The 39-year-old Lithuanian COVID-19 started in an unusual way, now the man says: I would not wish such a disease on anyone

So for anyone laughing at the coronavirus, he posted his post on Facebook, outlining what it means to have COVID-19.

It is true that the skeptics did not silence this; even to the contrary, Manta was inundated with offensive personal messages from those who don’t believe the disease exists at all. Precisely for agreeing to share your experience with the portal Delphi readers, asked not to mention his real name and not to publish the photo.

The blankets became infected with the coronavirus in the spring, in April. Although skeptics often call the coronavirus the flu or the simplest cold, the first signs of the COVID-19 illness that actually occurred in Mantas were not like a respiratory infection. Mantas said COVID-19 started him with severe diarrhea.

“I started having severe diarrhea, vaguely starting to wash my stomach, even though I am eating healthy. Later, I stopped feeling the taste and smell, and after a few days the temperature rose. I started coughing, ”recalls Mantas.

According to the man, in the early days his well-being was still tolerable, although he felt very irritated. “As if he had drunk a lot,” Mantas clarified.

The severity began on the third day of illness.

“On the third day of the illness, my head started to ache, like never before in my life, every blink, like a hammer to the forehead.

While coughing, I began to taste the blood, a few days later I began to expel some kind of liquid, it turns out that he is coughing up blood.

I called the doctors. I listened to the symptoms, I wondered if he was breathing normally, his breathing was not altered, it was just difficult.

He said that the symptoms are mild and that it is not necessary to go to the hospital, just be at home and not go anywhere, “wrote Mantas on the social network.

Days 5, 6 and 7 of the disease were the most severe.

“Then I couldn’t even get out of bed, a cytokine storm started. There was no talk of eating and drinking.

After that, the condition started to improve, although for the next 7 days I still felt very dizzy. After 2 weeks, the symptoms disappeared. I kept coughing for another 3 weeks, “said the man, who was confirmed and tested for coronavirus.

According to Mantas, the disease severely exhausted him: he lost 9 kilograms of weight and his shortness of breath lasted a couple of months after the disease:

Mantas was glad that everything was fine for him now, the disease had completely receded.

“I ran, but it took me a long time to regain my physical capacity. You know, 1 in 5 people is seriously ill. And they told me that I still got sick pretty easily. I do not wish anyone such a “mild” illness. “I don’t even want to think about what it really means to have this disease,” the man said.