We had the exact same thing in our house in mid-January. None of the rest of us went to the doctor, but when our youngest (2 at the time) hit a 102 fever we took him in.parabelum wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 7:00 am Very interesting points about the antibodies etc.
I know that in mid December we had ~1/3 of our office come down with “something” flu-like, where majority were out of office for at least 3 days on average.
Then I got sick with “something” around the 2nd week of January. First two days I felt like crud. I couldn’t get comfortable to sleep, when I was awake I just had that feeling of sickness, no fever or anything during the first two days.
Then by day 3 I developed a sore throat and my fever went to 102ish, never much over or under. I remember this was Friday after work.
That weekend I felt so crappy that even the water droplets were painful on the scalp especially. Monday my fever went to 99ish steady but I just felt miserable, but I didn’t go to Doc.
So by Tuesday mid-day I left work and went to the clinic to get checked out. I couldn’t get the crudy feeling to go away where everything is achy etc.
Got tested for flu and strep and guess what, I was negative for both. They gave me some antibioticsand some lidocaine gargle for sore throat and sent me home.
I remained in that state for at least another 3-4 days, so 2weeks or so total until I got better.
I always wondered how I could have been negative for flu when all signs and symptoms were flu-like.
Interesting. I would volunteer for the testing.
Negative for strep, negative for flu- "Here are some antibiotics and fever medicine" (which did NOTHING). A week later he got over it.
This thing has been around since at least November, and I'm betting a large portion of the population has already had it. But the media has to make money by selling fear, and politicians follow the media's lead when it influences the public, so here we are.