High fibrinogen and ferritin levels with Covid

Since testing positive last Tuesday, almost a week ago, most of my symptoms have settled down.

I no longer have a fever or headaches and my taste is back along with most of my smell. Basically the only symptom is that I keep coughing every now and then. All in all I feel fine.

I should be on day 11 since symptoms onset this Sunday, and on Saturday, day 10, my doctor had me do some blood tests to see how I'm doing internally.

We reviewed them today and they weren't very good. I had high fibrinogen levels (634.3 mg/dL, range should be 250-600), high ferritin levels (338.5 ng/ml, range should be 21-274), high globular sedimentation rate (31 mm/hr, range should be 0-15), highC-Reactive Protein (1.31 mg/dL, range should be 0-0.5), among other values.

Dimer-D was high but within range (245 ng/ml, range should be 0-255).

I was basically told this was expected given the Covid infection, but that it still raised my chance of very severe complications like 100 times.

My doctor said we weren't going to try anything just yet, I'm getting a new blood test next Tuesday, 3 days after the first one to see if things are improving and if so we're gonna leave it alone. But if they stay the same or God forbid get worse, then we're gonna try some real deal medications like blood thinners and such.

So what I expected was gonna be a good visit to the doctor since, like I said, I feel fine, turned out to be literally heartbreaking, knowing I have inner inflammation, my blood is thickening and who knows what else.

Is all this normal? Has this been observed on others that you know of? How has it progressed? What can I expect? I'm crying.

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