On Instagram, the 'Girls' creator and actress wrote that she became ill for three weeks in March and experienced severe symptoms including 'crushing fatigue.'
On Instagram, the 'Girls' creator and actress wrote that she became ill for three weeks in March and experienced severe symptoms including"crushing fatigue."
She continued, "But seeing the carelessness with which so many in the United States are treating social distancing, people jogging without masks and parties on Instagram, I feel compelled to be honest about the impact this illness has had on me, in the hopes that personal stories allow us to see the humanity in what can feel like abstract situations."
Further on, Dunham wrote that she got sick with COVID-19 in mid-March, with achy joints, which soon evolved into "crushing fatigue" and a fever of 102. "Suddenly my body simply... revolted. The nerves in my feet burned and muscles wouldn't seem to do their job. I couldn't sleep but I couldn't wake up. I lost my sense of taste and smell. A hacking cough, like a metronome keeping time. Inability to breathe after simple tasks like getting a glass of water.
Dunham self-isolated while she was sick and monitored her own oxygen levels. After a month, she tested negative. "I couldn't believe how intense the loneliness had been, in addition to the illness," wrote the actress, who said that she continued to have symptoms after testing negative — such as swollen hands, migraines, fatigue and a flare-up of her arthritis.
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