Yerg wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:22 pm Symptom Update: The onset of a progressively worse cough and painful chest is surprisingly rapid. In approximately 12 hours it's gone from an annoying tickly cough to a full-on chesty hack. Chest feels tighter than normal and I can 'hear' my breathing, if that makes any sense? The runny nose has gone, but replaced with a mild rise in temperature. The back discomfort remains, but hasn't worsened. I can not begin to describe how bland the world is when you can not taste or smell anything. Morning coffee tastes like... hot water, so far as I can tell...

I have been where you are. Surely you were informed of what lies ahead, or at least given some literature?

You did mention that you were in and out in minutes.

I gather you are on Day 2 or 3 of symptoms (testing positive). Correct me if I am wrong, because a few days makes a difference.

At day 3, I actually thought I had brushed off a strong cold, or mild flu (I don't do doctors).

Oh, how wrong I was.

"Batten down the hatches. All hands on deck!

Flossy-few-pants; there's a shopping list for you at reception. Margarine (I don't remember names well); there's a pharmacy list at reception. $10 tip, minus $1 for every 2 minutes over 40 minutes it takes you to report back here (written in khmer)".

Stocked up, I waited. Bring it on, you slimy coward parasite, picking-on-the-vulnerable, Mother-fucker! If you can beat me, you'll know you've been in a fight!

Days 5 through 10 are telling. Wake up, drink, eat (appetite never lost, and while I didn't mind starving the dirty oyster-producing germ within, I also wanted nutritional strength to smack the cunt whenever it reared its ugly head), and back to sleep. While you need sleep (and it kills the time), lying down aint good - yet another catch 22! - but lying on your side or, preferably, belly (another should I, shouldn't I) opens up your lung capacity, as your heart and stomach are no longer pressing down on your lungs. Your lungs' air sacks are no longer obstructed from full inflation.

Weird dreams, possibly not, simply remembered, after short naps.

Getting the room temperature right is tricky. Don't wanna be cold and there's is no evidence to say sweating it out works - only proof that sweating out fluids makes things worse - so I adjusted the a/c regularly. Humidifier would be good. Maybe anti-

I beat that thing up every waking hour with zinc, B12 paracetamol, phenylephrine HCI, chloro-something, ibuprofen, unpronouncables... Didn't try remdesivir and don't recommend you follow my actions because everyone is different. Also timing the taking of said meds should be accounted for e.g. Mg is a sedative, so night (or whnever you sleep) time, and others don't get along well. You will have plenty of time to research (experiment, in my case).
When I say "waking hour", that is pretty much what it is in the thick of it, without meds.

The lower back was the bastard!

Anyway, I chose to relieve the aches and other symptoms with meds combined with Magnesium and Zinc and B12 and nutritious food.

I am 58.

Yerg wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:55 am Symptom update. Taste and smell have gone, Sunday lunch ruined as I couldn’t smell or taste it.

And an ache in the lower back. Best described as uncomfortable rather than painful.

Also learned today that two more of my colleagues at work both tested positive today.

I had it a few months ago, total 100% loss of smell and taste, it's very strange. I had no no other symptoms orher than what I thought was a mild hangover. It returned in 3 days.

Get well soon mate.