I’ve not heard of Kracken as an identified Covid strain. There’s not much talk about Covid in general anymore. What are the symptoms and how sick are you all feeling, say as compared to a regular cold?
Get well soon.
Gonna share because this one is super different. I didn't know anything about the named ones either and only found the names when I was looking for the current strains for weird symptoms. Apparently, Drs are looking at better ways to identify than the card catalog versions like XBB.1.16 and I agree, the number names were alienating for me. It would be tough to tune in to a hurricane called ccf.768.65 in any meaningful way.
Symptoms were all run of the mill so much less than even a cold until they veered way off course. This is nothing at all like a cold, when I get a cold at least there is a sniffle, which I ignore like ya do, then it goes away - the end. The worst part of a cold is usually the fact that my nose gets red and a bit sore because I forgot to get the super soft comfy nose tissues with lotion as I sniffle. This ain't that, not a single sniffle nothing I would even call congestion - it is dry swelling.
This is the first time I had it so what I was expecting was what I saw happen to DH & DD which was sort of the Flu but bigger and since none of that happened I wasn't even remotely thinking Covid, more than any reason though this is summertime so nothing in play.
First, my belly was a bit off, nothing monumental just off.
Next day I noticed my eyes were slightly red, not so much anyone else noticed but I did but just shrugged it off because the Canadian wildfire smoke is supposedly back. Then either later that night or next day I did also notice a small amount of bright milk white gel in my tear ducts, which was very odd but it was such a small amount that I just gave my eyes a closer look for real pink eye which it was not, and moved on. I mean what on earth do I know about what smoke exposure can do to your eyes, a little bit of something seemed in the range of expected?
Friday, I was ok but used a different scented detergent so when my throat first felt bizarrely dry with the teeniest random slight cough every now and again I really just assumed it was fragrance & allergy related or maybe the fan was too close maybe AC was too dry. Being sick still never crossed my mind for a second.
Saturday is when I tested positive things went south in this order. I opened my eyes and a massive sinus & migraine pain just set in so I took my migraine medicine but while I sat there I realized my whole airway now felt freaky dry, like the throat down to my lungs was covered in chalk I had inhaled. Nothing was congested, things seemed swollen and very very dry. I could breath ok but it was alarming because it simply would not clear up, not when I drank and not when I moved. When DH woke up and I spoke my voice was bananas, like another person's voice was coming out of my face bananas. I tested just because I had a Binax in my bathroom and was was thunderstruck, as odd as it sounds I just wasn't expecting what I was experiencing to be Covid. I called and got a 24 hr Dr who called it in, DH went to pick it up as more symptoms set in, luckily I had the Paxlovid in me within 2 hrs. The Dr said something about Paxlovid going to be on demand at Pharmacy soon but it's not there just yet. Anyway, I felt awful the whole day, face was agonizing from sinuses, my upper teeth were killing me, the fatigue was awful and kept coming in tidal waves. I was crazy cranky for no reason, like to the point I was shocking myself at how oddly irritable I was feeling, I kept changing TV shows because TV people were really irritating me, which is soooo not me. Even shows I love were making me mad
I told family to leave me be. That night I slept very little, for 2 days I had both insomnia and exhaustion drifting into sort of sleep then waking up, last night I slept better. Today is 3rd day of the Paxlovid and I feel more stable.
This new version is literally nothing like my other family members had only a few months ago with the heavy coughing, wet sounds and obvious illness look, where a person just looks like they were just run over in the same sort of way the Flu makes a person look. Nope, this one is tricky and sneaks up, that whole bizarrely dry airway thing shook me up pretty good, I could breathe but just knew it was dangerous.
I am still hoping to be able to travel this weekend but apparently high risk people like me can have way more virus than other people and hold onto it way longer than other people so
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