It took me 9 days to test positive after my Daughter and wife pozzed. I went through many tests prior to that even a PCR 6 days out. Finally had more significant symptoms (lots of sneezing and constant runny nose) then tested positive both at home and PCR.
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I tested positive today on a home test. Still don’t have much in the way of symptoms. Slight sore throat, slight cough. Had a bad headache but Tylenol put that down.
Rest of the family has turned the corner. My wife definitely had the worst of it.
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Study shows even mild/asymptomatic cases are raising the risk of heart problems. Study is before vaccines, they’re working on a study among the vaccinated now. But the fact that mild/asymptomatic cases still cause problems is not a great sign imo, although perhaps that won’t translate to mild cases among the vaccinated.
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But what are the numbers here? If I got Covid did my risk of a serious heart issue go from 10% to 20% or from 1% to 2% or from 0.1% to 0.2%? All are bad but they are wildly different phenomenon.
The context that is missing for me is how similar or not to other respiratory diseases. So, for example, my “look on google for 30 seconds” medical training tells me that a similar pattern exists for pneumonia:
https://www.samhealth.org/about-samaritan/news-search/2020/01/13/pneumonia-increases-danger-to-heart
So along with @mosdef’s question, I’d want to know whether the longer-term heart problems are more consequential for COVID than for other respiratory viruses, or whether they’re in the same ballpark.
Here’s the study. Best I can tell the risks are 50 to 140% higher and the incident rates are between 4 per 1,000 and 45 per 1,000. The increases and the rates vary significantly by type of problem.
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This is probably the best graph from the paper to look at.
Increases in problems among the non-hospitalized are non-trivial.
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Ballparking it by eyesight, it looks like about a 2 per 100 increase in cardiac problems for non-hospitalized covid.
My guess is vaccination will help with that, but I wouldn’t be confident in more than maybe 50% protection against it.
My GF had to make an emergency trip to Chicago last week due to the suicide of a close friend. She comes back Saturday night and tells me she started getting allergies last hour of the flight for some odd reason. Didn’t think much of it but she tested positive after waking up feeling worse.
So she’s been isolating in her room since yesterday.
I woke up today with Diarrhea and a scratchy throat. Similar to how I started symptoms back in October. I tested negative on a rapid test this Morning. Maybe two soon? We were both boosted in December. Guess the booster immunity has waned.
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Wondering if I have covid myself. Feels a lot like allergies and tis the season for it with the sudden change in weather. However, this has been going on way too long to be just allergies.
See if I can grab some at-home tests at the pharmacy. Apparently, the pharmacy near me runs out of stock every morning.
Yeah my allergies kicked into full gear for the season a week or so before I got covid, completely fucked up my judgment on whether I was really sick or not. Probably tested a good 36-48 hours later than I should have as a result.
The study is for post-acute sequelae, so the first 30 days after infection are excluded. They don’t do a breakdown of when complications occurred aside from that.
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Yeah I cast about for a word a bit before going with “non-trivial”. Like its not a massive deal but it’s not nothing either. The hazard ratios are fairly small but they add up over the range of possible conditions.
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EDIT: PCR test confirms it of course.
Tested positive on an antigen test. Awaiting PCR test to confirm results.
Technician said the results for the antigen test came up almost immediately. I assume this means that I have a high viral load. So she started the quarantine today rather than waiting for the PCR results.
I’m honestly shocked. There were two other instances where I felt sicker than this with covid symptoms and didn’t have covid. Truth is that this is the least sick I’ve been while technically still sick.
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well boo to covid, glad you’re not feeling too bad
Thanks.
I thought I was experiencing seasonal allergies due to the sudden (and appreciated) change in weather. I have a runny nose and cough once every 15 minutes or so. As close to asymptomatic as one can be. Lucky that I decided to take the precaution to get a test instead of sticking with the allergy theory.
Hmm, I’ve basically had this for 7-10 days. But haven’t thought much of it because I had this on occasion before COVID existed. Might have to try an at-home test
Just gonna fucking suck to tell my students since some of them are graduating this week.
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Boosters are wearing off.
I mean l got mine almost exactly 6 months ago.
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