Started sneezing last Monday, Headache and runny nose Thursday, runny nose and cough with body aches Friday. Headache is gone, body ache is gone, but the test is so positive it is glowing. 5 at work have tested positive since Friday.
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If the line turns blue, it’s a boy.
PS: Most people fly through it better than they do with a head cold. I wish that for you too. (Flying through. Not getting a head cold.)
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We used to give out forum badges to people who caught the Kung Flu when the panda-monia started. It should still be available to you on the admin section of your profile.
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I believe I had it twice. Second time it was like long cold, nothing serious but runny nose and chest congestion.
Second time that evening I starting feeling sick, early in the day I was driving around old friend for groceries etc. He isn’t able to drive…few days later he was sick. Almost ended up in hospital.
I was worried that I might have killed him.
So who knows…
I’m already feeling better. It’s just a drippy nose now. Feels like a mild sinus infection. I’m going to have to work from home most of the week.
I have never tested positive. Had all the vaccines. I give blood, so I know I have the antibodies.
It is possible I got it, and was asymptomatic.
Hope you recover completely, with no long term effects.
My wife has had it twice, no symptoms the second time. I think my son is coming down with it again. He isn’t acting real sick, just knows he is coming down with something. It took several days to develop for me, no headache or runny nose until Thursday, and then it was constant, but not overwhelming by any standard. The headache is pretty much gone, the runny nose is still here, but not drastic in any way. It isn’t in my chest at all.
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Thanks for the well wishes. When I had H1N1 it was a lot worse than this.
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H1N1 damn near killed my nephew. He survived a 107.4 degree fever when he was 5 years old.
I had it the first time it came around in the 70s, as a teenager. I lost over 20 pounds of body weight in 2 weeks from it. When it came around again, my, at the time, 5 year old son had the high fever also. It was touch and go for several days.
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I was looking at badges a few weeks back and was surprised to see how few have that one. There have got to be scores of us here who have had the Kung Fu Flu.
All a matter of bothering to let the mods know or not. They have to manually reward that one.
I now am down to a slight runny nose. No cough, no fever, no aches or pains. Self treatment was Ibuprofen, an expectorant, a decongestant, lots of fluids and 2 days rest.
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Wish you a speedy recovery.
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You are lucky, i have after three vaccines. Vaccines are not vaccines. Probably good treatment & natural immunity is better
I am not in the camp that believes the vaccines are ineffective. No question, though, it’s not an immunity.
But this summer I was on a tour to Israel. Toward the end, a lot of us were coming down with a cold.
When we returned to the States, nearly half of the 40 people on the tour tested positive for Covid. In general, though, those of us who were vaxxed had mild cases. All the ones who got it bad were not vaxxed.
Certainly this is just anecdotal. But it’s not an uncommon report.
I caught covid, my significant other is unvaccinated and did not. Must be the vitamines and ivermectin
I’m not going to bother. As insignificant as my bout with Covid was, to ask for the badge would be like John Kerry putting in for a Purple Heart for being stung by rice flung at him by a grenade that he stupidly threw too close to himself. 
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Me or my wife never got it. But then again, we didn’t give it much opportunity. I work alone, and my wife is retired.
That’s where I am. Last summer, I attended a multi-class high school reunion of 50-55 people aged 75 - 82. All of us were vaccinated, but about 1/3 of us (not including me) came down with Covid. In spite of our age, and that some people had significant heath issues, not one of those afflicted had serious symptoms and all recovered within a few days. Regardless of the anecdotal dangers of the vaccine, it did exactly what it needed to do … help ward off infection and reduce the effects in those who still contract the virus.
