So I really want everyone’s thoughts on this. For the past 2 days, I’ve been laid out flat with something. It started on Thursday with a temp of 99.8 (high for me), horrible headache, body aches and generally feeling like crap. It progressed to nausea and complete exhaustion later in the day. Overnight was much of the same. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling positively weird. Took more Tylenol and went to the bathroom. While I was in there, I grabbed a bottle of perfume and sprayed it. I couldn’t smell anything, so I was convinced I had Covid.
Yesterday was the worst. Horrible stomach acid, intestinal cramping, body aches, headache, extreme fatigue, chills. I’ve never had that combination of symptoms. It felt like a combination of bad acid reflux, sinus headache, the flu and a horrible hangover all at the same time. But no cough or upper or lower respiratory symptoms at all.
For those 2 days, I took all of my covid stuff I had bought. I forced myself to drink and eat soup (zero appetite). This morning I woke up and I feel great. Perfectly back to normal. I was going to get tested this weekend if I can, and now I feel silly.
My husband says it was just another bug. Since you all know much more about this than he does, what do you think? I’m thinking he’s probably right. If it was Covid, I wouldn’t be feeling so great after just 2 days. This stuff just doesn’t disappear over night.
Thanks so much for your thoughts. I am with my 85 year old mom constantly since she doesn’t drive, and I obviously don’t want her getting this.
Perhaps get an antibody test.
Don’t count on antibodies hanging around very long to ward off a second bout as testing shows they die off in a couple months.
Where did you go that you might have caught it?
It might have been it, it might have been another bug...
Can you wait 7 days to be around your mom?
Can she take any of the covid stuff you took?
Has her D3 been tested lately? little old ladies usually have looooooow levels.
Hopefully it was just a bug, but given the loss of smell, you may have cv and was lucky enough to fight it off. Did your sense of smell come back? Cough is actually not one of the more predominate early symptoms, I think that one only occurs if it’s attacking the lungs, but as we know, it can attack the digestive system, kidneys and the CNS which give a whole other group of symptoms.
If it were me, I would keep up a treatment protocol as if I still had it, even if I felt great, just because it seems it can lurk in the body to reappear later as we’ve been reading. Vit C, zinc, quercertin, Vit d3, lots of water. Keep an eye on O2 levels as well.
Prayers for you, that it turns out to be nothing. As an aside, my husband has had a lot of allergy symptoms and joint pain and he is convinced it’s allergies but I wish I could get him to take quercertin. He is on Keto and his joint pain comes with eating either cheese or nuts. He’s trying to figure it out.
I am still struggling with the dust from the Sahara dust that came through GA. We have been replacing filters weekly and still have a layer of thick black dust on everything after a few days of dusting. I am crazy allergic to it. I have never had allergies in my life. It’s driving me crazy!
RE-covid thoughts
That’s great that you bounced back so fast.
Sounds more like cold or garden variety flu but i’d recommend test due the smell issue.I have similar concerns due to caregiving for a 94yo mom. I can usually knock out those quickly like others with vit C,Zinc,D3 aspirin for fever or ibuprofen for body ache. I’m curious what your regimen was if you don’t mind sharing?