Not to my knowledge, but it’s more than likely that I have had it. My daughter had it in May 2022, but I didn’t get sick. I tested, but not over and over, but she slept with me, breathing all over me. I can’t imagine that it didn’t pass to me.
Post by Velar Fricative on Nov 20, 2023 7:05:22 GMT -5
Me - Twice DH - Once DD1 - Twice DD2 - Once
We’ve only had transmission in our house once though (DD1 spread it to me this summer). DD2 was exposed sooooo much, including at home and everywhere else, and was the last one to get the vaccine due to age and only just got it for the first time in August from Disney lol.
Me- Once, very faint line for one day, bad headache for a day. Would not have testing if DH wasn't positive. DH- Once. Full on COVID. DD- Never. DS- Twice. Very mild symptoms both times. Once before and once after vaccination.
Post by underwaterrhymes on Nov 20, 2023 7:12:52 GMT -5
My youngest and I have had it twice. My oldest and H have had it once. We have had all the vaccines and also test any time we have any symptoms. We probably wouldn’t have known the boys or H had it, otherwise, because their symptoms were very mild - mostly sniffles. I have taken Paxlovid both times I’ve had it and it’s made a huge difference for me with symptoms as well.
DH: started getting really bad symptoms right away. Took Paxlovid and it didn't worsen.
Me: initial symptoms were like a cold for the first week. Second week started getting all kinds of nerve pain on the left side of my scalp and mouth, had a terrible, terrible breakout of both cold sores and mouth ulcers (confirmed by a doctor) also only on the left side, and had to go on antivirals for the cold sores. It caused extreme pain for at least a week or two in my mouth and it hurt my teeth to even breathe. I don't recall ever even having a cold sore before, but something about Covid activated it in an awful way. It was probably at least a month before all the nerve pain on my scalp and teeth completely went away. I also never tested positive despite using the same tests and method as DH and DS.
DS: minor cold symptoms
DD: she was just a baby and had a moderate fever, cried a lot, and wanted to be held constantly for a couple of days.
I don't know how, but none of us have ever tested positive. Even after our Disney trip. I'm assuming we've either been asymptomatic or had such mild symptoms we didn't test. My mom has tested positive twice with little to no symptoms, but my dad hasn't. So strange.
Me: No idea. My DH, mom and I all had something that met the symptom profile in early January 2020. Mom had been visiting her great-grandson in the NICU several days a week. He was a preemie who was being treated by a doctor who had been in China for 2 weeks visiting family in mid-December 2019. Mom (then 83) ended up in the ER and then hospitalized for a week. She was treated with steroids, a bronchoscopy and O2 support and did pretty well considering her age and COPD/asthma. Her pulmo believes the virus was circulating an it's very probable that she had OG COVID. DH, DS and I also got URI/flu around that time that came with a lingering cough for DH.
I had a known exposure 10 days ago. My hair stylist tested positive the day after I spent 2 1/2 hours in his salon getting cut and color. He even did my shampoo because his assistant was out running an errand. I tested on days 3, 5 and 8 and remained negative and asymptomatic.
Mom doesn't drive, so I arranged for someone to take her to PT instead of me to be safe. This person, who is extra careful because she's just finished chemo) had a positive test two days after driving mom and having lunch with her. Mom was negative Saturday. I will test her again before I take her to PT this afternoon. She was coughing badly Saturday but that's kind of her baseline.
DS brought COVID home for Christmas 2022. He works around kids. Young ones. Indoors. They sing. He, DH, and mom tested positive within seconds of testing. I tested for 4 more days before having an "is that a line?" kind of result; following tests were negative. They did Paxlovid; mom did "rebound" and did a second round, but she did pretty well. All of us were vaxed-to-the-max. DS and DH were felt crummy (not as bad as man-cold) and I remained asymptomatic. My PCP thinks I probably fought it off.
My niece and her DH both got the J&J vaccine. I don't know if either had any boosters. She mostly works from home and has caught COVID at a wedding in fall 2021 (all but 2 people attending this large wedding caught COVID including the bride) and twice after hanging with friends. Her DH caught it the first time but dodged it the other 2 times-- he has his own business, so they isolate unless they're both sick.
I have only 2 friends who have dodged it. One wears a mask (an N95 respirator) always and doesn't really see people indoors as a rule. Her DH was in the hospital for 6 weeks this summer and died. She was masked the entire time bedside and at the funeral. She's immunodeficient and has an in-home molecular test kit. Her immune system doesn't always react to vaccines and the antibody tests would be pointless because she does IVIG monthly. The other friend has been lucky AF. He traveled internationally once vaccines were available (including a week in Italy and a 3-week bike tour of China) as well as visiting his un-vaxxed family in ID.
Everyone in my house has had it once. DD1 got it first in August 2022 and it was very mild - just a headache, a little stuffiness, very low-grade fever (and typically when she gets a fever, it's 102 or above - this was like 99.5 for a day). She was mostly just annoyed that she couldn't go to a fun camp that week. She stayed away from DH because he had a big meeting on his calendar and needed to travel, but the rest of us all hung out especially after he left. No one else ever tested positive or had any symptoms that time.
Then DD2 started the domino effect for the rest of us in late Jan 2023. She was first, then I tested positive 5 days later, then DH 4 days after me. We were all extremely ill - fevers, the body aches were unbearable, brain fog, severe headaches. DD1, very wisely, isolated herself in her room and wouldn't come near any of us.
We were also all really sick in Jan/Feb 2020 - high fevers, severe body aches, congestion/coughing. We all assumed we had flu, no one bothered getting tested because we weren't going to get Tamiflu and there was not much else we could do. But it very well could have been COVID.
Post by lightbulbsun on Nov 20, 2023 9:40:35 GMT -5
I had it in June 2022 (after getting the initial vaccines and a booster) and Feb 2023. The second time was very mild. I thought it was a cold and almost didn't test, and I was pretty surprised when it was positive. H had it in June but not in Feb.
I've had it once, last month. I got sick on a Sunday but had 2 negative tests. Two days later in the dr's office I had a positive and also tested positive for Flu A, and was negative for strep in the office but had it 100% for sure 2 days later. So that was not fun. Started paxlovid right away (2-3 days after onset of symptoms). Really the strep was the worst part. Started abx on day 5, and it took another 4 days for my throat to be feeling better. It was all like a heavy head cold/sinus infection/fever that would go up in the afternoon/evening, plus strep throat, it was a solid 2 weeks before I started feeling less like death. I'll take it, it could have been worse.
DH tested positive a week after me. He only really felt ill for 2 days, he got off light. But he also had something at the end of February/March 2020 that I would swear was covid, he had every symptom except loss of taste and smell. But we'll never know.
Post by somersault72 on Nov 20, 2023 12:41:29 GMT -5
I've had it twice that I know of: August 2021 (Delta) and March 2023. My then 3 year old daughter gave it to me and my mom in 2021. She was completely asymptomatic and had we not had her tested I never would have known she had it. To my knowledge my 15 year old has never had it (he was negative back in 2021 and every time he's been sick since he's tested negative). My husband has never tested positive but got a booster and his flu shot at the same time one year and it kicked his ass.
My entire family tested positive and had it after being fully vaccinated in early 2022, except me.
DH and the boys had it first, confirmed with at-home tests, DD and I were negative. Once DH tested positive, we both got PCRs assuming I had it as well and I did not. Two weeks later, DD had a PCR test for a ballet performance and tested positive, with zero symptoms. DD and I both got PCRs two days after her first PCR test and were both negative.
So who knows? Could I have had it without symptoms during that time it was surrounding me in my house, like my DD? Probably?
All of this was during the extreme test shortage. Since then, I haven't been symptomatic or tested at all. The kids have been tested a few additional times when sick with respiratory gunk but have tested negative since then.
I've had it (at least) twice and neither time had a single symptom. The only reason I tested was because my kids tested positive, and both times they had zero respiratory symptoms too - just fatigue and vomiting.
So I assume that many people have had it who never had reason to test.
This is good timing on this question because I've been participating in a long term study with a university research project where they're measuring my antibodies via saliva (I don't know all the technical nuances to it of course LOL) but every few months I give my sample and they screen it. I just got my latest report today and I continue to show vaccine antibodies but not antibodies from infection.
This is amazing to me that I've never had it given that my H was working the road in an ambulance through the height of the pandemic and then shifted to working in a hospital setting (where he still works) and we never adjusted our proximity to each other. Of course H took all needed precautions and when he came home he showered and changed immediately. Add in that I largely work on campus and am out in the public regularly (but I do still try to practice distancing when possible) I'm honestly surprised that I've never had it. Kid has never had it either that we know of anyway.
Post by hbomdiggity on Nov 20, 2023 15:56:59 GMT -5
I don’t think I’ve had it. Admittedly, I don’t test every time I’ve been sick, but my symptoms have never been telltale covid. I had the original two round vaccine and one booster.
We made it to February 2022 when my eldest son got it. No one else in our family of 5 got it from him. He was confined to his bedroom, the kids' tv room upstairs and the kids' bathroom (the other two used the first floor bathroom for that time).
I tested positive this past New Year's Eve. I happily quarantined in my bedroom, and my husband stayed downstairs. We have our own bathroom so I was able to keep separate. No one got it from me.
As far as we know neither my husband nor our other two kids got it ever. We've tested them always if symptomatic. Now our daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in August 2020 and had no illness or trauma that could have been the trigger immediately before her diagnosis. Months later a dad of a high school friend of mine who was a high school science teacher sent me an article linking covid with an uptick in type 1 diagnoses in children. I asked my pediatrician to test her for antibodies just out of curiosity but she was negative and he said it very well could have just been that too much time had passed if she was exposed.
We all had it once, but we are about to be in the Orlando airport with the Sunday after Thanksgiving crowds, so I am pretty much expecting a second case next week.
We had it for the first time in September. My H brought it home from Florida. It wasn't any worse than a bad head cold. It never moved from our head. I have had about a million vaccines while going through chemo so maybe that's why it was mild.
Not that I know. H had it, but I didn’t get sick and I tested negative a bunch. I did get a respiratory virus in February but tested negative for Covid. It was the first time I’d been sick since February or March of 2019
I had it three times so far. During the height of the pandemic I had "unspecified pneumonia," but tested negative for that time. Towards the end of lockdowns, while working from home and masking I got my first case. Not even a month later, I caught a more aggressive strain. None months later, I caught it again but I was in the classroom at that time so less surprising.
We’ve had it twice. Once in May 2022 and it was like an easy cold. DD felt bad for like 4 hours and it wasn’t much worse for me or DH. We had it a second time in July 2023 and it sucked. We were sick for nearly a week,
Post by UMaineTeach on Nov 21, 2023 14:40:34 GMT -5
Once and it was a non-event.
My throat was a little scratchy and I wanted to get out of doing something that weekend. So, I tested and got a surprise positive.
I got to skip the event and the last 3 days of school.
H got it once and was cold level sick, but he was traveling and had to stay in his hotel room and eat the PBJ and apples his coworker left outside the door for him.
Thankfully the kid has not had it. But I’m annoyed that our peds office doesn’t have any updated vaccine in and has no idea when they might. I am supposed to wait for a mass text.