Thx for the information links! I only tested positive that one time. Because it delayed my appointments, I had to be retested 2x before being seen and was negative for both, 2 weeks later. Due to some scheduling snafus, I actually wound up having a third follow up test which was also negative. I feel that I dodged a bullet on this one. Disappointingly, I requested a serum antibody test to check immunity and it came back with negative for antibodies, so I believe I may not gained any protection unless the theories on T cells is true. The recent news that people can become reinfected, possibly with a different strain, is alarming as it makes the likelihood of an effective vaccine seem very remote.
About how I have felt since COVID, I’m despondent because although I sailed through that, my symptoms seem to be getting worse by the week and despite faithfully abiding by every treatment and technique my doctor has recommended, nothing helps for more than a couple of days.
I actually think I might have had COVID originally in late November as I was so ill with respiratory issues I thought I might die. First time in my life I ever remember having what they diagnosed as bronchitis. I know they don’t think it was in the US at that time, but I live in Rochester and know for a fact that multiple Mayo physicians and professionals were traveling to all parts of China 2 weeks out of every month for business reasons and/or patient consults/scientific lectures, etc., so I think it’s reasonable to question whether it was on a slow simmer here in Rochester very early. I honestly have never fully recovered from that bout last November. It marked the end of a normal lifestyle for me and began the world of Nebulizers, inhalers, and ultimately to the Bronchiectasis diagnosis in March. The doctor did say that with my Alpha MZ allele, the bronchitis in November may have been enough to cause the Bronchiectasis. I will never know if it was COVID or just a bad infection because there was no awareness or testing at that point in time.
I probably sound like I’m obsessing about COVID but I think I’m still in that early denial stage where I’m just trying to figure out why and how I ended up with this lung condition I had never even heard of before March and what it means for my future.