Also melatonin 10mg at bedtime - not for sleep, but it adversely affects the virus. Also, washed my Zicam (zinc) down with 4 oz of diet tonic water (every 3 hours during waking hours) as proxy for HCL.
My symptoms were muted . . .mild headache one day and a crappy rundown cold feeling, but I never had the classic fatigue. I also used cough medicine with an expectorant and Mucinex to make sure I could cough up what was in my lungs.
Never had a fever. Never lost my taste. My wife’s symptoms were a little worse than mine, but she started on the OTC meds later and was not as regular about taking them.
Good tip about the melatonin.