COVID-19 Symptoms

This one might be real. There’s no sordid tale of fucking the garbage man in the alley.

Call your primary care physician, if you have one, first.

R2 I may try to reach out and do a tele-whatever, but he's pretty lame and will say "Just see how it goes" as he has over the years. As they all have. But maybe this time?

R1 I swear it's real. As you mentioned so succinctly, it's not that exciting of a thread....

At the end of February I came down with something. Massive headache in the back of my head, extreme fatigue, sweating/chills. Got better and a week later BOOM - fatigue and this time a cough. I’m still coughing and feel shortness of breathe and rib pain.

Had the antibody test today and...NADA. Don’t have the antibodies for Covid.

Breath. Not breathe.

R4 Is the antibody test for COVID?

I doubt they'll give me the test with no cough, but wtf do I have then? I feel like my ribs are disintegrating inside my body in slo-mo

I was directly exposed to a former coworker who died of CoVid-19.

Coworker became gravely and immediately ill the day after I last saw this person. The coworker was hospitalized, intubated and died within 10 days.

I became strangely affected by something I’ve never experienced before, and no, I am not experiencing menopause, just in case anyone is justifiably wondering, due to what I experienced. I’ve given some overview in another thread, but here is some detail:

I started experiencing pain in my striated muscles. Regions, both arms, upper back. Shallow breathing, difficulty with inhaling and exhaling a full breath, and pain in my chest when I attempted to do so. Tightness around my neck and shoulders. And I immediately developed a non mucous producing dry cough. The coughing was not occurring non stop. It was intermittent. I still have the cough, and 4 weeks in, I am finally producing phlegm, which is yellow.

I felt as if though I were running a low grade fever for a few days to a week. That disappeared, however, I feel as if though I am, again.

3 days after being exposed to the person who died of CoVid-19, I woke up around 3:00 am, drenched in sweat and experiencing visible chills, where I was shaking from being freezing cold, though I was covered in a top sheet, and comforter. I had to change my bedding, and put on some long-johns. When I finally fell asleep, I had my covers and comforter on me. I woke up later that morning, with all covers off. I checked my temperature before I went back to sleep and after I woke up later that morning, and I was running a normal temp. Never experienced the chills or sweat again.

I thought I shook the cough, but it is back as of this Sunday, and my chest is in pain, and though I feel achy and feverish, I am not running a fever.

I have not reported my symptoms to health officials in my area, nor have I asked for a test, because I am fearful of test positive and being quarantined in a building where those who have tested positive but are either asymptotic, or have mild symptoms, are being held. From what I have been advised from a credible and knowledgeable source, not all but some people are deteriorating there, and eventually sent to the hospital, and placed on ventilators. Almost everyone placed on a ventilator does not recover, and the people who are being held there under asymptomatic quarantine, are exposed to others who either have fatal outcomes, or whose outcomes are not known. The state I am in is NOT reporting accurately and is a red state, that wants to get everyone back to work ASAP. People here are barely observing social distancing, and I have only seen 2-3 elderly people wearing masks and gloves.

The local media here is NOT reporting the health conditions or outcomes or even that a quarantine building is currently in use. The only way residents learn of this, is if they are directed to report there by their physicians. I can only assume that this is all being treated casually and even by omission of important information, in order to not disrupt the local economy, and the businesses that produce that local economy. Someone in a position of authority did attempt to report the outbreak of CoVid-19, in a business sector services here, and was immediately fired, and fellow staff were instructed to erase all information or dissemination of public safety alerts, informing others outside of certain professional circles, that people were testing positive and dying of CoVid-19.

I expected some of this to happen, such as the virus reaching my area. What I did not expect was that public officials, media, and business owners, would intentionally omit vital information about the virus, where it’s tracking, and the number of infected or dead, in the community, including not shuttering operations in these businesses, when they are aware that people who work in these businesses, have become infected and even died.

Hypochondriac Troll thread.

I made an appointment at a private lab R6. They just asked if I was running a fever (It’s not for people WITH Covid but those who think they might have already had it.). It cost $69. I called on Monday and they were able to get me in this morning.

I think there is /was something else going around. Not Corona, but something else

Mine started about a month and a half ago. I had pressure in my chest like someone was sitting on my chest. Coughing (with phlegm). I thought it was my allergies, but I still have it. I occasionally get a fever and really bad headaches, and I never get fevers or headaches before. I keep getting that pressure in my chest. I don't have any asthma problems, I've never smoked. The cough isn't a deep cough

I'm going to call my doctor tomorrow and see if I get anywhere or any help. The alternative is going to the ER, because the pain by now is excruciating, but I'm afraid to go near any hospitals.

I never usually have to go to a doctor except for regular check ups or something. What a shitty time to have something like this happen, with no apparent cause.

Thanks, R9. I'll see if the doctor mentions anything. I've Googled my symptoms, but that's only led me down a scary rabbit hole.

R10 I think so, too. Or some of us just get some of the stranger symptoms of the virus and we're called "asymptomatic"?

R8

Hypochondriacs and Chatty Cathy at R7. Edit honey....edit!

Have you seen this, OP? If you see that you know for sure you have it in you.

R14 That's it. You've diagnosed me.

(but in all seriousness, the pain!!)

Who else would be scared to go to ER nowadays?