If you and your partner have had it, how far apart were you in terms of severity of symptoms?

[CarinaMarina]

I'm on Day 13 - first 5 days I felt a bit unwell but soldiered on, lost sense of smell and taste on day 4, was completely wiped out and confined to bed on days 6 - 11. High temp, palpitations, severe headache, nausea, hallucinations, shortness of breath, no appetite, diarrhoea on and off from day 8. Got up for the first time yesterday (day 12). Still very weak and shaky, still no appetite, still getting diarrhoea.

DH has had head cold symptoms since the very first day I felt unwell, but first mentioned feeling properly rotten yesterday - then promptly lost his sense of smell and taste.

He's still up and about and carrying on as normal, he says he's OK, but I'm a bit anxious about him going the same way I did - have any of you had it one after the other, and was it to the same degree?

I was really poorly (headaches, aches, high temp, loss of smell) and my husband didn't know he'd had it. We both had antibodies tests in July and we were both positive. My youngest DD was super needy, and poorly around the same time, but my eldest DD was fine.

Dd had it first and she slept for about 3 days then was up and about. It was last December and we hadn’t heard of Covid.
Ds and I were really ill. I think I definitely had what people to refer to as Long Covid. I had so much to do and I literally couldn’t get up off the sofa for about 5 or 6 months. Couldn’t exercise couldn’t do anything.
Dp breezed through it despite being subsequently told he was at high risk and to shield.
Mil (95) who is in a care home had it in March and she too breezed through it.

I think we will find that there is a genetic link to how badly it affects some people.

Thanks rhowton. He's insistent he'll never be as bad as I was - he is usually very resilient, I must say.

But then, this is a novel virus!

Oh dear, that sounds rough oliversmumsarmy. Hope you're OK now?

Yes I suspect you're right...like norovirus. I remember that whistling through a load of us at work after a party and we all had it slightly differently - and then we started passing it to partners who weren't even there, it was horrific.

Not my DH though! I did quarantine myself and bleached EVERYTHING....

It's usually the men who get it worst isn't it?
Norovirus is interesting. Last time I got it, other people around me got it about the same severity i.e. really awful for 48 hours, then much better, but weak legs for over a week.

I had it much worse than my husband who said he felt rough but was up and about the two weeks he had it.

My partner's symptoms started about 5 days before mjne. He felt weak and tired and had a temperature but totally escaped cough and breathlessness and recovered much quicker than I did, he's 9 years older than me too.

Thanks everyone. I'm thinking that if I started 13 days ago it seems likely that if he was going to be properly, confined to bed poorly then it might have happened by now.

I'm just overwrought from reading too many posts about how changeable and unpredictable it can be, I think!

My husband and I came down with symptoms around the same time. 45 and 40 we both got off very lightly. Both started feeling a bit congested. Then he basically slept alot for 2 days and that was it. Claims he had a bit of a cough.
I wasn’t tired, but had an uncomfortable tight chest feeling for @ 5 days. A headache and a bit of dizziness. A very tame occasional dry cough for a couple of days. And some intense back pain that may or may not have been related. Nothing like a typical respiratory illness for either of us. Very different presentations. Both tested positive.

We had it around the same time but I was much more unwell, extremely breathless and unable to get downstairs for weeks and still not totally right now 6 months later. He had a very annoying lingering cough and felt rough for a few days.

Dp, I and our two ds's had it. Ds 1 had a bit of a cough. Ds 2 had less of a cough. I had no cough but fatigue, headache, slight breathlessness, chest pain, loss of smell and awful hot aching legs.
Dp had a cough and more severe breathlessness but no aching or loss of smell.
Very similar to each other but some symptoms worse than each other but overall balance each other out. Neither of us was seriously ill.