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Posted 1/4/2022 2:11 PM (GMT -5)
I've received two Pfizer shots with the last shot coming at the end of April 2020.

The night of the 28th of December I felt unwell with lots of inflammation and could not sleep. This is not unusual for my usual course of chronic illness. The next day I started feeling different during the afternoon. By early afternoon I was shaking with the chills. My fever got to about 102F before I took an aspirin to help me sleep. Fever is unsual for me with my regualr illness. The few times I have experienced a fever it's been low-grade. December 30 I felt increased headaches and body aches but no fever. We got our hands on a rapid test and it was negative. I've since come to find these rapid tests possibly might not be as useful for the new variant (this is hearsay). New Year's eve I started to feel weird around noon. A couple hours later I could feel my body heating up and along came the shaking and chills. Additionally, this time, I had fairly intense headaches, and pressure pain along the bridge of my nose into my face and eyes. I started aching badly in lower back and I assume this was kidney pain. I've been reading that lower back pain is common with Omicron. By night time my fever was 103F and my head was pounding along with my body aching. Pretty miserable. I tried to sleep through my fever to let it do it's antimicrobial thing but by 4am I couldn't take the pain anymore and took some ibprofen.

Sunday I went to a local testing site so I could get a PCR. We sat waiting for over two hours and then they closed the site with us being about 10 cars away from being served. Lol ridiculous. Testing is mess right now.

I haven't had a fever since NYE. However, I still am having profound fatigue, some body aches off and on, suppressed appetite, and mild nausea. It's tough to tell if this triggered my regular symptoms or what is going on.

Since there is an incredible amount of COVID being transmitted right now I assumed I had/have it as to not expose others. If I have/had it I feel fortunate as i hardly experienced any respiratory symptoms. A few times by nostrils stuffed up and few times I felt scratchy in my throat and needed to cough, but that could honestly be a normal day occurrence without any second thought if I weren't hypervigalent because of COVID.

I don't listen every week, however the podcast This Week in Virology, on Youtube, is put on by career virologists and where I've got a lot of my info lately. They have said that circulating antibodies will always contract after vaccination/infection. The long term memory cells will remain and when infected they will ramp up the process to make antibodies again. In that case, you might feel like a nail being pounded for a day or two, but then the immune system should gain the upper hand for most. i think this is likely what happened to me.
Posted 1/4/2022 7:53 PM (GMT -5)
Howdy. I don't have anything useful to offer, but wanted to say I hope this passes for you soon. That's a pretty high fever you had and the symptoms sound miserable.

I'm on my second day of feeling worse than my crappy "normal." Similar to what you noted, some of my current symptoms seem only slightly worse than usual -- but, it was enough to launch me into hypervigilance. I'm still surprised at how my body responds to my mind going over a cliff. I started feeling flushed and got a bit sweaty. I took my temperature and it was only 97.2°F (36.2°C). Seeing this, I calmed down and felt less flushed and warm. My body aches a bit, I've had some GI upset, and felt on the verge of a headache since yesterday.

Though I've only watched a couple of episodes (and, it's been a few months), I've seen "This Week in Virology" and felt it a great resource. Based on your watching/listening to it -- and, having read various other comments you've made -- you may also enjoy the following, if you're not already familiar.

https://www.youtube.com/c/zdoggmd/videos
A bit sophomoric, but usually worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/ucuibd0e2kdf9n9e-emibuew/videos
Very clear and rational communicator.

https://www.youtube.com/c/usmleonline/videos
Good information, but the amount overwhelms me.

https://www.youtube.com/c/campbellteaching/videos
Not my primary source, but a pleasant person.

The testing situation you shared is really unfortunate. I'm sorry you guys went through all that without getting any help. As you mentioned, the testing situation is a mess. I heard part of President Biden's speech about having 500 million test kits available for the U.S., but I'm not really clear on the need or strategy, all things considered.

Anyway, again, I hope you get to feeling better soon. I've no doubt you're doing lots of good things to give yourself the best chance to put the matter behind you quickly.
Posted 1/4/2022 8:10 PM (GMT -5)
Have you been treating this in any way? There are multiple posts about various treatment recommendations.

Praying you fully recover soon. Sounds like you had it pretty bad. I had a really mild case and only about 24 hours of fever/chills/aching. I only had my temperature checked once. That was about 38 hours in and it was only 99. I don’t think it was ever much higher than that.

I tested negative for COVID and flu by rapid response and negative for COVID by PCR. I still believe it was COVID. Likely Omicron. I had all but loss of smell/taste and maybe one other thing. My respiratory symptoms were very mild and intermittent.

One of my first symptoms the night it started was pain in my back between my shoulder blades.
Posted 1/5/2022 11:28 AM (GMT -5)
Thanks for the words y'all.

At this point getting COVID isn't an unusual event, but I thought some people here might like another data point for someone that acquires it while also dealing with chronic illness.

I'm still somewhat skeptical of my thoughts on this, but I don't ever get fevers like that over multiple days and with the huge upswing of illness going around along with the lower back pain, night sweats, and pounding headache which led me to think COVID. Particularity the lower back pain and night sweats seem to be developing into the calling cards of Omicron. But I can't shake how odd it is that I didn't experience any respiratory symptoms. No cough, phlegm, or sore throat.

Honestly, even though it hasn't been fun, the course of illness hasn't been that bad. I've had worse flu illnesses in years when I was younger and not vaccinated against the flu. The big difference is the flu, for me, would typically come on fast and hard, but after a day or two I'd feel much better. This one has lingered on a bit. But again, with COVID, the scary party is the respiratory. Without that I wasn't worried at all.

Based on what I'd learned I didn't feel the need to take any anti-virals. I knew my previous vaccination meant I most likely has long term memory cells and those would ramp up the antibodies again. I'm mid 30s and I keep myself in good shape despite the Lyme/Co. The only thing I did was take liposomal glutathione, and quercetin when I ate. When I did eat I made sure to eat food easy on the GI. For example, a brothy soup with rice, chicken, and a little bit of veggies.

I feel much better today. Even though my symptoms started over a week ago I went and got a PCR today. I'd like to know for sure if I was infected so I know my immunity status.
Posted 1/5/2022 1:41 PM (GMT -5)
I had very little respiratory symptoms either, and what I had was intermittent - they would come in and out. I had some nasal congestion, stuffy nose without congestion, a little coughing, trouble breathing along with fast and hard heart beat that felt more like dysautonomia, maybe a very subtle feeling of pressure in chest that was very brief. I also had dry mouth during the worst nights.
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