Interesting to have found this thread. I had a positive COVID test back in late January, the 26th I think? Still pissed that I almost could have made it through the entire pandemic without infection, if I didn’t have a retarded nigger housemate who got the coof from traveling, returned home and proceeded to tell nobody, until his symptoms were obvious and we were all fucked.
I’m young and in good health so it wasn’t scary-bad for me. Losing all sense of taste and smell made it too hard to eat because everything had the same off “flavor” like eating old pennies. No fever, no struggling to breathe, some faint chest pain, no issues with my stomach or any aches. Fatigue was awful though and it seemed to be mostly neurological symptoms that plagued me - the spins, couldn’t think clearly, couldn’t stay awake for more than 4 hours at a time. I lost about 22 lbs total.
11 days after diagnosis I started to be able to smell again. 16 days after diagnosis both my sense of smell and taste fully returned. And on day 21 I got a negative test result and was instructed to return to normal. 2 months later and my only lasting “symptom”, if you can call it that, is the fatigue. Doing normal day-to-day things is still more exhausting than it should be. A trip to the grocery store and then putting away the groceries is so exhausting I need a nap to recover. I’m 23, not fucking 90. I can only manage work days with multiple XL coffees and a redbull at lunch for good measure.
Overall it’s a 4/10: slightly more miserable than a typical flu, losing some senses is fucking weird and the neurological effects are like nothing I’ve ever experienced. Never needed help from a quack, did not die, did not experience issues with lungs/breathing. Try again chinks
I’m young and in good health so it wasn’t scary-bad for me. Losing all sense of taste and smell made it too hard to eat because everything had the same off “flavor” like eating old pennies. No fever, no struggling to breathe, some faint chest pain, no issues with my stomach or any aches. Fatigue was awful though and it seemed to be mostly neurological symptoms that plagued me - the spins, couldn’t think clearly, couldn’t stay awake for more than 4 hours at a time. I lost about 22 lbs total.
11 days after diagnosis I started to be able to smell again. 16 days after diagnosis both my sense of smell and taste fully returned. And on day 21 I got a negative test result and was instructed to return to normal. 2 months later and my only lasting “symptom”, if you can call it that, is the fatigue. Doing normal day-to-day things is still more exhausting than it should be. A trip to the grocery store and then putting away the groceries is so exhausting I need a nap to recover. I’m 23, not fucking 90. I can only manage work days with multiple XL coffees and a redbull at lunch for good measure.
Overall it’s a 4/10: slightly more miserable than a typical flu, losing some senses is fucking weird and the neurological effects are like nothing I’ve ever experienced. Never needed help from a quack, did not die, did not experience issues with lungs/breathing. Try again chinks