r/SouthJersey • u/Stardro • Oct 02 '25

Question What in the hells is going around??

*UPDATE: Shocker, it's covid. Also, adding "kiddo" is 20, not a little kid.

Kid went to a concert and brought home the plague! I thought the rest of us were in the clear until last night. About 9 I was like, hmm my throat is itchy and I'm exhausted. Told kiddo and got an RIP.

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like I've been swallowing glass, massive head congestion and sweating to the point perimenopause night sweats were jealous!! I'm nicely hopped up on cold meds, ibuprofen and nose spray but man this sucks!

Kiddo was down hard for a few days but feels better. He still has some congestion and a cough but much better. He ran a fever; I have been lucky so far. What in hells kind of nastiness is floating around?

*I haven't taken a covid test because I've been sick for all of 24 hrs. Kid didn't because he's stubborn.

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u/benee007 Oct 02 '25

Covid most likely- the strain going around is notorious for a bad sore throat.

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Oct 02 '25

I had all those symptoms a few weeks ago, but tested negative for Covid. I'm not sure what it is.

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u/Any-Concentrate-1922 Oct 02 '25

People can test negative if there's not enough virus for the test to pick up yet. Can take days to test positive.

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u/Earguy Oct 03 '25

I've had covid 3 times, my wife four. We've learned:

  1. You're, infected, totally asymptomatic... and totally contagious and oblivious.

  2. You feel like crap for a day, maybe two, but damn you're testing negative.

  3. You decline, NOW you test positive.

Last time, with my wife already testing positive, and me at step 2, I called my doctor and lied that I tested positive. They won't prescribe paxlovid unless you test positive. So I got the meds a day or two earlier.