I went to bed with a dry cough, headache, and serious fatigue

[Shrek]

Pretty similar to the way I felt after my booster last month. Given the risk factors from my cardiac history I was a little stressed.

Woke up this morning feeling absolutely fine. Like I imagined the whole thing.

It's just unbelievably frustrating that ordinary, relatively benign symptoms put me in fear for my life, however temporarily. Ugh.

[JanMichael]

1. I understand the last two years have been traumatic.

If I even feel a scratch in my throat I feel like I'm going to explode.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I am pretty paranoid, too. I can't afford to get this stuff. nt

[SheltieLover]

3. Glad you are ok!

[agingdem]

4. from experience...omicron symptoms..not dry cough

scratchy throat, nonstop sneezing, gushing nose, stinging watery eyes, fatigue, headache, gooey cough, and drenching night sweats...the night sweats are the giveaway...three days of of the symptoms and then better...three weeks after the onset I still have that gooey cough but that's it...I'm vaxxed and boosted and I'm masked whenever I leave my house...and I still tested positive...have no idea where I got it..

[obamanut2012]

9. At least you are out that you're an antivaxxer

[agingdem]

12. I'm fully vaccinated and boosted and

waiting for the CDC is approve a fourth booster...

[femmedem]

14. Obamanut was replying to a troll, not to you.

The troll's first and only post was some anti-vax nonsense.

[agingdem]

16. good to know...

[obamanut2012]

26. Thanks!

[Scrivener7]

10. Glad you are better. Take care of yourself.

[Tommy Carcetti]

17. I didn't get the night sweats but I did get the scratchy throat

I also got a mucus cough, but not until after my contagious period had ended.

[paleotn]

5. Could have been one of the myriad of other viral pathogens common this time of year....

It's not like they all went away ceding the stage to covid alone.

[3Hotdogs]

6. Me? Figure it is something else.

Little bit of fatigue, 3 days now.

However, exposed/confirmed on 12/25.

[agingdem]

15. three weeks after testing positive and no more symptoms

I still test positive..I agree with the 5 day isolation once asymptomatic..

[IronLionZion]

7. Maybe your immune system fought it off quickly

you won't know for sure without testing. It could be anything, even allergies or a cold.

Fauci and Walensky have been on tv telling us that we are most contagious while still asymptomatic for COVID. For vaccinated folks, once we show symptoms it means our T cells are killing infected cells (regardless of variant) with deadly accuracy and it lowers our viral load very fast. The aches and fatigue are how our body feels when lots of cells are dying.

[Iris]

11. This is what I experienced. Symptoms 2 days before a positive test

Stuffy nose, sneezing, a little coughing and a lot of fatigue. I lost sense of smell for about 12 hrs.

Most importantly- NO shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.

My husband was completely asymptomatic. We are both triple vacced but his booster was a month after mine.

[IronLionZion]

13. Most vaccinated folks can defeat it before it destroys our lungs

not good to have shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. That's when people need to call a doctor. Otherwise we should be able to recover at home like any other virus.

[Iris]

21. Yes. So grateful for science and the vaccine

[lindysalsagal]

28. What I was thinking: The vaccine worked. Amen.

[ShazzieB]

18. I know exactly what you mean.

I had some mild symptoms back in September and ran right out and got rapid tested. The test came back negative. A few days later, my husband began experiencing the same exact synptoms, so we ran out and got him rapid tested. Negative.

He happened to be seeing his doctor for something else that week, and they decided to do a lab test, just to be on the safe side. (He's diabetic, therefore higher risk, and the rapid tests are less reliable.) That came back negative, too, thank gods.

I'm now sure neither of us had covid, because we had identical symptoms and the timeline was consistent with me having whatever it was first and giving it to him, but the whole thing was incredibly nerve wracking at the time, even though we were both fully vaxxed. (We've had our boosters since then.) Overreacting? I don't think so, because the thing is, you just never KNOW until the test results come back. I think this is just our new reality, that things we would have shrugged off in the before times now have a completely different and potentially ominous significance. We're still getting used to it, but eventually I think we'll learn to take it in stride.

It sucks, but we'll learn to deal with it. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

[msfiddlestix]

23. In the Before Times is how I tend to roll, but I get knocked in the head with a reality check

every now and then. Usually it's someone completely removed from my little sphere, but this week the exposure on xmas night is looming large over my head and wracking my nerves.



By the way, you're the second person in my world to use the "in the before times' vernacular. I love it, it describes everything to a T.

[Sympthsical]

19. I have 102 fever, congestion, light cough, stuffy head/ache, and fatigue

Pretty sure I picked it up from partner. Friends and family he hung out with over the holidays are sick, too. But there's no OTC tests, and test sites are backed up til the end of next week. So, there's no way to know.

I'm just allowing the possibility it's omicron and proceeding accordingly. It's either that or a bad head/chest cold.

We're both boosted. Not the worst. But not pleasant either. Lots of tea, napping, and advil.

[roamer65]

22. Sounds like a vaccinated relative.

She has CoVID.

[RobinA]

20. My Problem

is that I work in a high risk environment and have a headache most days of my life due to sinus problems. I worry endlessly, less for me than my 92 year old mother whom I live with. Both of us a vaxxed and boosted, but still...

[Shrek]

24. Looks like it was COVID after all

I got tested yesterday at my doctor's office and this morning they said it's positive.

I never felt unwell except for the mild symptoms last Wednesday, so I'm counting myself very fortunate.

[Strelnikov_]

25. Looks like IronLionZion's theory was correct

See Post 7

[ChazII]

29. No scratchy throat or sniffles or coughs but

I have been waking up dizzy this past few mornings. Everything not even related to COVID19 puts me into a nervous spin. My booster was 12/9 of last year.