I recovered from covid

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[–]Rah 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

You had a flu.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The main reason I knew it wasn't the flu was because it had the same symptom as the original and delta, a symptom which no flu has ever given me before... extreme fatigue and exhaustion upon standing and moving, for weeks after all the other symptoms had cleared up. Like if I was sitting I was 100% fine, but when I stood up to move and do stuff I would immediately feel absolutely exhausted and wrecked after the mildest of physical activities. Like I need a 30 minute sit after walking across the house. No flu or cold ever felt fine in one posture and then terrible in another posture. That was the telltale sign it was covid for me.

Also my friend who also got it and gave it to me tested positive for covid, for whatever that's worth. As did his friend who gave it to him (who also got over it in 3-4 days).

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

You had alpha and delta and omicron? Dude.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yup. Shit sucked. My immune system has never been very good.

I was considering going to the hospital for alpha in late Dec 2019, before covid was even a known thing. It was pretty bad. Delta was 50% as bad. And omicron was like 10% as bad.

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I had alpha and delta. So far. I had the same experience as you on the first two. March/April 2020 I had alpha and it was very bad. A year later I got delta and it was very much like yours. Half as bad, maybe less than half. I certainly wasn't coughing my lungs out for 3 weeks. I am hoping to avoid omicron but it looks very widespread at this point.