Do you know someone with risk factors who's recovered from Covid?

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Does anyone actually know people who have the risk factors ie Asthma, breathing problems or over weight that has tested positive for Covid and made a full recovery?
You hear so much about the bad stories I am interested to hear if there are any good outcomes for high risk people.
We know two couples aged 65+ who have have recently tested positive and are all back to work and fighting fit after their isolation :)

Wow this is really interesting! Thanks for the replies I'm so glad so many people have had a good outcome you don't hear about that in the news!

Yes I do. Someone I know who has type 1 diabetes and asthma was in ICU for quite a while in April/May and us now well and back at work.

Loads of us hospital staff got it. 30% of >8000 staff tested positive for antibodies. 7 staff died. Most of us recovered quickly and a great many were asymptomatic or had very mild symptoms. We have high number of staff aging, bame or overweight. I’m nearly 50, BMI 30. Had much worse colds. DH same.

BIL in early seventies. Morbidly obese, COPD and on enough medication to sink a ship. Had it in April. Took steroids (supplies because of his conditions). I won't say he's fit because he wasn't before, but he's been back to 'normal' for ages.

Does anyone actually know people who have the risk factors ie Asthma, breathing problems or over weight that has tested positive for Covid and made a full recovery?

Yes. Dh's retired managing partner and his wife. Both have risk factors and both have recovered fully now. The wife was more badly hit than the husband, though neither needed hospital treatment. The wife lost her taste for a few weeks. Both now fully recovered.

I'm hoping I will. I'm three weeks in and have had some unpleasant complications. I may now need ongoing medication due to blood pressure complications, and I've currently got a 72 hour heart monitor to see if it's caused any issues there (due to presented symptoms.) BUT I am no longer in danger and, despite needing medication possibly for good, I am likely to recover fully from the breathing and fatigue issues. So long as the blood pressure meds do their job and keep it stabilised I will be okay long term.

Oh and I'm clinically vulnerable due to inflammatory arthritis and medication that affects my immunity. I didn't have issues with blood pressure before Covid so that wasn't a risk factor.

My friend's DH. He's seriously ill with a lung condition and wasn't expected to have a good outcome, but he's fully recovered.

A friend of mine who is diabetic plus various other health conditions and had utterly convinced herself that if she caught it she would most certainly die.
Ended up with very mild cold like symptoms which turned out to be COVID and she is completely fine.

Yes. 50 year old, high BMI, clinically extremely vulnerable due to severe asthma (regularly hospitalised because of this) and other medical issues. Confirmed Covid in April. Was taken to A&E by ambulance but returned home the same day. She was ill at home for about a fortnight but didn't require any oxygen and has made a full recovery.

Yes. A member of my family. Late 50s, overweight and severely asthmatic. They were very ill at the time back at the start of the pandemic but they are fine now. 😍

Me, I’m asthmatic, BMI over 40. I was a little poorly with it but I’m fine. My supervisor is 62 has COPD, overweight and zero symptoms. My work colleague asthmatic, BMI way over 40 (I’d say she’s about 20 stone if not more), T2 diabetic, high blood pressure ended up in hospital on oxygen for a few days but she’s fine now. Most of my colleagues who have had Covid are over 50 and overweight (don’t know their medical conditions) and they’re all fine. Some had no symptoms and some were poorly. All fine now.

My brother.
He was ill at the beginning of Feb and although not diagnosed COVID positive it became pretty obvious that is what he had.
Seriously ill, the doctors had "the talk" with us twice the first week he was in hospital, had to be put in prone position, ventilated for weeks, ICU for over 6 weeks.
He is obese and diabetic.
Thankfully he is recovered but still tires easily. Very lucky to be alive.
Diagnosis at the time of double pneumonia.

My son, who is 19 years old was considered a high risk for Down syndrome based on MY bloodwork , after further test like ultrasound sounds, he showed normal facial and body feature, no signs of Down syndrome.

He doesn't have Down syndrome

Sorry wrong thread. Trying out a new app and it is confusing to use

My grandmother is 97 and asymptomatic. Tested positive in a care home.

I think she may live forever!

This is all reassuring - the BBC seem to be concentrating on people with Long Covid this week , young , fit sufferers but now left with ME like symptoms long afterwards.

It is very interesting how many of those with the main risk factors have recovered. My DH was hospitalised with pleurisy a few years ago and after reading these stories, that seemed far worse than Covid

Yes. A friend's elderly dad with kidney failure. He was hospitalised but only for a couple of days and now fully recovered.

I know of a frail 94 yo in a care home who was heavy cold level rough for a few days but absolutely fine after a couple of weeks

Yes, a family member - very overweight, asthma, a host of other health problems. She was extremely ill with it, in hospital, but has recovered - thank god!

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It is very interesting how many of those with the main risk factors have recovered. My DH was hospitalised with pleurisy a few years ago and after reading these stories, that seemed far worse than Covid

Worse than whose experience of Covid? There are myriad experiences of Covid across a spectrum from asymptomatic to life-threatening.

Of course lots of people with risk factors recover. Risk is not certainty of any particular outcome. We are all at risk when a novel virus circulates because we cannot know in advance how our unique bodies will respond to a new pathogen.

My 70 year old aunt who had a triple heart bypass in January. She's very overweight, has asthma and was recovering from major surgery. She's very overweight and unfit and was fine with it, said she'd had worse flu. Although I'm fairly certain it'll take a nuclear strike to wipe her out anyway!

My dad, who is late 60s, type 2 diabetic, stroke 5 years ago. Again, in bed feeling rough for a couple of days then enjoyed the rest of his self isolation, as he had time to paint the garden fence, sort out the pots for winter and redecorate the kitchen.

Most of my family have had it and my dad actually had it worst! My brother is a PT and was leading online classes from his front room the day his phone pinged with the positive. He only tested because he lost taste and he works with kids doing sports training so tested and isolated to be safe.

My niece and SIL both work with vulnerable adults and between them and their friends they know of 1 person, who had many underlying conditions, who has died with covid. Unfortunately we know 3 people who have committed suicide because of the lockdown and a family friend who's cancer has spread because of delaying treatment.

Overweight colleague had it and has recovered though says she still gets the odd day six months on where she feels wiped out and breathless but those days are becoming further apart.

To the person who said after reading these stories pleurisy seems worse than Covid......the thread is about people who have recovered so it will be a positive thread.

I also know two peoples who have died from Covid, one with no risk factors and one with minimal risk factors. So while I totally agree the majority recover, there is sadly a significant number who don’t. I don’t know anyone Personally who has died from flu or pleurisy So Covid is worrying me more than those.

Yes my dad, 70 years old, caught covid in hospital while having a piece of his lung cut out for lung cancer.

Discovered on a second admission to hospital that he had it with a positive test but had zero symptoms other than a change in sense of taste. He'd also been unable to eat for 2 weeks so literally was so weak and yet it still didn't effect him.

Can I ask without sending the thread off course - when we mention weight as a risk factor what are we actually meaning? I started a diet when we we went into lockdown to try and improve my chances (my bmi was 42 ) its now 32. What is considered 'safe'?