Anyone with blood type A had covid mildly fancy reassuring me?

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Hi all

News about blood group A potentially being a covid ‘risk factor’ has slightly alarmed me. I vaguely remember reading something about it last year but then it didn’t seem to come up again so I’d hoped there was nothing in it - until now 😬😬

Appreciate there’s a whole myriad of different risk factors and it looks like the potential increased risk isn’t huge. But as I appear to be falling down the late night worry rabbit hole, just wondered if anyone has any reassuring anecdata re group A and covid?

I appear to have missed a word from my title - think I need to step away from the internet tonight 🤦🏼‍♀️

Both me and my husband are type A and got Covid a couple of months back.

He is clinically extremely vulnerable, I'm not.

Both got over it within a couple of weeks.

No answers for you but I am very interested in this.

I'm A - and NOT clinically vulnerable. I've been sick since 2 Feb. Really ill since 6th Feb. Not hospitalised but advised by 111 to go to a&e as I have been very sick. Am still signed off work.

Interested as I am A- and my DH currently has covid

Place marking, CV daughter is A

@VaccineYayVaccineNay

Interested as I am A- and my DH currently has covid

Sorry to hear this. If you can stay apart do. Luckily we are able to use a separate bedroom and bathroom on different floors. We've been wearing masks and I've been confined to my room and bathroom to try and avoid spreading anything. I get my meals left on a tray outside my closed door etc. I'm basically like Rapunzel but with shorter hair .

Type A here and its possible but not confirmed that I had covid last year. I'm also in a priority jab group.

I was pretty tired.

I'm still pretty tired actually but that's coz I'm anaemic and not coz of covid/notcovidjustsomethingnasty

I really wouldn't worry about your blood type making a difference - even if it does, there are so many other factors that may increase or decrease your risk before that even comes into play.

What it does mean, if it is a risk factor, that knowing you're blood type a can help give those treating you - if you need it - a heads up. 1 year on and medics know sooo much more about treating covid than they did a year ago.

Seriously, there are so many ifs to consider before you even get to thinking about whether blood type is one of them.

@SissySpacekAteMyHamster that’s reassuring, thank you!

Sorry to hear others are worried too - when I look at it rationally, I don’t think it’s anything we need to be majorly concerned about given the other things in play (and there’s not much we can do about it anyway!)

Hope your DH feels better soon and that you stay well @VaccineYayVaccineNay

@TaraR2020 thank you - you speak much sense!

A+ and had covid. Completely lost sense of smell and taste, recovered after a few weeks. Only long term affect is some things don’t taste the same anymore , but mostly fine. My husband didn’t get it but not sure what his blood type is.

I am A+, absolutely fine, no symptoms at all, my DS picked it up at preschool, we were tested as close contact of him, I would not have been any the wiser only we had to get tested

I’n A+ and had it just before Christmas. Very mild symptoms, mainly tiredness and a slight cough. Over it in a couple of weeks. I’m late forties.

I have blood group A-. I am also diabetic and overweight. Positive test came as a surprise- I was entirely asymptomatic and remained asymptomatic throughout.

Me - coughed for a few days, tired for a week. Nothing else.

I am A- and only symptom was loss of taste and smell. Taste and smell came back 3-4 weeks later. No other after effects at all.

I’m A+ and had Covid in January. I only knew I’d had it as I was tested as a travel requirement. With hindsight I had a slight congested nose first thing and an on/off mild headache for a couple of days - I never would’ve got a test normally. I have since tested positive for antibodies too.

A-. Had covid in jan, it was a week of crushing tiredness, a few days of a dodgy sense of taste and smell, and a terrible headache for a week or so. Recovered fine.

A+, had covid so mildly I didn't notice, although as Mumof4 says with the benefit of hindsight I might have been mildly off a day or so before. Certainly nothing that would trigger a test in its own right. Only got a test through chance/random selection.

A risk factor isn’t automatically anything particularly alarming

Say you have a dice , normally you would hit a 6 only once in six throws . A significant risk might mean that you hit a 6 in every 5 throws

With covid you have a dice with 1000 sides or more if you are under 50. You only get it bad if you throw a 6 , and a risk factor might mean that instead of 1 in1000 chance it’s now 1 in 995

Virtually no different on a personal level, just something seen when hundreds of thousands of people get ill

Thanks so much everyone - it’s helpful to put it in perspective. Helpful dice analogy too @midgedude

I’m prone to catastrophising - a headline saying my blood type may be more susceptible subconsciously translates to ‘if you get it you’re screwed’!

I think one of the scariest things about covid is how randomly it seems to affect people - yes there are recognised patterns / risk factors but sometimes people you’d expect to be very ill are asymptomatic and those who appear low-risk get really ill.

I guess they’re constantly discovering new factors which can increase risk - covid really is the gift that keeps on giving 😆

I'm A- got covid last March, spent 3 months in bed and another 5 trying to pace myself to recover. Now, I'm still not right. If I do too much physically I'm right back to full on chest pain and pressure sore throat shortness of breath etc. Covid doesn't want to leave me.

I thought that the evidence was showing that type A was more likely to get the disease, not that it was anymore likely to be bad for them if they did. (But I haven't seen the recent research, so that might be out of date). Do check, though. I think it's more reassuring for certain blood types to know that they aren't actually higher risk for being ill/hospital/dying, just perhaps slightly higher chance of actually catching it when exposed.

@Thimbleberries think the studies are a bit mixed - thankfully most seem to say higher risk of contracting it but no impact on severity (one I saw said no evidence that type A was any more likely to die or require ventilation), but I think others say we’re very slightly more likely to have complications. Don’t think they know for sure yet!

I'm AB positive, has anyone with this blood group had covid and how bad was it?

I’m A+ and had covid in December. I’ve had worse colds.