So Just How Long Do Symptoms Last?

I got exposed a week ago (Christmas Day) I think, started feeling bad (like flu) Tuesday of last week. I had a negative test the Friday before Christmas. I've been coughing up crud, blowing gunk from my nose, ache all over, lack of appetite, and feeling just crappy since about 12/28. I started IVM on the day I started feeling bad, took 3 days 2x doses, skipped 2 days and resumed, ben taking tylenol and advil 2X/day for 8 days, upped water intake, on K2/D3/Vit B complex, and haven't noticed any improvement. Fortunately, I haven't lost taste or sense of smell. I've researched all over and can't really find a reliable time period for improvement to start. I'm hoping by Sunday to be feeling at least a bit better.

Anyone got any numbers on how long this crud sticks around?? Symptom improvement progression? Enough already! I have an appointment with my PCP Thursday afternoon.

 

If it lasts more than about 10 days, it's likely not china virus.
Sounds like one of those all too typical worse than covid colds.
What surprised me with the china virus is that I wasn't very stuffed up, what I did cough up was like water. If that watery stuff goes down into your lungs and stays there, it's going to suck. Had a runny nose, but not a plugged uo nose which I guess helps spread the virus. It was a very unusual, moderately annoying, average cold. I didn't have body aches that much, I actually wanted to do stuff but my energy was zaped even after taking a nice hit of anabolic steroids.

 

It found my sister just before thanksgiving. She was basically unable to function for 3 weeks. Still here in the middle of January, she can't go up a flight of stairs without being completely spent. Her husband had a cough and body aches for a little less than a week. The nieces, just couldn't smell anything as their only symptom.

Individuals all have different reactions / symptoms to this one.

 

Based on the symptoms described, I had what sounds like what you're having all through December. Caught it from the Mrs. who caught it from the grand kids. She was tested as negative CV19, I was not tested. It took 40 days of what is called an Upper Respiratory Infection (Flu) before I considered myself fully recovered (still with an occasional cough). The illness has a lot of similarity to CV19. It attacks the body by manifesting symptoms in different parts of the body in stages.

Started off with slight headache, scratchy throat, body aches, and lack of energy. Then after a couple days of that, I lost my voice for the next 8 days as the illness migrated to the coughing and phlegm / mucus stage. As the voice slowly returned, the coughing and mucus gakk spitting became the main symptoms. The third and final major stage was the return of headaches, but focused on the sinuses. The coughing fits slowly get better, but tend to linger as one of the last symptoms to fade away. That's why I used the 40th day as the marker of recovery to normal.

During most of this debacle, I used Day-Quil, Ny-Quil, Robitussin, Aspirin, and Ibuprofen in rotation as needed to relieve severity of symptoms (also to rotate away from the Tylenol in Day-Quil & Ny-Quil). Also, took the usual immunity vitamins (C, D3, Zinc, Quercetin, multi-vitamin), and in a precautionary move, 9 doses of IVM horse paste over the toughest 9 days of the 40 total days. It actually helped in the minimizing of symptom severity, so maybe it was CV19, or maybe IVM has anti-viral and anti-bacterial effects that help with the Flu-like symptoms.

The reason I say that is that a brother-in-law who visited for the Christmas festivities for a few days left here with the same symptoms of illness, and was tested positive for CV19 at his home state. He is now in Day 23 of his recovery. His diagnosis was too late for monoclonal antibodies (Day 11), but they did provide I.V. hydration, prescribe a cough syrup with codeine, an albuterol inhaler, and advised him to take his immunity vitamins with lots of hydration. He's over the worst of it, still coughing some, and the phlegm is about gone. However, he is still lacking his usual energy levels. Maybe he had a Flu like we had, but got a false CV19 positive test.

Whatever I had, it was the worst loss of voice and associated coughing I have ever experienced. Also, the symptoms remained with me far longer than usual, though I'm in good health with no co-morbidities.

 

Exposed 1/3 (was wearing full PPE) symptoms started 1/8, tested 1/10. Today the 13th I have to mild cough and a little congestion cleared to work next Tuesday

 

my daughter in law (teacher) started running a fever on Friday night gave hereself a covid test + waited a few hours repeat + within 3-4 days she was felling fine but on day 6 lost her sense of taste. My son who kissed her slept with her prior never got anything and tested - luck of the draw both were vaccinated.

 

A big problem with the public/government fixation on Covid is that other flues and common cold are going ignored. I haven't had a flu type illness since 1999, and am taking the immune system supplements and monthly IVM dose. So far, no crud.

 

I woke up ,, barely, the Monday before Thanksgiving,,, feeling like total crap. The day before,, a Sunday, I was perfectly fine ,, worked all day , that evening I got like a hair in my throat that I kept coughing just trying to get it out ,, not saying it was an actual hair. But your symptoms sound exactly like mine. For the 1st 3-4 days ,, I did nothing but sleep, piss , and a few sips of water. And hacked up crap from my lungs for a month ,, still do now occasionally. I never got tested till the Tuesday before Christmas,, and I was Cov. Positive. Energy level was absolutely gone . Just barely had the energy to stand in front of the pisser . If it's the same stuff I had ,, it'll last at least a month and a half,, and you'll still be trying to regain energy level. By the time I tested Positive,, I was 80% better than when it started .
Good luck brother,, it's no fun .
They say that that what doesn't kill you , makes you stronger ,,, but I'm not really feeling any stronger from that crud ,, whatever it was ,,, it's still lingering a little. Hang in there .

 

So covid is not going away. The vaccine is shit. Everyone going to get covid eventually.
The old belief that " you can't make a vaccine for the common cold because it mutates too much too fast" appears to hold true to covid too, since it's pretty much just a cold.

 

My apologies to Paul Simon…



When I think back to all the crap I learned in high school

It’s a wonder I can think at all

And all the propaganda they taught me

To ignore the writing on the wall


Omicron, give me a nice high fever

Give me lots of snot

Give me a cough that drains my energy away, oh yeah

I got a bad headache

I just want to lay in bed

So mamma, don’t get my omicron today


If you took all the girls I knew when I was single

And brought them all together for one night

I wonder how many were vaccinated

And if they wore their masks all the time…


Omicron, give me a nice high fever

Give me lots of snot

Give me a cough that drains my energy away, oh yeah

I got a bad headache

I just want to lay in bed

So mamma, don’t get my omicron today

 

My son had covid months ago. He was better after about a week but the lack of smell and stuffy nose hung on for weeks. Then at Christmas time I had something that describes like mild Omicron; 5 days later my son got inflamed toes. Folks say he has covid toes that happens to the youth because their immune system goes into overdrive.

This is the strangest virus, each person seems to have their own journey with it.

 

Yea because this was made in a Chicom lab-- it's not natural and our immune system wasn't designed for this man made virus. That was the whole point get the populous sick and they can't fight back. This was a Chicom dry run god only knows what they have developed we don't know about

 

Due to the symptoms, I have to wonder if it goes to the brain.
The reason is, all the neurological disorders it seems to affect.
A year later I am still having weird side effects that have no other explanation.
The loss of smell and taste came and went but things now bothering me are numbness in odd places and
a short circuit of feelings here and there in my body as well as that sensation of being touched or pinched in odd places, not joint or tendon pain. I had been a very active person most of my life, even a care giver to an over weight person for a few years, but my strength is less than I m accustomed to and have to relearn my limitations. I'm 71, but I was doing pretty well before coved.
I stretch every day sometimes all day long and the feeling of pulled tendons in certain areas plagues me still. I talk to others that are having odd experiences as well having had coved, so for the most part it is not going away any time soon.

 

Who knew the Chicoms developed the 1918 Spanish Flu world pandemic in a Chicom lab??? Perhaps IT was the dry run, that the present Covid-19 pandemic was designed to become.

 

On average with Delta day 5-7 seems to be the worst. Omnicron it seems to be Day 3 with a quicker recovery.

 

I too wonder. Especially those that had O2 saturation issues. Could reduced blood oxygen levels lead to complications?
Kinda like losing cabin pressure at 25K feet but slowly causing Hypoxia.

 

I had a real bad sickness in 2019 Nov-Dec as @Capt. Tyree explained above.
I was at a USAF Base in WA State where a few transport planes came in .
Many men were sick and under-nursed coming back , when I got back to Kanukland it hit with full force.
By 2020 Summer it was 90-95 % better, now if im around the VAXED , it will drain me and i feel weird , need to go out in the woods away from all the electrical noise and I return .
Sloth

 

I had a girl tell me blood oxygen levels plays a part in covid ,, don't know much about it ,, but she suggested I get one of them little finger clip oxygen / heart rate things, I did ,, and my oxygen level would vary from day to day ,, and sometimes hour to hour back in my late 3rd week of it . I have found that if I'm feeling a little puny ,, I'll test it ,, and my oxygen level is usually a little low at them times.

 

Thanks for all the info. I have a pulse ox meter and have been using it often. Blood ox hits a low of 78 sometimes...fortunately I have an o2 machine from way back I can tap into. That gets me back to mid 90s. I have been using it regularly. I also sleep using a CPAP and have it hooked up to the ox machine. I have a PCP appointment tomorrow afterwards, so should get another covid test and results. Felt some better today.

 

Med advice here is seek hospital if O2 gets to 90% with a +ve C19 case.