch every respiratory bug I’m exposed to. And it takes me longer to recover than most people. That’s why I’m afraid of covid.
Sadly, I feel like covid is the only non-flu respiratory illness I’ve ever completely avoided, and while I only catch a cold every two to three years I nearly always get bronchitis after what’s an average cold for most everyone else. The last time I caught the flu it progressed to mild pneumonia. It was the last year I didn’t get a flu shot too.
Damn, I have been alright since Monday evening, but today, Friday, I’m suddenly tired, have a headache and diarrhoea. According to the Danish health authorities I can come out of quarantine four days after my positive test if I have no serious symptoms. That is tomorrow if I don’t develop worse symptoms. I hope…
The family got it back in January while I was away for an extended business trip (daughter first, then wife, then son). I add three extra days on the end of the trip for other reasons (funeral of a friend’s father), so I missed out on that one.
I will fully admit that while I am vaxxed and x2 boosted, I haven’t been particularly careful even though I have followed any rules given - i.e., when masks are required, I wear one without complaint. If it’s not, I don’t - unless I know I will be in close contact with someone vulnerable.
June 14 I woke up feeling like I had a bad cold. Fever started that afternoon. Tested negative. Next morning, felt worse, waited until the evening and the test lit up like a Christmas tree (the 2nd line appeared within 5-10 seconds of the swab being inserted). Felt bad for 3 days with varying degrees of fever, then felt exhausted for 2 more. Stayed home for 10 days following initial positive per CDC guidelines, then back to the routine.
Sinus/cold thing going through the family (starting with me) last week and this week, but no fevers and all tests have been negative.
I made it until this early August, which is what, over two years? True, I am fully vaccinated/boostered, but it’s also true that I work inside of a Petri Dish known as an elementary school. LOL
Still haven’t, and I ride the bus almost every day.
I talked to someone who has 4 little kids, and both she and her husband work outside the home, and she says her family is dealing with a respiratory bug now too, complete with fevers. They’re super vigilant about covid* and have all taken several tests and everyone is negative. There’s definitely something else going 'round!
This time of year is when I usually get sick with some sort of nasal/sinus/ear thing, which is why I wasn’t quick to assume I had covid. But I’m glad I had these home tests to make sure!
I just tested negative fwiw. Still a little stuffy and still quite tired but I made it through. I think the tiredness is from elevated bloodsugar, which happens when a diabetic gets a virus.
*Makes me wonder how they managed to get sick in the first place with the viligance, but with 4 kids in school…yeah.
I saw one of my coworkers for the first time this week at lunch. She’s got a cold, and her 6 and 10-year-old kids have it too. They’ve all also tested negative for covid throughout the week.
I wonder if you might be maintaining high antibody levels due to near constant exposure.
Last spring, I had the 2 moderna shots. I always wear a mask on bus, I don’t know. It would be great to have antibodies to disease.
We held out until now. We’re on vacation on the Oregon coast and Heather has Covid. She’s immunocompromised and got paxlovid. I’m still negative but we have a 14 hour drive home. Got my booster 2 tuesdays ago so wish me luck!
My wife and I almost feel like we are doing something wrong, but not having gotten it yet.
I caught it last week. I must have caught it at the airport in Greece as they had us all packed in a tight space for 30 minutes waiting to get on the plane. I started getting a sore throat on Tuesday, I thought it was normal sore throat from the dry air. Wednesday night I was feeling a bit tired but thought it was just jet lag. Thursday I was tired enough to take off work and tested positive. Friday I was really tired and slept half the day. By Saturday I was good.
I did end up giving it to two people though before I knew I was even sick.
My wife and I held out until this last Wednesday or so. We’re both four-times vaxxed and I got the new bivalent vax alongside the flu vax a couple of weeks ago. (Wife was scheduled to get it.)
She’s been going into the office three times weekly and I’ve gone in by train a few times a month. We’ve gone to movies and eaten in restaurants. We got married in October 2021 with full reception. We honeymooned in Napa and vacationed a week in NYC. We held out through all that. We tour a couple of neighboring purple states (WI, MI) for a week, mostly by car, and we get covid. 
My wife had a fever, chills, etc. I had a touch of chills (which prompted me to retest after testing negative Thursday) but no fever. I got Paxlovid, she didn’t.
50s US
Never afaik.
I’ve been extremely careful since I have hypertension (and anxiety lol). I even got sick a few months ago what what seemed like a cold so of course assumed it was covid. I must have taken 8 tests and then a PCR, all negative though