Hey, dudes.

My girl gave me her Covid. She was sick for about 5-6 days with cold symptoms.

I started feeling sick on Wednesday... so about 4 days into it. We didn't even know it was Covid, just assumed it was a cold. I was starting to feel better yesterday afternoon, but this morning I woke up with a little trouble breathing and tons of chest congestion... coughing up dark yellow/orange sh!t. After this I took a test and tested positive. So did she.

Honestly, it has felt like a light cold so far. No fever, minimal body aches, sore throat is barely noticeable, just a lot of congestion and feeling off. It's this new shortness of breath thing that's got me a little worried. Nothing terrible or alarming so far, but noticeable.

I believe I had OG Covid back in late Jan 2020. Never conformed because we didn't have tests yet, but something WICKED swept through the office like nothing I've ever seen in my life. Multiple healthy people from work ended up going to the hospital. I was the sickest I've ever been in my life. 6 days straight of a fever and 2 days straight of 104 temp that landed me in the ER on fluids and oxygen for 12 hours. 02 sat in high 80's.

Anyway, 02 sat looks good (for me) hovering around 97/98 using my at home device. Heart rate is good. Never had a fever this whole time.

Am I gonna make it brahs? Is the shortness of breath normal for even mild cases these days?

For what it's worth, vacc'd and boosted. Yeah, yeah... my job required it and I'm an exec with stock options and profit sharing and stuff... not something to easily walk away from. Plus, I have asthma and an auto immune disorder so it made sense for me.

I hear at the end stages of the disease you pee your balls out through your dink because it attacks your reproductive signaling pathways and basically tricks your balls into thinking they are the c00m, because it breaks down the barriers between the two.

Vaxcels take another L

Feel better, OP.

fkn lmao

Haven't heard of a pureblood getting sick since the early variants

pureblood who got the virus from a triple boosted ****gor checking in
symptoms: first night headache, took advil went away
next few days stuffy nose

just had a cough for like 2 weeks
then my heart would beat a lot and id be out of breath going up stairs
think I still deal with that but I consider it gone.

Ive had this weird health problem for 18 months thats unrelated thats whats killing me

Damn. Good question.

When I first put it on it usually reads a little low (even when I'm not sick) around 94-96 (I'm a shallow breather). I will usually leave it on for 1-2 min and focus a little more on deeper breathing and it jumps to 97/98. I don't think I've ever left it on for 5 min though. Maybe 2 min at max.

I mean... surely you possess elementary reading comprehension skill - I clearly stated in addition to having asthma and auto immune disease, I also had a high value job on the line.

I wasn't first in line for the Vax and was against it for a while. I weighed my options and determined for someone like me (who became a bloatmaxxer during lockdowns and had a few comorbidities, it made sense). Although, if I kick the bucket from this or end up in the hospital I guess it will dispell some of the efficacy arguments.

Have you ever had a cold or the flu before? I'm sure you'll live through this too.

Lmao. Not true at all. You lie.

90% of my extended family are conservative rednecks and I have tons of friends that are anti-vax and nearly all of them caught it around Christmas and New Years last year. Most of the vaccinated didn't catch catch it, despite extreme exposure, me included.

But I guess now was my time.

jfl.

"vaccine" of the century.

Have it now, cold/body aches that go away with a couple Advils

On day 2

RIP Opie

Legit kinda how I've been except randomly one day I developed a cough and tons of chest congestion.

Sh!t timing though, because I have asthma and bad allergies so around this time of the year, Covid or not, I'd feel a lot of these symptoms anyway (srs)

I have it now. Tested positive Wednesday. It was two days of fevers and strong aches and pains everywhere. Now I feel better for the most part but still pretty weak, and sleeping a lot.

Damn. Hope you that figured out.

I get out of breath easily since bloat and alcohol maxxing, that sometimes manifests in rapid and skipping heart beats. That sh!t is scary. I hope you get some answers brah.
Maybe look into a stress test. Inwas having issues and my stress test/ekg/echocardiogram came back clean except for elevated blood pressure. Gave some peace of mind that heart wasn't going to spontaneously combust.

I hope so.

Be well brah.

Haven't taken any meds because it hasn't been bad enough for me to do so - but I generally have to be in a lot of discomfort to take meds.

I'm also an alcoholcel so that numbs the discomfort at night.

Thank you.

Very helpful info. Will rep. I sincerely appreciate the info and feedback.

I'm a shallow breather with asthma so my 02sat is "normalized" around 96. If I leave it on for a couple minutes it usually goes up to 97/98 but that's because I see it being low(er) and naturally breath deeper.
I guess is should 5 min of normal breathing and take an average. Might be good to know.

By shortness of breath I mostly mean congested sinuses and thick gloopy phlegm blocking the breathing so it's hard to get a nice full breath. I breathe ok, but sometimes I need to be intentional about grabbing a a deep breath (or a forced yawn) to get the air I need.

I know what REAL SOB looks like (asthma and watched my mom die of suffocating from lung cancer) and I'm nowhere near that level. Just noticeable need to grab an extra deep breath here and there.

When I had OG Covid back in 2020 I could barely walk 20 feet without getting winded.... so far - not nearly as bad this time.

Was it flonase/azelastin? I think I'm dealing with a similar thing, but rhinitis or something. I thought it was nasal polyps but ENT said no and the sinuses look clear way in the back, she stuck a scope way back into my face

Thanks. We'll aware of mucinex and have it on hand.

I was a pharmacy brah, in pharmacy school for a doctorate, before I bounced to be a finance brah so I'm pretty intune with the basic meds.

Glad you're doing well.

Lol @ using alcohol (that inhibits immune function) when immune ressources already strained busy clearing virus.

The level of biology understanding on the misc…

Get well op stay clear of alcohol eat some Manuka honey you ll be ok

Brah, appreciate the well wishes. I know alcohol and it's impact on immune function. As mentioned, before I became a finance exec brah I was working on a doctorate in pharmacology (PharmD) and have a background it bio/Chem as well as A&P.

Sadly, I went through a period of losing key family members and had to suddenly handle everything and do everything and alcohol helped me cope.
Not ideal.

I'm in no way advocating for alcohol to be a helpful tool to combat anything. It's the worst thing that ever happened to me. It's literally the definition of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Wow

Was wondering because azelastin/flonase is a steroid but one you spray in your nose, I never started it I really need to. Read weight gain as a side effect I don't know how accurate that is

I felt weird the first day. The second day I had 3 hours of fever, but by the end of the day I felt pretty normal. Day 3 developed a bad sore throat that lingered for several days. Never had any sinus or congestion issues.

Most annoying part was I still tested positive at day 10.

Huge if true.

I was having sinus problems way before I got covid, then one day my nose cleared up 100%, then I realized I had covid because while I could breath perfectly I couldn't taste or smell anything, srs. Then my nose slowly went back to normal, it's better now than it was before I got covid though Maybe I need to get covid again.Watch out for the testiclotomy ejaculatus symptom