Please no politics nor doom and gloom.

We got it in August of ‘20. Came into the house from Jr df #4.

Got it the week before Christmas. Made the holidays a blast!

January 24.
24 hours of flu symptoms. Been basically fine since. Two weeks off work to get ranch projects done.

December 14th was when the first symptoms appeared.

A few days of fatigue and that was about it. No lasting effects.

I was exposed on Wed. 12/30 and started showing symptoms late evening (~10:00 PM) Sat. 1/2. I took a dose of Extra Strength Tylenol and went to bed and when I Woke up the next morning I was DEFINITELY Sick! Had a mild fever and some typical COVID symptoms until mid-day on Tues. 1/5....30 hours total!

Everyone in our family got COVID, and it affected everyone differently. My 16YO son (patient zero in our household) seemed to just have a bad cold. He had a mild fever for a few days and fatigue, spending a gook chunk of those days in bed. He never really had a cough at all. My wife who was the last person to get it essentially got the sniffles for a few days. She did wake up one day feeling 'kinda' sick, and 'may' have had a slight fever. That's the ONLY day she took Tylenol and frankly, that was the only day she took ANY kind of medicine. Other than that she had an occasionally runny nose w/ some nasal congestion, and the sniffles.

Ultimately, it was a BIG Nothingburger in my opinion. I don't really get sick (once a year I might get a cold/virus which I'm over in a couple of days), but I've been WAY sicker than w/ COVID! I don't get the Flu Shot and never have, ever. I've only had the Flu twice that I can remember, and that was 20-25 years ago!

Mid January 2020. Mrs. Flash got it from me a few days later.

Although we're both at risk people allegedly, this was no worse than the regular flu, but different in its symptoms from anything else I've ever had before.

Had it for around 2-1/2 weeks or so and so did Mrs. Flash.

Mid January 2020 as well. 6 days in hospital, one of the first cases in CT. Assume I got it in NYC while pahhhhtying. Lasting shortness of breath and jacked up heart rate which has now returned to normal. Many follow up tests/scopes/poking/prodding since then. Had to significantly change diet and exercise regimen since. Glad to be back to normal.

MAYBE I had it.
I say maybe because it was in OCT/ NOV of 2019 before anybody had heard of it.
Wife and I went to Denver to visit my son late Sept/19 and he was dealing with what he thought was a bad chest cold/URI. Shortly after we got home in Oct my wife got sick with what seemed the same thing as son had. Then I got sick with it. Come 2020 when it was starting to be known of the symptoms seemed to closely resemble just what we had had.

Tested positive on 12/28. Pretty mild case as they go with only sinus congestion. No shortness of breath, smell/taste issues, or fatigue.

Michael

Possibly early December 2019. Not sure if it was the 'rona or the flu.

Wife and I had it in early to mid March, 2020.

Tests were in short supply at that time and reserved for people who were hospitalized. We asked to be tested, but since we were not hospitalized, the doctor said he could not test us. Wife was pretty sick, but already had oxygen and BiPap machine, so she decided not to be hospitalized, which was probably good since they didn't know what they were doing early on and would have probably killed her. My symptoms were quite minor and I didn't initially make the connection between my symptoms and COVID. I had just had kidney surgery in late February and thought my symptoms were simply post surgical effects.

I felt tired and lousy for a few days and had high fever (103.7) and awful chills for about 2 or 3 hours, followed by fatigue that ultimately lasted weeks. That was it, for me. My wife had higher fever and chills for a much longer period of time (several days) and much more difficulty breathing than she normally has. Doctors said we "checked enough boxes", especially my wife, that they were certain we had had it. We wanted to get antibody tests, but the docs said the tests available in late spring and early summer were basically BS and of no medical value, so they wouldn't sign off on antibody testing.

My wife and I got it over Thanksgiving. A headache for a couple of days, a dry cough and extremely fatigued. Loss of smell and taste for a few days too. My wife had the same symptoms as me.

Not too many non survivors reporting--- glad for that!!

I guess I had it last fall. This week my blood work came back positive for the KungFlu antibodies. The extent of my illness was a cold that lasted for 3 days. BTW, we take Vitamins C, D, zinc and quercetin daily. Some wizards claim this is effective in combating or recovering from COVID.

My daughter and her whole bunch, plus her in-laws had it too. It was nothing more then an inconvenience for a few days.

I know many struggle with it and some die. We were lucky. Our ages range from 6 to 85. My wife and I are 70.

I tested positive in December, had to see the results to know I “had” it. Pretty sure it was a real positive result as I was living in close quarters with other soldiers, some symptomatic, who also tested positive.

My wife & I had it in March 2020. She stayed on the couch for about a week (which is about normal for anytime she gets ill) & I lost my taste & smell for about a week, & was more tired than usual for about three days. We're both in risk groups but this was not a significant event for us.

Everyone at the pharmacy where I worked had something in December of last year. It lasted up to two weeks, and two folks were hospitalized. Most of us were off for at least a week. Of course, there was no covid testing then, and since there's not much sense in testing since testing itself is tainted by politics, and the CDC recently raise standards for testing due to too many false positives.

March '20

Like a minor cold for me.

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Originally posted by gjgalligan:
MAYBE I had it.
I say maybe because it was in OCT/ NOV of 2019 before anybody had heard of it.
Wife and I went to Denver to visit my son late Sept/19 and he was dealing with what he thought was a bad chest cold/URI. Shortly after we got home in Oct my wife got sick with what seemed the same thing as son had. Then I got sick with it. Come 2020 when it was starting to be known of the symptoms seemed to closely resemble just what we had had.

Same for me but Dec 2019. Deepest and worst coughs of my life. First time in my life I'd wake myself up coughing so deep no other cold/flu is even comparable. I was fucked up for a few weeks before it tapered off. Never been sick like that before. Doc had me on antibiotics and steroids. Antibiotics made it where I could cook at least but I was mostly in the bed for 2 weeks and I'm very healthy, work out an awful lot, drink a ton of water, vitamins, supplements, 220 grams of protein per day. it takes something fierce to knock me down and I down I was hard. I had headaches, chills, waking up sweating in winter and I keep the house cold, at 68-69 degrees in the winter.
Will get tested for antibodies at some point. No rush for me to go into a hospital or lab right now.

We both got it just after spending Christmas with our son, DIL and new granddaughter. Mostly over it within 10 days.