I’m sorry he’s feeling bad. I totally understand your last sentence…. hugs.

So sorry this has reared its ugly head again. I hope your husband feels better soon.

I'm sorry to hear this. My sister is just getting over Covid. Her case started with laryngytis and fatigue. It took three days of symptoms for a positive test. (two negative first). The good news is that it was fairly mild, just a lingering slight cough. Hope DH has nothing but a mild case.

I hope he's fine....for everything...maybe just needs a sugar boost...

@jojoco - that sounds like DH. He doesn't have laryngitis exactly but his voice has changed. Just that and the fatigue. Meanwhile he's going about his business potentially spreading it to other people. I guess I should talk to him about that.

3katz, my sister was convinced she had strept from being run down and up late. I gently prodded her (ok, not so gently) to get tested again.

I’m so sorry. Hope he doesnt, but best he gets the test since sometimes those home tests arent as reliable as we’d like to think. I understand your last sentence completely.

I’ve talked with several friends lately who had C back in July, most starting around the 4th. Seems like it has found most of us now, and some more than once.

So sorry, and hope you have a diagnosis soon, as well as a DH who is feeling much better.

In the last couple of weeks, we have had cases popping up around here. Family friends, man and wife who are mid-70's - husband got it first, mostly felt like flu, low-grad temp. He was sick maybe 3-4 days. Wife is not in as good physical shape as he, but still very active and has had some heart problems since younger years. She was sickest, and she sounded awful. So much so, her dr. gave her a steroid. She wouldn't take paxlovid (sp?) since it is EUA not full FDA approval. She is finally feeling better and tested negative yesterday. Worst thing is his 101 year old aunt has it! He and another nephew ck in on her, mow for her, grocery shop, etc. Yes, she still lives alone in her little house she and her husband shared! She is very stubborn, won't go to the dr, won't let them stay overnight, etc, etc. etc. Finally yesterday, one nephew thought to see if Home Health might come in and they did. They checked her over thoroughly and even though her oxygen rate was surprisingly high, ordered oxygen ??? and a hospital bed. Both to which she kindly refused (honey, my bed is just fine, I don't need that bed) LOL. Oxygen and bed were to be delivered today, wonder how that went???

But yes, definitely try to get your husband to stay in and not spread his germs. Aren't they now saying isolate for 5 days, then mask up for the following 5? I hope he feels better soon!!

Tina, that's the instructions my son received from his university medical center when he tested positive in July--isolate 5 days, then mask 5 days.

3katz, I hope it's "just" C, too. That's the beast we all know now. Best wishes.

So sorry to hear that he is feeling so poorly. Hopefully he will have a quick recovery whatever it turns out to be.

We have two sets of friends that have come down with Covid recently, thankfully mild in all.

I'm sorry to hear 3katz, I just tested my Mom at home because she had fatigue, was cold (even tho hot out) and voice change. It came up negative but I still suspect she had it.

I hope he is better soon!

Ugh - hope you have answers soon and your DH feels better. When I had covid, I didn't test negative until day 11. I know the CDC says 5 days of isolation and 5 of masking, but it didn't feel right for me to be out - even masked - while still testing positive. So confusing.

Fingers crossed for you all.

Hope he is better soon!

My 38 year old daughter has had the voice thing and fatigue for 5 weeks after covid. She says the fatigue is worse than her cold like symptoms when she tested positive. Tests negative now, but still takes a lot of effort to talk. And she had 2 shots and 2 boosters.

3katz isn't that the darndest thing that we would hope for covid over the imagined possibilities at this stage of the game? I hope that's it, hope he trucks through it and moves on quickly.

My niece and her 5 year old flew from CA to Chicago for a family 3 weeks ago. 24ish hours after arriving she's sick, then the sister she's staying with, then her DH (who is an MD ICU Pulmonologist, how convenient), then the 5 year old, boom boom boom. It was last Oct that DH got sick right after we flew home from WA - and that's when masks were required. Now it's the wild wild west out there.

During my long covid (which is finally getting better after almost 4 months) I had a sore throat and hoarse voice for over a month. When did he originally have covid?

@sueb - he had it in January. He recovered in a few days and had no further symptoms until this bout of fatigue.

Sorry, 3katz, I hope you get some answers soon.

We managed to get through our NYC trip including 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden, but school is starting and I will be vulnerable again. There’s pretty much a free for all, nobody needs to do anything.

Hope your DH recovers quickly.

(My brother and SIL were symptomatic for 4 days before their home tests showed positive.)

Just anecdotally but I'm wondering if this thing is mutating again. I was talking to a friend this morning who is very active and very healthy. She had covid 5 weeks ago and is still suffering with pain in her joints, fatigue and pins and needles where she broke her leg last winter skiing. She wakes up with cramps in her hamstrings and finally went to a chiropractor. She is the 6th patient that he has had come in, after covid with similar symptoms. What he is noticing is the after affects of covid seem to be targeting any joints where you might have arthritis or where there has been a prior injury.

Well his PCR test was negative. I haven’t heard how the fatigue is today. He has a doctor appt in a couple weeks so he can get tested for Lyme disease and other follow up if this persists. He traipses around in the woods a lot at the golf course in high risk Lyme disease country so I decided that would be worthwhile. One of our lake neighbors now has epilepsy seizures from undiagnosed Lyme disease.

Just anecdotally but I'm wondering if this thing is mutating again.

Of course it is. That's what viruses do, and this one seems to be really good at it.

Good news/bad news kind of thing. There is another virus that has been making the rounds since spring, that I know of. My son got sent home to get a PCR test in May -- negative like the 2 home tests. He didn't have the fever he did with covid, but his sore throat was certainly worse with the other virus. But it also is with the more recent covid strains. My sister just got that.

Hope your DH is feeling better soon.

Just anecdotally but I'm wondering if this thing is mutating again.

Of course it is. That's what viruses do, and this one seems to be really good at it.

I hadn't heard these symptoms before so simply thought I would mention them.

I guess I'm just stupid when it comes to viruses. Off to google what's coming after Omicron and what the symptoms are.

My niece (same one I mentioned above), her DH and their 2 college kids went to Scotland and day before return college son tests positive, dad stayed behind with him and they are hunkered down in an airport hotel. They said NO ONE there is masked, they were the only ones.

I had Covid while I was in Portugal in May. Very, very mild case probably due to the fact that I was double booster before I went. On the flight home I didn't wear a mask - after all, I wasn't going to get Covid, since I had recently recovered, right?

About 5 days after I got home I had a bad cold with lots of coughing, sore throat and fatigue. I wish that I had worn my mask!

The original omicron is not the predominant variant out right now. BA.5 is; which is a subvariant of omicron. It seems to have milder symptoms and not as much issue with lungs/breathing.

I am not seeing alot of masks worn in our area.

Masks are very rare here as well. The only place we wear one is at medical facilities. DH was relieved to get a negative PCR test prmarily because he was worried about infecting his employees who he is in relatively close contact with every day.

A relative arrived from South America 7 days ago for a visit. He sounded horse. He tested immediately and was negative. Now everyone in the house he is visiting is sick with Covid. He has spent the last four days in the hospital. Today, they moved him to ICU and 2 of his adult children will arrive tomorrow. They are hoping he will return with them, but the doctors are not certain. He had Johnson and Johnson and no boosters. He had come to the US for the vaccine back in early 2021. The vaccine made in China, was not offered in his country until six months after he got J&J. Boosters were only offered recently. We are keeping our hopes up and our fingers crossed.

Please continue to check your oxygen levels if you feel fatigued or under the weather. Though my relative tested negative several times on home tests, his oxygen had sliped to 90, and he had no idea. He felt sick but not "that" sick.

I do hope he continues to search out the cause of his fatigue...there are plenty of other ill about that could be the cause. Since it's summer Lyme's comes to mind........

We're at half and half with masks here. I'm still wearing my triple layer. I always try to remember that the first layer and the filter is to protect you from me. The filter and the second layer are to protect me from you.

Dh has had some weird symptoms that lead us to believe that he had contracted covid or something. He had a headache but no sore throat no coughing and no breathing problems. He started feeling a little bit under the weather after about 2 weeks of having headaches. We all tested early on in the headaches and then a little later and always tested negative. Both types of tests came out negative. None of the rest of us now including me any symptoms of anything and as I said negative tests as well from the beginning.

Still a mystery although the doctor did say he could have had the late symptoms and gone through all over other stages of being contagious before the symptoms and everything.

We just heard back about Lyme disease that is also negative although doctor says again sometimes people don't test positive but they still have lime disease symptoms.

So far we have been treating it like the flu and the doctor says continue with that since DH gets relief and no more headaches. He is taking the antiviral and antibacterial flu medicines. He also takes Sage tea ginger tea and Elderberry syrup. But he only does that for short stretches of time.

3Katz I hope your DH recovers quickly and thoroughly. These mysteries are really irksome.

BlFenton don't feel bad. Covid is a moving Target. And most of the time I miss as well.

Doctor is now coming back to say he suspects it might be heat exhaustion.... so confusing. He is advising DH to double down on his protection. We blame everything on covid but in this case the doctor is now suspecting that is not the case for DH.

Still if it is heat exhaustion would the medications make him feel better as they do? Maybe they give the body a chance to heal because it doesn't have to work so hard against all of the bugs and so on out there. Ah well neither medicine nor science are exact

Signed confused in Canada.

@3katz4me and @yeonassky - Hoping DH’s are feeling better soon.

I’m going to drag myself out of bed at the crack of dawn to play golf with him tomorrow morning. That’s the best way for me to assess the fatigue situation.