Do you have Covid right now?

BlastIt wrote:

CuriousGeorge2065 wrote:

Seems like everyone has Covid right now. Do you? And if so, please share:

- Date when you had your first symptom

- What were the early symptoms

- Worst part about it

- How long it has lasted

- Are you vaccinated? Boosted?

Anything else you care to share.

Currently Covid positive:

1. Saturday

2. Back stiffness. The rest has felt like typical cold/sinus infection.

3. Feeling better today

4. No vax

I honestly didn’t think it was Covid until I noticed the back stiffness. I’ve heard a few people mention back pain and stiffness with their Covid recently. I’ve had to take ibuprofen a couple of times, but other than that I haven’t been too uncomfortable.

Hadn't heard about the back stiffness. Maybe I have it. Neighbors have it currently and we had been hanging out with them a little before. I've had sniffles and back stiffness but nothing else and have been running through it so just assumed it was not. Who knows.

sniffles wrote:

BlastIt wrote:

Well they have natural immunity so why does it matter if they’re vaccinated?

Natural immunity . . . there is no such thing with covid, just like the flu. You can only get temporary anti-body protection by being infected with covid. Meaning, temporary infection-induced immunity, not natural immunity.

https://news.yahoo.com/experts-seeking-natural-immunity-covid-045900115.htmlhttps://www.dw.com/en/omicron-is-natural-immunity-better-than-a-vaccine/a-60425426

Specific antibody protection fades over time whether one has vaccinated immunity or natural immunity. What remains is b-cell and t-cell memory (which tends to prevent severe infection in both the vaccinated and the previously infected). If there is no natural immunity in your opinion, then there is no vaccinated immunity either (look at all the vaccinated individuals catching omicron right now). It's debatable whether or not one is superior to the other, but most of the statistics I have seen suggest natural immunity is more robust, likely because natural infection has many more protein markers than the handful that are included in the shots.

sniffles wrote:

[quote]BlastIt wrote:

Well they have natural immunity so why does it matter if they’re vaccinated?

Natural immunity . . . there is no such thing with covid, just like the flu.

Of course there is natural immunity.

Just like the flu.

It may not -- or may -- work on future variants.

The affect on smell and taste is funky. I threw out a bottle of barbeque sauce the other day because I thought it had gone bad (really acrid odor / taste when I ate some barbeque the other night). Fast forward to tonight, I was making some coleslaw and the same impact hit my olfactories when I added apple cider vinegar. I asked my wife and kids to smell it / taste it and to them it was fine. To me it was somewhere between smelling salts and eating moldy bread. I hope this symptom doesn't stick around too long.

Fully vaxed COVID Positive wrote:

The affect on smell and taste is funky. I threw out a bottle of barbeque sauce the other day because I thought it had gone bad (really acrid odor / taste when I ate some barbeque the other night). Fast forward to tonight, I was making some coleslaw and the same impact hit my olfactories when I added apple cider vinegar. I asked my wife and kids to smell it / taste it and to them it was fine. To me it was somewhere between smelling salts and eating moldy bread. I hope this symptom doesn't stick around too long.

The loss of smell is Delta. Omicron doesn't result in loss of smell or taste.

sniffles wrote:

BlastIt wrote:

Well they have natural immunity so why does it matter if they’re vaccinated?

Natural immunity . . . there is no such thing with covid, just like the flu. You can only get temporary anti-body protection by being infected with covid. Meaning, temporary infection-induced immunity, not natural immunity.

https://news.yahoo.com/experts-seeking-natural-immunity-covid-045900115.htmlhttps://www.dw.com/en/omicron-is-natural-immunity-better-than-a-vaccine/a-60425426

Your garbage links are laughable:

"Kimberlin said doctors are seeing numerous cases of long-term effects of COVID involving breathing, heart inflammation and brain function, complications that do not come with the vaccines."

This is an outright lie, as proven by tens of thousands of VAERS reports. The rest of the article is drivel as well.

As for the other link, the strongest evidence is the Israeli study, which shows natural immunity as stronger than vaccines.

Massive FAIL for Pharma narrative. Massive WIN for healthy human immunes systems, unsullied by experimental drug injections.

CuriousGeorge2065 wrote:

Seems like everyone has Covid right now. Do you?

Nope. Live right in the heart of NYC, commute on the subway every day. Don't have it now (just tested negative yesterday), and have never had it.

Masked, vaxxed, boosted. Highly motivated by memory of the good friends and fellow employees I lost during this terrible epidemic.

Also, I try not to be an idiot, though that's working against my natural inclination.

Day 5 currently. Although I probably had very mild systems for a few days before but they weren't consistent. Had a slightly "phlegmy" chest on and off for 3 days but just about noticeable and not enough to worry about doing an easy 10k on Friday and a park run on Saturday where it felt a lot harder than it should considering I wasn't going flat out.

Anyway Sun/Mon felt like a cold but Monday evening I started to get the fever, aches, excessive coughing and that I just feel rubbish feeling. Hardly slept and was wrecked all day Tuesday. Positive test confirmed.

Tuesday night was the worst so far. Lucid dreams aches, fever, chills more coughing just absolutely wrecked. Wierd thing was I started to feel pain in places I had injured previously.

Fever broke Wednesday and then the sore throat and congestion started. Also wierd stomach cramps, blocked ears, very high resting heart rate, general illness feelings continued.

It's Friday night and no real change although it comes in waves where I can feel better for a bit but then go backwards, probably once the pain killers where off.

One of the worst sore throats I've ever had for the last 3 days. It's Painful to eat and even talk sometimes. Been smashing the ibuprofen and paracetamol. The worst bit is having a blocked nose then having to breathe through your mouth which makes the sore throat worse. Can't get any quality sleep cause of this.

As for family, kids are fine. 8yr old had a fever for like 3 hours one night and no other symptons. 10yr old has a persistent cough that disappeared after about 4 days. Wife is a few days behind and feels sht but nowhere near as many symptons as me. Body aches and fatigue mainly.

As far as how this compares to other illnesses I'll rate it just behind the flu which I had in 2014 and kicked my ass for 3 weeks before developing pneumonia. This does feel a little different with a much wider range of symptons. I felt like flu attacked my lungs while while has attacked everything. Flu was a monster though. The back pain was ridiculous.

Worst I've been though is when I had a wisdom tooth out and the gum got infected the exposed nerve and infection which travelled down my neck giving me lockjaw. Was horrifically painful. Spent 4 days going to hospital to get that infection clear but that pain was next level.

Not keen for a vaccine debate, bored of it, but as people are sharing, I'm double vaxxed, wife triple, each kid has had 1 jab.

Thanks for sharing your experience. There are lots of reports that covid hits, fades, and then hits hard around day 7. The lesson to be learned is that if you get covid, take it easy for at least a week. A hard run trashes your immune system for about 24 hours. The immune system doesn't need that extra stress while it's fighting covid so take it easy for a week or so. Had you avoided running, you might be well by now.

Second, the sore throat was AWFUL with Omicron. Try taking DayQuil and pseudoephedrine in the daytime and pseudoephedrine and NyQuil at night. It stops the sinus drainage that is causing the sore throat. I know it sounds a bit like a wuss to complain about a sore throat, but the sore throat with Omicron is really BAD... as in hard to swallow, hard to breathe, hard to even lay down to try to sleep.

My 8 year old daughter got it from school the other week, seems like everyone in her class has had it at this point. She had a headache and sore throat. Seems to still have a bit of shortness of breath. Home kit came up positive very quickly, took her and myself to PCR testing, she was positive, I wasn't. PCR results took over 5 days to get back, by that point her quarantine was over and back in school.

I had a massive headache for a few days, have a sore throat and some shortness of breath. Been running on the treadmill because it's uber cold or icy where I am for the last month, heart rate seems fine but lately been cutting runs a bit short (5-6mi instead of 7-8). I'm vaccinated but not boosted.

Yes I have it. I'm non-vaxxed.

First felt symptoms Monday night. Tuesday sore throat. Wednesday got a small fever. Thursday felt pretty good and was back to exercising and today I feel pretty normal.

I got the first round of covid November of 2020. This covid was very, very mild. I got the common cold back in October and that was worse than this omicron version. I agree with many others where it seems everyone around me is/has gotten it very recently. Many people aren't slowing down or quarantining and I see no issue with that. This thing is so minor and being vaccinated doesn't really matter.

I think I have it. I'm a teacher at something like 25% of students are away. I also had a child miss school while sick and I stayed home with them. Early this morning I started to feel a sore throat, which got worse today. We'll see how it pans out.

-1/18, few days after kids got it at school (they are fine)

-Bad sore throat. Tested negative at first, re-tested 2 days later after things worsened, then positive.

-Probably the fever, chills, and sweating through my pajamas within 2 hours. Started wearing running clothes to bed. Highly recommend. Also have horrible splitting headaches and nosebleeds, no appetite, some cough/congestion.

-Going on day 6

-2 Moderna finished less than 4 months ago. I’m pretty pissed at my vaccine. Mainly because I know of several unvaccinated people (at my age / similar fitness level) who felt a little off for a day or two and then were fine. Meanwhile I’m over here unable to sleep or eat, spewing blood out my nose, completely miserable, despite having done my civic duty or whatever. If one more person says to me “at least you have the vaccine! You’ll be fine!” I will want to punch them in the face. The real MVP here is NyQuil and Afrin.

Yeah, the sore throat is not to be scoffed at. It is BAD! I used NyQuil/DayQuil, pseudoephedrine, and povidone-iodine nose drops.

Probably not.

Just had it. Unvaxxed. Slept for a day, still ran, but lungs burned. Coughed for 2-3 days. No headache or fever. Lethargy was the predominant trait.

CuriousGeorge2065 wrote:

Seems like everyone has Covid right now. Do you? And if so, please share:

- Date when you had your first symptom

- What were the early symptoms

- Worst part about it

- How long it has lasted

- Are you vaccinated? Boosted?

Anything else you care to share.

Hmm…I am sick at the moment, so maybe I got the Omnicorn

-first symptoms on Thursday evening - fatigue

-by Friday afternoon was running a fever, chills, bad headache, pretty bad aches and pains, predominately in my back

- very poor sleep

-at the onset, immediately starting pounding tons of vitamin/antioxidant-rich fluids and water and eating only raw foods

- also taken a few Tylenol doses

-Saturday evening and I feel about 80%, expecting to be right as rain by Sunday evening

-unvaxxed, you can shove those shots up your b-hole. I’ll trust my immune system rather than be an experimental pawn for big pharma