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Worth noting that a ton of people who think they never had it really did, they just had few or no symptoms. We had a hard rule for the first couple years that, if you had any of the symptoms at all, you couldn’t come in for a while. One of my employees got a runny nose, and when I told him he had to go home, he was pissed off. He insisted he gets a runny nose every year at that time, and he felt completely fine, so no way he had COVID. I told him it wasn’t my rule, it was the company’s, and no sense arguing about it. Then he took a home test to prove to me he didn’t have it and it came back positive.
I know several people with similar experiences, including people who had zero symptoms but had to take a test because they were having a medical procedure or were traveling and it was a requirement, only to have it be positive.
I’ll gladly running at full speed to go home if my employer told me to go home for having a runny nose.
Employee could earn a commission.
Yeah, and that’s true for most of my employees, too. For the first 18 months of the pandemic we were mandatory WFH unless you had to touch hardware (they didn’t want someone who didn’t have to be on site infecting someone who did). Most people ended up preferring it, but a few couldn’t wait to return to work. I think it depends mostly on what your home life is like, combined with how bad your commute is. If home is a stressful place, and work isn’t far, you might find work to be the more enjoyable experience. Plus we do some really cool still, so it can be exciting to be in plant.
I’ve had every available booster and still wear a mask at the supermarket or on public transport. I figure those are places where vulnerable people still need to be in public and I’d rather keep them safe.
I’m still covid free after all this time. Sounds like I don’t want it!
Nice, kudos to you - I’m one of the only people in my city still wearing a mask, and I get a lot of scowls from the idiots who just want to sweep the whole thing under the rug and pretend like it never happened.
Keep doing you; thanks for looking out!
Same here!
And here as well! Thanks everyone!
This isn’t the right community for this but I feel you. Everyone that got covid had that “one day” that hit like a truck. I got covid twice and both times I had a day where I could barely hold my phone up in bed. The day after I’d wake up drenched in sweat thinking “oh god it’s over” and moving along. It sucks, but congrats, you got through it.
Even if you feel fine I’d recommend staying home for a while so you don’t infect anyone else
Heh. Heh. Heh.
Okay–I hope you’re right. I really do. It’d be nice if you got out of the woods that quickly!
Me? I get this really weird version of it, where it’s relatively mild compared to how I experience regular colds and at some point when I have it, I THINK I’m better…but if I exercise or do anything that would’ve been fine with a non-COVID common cold that was giving me the same symptoms…the COVID comes roaring back.
It’s this 4-6 week thing where collectively the symptoms are generally milder than a common cold for me…but last on, and on, and on, and on, and on…and on. Far, far longer than a common cold does. And they get worse/come back if I dare to do any sort of normal everyday thing, like take a short bike ride. It basically tricks me into thinking I’m better, when I’m not. (I also get it every few months, even with booster vaccinations.)
Anyway. My point is–take it easy. Even if you feel good, don’t immediately jump back into things at full pace. That’s how it gets me every time, and anecdotally, I’ve heard it does that to other people to.
I think you got Long Covid. Don’t overdo it or you could end up in bed permanently. I think the medical community is finally coming around to the idea that it’s just another way to get ME/CFS.
I made a community on !cfs@feddit.de but it’s pretty empty. Most of those guys decided to stay on Reddit. Can’t really fault a community of people too tired to do much of anything to not move over to a new platform.
I thought it was Long Covid too at first, but what happens to me doesn’t seem to fully align with what happens to others that clearly have Long Covid. I don’t have brain fog or lack of energy once I’m better, or any of the other common ailments.
It’s more that when I do get Covid it just…lingers, at a mild level. I basically start with the dry cough and loss of appetite, and have that for a week or two, then the fever/aches/caffeine intolerance develops (the fever being spiky rather than sustained), and sometimes gastro stuff, and those all bounce about like popcorn in a popcorn maker with brief periods of feeling totally ok while still dry coughing, then those go away while the dry cough remains for another few weeks. It’s like I have this long dry cough intro/outro each time I get Covid. Whereas with a common cold, it’s here and gone in 1-1.5 weeks with a clear, fast ramp-up and ramp-down and sharper, more-obvious symptoms.
With Covid, in between cases–when the dry cough has finally ceased–I’m back to normal. Totally fine. Then six or seven months later I pick Covid up again. As far as I’m aware, that’s not the pattern for Long Covid. (Although I could be wrong…I gave up researching it a while back when it was clear I probably wasn’t going to get the really bad effects others got.)
I did that DNA test with 23andMe, and Ancestry, and I have some markers that make me resistant to certain other common viruses, so I half-wonder if they also have some mitigating effect with Covid that’s yet-undiscovered. I’ve never lost my sense of smell or taste with Covid, for example, and I was sick in early 2020 when the severe versions were still running around.
Long Covid is an umbrella term anyways. CFS is just the most common one. And even that can be very mild.
I think I actually very mild CFS before I got Covid. It kinda sounds like what you describe. I’d get cold-like symptoms very often. Reliably after exercising too much. But I didn’t have brainfog or anything else. That just came after Covid.
I always took masking seriously and was always diligent about not going out in public unless necessary (I was lucky to have gotten into school weeks before COVID started, and then school was all remote), and I did everything I could to limit spread because I was so worried about being an asymptomatic carrier.
I survived COVID for three years only to be diagnosed with Leukemia and then get COVID recently.
Now I’m immunocompromised in a country where no one gave a shit about the immunocompromised to begin with! America, fuck yeah?
Well, glad you’re feeling better. Are you vaccinated? I had it before the vaccines were a thing and I was sick as a dog for two weeks. My wife was even worse and ended up on an inhaler for a couple of months until her lungs recovered. Both of us lost taste and smell and it didn’t come back for almost 2 years. Shit was no joke. Got it twice more post vaccine and it was a minor cold for 48 hours.
Maybe not the right community, and not sure whether to congratulate you or just say tough shit.
Watch yourself. I had it twice and a 4 month depression followed both times…
So far I’m still COVID free! I’m shocked actually because I am a nurse. I’m sure my time is coming though.
How often are you tested? It’s absurdly unlikely to not have had it at this point, especially working with patients every day.
I’d say it averages out to weekly it’s been a bit longer between lately. My wife said I’m a anomaly because I’ve never had a mosquito bite, I’m not allergic to poison ivy or poison oak. I got vaccinated very early. If I had it I never had a single symptom. 🤷♂️
I never got Covid. Maybe I had it asymptomatically.
I think that is the case for the vast majority of people who think they didn’t have it. Especially since no one does routine tests anymore.
I haven’t had COVID because I’m a recluse who never leaves the house. Though I’m also lucky my nurse spouse hasn’t had it and brought it home.
I had the exact opposite problem, where I caught covid so early (back in January 2020) that they were still calling it bronchitis.
My mom, on the other hand, had a situation similar to you, and it hit her HARD. She still has long covid symptoms where she gets extreme fatigue and a weird taste in her mouth.
Same. I’ve been very careful, I still wear a mask out in public (and probably will continue to do so, it’s so good not getting the usual malady around august and the occasional cold, plus it helps me avoid speaking to people). I’ve been to concerts, packed bars, etc., scot-free. Even went abroad and spent 12h+ beside a dude who was hacking his lungs out on a plane.
Ended up catching it in the gym, probably while taking my mask off to hydrate. First day was uncomfortable, bit of a headache. Thought it was a mild migraine but it was a little different. Masked up at home and isolated just in case. Second day was the worst. Didn’t eat, could barely sleep, spent the day in bed just groaning. Fourth day I was completely fine, just an annoying cough. Kept myself masked up and isolated until the 14th day when I went to finally test myself and got negative.
H1N1 was worse for me, but it’s not an experience I want to repeat anyway.
I also managed to avoid getting it (that I’m aware of) until 2 months ago. Your symptoms sound exactly the same as what I experienced. My taste and smell have still not fully returned.
Mine returned about a month after, caught it for the first time about 3 months ago. Helped me kick my coffee addiction though, tasted like ass.
Ha i still haven’t had it. Kind of like you, i got the original and booster. Last year my mom and husband got it and I was near them during the whole time but still didn’t get it. Like someone else mentioned, i probably did get it but haven’t shown symptoms. Either way, I am fine with that.
I +1 your experience. I’ve had the flu but tested negative for Covid. Like you, I have only the original vax and one booster.