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[covid] well, here we go
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I knew it was going to happen eventually but I thought maybe I’d dodged it a second time.
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(My roommate had COVID a few months ago and somehow I didn’t get it)
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Doing pretty okay so far, symptoms are “mild” enough that I probably wouldn’t have tested if I hadn’t just traveled.
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I say “mild” but like, I have a laundry list of things that are wrong, they’re just not... more wrong than normal?
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But body aches and fatigue are just “life” and I am very prone to sinus bullshit, of which this current batch is relatively minor.
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So overall I can tell I’m not feeling well but it’s not really a whole lot worse than a random Wednesday of not feeling well.
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Just an update that I seem to have made it out the other side okay. Not really ever really any worse than a very bad cold or a light flu for me. Sucked but not scary.
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BUT. Did you know hives are a COVID symptom in rare cases and can linger after the other symptoms are gone?
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I did not but I apparently am one of the “lucky” ones.
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It. Is. AWFUL.
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It’s a bit like what I imagine getting chicken pox as an adult would be like. I am covered in spots and all of them itch like the devil.
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No accompanying fever or other symptoms to indicate anything else bad, though. And no signs of bugs or other critters in the house.
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Just SO SO SO ITCHY.
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Negative now for COVID yay!!!
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I do still have the hives though. 
. But that’s kind of to be expected if they are autoimmune related.
. But that’s kind of to be expected if they are autoimmune related.
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Overall, for me it was about 48 hours of being pretty sick and then another like, five days of very sudden bouts of very deep fatigue.
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I’d say another 1-2 days after the “pretty sick” I was “minorly sick”
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The hives thing is definitely the hardest part of all of this-- the other symptoms were bad but honestly not all that awful. I just slept mostly.
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I'm glad you're negative now but I'm sorry about the hives, hives are awful
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I have auto-immune bullshit stuff so I don’t know why I’m SURPRISED about the hives but they REALLY SUCK all the same.
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And one of the things I’ve gotten before from the autoimmune stuff is the like, welting sort of hives. But these are the little ones.