Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
So I thought I was out of the COVID woods when I got that negative test a week ago. Not so fast. Now it's starting to look more likely I have it again. If I do, it's a weird case of it.
Timeline:
March 13: Parents visit, having just returned from a Jamaica trip the day before. They were fully vaccinated.
March 15: Benjamin wakes up with bad headache.
March 16: Girlfriend and I both independently notice we feel sick, before mentioning it to each other. I have sore throat and moderate fatigue. She has a sore throat, medium fatigue, and a general sick feeling.
March 17: Sore throat goes away, is replaced by mild body aches. Mild dry cough starts. No fever, no nasal congestion, no loss of smell or taste. Girlfriend reports that sore throat has also vanished, but still feels sick. Benjamin wakes up with a bad headache for the 2nd out of 3 days.
March 19: Body aches gone, fatigue gone, cough starts to slowly worsen. No fever or anything else new. I take a COVID test. Girlfriend doesn't.
March 20: COVID test comes back negative.
March 21-25: Cough slowly worsens, but still isn't terrible. Chest pain shows up, but not the type of chest pain associated with heart issues -- more from breathing deeply. Still no fever or anything else new.
March 26: After dinner, I feel very sick to my stomach, to the point where I come close to vomiting. This was just before radio, and since I cancelled it on the 19th, I really wanted to do it. I decided to drink Pepto and do it anyway. Happily the stomach issues vanish during radio.
March 27: My (very old) dog has a runny nose, which is strange, because he comes into contact with no other dogs. Dogs can catch COVID from their owners, and one symptom is a runny nose. However, he has no other symptoms. They cannot catch colds from people.
March 28: Cough continues to worsen and I start to notice increasing chest pain when I breathe. However, there is still no fever, and no fatigue! Oxygen level also still good (97).
I'm going to take another COVID test today. Very bizarre. If this is COVID, I'm only getting a cough and chest tightness, and it's taken 12 days from symptom onset to get to this point! Most COVID infections ramp up quickly once symptoms start, to where you're feeling really awful within 3 days. It's unusual for a mild case to continue to worsen after 12 days.
The problem here is that this is SOMETHING, and yet I have no contact with anyone from the outside, aside from my parents visiting on the 13th. I also had takeout food that day, so perhaps that could have done it.
The scary thing is that I've never felt chest pain like this, associated with a cough. Whatever this is, it's a new experience for me. I suppose it's possible that this is something unrelated to COVID, and doing the radio on Friday irritated whatever is going on.
My parents haven't felt a thing, which you'd expect because they're vaccinated.