The sick diaries

Looks like there’s plenty of us who have been sick. So I shall rant my woes. Tested negative for covid a week ago while I had a low grade fever and sore throat. Thought I just caught a bad cold so my husband stayed near me. We just cuddled facing our backs, he was next to me all day and night as I developed raging fits of coughs and a bad sinus infection. My doctor ended up giving me antibiotics. My husband starts getting a scratchy throat but thankfully it only stays a scratchy throat and doesn’t develop farther. He tests negative for covid. He tells his doctor’s office about his scratchy throat and how he got it from me so he could get prescribed antibiotics too -_- His doctor’s receptionist says it sounds like your wife has covid symptoms… test yourselves again. We joked about the receptionist afterwards... But then my husband randomly wanted to test me again. It was my 6th day of suffering. I ended up testing positive to our surprise. After 3 damn years that fucker managed to get through my tiny nostrils. My husband puts on a mask and I’m automatically put into quarantine and self-isolation :c

I was taking everything from Tylenol, Robitussin, Claritin, Benadryl, Mucinex, Halls, Cepacol, an inhaler… Before I found out I had covid, I had come across a research where dextromethorphan (a cough suppressant in Robitussin) helps covid grow… I shrugged it off as I had thought I was negative. But what if that aided in me becoming positive?! Probs just a coincidence. I stopped taking it right away after the positive test result. Idk if stopping it helped me or if it was the antibiotics but I also began feeling a little better by the next day. Thankfully my husband is still negative and his scratchy throat is gone. I highly recommend a humidifier and saline nasal mist. This is my first time including those two things during a nasty sickness and I literally feel reborn after using them. Like I think I permanently need them in my life now.. Btw don’t take Sudafed. Apparently it prolongs colds.

Who knows when I will test negative… until then I’m left to my own devices to entertain myself. I was supposed to go to a wedding on Friday. I love weddings 🥺 God knows if I’ll get to go to anymore until like next year at the rate of no one wanting to get married these days. I was supposed to also go out of town with my husband this weekend but he had to go on his own. So now I have no one entertaining me from the doorway either 🥺 I started playing mafia games on another site. I get into a lot of aggressive keyboard arguments xD They’re all a bunch of idiots which make me feel smart cause I at least still have a working brain regardless of covid 😠 My brother tells me how this strain of covid has been mostly affecting women.. I then also come across a relevant news article on the home covid test kits showing false negatives. How wonderful. Hot mess galore. I’m suspecting the source of covid as my own father of all the random outings I’ve gone to… cause he also recently made my sweet innocent mother covid positive. It’s her second time being covid positive this year :/

I am going through Omicron right now, it is the second time I have COVID since 2020. The symptoms are pretty the same--fever, chills, headache, etc. What is different I assume is a strange swelling in the pharynx, but still no severe runny nose and sore throat, just scratchy. I take paracetamol, drink lots of liquids and gargle my throat with salt water, that's it. I have 2 shots and 1 booster. The booster was made only 2 months ago, so I hoped that it would help, but no.

But what really sucks is +30 C in my area, and I feel bad, and the heat will be here for next some days! Bleh.

UPD. OK, it seems that I broke my thermometer. I am a loser.

My son got sick 2 weeks ago, just your average tonsillitis with flu. We both tested negative for Covid.

I cared for him as if he was a new born and I'm so proud of my immune system. I didn't even get a mild cold.

Yes I came in here to brag about how healthy I am.

Jabs working well...

Posted by slug

Faulty tests but also I think some people can show symptoms straight away but test negative, whereas most people don't start showing symptoms until 5 days in and by that stage they are testing positive.

This seems pretty accurate

I've felt sick 90% of my life, so to most it might seem like an extream moment to see a doctor, or nowadays, take a covid test. To me it's just another Thursday. I've lived through months up to years experiencing symptoms that I felt for sure kill me within a year. Except they never did, and going to the doctor just made more stress and imo more opportunities for things to go wrong. The chance of a misdiagnosis, or them simply not knowing wtf is wrong always ends up equal to the same chances of me dying from something I can't get over on my own with no diagnosis whatsoever. I guess what I'm saying is I don't trust hospitals or doctors or any diagnosis. It's just as random and unknown as my own fucking body fighting shit, or not, and still dying with no help whatsoever. I'm from America, so I don't trust heath care, insurance, or hospital that are under full control of the government. They get to flip the switch, and make the decision if you live or die in the end. I can 100% guarantee if and when I die, it will be because I made that decision to or not ask the fucked up health care system for help. Which they could 100% tell me to fuck off and die anyway, so why even care or try? Why feed and give money to a system that fucks thousands if not millions every year because they have the funds and power to decide if you live or die?

Posted by Som

I am going through Omicron right now, it is the second time I have COVID since 2020. The symptoms are pretty the same--fever, chills, headache, etc. What is different I assume is a strange swelling in the pharynx, but still no severe runny nose and sore throat, just scratchy. I take paracetamol, drink lots of liquids and gargle my throat with salt water, that's it. I have 2 shots and 1 booster. The booster was made only 2 months ago, so I hoped that it would help, but no.

But what really sucks is +30 C in my area, and I feel bad, and the heat will be here for next some days! Bleh.

UPD. OK, it seems that I broke my thermometer. I am a loser.

You’re quite lucky. Count your blessings. Covid twice and no complete lost of smell or taste like me… I’ve already been struggling with loss of appetite for months before covid, this is on a whole other level. I’ve developed parosmia and it could take weeks or months for me to smell or taste again?! Very mentally debilitating.

Posted by Mutya

My son got sick 2 weeks ago, just your average tonsillitis with flu. We both tested negative for Covid.

I cared for him as if he was a new born and I'm so proud of my immune system. I didn't even get a mild cold.

Yes I came in here to brag about how healthy I am.

I’m also being taken care of like a newborn baby but want my mommy 😢

Posted by PezRojoPescadoAzul

I probably had covid a couple months ago, the symptoms were only REALLY bad for 2-3 days but it lingered for like 2 weeks, it was crazy. During those 2-3 days I had the worst sore throat I ever had in my life, gargling hydrogen peroxide helped it become bearable tho

No loss of smell or taste at all at any point?

Posted by Soul

I've felt sick 90% of my life, so to most it might seem like an extream moment to see a doctor, or nowadays, take a covid test. To me it's just another Thursday. I've lived through months up to years experiencing symptoms that I felt for sure kill me within a year. Except they never did, and going to the doctor just made more stress and imo more opportunities for things to go wrong. The chance of a misdiagnosis, or them simply not knowing wtf is wrong always ends up equal to the same chances of me dying from something I can't get over on my own with no diagnosis whatsoever. I guess what I'm saying is I don't trust hospitals or doctors or any diagnosis. It's just as random and unknown as my own fucking body fighting shit, or not, and still dying with no help whatsoever. I'm from America, so I don't trust heath care, insurance, or hospital that are under full control of the government. They get to flip the switch, and make the decision if you live or die in the end. I can 100% guarantee if and when I die, it will be because I made that decision to or not ask the fucked up health care system for help. Which they could 100% tell me to fuck off and die anyway, so why even care or try? Why feed and give money to a system that fucks thousands if not millions every year because they have the funds and power to decide if you live or die?

I also don’t trust doctors or hospitals but currently going through some stuff where I feel I’m at their mercy regardless of how little faith I have in them. You have a very resilient Scorpio moon to get you through any dark shit. Idk which country I would run off to. European countries are looking very appealing with their universal healthcare system and high satisfaction of it but not easy to convince your entire family to relocate.. America’s only good to easily start your business and profit hardcore. But very little quality areas of life to spend that hard earned money on. Don’t you have your own business? I know healthcare for the self-employed is a shitshow here.

Posted by DanWard84

I've read The Rum Diary and I've read The Bunker Diary

I even read the diary of Anne Frank

I don't see this one being a bestseller tho 😢

What’s your issue with me? Is it because you came across posts of me expressing how undesirable Gemini males are and it like internally triggered you or some shit?

When I had COVID in 2020, it was mild, but it damaged my health, which I still struggle with. I really hope this time my fate will not be like that. I am fed up.

Posted by SassyKiwi

You’re quite lucky. Count your blessings. Covid twice and no complete lost of smell or taste like me… I’ve already been struggling with loss of appetite for months before covid, this is on a whole other level. I’ve developed parosmia and it could take weeks or months for me to smell or taste again?! Very mentally debilitating.

Posted by Som

When I had COVID in 2020, it was mild, but it damaged my health, which I still struggle with. I really hope this time my fate will not be like that. I am fed up.

Posted by SassyKiwi

You’re quite lucky. Count your blessings. Covid twice and no complete lost of smell or taste like me… I’ve already been struggling with loss of appetite for months before covid, this is on a whole other level. I’ve developed parosmia and it could take weeks or months for me to smell or taste again?! Very mentally debilitating.

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Very sad to hear, if you don’t mind me asking, how did it damage your health? I’m fed up too. Really beating myself up over slightly letting my guard down around my high risk father with what I thought was just a “cold”..

when i had covid, a menthol patch across the chest really helped.

oddly enough, i haven't been sick at all lately. yet the pisces was definitely sick for a bit more than a day. and i didn't catch it even tho we were always kissing and overall sharing the same space all the time. in fact, after recovering from covid i've felt pretty much invincible and can't even remember getting sick or maybe one time after but before covid, i get sick pretty easy.