I had shortness of breath on 4/1 so I went to Urgent Care and got a Rona test. I had no other symptoms but shortness of breath and fatigue. So uncomfortable. I thought the doctor was going to shove that stick to my brain! I tested negative, it was just my asthma and allergies.
But check this out, I think I had the Rona in January. I thought I had a really bad flu and urgent care (it’s 2 minutes from my house and efficiently run by Carbon Health) gave me a breathing treatment, Tylenol, a scrip for Tamiflu and information about how to treat the flu. When I went online to check my Rona test results I went and looked up my labs from 1/20 and I tested negative for flu A and B.
I had all the Rona symptoms, very high fever for 5 days, a cough, couldn’t breathe, headaches, no taste, no appetite, sore throat, vomiting, diahrrea and extreme fatigue. I didn’t have these symptoms all at once, they appeared and disappeared and reappeared in the span of two weeks. I went to ER on day 6 because I couldn’t breathe. (I scared my husband to death when I started crying because I couldn’t breathe. I was really scared) They x-rayed my lungs for pneumonia, shot me up with a lot of steroids, gave me oxygen and some breathing treatments. I stayed overnight on oxygen and left the next day when my oxygen levels were up and stable. They told me to get a pulse oximeter and monitor my oxygen levels. I had to go back on day 9 cuz my oxygen levels were low again and I couldn’t breathe again and they kept me for 2 days on oxygen. More steroids and breathing treatments. They said my lungs were really inflamed but I didn’t have pneumonia. I thought it just was my asthma. The Tamiflu didn’t do anything, it mocked me. My husband got sick after me but he was only sick for 5 days. Low grade fever, headaches and diarrhea were his symptoms. If that wasn’t a flu then what was it? Was it just some odd strain of flu? I’m really interested in getting an antibody test to confirm my suspicions.