I have covid-19 and tested 'negative', and so much for "common symptoms".
Thursday, November 19th:
Last Thursday morning, my wife and I noticed that we both had very mild sore throats and slight headaches, with no other symptoms except my wife had swollen lymph nodes in her arm pits (one of which was very tender) and she has never experienced that before. We may have ignored the symptoms had it not been for the fact that we were both experiencing the throat irritation and headaches at the same time.
We drove to the Roseville (California) Med7 and joined the line to be tested and waited for 5 hours before having both nostrils swabbed (ouch! ouch!). While waiting in line I had a brief tingling in my lips and when that went away my fingertips began tingling, but that ended soon as well.
We both fall asleep earlier than usual.
Saturday, November 21st:
On Saturday I was called and told that I had a "negative" test result. Our symptoms were basically the same as Thursday but we fall asleep earlier than usual.
Sunday, November 22nd:
The next day, Sunday, my wife was called and told that she was "positive". The reason for the extra delay for her phone call is that it takes special training to break the news and those people were busy on Saturday (are you fucking kidding me???)
Up until this point, we had mild headaches that came and went and very slightly sore throats. No fevers, no coughing, and no loss of taste or smell. Although my wife is complaining of abdominal pain.
We both fall asleep earlier than usual.
Monday, November 23nd:
Very early in the morning it became more difficult to breath for both of us, remedied by turning over on our stomachs in bed. We went for a walk in the afternoon and that was a mistake -- a slight uphill and we had to take a break halfway up it. Otherwise, still no fever or cough, no loss of taste/smell.
I was tested again at 4pm because I want a documented 'positive' result in the event that I should need a hospital.
We fall asleep earlier than usual.
Tuesday (November 24th))
Our lungs were both a bit worse, it was getting harder to breath but nothing too scary (like having books stacked on you chest). My energy was returning last night but my wife was feeling more tired and she was reporting the worst headache she's ever had. She received antibiotics for her abdominal pain (to treat a suspected UTI).
Wednesday (today):
this morning my breathing is significantly better, almost normal. No other symptoms aside from a slightly scratchy throat.
How did we get this?
My wife's 17 yr old son has been staying with us as well for the past 10 days and he has symptoms too, complaining mostly of exhaustion (but no fever and no loss of taste/smell). He told us he had a sore throat and cough before last Thursday, but we've never heard him cough and my wife says he's a hypochondriac.
I forgot to mention we've had some strange olfactory disturbances. Last Thursday, I smelled ammonia in the household and my wife from time to time says the place smells like cigarettes.
