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

[Anonymous]

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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!!

It doesn’t transmit easily among people who are wearing masks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What you describe does not sound mild. I know people who had mild cases and they likened it to a minor cold. I’ve heard of it ranging from asymptotic, to similar to a cold, to cases like yours, which would like a bad flu, to, well, death. That’s what’s so scary about it- you don’t know how what you’ll end up with.

The definition of "mild" in regards to Covid is not what most people would think of as mild. This has been explained. It's not OP'S personal feeling, it's a more precise term.

hence why she put it in quotes. people who don’t get that are not very credible on the subject of covid or anything else.

[Anonymous]

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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!!

It doesn’t transmit easily among people who are wearing masks.

masks reduce the risk. they don’t eliminate it. and now we apparently have a much more infectious strain.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the anger on this thread. OP is sharing her experience and you're all accusing her of lying. Why? Why do you care? She's sick and she's telling you it sucks. Why do you even care how she got it? Why are you accusing her of lying about how sick she is or isn't? It's so bizarre.

NP here. I don't understand either. I feel very badly for OP. [b] I am scared to pieces of Covid, even a "mild case."[b]

Get well soon OP.

I truly don’t understand this. Why are you scared to pieces of a mild case of Corinavirus? Are you normally scared to pieces of the flu?

[Anonymous]

I had an extremely mild case of covid back in April. On a scale if 1-10 id give it a 3 I’ve been much sicker . I did lose weight though because I couldn’t eat. Everything I ate gave me diarrhea. But I didn’t miss a beat I continued to work from home everyday . Honestly I was kinda disappointed I didn’t get sicker . I wanted 14 days off work . I didn’t even get 30 minutes off work .

[Anonymous]

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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

Hint: Healthy people in their 30s and 40s are dying from this because their body produces a reaction to the virus and nobody knows why, so "statistics" don't mean a damn thing if you're that person, so SHOVE IT.

Sincerely,
a person who got a brain tumor that 1 in 900,000 people get, and which statistically *never* happens to teenagers, when I was a teenager. I can assure you that statistics were wildly irrelevant.

I’m very sorry for your experience and truly hope you’ve recovered, but you you cannot live life in fear of things that happen but are indeed rare? If we lived that way, we wouldn’t be really living at all. So while I understand that yes young people have died of COVID, telling someone on this post who has covid that they may NOT be fine is not actually helpful. How we words of encouragement and support could actually be helpful. Mentality and mindset have a ton to do with health. Not everyone, but a lot. So yes I will still tell OP that I believe she will be fine

COVID is the leading cause of death in the US right now, and we have no count of "long haulers" or those with longterm or permanent negative outcomes to their bodies. That number is probably unreal, and one day we'll know, but it will be in retrospect. It's time to accept that poor outcomoes are not "rare." It's time to accept that ANYONE can have a poor outcome and/or die of this virus. Sure, percentages are on OP's side and we hope and pray for her 100% recovery. But percentages being on one's side does not mean it's not absolutely a dangerous and unpredictable disease. Stop pretending otherwise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the anger on this thread. OP is sharing her experience and you're all accusing her of lying. Why? Why do you care? She's sick and she's telling you it sucks. Why do you even care how she got it? Why are you accusing her of lying about how sick she is or isn't? It's so bizarre.

NP here. I don't understand either. I feel very badly for OP. [b] I am scared to pieces of Covid, even a "mild case."[b]

Get well soon OP.

I truly don’t understand this. Why are you scared to pieces of a mild case of Corinavirus? Are you normally scared to pieces of the flu?

Wow, do you watch ANY news? Or perhaps just FOX? Consider expanding your horizons. Absolutely no one with any objective knowledge of this disease would compare it to the flu any more. There is nothing about the two viruses that is similar. Not transmission, not impact on the body, not outcomes, not statistics. If you want to be under a rock about this, do it alone and don't spread misinformation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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!!

It doesn’t transmit easily among people who are wearing masks.

masks reduce the risk. they don’t eliminate it. and now we apparently have a much more infectious strain.

Is it here in the US yet? I thought it was in the UK.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had moderate covid (no hospitalization required, but I did get a nebulizer to help open up my airways) for 14 days and it was terrible. I wish people would take this seriously, I was so worried I was going to have to go to the hospital and we all know what happens when someone goes to the hospital with Covid...

How? Can you just buy one? Where?

The device and albuterol were prescribed by my doctor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I know you're telling the truth. I'm sorry you're sick and hope you feel better quickly.

The rest you I assume are absolute gems the rest of the time. Perhaps the prolonged stress of COVID is wearing on you in ways you can't articulate. Whatever. The following three things are true:

1. With this much COVID in the community, there's no way to do the contact tracing that would allow us to know where people are getting it. Locations of transmission have changed before and may change again, so living in such denial that you insist on applying the wisdom of two months ago to the question of where people are getting COVID now--to the point that you are calling a sick person a lying troll--is asinine.

2. There is--as of today's news--a new and more transmissible strain of COVID all over the UK. Even if you don't follow the logic re: how our meager tracing capacities have been swamped by community spread, IDK why you would assume it could not be the same way here.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/uk/christmas-covid-strain-restrictions-intl-gbr/index.html

3. There are a wide range of illnesses in which "mild" disease is defined as organ-sparing. For example, someone with "mild" lupus has lupus that is not imperiling a kidney or other organs frequently attacked by lupus. Patients with "mild" lupus can be disabled by "mild" lupus, to the point of being SSI-eligible. They are quite sick, even if their organs aren't near failure. Same with "mild" COVID.

This is true and needs to be repeated.

I think people are responding to the “touched something and touched my eye” assertion. This is just not the primary way people get infected with Covid and if it were there would be an astronomical number of cases. I’ve been grocery shopping in a store throughout the pandemic and my kids are in school in person and no COVID yet.

OP was speculating. She doesn't know how she got it. She didn't say "I definitely got it because I touched my eye at the grocery store", she just was making a wild guess. These people are stupid for taking that so literally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!!

It doesn’t transmit easily among people who are wearing masks.

masks reduce the risk. they don’t eliminate it. and now we apparently have a much more infectious strain.

Is it here in the US yet? I thought it was in the UK.

I mean, it will get here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the anger on this thread. OP is sharing her experience and you're all accusing her of lying. Why? Why do you care? She's sick and she's telling you it sucks. Why do you even care how she got it? Why are you accusing her of lying about how sick she is or isn't? It's so bizarre.

NP here. I don't understand either. I feel very badly for OP. [b] I am scared to pieces of Covid, even a "mild case."[b]

Get well soon OP.

I truly don’t understand this. Why are you scared to pieces of a mild case of Corinavirus? Are you normally scared to pieces of the flu?

And I truly don't understand why you are minimizing other people's experiences. Read the thread.

I am a different PP who had what was probably a moderate case of Covid and it was much worse than the flu. I personally was terrified that I might have to be hospitalized (I came very close multiple times). I have had the flu before and it was not nearly this bad, and went away much more quickly with no lingering symptoms. That said, I know someone whose child died from the flu, so I'm certainly not going to be like you and say the flu is nothing either. It really depends on the individual and how their body reacts to a virus. So, again, please stop, because you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the anger on this thread. OP is sharing her experience and you're all accusing her of lying. Why? Why do you care? She's sick and she's telling you it sucks. Why do you even care how she got it? Why are you accusing her of lying about how sick she is or isn't? It's so bizarre.

NP here. I don't understand either. I feel very badly for OP. [b] I am scared to pieces of Covid, even a "mild case."[b]

Get well soon OP.

I truly don’t understand this. Why are you scared to pieces of a mild case of Corinavirus? Are you normally scared to pieces of the flu?

Wow, do you watch ANY news? Or perhaps just FOX? Consider expanding your horizons. Absolutely no one with any objective knowledge of this disease would compare it to the flu any more. There is nothing about the two viruses that is similar. Not transmission, not impact on the body, not outcomes, not statistics. If you want to be under a rock about this, do it alone and don't spread misinformation.

You’re right - the flu was worst