Mystery virus

[KevinLoveFan]

There's a weird mystery virus going around my city that isn't either covid or the flu, but it's pretty brutal. I've pretty much been taking naproxen 3x a day for this crap so I can still function and not lay in bed all day. Went to Urgent Care yesterday because it wasn't getting any better after three days and I couldn't figure out what it was based on the symptoms.

Basically I've had the worst headache in my life; it's especially bad overnight; head feels packed like it will burst, and the throbbing is so severe that it temporarily blocks my hearing when it pulses back and forth. I rarely get headaches other than occasional mild caffeine related ones, so this has opened my eyes to what people who experience migraines might go through.

They ruled out migraine though; I'm too old for the typical onset age. I've also had significant fatigue, nausea, some general body aches...the doc at Urgent Care explained the mystery virus is like the flu, but without as many respiratory symptoms except sore throat sometimes. I haven't had any respiratory symptoms, but my son has (cough, runny nose).

The good news is...most of y'all live in Ohio, and I'm in Missouri, so you may not be getting it over there. This thing has definitely made me more sympathetic to headache sufferers.

 

[MikeOC33]

Suggest you stop tearing your eyes out while watching the Cavs. See if that clears up the symptoms.

 

[Cavatt]

First time I had COVID in 2020 the headache was just like this. Headache felt like my head was getting crushed in a nut cracker.

New variants don't always show up on home tests.

 

[DJTJ]

Have they potentially tested you for CMV?

 

[inliner311]

First time I had COVID in 2020 the headache was just like this. Headache felt like my head was getting crushed in a nut cracker.

New variants don't always show up on home tests.

Different variants of any virus are going to have different symptoms. Also some viruses can change the symptoms or the severity of getting a different virus down the line. Like with COVID there are some studies of how you become more susceptible to certain virus after and some can be more severe. Like if you get COVID you are more likely to get shingles in the 6 months after.

 

[kookoo]

From what I've heard, bird flu is going around a lot right now.

 

[KevinLoveFan]

No testing for CMV. I did test negative for covid.

 

[buzzdog]

I've had a lingering cough for several weeks now. Covid tests were negative. It felt a bit like an allergy and it first flared up while I was mulching dry leaves in Ohio and got caught in a dust cloud of leaf dust. Walking about in airports, and now at work halfway across the country I've notice a LOT of people with this raspy little cough. Some of my younger co-workers from western states have something similar. There's a small amount of mucous/chest congestion and my left ear has been intermittently plugged up but otherwise I don't feel sick at all.

I have no clue what this shit is or how long it's going to last, because I figured it would have passed by now. Taking vitamin C and occasional decongestants so I'm not coughing every 10 minutes while at work. I'm ready to be done with this crap.

 

[KevinLoveFan]

The one I had lasted longer than I expected. Doc said it was typically 3-5 days, but mine lasted a little over a week. Long gone now, but it was miserable while it lasted. Glad to be over whatever the heck it was.

 

[The Oi]

Have had something that tested neg for flu and covid.

Extreme exhaustion for almost two weeks. Dry cough. Fever the first few days. Bad headaches the whole way through.

The exhaustion has been the worst part.