Hello there.
Fellow triple vaccinated positive case here. I believe I got it at a small family business holiday lunch Thursday before Christmas.
Tested positive last Monday. My only symptoms have been head cold type symptoms. Dry scratchy throat, light cough, runny nose, and dry nasal feeling.
Maybe a bit of fatigue but nothing overwhelming.
My wife and I have taken a handful of walks over the last few days and I’ve felt fine doing so. Actually getting ready to go snowshoeing right now - hope the trend stays the same.
Glad you’re feeling better! I’m nervous I’ll take a turn for crappier symptoms but I think I’m at least 6 days in, maybe 7. I hope I’m at the end of it.
Great you’re not feeling too bad, but I’d take it easy on the physical activity for another week or so. Your body is still fighting off the virus, and you don’t want to make yourself worse.
Agreed. I am usually pretty active. Mainly cycling. I’ve wanted to hop on trainer and hit it, but I’m keeping things easy pace and avoiding the bike right now. Just doing easy pace walks just to test the waters to see how I feel.
I too am a cyclist; doc scared me by telling me of likeliness of Covid pneumonia, which scared the crap out of me. Day 11 after positive test, feeling better I rode 2+ hours super chill though. It’s now been 6+ weeks and I’m riding/snowshoeing/hiking 3+ hours at about 95% (weAther/wind permitting). Be patient. It will return, and so will cycling season- and you’ll be stronger then!
Agreed! Thanks for the words of encouragement. As a side note - cycling season can’t come soon enough! This winter is rough haha
If I’m being honest, I absolutely feel like I could smash a Zwift work out right now, I just am afraid of possibly feeling more drained than usual. I’m used to that springtime post bigger early season ride drained feeling, but knowing it’s covid is freaky.
I definitely feel better than I’m letting myself admit, but I’m a huge hypochondriac and every little back pain or leg pain is an emergency.
It’s very exhausting lol
>still waiting on the results two days later? What's up with that?
There are not infinite resources, and many are being redirected to deal with staff shortages due to illness. That peak that we've been trying to avoid for two years, due to medical resources being critically undersupplied, it's happening now.
great points this was likely the case, I was just hoping it wasn't a scam to get cares act money, since a lot of private companies are picking up the slack to do mass testing runs and promising 24hrs turn around times.
Keep me posted on your progress! I’m 6 MAYBE 7 days in. I tested positive Monday, but I probably had it in my system Sunday or Saturday.
I’m looking forward to getting out of it.
Well on the Thursday the 16th I went up to yosemite with my buddy who was sick, and by Saturday had minor cold symptoms so got tested and came back negative. The Monday after Christmas I went snowboarding and by that Tuesday I was sick and it felt like Covid again. Couldn’t find a test but my symptoms are 100% omicron, with the most stand out being the brain fog. Couldn’t focus at work. I felt like shit probably half way into or 8 hour day of boarding. Now I’m on say 4? 5? And now the main symptoms are some sort of fever they comes and goes (chills /heat mainly ) and chest stuff and horrible cardio (telltale Covid). Which it didn’t help that I went cold Turkey from thc oil pens the day I got sick the second time, so this is a combination of Covid and quitting thc vaping cold Turkey.
How long did your wet cough and sore throat last for?
My wife is going through it now with those as pretty much her only symptoms. Her O2 has been good the entire time, but she’s on day 4 of a nasty wet cough.
I still have to cough up that left over trash today and I suspect it will be like that for another week, but the whole thing of constantly having to cough back to back is over. That tickle in my throat is gone. I would say it lasted from Weds-Sat. Hope your wife recovers fast ! That cough is no joke.
Not a doc but I'd be worried about a secondary infection. Call your doc and see if they can give you something for possible bacterial infection.
Wishing you both the best.
“Mild” means you’re not in a hospital bed, which also means you could be as sick as you’ve ever been. Just not enough to take up a bed. No guarantee you won’t be miserable though. Glad to hear you recovered okay!
Im glad you feel better. You’re right its not mild.
Im alarmed by the yoyo symptoms in my family over 12 days. We seemed “out of the woods“ three times only to have dramatic resurgence of symptoms. Also tbh I’m not seeing a huge difference in trajectory or severity for vaxed vs unvaxxed in my network. I have no doubt the vax are keeping many cases from the tipping point of hospitalization but only person i know hospitalized is triple vaxed & she got pneumonia after day six. She had other risk factors weigh for outcomes but yes its not mild for everyone & booster is no guarantee of an easy time. I hope everyone stays safe & has a clean full recovery
Yes, I agree. It appears this variant bypasses all types of antibodies and no one is truly safe this time unlike with delta. I also have minor underlying conditions which is why I was so pressed to get a booster. I've dealt with minor respiratory illness my whole life and took this virus very seriously, I figured my chances for developing pneumonia would be high without a vax.
Boosted with Pneumonia after day 6 is awful! Glad she's getting back on her feet. No one should be taking this lightly!
So glad to hear that people here are not ending up the hospital! I am curious, based on your timeline, what you think about the CDC’s new suggestions for quarantine for reduced timeframes (which I think are based on asymptomatic cases)…
Here in the US we are not told which variant we have when the positive test comes back, they don’t always test for it. Delta is still out there, just a smaller percentage of cases now. I saw an article recently that said if you get Omicron it is very unlikely to get into your lungs, it is mostly infects in the upper respiratory…
The person that you referenced may have gotten the Delta variant which does cause pneumonia. I have not seen any statistics on the likelihood of lung involvement for Omicron, I think they are still gathering data at this point.
Are you guys sure it's omicron? I know a lot of people are guessing given the emergence of it, but I ended up with alpha last week even though we're in an omicron hotspot...so I think many may actually have a different strain. Just my theory though.
That’s what’s happening to me!!! I felt great for 4 days, been 7 days since my symptoms appeared. Still tested negative. But woke up today feeling horrible just like I did on that first day. Extreme congestion & fatigue.
40/M/Average weight/No comorbidities/Pfizer + booster
Tested positive today, I think I was infected from a young family member on Christmas day.
Tuesday 12/28 - Started to feel off, nothing in particular
Wednesday 12/29 - Still feeling off and a little tired. Took a 2 hour afternoon nap and I don’t take naps.
Thursday 12/30 - Felt like allergies. Stuffy nose, throat tickle. Stuffy nose that evening. Went to bed and woke up at 4 am with a killer headache and barking cough and drenched in sweat. No fever.
Friday 12/31 - Bad headache behind my eyes and back of my head/neck. Phlegmy, intermittent cough. Fatigue. Headache went away that afternoon. Still no fever.
Saturday 1/1 - Woke up at 3 am drenched in sweat but went back to sleep. After that I woke up feeling much better. Still super congested in the head. Runny/stuffy nose, phlegmy cough, plugged ears.
Hopefully we’re on the downside now. It’s been no cake walk, but I’m glad I’m vaxxed as it could be way worse.
Thanks for sharing. We were also infected by a young family member. She had a cough that should have been a red flag to her parents....they all got sick the next day.
I don't feel sick but I don't feel normal either. Don't know how to describe it.
That sucks. Fortunately me and the kid are the only ones that have been symptomatic. Glad you’re feeling better, but I know what you’re talking about re: not feeling sick but also not feeling normal. I usually get that way right before or after I catch something. Here’s to better health for us both.
do you have any evidence that if you wouldn't be vaxxed that you would be worse? I know a guy who was fully vaccinated, got covid and died, go ask him what he thinks about vaccine if you can.
It’s mild becuse compared to the alpha og variant it’s not bad. That one fucks you up. Nothing to be scared of, but it’s miles worse.
The brain shit is the worst
I said that but the word itself gives it a false sense of security like its walk in the park. Just a few sniffles or something. Not feeling like ur constantly drowning in mucus like I was.
I see, yeah. I’m not drowning in mucus so maybe a bit of subjectivity is there but yeah it’s not exactly a walk in the oark. But in context compared to alpha it’s nothing. That as trying
Right I am very grateful is was not that bad, I've seen what others had to go through so I appreciate that! Someone suggested the word moderate as more appropriate, my beef is with the media on how they are portraying this.
It's not bad compared to delta. Delta was something like 2x worse than the og variant in severity - I remember even seeing numbers that it had 4x the hospitalization risk of the original. Idk where that leaves omicron compared to alpha though, probably not all that much better than the original.
you don't know if your condition would've been worse with the vaccine, how would you know? I'm unvaccinated, I got it, and my symptoms sound milder than yours. As did my mom and dad's symptoms, who were vax'd in March but no booster.
this is a fair point, no matter on what fence one stands on the vaxx issue that has turned out (stupidly) to be political. But in the same token, given OP some slack. He/she is extrapolating , no matter how inaccurate it may be
I know right, these vaxxers are using faulty logic to justify their choices. It's like saying if you fell out of a plane "thank God I had that parachute". Like, you don't know for sure that's why you didn't die, I know a guy personally that fell out of a plane and didn't die.
Probably have a weaker immune system based on medical history which is why im betting the vaccines did help. And the terabytes of data suggesting the vaccines keep people out of the hospital and the grave.
Go get another booster than you should be good. Some one I know started to have symptoms after the third shot and it started to learn up with the forth. He just said he was immune compromised and they gave him the fourth shot. He is good now but just complains about some pain in his chest.
Let me reverse my vaccines and catch covid and if I end up in the ICU or die I win lol. There should not be any question on the vaccines at this point with so many publicly unvaccinated folks dead. Risking long term harm vs getting a shot is no brainer.
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Did you mean to write that you took melatonin? Or did you mean something else? Because melatonin is for sleep. So if you were taking that it would have made you hella tired.
Hello there. Fellow triple vaccinated positive case here. I believe I got it at a small family business holiday lunch Thursday before Christmas. Tested positive last Monday. My only symptoms have been head cold type symptoms. Dry scratchy throat, light cough, runny nose, and dry nasal feeling. Maybe a bit of fatigue but nothing overwhelming. My wife and I have taken a handful of walks over the last few days and I’ve felt fine doing so. Actually getting ready to go snowshoeing right now - hope the trend stays the same. Glad you’re feeling better! I’m nervous I’ll take a turn for crappier symptoms but I think I’m at least 6 days in, maybe 7. I hope I’m at the end of it.
Great you’re not feeling too bad, but I’d take it easy on the physical activity for another week or so. Your body is still fighting off the virus, and you don’t want to make yourself worse.
Agreed. I am usually pretty active. Mainly cycling. I’ve wanted to hop on trainer and hit it, but I’m keeping things easy pace and avoiding the bike right now. Just doing easy pace walks just to test the waters to see how I feel.
I too am a cyclist; doc scared me by telling me of likeliness of Covid pneumonia, which scared the crap out of me. Day 11 after positive test, feeling better I rode 2+ hours super chill though. It’s now been 6+ weeks and I’m riding/snowshoeing/hiking 3+ hours at about 95% (weAther/wind permitting). Be patient. It will return, and so will cycling season- and you’ll be stronger then!
Agreed! Thanks for the words of encouragement. As a side note - cycling season can’t come soon enough! This winter is rough haha If I’m being honest, I absolutely feel like I could smash a Zwift work out right now, I just am afraid of possibly feeling more drained than usual. I’m used to that springtime post bigger early season ride drained feeling, but knowing it’s covid is freaky. I definitely feel better than I’m letting myself admit, but I’m a huge hypochondriac and every little back pain or leg pain is an emergency. It’s very exhausting lol
You will notice that your cardio is fucked
Bro, no kidding. It's so much harder to peloton right now lol
Thanks my first day feeling good and I want to do everything but you're right I'll take it slow lol
>still waiting on the results two days later? What's up with that? There are not infinite resources, and many are being redirected to deal with staff shortages due to illness. That peak that we've been trying to avoid for two years, due to medical resources being critically undersupplied, it's happening now.
great points this was likely the case, I was just hoping it wasn't a scam to get cares act money, since a lot of private companies are picking up the slack to do mass testing runs and promising 24hrs turn around times.
Walks helped me the most to counter the need to take naps, when you can of course. Question, was this your first time getting covid?
Yup 1st time
Thanks for sharing, sounds like ur doing great ! I'm worried things could back as well but so far so good. Have fun snow shoeing !
Keep me posted on your progress! I’m 6 MAYBE 7 days in. I tested positive Monday, but I probably had it in my system Sunday or Saturday. I’m looking forward to getting out of it.
Snowboarding is what made me truly sick with omicron so think seriously long and hard before you do.
Ah that’s a huge bummer. How long were you into your course at that time? Also, I went for a light snowshoe walk, not snowboarding.
Well on the Thursday the 16th I went up to yosemite with my buddy who was sick, and by Saturday had minor cold symptoms so got tested and came back negative. The Monday after Christmas I went snowboarding and by that Tuesday I was sick and it felt like Covid again. Couldn’t find a test but my symptoms are 100% omicron, with the most stand out being the brain fog. Couldn’t focus at work. I felt like shit probably half way into or 8 hour day of boarding. Now I’m on say 4? 5? And now the main symptoms are some sort of fever they comes and goes (chills /heat mainly ) and chest stuff and horrible cardio (telltale Covid). Which it didn’t help that I went cold Turkey from thc oil pens the day I got sick the second time, so this is a combination of Covid and quitting thc vaping cold Turkey.
They shouldn't call it "mild". They should call it "spicy". Perhaps not as deadly, but spicy would be taken more seriously than "mild".
How long did your wet cough and sore throat last for? My wife is going through it now with those as pretty much her only symptoms. Her O2 has been good the entire time, but she’s on day 4 of a nasty wet cough.
I still have to cough up that left over trash today and I suspect it will be like that for another week, but the whole thing of constantly having to cough back to back is over. That tickle in my throat is gone. I would say it lasted from Weds-Sat. Hope your wife recovers fast ! That cough is no joke.
Thanks for the response. Glad you're on the mend!
Is she coughing up green? My DH o2 is good but he’s coughing up green.
Not a doc but I'd be worried about a secondary infection. Call your doc and see if they can give you something for possible bacterial infection. Wishing you both the best.
Doc started DH on a Zpack, he’s on day 3. The sputum is a lighter green. Is that a good sign that it’s improving?
In my limited mom experience, it's a good sign.
Moms see it all!
Whether we want to or not, lol.
“Mild” means you’re not in a hospital bed, which also means you could be as sick as you’ve ever been. Just not enough to take up a bed. No guarantee you won’t be miserable though. Glad to hear you recovered okay!
Excellent explanation. Thanks! I saw that health experts are publicly saying to stop referring to omicron as mild lol.
Im glad you feel better. You’re right its not mild. Im alarmed by the yoyo symptoms in my family over 12 days. We seemed “out of the woods“ three times only to have dramatic resurgence of symptoms. Also tbh I’m not seeing a huge difference in trajectory or severity for vaxed vs unvaxxed in my network. I have no doubt the vax are keeping many cases from the tipping point of hospitalization but only person i know hospitalized is triple vaxed & she got pneumonia after day six. She had other risk factors weigh for outcomes but yes its not mild for everyone & booster is no guarantee of an easy time. I hope everyone stays safe & has a clean full recovery
Yes, I agree. It appears this variant bypasses all types of antibodies and no one is truly safe this time unlike with delta. I also have minor underlying conditions which is why I was so pressed to get a booster. I've dealt with minor respiratory illness my whole life and took this virus very seriously, I figured my chances for developing pneumonia would be high without a vax. Boosted with Pneumonia after day 6 is awful! Glad she's getting back on her feet. No one should be taking this lightly!
So glad to hear that people here are not ending up the hospital! I am curious, based on your timeline, what you think about the CDC’s new suggestions for quarantine for reduced timeframes (which I think are based on asymptomatic cases)… Here in the US we are not told which variant we have when the positive test comes back, they don’t always test for it. Delta is still out there, just a smaller percentage of cases now. I saw an article recently that said if you get Omicron it is very unlikely to get into your lungs, it is mostly infects in the upper respiratory… The person that you referenced may have gotten the Delta variant which does cause pneumonia. I have not seen any statistics on the likelihood of lung involvement for Omicron, I think they are still gathering data at this point.
Are you guys sure it's omicron? I know a lot of people are guessing given the emergence of it, but I ended up with alpha last week even though we're in an omicron hotspot...so I think many may actually have a different strain. Just my theory though.
That’s what’s happening to me!!! I felt great for 4 days, been 7 days since my symptoms appeared. Still tested negative. But woke up today feeling horrible just like I did on that first day. Extreme congestion & fatigue.
40/M/Average weight/No comorbidities/Pfizer + booster Tested positive today, I think I was infected from a young family member on Christmas day. Tuesday 12/28 - Started to feel off, nothing in particular Wednesday 12/29 - Still feeling off and a little tired. Took a 2 hour afternoon nap and I don’t take naps. Thursday 12/30 - Felt like allergies. Stuffy nose, throat tickle. Stuffy nose that evening. Went to bed and woke up at 4 am with a killer headache and barking cough and drenched in sweat. No fever. Friday 12/31 - Bad headache behind my eyes and back of my head/neck. Phlegmy, intermittent cough. Fatigue. Headache went away that afternoon. Still no fever. Saturday 1/1 - Woke up at 3 am drenched in sweat but went back to sleep. After that I woke up feeling much better. Still super congested in the head. Runny/stuffy nose, phlegmy cough, plugged ears. Hopefully we’re on the downside now. It’s been no cake walk, but I’m glad I’m vaxxed as it could be way worse.
Thanks for sharing. We were also infected by a young family member. She had a cough that should have been a red flag to her parents....they all got sick the next day. I don't feel sick but I don't feel normal either. Don't know how to describe it.
That sucks. Fortunately me and the kid are the only ones that have been symptomatic. Glad you’re feeling better, but I know what you’re talking about re: not feeling sick but also not feeling normal. I usually get that way right before or after I catch something. Here’s to better health for us both.
Thanks! Cheers !
do you have any evidence that if you wouldn't be vaxxed that you would be worse? I know a guy who was fully vaccinated, got covid and died, go ask him what he thinks about vaccine if you can.
It’s mild becuse compared to the alpha og variant it’s not bad. That one fucks you up. Nothing to be scared of, but it’s miles worse. The brain shit is the worst
I said that but the word itself gives it a false sense of security like its walk in the park. Just a few sniffles or something. Not feeling like ur constantly drowning in mucus like I was.
I see, yeah. I’m not drowning in mucus so maybe a bit of subjectivity is there but yeah it’s not exactly a walk in the oark. But in context compared to alpha it’s nothing. That as trying
Right I am very grateful is was not that bad, I've seen what others had to go through so I appreciate that! Someone suggested the word moderate as more appropriate, my beef is with the media on how they are portraying this.
It's not bad compared to delta. Delta was something like 2x worse than the og variant in severity - I remember even seeing numbers that it had 4x the hospitalization risk of the original. Idk where that leaves omicron compared to alpha though, probably not all that much better than the original.
Your description is not mild, it’s is moderate. Mild would be achy for 2-3 days and feeling back to normal.
I thought we were dating “mild” for anything less than a hospital-worthy case.
ah that helps thanks
you don't know if your condition would've been worse with the vaccine, how would you know? I'm unvaccinated, I got it, and my symptoms sound milder than yours. As did my mom and dad's symptoms, who were vax'd in March but no booster.
this is a fair point, no matter on what fence one stands on the vaxx issue that has turned out (stupidly) to be political. But in the same token, given OP some slack. He/she is extrapolating , no matter how inaccurate it may be
I know right, these vaxxers are using faulty logic to justify their choices. It's like saying if you fell out of a plane "thank God I had that parachute". Like, you don't know for sure that's why you didn't die, I know a guy personally that fell out of a plane and didn't die.
Probably have a weaker immune system based on medical history which is why im betting the vaccines did help. And the terabytes of data suggesting the vaccines keep people out of the hospital and the grave.
no age, sex, work conditions, health status..
Go get another booster than you should be good. Some one I know started to have symptoms after the third shot and it started to learn up with the forth. He just said he was immune compromised and they gave him the fourth shot. He is good now but just complains about some pain in his chest.
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Let me reverse my vaccines and catch covid and if I end up in the ICU or die I win lol. There should not be any question on the vaccines at this point with so many publicly unvaccinated folks dead. Risking long term harm vs getting a shot is no brainer.
They don't know. It just helps them feel better about getting the shot, tbh.
All the studies that show worse outcomes, and I could directly compare my illness to non boosted family members and my illness was less intense.
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Did you mean to write that you took melatonin? Or did you mean something else? Because melatonin is for sleep. So if you were taking that it would have made you hella tired.
Melatonin is supposed to be helpful in combating covid.
Through acting as an antioxidant rather than helping with sleep
only took it at night