Still not 100% sure it was corona (as I was denied a test due to them not being publicly available, UK early/mid March)
I have moderate asthma and caught a cold about a month before that had just hit my chest. I recovered from that two weeks before I got sick. The worst fatigue of my life suddenly came over me. I had had bouts of fatigue before due to deficiencies in B12 but this was unbearable. I couldn't do anything. This was before the UK locked down and social distancing hadn't been introduced yet (or it had only days before)
I went home and just slept. I woke up and it felt like I was drowning in air. I presume I had a fever since I still felt cold wrapped in a duvet and a thick fleece blanket. Taste and smell disappeared but that wasn't an official symptom yet so I didn't think much of it. Eating was really hard.
Sometimes my breathing oddly felt OK, not as it should be but closer to my 'normal' when I have a cold with asthma. Other times it would randomly get worse, I'd be sat down panting and struggling to breathe out of nowhere. My chest began to make a popping/cracking sound when I breathed in and it hurt. This was mostly from the back
I still attended online uni and my lecturers were concerned for me. I made no sense I couldn't remember anything and I looked awful. I remember making one of my flatmates feel my heart beat because I was having stupidly fast palpitations and I started to feel very unwell.
Seemingly a week later I recovered. Quicker than my other flatmates who had it at the same time.
Suddenly about 1-2 weeks later I was suddenly bedridden again. Fatigue, unable to breathe, and now I'm suddenly getting headrush whenever I stand. My vision disappears occasionally collapsing from it but usually just feeling near fainting. I called 111 for advice because of my breathing. The chest cracking sounded worse and my breathing sounded crackly. I couldn't really talk because I just had no air and inhalers didn't do anything to help. 111 said the line was too crackly and hung up on me. That was my lungs.
Towards the end of the day around evening time it seemed to recover. I felt dreadful. No one else who got sick with me had this second wave.
Its been 6 months, I still experience fatigue. I still become dizzy, my breathing is worse and sometimes my chest still pops. I get shortness of breath from very weird things. I still consider myself healthy physically because I can still go on long walks and up hills generally as I was before. I've never been someone who runs since it sets off asthma. Sometimes I get palpitations but that could just be triggered by my inhaler. Since its only for a few mins after I've taken it. For a long time I still couldn't taste or smell that's slowly returned a bit though food still tastes a bit bland and sometimes feels like I'm just eating texture. The scary thing is my breathing hasn't fully recovered. I think its partially why I get a bit dizzy because during that I feel a bit breathless.