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The Thriller said:
@leftyjace what were your symptoms? Did you have a blood oxygen monitor? How’s your smell and taste? I had covid last November and my smell and taste didn’t go away until about one week in. It’s still recovering as we speak.
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I started sneezing a lot,which is a main symptom for those that are vaccinated. Had a slightly sore throat. When I went down hard, it was all of the cold and flu symptoms - fever, chills, aches, coughing, phlegm/sputum, sinus pain, headaches, etc.
Yes I have a blood exogenous monitor. My O2 never went below 90, but it was close.
I never lost smell and taste, but my wife has lost both. She went down hard about 5-6 days after me.
 
leftyjace said:
I started sneezing a lot,which is a main symptom for those that are vaccinated. Had a slightly sore throat. When I went down hard, it was all of the cold and flu symptoms - fever, chills, aches, coughing, phlegm/sputum, sinus pain, headaches, etc.
Yes I have a blood exogenous monitor. My O2 never went below 90, but it was close.
I never lost smell and taste, but my wife has lost both. She went down hard about 5-6 days after me.
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Did you have any pain in your chest or sleeping issues? Or brain fog?

I didn’t have a fever. It was weird, In fact, I never even had much congestion or aches. I’ve had friends who were down for a week straight with chills, fever, and aches.

Mine started out with a slight cough and barely a sore throat. More like a dry throat. I got tested on a Monday and was planning on returning to work on wed but then I got my result Tuesday night. Which shocked me.

I had a few nights where I woke up at 2:00 am just super stimulated. Heart racing and sleep completely gone. But still no significant aches or pains. I’d usually be wide awake until 4:00 or 5:00 and then crash until 10:00am.

Thursday I had chest pain and breathing felt like someone was stepping onto my chest and compressing my rib cage. That’s what ****ing freaked me out. I threw everything I had at it hoping to avoid a hospital stay. Musinex, nasal spray, Advil, and hot showers.

Things improved. My sleep got better and the chest pain went away. Blood oxy never went below 90.

The second week I experienced more fatigue, brain fog, and lost smell and taste. I once opened a can of minced garlic to sense something. I huffed it and huffed it and couldn’t smell anything. Like a kid smelling glue. But then it burned my nose and I had a runny nose. Lol.

it took me a solid 15 days to return to work and my smell and taste still haven’t returned back to normal. But I had the original strain, not delta, and vaccines weren’t out when I got it. That made for a tasteless and sad thanksgiving last year. But I’m grateful that it wasn’t worse.
 
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Red said:
I don’t know why you insist on continuing to make a fool out of yourself like this. What does it possibly gain you? You were woefully wrong about Ars Technica as a highly respected outlet for science news. I even provided you the names of some of their staff, and contributors, and their qualifications in the biological sciences. You made a mistake. I called you on it. Just get over it.

You drew a Big Fail hand, of your own free will, because in your excitement and eagerness to post a “gotcha”, you never bothered to read their article on the rejection of germ theory by some. You never bothered, in this instance, to check the algorithm and standards The Factual went with in identifying good sources for information on the coronavirus. Somehow, they are not qualified to do this in your estimation? I’m not sure I have ever seen you actually address any information, and rebut it with your own information. All you do is cry “tabloid”, with no thoughtful rebuttals whatsoever. That’s just never going to cut it. I mean, Ars Technica is right up there with MIT’s journal, and other quality outlets and organizations. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Well, yeah, you are a troll, at least at times, so there’s that, and maybe there is only that. I’d like to think better of you than that, you seem to get along with some other members here, but whatever. The Factual’s list of outlets with reliable and factual coronavirus info was created early in the pandemic, but not much has changed in that regard. Ars Technica is still highly regarded on the subject. And they are well known for the depth of their analysis of scientific subjects. Nothing you say is going to alter that fact.

Edit: @JazzyFresh, I put you on ignore. First time I’ve used that feature. Since you’re seldom quoted by others here, that will at least minimize exposure to your toxic grievances.
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You definitely won’t regret that decision. He’s easily the most immature and worthless poster I’ve seen on this website. Nothing more than a bad troll. I hope more people do this to encourage him to either change or find another website to annoy.
 
Red said:
<Casual dismissal of useless poster [Read; Red is majority owner of Jazzyfresh]>

Edit: @JazzyFresh, I put you on ignore. First time I’ve used that feature. Since you’re seldom quoted by others here, that will at least minimize exposure to your toxic grievances.
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Solid mang. *fist bump*
 
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leftyjace said:
I started sneezing a lot,which is a main symptom for those that are vaccinated. Had a slightly sore throat. When I went down hard, it was all of the cold and flu symptoms - fever, chills, aches, coughing, phlegm/sputum, sinus pain, headaches, etc.
Yes I have a blood exogenous monitor. My O2 never went below 90, but it was close.
I never lost smell and taste, but my wife has lost both. She went down hard about 5-6 days after me.
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To add some context to this, the generally accepted rule for oxygen saturation used to be if a patient's O2 level is less than 95% reliably, consider administering oxygen via nasal cannula. <95% sets bells and whistles off, and is tracked religiously.
 
My brother in law lost his sense of smell completely. Had it in February, has never returned. He kind of hopes it never does.

Have a co-worker that also lost hers last year. She can apparently only smell things now that are very citrusy/sweet. Guess she was laughing last week driving down Highway 89 through places like Circleville that reek of manure while her family freaked out and she couldn’t smell a thing.
 
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Avery said:
My brother in law lost his sense of smell completely. Had it in February, has never returned. He kind of hopes it never does.

Have a co-worker that also lost hers last year. She can apparently only smell things now that are very citrusy/sweet. Guess she was laughing last week driving down Highway 89 through places like Circleville that reek of manure while her family freaked out and she couldn’t smell a thing.
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There are some perks to not having smell. But it does affect taste. And there was a time once where I left something burning without knowing because I couldn't sense the smoke.
 
The Thriller said:
There are some perks to not having smell. But it does affect taste. And there was a time once where I left something burning without knowing because I couldn't sense the smoke.
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I've always been told that they're exclusively linked. But You're the fourth person I know of to report they're not.
 
The Thriller said:
Did you have any pain in your chest or sleeping issues? Or brain fog?

I didn’t have a fever. It was weird, In fact, I never even had much congestion or aches. I’ve had friends who were down for a week straight with chills, fever, and aches.

Mine started out with a slight cough and barely a sore throat. More like a dry throat. I got tested on a Monday and was planning on returning to work on wed but then I got my result Tuesday night. Which shocked me.

I had a few nights where I woke up at 2:00 am just super stimulated. Heart racing and sleep completely gone. But still no significant aches or pains. I’d usually be wide awake until 4:00 or 5:00 and then crash until 10:00am.

Thursday I had chest pain and breathing felt like someone was stepping onto my chest and compressing my rib cage. That’s what ****ing freaked me out. I threw everything I had at it hoping to avoid a hospital stay. Musinex, nasal spray, Advil, and hot showers.

Things improved. My sleep got better and the chest pain went away. Blood oxy never went below 90.

The second week I experienced more fatigue, brain fog, and lost smell and taste. I once opened a can of minced garlic to sense something. I huffed it and huffed it and couldn’t smell anything. Like a kid smelling glue. But then it burned my nose and I had a runny nose. Lol.

it took me a solid 15 days to return to work and my smell and taste still haven’t returned back to normal. But I had the original strain, not delta, and vaccines weren’t out when I got it. That made for a tasteless and sad thanksgiving last year. But I’m grateful that it wasn’t worse.
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No considerable pain in the chest, just congestion and tightness from continuous coughing. Some sleeping issues, mostly because I couldn’t stop coughing! Brain fog… The jury’s out.
 
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