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    Default Roll Call: How Many Already Personally Know Somebody Who Has/Had Coronavirus?

    Whether you knew it for certain or even just merely suspect it.

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    I personally got sick exactly three weeks ago from today. All the negative symptoms hit me hard and suddenly, and at the time I assumed it was the flu. I waited a few days and went to the doctor three days later. Tested negative for strep. At the time, the doctor diagnosed me with a "really bad cold" but gave me a script for antibiotics to use if I wasn't already feeling better. I trusted the doctor's judgement. Three days after that, I start taking the antibiotics and continued until I finished it up ten days later. The antibiotics I don't think really helped, because normally whenever I've had something like Strep or UTI it helps things out quick within 1-3 days.

    I keep reading up on coronavirus symptoms and I honestly suspect that I had it. Either that, or a really nasty flu that turned into pnemonia. But I've never dealt with lung type of stuff before and normally a flu has resolved itself within a week all by itself. Not the 2.5 weeks it took me this time around. It SUCKED and of course I start getting better just in time for everything including clubs to shut down. Sad.

    It would be nice to be able to get a blood test done to see whether or not I've already developed antibodies. But of course somebody like me (already recovered) certainly wouldn't be a priority.
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    Somebody like me, who doesn't even 100% for sure know it was coronavirus, will not end up in any type of statistic floating around the news. Maybe with testing starting to be more prominent, things will start to change. But in the meantime, I made this thread to try to get better anecdotal stories of people's personal experiences currently.

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    I know nobody.

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    I had SOMETHING last month, whatever it was lasted 3 weeks. I had a fever & was coughing my head off, but also had the stuffed up & later runny nose. When it finally started to clear up after 1.5 weeks, I got sore throat issues & at one point completely lost my voice.

    I thought maybe I had 2 different back-to-back viruses. Now I see they're saying corona can cause all of that - I didn't know it could cause the stuffed/runny nose issues too.

    I would not be surprised if it WAS corona. The first case here was a couple weeks before at the university, which is 4 miles away. We get students in all the time + the ones who work there. A ton of my co-workers had whatever it was. One told me on the 2nd day when I thought I felt better, "No you don't, it's a trap, it gets way worse before you get better".

    One of the managers had something nasty too last weekend. He had a fever & was sweating & coughing all night. It was disgusting that he refused to go home. He did go to the hospital to get tested the next day, we never heard back about it though.
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    I could possibly have had it. Symptoms like Selina M describes plus fatigue that lasted 3 weeks. Just now getting my energy back, still coughing and sleeping with a humidifier on every night so I can breathe better.

    I wish there were a way to know for sure! I'm still taking every precaution for the forseeable future.


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    I had some similar symptoms about three weeks ago as well. But it was pretty mild. Though I've heard it can be very mild, especially if you are healthy, I kinda doubt that's what I had.
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    I just got over something mild myself as of yesterday. My symptoms started about 2 weeks ago & were easily better with ibuprophen. Felt fine until this past weekend I had a dry cough which was only here & there with some chest congestion like feeling but went away as of today. I didn't have a fever once though luckily.

    I was having THE worst anxiety about having it though.

    I stayed home & didn't go anywhere as instructed thankfully, even to the doctor, bc if I wasn't suffering with a high fever or difficulty breathing, why possibly expose myself even more by going into a doctor's office.
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    no. but this whole thing is making me feel abnormally paranoid to the point where any slight sniffle, body ache, dry cough and im like ..... omg! am in early stage coronavirus?

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    Quote Originally Posted by miss.a.p1600 View Post
    no. but this whole thing is making me feel abnormally paranoid to the point where any slight sniffle, body ache, dry cough and im like ..... omg! am in early stage coronavirus?

    I feel you omg LOL not funny though
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    Quote Originally Posted by miss.a.p1600 View Post
    no. but this whole thing is making me feel abnormally paranoid to the point where any slight sniffle, body ache, dry cough and im like ..... omg! am in early stage coronavirus?
    Well the wall of 'I don't know any mfs that sick' is over......found out a person at a place I attend regularly has it but I don't know exactly who yet because you know hippa laws and what not.....

    It's finally become real......

    Gag me now

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    I had the flu over New Years, spent NYD in with the Doc. How fun is that? Not. Thankfully, I recovered in a week or so and I've been fine since.

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    Default Re: Roll Call: How Many Already Personally Know Somebody Who Has/Had Coronavirus?

    Was extremely sick with something similar to the flu just a few months before this virus hit. (Worst I've had in a long time)
    It was a nasty illness where I could not stop hacking and coughed so much I couldn't sleep at night without some over the counter medicine.
    Thought I was dying the first week of getting sick and could hardly breath, then one day I coughed so hard I heard a pop in my chest, underneath my breast.

    Every time I tried to cough after, took a breath or even sneezed felt nasty painful. Had to put my leg up, stick a pillow under me, grab the area and cough lightly. At times I cried feeling desperate to lay down in the bed, rather than sitting up most nights. It got worse so I made an appointment with a doctor who requested X-rays the same day, found out I had fractured my rib underneath my breast from coughing so hard.
    (Thank you heating pads and bath soaks!) ^o^ With this illness I got over, I don't know if I can handle getting Corona virus..

    As for someone being sick recently, just yesterday Hubs boss was hacking all throughout the meeting call from home, sounded strange and we both started suspecting he might have Corona virus.

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