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Had a very weird sore throat for ages which didn’t feel like a regular sore throat
I had this and I'm now as sure as I can be (without being tested) that I had Covid-19*, plus from your description of your chest it sounds like it could be the virus.
However, if you're still cycling 70-100 miles a week I doubt it. I went from riding 85 miles one weekend to barely able to walk down the road the next. How are you feeling now?
*I work closely with our international and global engagement offices at work (who normally do LOTS of flying around the world) and, unsurprisingly, it turns out the virus has been rampant in those teams.
There was a weekend workshop on the weekend I first started getting symptoms other than fatigue (14/15th March) and six of the nine people who went got it, despite precautions being taken. The person who I thought had it and I think gave it to me has had persistent lung problems since and had to go onto steroids. She's been told by the doctors that they're pretty certain she had it, and if she was presenting with the symptoms she had now she'd be tested.
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Sorry, I missed this earlier. I’m working from home so not getting the usual commute in. I went out on a few short 20-25 mile ‘exercise’ rides without feeling much strain on the lungs. Next day my lungs felt better than they did before the ride, so I assumed it was them not getting the workout they usually do. If I’ve had it, it must have been a very, very mild dose. I’m mildly asthmatic so would have expected to feel it fairly obviously. Symptoms were rather weird though, not like the usual cough I get post-sniffle. Just very low level chest issues and the strange sore throat. No fever, no tiredness (though I have young kids so that’s my permanent state). Glad you’re getting better.
Tonts
Had a very weird sore throat for ages which didn’t feel like a regular sore throat and the same dry, slightly tight chest with no persistent cough. I decided the sore throat was due to having to do so much more talking working from home and decided the chest was cos I’m not cycling 70-100 miles per week commute.
No fever though.