I have Covid. Monday will be the start of 8 weeks since my symptoms appeared. While I never felt the need to go to an emergency room - not having insurance at the moment I wouldn't have regardless - I had some really bad days and a lot of unpleasant ones. During the first two weeks I had three days with a multitude of intense symptoms; the worst being the headaches. Two of those days were together, and the worst day was separated from the by 4 days were I thought I was better. The rest of the time I would have one intense symptom on certain days; although, an occasional cough of varying degrees has always been present, with some days I almost felt normal in between.
Week 6 was probably my scariest time as I developed shortness of breath and chest pressure. My breathing was so labored that while speaking - from a distance - to my neighbor, I would have to stop every third word to catch my breath. I woke up in the middle of the night one day thinking I was suffocating. Took a while to breathe as freely as I could and was not able to go back to sleep.
I never lost my sense of taste, but had three "weird" symptoms that suggest some brief neurological problems during weeks four and five. For two days I had bad memory issues. Couldn't call on some basic vocabulary when speaking, forgot names, and worst of all forgot wrestling and wrestlers I had coached. For four days the bottom of my right foot, where my toes meet the foot proper, hurt. I don't remember a specific injury to have caused this. On the fifth day the pain was gone.
The strangest symptom during that period (week five) was three days in the morning when I awakened from a night's sleep. My right eye would open, but my left eye would remain shut. I would "tell" it to open, but it would not respond. I had to use my finger to push my eyelid up. There was no discharge gluing my eye shut - it just would not open on its own. Once I opened it, my eyelid would function as normal.
All things considered I feel fortunate I never required medical assistance (knock-on-wood as I am feeling like I am truly recovering as I write this), but I would not wish this experience on anyone... er, maybe Donald Trump; however, I am a little anxious about long-term repercussions as it will be years before we fully understand this disease. In the meantime, I hope it is not like herpes or malaria where I will have symptoms appear without warning over a long period of time.