Weekly "I Think I Have It" Thread - Week of April 05, 2020

11ish days ago i woke up in the middle of the night with stomach cramps, and i had to run to the bathroom with diarrhea. that was odd. diarrhea lasted a couple of days without other symptoms.

then i started getting bad pains in my quads/shins for 2 more days that i chalked up to walking around my neighborhood. the third day, the pain started radiating through the rest of my body and my whole body/face turned red and i was quite feverish. i couldn't get my hands on a thermometer, so idk what my temp actually was. didn't move from the couch for a couple of days.

around this time, i woke up with one nostril plugged and i couldn't smell or taste much for a couple of days, but it came back quickly (and was never 100% gone). somewhere in there, i developed a headache that lasted 3 days, and it finally went away a couple of hours ago. i occasionally get a slight cough, or a weird tickley/dried/burning feeling in my sinuses/chest, and i have been sleeping poorly, feeling hot at night, waking up feeling hot and congested.

last night, i could hear my chest making a sound upon exhaling if i turned my head a certain way (weird, i know). it's not doing it anymore, so i'm not worried.

now i'm really thirsty despite the fact that i've been drinking a lot of water. i'm still quite fatigued, and i occasionally get a little short of breath, or my heart beats quickly when i get up to so something

i had a telephone appointment with a doctor, and she said it could be covid, but a mild case. she said i could get tested if my symptoms got worse... but they haven't seemed bad enough for me to risk infecting others/getting infected myself.

i haven't gone anywhere other than a walk around my neighborhood in over three weeks. i've been getting groceries delivered, so i haven't even done that. when i did get groceries, i quarantined the cardboard stuff for 5 days, wiped down all jars and cans with 70% rubbing alcohol, let them sit outside for a day, then brought them in and washed them with soap and water. i didn't sanitize the frozen stuff, but i made sure not to use it for 4 days. so basically, regardless of what i have, i don't know how tf i got it.

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