So I had a "mystery respiratory virus" at Christmas, obviously not diagnosed as covid, but had it been 3 months later then no doubt it would have been.
Uncontrollable temperature, even with paracetamol and ibuprofen, literally laying in a puddle of sweat while shivering.
Throat felt like it was full of barbed wire. Cough like you wouldn't believe, non-productive, hacking, wheezing.
Heart rate through the roof.
Barely able to crawl from bed to toilet.
If I wasn't coughing I was sleeping.
Unable to eat, couldn't taste the food anyway, not even chocolate.
At one point I was drifting in and out of consciousness, hallucinating and my partner was on the point of calling an ambulance.
This was not the flu, I've had the flu and this was a hundred times worse.
Took me around a week to be able to get out of bed and join the family. But much much longer to start regaining fitness. I reckon by the start of lockdown I was about 90% back (so 3 months), with a bad day maybe once a week when I had to fight through to get close to what I was doing.
Now 9months later I still have days where I just want to sleep, I used to train 7 days a week, no way I could do that now. I occasionally wake up with a sore throat, which is then followed by a pounding headache. I'm still using an inhaler, after not having needed one for 3 years. My psoriasis has randomly reappeared.
So does this sound familiar???