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Submitted by ITB2012 on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 4:48pm

I was watching an interview and the person was describing their symptoms, which are some of the common ones and some that are not listed specifically, BUT are symptoms that I've had recently and for me were attributed to a sinus infection and possible other issues that we will pursue after this is over (thank goodness diagnosed over a telehealth appointment so I didn't have to go in). I showed the video to DH. Didn't say a word, just asked him to watch it. When the guy got to the part about his symptoms DH looks at me, like "holy crap", and also says that maybe I had/have it.

My first comment was that I possibly gave it to DS (though going back two weeks, I could have caught at an event for DS at his college) and now DS had better stay at XHs an extra week or two than we originally had agreed (so now over a month before he should come back), just to be sure. And, the skids should not come over because this apparently can cycle AND DH may be infected and needs to watch himself.

I could be totally wrong but I am usually the outlier on medical things. I'm the one who gets all the rare symptoms, the one who gets all the rare side-effects from drugs. So there's a very real possibility I am infected.

I have a GPS app and went through where I've been. I have been very, very few places in the last two weeks and was really careful about what I touched. I'm hoping that means I didn't spread it to anyone.

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Submitted by hereiam on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 4:53pm

That is what is so scary, there are SO many different symptoms and it can be different for everybody. Not to mention, those who have NO symptoms. Unless tested, none of really know if we have it or not.

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Submitted by ITB2012 on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 4:57pm

I went back two weeks and I did visit my grandmother in the nursing home! That's the thing I'm most upset about. I am terrified I gave it to her or someone in the nursing home. I went straight to her room, I am pretty sure I didn't kiss her or hug her goodbye because I had just gotten over what I thought was a stomach bug---which could have been my first round of the virus.

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Submitted by Cooooookies on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 2:50am

I'm the outlier on sickness too and really do think I had it.  One of the symptoms for people with "weak immune systems" is nausea.  I had that by the truck load.  Along with sore throat first, coughing then settled into my chest.  Aching like crazy.  Not even a headache...it literally felt like the bones in my face were going to explode.  My fingers hurt like I'd been scrubbing a floor with wool for 18 hours straight.  Strangest and most awful aches and sickness I'd ever known.  Kept asking DH what in the word did I get?

Pretty darn sure it was the coronovirus.

Hope you feel better soon hun.

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Submitted by ITB2012 on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 8:23am

Sinuses--full above my eyes and in my cheeks. So much pressure I can hear a rushing sound in one ear, my vision on that side is blurry, it feels like my eye is swollen, and my face on that same side is partially numb. I have a very slight sore throat, more like my lymph nodes hurt. Some sneezing. No fever. About two and a half weeks ago I also had a bout of what we thought was norovirus--huge nausea, my GI system shot everything straight through if I was able to eat, and a fever over 100 for a couple days that started with a spike to 103.

Now this could all be unrelated. But the interviewee had all the facial issues. They gave me Zithromax and it's made a big dent but I thought that even though it's viral they've had some luck with that and something else in combo. 

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Submitted by lieutenant_dad on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 9:53am

An antibody test was approved earlier this week. My guess is that they'll make that available to folks who had symptoms so they can track spread and immunity.

I understand the frustration with this. My mom is an MA, and she has been exposed to 3-4 COVID patients who didn't disclose their symptoms before arriving at the doctor's office. Her coworker got sick, and then my mom got sick a few days later. All the COVID symptoms, including change to taste and smell. We were all 100% sure she had it, but she got tested and it came back negative. She's on a round of antibiotics and steroids (she has COPD and gets bronchitis super easy).

There are tons of viral infections that go around all year, and lots of folks with allergies are going to get sinus infections here soon just because it's the season for it. Until we have good testing, it'll be impossible to know who all has it.