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MemberMy husband had been sick for several weeks, it started with a cold around Christmas time. It progressed and he tested positive on January 10th, 2022. Five days later I tested positive. I am fully vaccinated. I have been quarantined since the 10th. Today is the 25th. I didn’t start running a fever until just a few days ago, it has been pretty low grade. Highest has been 100.4. I take Tylenol, that helps that come down. I have had severe coughing and congestion, headache, runny nose, chills, body aches, my throat is swollen and sore, and I’ve had shortness of breath, loss of taste and fatigue. The fatigue is horrible. In addition to MG, I have CFS and Fibromyalgia, and asthma. I had just started to feel better after a hard case of bronchitis, when I got this. I try to sleep but coughing keeps waking me up. A few nights ago I was having a very hard time breathing after waking up from a nightmare. My dog was standing in the bed over me, checking on me, three times that night. It was rough, but not to the point of going to the hospital.
I’ve still got the symptoms. It has exacerbated my MG a bit, but not in an unmanageable way. Double vision is occasional, shortness of breath definitely plays a part, my O2 has stayed about 96.