Monday, December 25, 2023

sequence of covid 19 symptoms

Sunday afternoon around 2:15 pm, 7th August, felt sore throat while talking to a friend .

Had bearable headaches on various sides of head on Saturday night and Sunday.
Specifically on the right side of head and top of the head. Did not took any medicine to suppress headache. It more felt like a headache after hangover.

Monday morning, went to office. Sore throat was still there and no fever. Decided to take paracetamol after lunch just to feel better in office and continue with office work though there was no fever.

Monday afternoon, had diarrhea, passed watery stool 2 times while in office.

Returned home at 9 pm . Had a feeling that fever is about to come . Fever came around 10 pm . Slept with no fan , Air-con . Took a light blanket. Fever was gone by 3 am, Tuesday, morning. Felt better by now.

phlegm started coming out .  coughing, sneezing kept coming in less numbers approximately once in 2-3 hrs. 
Chest pain kept coming and going in intervals of 2-3 hrs.
This continued till Tuesday night.
On Tuesday 11:00 pm , did ART test for COVID-19 which turned out to be positive .
Fever has not come back.
Tomorrow morning, will go to Doctor's clinic .

Updating the blog at 11:40 AM Wednesday, morning.Got a queue number for doctor's visit around 3:30 pm.
Now , occasionally getting a feeling of vomiting. Also, there is no desire to eat food.
As of now, main symptoms are chest pressure, occasionally coughing and feeling of vomiting.
At one moment, I feel better but another, I feel worst and feel like going to emergency .
Even at emergency, there will be long queue. So, will wait till 3:30 pm.

One major difference I felt between worst form of flu and COVID-19 is that flu comes and goes suddenly. Usually, a flu will show its worst form in 1-2 days and will recover fast. On the other hand, COVID-19 builds up slowly and doesn't go off that fast. 

Today is the fifth day of infection for me. 6th August was first day of infection and today is 10th August.
One more thing to share is that color of phlegm doesn't remains same all the times. Sometimes, it is white, sometimes it is off-white and sometimes yellow. 
 
Today is 15th August . There is no chest pain and fever. There is a little pressure in the chest . There is moderate cough . Phlegm keeps coming in moderate quantity.
Looks like this is going to continue for several days .
Covid-19 is more like a slow flu .

Today is 30th August,
I had tested negative within 14 days of infection.
Even today, I get bout of cough all of a sudden . It's not so often but it's like once in 2 days. Little phlegm comes out like once in a day.
Overall, I am feeling much better and hope that the cough will be completely gone in another one month.