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Originally Posted by Barnes
I tested positive for Covid last Saturday for the first time. Honestly, it's the sickest I have been in my adult life and I had the flu 2 weeks before. 3x vaxed.
I felt totally fine in the morning, and I dropped my son off at baseball practice and while waiting for him in the car began to feel really uncomfortable and sore. He finished his first session, and we went for lunch. I started shivering uncontrollably in the mall. Dropped him back off for the afternoon practice and started to heat up. By the time I got home, I had a fever of 103 and stayed in bed for the next three days. My son developed symptoms 2 days later but never tested positive. He was back to normal the next day but he's already missed so much school and ball this fall already.
It was Friday before I could put in a full day's work and that left me exhausted and I am still testing positive 10 days later. I had no sore throat or cough. I wasn't even congested. Anything with mint now tastes like coconut. Toothpaste, gum all coconut. Anything citrusy tastes like sweat. So bizzare. Covid is no joke. Wife never caught it this time.
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Yeah, covid is definitely no joke. A lot of people seem to just view it as the flu, but even mild cases seem to lead to long-term symptoms for many people and multiple infections seem to increase the chances of long-term symptoms.
This was a pretty interesting news segment on long-covid last week. One of the most worrying things brought up in it is how a UofT prof who researched long-SARS said that none of the people he researched who had long-term symptoms from that coronavirus ever regained their normal lives.