Was Coronavirus around in Pattaya in November?

[mrblonde]

AS above, asking as was out there or 2 weeks and had the WORST cough/chest infection ever, (we’re both physically fit in our early 40’s), a local guy (westerner who lives there) told us it was the AQI (poor air quality) but we visit every year and never suffered before in ten or more years. Plus a lot of thai friends we have out there (shop owners, girls and Thai gf’s of people we know) were really ill or in hospital with similar symptoms 

 

JUST wondered really, or if anyone else saw this back in November as well? 

 

 

[Don Mega]

prolly be dead by now I reckon if it was around and you contracted it.

[ivor bigun]

Was ill end dec begining jan , strange illness ,first time in donkeys years ,

[4MyEgo]

2 minutes ago, mrblonde said:

WORST cough/chest infection ever

Just part and parcel of getting sick in the tropics of Thailand, I got this around October/November a few years back.

 

I doubt it would have been the Coronavirus. If you took antibiotics and were better, then you definitely know it wasn't the Coronavirus.

[mrblonde]

20 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Just part and parcel of getting sick in the tropics of Thailand, I got this around October/November a few years back.

 

I doubt it would have been the Coronavirus. If you took antibiotics and were better, then you definitely know it wasn't the Coronavirus.

 

Self medicated from a local Pharmacy but it took 4 weeks to get any better, then a few weeks back home til it eased enough to go about a normal routine. Usually my chest infections clear with meds after a week or so 

[fforest1]

3 minutes ago, mrblonde said:

 

Self medicated from a local Pharmacy but it took 4 weeks to get any better, then a few weeks back home til it eased enough to go about a normal routine. Usually my chest infections clear with meds after a week or so 

Try vaping vegetable glycerin and clove oil......This has kicked a chest colds ass for me......

[Pravda]

Yes, you are so special. No one in Thailand or as a matter a fact on this planet ever got a chest infection or a cough before you.

 

Physically fit in early 40's... gimme a break ???? just 100 years ago the average age was 48 ????????

 

 

O 

 

[scubascuba3]

i too have wondered if something i had a few weeks ago was Corona, i guess we will only know if we catch Corona in the future

[4MyEgo]

52 minutes ago, mrblonde said:

 

Self medicated from a local Pharmacy but it took 4 weeks to get any better, then a few weeks back home til it eased enough to go about a normal routine. Usually my chest infections clear with meds after a week or so 

Yeh, I tried to fight it off for two weeks, then off to doctors, one week of antibiotics, didn't work, another dose of a week of different antibiotics, didn't work, doctor sent me to government hospital for x-ray and oxygen while waiting for results, chest clear, next day hospital chest specialist, must have been 25 years old at best, huge que, did a lung test through one of those things you blow in, all ok, told him I was spitting yellow and brown phlegm, you at the end of the flu, it's ok, rest. I said to the wife, I don't think I will make it another night because I can't breath, she suggest a private hospital an hours drive away, now you tell me, off we went. Saw a doctor there, straight to their chest specialist, more x-rays, sinus, and onto some more lollies, and a puffer, steroid puffer, took everything at the hospital when paid the bill, was feeling 90% better by the time got home, back to private hospital the following week for a follow up and more lollies, puffer, again in two weeks and then a month.

 

Never again at the local doctor or hospital for me (Isaan), have become a snob, private sorted me, so will stick with them whatever the cost as they showed me they knew what I had, a severe chest infection and an narrowing of the windpipe from an unknown allergy, which I sort of worked out to be from a mold stain on the ceiling directly above my work station, (old roof leak), never cleaned it, possibly the spours from the mold ?

 

If that is anything like the Coronavirus, gonna be in for a hell of a ride, because that is viral, and this was bacterial, so don't think can have any meds for viral.    

[Cake Monster]

I really dont know what if it was, but there was surely some kind of nasty Bug thing going around.

What I do know is that early in November both myself and my Wife contracted some kind of Chest Infection that was absolutely awful. Wracking Dry Cough, Nausea, Headaches just like the Flu, but worse

We both kept taking Antibiotics for most of November, and they had little effect upon the symptoms, and it was mid December before I felt anything like good again.

I do know that I dont want it ever again, as I felt the most sick for the longest period of time in my life

[Don Mega]

3 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

i too have wondered if something i had a few weeks ago was Corona, i guess we will only know if we catch Corona in the future

Could have been coronavirus but doubt it was the covid-19 strain.

[scubascuba3]

3 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

Could have been coronavirus but doubt it was the covid-19 strain.

Could have been how do you know. Chinese were carrying it to Pattaya back in January at the latest

[Don Mega]

7 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Could have been how do you know. Chinese were carrying it to Pattaya back in January at the latest

I'd say not being dead is a good indicator it was not the covid-19 strain.

[newnative]

18 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

I really dont know what if it was, but there was surely some kind of nasty Bug thing going around.

What I do know is that early in November both myself and my Wife contracted some kind of Chest Infection that was absolutely awful. Wracking Dry Cough, Nausea, Headaches just like the Flu, but worse

We both kept taking Antibiotics for most of November, and they had little effect upon the symptoms, and it was mid December before I felt anything like good again.

I do know that I dont want it ever again, as I felt the most sick for the longest period of time in my life

Sounds like what I had the whole month of December.  Thought I would never get over it.

[mrblonde]

39 minutes ago, Pravda said:

Yes, you are so special. No one in Thailand or as a matter a fact on this planet ever got a chest infection or a cough before you.

 

Physically fit in early 40's... gimme a break ???? just 100 years ago the average age was 48 ????????

 

 

O 

 

Didn't say i was special.  Or that no one had ever got a chest infection or cough before me.

 

no idea where that came from, but you sound very very bitter about something - hope it clears up soon. I suggest you maybe self isolate 

[banglay]

I had something very similar Mid November after a night on the town (Pattaya)  . It started 3 days after visiting Pattaya,  I felt feverish and under the weather for a couple or 3 days then I developed a dry hacking cough that lasted a further 3 weeks before clearing up ...the symptoms sound very similar to a mild case of this  virus ... 

But at the time I just thought it was a run of the mill bug that was doing the rounds at the time. 

But now paranoia has stated to set in ????

[mackayae]

Covid-19 started November 17 2019 in Wuhan, China. Patient zero was a 55 year old Chinese male.

[scubascuba3]

46 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

I'd say not being dead is a good indicator it was not the covid-19 strain.

Ah 100% of people die?

[Don Mega]

4 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Ah 100% of people die?

Probably not if they seek medical intervention upon early diagnosis.

 

The non covid-19 strain has a low mortality rate though.

Edited March 15, 2020 by Don Mega

[scubascuba3]

7 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

Probably not if they seek medical intervention upon early diagnosis.

 

The non covid-19 strain has a low mortality rate though.

Way off. 7% death rate and i imagine that ignores all those not tested

[shy coconut]

I would say there is a good chance that the virus was about long before the first

identified case. It was only after a cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases in 

December that a new name was given.

 

The but may well have been lurking around for many months before anyone got really

sick from it in the recognised flu season in China.

[TaaSaparot]

Funny was discussing the same thing with friends today.

 

Early December, I had a weird fever and generally felt like <deleted> for 3 days. then it just disappeared.

 

But I then found out that several other people in my Soi had the same symptoms, and it affected a few of them a lot longer than the three days I had.

[losworld]

9 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Just part and parcel of getting sick in the tropics of Thailand, I got this around October/November a few years back.

 

I doubt it would have been the Coronavirus. If you took antibiotics and were better, then you definitely know it wasn't the Coronavirus.

Not necessarily the secondary chest infection is often bacterial and antibiotics are used to treat the effects of this virus.

[MadMuhammad]

15 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Yeh, I tried to fight it off for two weeks, then off to doctors, one week of antibiotics, didn't work, another dose of a week of different antibiotics, didn't work, doctor sent me to government hospital for x-ray and oxygen while waiting for results, chest clear, next day hospital chest specialist, must have been 25 years old at best, huge que, did a lung test through one of those things you blow in, all ok, told him I was spitting yellow and brown phlegm, you at the end of the flu, it's ok, rest. I said to the wife, I don't think I will make it another night because I can't breath, she suggest a private hospital an hours drive away, now you tell me, off we went. Saw a doctor there, straight to their chest specialist, more x-rays, sinus, and onto some more lollies, and a puffer, steroid puffer, took everything at the hospital when paid the bill, was feeling 90% better by the time got home, back to private hospital the following week for a follow up and more lollies, puffer, again in two weeks and then a month.

 

Never again at the local doctor or hospital for me (Isaan), have become a snob, private sorted me, so will stick with them whatever the cost as they showed me they knew what I had, a severe chest infection and an narrowing of the windpipe from an unknown allergy, which I sort of worked out to be from a mold stain on the ceiling directly above my work station, (old roof leak), never cleaned it, possibly the spours from the mold ?

 

If that is anything like the Coronavirus, gonna be in for a hell of a ride, because that is viral, and this was bacterial, so don't think can have any meds for viral.    

I got blessed with influenza B, pneumonia and a throat infection last year. I was in Myanmar doing a border bounce but I didn’t have any symptoms apart from a super sore throat and fatigue, I just rode it out for 48 hours till I could get back to Thailand. One of the toughest things had I’ve ever had to do. 
Finally got through the door drenched in sweat, bones aching, headache, fever and coughing, thought ‘I’ll just take a nap’. GF came home from work and though I was dead. Off to the hospital we go. 
They had me admitted within an hour on a drip with an antibiotic infusion. If I had the energy on day 4 I would have opened the window and jumped lol. I was coughing custard for the first few days and then this turned into blood and custard as I coughed that hard and frequently I damaged my throat. 6 nights 192000 baht (thank you insurance). 
Anyway, Covid-19 is gonna have to be pretty special to put me through more pain and suffering to beat that  
 

[MadMuhammad]

13 hours ago, shy coconut said:

I would say there is a good chance that the virus was about long before the first

identified case. It was only after a cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases in 

December that a new name was given.

 

The but may well have been lurking around for many months before anyone got really

sick from it in the recognised flu season in China.

I think I read China were aware for the first time on Nov 17. 

[ThailandRyan]

16 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Just part and parcel of getting sick in the tropics of Thailand, I got this around October/November a few years back.

 

I doubt it would have been the Coronavirus. If you took antibiotics and were better, then you definitely know it wasn't the Coronavirus.

Getting older changes your bodies reaction and immunity to allergens, and thus allows you to come down with hay fever, chest congestion, common cold symptoms.....

[justin case]

16 hours ago, Pravda said:

 just 100 years ago the average age was 48

you know/don't know this is more bull people take as real ..

 

the mortality at birth was high or first year of life

 

statistics .... 1 person dies at birth + 1 gets to be 96 = average age = 48

 

go visit old ENGLAND graveyards, many people died at 80-90 years

 

[xxeo]

I confirm. Last November I had a cold more severe than normal. I calmed down my daily routine for three or four days, left my condo less frequently, no fever but feeling a little knocked out. It vanished without having seen a doctor.

 

Who knows.

[Max69xl]

17 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

i too have wondered if something i had a few weeks ago was Corona, i guess we will only know if we catch Corona in the future

Keep wondering. You're just a worrier like so many else here at TV. 

[TeacherTango]

I too had a very unusual virus/infection that I was wondering could be Coronavirus. I started to get sick on 30th December and took at least 15 days to recover. 

 

I've had common colds, flu etc before but this one just felt different and like something I'd never had before. 

 

Symptoms sucked but I'm a healthy 36yo guy so I recovered eventually. 

 

In hindsight, I have a feeling it was coronavirus.