Lemmings who know where/when they contracted COVID, how long after your exposure did you become symptomatic?

xeddyx , 9 months ago

3 days. Felt like shit, I immediately knew something was wrong and that it wasn’t a normal cold, so I did a test and it came out positive.

scrubbles , 9 months ago

Couple of days. Was sitting on a plane leaving Omaha, we were about a year and a half in so it was fairly safe to travel then, but we still masked everywhere. That didn’t stop big boomer billy from refusing to put on a mask and coughing on my wife and I for the duration of the flight. We were both vaxxed so we pulled through, but it still sucked.

I heard something like “90% of cases will start symptoms within 5 days” or something. Still, take a test, maybe try to stay home for the next few days if you can, and if you must go out wear a mask just to be safe to try to not spread it to anyone else. My immuno-compromised family thanks you for that.

And if you did get it, as long as you’re vaxxed you don’t need to worry. Prepare for a bad flu, the first week be ready for a bad fever, but queue up some movies/TV and plow through it.

jeffw OP , 9 months ago

Haven’t had a booster in a year, so I’m a little worried. From what I’ve read, it doesn’t really do much after a year. I’ll definitely stay in for another couple days and test though!

scrubbles , 9 months ago

Eh most of us haven’t. New version only came out this month. Don’t be worried, it’ll be fine if you do. The scary thing at the beginning was that 1) it was new and doctors didn’t know the best ways to handle it and 2) since so many people got it all at once it meant people who really needed doctors couldn’t get the attention they needed.

Just brace for a sucky flu, and remember the warnings on if it’s time to see a doctor. If it helps you feel better, knowledge is power and this article lets you know what to expect, and for me what calms me down is signs that it’s time to call a doctor. (I get anxiety thinking any old symptom is an emergency, so I like to calm myself down by trying to be rational and say “okay, when is it actually an emergency”).

My wife and I had fevers, really bad for 4 days (we watched all of the harry potter movies and I don’t remember about half of them), cough, sinus, all the standard flu stuff, and that was about 8 months after the vaccine, but your mileage may vary of course.

yenahmik , 9 months ago

It’s been a couple of years, but I’m pretty sure it was something around 5 days from exposure to feeling my first symptoms. I got it from a large event after people had stopped wearing masks regularly.

It hit me pretty fast and hard as soon as the symptoms started. I went from feeling perfectly fine to feeling very feverish. Checked my temperature and it was over 100F. The first night was the absolute worst for me. Everything hurt, I was both burning up and freezing cold. After my fever broke the next day, I was mostly fine outside of the cough which lasted a few weeks.

Granixo , 9 months ago

Never had it, but when i got my 3rd Pfizer vaccine i definetly felt the sympthoms for a couple hours. 🤒😷

(Mostly feeling ill and fever).

psedlacek , 9 months ago

3 days after getting home from a business trip. I assume the plane is where I got it but can’t be sure

all-knight-party , 9 months ago

I'd agree with around 5 days or so. I played a show with my band, which was really hard to do during that time, our singer apparently didn't feel well, but decided not to tell anyone. He got almost all of our band and members of other ones sick.

Black_Gulaman , 9 months ago

Normally 5 days, if you still have no symptoms after that, then maybe you are asymptomatic, or did not catch it.

On the fifth day you can have yourself tested just to be more sure if you have it or not.

RickRussell_CA , 9 months ago

Maybe 8 to 10 days. My kid got it at school, a little more than a week later I was coughing. I tested positive on home tests for another 10 days or so, I remember because I had to cancel some Dr. appointments.

But I was very vaccinated and it really was no worse than a short cold.

abcd , 9 months ago

Around 2-3 days after exposure at a wedding. The outbreak happened at work (home office). I could feel how my body temperature started to rise and I started feeling bad. Shortly thereafter I had a burning sensation in my lungs and had my first positive test result 🤢

For 2-3 days I felt bad and extremely weak. Then it got gradually better.

I was fully recovered in 6-8 weeks (felt very weak when running in the morning or when doing heavy work). The next 6 months I had a lot of colds which is not normal for me.

ada , 9 months ago

As far as I can tell, I’m still a novid

Cryophilia , 9 months ago

I am stealing this

Someone , 9 months ago

Novid club for the win!!

spauldo , 9 months ago

My girlfriend just had it. Took her at least five days - she was exposed right before a camping trip and didn’t get sick until the last day.

She had the Pfizer vaccine (both shots) shortly after it was made available and one booster.

FoundTheVegan , 9 months ago

Took about two days to kick in and I was bedridden for around a month. Horrible coughing, pain all over, slept all day but sleep was never restful as the coughing kept waking me up. I was tired all the time. My roommate had it too and we both basically could only microwave some food every day then collapse. The whole experince is a blur.

I honestly think that without the vaccine and booster it would've killed me. My roomie has lasting lung damage.

SgtSilverLining , 9 months ago

It depends on what variant you get. Older strains could become symptomatic up to a week later, newer strains as little as 1-2 days. It’s nearly impossible for the average person to know what strain they have and the older ones are still floating around.

NotABearJustAHuman , 9 months ago

• I can't remember the exact time frame, but my neighbor had stopped by for a while then called later that night to say he tested positive for covid. This was back when Delta variant was the most rampant. A few days later (i want to say 3 or 4), I was sneezing like crazy (I thought my allergy sneezing was bad! Oh no! This was 10x worse!) running a fever, vomiting, and coughing. Nothing tasted or smelled right. About all I could stomach was blue Gatorade and fries.

mitchell , 9 months ago

July 2022. The event where I (almost certainly) caught it was on a Wednesday. On Friday I went to a barbecue and had no symptoms, later found out that nobody there tested positive. By Saturday night I was feeling sick enough to cancel a meetup on Sunday, and Sunday morning I finally took the test and it was positive.