Reblog for results and tell me more in the tags!! If you haven't had COVID, don't vote—just reblog it with a reference tag so you can see the results when it closes.
This is NOT a remotely scientific poll, so please don't take it too seriously or get too technical with it. I'm just curious whether smelling smoke/fire that isn't really there is a common symptom for COVID survivors. Since I had omicron in June 2022, it has happened to me several times.
(Also, please forgive me for making the poll USA-centric—I chose the timeline I was most familiar with as a US American myself. If you're not American, absolutely feel free to vote.)
so, me and Brian have covid for the first time ever. our years-long no covid streak is finally over. here is the timeline.
sometime last week: one of his coworkers comes in sick to work with what he thinks- and maintains- is just a cold, although we have had NO other contact with ANYONE sick, so you do the math.
Sunday, Oct 29th: Brian has a very slight sore throat, which he attributes to snoring harder than usual (which he was). this isn't out of the ordinary. has no other symptoms at first.
Halloween: i have a pretty fucking good day carving pumpkins and then hanging out on a voice call watching movies with a friend who lives in another state. late at night, i start feeling sinusy. pass out all at once. also, Brian has realized he might be coming down with something.
Wednesday, Nov 1st: wake up with the worst fucking sinus headache i can remember having, like ever. note that this is very distinctly a sinus headache. the day wears on and the headache does not go away. nose becomes slightly stuffy/runny. i start feeling Off. Brian, who now feels like he has a cold, takes a covid test just to be sure, which for the first time comes back positive. i do not bother testing because there's no way in hell that he has it and i don't. fever hits me like a train, i spend the night freezing or boiling or both. head still hurts. body aches set in, but almost exclusively lower back and down. my hips, knees, and leg muscles all hurt. spend the night sleeping fitfully.
Today, Thursday Nov 2nd: Brian is the same as he has been. my fever is either down or gone completely. still have body aches but noticeably less severe. still having mild cold symptoms, very slight cough, sneezing, stuffy/runny nose. also fucking hives appear on my legs. HIVES. i have never had hives in my LIFE. this is so FUCKING weird
Biiiiiiiitch What? Thousands of people were dying a day in NYC, emergency rooms were overflowing. The maskless were perfecting fine with spreading Covid, and I practically had an anxiety attack every time I went to the store. And there’s outrage over the police in Minnesota killing black men in front of perma traumatized children and teenagers. The teenager who filmed the murder still traumatized from seeing the wickedness in front of her. This is what you wanna go back to ? Three years later? Biiiiiiiittttttttttcccccvh what?????
I’m really curious to know if other ADHDers who’ve had COVID have more issues with their working memory than before? Granted, I’m still recovering, but while my body feels about 80% I can barely keep up with one of my recorded uni lectures with captions. Captions are usually The Thing that makes lectures much more accessible for me, but now they might as well not even be there.
Just got covid for the first time and honestly it’s so fucked. I’m having too many emotions to count.
I’m scared. Scared that I’ll get long covid, and scared that it will make my already existing disabilities worse. Scared that I will get ignored or brushed aside as a fat, disabled woman by the medical field once again.
Scared I’ll have worse health outcomes clots/heart attack/stroke. And at this point ALL the people I love have had covid and I’m scared for them too.
Scared that I’ll fall behind in law school. And mad that I have to worry about that. Mad that my law school no longer has accommodations for recorded lectures, longer test times, or excused absences.
And I’m grateful. Grateful for my vaccines and paxlovid. Grateful for my community which has been so wonderful at bringing me food and medicine and support.
Please wear your masks and get your boosters. Please
my parents have been acting scarily unconcerned about some of my bad covid symptoms (e.g. heart rate over 160bpm when standing up, tachycardia when lying down, coughing up blood, body temp going from feverish to near hypothermia in less than an hour) that it's no wonder that when I complain of my chronic illness their response is just "oh maybe you just need to sit in the garden and get some fresh air". they just fundamentally don't understand ANYTHING as a health concern
Covid, continued: I'm once again housebound for at least the next few days
My souvenirs of my trip to Brazil last week for Web Summit Rio are no longer limited to my conference badge and a few items of event swag, because it appears that I also imported a case of Covid from that gathering.
My first heads-up that I might have repeated last year’s pattern–go to an event in a new-to-me country, pick up Covid there, test positive at home only after a few days of mild…
If only children came with gauges or even an owner’s manual! Deciphering symptoms is an important part of being a parent and in keeping your child safe without rushing to the doctor at the drop of a hat.
Am worried the occasional tremors I have started getting in my hands recently are a fun and exciting new long COVID symptom to add to the laundry list.
so apparently i have a lasting covid symptom of brain fog. it’s terrible, i already have adhd and it just makes everything so bad :( i felt for a sec that maybe my adhd symptoms got scary worse as i already kinda do have brain fog sometimes but never as bad as this.
if you’ve recently gotten covid, recovered but feel “slower” than usual please consider getting it checked, it’s not your fault :)