I lost mine for about 24 hours, but it didn't happen right away. It happened about a week into it or so.
Do you have it? Covid-19
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I lost mine for about 24 hours, but it didn't happen right away. It happened about a week into it or so.
Sounds like you probably have covid. Low grade fever right around 100.5°F is very common. When I had it, my temp went up to 101 and 102 range a few times, but most of the time it was either in the 99 range or the 100.something range.
Lazerus
Pissant squid
Hopping in after a few months: strength and wind are super slow in coming back, as is weight, but it is coming back. I'm used to being able to get into decent shape in 5-6 weeks. 5 months on, I'm a little over halfway back to "normal'. Been skipping hikes/jogs with the smoke though.
Wish there was a way to inject the entirety of this experience into the minds of doubters :laughing oh well.
Try to fight the complacency fellow barfers!
Wish there was a way to inject the entirety of this experience into the minds of doubters :laughing oh well.
Try to fight the complacency fellow barfers!
Sooooo, I'm trying to remember. I though you had tested negative for covid. Did you have it? Fill me in. If you're still "recovering" 5 months later, that sounds horrible.
Do you know when you might have been exposed? If not, how many days passed between symptom onset and the test. If you tested less than 5-6 days after exposure, the chances of a false negative are high. Even best case scenario on timing, the test is only 80% accurate.
My wife tested negative. She tested two days after she started getting symptoms. I think she had it and just tested too early.
mrzuzzo
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I tested on the second day of symptoms as well, and it's likely that (if we did get it), less than 5-6 days passed, since we were on vacation in SoCal during this time.
I guess I'll never know if I really had it or not... I still have slight fever and most of the symptoms. This feels like a really drawn out flu.
If I were you, I'd go with the assumption you have it. If you can, isolate from everyone, especially family without symptoms. Do this for 10 days after the onset of symptoms. Hopefully yours will stay mild and you'll be feeling better by the 10th day, with no fever for at least 24 hours. At that point you're considered good to go and no longer contagious. That's what my wife did, even though she tested negative.
Lazerus
Pissant squid
We were at the worst time to have it: CDC's first batch was contaminated, only recent wuhan visitors/medical employees/people exposed to positive cases were allowed to be tested.
Lost 17lbs, gained back five. Cognitive function ain't great, but with mitigating factors, hard to narrow down. Always had asthma, but could easily run around a mile without symptoms. That dropped to about 100 yds. Doc prescribed inhaler, which helped with burning in lungs, but muscles would still tank at 100yds. Best I can describe is it's like I can't capture/deliver o2 as well as before. Reps on all exercises dropped to under half of previous ability, I've got those most of the way back up, but tend to get light headed afterward. Running has slowly (agonizingly slowly) improved over time, but it's nowhere near my pre-sick level.
Creatine seems to have helped both cognitively and physically.
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Holy crap dude! That sucks. I'm pretty sure you had it...or still recovering, really. That's a pretty bad case. I mean, at least it wasn't ventilator bad.
I don't know if you read any of my posts in the main covid thread, but I got covid about a month ago. Fortunately it was a very mild case. I did lose about 6 pounds, but I’ve since gained 4 of them back. I got it at work from a recruit I was assigned to train. She got it from her husband who works in a jail.
Her husband had a bad case and is still recovering. He was never on a ventilator, but he was given oxygen in the hospital for over 3 weeks. He's home now. I'm told he lost 60 pounds, was prescribed an oxygen machine, and has difficulty getting around without getting winded.
It's a crazy crap shoot on how this disease will affect people differently. Did you ever lose your sense of taste and smell? I lost mine about a week into it, but only for 24 hours. My only other symptoms were mild fatigue, on and off low grade fever, and mild fatigue. And I did test positive.
GAJ
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So I just found out my 92-year-old great aunt has covid.
Her mother was a centenarian who lived till 102. So she has the potential for another decade or so. But obviously, 92 is a very high risk group.
Fingers crossed for a positive outcome.
We know two 85 year olds that survived it.
Thank you both.
Apparently her doctor is going to be giving her something to try and reduce the chances of getting bad symptoms. I'm not sure what that something is. Possibly what the President got? I'm not sure.
She lives in LA.
Climber
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You may have some hope there, I get the feeling that most of the deaths from that age group are from people who were in the last 5 or less years of their life. If her genetic potential was for 102 years she may come through this better than somebody years younger but closer to their genetic limit. Of course, lots of other factors related to how healthy of a life she has lived.So I just found out my 92-year-old great aunt has covid.
Her mother was a centenarian who lived till 102. So she has the potential for another decade or so. But obviously, 92 is a very high risk group.
N4teTheGreat
Noob!
You never can be sure, my grandma has been on the decline for a few years now and at 96 it's not surprising, cognitive and physical. She tested positive for Covid earlier this year but had no real symptoms other than a loss of appetite and being a little tire. A week later she was eating normally and a week after that she tested negative. Covid is just one of the scares we've had with her this year but she always bounces back. Hopefully I'll be able to visit her sometime next year.