Who has had covid and is obese

[covidworrier]

I'm just wondering if there is anyone willing to share their story who has had covid and is obese (especially BMI over 35) but not considered CV with BMI over 40. How sick did you get? Did you end up in hospital? How old are you and do you have any other illnesses?
As you may have guessed I have a BMI over 35, in 39 and otherwise I'm fairly healthy (no diabetes, no illnesses, seldom get sick or if I do it's very mild) I do have a baby of one year though who is at nursery and a husband who works in a school and I'm terrified of getting covid and dying because I'm so fat. I'm trying to lose weight but it feels like two steps forward and two steps back sometimes and I'm not really getting anywhere and it's frustrating as I can't even go to weight loss meetings as I'm in tier four. I'm not BMI over 40 so don't qualify for vaccines or flu shots either but I'm pretty sure it's not a magic number where you are fine at 39.9 and dying at 40.....
Just want to know how bad people have had it in my situation?

My BMI is 31 and my symptoms were mild.

Thanks could you say your she too? And mild like you had a mild cold of mild that you were in bed for four days but didn't need hospital treatment?

Over 55, BmI 30 now. I am not sure what my weight was in March when I was sick,, but I ave dropped nearly a stone since December last year. I had Covid mildly in the sense that I did not need hospitalization, but I was in bed for a week and developed long covid afterwards. Being postmenopausal may be a factor in long covid as well as obesity. I lost 1/2 a stone with Covid within the week and the rest came off because of habit change - no pints at the pub, online shopping only so no impulse buying of snacks, no eating out.

Thanks @MrsBennetsnerves and I'm sorry to hear about your long covid. How are you feeling now?

I’m 40 and yes I was in bed for a week but nowhere near needing hospital treatment. Similar to a nasty bout of flu.

My BMI is over 40 I think I had what was a mild case. Felt ropey for a few days. However, my very much slimmer, fitter husband ended up in hospital on oxygen for a few days last week. Covid is very random about who gets it worse.

Thank you @VashtaNerada did you recover or develop long covid? I've never had the flu - I had a lot of chest infections as a child and teenager and nothing that bad since - every four or five years I get a nasty chest infection that needs antibiotics but nothing that's ever really left me bedbound for a week so I'm quite scared. Possibly
More than I need to be but there is such a focus on obesity and everyone always highlights how few people are dying without underlying health conditions but my understanding is that obesity will be classed as one even at the lower end of the scale so it seems to discount a whole lot of people as healthy who are probably going about life perfectly well

@HairyFloppins

My BMI is over 40 I think I had what was a mild case. Felt ropey for a few days. However, my very much slimmer, fitter husband ended up in hospital on oxygen for a few days last week. Covid is very random about who gets it worse.

I'm so sorry to hear that - how is he now? x

Still very fatigued and weak but on the mend now thanks OP.

I'm glad he's on the mend @HairyFloppins - I don't know what I would do it DH got sick (working in a primary school he's a prime candidate too!) so all I can offer is some and the very best wishes that you are both through the worst of it and recovery comes fast x

@covidworrier

Thanks *@MrsBennetsnerves* and I'm sorry to hear about your long covid. How are you feeling now?

I'm ok. I had a relapse recently, with tight chest, shortness of breath and chills but had been mostly fine for a few months before that and I am getting better again.

My BMI is 31. I am also type 1 diabetic and asthmatic. I felt rough for a week, but just flu rough. Nothing like needing hospital.

I'm similar stats to you and for me it was like a heavy cold but without the coughing. Fatigue aches &pains, brain fog. Off work for 10 days but only due to quarantine. Could have gone back after a few days really. Just had the odd paracetamol and tried to sleep.

Thanks @BranstonTickle that's very reassuring! Can I ask what symptoms you had that made you test?

And thank you fo all other posters, your stories are very reassuring and helping me talk myself out of pulling DD from nursery and hiding away from the world.

Loss of taste and smell. I had aches and fatigue for a few days but put it down to PMT, then suddenly couldn't taste or smell one evening. I got tested the next day. This is going back 2 months now and my taste & smell aren't fully back and my periods have been irregular but no other long lasting symptoms so far thankfully. I work on a covid ward in a hospital so probably got it there as the PPE we had at the time was just a surgical mask, apron and gloves.

Similar stats to you, I had mild symptoms and have had worse colds. The only really bad symptom I had was loss of taste and smell which lasted about 8 day and fatigue. However I also had a 4yr old and 6 month old to look after who tested positive so that didn't help!

My son goes to nursery so he had to isolate too but had zero symptoms. My DP didn't get any either. DS has had symptoms in the past earlier in the year but tested negative each time.

My BMI was around 43 I think. I’m a teacher. My partner is asthmatic and was really ill with Covid (probably should have gone to hospital but narrowly avoided it I think) and still isn’t right over a month later in terms of tiredness and breathlessness.

I was already isolating because of him being ill and on the evening of day five/six I had the worst stomach upset I’d ever had and fainted, which I know I do when I get a high temperature, so booked a test. Next few days I did have a slight temperature, wobbly legs, some breathlessness (no cough though) and what I can only describe as a slight crackle in my throat that annoyed me at night. I was utterly terrified though, kept wondering whether the next day was the day I was going to get really ill, got one of those finger oxygen monitors (it never went below 95% and only when I’d been doing something). I am so lucky because that was as bad as it got and I was back at school as soon as my isolation ended. So tired though for a couple of weeks after that! I’m grateful for the Christmas holidays as I can at least do my marking from the sofa!

I can only think that I am bloody lucky or it was the huge amounts of vitamin D I’d started taking when cases started to appear at school just after half term that saw me through.

I’ve already lost some weight because I never want to be that scared again!

Me, BMI 52 - mild and no worse than a bad cold

I’m 38, BMI over 40 and had mild covid.

Something which might make a difference is vitamin D- more common to be low in the obese and could be changed with supplements. Just a thought, especially in the winter months.

www.nhs.uk/news/obesity/obesity-may-cause-low-vitamin-d-levels/

I'd be interested to know if those with mild symptoms were taking vitamin d or knew if they had high or low levels.

I'm pretty fat but don't weigh myself. Size 18/20.

Have covid now, been miserably ill for over a week but not dangerously ill.

Much much fitter, slimmer husband has been almost as poorly.

It's a chancey bug, not a single factor issue.

Interesting thread. OP have you had a flu jab? It's best for everyone to get one where they can it's about £15 privately.