So is there anyone/ do you know of anyone who's had covid and NOT sufferings long term after effects?

[Layladylay234]

Considering there are so many on the other thread that are and that the rhetoric on other threads seems to be not about the amount of deaths,but of the the long term side effects,it would be interesting to hear from people who HAVEN'T had these.

I know 2 people who tested positive (nobody with suspected)
A 32 yr old doctor who had it very mildly for a week and is completely fine and his 69 yr old mum he lives with who also is now completely fine but she did need a couple of days in bed to get over it.

I have read the long covid threads on here and interestingly almost every symptom (bar the hanging on cough obviously) is one I get with my fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia that was triggered by viral labrinthitis when I was 19. It makes me wonder if it is always long covid or whether some of these people have a genetic predisposition to fibromyalgia or CFS/ME and they have in fact recovered from the Covid infection and now have a different lifelong condition.

Not saying that makes it any better my illness is absolute shit and stops me doing lots of things. My point is that some of these people could have been left in this state after contracting any known virus.

Obviously long covid does exist just as much as deaths from covid do exist, I'm not for a minute saying they don't but I do think it's worth considering that maybe for some people sooner or later they would have developed lifelong conditions with or without Covid-19.

@Trashtara

Wow - your friend needs to be referred for research - do many people test positive for covid for 5 months? Never heard of that before. How many times has she tested positive for covid over the last 5 months?

"Trashtara Thu 13-Aug-20 08:33:05
I also have friend who is completely asymptomatic and has been for the 5 months she has tested positive for COVID. She isn't allowed to see anyone outside her immediate family who live with her, isn't allowed outside to exercise. It's been hell!"

Jeezo @Danglingmod that’s awful to know so many people who have died ;(

@OcarinaBear

Good points

"Obviously long covid does exist just as much as deaths from covid do exist, I'm not for a minute saying they don't but I do think it's worth considering that maybe for some people sooner or later they would have developed lifelong conditions with or without Covid-19."

It's too early to know much about long term effects.
This is a quote from the British Medical Journal 'To summarise, persistent respiratory complications following covid-19 may cause substantial population morbidity' (ie illness) 'and optimal management remains unclear. Prospective studies are under way to evaluate these complications further and to identify people at greatest risk'

I'm 40 and have covid. First week had to think about breathing plus horrendous chest pains, plus not great headaches (not the worst but tough enough) and nausea very regularly.
2nd week chest pains were only every other day but if I sat up too quickly I'd get properly out of breath.
I'm on 3rd week now, starting to get out of bed more but cant stay up for long. The 'just tired' thing, is so tired that when you stand your legs feel like they're going to go from under you.

Still have the shortness of breath sometimes and had chest pains last night. I need 3 more days of no headache, fever or sickness so I can get back out to my family. I cant wait!!!
The doctor said out of everyone he's talked to a 'fair few' were months later still getting breathing issues and having chest pains but the general time is 4-6 weeks.
I'm hoping it's all gone by September as I dont know how I'll figure school runs out when dh goes back to work. By the way no underlying health issues and usually fit enough (size 12 and I run)

Thanks, Senga.

We're not even in a badly affected area. Just coincidence.

I know lots who have had it asymptomatically as I work with HCPs who have been tested via work. My brother had it mildly which he knows because he has had a positive antibody test prior to an operation recently and he can only recall mild cold-like illnesses. This isn’t me minimising the awful effects (and many viruses can cause long term difficulties that can be very hard to deal with), just reporting what I’ve seen

I know four people who've had it - an NHS doctor whose only symptom was lack of taste and smell and he tested positive for antibodies, the three others suffered from persistent cough, breathlessness and fever for about a week but are now perfectly fine.

Half My office (20 people) and about 25 friends have had it, no long term issues but no one had it badly or needed hospital treatment. One called an ambulance but they didn’t take her in, she was ill for 6 weeks

@Layladylay234 I have researched alot as I am that type of person. If you look King's College are saying average of 10% seem to be getting long term symptoms. Also a specialist on itv news yesterday saying that it seems 10% of people positive are having effects over months. I am at 4 months and am definitely on the mend so feeling confident I will be 100% in time. So I don't think it will be damage just very slow recovery for some people.

DD2 had it - she lost her sense of smell for two days. She said colds are worse.

Both grandchildren have had it - one had hives on and off. Other than that, they didn’t appear at all ill to their parents. They seem full of beans now!

@OcaeunaBear doctors are referring some people for this after 4 months. I have lots of energy and feel fine I just have ongoing chest pains and feel like my lungs are too small if I walk up hill or too fast.

MoreListeningLessChatting its definitely an odd one. She is a doctor and her first test was almost routine, she said she felt she had hayfever but because she had a temperature they tested her.

She has theorised that it could either be that she has some other virus in her that COVID tests detect as a positive (we already know the test have accuracy issues) or she really does have a long tail version of it. It is unlikely that she definitely doesn't have either COVID or something else because she has had 10+ tests all come back positive which is statistically unlikely to be false positives.

Her husband has tested negative.

@Trashtara there are a few cases of people testing positive for months. What a nightmare for her, her life must be on hold.

Me, I had it. No test, all symptoms but cough. Now fine.

I had it in March. Felt ill for a day or two but have been fine since. I didn’t even know it was Covid until I had an antibody test in July.

Just curious, not goady, those that say they know people who had it mild and are not suffering with long covid, were they actually tested (either antigen test at the time or antibody test at later date)?

[quote MoreListeningLessChatting]@AlecTrevelyan006

Indeed there are .... I think if you look for it hard enough every little twitch, sniff and ache can be attributed [/quote]
Long and complicated recoveries, or indeed perhaps permanent effects, from Covid are clearly real, but it is quite hard to determine exactly how common it is when so much is self-diagnosed and self-reported. I suspect that if you tell people they're likely to have long-term effects they're more likely to notice things, and attribute them to that, than they would otherwise have been, and studies usually just aren't done on people three months after other viruses if they've 'recovered' to check if you can still find any signs of damage from the illness; I suspect (but don't know, obviously) that it might turn out not to be uncommon from other viruses, too. Certainly post-viral syndromes are not a Covid-specific thing.

I know this is really unkind but back when there was no testing really available there was a pretty strong - though far from perfect! - correlation between people I knew who declared that they definitely had it and people who like to mysteriously check into hospitals on Facebook... Two of them now talk daily on social media about their 'long Covid' and I know it's awful - and I do know other people suffering long recoveries that I don't doubt at all - but part of me thinks of course they had the most dramatic form of the current most attention-grabbing illness...

My mum had it, ages 60 and with some underlying conditions. She had a high temp, a cough and a headache. Fine after 4 days.

Sorry should have said, she had a positive test at the time (NHS worker).

Really mixed experience here.

I know 5 people who have had confirmed covid-19. Two of them died 😔. The other three were ill for about 10 days and then made a full recovery and are fine a few months on.

I should also say I’m 99% sure I had it (no test as at the beginning of the pandemic but it is down in my drs notes as suspected covid).
I was ill for approx 10 weeks. Cough, chest pain, sickness and diarrhoea to start with, and was sent for an X-ray when I coughed up blood which showed very mild pneumonia.
I’ve felt back to normal for about 2 months now.

I know a few who've had it:

Mid 20s- dr, very mild and no lasting effects

Early 30s- hospitalised and was ill for a number of weeks but fully recovered

93 year old with complex medical issues, contracted in hospital and died with Covid

Late 30s, fairly mild symptoms- like a bad flu- lasted 2 weeks but fully recovered

I don't doubt that some people will have long(er) term effects but at this point it feels like the more severe cases are rarer but shouted about so much it drowns out everything else.

The five that I knew.

Early 60s, no underlying health conditions - died 😔

Late 40s, diabetic - died 😔

Early 60s, no underlying health issues - recovered quickly

Mid fifties, no health issues but very overweight - recovered quickly

Early 49s, very fit - recovered quickly