I tested Positive for COVID here is my story

can we get a TLDR version of the OP post, ty

noclue wrote:

A lot of people with COVID show no symptoms. Have you ever had any illness worse than having no symptoms? Idiot.

Except...the OP described that he experienced some pretty severe symptoms, so your argument falls a bit flat.

So serious that they sent him home twice, then kept him for observation due to the coronavirus scare, and then sent him home again. He had nothing that required him to be in a hospital, as determined by health care professionals on three occasions.

My point remains, absent the coronavirus paranoia, he had no need to go to a hospital, and certainly not three times. But don't get me wrong - I think what is going on is serious and I'm on board with flattening the curve. However, people like this guy are simply going to tax a system that is soon to be overtaxed and he had no business wasting hospital resources. it's not just the time and energy of the hospital staff. All of the masks and protective gear etc. that were used and wasted just to confirm one guy had COVIC and then send this one guy home. People like him are going to needlessly overburden a system that does not need paranoid sick people who should just stay home.

Thank you and be well. The good news is you will now be a precious 'pink dot' in society. If we meter pink dots into the mix, slowly, that will be a way forward.

Thank you for sharing.

Do you think having asthma contributed to your contracting the China virus? Based upon prior asthma ‘attacks’ what was different this time over than a fever, to indicate that perhaps it was the China virus, and thus you needed to go get tested?

Thank you for your post. I am also a fellow runner and asthmatic so I completely understand what it's like to feel like your drowning and can't breathe. I also had the flu last year that followed with pneumonia. I have a home nebulizer treatment that didn't work. Albuterol, Prednisone, advair. Nothing could touch it. My SAT never dropped under 90 so I was never admitted. I started a cocktail

of antibiotics and I slowly got better.

My long winded point being I had an equally scary experience from a garden variety flu. The CV is going to hit people with underlying conditions harder. You and myself included but I think what we are doing is wrong. Obviously, people are going to die... Just like they do every flu season. My point being... We were in equally dire situations. .. sounds like our parameters are they same. Low body weight, non smoker, low blood pressure, hx of D1 running plus 30 years maratyand Ironman. Our diagnosis differ but our outcomes were the same. Would I feel good about putting the entire world on lockdown every flu season because I'm more vulnerable? No. Hell, no. That's the cards I was given and I would want a better life for my kids and grandkids at the expense of my own peril. But, I'm glad your well and I hope your family stats healthy

I hope you feel better. But, I’ve had pneumonia and the swine flu didn’t go to the hospital. And I wouldn’t go because I had a 101 fever. I think the paranoia is the bad part, not the sickness. People are so panicked that they are rushing hospitals cause the media has made this out to you’re going to die.

Who are you to question whether he made the right decision to go to the hospital? I no doctor, and I’m certainly no hypochondriac, but based on the symptoms he described I probably would have made the same decision.

OP - thanks for sharing.

The experts are telling people to call. And they sent him home. So he went against the direction by going initially and then again by returning.

have to be honest wrote:

Why did you go to the hospital so many times? I have to be honest, I've been way more sick than your symptoms and I just stayed home until I got better. What was it about your condition that made you think you needed to go to the hospital and then Emergency?

How do you morons not understand the difference between an urgent care center and a hospital? Not from the ?? i guess.

justthefacts wrote:

I felt bad enough to go to the Urgent Care and drove myself to one that is affiliated with a large hospital in the city where I live.

Piedmont?

Speedy recovery?.

I'm sorry you went through this and glad you're feeling better. That said, don't you have a primary care doctor? Through all of this you went to urgent care or emergency care 3 times and never once called your doctor?

Sounds utterly horrifying.

Very best of health to you and your family.

party like it's 1859 wrote:

have to be honest wrote:

Why did you go to the hospital so many times? I have to be honest, I've been way more sick than your symptoms and I just stayed home until I got better. What was it about your condition that made you think you needed to go to the hospital and then Emergency?

How do you morons not understand the difference between an urgent care center and a hospital? Not from the ?? i guess.

Maybe they can’t read?

negative nancyboy wrote:

That said, don't you have a primary care doctor? Through all of this you went to urgent care or emergency care 3 times and never once called your doctor?

I don't know about the OP, but I lost my primary care doctor this year.

So did my wife.

It had been just over 3 years since my last physical plus I hadn't been sick and didn't need to see any doctor and I was dropped from my provider group. They are not taking new patients, and I'm considered a new patient right now.

My wife also didn't have an official physical in 3 years but saw her OBGYN regularly plus had a major procedure last year through our group.

She was dropped. We found out when she needed to get looked at for a lump under her our arm and she was refused a visit.

I took her to urgent car to look at and get antibiotics. It went away and she's OK.

We lost our doctor because we were healthy and didn't bother taking up appointments to get our weight and blood pressure checked often enough.

I called around and couldn't find anyone that could see either of us in the next 4 months.

have to be honest wrote:

Why did you go to the hospital so many times? I have to be honest, I've been way more sick than your symptoms and I just stayed home until I got better. What was it about your condition that made you think you needed to go to the hospital and then Emergency?

Ditto. I ate something that didn't agree with me a couple months ago, woke up in the middle of the night with a bloated tummy that seemed like it was going to explode, which was painful and quite concerning. I kept trying to go to the bathroom with not much success, and finally threw up in the sink three times in a row. That helped a little but I was still feeling bloated and sick like I was going to die, then threw up two more times and felt worse! Then I threw up a sixth time, felt better and went back to bed.

I had been up for about an hour, slept well the rest of the night and did my regular workout the next morning.

I never once thought of going to the hospital. If I had, the chances are that they would have killed me.

My chances were much better at home. If I had the media pandemic virus then I would feel exactly the same way.

noclue wrote:

Are you kidding me? Have you ever had pneumonia and asthma and were fighting for every breath? I have, back during the swine flu outbreak I had swine flu that turned into pneumonia. Its terrible and scary. I've never gone to the hospital for any other "seasonal flu".

I had asthma as a kid. My Mom thought I was going to die and took me to doctors, but never to the hospital thank goodness. Nothing the doctors did helped, and everything they did made it worse. I fought, kicked and screamed to not have to go to them, and eventually cured the asthma on my own. Hospitals are seriously bad places to avoid.

Thanks. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

idiot spotter #1 wrote:

iowakidscanrun wrote:

So you’ve had something worse than Covid and didn’t seek healthcare? SMH

A lot of people with COVID show no symptoms. Have you ever had any illness worse than having no symptoms? Idiot.

Gigantic fool you are. OP could barely breathe apparently. No one in their right mind would be in that condition and just stay home.