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Does anyone think they might have had Covid-19 already ?

posted 4 years ago by Quasimodo (16388)
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I had a nasty disease back in December that lasted for three miserable weeks and then another three weeks to recover to a reasonable level again.

Symptoms

- Super runny nose (a box of tissues in a day)
- Night sweats
- Body aches and chills
- Sore throat
- Dry cough
- Bad headache
- Nausea
- Insomnia
- Shallow breath
- General weakness

Covid-19 officially was first recorded in Australia in January but it makes me wonder if it was here earlier as we have a large Australian/Chinese population as well as the Chinese students and they travel back and forth between Australia and China all the time. And then there's the Chinese tourists.

[–] Catbookss (13664) 4 years ago

I do. It was somewhere in early to mid-February. Started with a scratchy throat and just feeling weird the first 24 hours. Progressed quickly to a fever, chills, dry cough, body ache, extreme fatigue (that lasted a long time) and shortness of breath (ditto).

At the time I wrote it off to just being a seasonal flu.

It was two weeks before I could venture out, just to walk my dog, and the shortness of breath and fatigue were still prominent. I'd sleep 10-12 hours, and be ready to go back to bed 2 hours after getting up 😳. Unheard of for me.

No runny nose, which was unusual in my experience for having a flu, and a common characteristic of corona, although the symptoms do vary.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

Yes I had forgotten the body aches and chills, I had those as well. I thought it was influenza but it was different to the previous times I had the flu, too many symptoms like having two diseases at once. For the first week I couldn't sleep much with it but I wasn't strong enough to do much else but lie back and save my energy for essential activities like cooking and showering. Nasty business it was !

[–] Catbookss (13664) 4 years ago

Ugh, must have sucked not being able to sleep. At least I was able (not only able, had to) sleep for many more hours a day than usual and escape it for those hours.

Sleeping so many hours a day and being so debilitated was unusual for me but not unheard of. What was unheard of was the shortness of breath, and having the cold-like symptoms without a runny nose. I'll take the no runny nose, but the shortness of breath had me wondering if I'd gotten pneumonia, or the walking version of it.

Nasty business here too. Glad to be over it!

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

Yes the only thing now is it's a bit frustrating not knowing for sure whether it was Covid-19 or not.

[–] Catbookss (13664) 4 years ago

Yes, I would like to know for sure one way or the other, but it's pretty much academic because they don't know if that means we have immunity or not, and if we do, for how long.

I do know the head of public health in this area said he knew it was here long before they were still saying "no confirmed cases" even though they'd only tested 3 people at all at that point and had no plans to test any others 🙄

Oh well, all we can do is be appreciative that we're over it.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

May not have dodged the bullet but it was only a flesh wound !

[–] Catbookss (13664) 4 years ago

😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAW6D21ICdg

[–] Who (5146) 4 years ago

I have had a runny nose, really stubborn post nasal drip, sore catchy throat, fatigue and a persistent headache. These seem like too strong symptoms for seasonal allergies, so maybe a very mild case of Covid19? Guess I’ll never know.

[–] Catbookss (13664) 4 years ago

The vast majority (although not all) who've had it didn't/don't have a runny nose. That's one of the weird things about it.

Do you have a fever, dry cough, shortness of breath? If yes, especially the shortness of breath, you may have it.

[–] Who (5146) 4 years ago

No I don’t have those symptoms, thankfully. I read some Covid patients have outlier symptoms like mine. So little is known about this virus and I wonder if it presents differently in people. For example, I read it might effect type A blood types more severely than type Os, but this theory is still being investigated and tested.

[–] AndyKing1967 (34192) 4 years ago

Yes - February 1st for a week, I felt very ill (no runny nose). I just put it down to it being a seasonal thing. In hindsight it was probably a mild case of CV.

[–] bohemianroxie (2471) 4 years ago

I haven't but a co-worker that never misses a day of work got extremely sick and had to stay out for 3-4 weeks in Dec and still didn't feel that spiffy for a while when she returned.
We've discussed it since then and think maybe she was one of the earlier cases...She's late 30's but probably not the healthiest person and was stressed at the time so I'm thinking her immune system was not up to par..

[–] keybored (2654) 4 years ago

A lot of people had it in December including myself, my husband and my mother (she got it from my cousin), who had come to spend xmas and new year with us.

We all are convinced that is what we had because it felt like nothing we have ever had before and took us 7 weeks to get rid of. We had all the above symptoms. I thought my mum was going to die of it at one point, it was that bad and I didn't feel too far off it either.

Talked to many people around the world that also got it around the same time too.

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

Couple weeks before the news started breaking I suddenly felt ill, but I didn't have trouble breathing or get a dry cough. Only lasted about four days, and I worked the first two, so I couldn't have been that severe. But around day three I couldn't believe how runny my nose was. Anyway, I would like to joke maybe I already got the virus but I seriously doubt it. There aren't many cases in my area so far.