Caught covid finally

What a weird experience.

I go all of 2020 with the lockdowns and masking, then 2021 with questioning vax legitimacy and finally relenting after watching a few horror story infections nearby. I got what I assume is the BA-5 variant last week and it’s not quite what I expected.

At 51yo and three shots mine is like a weird cold…coughing fits, low fever for ~4 days, a lot of fatigue and body aches. My throat never got sore like with a cold, just more like a severe gag reflex. I didn’t get a full night’s sleep for five days and even now at day 8 I have messed up dreams. I never had any chest or breathing issues.

Apparently I was eligible for Pavloxid within the first five days but there are numerous reports of ‘Pav rebound’ where you get reinfected easier, so kinda glad I didn’t take it. My Dr suggested isolation for ten days as I’m still slightly symptomatic, even though I haven’t had a fever in four days now. I still tested positive yesterday, probably just viral garbage remnants.

Here’s the crazy part. They recently announced the current shots are based on the original Covid strain, so what’s going on is the ‘latest model’ is not lining up with the proper antibodies and infections are ramping up. My wife’s Dr is pushing the second booster but I had a lively ‘discussion’ about that and she admitted they are working on an omicron-specific booster this fall.

Yikes.

I had covid in Dec 19, dec of 2020, and dec 2021. I knew i had it the moment i felt weird. There is just a weird feeling about it that cannot really be explained. Feel better

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Myself, wife, and 12 of our friends all got it back in 2020. We weren’t very sick at all, I was probably the best of anyone. Barely knew I had it other than being a bit tired and loosing smell and taste.

Fast forward 1 1/2 years, I’m the only one that never got any shots. Already had it and wasn’t sick, so what’s the point of me getting a shot? Everyone else got theirs shots plus boosted when the time came. Christmas time my wife and friends we were with for a few days all got it again, this time worse than the first time. Me however, not a thing. Still slept in bed with my wife coughing all night, had them over for New Years while still they were still sick. This vaccine is a joke when it comes to this new variant. Maybe it’s just a massive coincidence, but my wife and now 4 close friends that all got all their jabs not only caught it again, but were worse the second time. I haven’t been sick a day since 2020, not even a mild cold.

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Lol… not a vaccine it is a shot.
Just like the flue shot… not called flu vaccine

Get to feeling better…take care.

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A flu shot is a vaccine. Where do you get this stuff?

Take care!

Vacinations ate a series of shots designed to make u inmune.
Were a shot is to boost your inmune to lessen the sintoms.
Thats is how i distinguish them

You can distinguish them however you like, but it doesn’t make it a true statement. They’re people who think the Earth is flat and say so, but, even with words spelled correctly, it doesn’t make it so. Stick with the food posts.

The earth isnt flat?
Most people distinguish them this way.
Guess down yonder in the boonies if it aint in the bibble, and u aint gun totting is wrong.

Oh no lol.

What did you start :joy:

Hope you feel better soon mate

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Yeah this is a sticky situation, technically a true vaccine will fully prevent you from getting the disease (polio etc) but these covid shots don’t do that…despite what was sold to us last year.

You have a long sordid history with the truth on this forum. But, you seem not to care.

from you not, you just glib and your snide comments get tiresome… go watch a soap opera

The last few years have been stressful for everyone and some subjects can be volatile. Let’s go back a notch if you all will and help BizzyB’s with the scaffolding tips.

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No one has ever got a the flu that they have been vaccinated against. Flu mutates. Polio doesn’t. Flu shot is a vaccine. My son made flu vaccines for Sequaris. My wife is an engineer for Biogen. I truly hope you get better soon.

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I’m hoping I get tiresome enough that you’ll quit posting. I got not truck with liars. Character flaw that just grates at me.

no but i guess that is all you have left, a forum for when you get borring.
types like you only understand tit for tat.
trying anything else is just a waste, so tit for tat.

I am totally being neutral with this question…is English your first language? Just curious. @Ikii