Who else fell ill this week (cold / flu / corona)? Symptom tracker thread

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I thought I'd create this thread to help keep track of colds and flu this season, also possibly to distinguish it from incoming corona symptoms. In my mind the seasonal flu has very characteristic symptoms (the way it starts & progresses, even to the colour of your phlegm *cough* sorry). Please share your symptoms in as much detail as desired as well as when and where you fell sick (as the characteristics are both time and location dependant).


Edit (to address some negative comments):
The point of the thread is to crowd source localised symptom information. Not to make diagnosis or circumvent going to a doc if you feel terribly ill. Its never a good idea to base a possibly life altering decision off info you got from a forum.

This is not a medical advise- or should-i-get-tested-for-corona thread. Follow the advice from the NICD.
 
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Me and the wife started feeling flu-ish two days ago.
Scratchy / sore throat. Went over to the lungs quickly with coughing and congestion in the chest. Not as much in the sinuses.

Ps. We have not travelled and have not been in contact with people travelling from high risk corona areas in the last ~2weeks (that we known of).
 
Mobus said:
Me and the wife started feeling flu-ish two days ago.
Scratchy / sore throat. Went over to the lungs quickly with coughing and congestion in the chest. Not as much in the sinuses.

Ps. We have not travelled and have not been in contact with people travelling from high risk corona areas in the last ~2weeks (that we known of).
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Are you planning to get tested?
 
My wife went from sniffles to not being able to breath.
Symptoms started last week thursday. By sunday she bed ridden, incapable of walking. Dragged her to the doctor, got tested for corona and it was negative.

I did not get sick nor did our son.
Do not voluntarily get tested for corona. They shove an earbud into your throat through your nasal passage.
 
Daruk said:
Travelled to NYC on Saturday, used public transport, stepped over two hobos and a pile of puke, flew back on Tuesday. No symptoms.

I am convinced I had covid-19 a couple of months ago. Worst flu I've had in years. Was a relapse of what I'd had a couple of months before that too. Mostly in my lungs and throat.
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Nothing like a hobos vomit to cure COVID
 
The whole family has been down this week. Wife with sore throat and a cough, myself with a stuffy nose, sore throat and blocked ears, son a cough and runny nose.
 
Lupus said:
The whole family has been down this week. Wife with sore throat and a cough, myself with a stuffy nose, sore throat and blocked ears, son a cough and runny nose.
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I can tell you one thing. It's not Lupus.
 
Nqindi said:
I think this thread is stupid and possibly irresponsible.
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The point of the thread is to crowd source localised symptom information. Not to make diagnosis or circumvent going to a doc if you feel terribly ill. If anyone base that decision off info they got on a forum on the internet then well...
 
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