Spent two weeks with severe appetite loss, unrelenting nausea, headache, and some fatigue. I couldn’t drink coffee. I’ve never had appetite loss in my life!
So I drank hot tea, water, etc. I took acetaminophen with caffeine, but it didn’t really help with the headache, so stopped, as I never had a fever above 98.7, but my normal temp runs low, so who knows.
I will wait for the “all clear”, and will look forward to one of those tests that tell if I had it. I think I did, but not going to chance it.
In that great “Hot Spot” outside of NYC. Sigh.
Last year I had something like that. It was going around and several people warned me that if I got sick with it, I’d be down for the count for several weeks. They were not kidding.
It was a 3 week bout of something that landed me flat on my back. I completely lost my appetite, exhausted, very short of breath, and even water tasted AWFUL.
I had never experienced anything like that before.
I seriously thought I had walking pneumonia but since I had no signs of a bacterial infection and had my pneumonia vaccines, I decided to forego the dr visit, in a large part because it was so stinking cold out and I had NO energy to even go out and to to the dr, who is literally, just around the corner.
If COVID was going around at the time, I would have sworn that’s what I had.
It took me months to get my strength back from that one.
So there are things that can give similar symptoms.
I know many Doc's that say..Only call me if the pt's temp is over 100...
Totally agree...!!