Work up Saturday morning with what I assumed was a bit of a hangover from half a bottle of wine the night before. Aching body but I’d been exercising so thought nothing of it.
By lunchtime it was clear it was some sort of virus, throat felt raw and sore and by evening I was coughing and sweating and feeling nauseous.
Since then I’ve had a constant throbbing headache that paracetamol/ibuprofen doesn’t quite get rid of, wheezing and coughing (I am a bit asthmatic anyway) and I am sweating all the time, despite having a normal temperature. I can get out of bed long enough to make a light meal but am completely exhausted and have to lie straight back down again afterwards. appetite is shot anyway.
I have had a flu jab so I wonder if this is a milder version of flu- a doctor once told me that you know you have flu if someone put £10k on a table across the room and said you could have it if you could go and get it. I’m not that bad! And no fever. But my nose isn’t blocked so this doesn’t feel like a standard “bad cold”.
I figured that it was just a case of rest and wait, but I’m on day 5 now and my head hurts as much as it did on day 1. I’ve got work to do and need to get back to sharing school run and all the other parenting stuff with my poor husband, who has been doing it all.
Covid test was negative.
Not sure what I am hoping to achieve from this post really-similar experiences I guess?