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UltimaterializerX posted...

Wait, you had it?

How did things go?

I gave a kind of running diary in this topic (probably a previous topic) when I had it but it can be summised up as like 2-3 days for really shitty symptoms and then like 7-10 days of just annoyance.

Day 1 - Symptoms were just mild Muscle/Joint ache (Deduced after this was likely the virus)
Day 2 - Sore Throat, Dry Cough, Muscle/Joint Ache, Headache, Tiredness
Day 3 - All the above plus Fever/Chills, some difficulty breathing,
Day 4 - All the above but starting to reduce in severity with chest pain now thrown into the mix
Day 5 - Most of the above subsided or was minor. Basically just mild congestion and felt like my ribs were bruised
Day 6 to like 12 - Just on/off minor irritations like congestion, infrequent cough, mild chest pain that reduced in persistance

After Day 12 I just had on and off chest pains which disappeared after the 18-19 day mark. Today would be I think 25 or 26 days after symptoms first showed up. I actually still have a bit of a flemmy throat and that hasn't gone away since the beginning.

One thing I cannot stress enough is that the muscle/joint pains I had late Day 2 and early Day 3 are the worst muscle/joint pains I have ever had in my life and nothing comes close to it. I don't typically take medicine unless absolutely necessary but I was chugging painkillers for that.

But on the whole it just like 2-3 days of feeling really bad and then like a week plus of feeling run down / being inconvenienced. The worst part for me was having to keep away from my elderly cat (who is ridiculously attached to me) because I was terrified of her catching it. I slept on a camping bed out of the way for 2 weeks before moving back to the bedroom with her and the missus.