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What variant(s) did you catch? I don't think the latest variants will cause those severe symptoms.
I had omicron. It was exactly like the flu for me. One of my kids had flu like symptoms but also with gastrointestinal symptoms. For the other it was cold like and the other adult family member had almost no symptoms at all.
100% this. Positive cases mean nothing and they are also only as accurate as those that report it.
Being it's the first disease tested for without symptoms there is too much chance for error especially with the different test ie quick test, swap, pcr(settings have changed since the begining). Many flu's "quietly" hit the US and other countries over the decades.
Just a wide array of ever-changing odd symptoms that went on for two weeks.
Yes, that's how it's been for us literally every time we have been sick for the last about three years. I was pregnant in 2019 and around 7 months, we all were sick with some chest cold type of deal with cough, but for me, it lingered for weeks and weeks. I still get flare ups where my lungs feel irritated. We have never taken a test but the "ever-changing odd symptoms" that go on for 2-3 weeks is unlike anything I've ever dealt with in my life, much less since having kids 11 years ago. I really have to wonder why it is like that with coronavirus and if this is typical of all coronaviruses or just this one (although, which strain are we talking? They have all been the same for us over the last three years, or very similar odd set of symptoms that ebb and flow over a couple of weeks each time).
One really odd thing that happened was with my infant in early 2020. I had him in December 2019 and in early February, he had what looked like retractions when he was breathing. I had suspected laryngomalacia (which is kind of just a loose, flappy part inside the throat that can make breathing more difficult but usually just results in loud breathing) so I took him to the ER just to make sure he was alright. He was totally fine (sats, cultures negative, etc.) EXCEPT they x-rayed his chest and told me either he has severe asthma or damage consistent with a viral infection. We had NOT been sick since his birth. Only explanation I can think of is that something happened to him when I was sick during pregnancy. They made me transfer to the children's hospital (they wanted to send us by ambulance, really stupid considering he was not acutely ill and threatened me when I went to sign out AMA and drive over there myself) and after I took him to get checked out at that hospital (I refused to sign the papers and just left and took him myself), the consensus was that it's just laryngomalacia, he is fine, asthma does not exist in 2 month olds, and there was no evidence of illness. VERY odd, and he is 2.5 now and like any other kid, just a little noisy breathing mostly when he sleeps. What in the world could have caused his x-ray to appear that way? I would almost like to get another to see what it looks like now.
When I had a sore throat early June, I tested neg twice with at home tests. It didn't feel like the covid I had in 2020 so I went to doc for a strep test and was surprised when he said negative on strep, positive on covid. After a few days of sore throat it was like a mild cold. I would rate my 2020 case as mild as well but it was very different, unlike anything else I'd ever had. Just a wide array of ever-changing odd symptoms that went on for two weeks.
Help me understand. You had a sore throat, so why bother testing for COVID, Strep, or see your Doc in the first place? Would you have done all this before COVID
Don't care, we can't continue to live in lockdowns forever. There are treatments and vaccines available now, no one is 100% safe from any virus all the time, and trying to stop the world from spinning for 1 virus which is at its weakest point in existence in non sensible.
Don't care, we can't continue to live in lockdowns forever. There are treatments and vaccines available now, no one is 100% safe from any virus all the time, and trying to stop the world from spinning for 1 virus which is at its weakest point in existence in non sensible.
There was a lot of sarcasm in the OP. I had covid a year and a half ago. And got very ill from it. I am vaxxed and boosted and this current variant seems to be much less deadly. More like the flu just more contagious. So life goes on as normal.
Lot's of people I work with came down with in a couple weeks ago and while nobody liked being sick everyone is back now. No matter how vaccinated and boosted you are there is no protection against the latest variants and by the time there are there will be new variants. We only take our best guess with the flu vaccine each year and sometimes are spectacularly wrong about it and Covid seems like a much faster moving target so I don't think we can get around it with 3 times a year boosters or whatever. I'm not even going to try and we need to get rid of all vaccine mandates. At this point it's about CONTROL not PUBLIC HEALTH.
Lot's of people I work with came down with in a couple weeks ago and while nobody liked being sick everyone is back now. No matter how vaccinated and boosted you are there is no protection against the latest variants and by the time there are there will be new variants. We only take our best guess with the flu vaccine each year and sometimes are spectacularly wrong about it and Covid seems like a much faster moving target so I don't think we can get around it with 3 times a year boosters or whatever. I'm not even going to try and we need to get rid of all vaccine mandates. At this point it's about CONTROL not PUBLIC HEALTH.
I really wonder how long it takes to recover from Omicron. Because everyone I know that caught it just quarantined for the required 5 days and after that, they were all good as new. No coughing, no hoarse voice, no runny nose, etc. When I have a common cold, it usually takes a good solid week to just get through the "feeling like crap" stage and then another 1-2 weeks just getting over the post-nasal drip effects.
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What in the world could have caused his x-ray to appear that way? I would almost like to get another to see what it looks like now.
