Re:Ask HN: Have you had Covid? How bad was it?
by tluyben2 on Friday December 24, 2021 @12:33AM
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The vaccine symptoms you had were worse than difficulty breathing, losing your smell and taste and fever?! I had a sore arm for a day; what did you have?
Re:Ask HN: Have you had Covid? How bad was it?
by anothernerd2 on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:59PM
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The 3-4 days of symptoms were better than the body aches from the vaccine. Those sucked, a lot. I was bedridden for 24 hours straight after both doses of the vaccine.
I would gladly go through shitty body aches for 24 hours to never lose my sense of smell again. That was depressing and a-whole-nother level of shit.
Not quite sure why your response has the tone it does, unless I’m misunderstanding it (as is common for non verbal communication)
The terrible part was losing my sense of smell and taste. I had my wedding a few weeks after. Couldn’t taste the wedding food. Went on my honeymoon to a 5 star resort in the Maldives with supposedly amazing food. Was barely able to taste anything.
Life was just grey without taste and smell.
It partially came back 6 months later. A little over a year later I 99% recovered.
This may sound silly but my wife’s farts are terrible smelling, but I couldn’t smell them until yesterday, even then they’re more acidic vs the standard putrid rotten egg smell.
I had a hard time with smoked whiskey until recently.
Training my nose by smelling vanilla extract seemed to help a little. Food is a huge part of my happiness and to lose that for a year was very depressing, the farts less so :)
Im in my late twenties