January 2022 contracted covid, was put on ventilator, in coma for 3 1/2 weeks, got a tracheotomy, miracle I lived, was in hospital for 2 months wax a long recovery but grateful to be alive.

My case of COVID was minor and I was unvaccinated. My parents case of COVID was major and they were fully vaccinated. No hospital for me, ICU hospital stay for my parents. And a complete no nose dive in their health after COVID

I haven’t been sick since about 2006. Never wore a mask and no way in hell did I or would I get the jab. Never. I weigh around 100 lbs and have a good diet, and I am 68. Edit to add: I have been around a few people with CV.

Had an ancestral strain in January 2021. My entire personality changed. That floating, presyncopal feeling never went away. I just went back to nursing after a 9-month hiatus and I’m shaken by the denial of concern out there about the long term damage that’s been done. We are all just pretending we’re okay.

Haven't had Covid. Nor have I gotten the Covid vax either. Haven't been sick for over 6 years and hope to stay that way.

Have had it twice, 18 mos apart, not again since last Aug. Had slight cold symptoms, some fatigue. Tested positive far longer than I had symptoms. Am 64, no jabs. No long covid. Am a cancer survivor of 18 yrs as well.

Didn't you recommend that we all got Covid vaccinated multiple times?

64, healthcare hospital worker, keto diet 5 years, no chronic illness, super Vit D level, never vaxed, showed antibodies via Red Cross blood donations early on, 1 suspected case, 2 tests both negative, no missed work for any reason since before 2020. 🤞 Appreciated your report. Thanks!

I have yet to contract COVID(Knocks on wood). The bonus of being an introvert. lol

No Jab, never even not even flu shots ever ! I’m 72 ! 😜never had Covid !

I never had Covid. Two weeks ago after making several trips to Urgent Care, Dr, Er I was diagnosed with "Long Covid". After blood work checking for clots, CT scan everything came back negative. I have a horrible cough, lots of phlegm, headaches and very much fatigued. I am 71 years old with diabetes, copd (second hand smoke) congestive heart failure. I had my 3 first covid shots at the beginning of covid. I have been on 3 antibiotics . Finally the 3rd antibiotic has kicked in. This has been rough. I hope you continues to get better! Thanks for getting information out there to others!

I didn't take a single test. Never masked. No injections 😂😂😂

I got ME/CFS in 1991. I wasn't the only one. There were also a number of viruses going around untested at the time. They blew us off as hysterical and then they forgot about us. I've been sick since. I've now had COVID (Omicron) twice, in addition but don't seem any worse. I'm SO glad for all the people who got long COVID and have had much more acceptance than we did. I am so grateful for the researchers who said "wait, we've seen something like this before." I hope you have a nice short COVID infection. But as someone who is known in the medical community, please pay very close attention to your symptoms, imagine having them for year after year, with nobody believing you, and remind your colleagues that we are still here, we will all still be here when people finally forget about COVID, and please help keep researchers funded and working on research to help ALL of us.

My wife and I lost our Novid status in January. I am 73 and my wife is 75. It was pretty much like the worse case of the flu, we ever had. I recovered in a week. It took my wife about 10 days to become functional. My worse symptom was nasal and sinus congestion. I had a cardiologist appointment that I had to change. They told me to come on in and wear a mask. I told them that was a problem with all the gunk coming out of my head. Didn't have trouble with sleeping, in fact that was all I wanted to do.

RN in ER. Lots of exposure. Contracted covid 4 weeks after my forced vaccine. You will never convince me there isn't a correlation.

It's so good to see your face, hear your voice, listen to your experiences. You're a joy!

Dr. Z, I hope you are feeling better each day. I just had to let you know how much you and your videos meant to me during the height of covid. I hung on your every word and your advice and insights were great. I also appreciate all of the guests that you had on. Anyway, please know how much I appreciate you. May God bless you, Frank Manno

I had a variant that attacked my joints. The absolute worse pains I’ve ever had. 10 days, high fever, cough… Don’t wish it on anyone.

Get well soon. Much more worried about the mRNA vax than about COVID-19.

I'm a 67 year young, very healthy individual; over July 4 weekend I set up an art exhibit in a local gallery - I wasn't around a bunch of people - I returned home July 6 and felt fine. Sunday & Monday were filled with "catching up"; Tuesday morning I woke up with a small cough and some sneezing. As the day progressed, the coughing got worse and my upper chest started to feel "raw". I had a screaming headache (I never get headaches) and a slight fever - and then I had chills. I didn't sleep well, primarily because of the headache. Wednesday was worse; more coughing/raw chest, lots of sneezing, headaches and slight fever...also FATIGUE. Took my dog for an hour walk and went home and slept 2 hours; was up watching movies for a couple hours - then back to sleep for a couple hours. I basically stayed in bed watching movies all day Wednesday & Thursday; I was taking 4-5 GRAMS of Vitamin C/day, and I did take ONE sauna. Ordinarily I should have begun to get better, but I didn't - I decided to go to Quickcare on Thursday evening for antibiotics, as I "don't have time to be sick".... After describing my symptoms, they gave me a Covid test. The doctor examined me and listened to my chest/breathing extensively - he said "you sound great". He left and came back in a couple minutes later and said "you're Covid test is positive". (now we have the answer). He told me to "keep doing what I was doing"; the next day I started taking TWO saunas/day, 4-5g of Vit C/day and echinacea. I was still walking my dog a total of 5-6 miles/day, but lounging around a lot. On Friday (day after I went to Dr and 4th day after symptoms began) and I was beginning to feel better (I attribute this to the sauna sessions). Each day has been better and better. On Day 7 I felt fairly normal; I went out to work in my art studio and didn't take any naps... Today is Day 13 since symptoms started; I have been asymptomatic for at least 5 days. I've been quarantining (I live alone) and am waiting to do another Covid test on Thursday (two weeks after symptom onset). I'm still taking saunas, but once/day. I have NEVER had a Covid vaccine; I was able to taste and smell throughout this time. I didn't take ANY OTC meds for headache/fever - SAUNA is my "drug of choice".... I spent most of the day in my art studio and I'm going to do the same today. This morning I walked 5 miles, rowed 4000 meters on my rowing machine, and used my vibration machine for 20 minutes........

I had to stop what I was doing to watch and comment on this video because I had a similar experience! I got covid for the first time two weeks ago! My husband had it both in 2020 and in 2022 and I managed to avoid it but I had the same experience that you did with the booster. The booster kicked my ass! I was an artist-in-residence at an opera workshop and there were three other people in the ensemble that got infected. Wednesday night, I noticed I had a sore throat which was very unusual for me, Thursday morning I tested negative but I knew I was sick, so I kept my mask on and went home that day. Thursday night, I tested positive instantly. I've literally NEVER been as sick as I was last week, man! I am in good shape and am 47, no comorbidities to speak of. Taste and smell went away. GI symptoms, congestion, cough, chills, fever...NIGHTMARE. I tested positive for 12 days and I definitely had a weird "mouth feeling". I also did not ask for paxlovid. It was so weird to get it in 2024 FINALLY. I've literally taken 30+ covid tests over the years. I thought it was pretty rough. My colleague who also got it at this event was not as sick. It's so weird that it's a different experience for everyone. It's been 14 days and I'm about 85% better but the cough still lingers as well as some chest tightness. I slept like a rock the entire illness though LOL. Ride out the fevers and rest and hydration and sometimes some decongestants when I needed them. Saline nasal rinses helped a ton too. I'm sorry you got covid! We had a good run!

Contracted late October 23. Both my wife and I. Both 70 years old. In bathrobes for 4 days. Felt like a bad case of flu, plus sinus infection. After 5-6 days, went to grocery store. Kept distance from all other people. Have had pathophysiology. Both of us had to take a long nap. After 4 weeks, tried to do a little lawn work. Zero exercise tolerance. Was like a stress test. Went back to gym after 6 weeks. 2 mph walk on treadmill for 20 minutes. Yes, it takes a long time to get back to baseline. That said….thought I was having a stroke after my second Covid vaccine injection. Not sure which scenario was most concerning.

I'm 69. No jabs. No masks. Sickness? Rare. Was it covid? No idea - no testing either. My focus is: Staying in shape, eating well and good supplements. My life is in God's hands.

I was hesitant to get the Pfizer vaccine back in 2021, but watching you convinced me that it was ok and I should. So I did. And I regret it. I don't even blame the you from back then for your advice. But I don't understand why you haven't moved on and changed your opinion on Covid vaccinations.

I have never had documented COVID, never vaccinated at age 85, and will stay that way. Behavior of the med. society in these times is shameful, scary, repulsive.

Just proves the vaccines did little except make people like me suffer with cardiac disrythmia. Children do fine. Us senior citizens not so much! It sucks!! No antiviral drugs? You got the same 3 vaccines but my first was the J&J. It still is screwing up my memory!

Im a floor nurse in my local hospital. Got vaxed. Got Covid when the Delta variant was going around, about 3 yrs ago in Aug. Sick as a dog, fainted, called 911, went to ER. Positive for Covid, UTI and the beginning of pneumonia. Totally lost my sense of taste and small and its still only about 50% back. 6 weeks of pure hell later, was finally able to go back to work! Lost almost 15 lbs. Never been so sick in my life!! People still showing up + for Covid regularly in the hospital!

I got Covid in 2020, and almost died from it and had long Covid until last year. I have been treated by a metabolic weight loss and hormone specialist, which has taken me from not being able to walk across the room without getting out of breath, to fully functioning!

The whole family got it early in 2022 (61,52,21,17). Hubs and both kids had their second shots, I chose not to because it was too new for me to be comfortable doing so. Very happy I didn’t. Rest of the family were sick almost two weeks, nasty cold with a day of fever. I was mildly sick a week and had a single symptom every day. They’ve all had it a second time since, not me. I have psoriatic arthritis and my doc tried to hard sell me the shot and update my dTap at the end of 2022. I’ve never had an adverse reaction to any vaccine beyond some achiness or a little fatigue. I agreed to the dTap, I was due anyway. Ended up having a huge reaction, fever around 104 for two days that Tylenol barely reduced (held off on the ER), strong pain in my spine and hips, was ill for a week. It wasn’t covid and I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life. Have often wondered if the cranky nurse mixed up the shot .

I have had Covid twice. First time was at the beginning of the pandemic. I truly was sicker than I had ever been before. Cough, fever, chills, loss of taste and smell. But for me the worst symptoms was this unshakeable feeling of dread that set in about day 7. Very scary!

I didn't get hit by a truck--I got run over by a freight train. It is easier to list the things what were right, in my body, than list the things that were wrong. I didn't have any home tests, and I was in no shape to drive, and no one was going to drive me to a test center, but there was no doubt I had COVID as the person, responsible for me getting it from her daughter, came down with it the same time I did. I was 78 at the time. I had limited exposure to other people and it was just the one woman, and her daughter, I came in contact with. The worst was over after a week of misery but then many of the symptoms lingered. This went on for two months and then I was hit with a cytokine storm which sent clots to my leg, heart, and lung. I wasn't allowed to move for three days while they pumped me with coumadin. I left the hospital, almost a week later, with oxygen, injectable coumadin, and about a quart of fluid in my lungs. I am still recovering over two years later. But at least my lungs are clear. I am able to take short walks, and most of the mental fog has lifted. I recently noticed I could even taste food again. I think having the inoculations saved me. It also helped that I kept active during the pandemic so was in good shape when COVID hit.

Retired internist and RN who received all the Covid vaccines. Took a world cruise January 2022- May 2022. We had to PCR test daily and wear masks during the cruise. Came home and went to Pri-Med in LA where we both got Covid. One of us had fever, chills, fatigue and took Paxlovid as we are both in our 70s with comorbid conditions. He was better in 72 hours. I had a negative test initially and felt lousy. 12 hours later when I had a fever, I tested positive. I only had fever, headache, and extreme fatigue. I lost my smell and taste. Both returned in a few weeks. Crazy to travel the world and stay safe but came home to a medical convention and get Covid. I remember thinking it strange that the main speaker telling people to stay home if they were sick. 🤷‍♀️

after 4.5 years of being a novid ..i tested positive last monday . my husband who is a college prof tested positive 4 days prior . because of my ra ,being 68, lost a lot of weight but still medically obese ive had every possible booster per my docs last one in april . . initial sx have been major nasal congestion , profound sneezing , very tight airways / lung congestion . day 6 post paxlovid the only remaining issue is fatigue and my lungs are still irritated . productive cough i’m on albuterol inhaler and expectorant neither my husband nor i have ever been febrile . never lost taste or smell. hoping we’re out of the dark woods . testing now reveals the faintest of lines for each of us . still scared but hoping for consistent recovery for us both ♥️🙏🏻

What happened to the regular flu?

I have yet to get COVID. I’m 61 and high risk. Never saying I won’t get it but so far so good. 🤞🤞🤞

I’m unvaccinated and had a mild case in November 2021. I’ve been fine ever sinc. Not even a cold.

3 out of the 5 members of our immediate family got the latest round of COVID. The only 2 who didn't? Our 2 youngest that I refused to let get the COVID jab. It was my first time ever getting COVID. My husband and son have had it multiple times.

Made it through the pandemic without Covid. Was very careful and had the vaccines. Finally thought it was safe to travel again and went to Alaska a year ago. On my way back home was extremely exhausted. Next couple days were rough but no trouble breathing. Had a couple panic attacks-something I’ve never felt before. Finally on the 5th day I thought to take a Covid test and it was positive. Called the doctor and by then my symptoms were improving. He didn’t think I needed paxlovid by then. I’ll still get the vaccine with my flu shot. Doctor wants me to add RSV shot this year as I’m 75. I was a pediatric nurse and have taken care of many babies with RSV over the years. And flu and whooping cough and croup and rotavirus. Vaccines are a good thing.

I declined to get the covid vaccine. Why did I refuse it. As a very healthy 77 year old Vietnam infantry veteran (today) I believed I could avoid infection. I mention this so that you might better understand my risk/benefit calculus with the perspective of living an extremely difficult experience for 1 year in a Vietnam jungle as a soldier. At 75 I had no comorbidities and felt that my immune system at the time of the covid outbreak was extremely strong and could fend off any potential infection that I might be exposed to. In fact a roommate at the time was diagnosed as being infected and self isolated in his bedroom. I did not get infected. Nor have I since. I remember during the height of pandemic I did not see any professional medical personal publicly emphasize the value of being healthy and eating a healthy diet and exercising etc. No one I saw on any medical podcast ever promoted strengthening your immune system, the message was get the vaccine. I believe that my health education research prior to the pandemic i.e. principally Dr. Greger's book "How Not to Die" had a lot to do with my excellent health status. I highly recommend this world wide bestseller.

Novid here. Been exposed, but never tested positive. Thought I would have had it by now...

Have a disabled person and my retired mother living in my home. I was religious with keeping covid out of the home. HEPA filter air purifiers. No unnecessary outings, masks on in public places, disposable gloves when getting gasoline. Still wiping down groceries. Kept it out of the house for 4 years. In January of this year my disabled houseguest was admitted to the hospital - contracted it there and brought it home to the rest of the house. Fortunately a mild case for everyone involved.

Got my first Covid on Dec. 2023 with my 97 yr old mom (we live together) getting it from me. I'd been Christmas shopping with no precautions. Suddenly one evening I'm chilled to the bone watching TV. That's odd. Rarely feel chilled. Put on a layer of warm clothes and wraps, etc. A couple hours later feel really hot now. Temp is 102! Next day I get a covid test and it's positive. My first ever, after so many negatives in four years. I asked for paxlovid since my senior sibling had covid the year before and claimed it worked pronto. Exhaustion yes, achy, headache. But not a single sniffle or sinus symptoms. No cough, but extreme tired. Also had some trouble sleeping. But as I got better over reasonable time I also seemed to relapse but not with a positive test just symptoms. However once it was largely gone, the next 90 days or so, I had strange picky little symptoms like: felt I'd breakout in cold sores, mouth felt sensitive and sore (didn't have loss of smell). Weeks after it was long over, i also discovered a high heart rate. Doc said it's hard to sort to out but some do get a higher heart rate. I was overweight, over 60, etc. So they can't be sure what caused heart rate. But not concerning tachycardia, still weird. Later got an ear infection quite out of the blue. Hadn't had one of those for 40 years. And other strange like symptoms came and went. My brother has MS and he got it after I did. It hit him really hard, and was told could take 90 days to recover full strength even though virus ran its course over a week or two. I realized that things were not quite normal until after 90 days had passed and finally I was free of the pesky little symptoms (like gnats flying around). ZdoggMd keep logging your bodily responses for 90 days and see if you don't find you're not really over it fully, til you're fully back to normal. Maybe young folks don't get that 90 day drag.

My friend Susan just last week went from Novid to Covid . Her worst complaint was relentless insomnia and feeling like she had been hit by a bus. Interesting.

I thought I was never going to get it. I finally had Covid May 26th 2024- so just 6 weeks ago. started with body aches, sore throat, progressed to fever and chills, severe headache. sore throat went away after 1 day. Lower back pain and leg aches were brutal and lasted a few days. Then started to feel better, although tired. Lost my sense of smell for 8 days. Took a full 3 weeks to feel human again- i was a bit spaced out, fatigued and anxious at the same time. I’ve also had 3 doses in the beginning- initial 2 for healthcare providers and one “booster”. i am 50 but also on pretty good shape- i lift weights and bike. I also had GI disruption. Mild cough. Zero congestion. weird.

I know a Mother, who works as a nurse and her teenage son who got Miocarditis, she has alot of heart issues now, and he can no longer play football this was after they took the COVID Vax.....I opted not to get it, and caught COVID from a couple coming from China that picked up at the International Airport, it was rough almost scary because of everything that was on the news at the time, I was out of energy for over a month, but my body was able to get over it, and I haven't caught it again, Im as strong as an Ox now, no issues, no sicknesses.

This is my 3rd round with covid. You are lucky you didn't get it early on when pneumonia was an issue. I spent a week in the hospital with the delta variant. This round , bad sore throat, lost my voice, fever, chills, fatigue, dry cough, and now loss of taste/smell. I'm over it.

I am 70 years old and have never had Covid. I have had all the vaccines and boosters. I have asthma and was obese but have since lost 115lbs so no longer obese and asthma is much better. My son who lives with my husband and myself got Covid twice this year and was hospitalized both times and now has long Covid. He has many many preexisting conditions and is immunecompromised too. But we old folks have been very healthy so far! I hope you are feeling better soon.

My husband got covid about 2 weeks after getting a booster in the fall of 2022.. He was very sick for almost two days... By the end of the second day he was able to start Paxlovid.. He was already starting to feel better and improve steadily. I didn't catch it. I had been boosted at the same time as he was. I think we did so well because our antibodies were primed. As far as I know, I haven't had covid. Our granddaughter has had covid twice, most recently February of '23. She has long covid and is still mostly house-bound. She's 30 years old, and used to be hard working and full of energy..

Both of us fully vaccinated, came back with it from Caribbean cruise in Jan. I tested positive first Monday morning (started with a sore throat at the airport on Sunday). I was working half days Mon-Thu and was fine by Friday morning. I got Paxlovid on Monday. Husband tested positive on Tuesday after a false negative on Monday and his lingered for a long time. No Paxlovid. Turned into sinus infection, fluid in lungs and it took him 5 months to feel 100%

Just got it while on a bus in Norway. Home boy was coughing on me for 10 blocks, and 48hrs later I was sick. Tested negative at 36hrs and then positive at 50 hrs. Throat felt like glass, dry cough, low grade fever. Today is day 10 and I finally feel back to normal. I’ve had 4 vaccines and had my first Covid 8 months ago. COVID is so fascinating.

G’day from West Oz, hugs to all our sickees. Breathe easy.🇦🇺

I'm 69, only did first vaccine and haven't had covid. My 48 y/o daughter was vaccinated and got covid early on. She has been one of the healthiest people I've ever known. She got long covid and she is still struggling with it. She has neurological issues, the brain fog and severe fatigue still. Sending healthy blessings to you ❤

I and my husband- 63 and 68 have not had COVID -yet. The beauty of working from home as it has been several cases in my “designated assigned office”.

This is pretty much exactly what has happened to me this week. Negative Monday feeling fatigued and positive for covid the next day. Ive had almost every symptom you have described and I am on Day 3!

I work in a family practice office. I got COVID in December 2020. I was down and out for 3.5 weeks. I ran a fever of 102 for 10 days. Nothing would bring it down. I had fatigue so bad that I couldn’t get myself 3 feet from my couch to my recliner. I couldn’t sleep either. It was like as I was hyped up on pure caffeine. I was short of breath and had to lay on my stomach to breathe. I had the stomach issues, could not eat and lost 15 pounds. I had the headache for 12 days straight. Everything tasted like salt. I had the cough and congestion but no sore throat. I wound up calling the squad for myself one week in because I was so dehydrated. They gave me an IV pain medicine which did, thankfully, take away the body aches but not the headache. I wound up with COVID pneumonia in one lung. It took a good 3 months to actually feel better. The lasting side effect I have is an inability to spell simple words. I have to sit and think before I type. It’s crazy. Thank goodness I have only had it once. I got 3 vaccines after having it. The NP I work with had it for two weeks. She just returned to work a couple of days ago.

I'm just going through the 2nd time of COVID. Took IVERMECTIN immediately, and am almost through with it after only 3 days! I will probably feel l tired for another week, but no longer fever, chills, nor body ache (like with the flu)

I can't believe you just got Covid for the first time too. I literally just got Covid this last week for the first time as well. I'm a nurse and worked in the hospitals thru the pandemic and finished my NP during this time. I have been fully vaccinated, boosters included and started to think I was just one of those lucky "immune" people (hahaha...silly lady). So I found this process so fascinating. I started having headaches during the week of the July 4th and some GI/bloating stuff (assumed it was the "you're traveling and your not in your own environment kind of GI stuff). Get home on the 6th from a trip to FL, take an antigen Covid test since I had traveled and had such an awful headache...still negative. 7-8th headache continues, start with weird visual changes, (brain zaps). Evening of 8th...GI symptoms get worse, assuming I had a partial bowel obstruction (have had before) vomiting, abdominal cramps like crazy, and then finally diarrhea. Finally thinking I'm better, then Wed 9th wake up exhausted and thinking maybe I'm getting a cold (I've been traveling). By Wed evening thinking I definitely have a cold (congestion, PND, fatigue, etc) so I take another test...still Negative. 9th feel like it's a full blown cold, coughing starts, slight sore throat. Three quarters thru the day, working at the free clinic (masked of course), I realize my throat is on fire like I've swallowed glass, so fatigued and congested...I have to just go home. Get home still no fever but feels like it, chills start, exhausted...husband says "you have to have covid"...I've tested twice with antigens both negative one was the day before, so I pull out my big guns. Lucira home molecular style test...15 minutes...yep positive result. Now just out of curiosity I take a home antigen test...sure enough, now immediately positive. (I've given and taken 1000s of covid tests over last 4 years so there is no way I mis read any of the tests). Whole thing is just crazy. No Paxlovid here, I'm not high risk. Finally feeling mostly human again, still PND, fatigue, (more brain fog than my usual, lol) and now a suspicious red right eye (unfortunately have had uveitis before so hoping this isn't the start up). And now of course my hubby has gotten it after 4 years free...he's higher risk so on the Paxlovid but literally just said today..."this is the worst I think I've ever felt. I ca not imagine what this was like 4 years ago without being vaccinated ". Sorry so long winded...remember you asked about it, lol. Hope you're on the mend with no long symptoms, fingers crossed for the same here! Always love listening to your channel. Thanks!!!

I had covid 3 weeks ago for the first time (3 vaccines as you had too) and had exactly the same symptoms as you, apart from my throat was the worst I have ever experienced! I’m all clear now apart from fatigue 🙏

my wife and daughter got covid first and it was like having a cold, I got it on Thursday, by Monday I was very sick, went in to be tested and I had covid, I went back the next day for the blood infusion at 7am. While waiting in a wheel chair, I kept feeling worse, they had already starting measuring my o2 levels, they kept getting worse. They called the ER to be ready to receive me. My wife drove me over to the ER. It turned out that I had developed an secondary infection. Pneumonia had set into my left lung. 6 and a half hours later I was able to go home.

I was No-vid until 17 days ago when I retuned from Greece. Yea, it’s special all right. Ohhh same! I was lying in bed, in horrible pain, couldn’t move, my bones hurt. Made two people in my household sick.

I'm grateful to you for sharing this story - especially the part about feeling not quite right in a hard to describe way. That is exactly what happened to me except I wasn't otherwise sick. My main symptom was that sort of lightheaded weird feeling. Very unnerving. I only tested myself because my boyfriend had a raging case. The only other symptom was that I couldn't smell coffee for two days. You have such a wonderful positive attitude! I hope you made a 100% recovery.

I am 55 with LADA and a history of DVT’s. I am a novid. Due to my risk factors I have had all my boosters (7th shot in May) and will continue to get them to give myself the best chance of a good outcome. Glad to here that you are on the mend.

Feel better, brother. thanks for the story time!

The most remarkable thing about my COVID experience was the violent uncontrollable RIGORS (shakes) I had. I literally could not make my arms and legs stop shaking despite putting all my might and thought into stilling my extremities! I finally understood what RIGORS were, haha! I learned something new despite being an ER doc for 32 year! Rest of the course: tested positive day 1 of symptoms, started Paxlovid same day, tested neg day #3 with minimal symptoms by then (just fatigue.) No cough, no loss of taste or smell. Just a mild sore throat. Plus the RIGORS! Oh, I had the primary 2 shots with one booster about 18 months before catching COVID.

I have never had documented COVID. My husband got it. He took Paxlovid and it came roaring back when he stopped it. We isolated at home and I avoided it.

I had it last fall, and it felt like a cross between the flu and a cold. Lasted 10 days. Wife had it at the same time, and she hasn't been the same since.

Get better soon! I enjoyed your Covid discussions (that is how I first found you on KZfaq.). I can understand not wanting to continue down that road and solely identify as such, but would welcome some continued discussions on the topic.

67. On keto since 2017. Never had COVID...until today. We had a meeting on Monday where we were all sitting fairly close to each other, at our local community college, and the next day one of our colleagues tested positive for COVID. We were all hoping we didn't get it. Today's Thursday; I couldn't sleep much, felt like I had a fever, tested myself, and yeah. I hear today that two other colleagues at the meeting aren't feeling well. This morning when my temperature was 100.1, I felt REALLY weak, unsteady, couldn't walk well. Yeah..."complete inability to go to sleep." "Felt like I'd been hit by a truck." Exactly. I have to wait until Tuesday to go back to work -- if I don't have a fever -- and will be masking for the next 5 days. Have a clot that recurs now and then (from the vaccines, I think) and turns my thumb and index finger purple. What deals with that the best, weirdly enough, is EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, tapping. Doctor thinks I'll be just fine. My immune system is strong. I've been taking Dr. Berg Vitamin D3/K2 for years; taking his Vitamin C; taking Mountain Rose Herbs herbal throat spray and Beekeeper's immune support throat spray; Quercetin; Turmeric gummies; zinc; oil of oregano; black seed oil. Drinking electrolytes from Keto Chow and beef bone broth from the local butcher's. She said I'm doing the exact right things.

So Zdogg now has to worry about possibly being damaged by Covid and the vaccine, talking about taking an L.

I have been watching you for several years and enjoy your commentaries. My husband got covid before it was named covid. He had a high fever that we couldn't break for 7 days, we were in Florida and the doctors said it was a flu from over in Europe. He could not smell or taste anything at all. He lost 15 lb very quickly. We were on vacation with the children and I was taking them all to Walt Disney world Polynesian to stay for 2 days as a Christmas bucket list for him. I got so mad he was sick I told him I don't care if we will you in in a wheelchair, I want my pictures of you with a drink in your hand enjoying the sand and your grandchildren! Lol. And I slept right next to him and never got it. A year-and-a-half go by, and my daughter-in-law the doctor becomes pregnant. At that point to be in the delivery room I had to get vaccinated with the first two shots. 4 months later I had my first case of covid. We both came down with it. No long haulers, it felt like the regular flu. We did get it a second time about 2 years later. Mark had been on a business trip and we think he got it in the Atlanta airport. He got really sick once again and I got the regular flu version. We both took Pax-lovid, wonder drug! Thank you Pfizer! And have stayed well since. I hope you enjoyed our little 4 year jaunt through history. Keep up the good work! In our home we consider you friend. Debbie and Mark Peyron, Corydon Indiana, (author and Evangelist) (Miraculous Interventions book series) and owner of Capitol Jewelers

On Saturday, I just felt weird-no energy. On Sunday, chills-everything hurt-including my hair. Could not sleep at all. Called in sick on Monday. Continued fever, cough, horrible headache feeling beat up. Tested positive on Tuesday. Today is the first day I feel ok.

Re meditation: I feel great when I play piano while sick. Even my urge to cough goes away (until I stop).

Zdogg gets a Man Cold.....🙄 " Weak Men Create Hard Times"

Both my husband and I got COVID in 2020. He was very sick and required hospitalization, but did not require respirator support. Our symptoms were initially more like allergy symptoms. Then his symptoms got progressively worse. He went to bed and couldn’t even stand up the next morning to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. He began coughing in the night, developed a high fever, not eating or drinking, and had a loss of taste and smell. Me on the other hand had a headache, allergy symptoms, low grade fever and my appetite decreased, but I was still eating and drinking I got over it much quicker than he did. Then on New Year’s Eve , the very last day of 2023, both my sister and I suddenly were very sick. We had headache, fever (102 and above) that would fluctuate, no appetite, no strength, fatigue, nausea, no taste, no desire to eat or drink. I also had severe stomach pain, which my sister did not have. It felt like something was alive in my abdomen, moving around, which was absolutely bizarre!. However, I have primary Addison’s disease and ended up going into an adrenal crisis. I had to be hospitalized, even after my emergency injection and was put in ICU until they could stabilize me. With treatment of high steroid doses; IV initially of course,I recovered fairly quickly. It took me a few months to taper down my steroid dose to get back to maintenance dose of daily steroids.

When I got the second jab two years ago, I got a lung infection that took two doses of antibiotics to knock out. Since then, I have zero stamina. I can lift something heavy, but then I’m gasping for breath in two minutes. I’ve run 35 half marathons and used to be a badass mountain biker, but now I can’t do anything aerobic at all and none of the treatments doctors have given me are helping. I’m lucky I don’t have to drag an oxygen tank around.

I’m a 61yo primary care internist who has never had COVID. I have been tested frequently in order to provide care and access to my nursing home residents. One week ago I tested positive. Very disappointed in myself. I have cared for patients for 4 1/2 years with great caution and diligence. Two days prior to illness, I had updated my M-M-R and blamed the immunization for viral like syndrome. It wasn’t until my peanut butter and jelly didn’t taste appealing, that had my a-ha moment. Unfortunately too late to avoid giving it to my wife. Both of us elected not to be treated with paxlovid. We are both doing very well, but thought we could avoid this plaque.

My husband and myself both 62 had covid for the first time about 2 weeks ago. He tested positive first on his 63rd birthday. I work in Healthcare and started feeling bad 2 days later and tested positive at work. We've both had 4 vaccines but none in 2 years. We both felt basically like you did. He took paxlovid but I lived on theraflu. We were both pretty surprised at the timing of this .

I’m going through CoVid now and my symptoms were identical to yours. I had some albuterol nebs because I have seasonal asthma, have done a couple of treatments and the cough improved. Hope you getter better soon!

Lab rat here and my family of 3 (two high schoolers) came down with Omicron after the initial two dose vaccines in January 2022. No idea how I never got it the first round in my house. I thought maybe subclinical exposure at work maybe helped? I tested multiple times. Including with PCR at work. Nothing. December 2022 I came down with symptoms similar to my second Pfizer shot: massive vomiting. Then the fever and significant muscle and joint pain. I woke up in the middle of the night and thought “this feels like the flu!”. Home tested (we lab rats are always prepared) and it popped positive instantly. Fever only lasted 12 hours, mild cold symptoms, and I hit it with Vitamin C and zinc and was feeling frisky a few days later. My household all got it again. Teenage son has the most robust immune system and was down a day or two. Husband had it the worst and was healthy weight, exercised, and no preexisting health issues. We were both aged 47 at the time. We have seen patients with weird autoimmune responses post Covid. New food allergies, long Covid, permanent alteration of smell. I did two rounds of allergy shots for seasonal allergies and last summer I had a flare of my autoimmune hives. For the first time since 2011. I think it was post Covid related. I have coworkers in the lab that have had Covid three times despite vaccination. I do not believe in eternal boosters. I watched you and Paul Offit during the Pandemic and wanted vaccination plus natural exposure. That being said I don’t want it again. There are some very unlucky people that this virus becomes life altering. Appreciate you! Get well soon.

Feel better soon. I got mine 6 weeks after getting the updated vaccine last fall. I didn't take paxlovid either, I treated symptoms at home. positive to negative in 9 days. I was hospitalized back in 2020 with bilateral PE, and still never caught it through the whole pandemic. 3 1/2 years later..BAM. And I know exactly when it happened--I was checking in a patient at work that coughed in my direction before I could move away. I had let my guard down and wasn't masked.

The headache has been unrelenting and wicked.

This COVID is weird. This time around, my body and mind has been.. off. Like I feel extreme depression, and the weirdest.. I don’t know. I can’t explain it. Anxiety. Restlessness. It’s making it worse because I can’t rest. It’s almost like the virus has mutated to make people wanna be uncomfortable and restless and exert themselves more instead of being able to rest.

What!! You got the vaccine and still got Covid!!! I'm SHOCKED! 😂. I got covid twice and never got the vaccine!! Oh, I am also an RN and am SO GLAD I never took the Jab!

I am a 76-year-old woman. I have had all 6 COVID shots (including boosters). Get a flu shot every year, and got RSA vax last year, and never got my annual Michigan cold. I received my free allotment of COVID test kits but never used any of them. Retired and live alone. In excellent health for an old lady; not without issues, but those are age related. I isolated during the early days of COVID but go out now. I have remained COVID-free so far but realize it may change. I figure I am, frankly, just lucky. If I do, I will call my PCP. Be well, my friend. I appreciate all you do.

I got Covid in March. No prior vaccines. Had a 103.6 F for 3 days and no other symptoms. Let the fever burn through me and I asked Covid what message it had for me instead of the arrow of suffering that you mentioned. Had some great insight! 5 days later I was back to skiing. No long Covid.

I've had it with 5 vaccines. Did not have all of those symptoms with it. But I have the "hit by truck, not able to sleep, and malaise" with my fibromyalgia.

You are so darling! 😊 I hope you recover fully b and swiftly. ✨❤️

ZDog, so good to see you tonight. Sorry COVID snuck up on you. I’ve missed seeing you. My story is more about the 2 nd vaccination I got. I wanted to die. I don’t recall being that sick for 48 hours. 102 temp, vomiting, chills usual stuff The weirdest part was my Achilles tendon hurt like hell. I don’t believe in coincidences. Had an old Ortho boot to hold my foot at 90 degrees when feasible. This “cured” me of getting any more vaccinations I was proud to be in the novid tribe until November 2023. Charitable event that I volunteered for. You know, No good deeds go unpunished. BTW, I had a mild case of COVID 😊Thanks ZDog. Your fan, Sandra

Many boosters and your immune system is not good anymore . When virus mutate to more virulent next . What you do ???

I have blood cancer, I have had Covid two times followed by pneumonia and bronchitis at the same time… as a side note. I refused to get the jab.. I’m 66 years old.. we need to let our bodies heal us!!!

Omg! Feel better quickly.

Was in the heat of it pre and post vax, in ER and our psych unit and never had it - I did the FLCCC thing and, yes, ivermectin - but finally let my guard down in Sept. 2023 and went to an in-person CME in Nashville. They brought food out between sessions and, well, you know how we are when they put out food.......24 hr later, felt hit by a train w worst of it lasting just over 24 hrs. Thank God for the vaccination.

I'm 55 no Covid vaccines, and just contracted COVID for the first time this past February. I caught it from my covid vaccinated wife who is a health care provider and 6 years younger than me. She was leveled and in bed for 3 days. We've been together for 27 years and I've never seen her like that before. Being 6 years older I was starting to get a little worried how it would affect me If I contracted it. Turns out, it was a very reminiscent of a bad sinus head cold, with an annoying cough and loss of taste. Being self-employed I didn't have the luxury of taking sick days so I worked right through it. In my 55 years I can say definitively that I have been far far sicker four or five times in my life, from various stomach and flu bugs.

My husband had it end of May.(1st time) Started with fatigue and a few body aches. His concerning symptom was racing heart (even resting). He started feeling better after about 5-7 days

The vaccine was a nightmare for me!

Never had COVID before. I just tested positive for the first time today. Rapid test was positive instantly. So far symptoms have been very mild, like a cold. So far I feel like my 2nd booster was worse than COVID.

Had initial 2 vacs, 1 booster. Contracted covid 3 times. After having covid 1st time, diagnosed with heart failure 4months later as an otherwise healthy 47 yo. They attributed it to covid after having the full gamut of tests. Doing well but meds for life. I am 49 now. Sucks.

I'm a 64 year old RN. I tested positive in April 2020 but was completely asymptomatic. My job required us to be tested twice a week. I got vaccinated the first week the vaccine came out in early December 2020, 2nd shot in January and one booster in December exactly one year from the first vaccination. I haven't had any cold-like, flu-like or suspected COVID symptoms.

"This is special." I have not contracted COVID-19, and hope I never do. I've heard from others who have that it is indeed "special."

Kids are petri dishes and the parent's get everything. I did not have issues with taste, but definitely had the hit by the truck feeling. It took me a full 2 weeks to recover enough around the block.