My wife, son and I have had a weird experience like this. We were not test confirmed, but we are younger, so none of us had it that bad. We had a flu-like illness of coughing, tired, high fever. Then it subsided. Then a week or so later, I woke up in the middle of the night with shortness of breath. Felt like I had to mechanically breathe. Very unpleasant. Spent about two days or so like that, then was quite tired but could breathe a bit better. Then every week or so we will have another wave where we are pale, tired, headache and mild(er) shortness of breath. It feels like just recently we have come out of it, and we first had symptoms the second week of March.
I'm in the same boat. I've been having this on/off experience with difficulty breathing since the first week in March when I first experienced all the typical COVID-19 symptoms: mild fever, dry cough, fatigue, difficulty breathing. I was unable to get tested at the time, because it was early in the pandemic and testing was limited, so I was never officially told that I had it.
I seemed to recover a couple weeks later. But then I started having difficulty breathing again (without fever or cough this time). After another few days I'd start to feel better. Then I'd have a few days of difficulty breathing. I've been cycling between feeling okay and feeling bad ever since.
You should consider taking vitamin D. It seems to be a factor in severity of cases according to [1]. You could be deficient in D if you haven’t spent much time out in the sunlight recently (likely for many of us, I suspect)
Vitamin D is essential, many people are deficient, and I don’t think there are many risks in taking a supplement.
Same here. Same pattern as experienced by others in this thread. I've gone on and off for about 3/4 weeks. Ended up with anosmia for a good 5 days. My gf still hasn't fully recovered after a month, still has problems smelling light flavours.
We both started almost immediately to take vitamin D, but no idea how much that helped.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 21.0 ms ] threadI seemed to recover a couple weeks later. But then I started having difficulty breathing again (without fever or cough this time). After another few days I'd start to feel better. Then I'd have a few days of difficulty breathing. I've been cycling between feeling okay and feeling bad ever since.
Vitamin D is essential, many people are deficient, and I don’t think there are many risks in taking a supplement.
[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058578v...
We both started almost immediately to take vitamin D, but no idea how much that helped.