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Daughter with cronovirus week 6

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canteatcustard · 06/05/2020 12:18

My daughter is a healthy 21yr old woman, who has rarely been ill during her life time. Had, apart from her ongoing milk allergy a very healthy childhood. She is a key worker and has caught this virus at work.
She lives with her partner over 400 miles away from us, and this i expect is one of the reasons i am so stressed at this time. as I cant jump in car and see her.
Her first 2 weeks with virus wasnt so bad, and she made a brief up turn in health before things dropping down. She has had all symptoms, and constant chest pain with times of breathlessness. Which so far she has got over using at first her boyfriends blue relief inhaler. Gp has prescribed a weeks worth of antibiotics, but they didnt do anything, so doc has concluded the virus is still doing its thing. Her whole body is covered in a eczema/hive type rash, apart from the palms of her hands and bottom of feet. So is using some prescription eczema stuff to control that, and this week that, at least is getting better. The main issue is her chest, and that we are in week 6 with no clear signs of improvement. she sleeps sitting up at night, as thats when her chest seems worse. I am deeply twitchy and stressed, and find it hard to sleep, or do sleep with nightmares. During the day have done some mad sorting out of house, but obviously in lockdown am fast running out of stuff to do. I just needed to post this to get it in proportion in my head and try and relax. Am sure many are going through the same thing.

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Sauron · 06/05/2020 12:37

I’m sorry to hear about your dd. It must be so worrying especially living far from her. If she’s having real difficulty breathing she should get herself admitted. I’ve been reading the thread running on here with people who have had covid for 40 days and it does sound exhausting. They maybe able to offer some advice you could pass onto your dd. I hope she starts to feel better soon.

Howmanysleepsnow · 06/05/2020 18:23

@canteatcustard does she have a way of monitoring her oxygen saturation (some smart watches do it or you can buy a pulse oximeter cheaply)?
If it’s below 90 she needs hospital. Observable signs come much later in Covid19. They are using some treatments off license atm and may be able to give something to help.

HollowTalk · 06/05/2020 18:25

I think she should call 111 - I think they'll tell her to go back in. It must be a terrible worry for you. I hope she's OK.

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canteatcustard · 07/05/2020 12:24

my daughter tried ringing the cronovirus hot line but couldnt get through.
Today she feels ok. chest hurting but not breathless. spends her time sleeping. which is a good sign. We are taking it one day at a time as she has been better ,than worse.

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Harrysmum2020 · 07/05/2020 15:08

I had pneumonia when I was 14 and got secondary pluracey sp? Could that be why she can’t lay flat my main symptoms where my chest feeling like it was crushing when I laid down and believe it comes on after lung infections

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