Hello everyone,
I'm really spiralling and need some reasurrence. Today morning I tested positive for covid and my anxiety has been growing ever since. I had both doses of the Astra Zeneca vaccine in spring and I've been waiting for a booster jab, but covid was quicker. I'm honestly freaking out that I have symptoms despite being double vaxed and I'm really scared of complications like blood clots since I'm also taking birth control pills for my PCOS and hormones also increase the risk of clotting. I know complications are rare in vaccinated people, but isn't infection itself also rare? I'm young, not oveweight, and besides the bc pills I have no risk factors, but of course anxiety isn't rational and I keep thinking I'll end up with a blood clot or heart disease, or some other morbid post-covid thing
My symptoms so far are like those of a bad cold: really sore throat and some congestion for three days, today I started coughing, I feel cold, clammy, and achy, but no fever. I think I'm also losing at least some of my smell and taste, I'm afraid by tomorrow I won't be able to taste or smell anything! I know that objectively speaking these symptoms aren't very serious, but considering I was jabbed, I still feel like I should at most have the sniffles and I'm scared that it means I'm somehow more prone to covid and therefore to possible complications.
Has anyone here had symptomatic covid despite being vaccinated and got better without complications? I know my fears aren't rational, but covid is such a scary disease, there are all these horror stories around and I really don't know whom to trust.