Who here has personally caught covid?

I caught it from my GF in a similar situation: she got it so I knew that meant I must have it too.

Ended up losing smell/taste for 1-2 weeks (varying degrees) around a week after I first saw her. Felt tired and a slight headache for 2 days. Otherwise completely fine. Never coughed. Actually did job interviews while in peak COVID symptoms and was able to skirt by without anyone noticing.

She however, was bedridden for a few days and had much worse nausea/fatigue/couching (although still not too bad). Hits everyone different.

Don’t over stress it man. Take vitamin C every morning and hydrate religiously in preparation. I also took Zinc but that might have been bullshit. Try to prep your body. That preparation is what settled me down mentally.

Everyone in my house had it back in November (all 19-21 years and decently fit and healthy). My personal symptoms were a very sore throat and a bad cough for a week and that was it. No fever or anything. Didn't even lose smell or taste. A couple of my flatmates only lost smell and taste and no other symptom. No one had fevers at any point. Don't stress odds are both of you will be fully fine in a week or two. Like the other commenter said, hydrate regularly and take vitamin C and D (or if you are in a sunny location and have access to a garden/balcony you can just sit in the sun to soak up natural vitamin D). It is more a mental battle than a physical battle. If you want you can buy a pulse oximeter off Amazon to measure your blood oxygen to ensure you have peace of mind. Hope you and your girlfriend get well soon!

My wife and I had it at the start of December.

I am 28 and I had a nasty fever (103) for a couple days and I started recovering soon after. I was back to 90% by the end of two weeks and 100% after about a month.

My wife is 26 and she was completely out of commission of 3 straight weeks. A nasty fever pretty much the whole time. A nasty cough that turned into pneumonia. Pneumonia got so bad we took her to the hospital because we thought she was having a stroke. Complete loss of taste and smell and chronic fatigue. She is barely starting to get close to 100% recovered.

We are both healthy and in shape.

20, just got out of my 2 week quarantine. Felt slightly congested for a few days, and had a headache for one day. Developed a cough, and a sore throat for a little bit, but was otherwise entirely fine. 

Yep. In week 2 of it. 

Last week I felt like I had the flu and a cold combined. Lost my taste and smell on day 3-4 and it stayed gone for another 3-4 days. Still only like 50%-75%, depending on what I'm tasting or smelling, so the whole thing is a bit surreal. I still have a headache, a cough, and nasal congestion but I can function as a human being - which is good, because my finance got it a week after me and she's in the first week shit at the moment. 

Never any danger, fever, or breathing/heart problems, but it definitely isn't any fun.

Thanks for responding everyone, sounds like it really varies based on each person! I'm not too nervous, hoping this blows away after a week and I can stay in a relatively normal schedule.

Of course, I'm eating all my junk food now in case I lose taste. I wanna have candy and chips now while I can enjoy.

I got it in the summer — basically asymptomatic. 

My girlfriend (24 yo) caught it earlier last year. She had a nasty fever, persistent cough, and chest tightness / difficulty breathing. Never lost sense of taste or smell though. Luckily the symptoms were gone after maybe 5 days. I assumed that meant I had it as well and quarantined (never went in for a test) but I never developed any symptoms, so hard to say if I just didn’t catch it or if my case was super mild

At least twice, and probably got it again recently. A girl I just met off a dating app convinces me not to use a condom. Hard to say no to a rave booty after a long dry spell. Her ass was so phat it make my pee pee go boing boing boing

Tested + back in November and felt exhausted/had a fever for about a 48 hour period. Then had a cough for a little less than a week. Then couldn't taste or smell for about 2 weeks. Then the erectile dysfunction set in. I'll let you know when that's gone

My brother was one of the original cases in March 2020. He was 40 at the time. He was pretty ill for a week. His daughter (my 4-year-old niece) tested positive in Jan 2021 and was asymptomatic. 

I had it. Not bad at all, barely symptomatic, boring as fuck. Ran 16 miles the day I got out of quarantine. 

Tested positive last summer. Felt a little queasy for a day, then really terrible for 1-2 days (103 fever, could barely get out of bed), then afterwards felt pretty fatigued for a week or 2 after but could pretty much go about my at home life (but wasn't working and generally felt tired), then pretty much back to 100% after that. Never lost taste/smell. My girlfriend also got it and was similar, but wasn't as bad for her the first couple days. We're 27/26. For what it's worth, my 96 year old grandma also got it, had a fever for 1 day, and never had a symptom after that. To me, that says there's no real way to predict how it'll affect someone. 

Thought I had it because I could not get out of bed the Monday after Halloween (Saturday). I was freezing cold and had a piercing migraine while my whole body ached. I slept under 3 sheets and a sleeping bag in bed that day and was still super cold (I was about to write my will on my phone that day). The day after I was back to normal.

1 day being dizzy and having a funny stomache. Next day very tired, then pretty shitty night sweating / fever.

3rd day fever dropped and then nothing more. Never coughed or lost taste/smell.

not me cause i'm a stud

its not for me(

I’ve had it twice. Once, pre-vaccine — mild cold with headache, lasted 3ish days. Omicron after booster — 24-36ish hours of fatigue, then clear. 

yea i got it thanksgiving weekend. Didn't lose my taste or smell, but it was the equivalent of a mild flu. I did get very sick about 2 weeks later as I somehow developed bronchitis.

I had the sniffles once or twice last year, does that count? 

You and your gf will be completely fine. I didn’t even know I had COVID (that’s how mild the symptoms were) until my roommate got tested and said that he had COVID. Don’t believe all of the media hype about COVID. I had to get the vaccine for school and I think if you have the vaccine you should be 100% fine. Even without the vaccine as long as you’re healthy you’ll be fine. If you didn’t know what COVID was you would just think you had the flu. 

my in laws got delta in early fall, I got it late fall

in law who was vaxxed - cold for a week or two, lost smell and still doesn't have it

in law who wasn't - felt pretty crappy for 4 or 5 days, near immediate recovery after ivermectin

me (vaxxed) - felt like a 2 week mild to medium cold, didn't miss work, made the mistake of trying to "sweat it out" and went too hard (did 2 a days and one day did 3 workouts) which I think added a week of feeling groggy. have had sinus infections far worse than it. didn't take any non OTC meds, biggest helps were the neti pot and advil. 

my wife didn't quarantine during it and never tested positive nor experienced symptoms. she got her vax 5 months after me and got a different one so maybe that helps, who knows

no big deal, but everybody's different. only thing I wish I did differently was take it easy in the gym instead of going hard as I think this elevated stress hormones and prolonged my recovery. I would just do sauna and some light workouts. beyond that, my advice after getting it is the same as before - protect the vulnerable, be respectful if your grandparents don't want to see you a week after you go to mardi gras or want you to get a test before seeing them, get and keep yourself healthy, take the shot if you want to but don't make it part of your identity, and move the fuck on with your life

Had it twice. First around easter in 2020 and now omicron in February (2x vaccinated)

Symptoms first time around was fever for 2-3 days and lost of smell for 2 weeks. Omicron was way milder and I was just tired for a day or two.

Btw, living in Scandinavia so almost everyone I know have had it at least once.

Had it twice. Also vaccinated and no crazy side effects either outside of the usual ones you're supposed to get like feeling like you have the disease for half a day (because technically, ya do). Between both episodes the worst thing that happened is a night of flu symptoms. Didn't even know I had it the first time, and the fact it was so benign isn't lost on me or my gratitude for that.

I had omicron about a month or so ago, and tbh felt mostly fine other than the really annoying brain fog, especially since I have interviewing around that time.

Pretty sure I was among the first NYC wave. Intern had traveled back to China (can’t remember the region) for the holiday and we were back in office first week of January 2020. He comes back feeling under the weather, though like a lot of folks pre-COVID, still goes in, and as luck would have it his seat on the desk is right next to mine. I hear coughing all throughout the day and he does not come in the rest of the week.

Well, weekend hits and I’m hyped to hit a hotspot restaurant with my then GF in Williamsburg (Lilia for you NYC-based folks). I’m feeling great until we sit down…get chills, can’t even focus on the food coming to table and about to pass out. We get an Uber to her place and I spend Friday night through Monday morning sweating it out in her bed with no appetite and going in and out of sleep. After those couple days, feel roughly 80-90% healthy but still relatively low energy. After the 5th day or so, back to normal.

Got covid back in Feb 2021, I've never had the flu but it's what id imagine it was like. maybe slightly milder. Fever (wasnt super high), back aches, and tired. Only lasted 3 days for me from when i first felt sick to when i was feeling 100% again. I lift/am active and dont eat like shit so im sure that was a contributor. 

I also think I might gotten it again in Dec 2021. That was only a headcold with a sore throat. Never lost taste after either one, although my mom lost her taste and smell summer of 2020 for maybe a month of so.

Making sure you keep eating and staying hydrated is key. Along with what others have said on Vit C and D. 

Just saw that you said you're eating all your junk food, thats pretty dumb imo. You want your body running on good fuel and not processing shit while you're sick

Had a case with very minor cough and slight congestion recently.  Had a relatively minor sore throat to start before it pivoted into cough.  If not for COVID, would have just attributed it to minor cold in the past.  2x vaccinated and boosted.