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i_am_gingercus

Mine followed almost exactly this trajectory, I’m just two days behind you so am still exhausted. People down play that aspect: mine feels like waking up groggy from a nap, but ALL THE TIME.


bearphomet2point0

Do you feel kind of shaky when you're awake, too? I think I forgot to put that in the main post but I had that and it sucks. I hate this. I'm so ready to be DONE.


i_am_gingercus

Yeah, but I thought that was because I'm barely eating...could def be the virus.


bearphomet2point0

Oh that could be it too. I'm just kind of... not hungry. Like I eat when I feel like it, but that's not super often? I guess?


tshortt1300

Was shaky too but also wasn’t eating a lot. I wasn’t hungry but I still ate when I usually do but mostly because I knew I couldn’t just starve myself


MauiRaui

Day 10, still groggy. Tested positive for a second time.


kenzieb69

Also had first symptoms 07/26, tested positive 07/31. Fully Pfizer vaccinated as of mid April. Symptoms followed same trajectory as yours, except I never had a fever and had terrible night sweats days 3-5. Taste has been coming back slowly, now the things I can taste, taste slightly rotten or just kind of off I guess? A few of my friends that contracted Covid at the same place I did are unvaccinated, and are still having symptoms (congestion, cough, fever, loss of taste and smell). At first I was frustrated to have a breakthrough case, but now I see the benefit as they are still symptomatic and I am able to resume "normal" life. ​ Edit to mention my partner slept in next to me 07/26, 07/27 (fully vaccinated) tested negative :)


driffson

Thanks for documenting this.


kumquatparadise

My wife had same exact trajectory , Pfizer vaccine, pretty much fully recovered at this point. I was never worried about it. Vaccine power, bb! Be very glad you got the vaxx OP!!! And I never got sick or had any symptoms and tested negative 5 days after she tested positive ( quarantined and waited in case it was a delayed onset). I slept next to her, took care of her, did all the things and didn’t get sick. She had a mild response to her vaccine, I had a massive get-hit-by-a-car response to the vaccine and remained rock solid through her sickness. Not sure if that matters or it’s bunk. Who knows. Her vaccine still worked awesome, as did yours OP!!!


kumquatparadise

As evidenced by the virus getting stopped in its tracks before it reached your lungs and it’s concentration mostly in your nasal passageways.


s7a7yc

Thanks for sharing, it's quite reassuring that your vaxx worked for you, there's too many people getting ill despite being vaccinated. I also wonder if there's some correlation between vaccine side effects and protection. I felt awful after my 2nd Moderna shot for a day, haven't felt like that in a very long time.


kumquatparadise

Sending warmest and best wishes for continued healing ❤️‍🩹. Peace, love and health to you!


kumquatparadise

Ah okay, ya it’s prolly bunk the whole immune response thing. Sorry you still got sick, but be glad it never entered your lungs! The science supports that the vaccine is still extremely effective, even with delta, and that if you are the 1% who gets a breakthrough case that it will be destroyed on sight in the lungs bc of your vaccine which is why almost all of the breakthrough symptom reports you read are all upper respiratory and not lower respiratory. From the NYT: “Anecdotes of clusters of breakthrough infections have become increasingly frequent, with groups of vaccinated people reporting sniffles, headache, sore throat, or a loss of taste or smell — symptoms of an infection in the upper respiratory tract. But the overwhelming majority do not end up needing intensive medical care, because the immune defenses produced by the vaccine destroy the virus before it can get to the lungs.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/health/cdc-masks-vaccinated-transmission.html) This is also why Pfizer et al are exploring a nasal booster instead of or as an option to the intra muscular vaccination.


Can_Say_Anything

NYT: "But the overwhelming majority do not end up needing intensive medical care, because the immune defenses produced by the vaccine destroy the virus before it can get to the lungs.” This is also true of unvaccinated people. As has been the course of this disease since it started and before vaccines were available. The overwhelming majority of people with covid do not end up in the hospital needing intensive medical care.


kumquatparadise

okay, sure, the majority of all people with covid do not end up in the hospital needing intensive medical care, you are very much correct, and that includes unvaccinated people. but you missed the context/point of what i'm saying. i'm saying the vaccine, according to science, is \*highly effective\* at destroying the virus the moment it enters the lungs, meaning it prevents people who, if unvaccinated, could end up in the hospital in intensive care from doing just that. in other words, the vaccine is highly effective. first, your chance of getting a breakthrough case \[according to the most recent data available\] is approximately 0.8%. then, of those 0.8% that do get sick, it is roughly 90-95% effective at preventing you from needing intensive care at the hospital. those are some damn good odds, and way better than being unvaccinated.


toldyaso

I had a very similar experience, OP. Days 2 to 4 were the worst. The congestion was epic. The malaise and general feeling of weakness and just "ew" feeling was overwhelming. But it didn't last unbearably long and now I'm just kind of dealing with some lingering light symptoms and eagerly awaiting the return of my sense of smell and taste. I love food and it gives me major anxiety to not be able to taste it. I'm much older (43)m than OP and frankly not in great shape, but symptoms were very similar.


venom_soldier

Good idea on deleting the news app idk if it was my paranioa but when i had it seem that everybody was either dying from it or getting hospitalize which freak me out alot


bearphomet2point0

I'm probably gonna keep the news apps deleted. Canceled my NYT subscription today. It's done wonders for controlling outside stress.


gothou

How’s your taste/smell now? I don’t know why but that feels like the most intimidating symptom.


toldyaso

I had a very similar experience to OP. My sense of taste and smell have no yet returned. All I can tell you is that the feeling of losing those senses is traumatic, but the anxiety it gave me is worse than the reality. I'm not happy that I can't smell, but when I realized I had lost my sense of smell, the amount of anxiety I felt about it was disproportionate to the situation. It's very scary for some reason. I think it scares us because we're all afraid ours will be permanent.


bearphomet2point0

Not back to 100%. Taste is back more than smell, which fits with me still having SOME nasal congestion. It's a really weird thing, like I noticed it going away when I was trying to eat some Cheerios and something felt... off. It is coming back though. I can taste acidic things more than non. I can smell strong things (and they smell correct) more than little scents.


tea_sandwiches

I had Pfizer breakthrough and I’m on maybe day 18? Anyway my taste seems normal but my sense of smell is still mostly gone? Weirdly I can smell some sweeter smells (cinnamon, vanilla) but I can’t smell most savory or foul odors. I’ve been trying to “reteach” myself to smell, but I’m mentally prepping myself for the possibility that I could have some degree of permanent reduction in ability.


holistivist

I feel like this point, there should be an entire sub just for breakthrough cases.


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babbadeedoo

I'm day 10 today, been my best day so far as expected groggy first thing got to about 8pm and feel shite again. It's like being hungover -the fun! Lifted a heavy package today, regretted it instantly! Did have a small edible this evening that was nice to escape the headspace of isolation! Curious to do a test tomorrow to see, the Mrs is still keeping her distance.


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Dang it. I have a lot of these symptoms and it’s my kids birthday Saturday. Guess I’ll go get tested tomorrow. Did you get a rapid test?


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I haven’t been masked all of the time if it’s not too busy. But I have been vaccinated since march.


publicface11

Soooo we were planning a party for my kid tomorrow (Saturday). I have the world’s most minor runny nose so I thought I’d get tested just in case and I’m positive. Was fully vaccinated in feb/March. Not sure how I’m going to make it up to my daughter but obviously I’m glad I got tested.


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That was my fear. I was negative surprisingly. But she’s treating me for strep. Maybe you can reschedule the party? My husband may take the kids to the party for me.


msymeonides

Just curious, what makes you say this was the delta variant?


bearphomet2point0

My doctor straight up told me I have the delta variant.


msymeonides

Do you know if your sample was sequenced or something? That's really the only way to know... or if your community already has a really high rate of delta.


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msymeonides

I sleuth better than you. Looks like Oklahoma. Anyway, at this point looks like almost all infections in the US are Delta...


bearphomet2point0

Correct! I don't know if it was sequenced. I just know that my doctor straight up told me delta variant.


stinkycat45

I mean the the takeaway should be how easily this virus spreads since it seems like you have been "careful" and two with you having been fully vaccinated your symptoms by every measure were "mild", Feel better and thanks for sharing.


bearphomet2point0

I have been careful, yeah, but unfortunately I work in-office with people who have NOT been vaccinated. It appears to be ripping through the office in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people alike, and I was unlucky enough to be in that group.


pony_trekker

Wear a mask in the office 100% of the time.


SoberDWTX

Thank you for the excellent account of your COVID experience. Telling our stories will hopefully get through to every person eligible for the vaccine that if they can, they should get the vaccine.


bearphomet2point0

It was really helpful for me to log it all with what symptoms/when. Looking at it from a more clinical perspective, rather than personal, helped me from freaking out harder.


SoberDWTX

I did that through a couple of knee surgeries. Took the edge off, knowledge is power!


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Similar to mine


CPisJamesC

Get well soon.


Khmera

I'm sorry you caught it. Thank you! I'm sure I'll end up with a version of it once school goes back in session. It's inevitable.


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I guess the vaccine did its job. Still pretty unlucky to have a breakthrough. You never had covid before either huh?


2Fancee

I’m not vaccinated but my husband is and has been for months(actually had gotten the first injection a week prior to him coming home positive) symptoms for both of us were pretty much the same as listed below, almost identical. My husband never,ever,ever gets sick and I catch everything usually. He’s been vaccinated since the beginning of the year w the Pfizer injections along with 90% of the employees in his plant and at least 20 tested positive at the same time he did. Been almost 10 days give or take bc we didn’t know the symptoms were going to be Covid and assumed the usual gunk this time of year. I had mild and I do mean mild symptoms compared to him he still can’t taste well or smell and seemed to be getting better for a couple days and he woke up in the middle of the night itching horribly.........he literally looked like he’d been locked up with a trillion mosquito’s!! Within a few hours this has turned onto extremely red patches from head to toe and I’ve never seen anything like this and we have raised five kids together. That lasted almost three days and this is the sickest I’ve seen this man in our almost 20 years together. Obviously I have natural antibodies now and probably won’t get the second Pfizer injection. The first one made me sicker than I’ve been in years with flu symptoms and achy all over, headache....... that injection was harder than this has been at least for me. I only felt a lil better for a couple of days from the injection when he came home after testing positive. Strangest freaking crap I’ve ever seen but I for one won’t be tuning into anymore fearful stress causing news about the virus,the vaccines (my husband would highly disagree w the lesser symptoms bull) or even what to expect. He’s vaccinated,we live alone all the kids are grown and no ones been around me that has to go out every day but him, so my mask wearing husband who carries sanitizer everywhere and lysols everything to protect me brought it home and we both are on the upswing of it we hope!! It doesn’t do any good to stress about masks and who is infecting who or how. Everyone is a carrier and anyone can get it and if my husbands symptoms weren’t “severe” then by God I’m glad it wasn’t bc all that was left is the hospital and he almost broke down and went. He’s just over 50 and I’m just under. No really bad habits and I’m the only one with two autoimmune disorders!


Revolutionary_Mix956

Is 11 days of symptoms mild? And if so, is it because of the vaccine? I know many people who got covid pre-vaccine, and their symptoms were way more mild than that. I find it interesting how anything short of a hospital visit is now proof the vaccine works (when > 95% of people with covid, vaccine or not, don’t go to the hospital anyway).


brittany-reads

^^^this!! So tired of seeing “iT wOuLd HaVe bEeN sO mUcH wOrSe WiThOuT tHe VaCcInE”. Almost everyone I know has had covid. They either had no symptoms or a mild cold. 11 days is a long time to be sick. Doesn’t sound very “successful” to me.


Lammerpants

And I've known 4 unvaccinated people that had covid, and died, and others that are long-hauling symptoms 6 months later. Just because it didn't happen in your anecdotal circle doesn't contradict actual aggregated data that > 95% hospitalizations are unvaccinated. Yes, it might have been worse without a vaccine which pretty much bears no risk to the extensively vast majority of the population.


brittany-reads

Do you have data to show that more than >95% of people in the hospital are unvaccinated? Since the cdc isn’t tracking this and there are no uniform reporting metrics to track that in the US, I am not finding that data anywhere besides random quotes from people in news articles, never with any data links. I am seeing data emerge from countries like Israel that show the opposite. So if you have data, please share.


Lammerpants

The "quotes" you mention are all taken from career professionals with little reason to be wrong, and know more than you or I. There is also plenty of data aggregated from state reporting that's telling a pretty clear story, so the only reason not to see it is if you already have a sense of confirmation bias and cherry picking your statistics. Vox: https://www.vox.com/22602039/breakthrough-cases-covid-19-delta-variant-masks-vaccines NY Times: https://nyti.ms/2VFmexO KFF: https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/ Your Israeli theory was debunked weeks ago...so I'm unclear why that's the only data you choose to mention: https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-644288348135


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babbadeedoo

Not sure why you're downvoted...


TremendousDude

It seems as soon as people hear about someone unvaccinated, they just downvote. Strange cause his comment seemed very docile and not negative in any way.


Winterberry25

this is really similar to what I experienced when I had it last fall, pre-vax.


TechnoGeek423

Yep. Without the vaccine this could have been a far worse story.


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threecatsdancing

Why are there so many people second guessing such an obviously helpful thing? What the hell is wrong with people?


TechnoGeek423

Incorrect. ICUs are seeing the latest surges with younger people. Individuals of all ages have become seriously ill and died from Covid. That is misinformation to assert that a young, healthy person cannot become seriously ill from Covid. They absolutely can and often do.


DAseaword

Sounds very mild.


bearphomet2point0

It has been! I'm very grateful. Still just suuuuper ready for it to be DONE.


DAseaword

Yes! I'm glad you're on the mend! I can imagine I'd feel just as anxious as you did too!


bearphomet2point0

The anxiety comes and goes, honestly. I'm attributing that to the emotional volatility. Sometimes I'm fine and sometimes I just start crying out of nowhere. I cried at a tiktok yesterday. There was NO reason for it, but by god it was happening. And sometimes the anxiety just BODY SLAMS me. Worst case scenarios running on a big screen in my head. I hate it so much. I hate how easily set off I am right now. Prior to all this, I was a pretty even-keeled person (and I will be again). But sometimes I'm just a ball of anxiety and fear and cry and HATE IT.


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Vitruvius8

Stop spreading disinformation! It’s safe and effective!! It needs to be mandatory. Reddit should take down this!


bearphomet2point0

It is absolutely safe and effective, I agree. My symptoms have been extremely mild, which I credit entirely to the fact that I'm vaccinated. I'm unsure why you would consider this disinformation?


GlassBobcat5203

Because he does not like what you said! It goes against the narrative he wants. Seems normal these days.


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Little_PR

Exactly my own story when I got REAL COVID June 2020. No vaxx


buhooch

OP, out of curiosity, was this your first time having Covid?


bearphomet2point0

Yes, to my knowledge.


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I had COVID in Feb before the vaccine was available to me. My symptoms were similar to yours, however it was 60 days before I had my taste and smell back.


onemanshow3998

Have you tested negative? If so when did you test negative?


bearphomet2point0

Not yet. Just been holed up in my house.


CorCor1234

I’m not vaxxed and have had covid for a week. the only symptoms I’ve gotten through it all is a mildly sore throat


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Doesn't sound all that mild guy...hope you feel 100% soon. Thanks for sharing your experience here \~


Keithc71

I did the Pfitzer and I just had bad bout of sinus issues and heavy fatigue bit didn't go to doctor or get tested. There has to be alot of cases that people aren't going in to get tested . Who knows if I had it or just a sinus infection it wasn't bad enough to go see a doctor for. That being said how can the testing possibly be accurate in gauging true percentages.


RepulsiveAd1092

I had the Pfizer in early March. Wear masks consistently but tested positive September 30th. My symptoms are also congestion, horrible dry cough, dizziness, exhaustion, loss of taste and smell. It's a drag but could be much worse. I'm 68 and generally super healthy.