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My Experience With COVID-19 - Acute Phase Symptoms

In March 2020 I got sick with COVID-19, with what could be described as a "moderate" case, worse than a mild case but less severe than a severe case and not requiring hospitalization. I talk about my symptoms during the acute phase of the illness, with an emphasis on how my experience differed from prior experiences with flu, and from the published materials of the CDC and other medical bodies. My main symptom was breathing problems and shortness of breath, which were severe enough that at one point I went into the ER, but I was sent home without any treatment and told to home-treat. I definitively did not have the two most commonly-publicized symptoms of fever and dry cough; initially I did not even have any cough. My other symptoms included muscle pain, especially around the torso, that was at one point so severe it felt like I had been used as a punching bag. My breathing was also painful at times. I also had other weird symptoms including tingling in the extremities (especially hands, feet, and forearms) which felt like limbs falling asleep, elevated heart rate, and extreme thirst. Overall the illness was not at all flulike. I have had the flu 4 or 5 times and this experience was very different. I had much more energy, and the recovery was more irregular or nonlinear, and much slower. I also talk about the irregularity of the course of the illness, how I got better and then got worse multiple times, rather than following a smooth trajectory of recovery. If you stay tuned for further videos I plan on making videos talking about my experience as a COVID long-hauler. I am 9 months out from getting sick, and mostly recovered but still not fully recovered. The widespread rhetoric that people either die or recover fully from COVID is misleading. It took me months to get even somewhat back to normal.