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It was not a cold. Nor was a cold the most likely scenario. I've had plenty of colds. I felt okay in the morning and was in bed shivering by dinner time. My
by jp57 7y ago
It was not a cold. Nor was a cold the most likely scenario. I've had plenty of colds.
I felt okay in the morning and was in bed shivering by dinner time. My wife reported body aches. They are not typical for me even with flu, but I was on ibuprofen almost the entire time anyway. I had a fever for four days, and felt unbearably horrible as soon as the ibuprofen would start to wear off.
There was nothing "rhino" about this virus. None of us had any nasal congestion.
If my wife hadn't started to feel somewhat better when she did, I would have taken her to the hospital for pneumonia. But it's lucky that she did start to feel better when she did because almost as soon as she was up I was down. Still, even through the next week or so when she was up and moving around again she said she never really felt like she was breathing quite right.
The cough was different than any cough I've had before. Since my nose and sinuses were clear, there was no drainage from my nose and sinuses into my chest. It was all originating in my chest.