Gonna be honest brehs, I think I got it on some level...
So mid-day Tuesday like 11am-ish, I’m at a grocery store, and I start getting this tightness in my chest. Felt like what I would tihnk of a heart-attack almost but it was moreso spread around in the middle of my chest. I hadn’t ate lunch or drank much water all day so I’m thinking maybe I need to eat. So I eat about lunch 3 o clock and then i go lay down for 30mins or so. I wake up, I went back out again for a min and then ate dinner. I sat on my couch and passed out and woke up about 12 midnight…..and that tightness/chest pressure was on full-blast then. And if I breathed with effort, it was a sharp pain. I was like wtf. But no fever, no cough, nothing. But I did notice that whenI woke up at that time I had like a nightsweat. My stocking cap was wet.
So I go to bed officially a little later, wake up Wednesday morning, and the chest pressure/tightness/pain is even more tight. Now, if I’m sitting and I stand up it’s uncomfortable b/c it feels like my lungs/rib cage is too big for my chest, like there something fluid-like bouncing up & down in there. Like just pushing against my body. And if I breathe even semi-deep it’s hurting. If I lay back in the recliner it’s hurting inside. On top of this I had supreme muscle aches in my shoulders. And I work out alot so I’m used to my shoulders hurting in general, but I havent been to the gym obviously. Made me some hot cider in my Keurig hoping that would help.
Now I’m getting worried. Still no fever, or cough tho. I even made myself cough to see if I’d feel that pain in my chest. I’m staying home all day of course, not doing anything. About 4pm I decided I gotta do something. So I went to Walmart, bought a gallon jug of water, some Pedialyte, and started mixing both and pounding them the remainer of the evening along with some Gatorade I had. Going to go pee every 30mins to an 1hr etc. I also had some vitamin C & vitamin D pills I started taking 2 of each and ate some apple slices and Tylenol capsules. I was in chest pain even standing up to use the bathroom, any movemen of my upper body was painful. On top of this I’m not feeling 100% great at that point, just....blah. I told myself, if this gets worse tomorrow I don’t know what I’m gonna do. I drank another tall glass of water/pedialyte, go to bed that night super nervous.
So Thursday (yesterday) morning I wake up, open my eyes. I’m laying on my back and before I move a muscle, I try to breathe deeply to see if I’m able. And there’s very little pain, but it's still there. So I get up, and the uncertainty/chest pain was still there but noticeable less. But my shoulder muscles were still in pain and now my fingers/hand muscles were in pain too. So I stay in all day drinking water, pedialyte just watching Netflix, YouTube etc. By last night, I was feeling little to no pain when breathing in deeply, most of the muscle pain in my fingers/hands was gone.
But this morning I woke up still feeling kinda strange, but I made me some hot tea. 2 bags, 1 decaf, 1 green tea, drank it super hot and since then I’ve felt pretty much “normal”. I went out to the grocery store(only because I had to) in a mask & bandana, first time I’ve been out the house in 2 days.
You do not want this. I was so out of it Tuesday night/all day Wednesday. Tremendous chest pain/pressure, muscle pain(which my shoulders still hurt), slightly disoriented, scared, I feel like my drinking damn near a whole gallon of water, with pedialyte, eating apple slices, vitamin c & d,tylenol, made a quick turnaround for me. I’m gonna continue to do these things this evening. But I feel like I’m really lucky. This is no joke brehs. And mind you I havent been sick all year nor was I overly mindful of being worried about this virus.