Three years on: have you had COVID-19?

[oath2order]

My boyfriend tested positive.

Around the same time I got "sick", which was mostly symptoms of "I haven't slept in a while and so I'm exhausted". Then I slept like two days in a row and was fine.

 

[slzzpz]

Nothing yet surprisingly. I get the urge to not want to use masks while indoors at a store but then I hear the coughing and sneezing lol I kind of like having some sort of barrier between my face and people's spit. My whole family's been infected multiple times though.

 

[daisyflowers]

my dad tested positive almost two weeks ago, and then my mum got it from him (she refused to wear a mask around the house from when my dad tested positive). they're still not feeling mega great. i've not tested positive though - i had a sore throat and tested for 2 days after. i didn't do a test after that though

 

[moonbyu]

i don't know if it was COVID actually. my sister, who was suspected to have given me and everyone else in the family whatever sickness she had, did the rapiGEN test and tested negative.. so i guess she didn't have it all i know is that i woke up, felt realllly sick, slept it off, and was better within 3 days.

i really hope i don't get it though, now that i'm actually saying it out loud.. i don't wanna jinx it, especially since my friend just got it

 

[Stella-Io]

I think I got it back in late June/early July in 2020. When my manager texted me and other coworkers that she tested positive for Covid was right at the same time I got sick. Manager did not wear a mask all the time and I was around her the day or two before she said she was positive. She had said at work she wasn't feeling well, had a day off and got tested and cane back positive. I always wore a mask but that didn't stop me from possibly getting it.

I never did get tested (can blame my parents for that) and I had to call out from work two days in a row cause I felt like crap. After that I quit that job. Possibly getting Covid was the last straw on a heaping pile of reasons why I wanted to quit.

In 2022 I may have gotten it again at my new job. I felt drained, extremely tired, hot and cold, my legs were weak to the point that I had to sit cause I was using the counter to support myself up. Some coworkers said I looked paler than usual. If I had stayed still for like 10 min I could have fallen asleep in the very loud work environment. I rarely ever get sick, and when I do it's not that bad. I tried eating somethin even thou my stomach hurt, and it helped for a few minutes but I went right back to being drained and weak feeling again. Once again didnt get tested (thanks parents) so I have no idea if I got it.

 

[Sasey]

I’ve had Covid at least once for sure. I tested positive with a good quality test. The other two times I suspected I had Covid, I had symptoms, but suspect tests. They were from work and I believe they were expired and/or flawed in some way.

My husband and I avoided it for two full years, but finally caught it. We both work in healthcare so it was inevitable I suppose. We have been lucky each time though and only had mild symptoms. We both have been vaccinated three times.

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

Once suspected, once tested. For abt a week i had symptoms and kept testing negative even tho everyone in the house was positive @ that point, then one day the result turned around to be so positive to indicate i was brimming with covid lol. Had some lingering symptoms after the virus subsided for a month or so.

 

[coffeeplant]

I'm not sure. I never tested positive but there was this one time in May of 2020 when I had trouble breathing and got exhausted really fast. It lasted about two weeks. Instead of testing me for Covid, they checked my lungs for anything suspicious but couldn't find anything out of the ordinary so they just told me to take it easy for a few days. It went away after a while. To this day, I still can't tell if it was Covid or not, but I've never had it since. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[-Blue-]

I've only had it once around June of last year. I remember not feeling all that well after work. But I still pushed myself to make cucumber soup because I had a bulk of cucumbers from my garden that I didn't want to go to waste. So I found a recipe online and made a lot of batches and froze it. It wasn't that bad, but I probably wouldn't do it again.

Then the next day I pushed myself even harder to get this side-work done in horrible summer heat. When I got home I checked my temperature and then a covid-test since it was high and sure enough I tested positive.

 

[Mick]

Still haven't had it and I find that incredibly suspicious. There have been multiple situations where I sat next to or shared rooms with people who I either knew to have it or who told me they tested positive a day later. But I never tested positive myself. So did I somehow dodge it for three years straight?

At this point I'm guessing I may have had it, just asymptomatically. Maybe I just didn't notice at all, which would be weird because the vaccines left me feeling very tired for a day so surely I would have felt the real thing?

 

[Croconaw]

Spoiler: My experience…

Maybe once? I went on a trip two years ago courtesy of my dad since he was attending a concert and I decided to tag along last minute. Walked around busy Las Vegas and came into contact with lots of people. On the final day and I was about to return, I was sick and sent my dad (right before my train started to board) to pick me up some mints to suck on. I was upset that I couldn’t really enjoy my Amtrak train trip back due to being sick. Our train at the time also had an ice shortage, so they were limiting the amount given to customers. I remember buying a few things I didn’t necessarily need so the attendant would give me ice for my drinks. They’re more likely to give to people buying things, even if the ice is free.

My throat was very dry. I thought I was just sick until the day I returned and one of my friends that was also on vacation — not with me, but somewhere else — was also sick. We had the same exact symptoms and were both sick for about five days. I assumed it was COVID considering the circumstances and soon it made sense, although I don’t know for sure. It was over two years ago so I don’t recall how I felt aside from being disappointed I couldn’t fully enjoy my train journey. I normally try to avoid posting on threads like this but I’m just sharing my experience in which I may have had it.

 

[Chris]

I tested positive on Monday. 14 months since I last had it.

We think my girlfriend picked it up while in London two weeks ago. Not long after she came back she complained about suddenly developing "allergies" that then miraculously cleared up within a week. When I tested positive it hit her that she likely had it first and gave it to me.

 

[Khaoticnoize187]

yep i had it earlier this year, and it wasn't really fun at all whatsoever wasn't really that bad either since it was mild for the most part but otherwise yeah glad that got over with for me.

 

[Aniko]

Covid finally caught me! Got it from my mom who probably got it from her doctor or anybody she met at the clinic. Just before our 6th shot of vaccine that we were supposed to get a month ago but they keep reporting appointments When my mom started getting sick, I asked her if it was Covid and she said "No, no, just a cold" but when I caught that cold.... it's not as bad as some flu or pneumonia I got in the past ...so far...but I'm moving and thinking in slow motion and coughing really hurts. Everything is too much for me, even holding my spoon but I managed to write this, I don't know how.

 

[Hunter_Gr33n]

Back in February 2020 (approximately) me and my mom both had some of the symptoms, but the symptoms we had could've come from anywhere. Neither of us got tested, and I think we both recovered from whatever it was by the start of 2021. Both of us suspect that we did have COVID though.

 

[Mairmalade]

I got it for the first time around this past Halloween and it was awful. High fever, chills, congestion, sore throat, muscle soreness, and tiredness. I was testing positive until today, but I still have lingering symptoms (tiredness and congestion, mostly).

I still can't taste or smell, but both are (I think) coming back in small bursts. I can't wait to taste again! There's an amazing bakery a few blocks away that has a cherry pie I've been craving.

 

[cornimer]

Almost everyone I know has had it, but nobody in my house has gotten it (knock on wood). We work from home and don't go out much.

I finally ended up getting it this past September after a vacation. Miraculously, nobody else in my family got it despite being on the same vacation and then living with me in the same house. Thankfully I was not too sick - just a cough, chills, congestion & loss of taste/smell.

 

[Yoshi155]

It was in 2022. First my sister had it, and then my little brother got it while I was on a field trip and had to be brought home early, and then both of my parents caught it before I finally did. I thought it would be a lot worse than it actually was. We just ended up not going to school for a week or so, and it was kind of miserable for a while because I was coughing so much that my throat hurt, and so was everyone else, but it really was just like the flu.

 

[Paperboy012305]

I never posted on this thread, yet the date this thread was created I got COVID. Thankfully I have medicine directly for it so I got over it in about a week.
I actually passed out before I knew I had it.

 

[pottercrossing]

I went for two years without COVID, but in the span of a year and a bit, I got COVID 3-4 times.

Just great.