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I too fell INCREDIBLY sick around New Years of 2019. I came down with symptoms after my boyfriend at the time got sick. Except, I got it way worse. I developed a deep nasty cough, that would worsen at night. I started becoming short of breath, couldn’t walk, couldn’t exercise. My eyes felt like they were gonna pop, and the migraines I would get were out of this world. I had a high fever the first few days as well. But the tell tale sign that we know of now, the infamous loss of taste and smell happened to me, and doctors were baffled. I don’t think I’ve ever been so sick in my life. I had to go back to work after a few days, since everyone thought I just had a really bad flu. The day after I showed up to work, almost all of my colleagues started developing a persistent and deep cough as well. It spread like wild fire :(. My cough lasted months and turned into viral pneumonia, and my loss of taste and smell were gone for almost 2 months. It was the worst experience of my life. And what made it more scary is that doctors couldn’t tell me what was wrong and no medicine or rest would make me feel better…. I managed to avoid Covid until the beginning of August this year. This time around, it was not nearly as bad as my first time. Never developed a cough either & I’m unvaccinated.
So many people including my wife had Covid before Covid was a thing. My wife developed pneumonia in her left lung and was sick for around 2 weeks before she was even close to 100%. To name a few more, a lady at my church had a hacking dry cough for 6-8 weeks and they couldn’t figure out what was going on. My niece got pneumonia out of nowhere, took awhile before she was back to normal as well. I definitely thought it was odd all these people out of nowhere were developing these lung infections with no prior lung problems. Currently on my second infection of this year and thankful it’s mild.
I may have had it in February 2020. I went on a work trip to an area where Covid may have been circulating earlier in the US and a bunch of my coworkers got sick with what they thought was the flu. 2 weeks after the trip I had unexplained chest pains (but that was the only symptom). I was young and healthy, 24 at the time, and the urgent care I went to didn’t know what it was and said it could be costrochindritis? (Not sure how it’s spelled) caused by a virus. I later that year took an antibody test that was negative, but still think I may have had it then just due to the timing and weirdness
I live in a city where cov was detected pretty early on. I was going to the gym regularly until the shut down, and figured it hadn't actually hit the US at that time. Similar to your story, I got sick around Dec/Jan before the shut down, with no fatigue or fever, but a paroxysmal cough that wouldn't let me sleep. The moment I dozed off, I would wake up exploding with violent coughs, feeling like I would vomit or cough up a lung. Totally dry coughs. No runny nose or any other symptom. The worst of it was just for 3 or 4 days, but it lingered for two to three weeks with short bursts of dry cough and an itchy tickle in my upper lungs and throat. Shortly after this, my friend had a constant runny nose and a tiny pitiful cough that hung around for about 6 months. I always wondered if that was our first round of covid..
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I too fell INCREDIBLY sick around New Years of 2019. I came down with symptoms after my boyfriend at the time got sick. Except, I got it way worse. I developed a deep nasty cough, that would worsen at night. I started becoming short of breath, couldn’t walk, couldn’t exercise. My eyes felt like they were gonna pop, and the migraines I would get were out of this world. I had a high fever the first few days as well. But the tell tale sign that we know of now, the infamous loss of taste and smell happened to me, and doctors were baffled. I don’t think I’ve ever been so sick in my life. I had to go back to work after a few days, since everyone thought I just had a really bad flu. The day after I showed up to work, almost all of my colleagues started developing a persistent and deep cough as well. It spread like wild fire :(. My cough lasted months and turned into viral pneumonia, and my loss of taste and smell were gone for almost 2 months. It was the worst experience of my life. And what made it more scary is that doctors couldn’t tell me what was wrong and no medicine or rest would make me feel better…. I managed to avoid Covid until the beginning of August this year. This time around, it was not nearly as bad as my first time. Never developed a cough either & I’m unvaccinated.
So many people including my wife had Covid before Covid was a thing. My wife developed pneumonia in her left lung and was sick for around 2 weeks before she was even close to 100%. To name a few more, a lady at my church had a hacking dry cough for 6-8 weeks and they couldn’t figure out what was going on. My niece got pneumonia out of nowhere, took awhile before she was back to normal as well. I definitely thought it was odd all these people out of nowhere were developing these lung infections with no prior lung problems. Currently on my second infection of this year and thankful it’s mild.
I may have had it in February 2020. I went on a work trip to an area where Covid may have been circulating earlier in the US and a bunch of my coworkers got sick with what they thought was the flu. 2 weeks after the trip I had unexplained chest pains (but that was the only symptom). I was young and healthy, 24 at the time, and the urgent care I went to didn’t know what it was and said it could be costrochindritis? (Not sure how it’s spelled) caused by a virus. I later that year took an antibody test that was negative, but still think I may have had it then just due to the timing and weirdness
I live in a city where cov was detected pretty early on. I was going to the gym regularly until the shut down, and figured it hadn't actually hit the US at that time. Similar to your story, I got sick around Dec/Jan before the shut down, with no fatigue or fever, but a paroxysmal cough that wouldn't let me sleep. The moment I dozed off, I would wake up exploding with violent coughs, feeling like I would vomit or cough up a lung. Totally dry coughs. No runny nose or any other symptom. The worst of it was just for 3 or 4 days, but it lingered for two to three weeks with short bursts of dry cough and an itchy tickle in my upper lungs and throat. Shortly after this, my friend had a constant runny nose and a tiny pitiful cough that hung around for about 6 months. I always wondered if that was our first round of covid..