This “mild” covid is the sickest I’ve ever been

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but when I have been really ill, and I mean REALLY ILL, I have not been able to look at a computer screen / type anything coherent.

You'll be fine.

Why are people so suspicious of each other, so angry, so hateful? It’s destroying this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Sorry, hope you feel better!

Seems like there is a wide range of “mild.” My 91yo grandmother in assisted living currently has it and other than fatigue and a light cough doesn’t feel all that bad. So random considering her age and risk factors. Fingers crossed it continues that way.


Older folks can present with delirium or withdrawal. And the illness can turn on a dime for the worse. I hope she’s getting supplements and medications and stays OK.

+1 My MIL (in her 90's) tested positive and actually made it through the 14 day period with no symptoms and then a few days later she couldn't breathe and died.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Sorry, hope you feel better!

Seems like there is a wide range of “mild.” My 91yo grandmother in assisted living currently has it and other than fatigue and a light cough doesn’t feel all that bad. So random considering her age and risk factors. Fingers crossed it continues that way.


Older folks can present with delirium or withdrawal. And the illness can turn on a dime for the worse. I hope she’s getting supplements and medications and stays OK.

+1 My MIL (in her 90's) tested positive and actually made it through the 14 day period with no symptoms and then a few days later she couldn't breathe and died.

Oh my goodness that is so sad. I’m very sorry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but when I have been really ill, and I mean REALLY ILL, I have not been able to look at a computer screen / type anything coherent.

You'll be fine.

Why are people so suspicious of each other, so angry, so hateful? It’s destroying this country.

One word: Fox

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but when I have been really ill, and I mean REALLY ILL, I have not been able to look at a computer screen / type anything coherent.

You'll be fine.

Hint: this is not something you should say to someone who is ill with Covid. Because you just can't know, and severity of symptoms changes so quickly. Long-term effects are not well understood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but when I have been really ill, and I mean REALLY ILL, I have not been able to look at a computer screen / type anything coherent.

You'll be fine.

Hint: this is not something you should say to someone who is ill with Covid. Because you just can't know, and severity of symptoms changes so quickly. Long-term effects are not well understood.

Hint, saying otherwise is not helpful bc at this point, she has covid.... and the statistics are on her side

[Anonymous]

The reason this is a pandemic is that the virus is extremely transferable. There are numerous cases of doctors wearing full PPE in Wuhan, for example, that got sick when they took their PPE off. If you wear a mask, and someone coughs or sneezes on you from the side, it's entirely possible that you will get sick.

There are two measures of illnesses - how deadly it is and how transferable it is. Ebola, for instance, is very deadly but only transferable through direct contact with infected blood. The common cold is highly transferable but not very deadly. Covid is both.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand everyone jumping on OP or others who say they have no idea how they got it. Isn't she just saying she didn't have Thanksgiving or share an office or whatever with someone who then came down with it that can be traced? Even if she got it at the grocery store, I don't see what she needs to own. She already said that's probably the case and even said she must have touched her eyes or something.

I don't know how I got the flu last year either. I have a feeling it was at a hospital outpatient waiting room, but I don't know. I just think that because it seems more likely than work where no one else had it. No one at the hospital sneezed on me or anything.

[Anonymous]

Aside from the people who view this virus through a political lens, I understand some of the doubters. When I had swine flu I could not move for days. Certainly there was no internet surfing, tv watching and going to the bathroom seemed like climbing the steepest mountain. I thought people who said they had it and it was like a bad cold were full of $hit but now I know that everybody can react wildly different to the same viruses/disease/allergens/diets/lifestyles. It has become so much more apparent and it feels like the media is starting to focus on those differences by race/gender/geography and I am so thankful. Many of us that don't follow a norm are often dismissed by medical doctors until they see test results. It has been a silver lining of this pandemic to get a greater understanding of that.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Wow, this blew up.

First, I called it mild because that’s how it’s classified when you have all the symptoms except shortness of breath and low pulse ox. Look it up. I put “mild” in quotes because I feel like absolute garbage and have been sleeping probably 16 hours a day. I just woke up and I usually feel ok in the morning before the fever returns and it goes downhill.

Second, I don’t have kids. My family consists of my husband and me. I am not “lying” about our activities. We are working from home. This virus is very, very easy to contract. One of us clearly made a mistake at some point— touched eye at grocery store, didn’t wash every germ off at the gas pump, whatever.

For those of your who accused me of lying, or exaggerating, or trying to scare people, or not being as sick as YOU were when you had some other illness, I’m sorry you are so filled with rage and distrust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but when I have been really ill, and I mean REALLY ILL, I have not been able to look at a computer screen / type anything coherent.

You'll be fine.

You sound like a really kind, empathetic person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow, this blew up.

First, I called it mild because that’s how it’s classified when you have all the symptoms except shortness of breath and low pulse ox. Look it up. I put “mild” in quotes because I feel like absolute garbage and have been sleeping probably 16 hours a day. I just woke up and I usually feel ok in the morning before the fever returns and it goes downhill.

Second, I don’t have kids. My family consists of my husband and me. I am not “lying” about our activities. We are working from home. This virus is very, very easy to contract. One of us clearly made a mistake at some point— touched eye at grocery store, didn’t wash every germ off at the gas pump, whatever.

For those of your who accused me of lying, or exaggerating, or trying to scare people, or not being as sick as YOU were when you had some other illness, I’m sorry you are so filled with rage and distrust.

Not OP, but for people who don’t feel like looking it up:

“ Mild symptoms of Covid-19 can include fever, cough, sore throat, malaise, headache, muscle pain, congestion or runny nose, loss of taste or smell, and diarrhea, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Things that you would not feel well with, but not necessarily present to the hospital with," Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, told CNN.

"You generally don't have shortness of breath, you don't have an abnormal chest X-rays or just imaging," Walensky said. " ... So, it's people who said, 'You know, I bet you're unwell, why don't you stay home. Sounds like you can be safely cared for at home.' That's mild, mild illness."


https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/health/covid-19-symptoms-mild-moderate-severe-wellness/index.html

[Anonymous]

This isn't a matter of debate. The virus impacts people so differently, as I saw when it hit my house last year. I felt I had a cold. My husband went to the ER. My 4-year-old boy was very visibly ill with a terrible cough. My girls shrugged it off. Even for the young and healthy, it's not an across-the-boards illness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow, this blew up.

First, I called it mild because that’s how it’s classified when you have all the symptoms except shortness of breath and low pulse ox. Look it up. I put “mild” in quotes because I feel like absolute garbage and have been sleeping probably 16 hours a day. I just woke up and I usually feel ok in the morning before the fever returns and it goes downhill.

Second, I don’t have kids. My family consists of my husband and me. I am not “lying” about our activities. We are working from home. This virus is very, very easy to contract. One of us clearly made a mistake at some point— touched eye at grocery store, didn’t wash every germ off at the gas pump, whatever.

For those of your who accused me of lying, or exaggerating, or trying to scare people, or not being as sick as YOU were when you had some other illness, I’m sorry you are so filled with rage and distrust.

Thank you for coming back OP and for being reasonable. I had the moderate case (my doctor called it moderate, I don't know what made it so, possibly my pulse ox was 95% and I would have had to go to the hospital if it was 94%). It sounds like a lot of people on here are (a) making it political, (b) in denial about how easily this transmits, (c) just argumentative assholes.

I hope you feel better soon. It lasted pretty much 14 days before I finally felt better and two weeks later I am finally at the point where I'm not out of breath going up and down stairs (but I still can't make it around our slightly hilly block). This is tough, get LOTS of rest and take your vitamins!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow, this blew up.

First, I called it mild because that’s how it’s classified when you have all the symptoms except shortness of breath and low pulse ox. Look it up. I put “mild” in quotes because I feel like absolute garbage and have been sleeping probably 16 hours a day. I just woke up and I usually feel ok in the morning before the fever returns and it goes downhill.

Second, I don’t have kids. My family consists of my husband and me. I am not “lying” about our activities. We are working from home. This virus is very, very easy to contract. One of us clearly made a mistake at some point— touched eye at grocery store, didn’t wash every germ off at the gas pump, whatever.

For those of your who accused me of lying, or exaggerating, or trying to scare people, or not being as sick as YOU were when you had some other illness, I’m sorry you are so filled with rage and distrust.

Thank you for coming back OP and for being reasonable. I had the moderate case (my doctor called it moderate, I don't know what made it so, possibly my pulse ox was 95% and I would have had to go to the hospital if it was 94%). It sounds like a lot of people on here are (a) making it political, (b) in denial about how easily this transmits, (c) just argumentative assholes.

I hope you feel better soon. It lasted pretty much 14 days before I finally felt better and two weeks later I am finally at the point where I'm not out of breath going up and down stairs (but I still can't make it around our slightly hilly block). This is tough, get LOTS of rest and take your vitamins!!

Thank you for this!! I’m hoping to be feeling better before too long.