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AIBU?

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To wonder if we have some immunity to covid

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Cheeseplease1976 · 20/03/2022 20:43

My DS and I had what I think was covid in March 2020. Both of us were really ill and I was bed bound for 2 weeks - never been so rough. It was before testing though so can’t be sure.

We are both vaxxed but despite being exposed to covid on multiple occasions, have never had it again (massive touch wood obviously) and I am really anxious about it.

I have been in a car with someone for 2 hours & they tested positive a few hours later. Still didn’t get it.

The message is constantly that immunity fades but Aibu to think we must have developed some immunity from being so ill at the start? DS is in secondary & it’s rife & my other DC has had it from primary, as has DP. So we’ve had it in the house too.

I know there are variants which is what’s making me so anxious (I was so ill in March 2020- it was really scary)

I guess I just don’t get how, when everyone around me seem to be getting it agsin, why we haven’t. It’s not that I want it again but after being so ill the first time, I am also scared of getting it again.

Do you think you can build a baseline immunity even if you haven’t had all the variants?

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OfstedOffred · 20/03/2022 21:10

Cheeseplease you could have caught flu but only experienced mild symptoms and the same may be true eventually with Covid.

Miss2018 · 20/03/2022 21:11

I was ill in March 2020 before testing. I work in a hospital, one with the infectious disease centre and was working in the hot sites at one point treating covid patients in the peak; this was before we had the appropriate ppe as well.
I came through all of that with no other episodes of illness and assumed that was it.
I had my vaccines as required for the hospital last year; my daughter even had covid and since she was so little we shared a bed, she was coughing all over me asking for comfort and hugs and I didn’t catch a thing….then I caught covid 2 weeks ago just after the hospital dropped their ffp3 policy for treating patients and have had the whole fever and aches again.
I think it’s just a matter of time and maybes luck.

Flyingskunk · 20/03/2022 21:14

No one in my family has had it 2 primary age kids, grandparents who have kept working in public facing roles.
Workmate has just caught it for the first time - young chap out pubbing and clubbing regularly didn’t stick to the rules - so who knows!

Wannakisstheteacher · 20/03/2022 21:18

I could have written this. March 2020 I honestly thought I was dying. Never been so ill in my life. Absolutely nothing since then, so thought I was invincible... until I got in 2 weeks ago. Gutted 😂

BulletTrain · 20/03/2022 21:18

I was ill in March 2020, with what seemed like bacterial tonsillitis but didn't go with antibiotics. I gave it to my mum and MiL who were staying with me. DH was away. All 3 of us were rough, chesty, coughing. MiL took part in a study in May and she had Covid antibodies, having not been ill with anything else since the March.

Neither I nor DH have ever tested positive, despite 6 out of 9 of my office testing positive on Christmas Eve this year. I do feel like I'm just waiting now...

AuntieMarys · 20/03/2022 21:18

I was very ill February 2020 with a flu type virus. Dh tested positive last week...we haven't avoided each other, slept in same bed etc. My pcr came back negative although I've had cold symptoms.
Who knows?

ENoeuf · 20/03/2022 21:19

Same with the pre testing dreadfully ill with what could have been covid and now never testing positive

MaryShelley1818 · 20/03/2022 21:20

I thought I had some magic immunity too....2 full years and avoided it! Despite being a close contact, 2 children in nursery with lots of cases, working closely in people's homes/schools as a Social Worker with zero PPE throughout.

Then boom....all 4 of us tested positive this week.

EmilyEmmabob · 20/03/2022 21:25

I haven't been ill at all and tested negative for antibodies 3 times as part of a testing programme. I've been testing twice a week for work and never had a positive test, everyone around me has had it at some point or another except for my 2 DSs. DH had it and we still didn't catch it.

I have no idea how this virus works. One thing I did notice is that DH and my DSis caught it before anyone else in our family and they are both classed as CEV, thankfully they've come through it ok although both still suffer extreme tiredness.

I just keep expecting a positive test but I am starting to think I'm invincible (touch wood).

FruitToast · 20/03/2022 21:26

I got it in the Christmas wave from my DD who caught it at school. Had managed almost 2 years working in a hospital without catching it until the outbreak in her class. Everyone I know (several of which thought they were naturally immune) that hadn't had covid has caught it in the last couple of weeks. Now protective measures have been dropped it appears that it's unavoidable.

CathyorClaire · 20/03/2022 21:26

Triple vaxxed and never had it despite being heavily exposed to also triple vaxxed dh who got it over New Year, close contacts at work and generally living like it's never existed whenever restrictons have been lifted.

I have however had two hideous colds (consistently neg on LFT) in three months and wonder if they have given me superpowers.

MolkosTeenageAngst · 20/03/2022 21:27

I’ve still not had it yet despite being a close contact plenty of times, I’m triple vaccinated but so are lots of the people I know who’ve had it.

I think though it’s just a matter of time. I have a friend whose daughter had it and nobody else in the house caught it despite none of the family being able to isolate from her and her son not even being vaccinated. A few months later she and her son caught it but her husband still didn’t get it despite them sharing a bed. Then a couple of weeks ago her husband finally caught it and her (now vaccinated) son has got it again, but her and her daughter have been fine. There seems to be very little rhyme or reason as to who will catch it and who won’t at any one time but I do know lots of people who avoided catching it several times but have still gotten it eventually.

Girlmumdogmumboymum · 20/03/2022 21:28

Id think it might be possible but would also take precautions incase you're wrong.

Came back from Dusney just as it had started to kick off, went to the Dr's with DD, they said - Flu! I said, can't be she had a flu jab a few months ago.
He asked, have you been to I think it was Africa or China?
No.
He had his suspicions, but tests were only for those having returned from Africa or China.
Her heart rate was very high. She had blood tests for other things, never found out what was wrong but she was in isolation before the country went into lockdown.

She's been around 10+ people who were positive and close contacts, but hasn't caught it

BulletTrain · 20/03/2022 21:29

I have however had two hideous colds (consistently neg on LFT) in three months and wonder if they have given me superpowers.

Actually yes, I had a week off in Jan and was so ill that I was convinced I was going to test positive but never did. I wonder if what I had just never picked up in testing. DH didn't catch it from me though.

Sexnotgender · 20/03/2022 21:35

I said, can't be she had a flu jab a few months ago.

Flu jab doesn’t mean she can’t get flu.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 20/03/2022 21:37

Well, I missed all the variants until almost two years to the day, I tested positive. Seeing as it sent my heart rate and O2 Sats all over the place but I just felt a bit 'rough', the comparison between that and the original struggling to breathe, heart pounding fit to burst and the lengthy recovery period is conisderable. So I think that having had it badly once, combined with vaccination, meant that I could evade most versions and was only down to needing an ECG this time.

Not so much 'immunity' as that suggests you can't get it at all, but having antibodies/defences against the infection taking hold as strongly as it did first time.

CheesecakeAddict · 20/03/2022 21:41

I have managed to avoid it the whole time, despite having a public facing job and no ppa. Dd also got it December 2020 and we were still bed sharing at the time but still didn't catch it. Tested positive today.

lilahbelle · 20/03/2022 21:44

I was really ill for weeks between feb/March 2020 but it was before covid was supposedly identified in UK. Definitely think I had it!

Haven't had it since though, despite being exposed on a few occasions and working in a public facing healthcare role! Was amazed, but then I got a tickly throat on Wednesday and tested positive on a lft. DH tested purely because of me, and he had a blazing positive lft but had no symptoms at all. Covid is bizarre!

I've just had extremely mild symptoms, I felt more ill with a cold a couple of weeks ago that apparently wasn't covid

Thatswhyimacat · 20/03/2022 22:09

I had covid 18 months ago, had all the vaccinations, and since then haven't, touch wood, picked it up again despite living in London and taking absolutely zero precautions. I've been in close contact with at least 4 confirmed cases, including sharing a bed with one, and nowt! This surprises me as pre-covid I came down with nasty colds ALLL the time.

littledrummergirl · 20/03/2022 22:49

I feel like typhoid Mary. I've been in close contact with many people who soon after tested positive, at one point half of the people in the office had it, including the colleague I shared a desk space with.
Dd is currently day 5 with it but I'm still negative. I just keep waiting for it to catch me.

HecatePecate · 21/03/2022 10:12

@littledrummergirl I am still testing negative on LFT. My covid was picked up on PCR, done because of the rest of the house having it. According to LFT I’ve been negative all along 🤦‍♀️

It does mean that I’ve no idea when I am safe to go out too as day 5 and 6 tests are definitely going to be negative. 🤷‍♀️

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