Still haven’t had it, but had a close contact a few days ago, so I’m just curious.
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.
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.
About a week.
Someone in the office had covid and for some fucked up reason decided to come in anyway and then get sent home but he was in the office for about 45 minutes before he was kicked out.
He was an anti-vaxxer and so kept saying it was just a cold, but even if you believed that why would not just take the opportunity to have a month off work and still be paid by the government? Idiot.
Then I got sick about a week later, and I know it was from him because at the time I lived by myself and I drove my car to and from work so I was never interacting with anybody else.
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.
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.
3-4 days.
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.
Never. We had a work lunch and one of the guys a few days later said “I just tested positive for covid, better test”. About 2 days later I was testing positive, but none of us in the household ever had any symptoms other than testing positive (about 4 days in, the LFT was going bright red as soon as the liquid reached the test line). None of us ever had so much as a sniffle. The guy we got it off was really rough for a few days.
Picked it up at the gym towards the end of 21 for the first time. After a night of mild drinking watching a game a few days later I woke up thinking I was somehow extremely hungover off 3-4 beers. It lasted too long, assumed it might be allergies too. Headache, lack of appetite/unsettled stomach, weak, sore throat and tired. Tested myself towards the end of the first day of sumtpoms, was positive. It lightening up after a couple days, didn’t feel right for almost a week though.
I definitely had it again about a year ago. More like bad allergy symptoms. Headache, sore throat, felt a little “foggy”. Tested positive and it passed mostly in 24-48 hours.
I have fairly bad winter cedar allergies that the symptoms of often line up with covid. I wouldn’t doubt I’ve had it a few more times mildly in the last year or two. I go out in crowded public spaces like the gym a lot and haven’t worn a mask in a long time. My impression of the more prevelant strains lately are what the Republicans wished the first waves were (the first time I likely had omecron, it sucked). A mild flu or a head cold. Just quarantine and if the symptoms last more than 24hrs try and get your hands on a test.
As far as I can tell, I’m still a novid
I am stealing this
Novid club for the win!!
My wife and I are just getting over it. Not too severe for us, fortunately. She missed two days of work last week over it, and I would have missed Friday and Saturday if I hadn’t already been off. (We work from home.)
We’re not sure where we picked it up. 5 days before she started feeling it, we were at a restaurant that seemed like a potential candidate, but most of the comments here seem to be 2-3 days, so maybe it was something else. We weren’t really in close contact with other people during those times - even that restaurant wasn’t that busy. Maybe one of the servers there had it, or maybe it was something else.
It seems really inconsistent with the amount of time it takes before you become ill.
It seems to vary between 2 and 7 days. Possibly different variants have different incubation lengths.
Yeah. It’s possible there’s also an element of “strength of exposure” - if we’re infected by someone who just happened by, compared to standing and talking to them for a while, there might be a difference in how long it takes to incubate.
Whatever happened, it’s a bummer. But, like I said before, we don’t have it nearly as bad as so many people did - for us, it’s like a severe cold, treatable with OTC medication.
Also, those services where we can order groceries or food and have them delivered to our car are great (we’re a bit far out for delivery to our house for things like that).
Mid-December 2020. My mom had to attend a reunion with her former workmates and I was pretty much isolated from anyone except my family at that time. My mom’s reunion happened late November, and she started having symptoms early December. Sometime between then and mid-December, me and my siblings got infected. So, around two weeks between getting infected and getting symptoms, I suppose.
I started having muscle pains first, and didn’t really think much of it. My mom was sent to hospital soon after I started showing symptoms, and her condition started requiring hospitalization. My other siblings were all sent to the hospital as well, while I got the entire house to myself for isolation, haha.
Not the best way to deal with things, but we agreed that had I been subjected to the stress of finding a hospital, then having minimal care (if not left in the hallways due to the lack of beds), I would have fared much worse. Fending for yourself while sick at home is better than fending for yourself while sick in a very stressful and crowded hospital setting. My mom got the best care as she got a slot in a private lying-in clinic. My siblings got taken care of by their respective spouses. I managed by forcing some milk into my system as regularly as I could along with medicine that took care of the symptoms.
Spending Christmas eve alone and deliriously sick was quite an experience though. Neighbors and relatives sneaked in a pretty nice Christmas dinner that unfortunately went to waste because I can’t stomach any food at that time.
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.
3 days after getting home from a business trip. I assume the plane is where I got it but can’t be sure
It’s shortened over time. Original and Delta, it could be somewhere between 4 days and a week. As I understand it, it’s closer to 2-3 days on average now.
