I lose my sense of smell few days ago, I’m yet to get it back. I feel very fine, no sore throat or any other symptoms. If you know someone close who had the covid, pleas kindly share how bad the symptoms are.
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I lose my sense of smell few days ago, I’m yet to get it back. I feel very fine, no sore throat or any other symptoms. If you know someone close who had the covid, pleas kindly share how bad the symptoms are.
I know probably had it back in early spring, I went on the train to move my kid back from London just before lockdown. A few days later, my partner had a fever for a day, which he slept off. A few days after that, I started with the fever and coughing. We’d already prepared for this eventuality, so I took a large bag of snacks, a pile of cold medicine, a portable kettle and a mini fridge and isolated myself in my room and bathroom until it was done. I spent the first week in a feverish, sore, headachy and coughing daze. Mostly, I stared at the ceiling or watched TV on my laptop, because I couldn’t focus enough to read or work. After a week the fever and headache subsided, the feverishness was the worst part of it, but the cough lingered another week or so. I would rate the symptoms as worse than the flu but less bad than either whooping cough or pneumonia. My symptoms were only standard levels of severe, I had the physical space to isolate myself from others in the household, and if things had gotten bad I had the NHS to lean on for hospital care. It could have been a lot worse.
My dad had it, but he recovered fast despite the fact that He was super-high-risk due to a post-cancer compromised immune system, he was the sickest he’d ever been, except during the cancer, but he got over it in about two weeks. He had a high fever, mild cough, difficulty catching his breath with any physical exertion, and fatigue. But while isolating at his condo, and while sick, he laid a hardwood floor, and says he only had two days where he didn’t feel like he could do any work. So he was sick, but the mildest of the three of us, despite being the statistically highest risk.