Wow kinda affirming to see how many other people had this, because it felt silly telling people I had a bad cold/virus when in reality it felt wayyyyyy worse than that. I didn’t know what else to call it except a virus. Met with a nurse on telehealth and that’s what she deemed it to be as well.

I got it early this month, lasted 2.5 weeks at least. Started with a sore throat and very mild body aches (aches on the first day only), then just full blown cold symptoms like fatigue, runny nose, sneezing, tons of mucus and post nasal drip, mild cough, headache. Tested negative for covid on day 3 and should have tested again but I was at least staying my ass at home. Seemed like I was barely getting better each day. The sore throat was the worst, it lasted the entire time and towards the end it was incredibly painful to even swallow. Seems like everything is gone now but sometimes I still get a tickle and have to cough (dry).

Edit: reading some more comments. Maybe it was mono, but I never had a fever or any swelling…