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Everything is great now... Smell, taste, energy, and all around health is all back and good now.First it had my eye sockets hurting when I moved my eyes around in them. My nose kind of kept feeling like it was on the verge of running, but it didn't run. Headache was part of it but it wasn't much of a part of it.
Did you get the thing where you lost the sense of taste? How did it come and go? I think we may all appreciate you sharing your experience of you feel comfortable doing so? I would like to understand your specific experience.
If not, I totally understand. This is not the most empathic place, but you have many people here who are thankful you recovered.
I got chills a few times at night, but I would cover up and they would go instantly away, so I thought nothing of it. My back felt like my skin just hurt, not my muscles but my skin. Took a BC back and body, and that eased off. Was tired alot or just felt fatigued. Was riding behind a trash truck, and my wife said "wow that truck stinks bad, it's burning my eyes and nose, can't you smell that she asked me"?? I said No I can't smell anything.
She said uh ohh.
Then at work where I run a piece of equipment away from other employee's on site, (note - the company was having a run on the Covid-19 with other employee's as well), but I stayed away from them, even before I knew that I had it. Once I learned that I had it, then I quarantined.
They didn't get near me because of us practicing social distancing at work, and me near them, so I don't think it came from work unless social distancing, hand sanitizing, and mask wearing didn't work at all.
So I go to work right before I knew that I had it, and next I began feeling like I could just shut the machine off, and just go to sleep at the controls. That's when I thought hmmm I got to get off this machine and go home.
So I went home and got in the bed, and went straight to sleep. Woke later on, but still felt very weak. Figured hmmm I must have the flu, but it seemed different.
Didn't completely lose my taste, but I did stop eating for a few days.
Ok, so I went to get tested, and explained some of my symptoms to a medical person on site. They then suggested that I get a prescription called doxycycline from my medical provider quickly. That's what I did. Ok then I get the call that said YEP you got the Covid. They said I must quarantine for 14 days, and if I needed them, come on in.
Called the wife, and told her the crazy news, where next she went and got tested immediately herself.
She was negative thank God.
Ok, so I asked the wife to bring me home a breathing device that turns water into hot steam, and this as I am quarantining at this point... It has a single plastic thing that only one person can use/breathe in whenever using it. Got me some musenex to take, and some halls cough medicine drops to take as I took the doxycycline with all methods used. I also noticed that my kidneys didn't want to work right (couldn't urinate like I was supposed to). Drank vinegar to see if that would keep my kidneys working, and it did or at least I thought so. I then turned the heat in the room wide open, got up under a thick quilt, and began sweating it out. I awoke feeling bad, so I began using the breathing machine, drinking vinegar, taking musenex, drinking orange juice, taking a vitamin (centrum silver), taking my blood pressure medicine, and getting plenty of sleep.
Did my breathing treatment about every 3 to 4 hours until breathing got better or could get rest peacefully. When it started lifting off of me, I opened all the windows in the house when no one was home, and I aired everything out. Kept the cough for about a week and a half afterwards. It finally went away thank God.
Just glad it didn't get any worse than I did. The highest fever I ran was 101.3. I ran that fever one day, and it returned to 99.1, and then to 98.7. Not much fever with it, but I hear that others get a bad fever that last for days with it. Walked on treadmill whenever I could or when I felt good enough to do so. I also went out into the sunroom, and sat in the direct sunlight when no one was around.
No one in my family got it or has it, and I've been over it for quite sometime now. Not sure how I got it or where I got it. Been back to work for a few months now, and I feel great thank God. Didn't like it, but thank God I made it through it. Was doing the hand sanitizer, the distancing, and the mask when required or felt uncomfortable in a situation.
So glad you are ok and thanks for sharing, That is the most detail I have ever heard about the virus.
How is your sense of taste?
Yeah, I ain't looking for that one again. It was a little weird to say the least. Especially how it came on. It was like one small symptom here, and then another one there, so it didn't just jump me all at once. Built up over time it seemed, and lasted only about two weeks total in all. The cough was the last thing to get gone, but it finally went.
