Do you stress over symptoms you'd normally not give a second thought?

[captain queeg]

My nose has been itchy and every time I scratch it I worry that I shouldn’t. Have a some sort of tickling in the back of my throat, wouldn’t even have registered before. Feeling lethargic but that’s what happens after being house bound for weeks. All of these are so minor I wouldn’t even notice normally. But now I worry about them. I’m 63 so I’m pretty sure if I caught it my symptoms would be noticeable.

I’m now up to three people that I know at least a bit that have the coronavirus. My nephews wife and one of my sons friends but both are pretty young and as far as I know aren’t in too bad of shape. But I talked to a woman a couple days ago whose brother in law has it (so I don’t really know him personally) but questioned her about him. He’s 69 and was bed ridden for 8 days, said it’s the worst he’d ever felt.

It’s not likely to be deadly for most people unless you have some of those pre existing conditions but sounds like it’ll be rough for those of us that do get it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Just about everybody I know, including myself, has coronahypochondria.

It's probably allergies.

[SheltieLover]

2. This!👆

K&R

[Demobrat]

3. Oh, you bet.

I often wake up with a mild sore throat in the winter. I just drink something hot and it goes away. This year is just like every other year, but this year every scratchy throat feels like a harbinger of doom.

I have itchy eyes. I’ve had to give up wearing makeup because I rub my eyes so much. I try to remember not to but once in a while I forget -and then I panic.

I’m in CA. Been locked down for three weeks. I have it down to where I only have to go out to public places every 3-4 days, and then it’s to small neighborhood stores on off hours. No supermarkets.

I wear gloves slathered with hand sanitizer and sometimes a mask.

I’m one of the lucky ones who can keep pretty safe. And yet I don’t feel safe at all.

[ChazInAz]

4. Yes.

Moving to Arizona in 1979 was wonderful for my wife's multitudinous allergies. The move likely gave her an added thirty years of life over what she faced in northern Illinois. The Spring of 1980, I discovered that there were things I was allergic to: Non-native plants like olive trees, local things like Palo Verde and Desert Broom. The first years were miserable for me, and even now they'll flare up in the Spring time. They're especially bad this year: scratchy throat, shortness of breath, sinus problems...same darn symptoms of our current plague!
I could catch it and not know.
How encouraging.

[msongs]

5. got cussed out in a store last week for coughing ONCe, the first time all day. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Nope. Not me.

I will add that I moved to Arizona the first time in 1962. A lot of people moved there after WWII to escape things like allergies in other parts of the country, like the Midwest. So of course the first thing many of them did was to plant the flowering and pollen-bearing plants they missed from back home. By 1962 pollen counts in Arizona were typically well above what other parts of the country experienced. And things like asthma were sky high. Hmmm.

[captain queeg]

7. I lived in AZ for about a year in 78-79

Down off southern Ave which was still fairly rural at that time; oranges and cotton. Anyways my sister moved to northern AZ and when I go visit her I fly into Phoenix. It’s amazingly different now and so much greener. I don’t know where they get the water. I thought salt river was maxed out when I was there.

[Vinca]

8. Absolutely. I tend to have a little cough from the B/P medication I take and even though I

know what the cough is from I still worry it's Covid 19 when it happens. From Chris Cuomo's description, it comes on fast and the symptoms are pretty pronounced so we should try not to worry.

[Tanuki]

9. I bought a new thermometer and an oximeter. I get seasonal allergies

and it has been reassuring to take my temp and see that it is fine.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. You're Not Along

Had a slight sniffle & head congestion. Nearly tripled how often I took temperature. No change. The, duh!
It finally dawned on me that in late March, trees & plants start shedding a little. I look up air quality in county over 12 weeks, and voila!
I suppose vigilance is in order.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Yes, but I've been doing it since having had Stage IV cancer in 2009.

[milestogo]

12. Bit of a sore throat and occasional cough

I keep taking my temp and its below normal.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Could be environmental change.

Many people are not accustomed to being cooped up in their homes most of the day and like it or not, a lot of our homes have some amounts of mold, mildew and dust mites that can set allergies off. I think a small HEPA air filtration unit is a great investment, especially for bedrooms.

Another factor in cold months is low humidity which dries out the throat and sinuses. A few years back, I bought a couple of humidity monitors for my house and was shocked at how difficult or impossible it is to raise the humidity because condensation limits humidity.

When I was traveling all over the country in my work, the insane variations in accommodations drove my sinuses crazy, and the air in airliners is extremely dry. I discovered simply by carrying a bottle of saline nasal spray on flights (and jobs like the high desert in Wyoming), I could irrigate my sinuses often and that solved a lot of problems.

I've also learned how to use the equivalent of a neti pot and make m own irrigation solution. The saline spray and netti pot also help to flush out allergens and particulates in addition to moisturizing sinus cavities.


KY......

[jimlup]

14. Yes I seem to have a day to day "sore throat"

that may be seasonal allergies and honestly it isn't something I would normally notice at all but now, if it flares up just a touch I get worried. I've noticed for about a month now so I'm sure it is not the virus but my rational brain is often at odds with my emotions.

[Boomerproud]

16. Yes

I take my temperature about 3 times a day.

[cynatnite]

17. I've taken my temp twice because I had a coughing fit and my throat tickled...

I know it's allergies because this happens every year when the pollen gets up, but I did it anyway.

[Wounded Bear]

18. Yep!

I get mild sore throats, I think because I'm a mouth breather when I sleep coupled with the heated air indoors in winter.

I get mild chest congestion, too, with occasional coughing. A little nasal drip when out on a cold day feels natural most years.

I get my flu shot religiously every year, so normally I just avoid getting chills and drinking lots of water, etc. The usual anti-cold/flu methods and I've avoided bad colds or flues for years.

Now? Just found out we have 2 CV cases in my apt complex. They say they're quarantined, but they didn't tell us who they are. It's a senior living facility and we have all the restrictions in place, but yeah, I'm more worried than usual.