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I've been wondering since the outbreak was official what the strange infection may have been that I had in October/November. This seems much too early for COVID-19 (in Britain), and I have so far assumed that as I didn't have any breathing difficulties that it couldn't have been COVID. The main symptoms were a dreadful cough, a feeling of being ill that I haven't had before (hard to describe), headaches, and that it seemed to get better and worse, over about 3 1/2 weeks in total. It wasn't too debilitating, just very unpleasant.
Same. Early December. Only thing I've had that I can remember in adulthood that I couldn't get out of bed from. Main event lasted 2-3 days, but it lingered for a week beforehand, then two weeks afterwards. Wrote off my Dec.
One of the flats in our block of eight was being used as an airbnb hotel for Chinese tourists.
That said, it briefly made life miserable for our then 2 yr old. Wife deftly avoided it, or had no symptoms.
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I had similar in January. The dry cough was persistent for me, irritatingly worse in the evening and moreso annoying for my partner who was being kept awake by it until I eventually slept.
I had one day in bed then straight back at work and for weeks I would get leg muscle ache like instant DOMS, pretty much everything was a big effort especially my commute ride. Then there was the shortness of breath/wheezing, and dizziness/brain fog/numbness, of which I'm still getting mild occasional bouts of dizzy & wheezy.
Stairs were a problem to climb some days, even into March, although all of this was intermittent -some days I felt fine.
It is hard to think it could've been Covid as it was too early really, and I reckon most likely it was another nasty but not life threatening seasonal virus doing the rounds. If Covid then given the level of spread needed to have reached me the death curve here would've been lockdown worthy back in January surely?
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This is also an interesting tale of virus experience:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/weird-hell-professor-advent-calendar-covid-19-symptoms-paul-garner
I've been wondering since the outbreak was official what the strange infection may have been that I had in October/November. This seems much too early for COVID-19 (in Britain), and I have so far assumed that as I didn't have any breathing difficulties that it couldn't have been COVID. The main symptoms were a dreadful cough, a feeling of being ill that I haven't had before (hard to describe), headaches, and that it seemed to get better and worse, over about 3 1/2 weeks in total. It wasn't too debilitating, just very unpleasant. Reading the above makes me think that either the people describing it had something else like me or I may have had it. But so early? I can well imagine that I may have come into contact with an international traveller who already had it, but I don't know. That's one reason why I've been interested in finding out whether the virus may have been here much earlier than believed so far. Having said that, the way Paul Garner experienced it was clearly far worse than what I had, and it may well have been just another conventional infection with similar symptoms. I suppose I won't know until/if I get 'it' for real.