OT: Tested positive for Covid 19 yesterday.Has anyone on here experienced covid before?

[Appwrangler]

Was exposed Thursday because a family member came over not knowing he had it even though he had cold symptoms. Got tested yesterday and was positive. Main symptom is chills, I feel real cold. I also have off and on coughing. Off and on headaches too. I have asthma and woke up this morning and could barely breathe. My asthma pump helped though. My parents didn’t catch it from my nephew because they have the vaccine. I’m in my 30’s. I know this is non basketball related but just wanted to share this with the realgm family because I feel horrible. Feel tired.


Has anyone on here had covid before? If so how was it, what symptoms did you have?

Main thing is, hang in there and be positive. The doctors you need to treat you are all going to be vaccinated and if you are in the US most hospitals are not overwhelmed. There’s been a ton of improvements in treatment so as long as you don’t try to be a hero if you can’t breathe and just go to the hospital you’ll be fine.

[Kampuchea]

I know someone 40 yrs old with it right now. He’s in critical condition and sedated, kept going by the ventilator. If you struggle to breathe please get help immediately.

I know 6 others that had it also and didn’t need hospital. One sick for months though with lingering effects.

[Sedale Threatt]

My brother is an ER doctor and told us that the most important thing is that you go to the ER as soon as you experience any difficulty breathing. This could be as innocuous as getting light-headed and dizzy from getting up to go to the bathroom.

My brother-in-law (not the guy mentioned above) had it a few months ago and it was pretty brutal. He waited days struggling to breath in bed and let his oxygen saturation level dip to about 80%. He eventually called 9-11 and was taken by ambulance to the ER and was told he had a 20% chance of survival. He spent the next 3 weeks in the hospital being hooked up to a ventilator and carried around an oxygen tank for a month after he was eventually discharged. His his lungs have so much scar tissue that it will be years before he is the same again. He was a big, strong dude before getting sick too.

Anyways, get an oximeter off of Amazon and immediately go to the ER if you have trouble breathing or the oxygen level dips below 90-92%. Your chances of survival are much greater now than at the beginning of the pandemic because doctors know a lot more about the virus. Get well soon and good luck.

Brutal. I had an old roommate that I've kept in touch with over the years tell me a similar story about one of his cousins, but without the positive outcome. Air lifted to the hospital, spent 2 months on a ventilator under sedation before he finally died. Cannot even imagine the horror. Do not know much about his health other than he was early 40s and apparently ran a ton.

[dodongo]

Recently recovered.

I got the following symptoms:

-Fatigue
-Body Aches
-Headaches
-Loss of Sense of Taste and Smell
-Cough
-Sore Throat - worst of my life, couldn't even drink water without feeling significant pain.
-Diarrhea (I got this later on and it scared me that I got "new" symptoms)

Most have been gone for more than a week now. But I still cannot taste/smell properly. I also have some weird **** with my fingers/skin, wherein when I shower - it's like I've been swimming for hours.

I don't know exactly where I got it, but I started a cloud kitchen and an employee reported that a cook had been coming in with a runny nose. Killed the business' momentum too, and felt like we were turning a corner last month.

Situation is pretty bad here in the Philippines. Most of my staff are COVID deniers, fueled by our idiot President's pronouncements. Our economy is ravaged, health systems overloaded, and we're still getting about 1 in 5 positive (low testing though). Getting mild/asymptomatic cases made my staff worse.

[bubonicphoniks]

Youll be alright. 3 or 4 days of feeling like ****. Then like 5 more days back to 99%

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[Cactus Jack]

Recently recovered.

I got the following symptoms:

-Fatigue
-Body Aches
-Headaches
-Loss of Sense of Taste and Smell
-Cough
-Sore Throat - worst of my life, couldn't even drink water without feeling significant pain.
-Diarrhea (I got this later on and it scared me that I got "new" symptoms)

Most have been gone for more than a week now. But I still cannot taste/smell properly.

I had pretty much all of those same symptoms. Except for the loss of taste/smell. That seems to be very common. I don't recall having that issue. I guess I was just fortunate. One odd thing was that I would often wake with cold sweats. That went on for quite a while (a week or more).

I also have some weird **** with my fingers/skin, wherein when I shower - it's like I've been swimming for hours.

You should have that checked out.

[babyjax13]

If you struggle to breath please contact a doctor. I had it, it was not a great experience but I am still in my 20s and fairly healthy. My grandmother died from it, I could see how - if I were not fairly healthy - it would have been a lot worse.

For me, the body aches were the worst part - took lots of baths. The sweating also gave me a horrid rash, so if you have sensitive skin, some lotion will be good.

[TinmanZBoy]

Rest well... a good reminder for people who have not had vaccine to get it

[Sactowndog]

Was exposed Thursday because a family member came over not knowing he had it even though he had cold symptoms. Got tested yesterday and was positive. Main symptom is chills, I feel real cold. I also have off and on coughing. Off and on headaches too. I have asthma and woke up this morning and could barely breathe. My asthma pump helped though. My parents didn’t catch it from my nephew because they have the vaccine. I’m in my 30’s. I know this is non basketball related but just wanted to share this with the realgm family because I feel horrible. Feel tired.


Has anyone on here had covid before? If so how was it, what symptoms did you have?

As stated,

Have someone get you an oxygen sensor if you don’t already have one.

[magicman1978]

Was exposed Thursday because a family member came over not knowing he had it even though he had cold symptoms. Got tested yesterday and was positive. Main symptom is chills, I feel real cold. I also have off and on coughing. Off and on headaches too. I have asthma and woke up this morning and could barely breathe. My asthma pump helped though. My parents didn’t catch it from my nephew because they have the vaccine. I’m in my 30’s. I know this is non basketball related but just wanted to share this with the realgm family because I feel horrible. Feel tired.


Has anyone on here had covid before? If so how was it, what symptoms did you have?

I suspect I had it in late January of 2020, it wasn't until months later when they discovered Covid had arrived earlier than assumed that I put 2 and 2 together.

I hadn't used an asthma pump since literally childhood but the doctor put me back on it as my breathing was also difficult. It felt overall like a terrible terrible cold and or fever but I always tend to stay in good shape so I did get back to normal more or less in a couple weeks. I can however see how Covid can just destroy older people or people with underlying issues.

Same for me, had the same symptoms in January 2020 - seemed like a cold, but the main thing was that I felt like I couldn't catch my breath. Went to immediate care and ran a bunch of tests and they thought it was just a cold, said the blood oxygen levels were fine, and prescribed some meds. Didn't help so I went to a pulmonologist and was put on an asthma pump as well. I could deal with the other symptoms, but struggling to breathe scared the crap out of me.

[Secret Lover14]

I most likely got Covid in January 2020 from co workers were visiting family over in the Eastern Hemisphere. I never got tested cause it didn't even existed yet and the media didnt cover covid in US until March. I tested for antibodies later in the year so that is when I suspected I got covid.

My symptoms were mild, body aches, loss my sense of taste and smell, and a decent amount of coughing.

[Buckeye-NBAFan]

Sucks dude. Hopefully you recover like the other 99.97%.

I don't know what you mean by recover, but even if you mean *live,* your percentages are off.

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For mid 30s, that's about the right percentage. For 70+, it's less than 95%.

[PistolPeteJR]

Was exposed Thursday because a family member came over not knowing he had it even though he had cold symptoms. Got tested yesterday and was positive. Main symptom is chills, I feel real cold. I also have off and on coughing. Off and on headaches too. I have asthma and woke up this morning and could barely breathe. My asthma pump helped though. My parents didn’t catch it from my nephew because they have the vaccine. I’m in my 30’s. I know this is non basketball related but just wanted to share this with the realgm family because I feel horrible. Feel tired.


Has anyone on here had covid before? If so how was it, what symptoms did you have?

As stated,

Have someone get you an oxygen sensor if you don’t already have one.

I strongly encourage you to not cheapen out on one. There are many cheaper options out there but they’re not reliable or consistent at all.

[LAL]

I had it in October 2020, confirmed, and I also think I had it in January 2020.

When I tested positive in October I was mostly fine. I had a stuffy nose for a week, a 100* temp and shallow breathing for two nights, and that’s about it. I wouldn’t have even really thought I was sick if I didn’t get tested.

However, in January 2020 I was the most sick I’ve ever been. I had a terrible cough hacking up green stuff, very high fever, body aches/back pain, really bad night sweats (this was by far the worst symptom. I put like 3 extra blankets over my bed and was still freezing cold), and couldn’t taste or smell anything (I distinctly remember super spicy salsa having no effect). I couldn’t get off the couch for 3 days, was pretty sick for about 10 days, and wasn’t fully over it for a couple weeks.

I’m 26, in great shape, and that was the first time in my life I ever even considered the possibility that I maybe needed to go to a hospital just from being sick. I never want to be that sick again.

[trueballer7]

You re going to be just fine. Stop reading this thread though, its depressing

[righterwriter]

I've had maybe 15 friends who have had it (mostly in Czech Republic, where it went out of control this winter).

Two guys in their early 40's, okay health said they wouldn't have known they were sick, just felt sluggish and like they were hungover.
Two guys early 40s, okay health, had a bit of a fever and lost their smell for a few days then felt absolutely fine.
Two girls, early 20's, okay health, said it was like a hard flu for a few days.
Four people, early 30's, okay health, felt like a hard cold for a week or so.
One guy early 40s, okay health, had a dry cough and was exhausted for about two weeks.

The one bad story was an American friend, a black guy in his early 50s who smoked like a chimney and weighed probably 280lbs, got nailed by it. Spent a month in hospital and is carrying around an oxygen tank with him everywhere now.

What I've heard, anecdotally, is that some of these super-fit people who exercise like crazy can get it worse since their lungs have a more developed vascular system that can be attacked by the virus. Also of course older people and people in poor health who's bodies can't handle a hard case of the virus.

For you in your 30's know that you have like a more than 99% chance of surviving (with that 1% overwhelmingly being from a risk group). The pulse oximeter is a good idea just so you can rest your anxiety. Vitamin D is absolutely fine in high doses (unless you have kidney problems), but the best thing is to get it from the sun. Otherwise, sleep, liquids, eat what you can, and you'll be okay. Know that if you do feel really bad that you can go to the hospital and they'll make you feel better, but it's statistically very unlikely you'll need to go.

Your immune system will take care of you. But for anyone reading this, a vaccine will do you even better. And if the vaccine kills us all off in a year, it's probably better than living in the Max Max-like world that will exist full of anti-vaxxers fighting for resources

[jefe]

I had it just before Christmas - my first day out of the 10-day quarantine was Christmas Eve. For the first two days, I had a constant dry unproductive cough and a sinus headache that waxed and waned. After two days, those symptoms went away, and I felt pretty good. On day five or six though, I abruptly lost my sense of smell entirely and lost most of my sense of taste. On Christmas Eve (day 10), my sense of smell and taste began coming back. The sense of taste came back fully within a couple of days, but the sense of smell took about 2-to-3 weeks to fully return. After coming out of it and looking back, I was pretty fatigued throughout - I was sleeping 10-12 hours a night, which is alot for me. Oddly enough, I never had a fever at any point in time.

[infinite11285]

Was exposed Thursday because a family member came over not knowing he had it even though he had cold symptoms. Got tested yesterday and was positive. Main symptom is chills, I feel real cold. I also have off and on coughing. Off and on headaches too. I have asthma and woke up this morning and could barely breathe. My asthma pump helped though. My parents didn’t catch it from my nephew because they have the vaccine. I’m in my 30’s. I know this is non basketball related but just wanted to share this with the realgm family because I feel horrible. Feel tired.


Has anyone on here had covid before? If so how was it, what symptoms did you have?

I won't get too deep into this post, but several of my immediate and extended family contracted COVID last year. It impacted my father and my brother-in-law's father the most, who both died from the virus. My father was a doctor in California that treated COVID patients, so his viral load was likely very high. My brother-in-law's father lived in a Home and was in his late 60's. COVID also killed several of my coworkers (all military, varying in age) but I don't know enough of their medical histories to divulge any valuable insight.

My 22 y/o sister-in-law has had "long COVID" for about 8 months. Despite being healthy, she exhibited the full gambit of symptoms; fever spikes, dry mouth, cough, hoarse throat, body aches, headaches, and pneumonia when she was first diagnosed. Currently, she still deals with fits of breath shortness, fatigue, and body aches. My aunt (mid-forties and relatively healthy with mild asthma) nearly lost a lung.

If you're asthmatic, you should really consider seeing a medical professional given it's a virus that devastates the upper respiratory system. Aside from that, I've been told that hot chicken noodle soup does wonders when symptoms spike in the evening hours.

Get well soon!

[Nazrmohamed]

I had more symptoms from the second vaccine shot than I did when I got Coviid. Fatigue, chills, nausea. Go get your vaccine folks but be prepared. That second shot sucks

[TMac Culloch]

Had in Feb. Started with Sore throat, then fever, headache and then coughing. Made me tired and listless. After a few days it became just like a cold. I'm still over tired and sometimes short of breathe. Good luck