Who Has Had Covid 19 Here on GLP? Share your experience, please!

Since I have a doctor in the family, I'll tell what she sees. She works with the 'underprivileged' and has a lot of obesity, diabetics and renal cases.

So it is tearing through her population of patients. What surprises her is how two people in a household will be quite ill and perhaps two people in the same household will not get it at all.

What also surprises her is the phenomenal variance in how people get sick.

She believes it is more a vasculitis than anything. It attacks the blood transport system and how blood is able to deliver oxygen to the major organs. It is also very much a 'cytokine storm', so the immune system causes the problem because there is terrible body=wide inflammation.

So she says if you are already in oxidative stress, i.e., already have something that causes inflammation in the body you are starting behind the 8 ball.

She says that you MUST keep your body alkaline, STAY AWAY FROM SUGARS, that is a very important thing.

Also, LOSE the belly fat. It has a hormone profile very different than butt or thigh fat. Belly fat creates cytokines which cause inflammation. You can actually lose belly fat more simply than subcutaneous fat.

She does weird things, like takes cold showers (look it up), drinks water with a tablespoon of baking soda a couple times a day, wouldn't touch a soda for anything, cooks with and also swishes coconut oil in her mouth for the monolauric acid properties, takes HCQ, and zinc (quercetin for all of us who are not doctors) and thank God she hasn't gotten sick yet. She takes her vitamin D3/K2 very seriously, of course vitamin C, NAC and eats broccoli sprouts, because they create glutathione.

the hospitals are owned by the most wicked, vile demons, who else charges people their life savings because they get sick, think about that

and then they make you worship them. disgusting beyond belief. you don't even have the dignity and self awareness to hate the people who have economically murdered you

you all go to your death loving the people who murdered you, and that's the whole idea. so that you never seek justice.

I have a fair amount of online friends who have had this, but counting only people in real life, 2 definitely and my husband very likely.

One has recovered and has antibodies, but is still experiencing shortness of breath and intense joint pain. Had no preexisting conditions and was very ill for over a month. The other was elderly but didn't have anything other than arthritis and he died from it in about a week from the appearance of symptoms.

My husband has RA and Lyme and has been feeling very unwell for a week. We've been very careful and doing an herbal and vitamin prophylaxis. But we're in an "Antimask League - There is no pathogen" stronghold. So now he has a dry cough, low grade fever, extreme exhaustion, gastric distress, constant headache, and brain fog.

To clarify, prophylaxis is only a mitigation methodology, not a force field or positive pressure biohazard suit.

I have no faith in the PCR test, so we are going to do treatment and then see about getting an antibody test.

I live in N.C. I had what I assumed was a nasty chest cold that started right before Halloween. Very violent cough is the best I can describe it. I didn’t get over it until after Thanksgiving. Getting my breathing back to normal was what dragged on. I tired so easily preparing for Thanksgiving because I felt like I still wasn’t getting enough oxygen.I don’t live far from UNC where this virus was being studied by researchers. So yeah that made me think back. Schools here had a bad outbreak of something back in January. I got an email from my child’s teacher that she had never seen anything like it. So many kids got sick and they had days on end of 6 kids out of 20 only showing up for class. She had never seen something spread so fast and cause so many kids to get sick at one time. Then my SO got a bad cold around February. I have never seen him so sick. He had the same symptoms I had back in October. My kids never caught it or they did but they caught it with very little symptoms. A few years ago I decided to stop giving my kids the annual flu vaccine. Maybe that’s what helped them because the schools were hit so hard they almost closed. My kids used to stay sick every winter like clock work. But not since I stopped the flu vaccine and I’m not an anti vaccine freak!

How many know with 100% certainty tested and verified as opposed to common seasonal flu?

It's been long enough now that we should be able to ascertain a little about the percentage of people who have been infected or become ill with Covid 19. Or those who have been asymptomatic and tested positive, too.

If you or someone close to you has had it, and feel alright about it, please leave an overview of the experience and the outcome.

I'll leave my experience in the comments as well.

There may be some overlap on some of the choices, but this should give us a bit of an overview of the GLP experience with this. If you find that there needs to be a more thorough explanation, please add it.

No smack talk, please. There's plenty of that elsewhere!

How many know with 100% certainty tested and verified as opposed to common seasonal flu?

isn't your county very low in the count? We were at 5 and then the Signal outbreak happened and we have 38 (28 recovered) but I thought all our surrounding counties were really low

Yes! I've been thinking about that. Everyone was very young though.

I have a fair amount of online friends who have had this, but counting only people in real life, 2 definitely and my husband very likely.

One has recovered and has antibodies, but is still experiencing shortness of breath and intense joint pain. Had no preexisting conditions and was very ill for over a month. The other was elderly but didn't have anything other than arthritis and he died from it in about a week from the appearance of symptoms.

My husband has RA and Lyme and has been feeling very unwell for a week. We've been very careful and doing an herbal and vitamin prophylaxis. But we're in an "Antimask League - There is no pathogen" stronghold. So now he has a dry cough, low grade fever, extreme exhaustion, gastric distress, constant headache, and brain fog.

To clarify, prophylaxis is only a mitigation methodology, not a force field or positive pressure biohazard suit.

I have no faith in the PCR test, so we are going to do treatment and then see about getting an antibody test.

Joe 2020!

It's amazing - you can see it each day when my governor does a 5 minute memorial to 3 or 4 people who died ... they are all obese.

I see it in my own family. I've been a freak about nutrition since high school ... I've followed a very strict whole foods diet and used my yearly bloodwork as a barometer of success .. And I've been teased by my family for 25 years (which is nonsense - it's nothing extreme, just a whole foods plant based diet - but the fact I won't touch the crap in their cabinets has been an infinite source of zingers for them).

Even though I partied a lot and smoked plenty (I recently gave up alcohol for health reasons after a good, decades-long run) ... I look much younger than all of them and I've never had a weight issue or chronic health condition ... and they ALL struggle.

They say their vascular problems run in our genes they do not - I have the same genes and the cholesterol of a newborn baby.

It's sugar, FLOUR (iron fortified flour is the fucking devil, people) and pounds of excess flesh foods. It screws the whole system up.

I'm in NJ.

- 2 different friends' elderly parents currently have it and are in ICU. They are in their early 80s and are both expected to recover but it's been like 6 or 7 weeks they have been very ill.
- One teenage classmate of my daughter had it well after "lockdown" began, her father is a prison guard and was the likely culprit; he avoided testing or isn't telling ... (this is currently an issue in the community bc wife runs at home daycare and didn't tell anyone teenager had covid)
- My neice's soccer coach and his entire family had it
- My cousin's baby daddy got a shock when he tested positive for antibodies but doesn't remember ever being sick
- A local doctor ... folks I know had to be tested because their doctor had it very early on after returning from Italy, and was seeing patients before he knew he was positive. My friends tested negative - I don't know if any of his patients were infected.

Had it (so i think) back in late Feb / early March.

Started feeling feverish and crummy on a Friday afternoon, no big deal, took off from work early and headed home.

By Sunday night I was a mess, Advil did a good job of controlling the fever symptoms. Breathing was a bit of an issue (I'm asthmatic and have albuterol and a nebulizer on hand, so breathing issues are nothing new for me).

Sunday night rolls around and I waited on the Advil too long, I got a case of the cold chills, shaking really hard, well, that triggered my asthma. I took the advil, it took about 30 minutes to catch up, in the meantime I laid on the bed on my stomach (the only position that felt marginally good) and lived hard on my nebulizer. If I didn't have that nebulizer I wouldn't be here today, it was really that bad.

repeat the above on Monday night as well, almost exactly.

I ended up taking Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off from work, I never take days off from work.

This, by far, was the sickest I've been in 40 years.

It cleared by Wednesday but the lingering breathing issues hung on for a week or so. I had other symptoms too, but the breathing thing trumped everything else. Hard to describe what it feels like when you can't get enough air and think you might be dying...