Whatever it was that I had in 2003 knocked me out for two weeks, altered my taste for a few days, may have had my O2 go down a bit for a few days (i remember opening the windows to get fresh air because I didn't feel right breathing), severe fatigue for two weeks where I could hardly get up to do much, and after recovering dry cough for 4 weeks. It started with a huge fever spike in first couple of days, then settled down to lower level over the next two weeks. Was not very transmissible because my gf at the time didn't get it; I was in her apt for two weeks after the apparent viral replication phase, which didn't last very long, so my guess is virus was probably done by day 3. Very similar to covid, but covid was much milder for me because I treated the hell out of it. Never ever had anything like it between 1992 and 2024. Never had any flus and never took flu shots. So, shit happens and shit goes around, whatever that thing was. But it did seem to be biphasic, kind of like what Shankara Chetty and McCullough described in their papers re covid, first replication with huge fever spike, then cytokine overreaction. All other viral infections I ever had were just annoying sniffles, making me have rolls of toilet paper on my office desk 🙄😂. Maybe some mild fever here and there. I survived it, whatever it was.
Whatever it was that I had in 2003 knocked me out for two weeks, altered my taste for a few days, may have had my O2 go down a bit for a few days (i remember opening the windows to get fresh air because I didn't feel right breathing), severe fatigue for two weeks where I could hardly get up to do much, and after recovering dry cough for 4 weeks. It started with a huge fever spike in first couple of days, then settled down to lower level over the next two weeks. Was not very transmissible because my gf at the time didn't get it; I was in her apt for two weeks after the apparent viral replication phase, which didn't last very long, so my guess is virus was probably done by day 3. Very similar to covid, but covid was much milder for me because I treated the hell out of it. Never ever had anything like it between 1992 and 2024. Never had any flus and never took flu shots. So, shit happens and shit goes around, whatever that thing was. But it did seem to be biphasic, kind of like what Shankara Chetty and McCullough described in their papers re covid, first replication with huge fever spike, then cytokine overreaction. All other viral infections I ever had were just annoying sniffles, making me have rolls of toilet paper on my office desk 🙄😂. Maybe some mild fever here and there. I survived it, whatever it was.
I too had similar respiratory problems but in 2010 lost taste Dr. thought I had pneumonia but after CXR negative took me a month to get over it.