It's definitely different and distinct. I had the fortune of having both the flu and covid back to back last year within a couple months of each other. Covid felt stronger in severity by 30-40% and also different. There's an eerie hallucinogenic component and headspace. Tough to describe. Not fun.
Pain was the worst. Neck, shoulders, spine, piercing headache for days. No complete loss of smell but it's diminished and changed. Exhaustion, sleeping 13 hours a night plus during the day. A cough, but I've had colds with a worse cough. Long bouts of sneezing, often painful. Pain behind the eyes.
On paper it looks like a variety of existing illnesses, but it has a distinct feel the way drugs have distinct feelings. Impossible to ignore and impossible to describe.
It feels foreign and I know that doesn't help either.
At the end of my second time with covid now.
Unvaxxed.
100% not a cold. Not the flu.
What do you mean? Like worse? Or just different?
It's definitely different and distinct. I had the fortune of having both the flu and covid back to back last year within a couple months of each other. Covid felt stronger in severity by 30-40% and also different. There's an eerie hallucinogenic component and headspace. Tough to describe. Not fun.
Interesting. What about physical symptoms; what were the worst / most notable symptoms?
Pain was the worst. Neck, shoulders, spine, piercing headache for days. No complete loss of smell but it's diminished and changed. Exhaustion, sleeping 13 hours a night plus during the day. A cough, but I've had colds with a worse cough. Long bouts of sneezing, often painful. Pain behind the eyes.
On paper it looks like a variety of existing illnesses, but it has a distinct feel the way drugs have distinct feelings. Impossible to ignore and impossible to describe.
It feels foreign and I know that doesn't help either.