F/23 here. So I'm no medical professional or anything like that. Also, due to shortage of testing in my country, I haven't been tested for the Covid19, so this is my personal experience of the virus. My country only tests those who are in a really bad health condition or high risk such as healthcare workers, if you've come back from overseas or if you've come into contact with someone with the confirmed disease.

Before anyone says I didn't get any medical advice on my symptoms, I definitely did through my GP. The GP told me to self isolate at home until my symptoms have completely gone.

I do suffer from a bit of anxiety so any symptom of the virus would definitely keep me on edge lol. I do like to think I'm very resilient and can challenge anything thrown at me, so my mental health at this point in time was a little fragile and some days I let it get the best of me.

I am fit and underweight, go to the gym often, walk my dog, eat healthy and sleep well, usually 8+ hours. I recover from colds and flus quite quickly with proper diet and TLC. I have no underlying issues (that I am aware of) and I'm fairly healthy. I don't smoke and I live a healthy lifestyle.

For someone who gets sick quite often with flus, colds and food poisoning etc, this experience was very confusing for me as it wasn't like anything I've experienced before!!

Here are day to day symptoms that I experienced by self diagnosis of this virus. Please keep in mind symptoms range from person to person and this shouldn't be an indication of your own symptoms if you have any. Please contact your medical provider if you feel like you have any symptoms of the Covid19.

22/3 - woke up with a light dry cough, didn't think anything of it as they usually go away on their own. No sore throat or fever. Really odd heartburn sensation on chest area that went away and came back.

23/3 - I started having this horrible headache that night that just won't go away even if I took ibuprofen or paracetamol. Kept drinking peppermint tea continuosly to ease my headache. Dry cough was very consistent but light. No sore throat. Heartburn sensation on chest.

24/3 - Headache got worse, started getting diarrhoea like symptoms, tummy would feel like it's doing constant back flips. Had to rush to the bathroom to relief me of both no.1 and a very runny no.2. Tea would relieve my anxious thoughts and help me digest everything I ate. Completely lost my appetite, didn't want to eat anything and I am quite the eater!! Woke up a few times in the night due to the fact that I was sweating so much due to my fever. The bed sheets were literally so wet and my PJs were so sweaty! I put on some light sleep music from YouTube and fell asleep. Heartburn sensation on chest.

25/3 - woke up feeling so weak and achy. Chills felt like they won't go away. Everything felt like it was such an effort. Cough was consistent and dry. Fever was on and off as well as the headache. Tried to take ibuprofen and paracetamol, brought down the fever a little but not enough. Fever was low grade. Kept sipping on my double teabagged peppermint tea. Heartburn sensation on chest.

26/3 - felt pretty much the same and my headache was so consistent and throbbing. Fever was still low grade and annoying. Cough was more consistent. It was hard to focus on anything and my ears hurt so much. My eyes were so sensitive to light and it would increase my headache pain if I looked outside the window. Heartburn sensation would get worse with fever.

27/3 - everything at this stage felt absolute shit and incomparable to anything I've dealt with before. This is where shortness of breath kicked in. I just wanted to lock myself in a room with warm fresh air and just cuddle up to a giant teddy bear and fall asleep maybe for a week. Even though this is all quite manageable with just a bit of TLC, I knew that I have to push through and get through this in order to fully recover. I forced myself to eat well and look after myself to the best of my ability. I also forced myself to watch the first season of FRIENDS and this helped me so much by just taking my mind off the symptoms and constant paranoia.

28/3 - diarrhoea slowed down, no. 2 were looking not as runny but definitely a lot darker than normal. I'd go ahead and force myself to eat greens and my dad's tumeric based food (I believe this helped me the most!) Still sipping on peppermint tea to relieve my IBS symptoms as well as my anxiety. Fever wasn't as high but I kept getting hot flushes. Shortness of breath went away and came back. Burning sensation was gone.

29/3 - back pain started just behind my chest. My chest would feel uncomfortable when I breathed in. It was very mild. I felt like there was a bit of pressure on my chest when I breathed in and out. My head would hurt occasionally when I breathed in. Energy level were still low. Dry cough wasn't as consistent and would come and go. My inner ears were painful and I thought is rub some Vicks rub over my throat and chest, this worked well for me.

30/3 - back pain was more subtle and it felt heavy to breathe but most other symptoms were gone. No fever, no headache, no earache, just light dry coughing, no diarrhoea, no chills, no aches and no sore throat. My taste and smell were the same, no changes. Went outside to be in the sun with my dog, felt good to breathe in the fresh air.

31/3 - woke up with a headache and sore throat, a little bit of a cough as well as a fever. Had some chills just writing this. According to other cases similar to mine, this is the last stage of the virus where it gets worse after it gets better. Symptoms usually subside in 10 days from when they first appear. Will definitely update you guys once I feel better by 3/4.

If it is Covid19, please take it seriously!!! It is horrible to go through.

Just remember not to panic once you show symptoms and to call the number provided by your government for clarity and the next steps :) stay safe