Have any obese people survived covid unscathed?

[JKW36]

So I've seen in the news throughout about obesity causing problems relating to covid.
I have also seen many photos of people on news articles who have sadly passed from covid at a young age and they are almost always overweight.

I myself am very overweight. I am mid 30s. Since covid appeared I have been trying to lose weight. Infact I tried so hard I put myself into hospital. But of course when you have a lot to lose it isnt going to happen overnight. So, I am still very overweight. Need to lose about 9 stone now.

Ive been very careful throughout and still do but every time I get a sniffle I am terrified and it's really starting to effect me mentally.
My son has come down with something (I don't know how as he doesn't go anywhere) and I can feel he's passed it on to me. We are going for a test this afternoon. I'm hoping it's not covid but I am so scared that if I have got covid or I do ever get covid it is going to kill me.
Do you know anyone who is overweight who has had covid and recovered? As obviously you never see the good news online.

I included stats for the elderly above as those are the stats I looked at. Obviously the numbers are MUCH lower for younger people, Obese or not.

@PuzzledObserver

Good to hear you're fine!

Do you have a link to that particular calculator?

@JKW36

Yes, my Aunt & Uncle. Both 60's. Both need to lose 4-5 stone, probably 2-3 to be in the overweight rather than obese category.

Both tested positive (not with the Top3 symptoms) had a couple of weeks feeling dreadful, but neither in hospital. Uncle fully. Ask to normal after 3 weeks. Aunt still short of breath after 5 weeks, but feeling pretty good other than that.

Thank you to all the older, overweight, diabetics posting that you did ok. I'm pretty scared of getting it being an older overweight diabetic, but your posts are comforting

Have a balanced perspective and remember 80,000 people a year die of things like the flu and pneumonia. All those figures are also being classed as covid this year. The numbers are tiny.

Not true.

A relative had it, bmi 35 and no symptoms. Only knew she’d had it from the antigen test.

I'm mid 30s, and obese (BMI is 36.6), and I've had Pneumonia and Whooping Cough recently. I caught covid in December, and had one bad day (stayed in bed) and the rest were achey/cough/lethargy. Symptoms lasted around 5 days.

I was so relieved.

@AmelieTaylor. Here you go

www.qcovid.org/Calculation

Of course

One diabetic, asthmatic, very obese contact had it....only she was convinced her positive test was false, because she was ill, but could potter about and watch TV etc. She had another positive test but by the time she got the result, she was okay.

Lots of people! Even in the most vulnerable groups the odds are heavily in your favour.

Yeah, me...BMI 37, had it in November. Was horribly ill with flu and stomach symptoms for 10 days, had some reduced lung sounds but oxygen sats were still 97%, took 3 weeks to fully get over - but I did recover fully with no long term effects.

I get short of breath sometimes but I'm pretty sure that's just being a chunker.

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

I'm mid 30s, and obese (BMI is 36.6), and I've had Pneumonia and Whooping Cough recently. I caught covid in December, and had one bad day (stayed in bed) and the rest were achey/cough/lethargy. Symptoms lasted around 5 days.

I was so relieved.

Eek, I have nightmares about whooping cough, is it as bad as they say?

Hope you are on the mend

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump both survived, and are both obese.

Forgot to state my age - I'm 48. I certainly wasn't able to potter around, I was flat out in bed ill and it wasn't pleasant - but it eventually passed.

Luna it was awful tbh. About 2 weeks in I figured it wasn't a typical cough, spoke to the docs who did bloods. The results didn't come back til after my third week and lo and behold, Antibiotics do nothing for it after 3 weeks. By then the coughing was so bad I was vomiting most days. My throat was raging like a furnace (pharmacist was excellent in recommending OTC meds for that).

I felt 100% well in myself aside from the cough and throat. The doctor says it's also known as the 100 day cough. I'd agree.

Friend of mine had COVID. Preexisting conditions too. Don't know bmi but definitely obese. Very ill for a few weeks (at home, not hospital stay). Recovering nicely.

BMI 34. Age 40. Tested positive on 17th Jan. Had what I would describe as a bit of a cold for a few days, lost taste/smell for one full day, felt fine after that.

given how many people are obese in the country, and how many people have had covid, and how many people are likely to be asymptomatic, I would summise that the biggest majority of people who are obese have recovered just fine.
And Im not a covid denier by any means.

@JKW36

Thank you so much for your comments. I think a lot of it is down to luck :-( thank you for filling me with a little bit of confidence. I am a worrier by nature and covid has given me the push I needed to lose weight

I'm not sure that viruses work by luck

Just because we don't know why different people are affected differently doesn't mean there isn't a reason scientists haven't found yet. Your individual risk has absolutely no relation to anyone else's, please don't rely on statistics to make assumptions about your own health.

I'm not obese but if I was and I died it wouldn't affect your likelihood of dying at all, not would it if I survived

My brother is massively overweight
He and his wife both had it-she was just as big but lost a lot of weight about two years ago
Both just lost their sense of smell and didn’t want to eat for a few days
My son could do with losing a chunk but he’s fine-just had a cracking headache for two days and was a bit breathless when he went to speak

Looking at the list of countries with the highest obesity, we're the 33rd highest worldwide. We've got a 27% rate of obesity but some countries have double that!

Link en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate

Going out on a limb.... I suspect the main problem a lot of people have with Covid is their hearts / circulatory system. It seems to cause blood clots and issues with heart rate / heart rhythms and these seem to be the main reasons why people suddenly “go”. Lots of people who are obese will have these issues either due to their weight or because of other health conditions contributing to their weight BUT not all that are obese will. Many will have completely normal hearts, and many slimmer people will have undisclosed heart issues- lots of the young, slim people who seem to have suddenly died from Covid that we read about are dead due to a cardiac arrest.

I think there is a lot we still don’t understand about Covid.

Yep, I'm morbidly obese (BMI 43) and caught it when i was 18 weeks pregnant. Bad cold for 4 days, absolutely fine since.

My husband was ill with long covid for 6 weeks.

I'm not sure that viruses work by luck. Just because we don't know why different people are affected differently doesn't mean there isn't a reason scientists haven't found yet.

I’m pretty sure the OP was referring to the luck of whether or not you are positively or negatively influenced by reasons not yet understood.

I know an extremely obese male, 60, who is a big drinker/eater etc. who caught it recently and was fine.

I know a slim, healthy 40 something who struggled for a couple of weeks with flu type symptoms.

While age and weight are key factors, it also feels so random. Viral load/exposure and luck also have roles to play

My 60 year old brother. Bad cough the first week but bored and working from home the second.