Quote (addone @ Feb 2 2022 06:29pm)
what happened and what's ur health/age like?
29/male, athletic build & good health. I was feeling fine all week. Then one night at around 10 pm before bed, I just randomly started feeling cold and shivering. Which is really odd for me because I can only sleep when the outside is cold, can't sleep with a heater on, etc. Then after the immense shivers and teeth grinding, a massive headache started. To the point where I thought my head was going to explode. Had to get out of bed and felt way better sitting up. I took a lot of Tylenol and ibuprofen. Fever was high, around 100.4 IIRC. My heart started racing the rest of the night and throughout the next day.
After the 3rd day, my throat started to get super sore. Felt like little tacks were poking my entire esophagus each time I swallowed or coughed. Took some honey flavored Ricola cough drops which helped a bit. After the 5th day, I woke up and couldn't taste anything. This lasted about 5 days. After the 10th day, my sense of smell became distorted. Every time I sniffed, It felt like I was swimming in a chlorine pool and accidentally swallowed the water. A chlorine / ammonia type of smell. Not just through your nose, but you could feel it in your head too, very hard to explain.
The loss of taste and smell all came in sequential events. One right after the other...
My mom is 64, and had it too. She lost her taste but coughed way more than me. We both are vaccinated. She had the booster shot too (I did not)
This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Feb 2 2022 08:46pm