A year ago this week, I got my second shingles shot.
The next day, I felt like a heavyweight had hit my injection arm with a ball bat. I had the bruises to show it.
2 days later I either got Covid or a lot of stuff from that shot. I had a mild fever and blood in my urine.
My wife, a retired RN called our HMO online advice person. They had me come in for a urine test and to get an RX for a probable infection. The on call doc wrote an RX for 5 days of an oral quin-alone and a 5 days of Bactrim. The urine test was negative re any bacteria.
We went to a son’s home for Thanksgiving dinner. My low fever was gone. I had no appetite for my favorite dinner, turkey and the standard sides. I could not smell nor taste my favorite dinner.
Then, I started having lower GI problems and continued no appetite an absence of smell/taste. Our HMO ordered basically every diagnostic test known to man. They found nothing.
Then, we had Christmas at another son’s home. He and a grandson were sick in a few days. The son was ill for about 4 weeks. The grandson was well in a few days. Our son had my symptoms for the 4 weeks.
The women in our families never were sick during this time.
We never found what we had. This was weeks before the CV 19 was in our area. Looking back, I think that I and our son had CV19.
Wow. That sounds like it was scary. Glad you both came through it ok!
Have you given any thought to antibody testing?
When in the U.S. Navy, they gave the entire ship inoculations to prepare for a trip to Samsun, Turkey. Instead of needles they injected with a high pressure injection system. We got two of them in the right shoulder area and one on the left. The dark bruises lasted for a week and our shoulders felt like they were hit with a baseball bat. There was no soy boy crying from us. We took it like men knowing it was to protect us from the gung crud that could hit us while at watch on the sonar monitor.
You had the WuFlu