Just looking for a bit of advice please. I have quite severe health anxiety so I tend to always overthink things.
Yesterday I started to feel a quite poorly, aching body, shivering one minute then sweating the next. My throat feels a bit grainy and I’m coughing but only a bit. My chest feels tight like I’m going to get a chest infection maybe.
I have a raised temperature of 38.5. Not massively high but enough to make me feel rotten. I took paracetamol last night and it lowered slightly and made me feel a bit better, however when it wears off I start to feel very shivery again.
But then I read that taking painkillers to lower a temperature can actually prolong the virus because the body is responding to the germs and the heat kills it off quicker. So am I making myself worse in the long run by taking paracetamol?
Sorry for the long post.