I had it too and was hospitalized (posted about it a few days ago). Glad you are all getting over it.

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Originally posted by Slippery Pete:
Skipped the sinus and straight to the lungs.

That is what I was surprised about. I had severe asthma as a kid and outgrew it, but to this day if I even get allergies it eventually turns into a chest infection and has to be treated. My very first night of symptoms I was already wheezing and coughing crap up. My fear was ending up in the hospital. I have recovered but I am still battling my chest and have a feeling it will take a couple of weeks to get over fully.

The moment my wife described her symptoms I started taking:

Black seed oil
Quercetin
NAC
Vitamin C
Vitamin D3
Zinc

I couldn’t find the Ivermectin.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:

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Originally posted by Slippery Pete:
Skipped the sinus and straight to the lungs.

That is what I was surprised about. I had severe asthma as a kid and outgrew it, but to this day if I even get allergies it eventually turns into a chest infection and has to be treated. My very first night of symptoms I was already wheezing and coughing crap up.

Right, I'm coming from roughly the same place. My sickness 2 years ago she brought back from Korea was exactly this and took about a month to be fully gone, after the initial week of heavy symptoms. I thought there was mold in the house for the last 2 weeks. I would only cough up a little clear stuff first thing outta bed and was fine otherwise but even that is out of character for normal sicks I've always had. I said to her and others, before Covid, "This one was weird it skipped the sinus and went straight to the lungs." Next month Covid happened so I assumed that was it. Never tested positive.

But every sick's MO, from my experience, starts like a head cold with nose, sinus, throat stuff. 2-3 days it's in the lungs if you don't beat it first. I've gotten stronger as an adult so I always fight it off. But as a teen I would smoke and stuff and that lung sick won't go away if you mess with it. You'll need antibiotics for Bronchitis.


This time, I woke up middle of the night last day of our trip and went to the bathroom, coughed and knew instantly it was coming. Lungs hurt that familiar hurt, I call it the deep lung only it was pretty severe, totally outta left field. Woke up normal, lungs didn't hurt and wasn't until halfway through the next day it came on though. Aches and coughing up green stuff. 12 hour drive with that was fun.

But that's weird stuff. Never had a sick behave that way. And from my point of view and what you are saying, that's dam dangerous. The lungs is where it can take you out. And it seems like this one jumps straight in there and accelerates to a Bronchitis like situation, which if you are weak or predisposed and stuff can spell BAD news.

Almost seems like a great idea to cull the herd aye?

"Skipped the sinuses and went straight for the lungs."

This is exactly what happened to me February of 2020. First time that had ever happened to me. Chest socked in hard and completely normal above the neck. And, a wicked cough. I didn't sleep for two days because of that cough. No fever but boy it was with me for three weeks.

Well. I got it about 2 weeks ago. Felt like a bad cold coming on. Went in and tested positive. No fever, no sweats or chills, nothing in the deep chest. A little bit of body aches. Doc believes I caught the omicron.

Did the 10 day thing and back to work. Still have a plugged up nose and shit in my throat I am hacking up but, no deep chest crap or pain or trouble breathing. I had two doses of Moderna last Jan/Feb. No booster.

Hardly hit me and my daughter, but my wife got a good dose of it. Mostly coughing a lot.

The last time I and the wife were really sick was 22 years ago when the wife was pregnant with our youngest daughter, the flu kicked our asses that year! Ever since nothing has touched us until this.
I can't smell anything for at least the past 3 years, so that isn't an issue I would notice.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Shots or no shots, everyone will get it. <snip>

I hope that you’re wrong. Two effing years of COVID-19, but so far I’ve dodged the bullet. Something I don’t need at my age.

I dodged it for 2 years, finally got it this week. My supervisor tested positive last Thursday, but I don't see him much since he's day shift and I'm nights, so I figured I was good. I got a sore throat and stuffy nose over the weekend, and Monday night at work I lost my sense of taste and smell. Got tested Tuesday and it was positive.

I was worried about getting it since I'm type 1 diabetic, but the whole thing was a joke. I never really felt sick or tired beyond the sore throat (which went away the day after I tested positive), ran and kept up my exercise routine the entire time, and got a lot of projects done around the house during my mandated "coronavacation". My blood sugar didn't even get whacky, and sense of taste and smell have already returned.

Over Christmas we went to AL and stayed in a condo with my wife's extended family. Everybody but me got sick while we were down there. Nasty cough, sinus issues, fevers, ear infections, that kind of thing. Most of them didn't get tested, but those who did (including my wife and 2 youngest boys) all tested negative. My wife and BIL are still dealing with the cough and sinus issues almost 3 weeks later. I'm pretty convinced they had it and the test was wrong, or they tested at the wrong time, but I have no way to prove it. Of the whole family, I'm the only one who tested positive, and I was less sick than any of them.

We've moved from the early "pandemic" variant which was fairly severe, we are now in the late "endemic" variant which is much less so - but much more communicable.

I note that in the OP's post 3 of 4 individuals mentioned had taken the vaccination. Of late it's now apparent the vaxx will not keep you from getting covid, despite early projections it would. This is a world wide finding now. None of the vaccinations prevent infection and the hospitals are now seeing a majority of patients with vaxx and covid. Those without are already over it.

Another finding recently published is that if you had Covid, then natural immunity has more resistance to a second infection, which follows the norm for most viral diseases. The science hasn't changed. The presentation has.

I got Covid a good 18 months after it arrived, was almost over it in ten days when I came down with pnuemonia. That was treated with the normal antibiotics which didn't require I enter a hospital. The clinic nurses were concerned that patients be fully informed before they go there. Being interned in a security ward with no visitors or any access to things like a cell phone recharge cord is disturbing to say the least.

My BIL was sent to the hospital, his wife wasn't allowed in to see him even tho she had already recovered. Again, natural immunity is being flatly ignored. His daughter is a nurse and when they were told no admittance by a doctor, she grabbed her mom, walked to the security pad, input the code and went in.

Its a flu with 99.85% survival rate. More people die of starvation annualy than die of Covid, when this is over, they will still be starving to death.

In the day when Swine Flu was making the rounds my family caught it. None of us missed a day of work - that was the standard then - even tho it was pretty bad. You just dragged yourself out of bed and got to it. At that time a vaxx was implemented but quickly recalled because of a few hundred bad reactions.

We are well past a few hundred and the vaxx is not preventing infections whatsoever, as the current variant is proving.

If this information is new to anyone, check your sources and ask why it's not being told to you. It's out there open source.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Shots or no shots, everyone will get it. <snip>

I hope that you’re wrong. Two effing years of COVID-19, but so far I’ve dodged the bullet. Something I don’t need at my age.

At this point I'm non vaccinated and have had it twice. I only know one person that has not gotten it, a customer of mine. If you haven't had it your a rare one and honestly I think they should study you to see why not. Everyone should eventually get it.

My wife and I were both cleared by our employers to go back to work this Monday. We both still have intermittent cough. No fever (which is what they are all concerned with). As long as you don't have fever, good to go back to work.

Monday morning, I got a message that my son's test result came back Positive as well. I had to leave work early and pick him up from school so he don't expose other kids. Only symptom he got is runny nose.

Seems like almost everyone will eventually get it. I just hope nothing serious that will need hospitalization.

We went through this over christmas. Dauther, son in law, his cousin, her bridesmaid, my son, my wife and me.

The only ones not infected are my 70+ year old parents who are boostered up with compromised immune systems.

Same thing we isolated with OTC. My wife and I still have a little cough. Daughter boostered to be able to go back to school, and ended up with same symptoms again.

It was not bad for us, but my daughter says she is having a worse time with the booster than with the omicron varient she had a month earlier.

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Originally posted by ador:
Seems like almost everyone will eventually get it. I just hope nothing serious that will need hospitalization.

It went through our house right before Thanksgiving. My fiancée, her mother and sister all tested positive within a couple days of each other. I caught it a few days later. Of the four of us, I'm the only one who had a vaccination (J&J back in April). I had some sneezing, a lingering cough and was a little tired. Fiancée's mother and sister were down for a couple of days. Fiancée (with no pre-existing condition that would flag her as at risk) ended up in the hospital for 4 days. That was some pretty spooky shit.

Like you, I'm of the opinion that most everyone will eventually get it. Based on our experience, who get's it bad enough they need to be hospitalized is anyone's guess. I'd like to think I had some immunity because of the shot I had in April, but I couldn't say for certain if that was true - I didn't end up in the hospital, but then neither did 2 others in our "sample" of 4.

On Monday little mark had a fever. At home COVID test came up negative. Last night my wife was up all night puking. Took the boy to urgent care for another test and he came up positive for COVID. So he’s off work for 2 weeks. Wife can return to work if she gets a negative test on Sunday. So far I have no symptoms. I started the zinc and have always taken C and D daily.

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Originally posted by mark123:
I started the zinc and have always taken C and D daily.

Consider adding Quercetin as additional prophylaxis. I take THIS ONE because I have been told that Phytosomal Quercetin is significantly more bioavailable than the regular stuff.

Good Luck!

ETA HERE is a study that supports my assertion.

3 weeks ago today I had all the symptons of a usual sinus infection,
stuffy
throat not sore, but not right
headache
tired etc,

tested negative

Friday (next day) wife used a home test on my again and I was positive,

had the chills and a 100 degree fever that night, and friday night, then gone

treated with Mucinex DM, Vit C, D and Zinc,

by Sunday I was better,
went back to work on Wednesday,

still have a dry cough, but not a bad one, and some fatique

I had the flu 3-4 yrs ago and that was honestly worse than what I just had, guessing it was Ohmycron,


I am Vaxxed, almost a year, not boosted, with Physer, (spelled wrong)

wife played nurse, never got it,
she is Vaxxed, Moderna, and had a booster a week or 2 prior,

she had a headache one day, and a light case of the sniffles for a day

My kids showed symptoms 12/25. My son slept all day the 26th and half of the 27th. Then he was fine. My daughter slept a day and was fine.

My wife started showing symptoms on the 28th. She was down for about 3 days with heavy fatigue. Had a fever for a day and a cough for a week after that.

I caught it on 12/31. I slept for 4 days. Fever for a day and a nagging cough for about 2 weeks. And still have a bit of a cough. I lost my sense of smell and taste and still don't have it back.

The fun part was that before my wife and I came down with it, we were told our kids had to have a negative test before they could go back to school. We were both going to get tested too. But for some reason they wanted a copy of our drivers license "for the records". I said nope, not doing that. And now that we've all had it, we don't need to be tested ever again, IMO. Shortly after we were told about getting the kids tested, the CDC changed the testing rules and we just ignored the whole thing and they went back to school.

When I had it, the OTC med I used was Mucinex DM. Helped significantly in keeping the mucus build-up down and loose.

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Originally posted by lyman:
3 weeks ago today I had all the symptons of a usual sinus infection,
stuffy
throat not sore, but not right
headache
tired etc,

tested negative

Friday (next day) wife used a home test on my again and I was positive,

had the chills and a 100 degree fever that night, and friday night, then gone

treated with Mucinex DM, Vit C, D and Zinc,

by Sunday I was better,
went back to work on Wednesday,

still have a dry cough, but not a bad one, and some fatique

^^^^ The above almost exactly happened to me about 3-4 weeks ago.
The only difference is that I never got tested.
I guess I could have had the omnicronicscrom or whatever.
I suppose I will never know.

Had it. Like a mild cold.
Girlfriend had it, same.
Parents who are in their 70's got it, cold/mild flu like symptoms.
When are we going to stop running out for tests and crap for every little sniffle that comes around?
Eat some chicken soup, drink lots of water, and get rest. You'll be fine.
Then get back to work!