Been married 35 years. My wife has never seen me sick longer than 2 days and rarely that. Anyway January 2020 I came down with something that laid me up for three weeks. Sever cough, lower back pains, always smelling burning wood. I'm still not 100%. Still have headaches and my nose gets stooped up and runny a lot. Drove past a dead skunk the other day and I couldn't smell it. My wife said it was very strong.

January 4 I called my dermatologist to cancel an appointment because I had the sniffles and a bit of a headache. A few hours later my Dr. called me back and recommended I get tested. I went over to my HMO for the test (saliva) and got word the next day I was positive. I had pretty gnarly muscle aches for a day, which I resolved with a TENS machine. I was back in the office in ten days. Symptoms were on par with a light cold.

Tested positive Nov 21, 2020. Tested negative Dec 4, 2020. Had very mild symptoms but lost my sense of smell and taste which prompted me to get tested. Two week quarantine in the basement sucked until I realized I needed to get out and get some sunlight. I had really bad insomnia which IMO was my circadian rhythm being disrupted. Had bad headaches every day for 7 weeks following negative test. Went to emergency room at week 8 with numbness of left side of face and weakness in left hand. Thought I was having a stroke. After being diagnosed code grey and full battery of tests the Docs attributed the numbness to nerve damage from covid, not a stroke. Just started feeling normal last week.

Twice. Once in December 2019 before it was officially here. Had most of the symptoms except for the smell/taste thing. Was very sick, almost hospital sick, and had aftereffects for months.

Caught it a second time December 13, 2020, with confirmed test this time. Two weeks acute sickness, 4 weeks serious aftereffects. Now under treatment for cardiac complications; high BP, accelerated heart rate (resting rate is 150 or so), edema in legs, etc. X-ray confirms that I have no lung damage, and echocardiogram with contrast shows heart as otherwise normal. Cardiologist says I have a "looping" electrical signal that is causing an arrhythmia.

The good news is, now that my lungs are clear and BP is under control, I feel normal. Just need to resolve the extant heart issue, and I should be fully recovered.

I am staying in until a large number of the population are inoculated. From my experience, natural immunity is 6 to 10 months and I don't want to risk another round of this.

Mrs. SigFan and I are both just now getting over it.

She started showing symptoms 8 JAN, I started on 14 JAN. My case was mild (mild throat irritation, mild sinus congestion) except for complete loss of smell & taste, which has not yet returned. My wife had it a little worse, with a bad cough and COVID-related pneumonia (still), but not hospitalized thank God. We both have been unusually fatigued and easily tired/winded with just a little activity. We are improving each day, thank God. Been taking multivitamins, Tylenol, Mucinex DM Max, and Airborne, and lots of water. She was also prescribed an inhaler and a strong antibiotic.

I started showing symptoms about 6 days after she did. According to AZDHS, we were no longer contagious after 10 days following symptom onset, and we’re both several days past that. Of course, with the pneumonia, she had to take an extra week. She’s planning on going back to work Monday (she’s been home isolating since 11 JAN), and I’m going back Thursday (I’ve been been teleworking since 11 JAN).

She knows, or knows of, several coworkers or relatives of coworkers who have died from this virus. We’ve been pretty careful since this whole thing started, and we will continue to be careful — if not more so now.

We’re going to get the vaccine when available to us also.

My symptoms started 1/20, dignosed with pneumonia and tested for covid on 1/24, positive result came back on 1/27. Have had reall bad symptoms and my wife has it now too.

Right now I’m in a hospital bed because my o2 level was in the low 80’ this afternoon.

I’d like to sue Obama and all those associated for funding the wuhan weapons lab. Dirty rotten SOB’s.

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Originally posted by Pistolria:
Got it the week before Christmas. Made the holidays a blast!

Likewise

Wife and I did our regular blood donation at the Red Cross on 1/15/2021. They test for the COVID Anti-Bodies. We both came back positive for the Anti-Bodies.

Around New Years we both felt like we had colds, but not much else. Don't know who we were exposed to, if we were actually exposed.

Pretty sure I had it in Jan last year. I work for a large computer manufacturer in Round Rock (that rhymes with “Bell”) and we had people from China in the lab right up until Xmas. First week of Jan I was sick as a dog. Fever, headache, nasty fatigue. Tested negative for for all flu strains. Two really miserable weeks in bed.

Of course at that point, we had no idea what was coming.

Haven’t been tests for the antibodies yet. But I’d put money on it.

Pretty sure I got it in Jan 2020 before it was really reported. Went home on a Thursday, woke up Friday morning feeling like crap and slept pretty much straight through Sunday morning. Had chills and muscle aches, then general weariness for about 2 weeks. I lost my sense of taste for about a week.

I had it in October. Got it from my 7-year-old grandson, but no one has any idea where he picked it up.

Luckily, I had a pretty mild case. Except for the muscle ache, it was not much more than a cold.

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Originally posted by wreckdiver:
Not too many non survivors reporting--- glad for that!!

Me, too. Zombies aren't my thing.

flashguy

Early December. No symptoms. Wife had symptoms and a positive test so I begrudgingly got tested. Got a couple weeks off work for free.

Not really sure but I had something in February 2020. Not the worst thing I've ever had but I'd put it in the top 3. Chest congestion for three solid weeks. Knocked the crap out of me for about 3 days with a wicked cough. Had to spend two nights in my son's room so I wouldn't keep the wife awake. Strange thing was absolutely no sinus or head congestion with this which is a first. And, no fever. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that was it.

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Originally posted by wreckdiver:
Not too many non survivors reporting--- glad for that!!

Me, too. Zombies aren't my thing.

flashguy

Plus they’re hard to understand, what with all of the oral ooze and group dancing....it’s a thriller though.

About December 1st of 2019, two days after visiting my Cardiologist in a Professional Building physically attached to a hospital I came down with all the classic symptoms of Covid. I had shortness of breath also with constant coughing. At first treated it with a Z-Pack and steroids my emergency kit at home prescribed by my Cardiologist.

About two days into this I went to a local urgent care, hospital affiliated. They said Bronchitis again, had that twice earlier in 2019. It was different I told them, fever,chills, hard to catch my breath, spent the whole previous day in bed. This time no chest x-rays, no bloodwork, just liquids, bed rest, see ya later, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Three days later, still feeling like s*** at three in the morning I went to the ER in town, my left eye was infected, could not open it. Diagnosis was viral, probably connected to my Bronchitis", again no blood work, no chest x-rays despite trying to hack up a lung in the ER, just antibiotics in both eyes until cleared up.

Had the cough until into February. Had antibody bloodwork done in September, it came back negative. And I had a flu shot actually three months before that November visit and never had eye infections from the flu, heard that some Covid patients also had those infections.

Go figure. Did I have it, did I have a variant, was there enough time pass for the antibodies to fade, did I have a bad test?

I’m almost certain I got the Wu-flu back in early November, 2019. I went on a 2 week work detail in Indio Ca and came down with an extremely rapidly evolving flu-like respiratory illness that clearly wasn’t flu. I’m considering giving blood just to determine if I’ve got the antibodies. With the high transmissibility of this bug, I’ll bet a huge percentage of the population has already had it.

I’m not sure when exactly, but it had to have been between August 19th and October 13th. I donate blood and platelets to the Red Cross pretty regularly and had tested negative for COVID antibodies up until my October 13th donation. In that span I had a 2 day period where I felt like I had some minor sinus congestion but other than that, I can’t think of any other periods where I felt like I could have been sick. I’m in my early 40s and relatively healthy so maybe that’s why.

Just after July 4th. I got a call from VDH saying one of my associates had been in contact with someone with COVID. I put him on quarantine to wait for results. Ten minutes later I got a call from the same operator. He didn’t realize we had just spoke. I quarantined while waiting for results. Mine came back positive. My chest still hurts at times from it.

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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.

I had the lack of taste/ smell and a low grade fever in January for about a week. Have since remained negative even though I work around people that are COVID positive.