Covid 2019

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I’m still convinced I had it December 2019. I had a strong cough for weeks. A fever (never had one as an adult apart from mastitis). And a distinct loss of smell and taste for a few weeks. After it in the January I had vertigo for a few weeks too.

I’ve not been particularly careful since this began (former ocd not wanting to slip back into bad habits) and my job doesn’t offer sanitising stations or anywhere to wash hands. I’ve been to so many shops.

I’ve even held a covid baby (unknowingly at the time). I’ve been in close contact with covid people too.

Haven’t caught it otherwise. Had a very healthy 18 months.

Do we now think it was here then? I remember other friends, healthy people being hospitalised with pneumonia from this cough that was flying round the school at the same time too!

I think it probably was but I dont think all the people who think they had it then did iyswim? We know there was very little of it around at that point or the surge would have come much sooner. There were some other really, nasty bugs around - I had the worst cough I've had in years but it wasnt COVID- I got that in March.

So yes, it might have been but not conclusive.

Possible but pretty unlikely.

You could buy an antibody test, but that would not prove when.

I will try and find the article but I read somewhere that covid was detected in blood samples from Italian cancer patients from September/October 19. I'm not sure how legit but I remember the article was sky news and not just from the sun or anything.

A lot of people were reporting being very ill with a chesty virus at the time you describe.

I do believe it was spreading beforehand. I was ill christmas 2019 and I felt very rough. But I just thought it was your average winter virus.

A couple weeks later my children were very poorly with fevers and fatigue. At the time I said I had never experienced anything quite like it as a parent. They were wiped out for a week each. In the same month but with small gaps between illnesses they also had vomiting then my son got a cough . Then my daughter got a very nasty nasty cough that made her vomit. It lasted for weeks. Kids get coughs but it was extreme. But covid wasn't seen as a risk then...

My two are generally pretty healthy. They only went to school for 4 days in the whole of jan 2020 as they both kept getting ill. I remember ringing the school in tears as they kept getting ill and I remember asking the receptionist there if it was common for kids to get ill repeatedly after one nasty virus like their immune system was weak. doctors were useless and they were just repeatedly catching things off each other. They both had near on 100 percent attendance before this point so they are generally healthy kids. They have been fine since too. Other than slight sniffles neither have got ill since jan 20! Jan 20 was a very strange time for us.

I remember also in jan 20 time a teacher at the school said they had half the school off with a very nasty respiratory virus (same time my kids had it) and half the teachers were off and were on antibiotics for apparent chest infections they couldn't shake off?!

To add to the madness, one of my daughters classmates, their siblings and parents had travelled to Asia in later 2019.

If it wasn't covid, I don't know what it was.

Very similar symptoms to flu though - so people could have had the flu but because covid is now here people are thinking it was that, and seems unlikely.

Im pretty sure DH had it Christmas 19.
Never seen him as ill, and symptoms very Covid like. Started like a cough, but he was struggling to breathe at one point. Works in a boarding school with lots of international students.
Not been especially careful since ( but followed rules). Not caught it since testing has been availab,e.

I thought it was broadly accepted that it was in the UK late 2019. It was reported in the news some time ago about this man who caught it from his daughter around Christmas 2019 and died in January 2020.
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-uk-china-death-peter-attwood-b421030.html%3famp

We also had a very covid like illness Christmas/January in our house with terrible dry cough, loss of smell, fever but curiously no blocked nose/usual head cold symptoms.

I got sick in October 2019, initially with only a virus, then it hurt to breathe, then the most horrendous choking cough for a month. I remember I simply couldn't shift it, and even tried antibiotics to no avail.

Was it covid? I don't know.
Was it a lot like covid? Yes.

I've read various articles saying it's likely it was here in late 2019.
My mum had a respiratory illness in January 2020, she was coughing so badly at my house one day that I sent her to lie down in my bed. She was very poorly, I've never seen her that ill before.

She also complained eye couldn't taste things for weeks after it.

I had covid in august 2020 and the lethargicness was definitely the same as we all felt with a bug Christmas 2019. I'd definitely think we all had it then but we'll never know!

In January 2020 a colleague was hospitalised due to pneumonia.. basically needed oxygen. Otherwise healthy and quite young. We were all quite shocked. Not long after another colleague got a bad cough and almost collapsed at work. They do have underlying health conditions though but also quite young. I then got a cough that lasted weeks. I do believe it was around Jan 2020. My mum was in hospital in Oct 2019 and not long after at one of her appointments a doctor did tell her to be careful as they were seeing a lot of people with pneumonia like symptoms .. more than they’d seen previously

I came back from the Canary Islands in December 2019 with a coughy, fluey, bad-coldy type illness. I heard a doctor on radio 4 saying that there was a lot of OC43 about, which is also a Coronavirus.

When Covid got going I was hoping that I'd had OC43 and developed some cross-immunity from it. But I'll never know whether I had a bad cold, Covid, OC43 or something else.

AFAIK I haven't had Covid.

May or may not have been in Wuhan in August 2019.

www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-research-idUSKBN23G0OM

I think my DM had it in late Jan/Feb of 2020. She had a loss of smell and ended up in hospital with pneumonia. This was before they were routinely testing people though. The same bug went through my office at the same time.

I’m sure I had it then too.

I was very unwell. I was diagnosed with pneumonia and pluerisy at the end because they didn’t know what it was.

I went onA&E the day my chest hurt so much I couldn’t say more than a syllable at a time.

I couldn’t have a chest x-ray as I was 6 weeks pregnant after multiple miscarriages. Was just sent away with antibiotics, not tested for anything.

dh used to shake me awake as he was terrified I was dying in my sleep because of my breathing.

The cough was like nothing I’ve ever had. I couldn’t stop it. I would cough until I threw up and my chest was in so much pain that It felt like it had been ripped in half, I could only speak one syllable at a time.

That lasted for three weeks, the cough lasted for 3 months. dh caught the cough, he was coughing for 2 months.

I lived near heathrow at the time and worked in a london hospital that would become the hotspot a few months later.

So many people had the same thing. No antibiotics seemed to help.

I was also coughing up some pretty spectacular bronchial casts too (don’t google), which has never happened before, I don’t have any underlying issues, no asthma. I’ve since read that is seen in covid.

There was no other mucous that you would get with a cold, just those casts.

I had whooping cough two years ago, and lost 2 stone from vomiting 20 times a day + Never tested positive from "covid", but only tried twice, and threw up testing....never again. Cough vomit is horrible...x