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My COVID Experience (for those who like to compare notes or
Dec 7, 2022, 3:47 PM
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...hear what they might expect.)
This is just MY experience, but it seems to me that bouts with COVID are showing a little more similar symptoms now than in the early days. Whether it is because of the number of people vaccinated or the variants, I have no idea.
I had the double Pfizer vax, the second vaccination later, and (at the time) too boosters. For the most part, I was acting sensibly, but by August I let my guard down. I had three straight days (Thurs-Fri-Sat) of a lot of public interaction, including a train trip to NYC, unmasked subway riding, and a concert - I figure it was that. I also assume, given the timing, it was the new 'summer' variants, resistant to the latest boosters. I knew a bunch of people who were first infected around the same time.
Anyway, on Monday I knew things were off and strongly suspected. I self-tested positive. Went to a clinic for a more professional test and they called me the next day with a positive result. Called my doc who gave me a Paxlovid ###### and said "start it if you feel worse." The first two days were something between bad cold and the worst flu ever. I was achy on Wednesday so started the Pax.
(No issues with smell or taste, btw.) The Paxlovid made my mouth taste like metal, but it otherwise seemed to halt the worsening of the symptoms. Very achy, very fatigued, completely out of it. So it went for about two-and-a-half weeks. Conditions gradually improved but, all-in-all, it was two weeks of feeling pretty awful. No appetite.
But at that point I started feeling well enough to work again. But the lingering symptoms were a challenge for a couple of months. Mainly the fatigue. Probably after a month or so, I was back to being able to physically do anything I was used to doing. Activity was not a problem. But the day after a hard day of work I would be wiped out. Earlier during this period, I would do something easy like walk the dog and come home and need a nap (for maybe the first month). But later it was more about everything making me feel it the next day.
Brain fog is real! And it paralleled the fatigue. Early on (first month) I didn't concentrate well. The funny thing is that my time waster is Sudoku on the phone. The puzzles which usually take five minutes would stump me completely. I knew something was amiss! But after a month I was better - I could think and concentrate just fine. But what I noticed was that when I was personally operating on autopilot - say driving to the supermarket - my brain would just check out. I would totally be "where am I?" Not so much, where am I standing but where is my conscious brain, because it seems to have wandered off. It was a really strange process.
But as I went through a couple of months, both of these symptoms became less frequent. Into mid-November I would often wake up and think to myself, "geez, I didn't realize how off I still felt yesterday."
Prior to Thanksgiving things really improved, and I haven't had fatigue or brain fog in recent weeks. I felt like I finally beat this.
In November a bell went off and make me think of what COVID had reminded me of. I'd had Lyme disease maybe twenty years ago. You take a month long drug treatment for that and the only thing that makes you feel worse than Doxycycline is the Lyme! So each day you are on the drugs you feel incrementally better but you don't feel really healthy until you are done with the treatment. With COVID it wasn't the treatment, but it was just that long period of only getting a little bit better each day.
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Glad you are getting back to 100%. Each person is different.
Dec 7, 2022, 4:16 PM
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I got Covid in May 2022 _ just very tired and “dry” cold like symptoms for about a week and then about a week of fatigue. Overall pretty mild symptoms. I guess I was fortunate. I got second booster about a month ago. My life activities have been normal for about the last 18 months or so.
Everyone is different and should many their health and risk accordingly.
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Re: Glad you are getting back to 100%. Each person is different.
Dec 7, 2022, 4:33 PM
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Glad you are doing well, too.
I finally got my third booster. For a while it was, "wait two months so you get the benefit of your own antibodies" so you get the longest benefit from the booster. But then a newer study suggested that it was better to wait three to five so that the antibodies in your body don't kill off what's in the booster. I split the difference - my highly scientific approach! lol
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Ya need to post pigs of your GF’s teddies
Dec 7, 2022, 5:16 PM
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If ya want sympathies here….no BF teddies allowed
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Re: Ya need to post pigs of your GF’s teddies
Dec 7, 2022, 5:26 PM
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LOL - not looking for any sympathy. Only discovered the COVID board on here today. Read a couple of questions on there and it seemed like a helpful post to make.
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Re: My COVID Experience (for those who like to compare notes or
Dec 7, 2022, 9:17 PM
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first time, lasted 3 weeks, got me pretty good, hands and face turned blue, thought i would die, ran my sugar up high, needed insulin to get it back down, found some new items in my lungs
second time, 3 days headache
third time, lasted 7 days, only one day (couple hours) fever, chills
today, lungs are fine, sugar is normal
not sure about the brain fog, mine started when i turned 40
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Re: My COVID Experience (for those who like to compare notes or
Dec 8, 2022, 1:28 PM
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Glad you are back to normal!
I'm glad you mentioned this, because it reminded me of something else I noticed. COVID really messed with my metabolism. I felt like I didn't eat anything for ten days. I drank water. Probably a lot of chicken soup. Just didn't feel like eating. And somehow I gained weight. Even since I have had to be really careful!
I confess to having occasionally used the brain fog excuse when it has been convenient!
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Re: My COVID Experience (for those who like to compare notes or
Dec 8, 2022, 4:06 PM
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My wife and I both had Covid exactly 2 years ago this week. Both felt like the worst flu ever for about a week. Then the next week or so we felt tired but ok. By about the 3rd week we were about good as new. Have not had a second round of infection. The only lingering effect I have is I can’t smell to this day. Sometimes that’s kind of nice. ( public restrooms lol). I do have one more really weird thing. My taste is totally fine except I don’t taste hot spices much anymore. Weird. We are both unvaccinated and honestly have not taken any precautions the past 2 years since we “recovered”. I know that’s not for everybody but it’s just our choice.
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Re: My COVID Experience (for those who like to compare notes or
Dec 9, 2022, 9:48 AM
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Interesting smell/taste stuff. Glad y'all otherwise bounced back quickly.
The COVID didn't impact mine at all, but the Paxlovid sure did, while I was on it!
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Re: My COVID Experience (for those who like to compare notes or
Dec 9, 2022, 9:52 AM
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Just a really weird virus in how it was so different for everybody.
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