For context, I’m 36, do loads of exercise, eat very healthily, always had a perfect BMI and have no underlying health conditions. I’m also double jabbed (AZ) and have been since June.
Like many on here I enjoy kitchen sinking and getting plastered from time to time along with the occasional cig - my vices if you will.
I should be at the Fewer Than One launch party this evening but I’m typing this from my hospital bed - in the Covid ward.
Firstly my symptoms are nothing at all like flu - and on top of that I have none of the typical Covid symptoms either. No temperature, no cough, no breathlessness, full sense of taste & smell etc.
The reason I’m here is that I noticed an unusual pain in my lower chest earlier this week. Thought it’d be something I’d get treated for easily at the walk in centre - kind of felt like a pulled muscle but I knew it wasn’t (slightly different feeling… hard to explain). The nurse was so concerned with the symptoms I had that I got sent straight to the main hospital in an ambulance. I was then quickly diagnosed with Covid.
I first noticed the symptoms a few days ago - when I woke up in the morning and sat up in bed I noticed a bit of a sharp pain in my side, a bit like stitch. Didn’t think anything of it.
It started getting gradually worse day by day to the point where I felt it all the time when generally moving around, nothing really painful but noticeable and annoying. As it hadn’t cleared as quickly as typical aches & pains do, I went to the walk in centre today to get it checked out… this was over nine hours ago.
I’ve since had a chest X-Ray, ECG and some blood tests. Currently awaiting the results when I should be front and centre at Fewer Than One.
Put simply, I’d have never guessed that I had Covid - it can masquerade in some strange ways.
And it’s nothing at all like flu.
