and then I got a kidney stone! Within the first 4 hours of being curled up in pain, full of pain meds and muscle relaxers, I began shivering and shaking like I had a fever. That lasted for a few hours, then I started coughing from phlegm in upper airway, which is extremely unusual for me. For three days while I was medicated to the rafters for the kidney pain, I also coughed, was extremely dehydrated while pounding water and had a lot of post-nasal drip. Any other symptoms were masked by the meds. Those cold-like symptoms were gone after 3 days.
It took an additional 5 or 6 days for the stone to pass. I’ve been incredibly weak with no stamina and almost complete loss of appetite ever since, although very, very slooooooowly getting better. It didn’t even occur to me that I might have had Covid until I didn’t bounce back from the stone passing. (I had a whole litter of the little buggers in both kidneys a decade ago and didn’t have this reaction.)
All this started 3 weeks ago. My doctors agree that it might have been a breakthrough infection, in part because the whole kidney stone + pain/medication cycle could have suppressed my immune system enough to make me more susceptible, but there’s no way to tell at this late date. The worry is that I’ve now got Long Covid! 
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