Still haven’t had it, but had a close contact a few days ago, so I’m just curious.
Took about two days to kick in and I was bedridden for around a month. Horrible coughing, pain all over, slept all day but sleep was never restful as the coughing kept waking me up. I was tired all the time. My roommate had it too and we both basically could only microwave some food every day then collapse. The whole experince is a blur.
I honestly think that without the vaccine and booster it would’ve killed me. My roomie has lasting lung damage.
It depends on what variant you get. Older strains could become symptomatic up to a week later, newer strains as little as 1-2 days. It’s nearly impossible for the average person to know what strain they have and the older ones are still floating around.
Normally 5 days, if you still have no symptoms after that, then maybe you are asymptomatic, or did not catch it.
On the fifth day you can have yourself tested just to be more sure if you have it or not.
3 days. Felt like shit, I immediately knew something was wrong and that it wasn’t a normal cold, so I did a test and it came out positive.
It’s been a couple of years, but I’m pretty sure it was something around 5 days from exposure to feeling my first symptoms. I got it from a large event after people had stopped wearing masks regularly.
It hit me pretty fast and hard as soon as the symptoms started. I went from feeling perfectly fine to feeling very feverish. Checked my temperature and it was over 100F. The first night was the absolute worst for me. Everything hurt, I was both burning up and freezing cold. After my fever broke the next day, I was mostly fine outside of the cough which lasted a few weeks.
3 days after getting home from a business trip. I assume the plane is where I got it but can’t be sure
Maybe 8 to 10 days. My kid got it at school, a little more than a week later I was coughing. I tested positive on home tests for another 10 days or so, I remember because I had to cancel some Dr. appointments.
But I was very vaccinated and it really was no worse than a short cold.
Around 2-3 days after exposure at a wedding. The outbreak happened at work (home office). I could feel how my body temperature started to rise and I started feeling bad. Shortly thereafter I had a burning sensation in my lungs and had my first positive test result 🤢
For 2-3 days I felt bad and extremely weak. Then it got gradually better.
I was fully recovered in 6-8 weeks (felt very weak when running in the morning or when doing heavy work). The next 6 months I had a lot of colds which is not normal for me.
Couple of days. Was sitting on a plane leaving Omaha, we were about a year and a half in so it was fairly safe to travel then, but we still masked everywhere. That didn’t stop big boomer billy from refusing to put on a mask and coughing on my wife and I for the duration of the flight. We were both vaxxed so we pulled through, but it still sucked.
I heard something like “90% of cases will start symptoms within 5 days” or something. Still, take a test, maybe try to stay home for the next few days if you can, and if you must go out wear a mask just to be safe to try to not spread it to anyone else. My immuno-compromised family thanks you for that.
And if you did get it, as long as you’re vaxxed you don’t need to worry. Prepare for a bad flu, the first week be ready for a bad fever, but queue up some movies/TV and plow through it.
Haven’t had a booster in a year, so I’m a little worried. From what I’ve read, it doesn’t really do much after a year. I’ll definitely stay in for another couple days and test though!
Eh most of us haven’t. New version only came out this month. Don’t be worried, it’ll be fine if you do. The scary thing at the beginning was that 1) it was new and doctors didn’t know the best ways to handle it and 2) since so many people got it all at once it meant people who really needed doctors couldn’t get the attention they needed.
Just brace for a sucky flu, and remember the warnings on if it’s time to see a doctor. If it helps you feel better, knowledge is power and this article lets you know what to expect, and for me what calms me down is signs that it’s time to call a doctor. (I get anxiety thinking any old symptom is an emergency, so I like to calm myself down by trying to be rational and say “okay, when is it actually an emergency”).
My wife and I had fevers, really bad for 4 days (we watched all of the harry potter movies and I don’t remember about half of them), cough, sinus, all the standard flu stuff, and that was about 8 months after the vaccine, but your mileage may vary of course.
I’d agree with around 5 days or so. I played a show with my band, which was really hard to do during that time, our singer apparently didn’t feel well, but decided not to tell anyone. He got almost all of our band and members of other ones sick.
My girlfriend just had it. Took her at least five days - she was exposed right before a camping trip and didn’t get sick until the last day.
She had the Pfizer vaccine (both shots) shortly after it was made available and one booster.
I am stealing this
Novid club for the win!!
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Stress is one helluva drug for becoming not sick until you relax a tiny bit. Then you will get hit by a metaphorical germ truck and.
It took me 2-3 days.
Was exposed on a Thursday or Friday or possibly both days from some sick coworkers (can’t remember now as it’s been several months since I had it). Started to get a dry throat on Saturday afternoon but felt otherwise okay. Late Sunday night, it evolved into a really bad sore throat and absolutely massive headache and exhaustion and I developed a fever. Took a test at that point and it was very positive.
