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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's just a wicked cold! (Dammit!)
On the Jan 1, I got a scratchy throat.
The next day it was worse and I had body aches.
On the third day the body aches were gone but but now I had headachesand a tickle in my chest.
I decided that these were the same symptoms that Ive heard described for Covid. Ive also heard that you need to get Remidesivir prescribed early in the onset of Covid, so I went looking for tests.
I was able to schedule a PCR test from the local health agency, but not for four days out.
I got in my car and hit every pharmacy near me and got the last two tests that a nearby CVS had. I took it. Negative.
In the next few days the symptoms got worse. Very sore throat. Heavily congested nasal passages with lots of snot (where does all that stuff come from). A developing cough.
By the time my appointment for a PCR test came up I was as bad off as Id been in a long time and convinced it was Covid. I had to tell the test folks that I was experiencing Covid symptoms and got sent to the special handling line. (The testing folks were great).
It took three more days for the results to show up on the providers dashboard. In the meantime Id only gotten worse. In fact, it wasnt just the worst bout of cold-like symptoms that Id had since the start of Covid times, it was the worst cold I could remember in many years.
The test came back negative. And I was kind of pissed.
People say that Omicron covid has symptoms similar to a severe cold. Well, that sure is shit what I had. If I had to go through that I figured I may as well get some immunity out it. But noooo. I only have a commonif severecold.
Im now 18 days into this cold. My primary care doctor says to just ride it out. Sometimes cold last three weeks and hes seeing folks with colds whos coughs have lasted for 6 weeks!
Apparently I may still have to go through Omicron covid despite the shots, the booster, careful masking (Korean KF95 masks which are way better than the KN95s Id been using), avoiding crowds, close gatherings, all the soul draining shit you have to go through to be careful.
So I have this to say: If Omicron Covid is like a severe common cold, do your best to avoid it. Id forgotten just how bad a cold can be. And if Omicron Covid is worse, none of us want to go through that.
multigraincracker
(32,729 posts)Not as bad, no headache. 8 days in and feel 75% better.
Good luck, get better.
NJCher
(35,756 posts)the fall of 2019, I got one. I thought this thing would never go away. My cough was well over six weeks.
I'd like to think that hardly ever going anywhere plus having a good mask is the reason not having another one, but you did all that and still got it!
So sorry you're going through this. It sure can be miserable.
Bobstandard
(1,328 posts)I had a bad one that hung on. When I heard about Covid I and others I knew who had the same cold/flu thought wed already had it. Thats what first made me sure I didnt want to catch the real thing. Ive been a masker/distanced/contact avoider ever since
Mariana
(14,861 posts)We never had any fever with it, so we couldn't even get tested for Covid. But my cousin in another state got Covid (tested positive) at the same time, and he was a lot sicker than we were.
Tink41
(537 posts)People are testing negative multiple times both tests. Don't count it out. Those symptoms are what the Directors of Public Health are
saying to assume you have it and isolate
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)is going into hospitals, Pediatrics and urgent cares picking up specimens. A cough would grab me and I am trying to get out, bronchitis, not covid. It was something.
Finally lost the cough. But then I thought, what if it was covid. I did get checked for fever right off the bat, never had a fever, But I assumed, and I wonder after the fact if I should have assumed. Started with a lite cold and went to a long time bronchitis which is normal for me.