My personal experience with having and recovering from Covid- 19
I experienced the most alarming symptom I ever had, and the sudden onset almost panicked me. It was very, very strange, when the results came back I was very surprised. I wasn’t sure of the best way to recover, but it’s been going alright so far.
I would ask you to remember that I am not a doctor I am not a medical doctor in any way an expert, I have only had coronavirus and I am only sharing it with what happened to me personally, so of course, it’s very different for everyone has their own different experiences with this disease and some people have it very often when I had it and I was I would probably consider myself very lucky to have the milder version but only because it was considered mild. Well, I’ll get into the details.
Day one
I am not sure what the medical definition is now, but for this article. I am calling my experience with it mild because I did not need any outside medical help or hospitalization or anything like that. Thank goodness I was very, very lucky. So I do not know if that’s the actual definition, maybe someone with a little more medical training can explain the difference between mild and moderate or whatever. I was so sick, but I did not need medical treatment, so I’ll call what I went through in class.
I will try to break down my symptoms as best I can, because I will tell you what one of the symptoms was. Let me know, if you had the coronavirus, it was a complete brain fog that made me look like a genius because the brain fog was real, it was a real struggle, so fingers crossed this is pretty accurate, but with the brain fog, I would call day one.
I do not know if it was the day before it started, but it was the day I first noticed something. I was fine most of the day, but you know in the winter everyone has a weak spot that gets hit by bugs and other things, and that was my neck. It was scratchy and I did not feel quite right, not sick, but just not quite right and I thought I had a cold or something, maybe the start of tonsillitis, I mean we were at home so I got the coronavirus. The government wants you to get tested if you have these symptoms. These are not all the symptoms you can get with the chromium virus. They are the three we were supposed to get tested for back then when we had a high fever, persistent cough, and loss of sense of taste or smell… I did not have any of those symptoms back then.
Day two
I coughed during the night, and when I got up in the morning I thought I must take a temperature. The other thing that happened was when I got up in the morning. When I got up I felt so restless, my throat hurt, I felt lethargic, I ached all over like I had the flu. A lot of people say they have the flu, but the flu is not a bad cold, the flu is when everything hurts, even your hair hurts. After a few hours, I was just feeling awful I also felt sick. I did not feel well and the brain fog set in on the second day. So I do not know if the second day was the first day I felt sick, but the first day was maybe something like the first day minus one, I do not know, day zero was the first day I felt a twinge of not feeling quite as well. So I had a Covid test done.
Day three
I was much the same as day two feverish achy headache brain fog feel rubbish so on.
Day four
My fever had gone down, but somehow I felt worse, so no fever anymore, but I just felt achier, I had kind of random stabbing pains like my arm would throb, and then all of a sudden my chin would kill me and just random stabbing pains that throbbed all over my body. I had no energy at all and felt pretty gross, but interestingly enough my throat was still very sore. I did not have any form of cough, I was short of breath and when I would go up the stairs or something because I was short of breath I would cough, but I did not have a cough because when I used to have a cough you would wake up and cough all the time. I did not have that at any point, my cough was more triggered by the shortness of breath. That makes sense, because on the fifth day I felt similar to the fourth day, except I felt terrible.
Day five
It was the worst, and if I am honest, it probably did not get massively worse on the fifth day. I’d say the fourth and fifth days were pretty similar, but I felt awful, I had a throbbing, pounding headache that I could not get rid of, and it was like trudging through mud.
Stomping mud when I tried to move.
Day six
On the sixth day, I noticed that my sense of smell was failing. I would not say I lost my sense of smell at any point, I mean, I have heard reports from people I know who said, yeah, I drank vinegar and I could not taste it, but I never got that far, I just noticed that I could not really smell certain smells anymore and I could smell other things, and some things had just diminished a little bit.
Day seven
On the evening of the seventh day, I would say that I experienced the most disturbing symptom that I ever had and that it occurred so suddenly that I almost panicked. It was very, very strange, it was all of a sudden, it was evening, and it was like I suddenly had nasal bleach, like the inside of my nose had been burned with chemicals, all over my nose and my airways. It was so weird, and it happened so fast that I felt like I could not breathe, and I almost panicked. I do not tend to have panic attacks, but I got panicky and was like, “Oh, I need fresh air,” so I had to go stand by a cold window and open it just to feel air rush into my nose. It was so weird and uncomfortable what I did, I do not know if you are supposed to do that, I put Vicks on my chest, I thought that would open up my airways, I do not know if that worked or if it was just a placebo, but it was so weird, so uncomfortable and very sudden, I guess the closest thing would be like water suddenly washing up, like rolling over in a swimming pool, something like that, but nothing It was just awful, but what a weird symptom. And the only symptom that I experienced from the covert treatment is that it was almost like one illness ended and another began. So it was not like you gradually get sicker and then the symptoms subside and then you get better, but it was like this ended and now this and it’s just really weird.
Day eight
I finally felt a little better, not just different symptoms, but finally an improvement. I felt anything but good, but day eight was probably the first day I felt like I saw any real improvement.
Day nine
I felt like I was on the mend. I was completely exhausted and could not shake the headache. The headache dragged on, but at least I felt like I was on the mend.
From the tenth to the fourteenth day
I have recovered, it was just the shortness of breath that took its toll for a long time, and the really bad headache, and the fatigue that was still there, but the fever is long gone, and the aches and pains are thankfully gone all over my body.
Day fifteenth
I felt much more human, probably the way I feel now. The hardest part about recovery is that I always think I am fine, and then I kind of overexert myself and I am short of breath again.
How I recovering from Covid
Even though I did not want to believe it, I knew I had Covid-19. My illness got worse. I had a high fever, shortness of breath, and loss of taste. However, I remain calm because I prepared in advance and firmly believe that I will win the epidemic. I took my blood oxygen level and took my temperature with a thermometer I had prepared in advance.
Every time I have had trouble breathing, I have tried to fight myself, to find a way to practice breathing. Whenever I have trouble breathing, I lie down on my stomach, put a pillow under my chest, and stretch out my arms and legs. In this position, I find it easier to breathe and the oxygen level in my blood increases. Once I am on my stomach, I lie back on my side.
To calm my mind, relax and forget that I am infected with Covid-19, I practice piano, draw pictures, listen to a lot of music, and even sing more. I think singing helps me feel if my throat hurts or not, and feel if my lungs and chest are okay. And more importantly, singing helps keep the mind cheerful and optimistic. Of course, there are days with severe symptoms, I have sneezing, coughing and chest tightness, constant shortness of breath. I stop my activities, pour myself a glass of water, and sit quietly, listening to music, reading the news, and practicing breathing slowly. This feeling is very scary and uncomfortable, but it takes a lot of rest to overcome it. When I see someone having trouble breathing, I get scared and cry, which makes it even harder for me to breathe.
I hope everyone unfortunate enough to have contracted this virus stays calm and confident and does not panic. All activities are still normal, just pay more attention to eating, drinking, exercising, and taking medications as prescribed. And remember to keep your mind relaxed, smile a lot, and do what you like to have more positive energy.
