Did anyone think they had Covid in 2019?

I was working health care and got covid the day the world shut down in the United States in early March of 2020. However, I was working ICU and ER and we had a lot of young patients coming in and crashing and dying in December January and February. I remember a doctor coming up to me with tears in his eyes saying he just didn't understand, since the assumption was it was flu only it wasn't. So I am convinced covid was there and we just didn't realize it at the time.

My husband and I traveled to Italy in late September and early October 2019. The person sitting on the plane behind us was Italian, coughing, sneezing, fever, sweating. A few days after we got back, we could barely get out of bed. We were diagnosed with Upper Respiratory Infections. I took 4 rounds of antibiotics, was put on an inhaler. I could barely climb 5 steps or walk over 20 steps without having to rest. I went from working out 4 times a week, lifting heavy weights, to barely lifting 5 lbs and working out for 15 minutes. My whole life changed. I know we came back from Italy in 2019 with covid.

Am new to this site. Grateful to read others understand. Had pneumonia in 2019 and exhaustion & other symptoms remain. Heart and lung tests show both are fine. Family & I are convinced I had Covid and still have Long Covid. Doctors are reluctant to add this diagnosis to my record. Fatigue, minimal sense of taste & and other symptoms remain and complicated by simultaneous diagnosis of rare incurable blood cancer requiring phlebotomy. Joined this site after reading about the person keeping a data sheet of good & bad days….exactly my situation. Do not know anyone with Long Covid so am grateful to belong to this understanding group. THANK YOU ALL!!!

Yes, I believe I had Covid in 2019. I felt awful, extreme fatigue
I went to the doctor and the treated like the flu as expected
The word Covid had not entered our lives yet. She gave antibiotics and steroids. I had to go back 3 times for refills
She was beginning to be reluctant to prescribing anyore meds.
In 2021 I got the Covid shot and developed Covid 3 days later. I tested positive for 3 weeks and have long Covid since.

I had Covid Jan 2020. (East Coast)
Developed into Ling Covid, then Essential Thrombocytosis and POTS.

Four of us went to Italy in May of 2018. All returned sick after a cruise there and a four day stay in Rome. I developed severe anosmia that week, that lasted more than a year. No one had even heard of anosmia back then! Two months later after much sinus misery, a surgeon pulled out a 2" white, rubbery clot out of my sinus that he said he'd never seen anything like- he said it stuck to his glove. I know now it was the very first covid, before it was released to the public. I've read that Bari, Italy was a testing ground along with Wuhan. Who knows but I suffer to this day...

I'm 3 1/2 years no taste/smell, brain fog, fatigue, forgetfulness. The doctors could care less. I've only been told we don't know. I do not personally know anyone in this condition. It is very depressing and discouraging. I understand where you are coming from.

Believe me your not alone but it does get better I just keep pushing forward after years ? of LC
Im still working on my memory.