I've been vaxed and boosted but still caught this damn Omicrom (based on symptons) early last week. And I got it BAD. If you havent had it try not to.

Started with raw sinuses. Then drippy nose. Then wicked headache (like my brain is swollen and pressurized), body aches, fever, sore throat, night swets - like a BAD flu. But the SORE THROAT. Like the worst strep thoat I've ever had. Can't sleep cause I cant swallow my own saliva. Havent been able to eat or drink much either so thats not helping. 5 days in and maybe a tiny bit better - or I'm just getting more used to the "eating broken glass PAIN" when I do have to swallow. After a couple days I was really concerned. Made an appoint at CVS with a Minute Clinic because if you test positive they will give you a 5 day pack of government paid for anti-viral pills. The anti-virals are supposed to prevent the virus from replicating and thus ease symptoms. Let me tell you I can't "tell" if they are working, and if thery are and this would have been worse without them, I wouldnt be here!!! I've had Pneumonia a few times that was a walk in the park compared to this crap. Luckily we just purchased a new lake house last fall so I've quarantined here. Wife just brought me over the counter meds and food today and set outside. Oh, one other symptom; when I drove 5 miles to the drug store I wandered out of my lane a few times. Dizziness? The "brain fog" they speak of? I bought one of those fingertip PulseOx monitors that you can check your blood oxygen level so I didnt suffocate to death while out here alone. So far my lungs have stayed clear, for now. I read where people think they are turning the corner to only get real sick then, well..... Luckily my daughter is a PA so she's keeping in touch with me.

Worst part is I have a small biz to run. Not the kind of biz where I sit in an office lighting cigars with $100 bils. I have the kind where I work 12 to 18 hour days EVERY day making stuff, answering phones, running the biz. I am so behind and screwed.

Just curious who else has had it, the bad stuff, and how long did it take to get over it.

My mother just got over it. Exact same symptoms as you had. She got vaxed, but over a year ago.

I have never tested positive yet, and neither has my wife or daughter. My son did earlier this year and we clam backed in it for over a week in this house. I have no idea how I haven't contracted it yet.

No clot shots or tests, been laughing all through it. Probably had it and didnt even know it

Cold ice water for sore throats. Numbs things long enough so you can actually drink something.

Wife and I are both vacced and boosted. Nothing yet. Get well soon, Pneumonia nearly killed me when I was 17, 8 days in the hospital, covid would take me for sure at 67.

You'd KNOW it if you had it. Trust me I bet you have had a dozen "clot shots" in your life.

I did test positive about a month ago after MANY exposures through work. I'm actually surprised it took that long. I've been careful but when you're in a closed area with someone positive, coughing up a storm and not covering their mouth and there's little to no ventilation...

I had a minor sore throat, no fever, and that was about it. Only reason I tested was because this exposure was so much closer than the others and the very minor sore throat that only lasted a day.

Wife started feeling sick Tuesday. Her lady friend who she had just made a four day trip to Reno with and returned Monday called on Wednesday to inform her she was sick had tested positive for Covid. I started feeling bad Thursday evening. Sore muscles and some slight congestion. We went and got tested Friday. Both positive. Doc prescribed Prednisone and Azithromycin. Started felling better Saturday and feel fine now. Still on the five day lock down but spent most of today doing yard work and working in the shop. Neither of us have the shot. We are not going to get it either.

I got vaxed last Halloween, appropriately enough. Got covid in Feb. Lungs filled up, had to sleep sitting up, well to catch what sleep I got. No treatment from the doc, was told go to the emergency room if it got worse. Wondering what worse was at that point, dead? Girlfriend got me some heavy duty decongestant and that cleared up my lungs, as long as I took them. To this day I still get congestion in my lungs at night

I get tired a lot easier, my pulse rate likes to drop into the upper 40 when that happens.

Damn, thats sounds bad. This new Omicron strain is said to stay out of the lungs and just be upper respiratory but thats not the way my luck runs.

I got COVID early on in 2020, before thing started getting bad! Sick for about a week, strong flu like symptoms, no doctor or hospitalization.
Since then, not shots for me. I have been exposed multiple ties to people who have had it. Got sick again in late 2021, tested everyday, no COVID!
in 2020, it started with my daughter, and spread quickly through the family. No shots for any of us. Yet we know plenty of people who have had the shots, booster and yet still got it.

I haven't had any symptoms. Most of the people I know got it last year. Some had mild cases, some got hit hard. One guy was in bed for two weeks and lost 20 lbs before he pulled thru. One guy who I barely knew passed away but he was overweight and had heart problems already so it didn't take much to knock him off. The younger, healthy folks snapped back quickly, the older folks struggled. I know some little kids who got it and they basically just had runny noses for a week.

Wife had it recently and she was vaccinated. Fever ,cough, congestion and loss of appetite. She says things smell odd now. Nothing to play with for sure. Some friends have said they haven`t got their complete sense of smell back yet and it had been quite a while.

I'm in the "older guy" group. I'm sure it'll be 2 weeks and I have lost over 10lbs

Worst part is at 60 I think my immune system is less effective. Luckily I've never smoked. My work is physical - not brick layer but maybe carpenter level. I eat relatively healthy. Could lose 10 more pounds but thats because of slower metabolism not eating donuts/sedintary.

Just got over it. It spread like wildfire. Since I get a cold or flu every year that's what I thought I had but the tests for covid showed positive. Only had one bad day that I didn't feel like doing anything. The worst part was the never ending phlem in my throat and a persistent cough. Lasted two weeks. Lived life normally but avoided contact with people or wore a mask around them till I tested negative for a few days straight.

I really don't know how I've been lucky enough not to get it. There are 11 techs in the shop where I work and 9 have had it. Been vaxed with a few boosters as I am high risk diabetic with asthma. I just hope the shots keep me from dying

Gus

It's going on 3 yrs now so unless a person has isolated themselves the whole time they have likely been exposed to it at some point.

It's been said that some people simply will never get bad symptoms for various reasons not totally understood. Blood type has been mentioned as one of those things that appears to make a difference as to what you end up with.

11 days in the living room with the door closed, only came out for a shower and meals, I didn't want to give it to anyone else or my wife. May have given it to my wife's cousin who did not do well with it, and his wife died while having it! Of course I have no idea if I gave it to them, just that I figured out later that I had symptoms when I saw him. I know where I got it, the MCACN show in Chicago, knew quite a few who came down with it afterwards... No jab and never will, I knew I would get through it so no reason to get something I cannot find out anything about. Hard to sleep, hard to breath, lost sense of smell. Went to a clinic when I knew I had it, tested positive, they gave me anti-biotics and told me to take over the counter anti-inflammatory, and drink lots of fluids. I am 100% recovered but it took 3 months...

Both my grown kids had it, the wife and I, no. No one in my family is vaccinated.

Not vaxxed, never had it. (or if I did, it didn't show any symptoms whatsoever) And I live with my 70-year-old mother.... and she's been healthy as a horse the whole time, too.

Matter of factly, never been healthier. Haven't been "sick" since January of 2019.... when I did have "something" that had suspiciously all the symptoms of covid, but it was before they'd politicized the flu. So they just told me I had a virus that I had to let "run it's course". But since then??? Nothing.

My allergies are driving me nuts this spring, but that's nothing unusual. Just popping Claratin's like they're Tic-Tacs.