Originally Posted by
PreacherCain
I’m 10 days into symptoms and it’s been thoroughly unpleasant so far, like a procession of different issues. It started with aches and a temperature, plus a ludicrously runny nose. About like a bad head cold.
It progressed through days 3-6 with a worsening cough and increasing shortness of breath, still a temperature and the development of absolute, bone-crushing fatigue.
A week in, my sense of smell packed up completely. I’m nose-blind, though my tongue still works. I can distinguish tea from coffee, salt from sugar etc but that’s all. My best perception is of salty/umami flavours and acids, like citrus. Non-olfactory “flavours” like chilli heat are unaffected.
Now my temperature is normal, my cough is almost gone but climbing the stairs still feels like the North face of the Eiger. I’m smelling occasional whiffs of smoke (someone above likened it to stale cigarettes, that’s it exactly) but otherwise nothing at all. And I’ve developed tinnitus, just for a bit of variety. I’ve had it in my right ear for about two years following a head injury but it has now become bilateral and changed from a whistle type tone to something more akin to white noise. Still desperately tired as well.
TL/DR: covid is rubbish and it’s well worth trying to avoid it. I’m double jabbed but since it was AZ and second dose a good 5 months back now, I guess it was always less likely to prevent infection. Horribly easy to see how quickly the symptoms could land someone in hospital though.
Also, weirdly in view of the fact that I’m officially out of isolation tomorrow, I’m still showing a strong positive on a lateral flow test…