Feel so ill I’m scared

[Daffodils9]

Started Tues just gone. Can’t type much as so exhausted but frightened now. I’ve been seriously ill (hospital) twice before in my life and this feels like that but I can’t point to why exactly.
Fever, chills, intermittent muscle and joint pain, stomach pain, sore chest, breathlessness, cough, nausea and vomiting. Vomiting had stopped after the first couple of days but has come back today even though I’ve eaten virtually nothing for five days (handful of dry cereal, a cracker, etc.)
So completely exhausted and weak. Can’t sit up.

I’ve done three covid tests and they’re all negative. I’m vaxxed and boosted. The constant fever is worrying me - it comes down to 38/37.9 with paracetamol but never lower and never for more than half an hour so I am raging with it day and night.

I feel utterly desperate. We decided not to ring 111 today as I simply couldn’t cope with travelling an hour to our out of hours. We live rurally. I’m trying to make it to morning and hoping more local gp can see me.

Husband is worried and he doesn’t get worried by stuff like this usually. I don’t know how much longer I can go on like this. If flu how long before there is some respite? If not that then what? I am wondering about pneumonia or something?

One really not one to advise taking antibiotics unnecessarily but if you're someone who has only had antibiotics a handful of times in your life I would just take them

If you feel that bad, do go to A&E - I bet if they give you a proper test it will be Covid as it is rife right now, but it sounds like it might need further medical attention, especially if you are breathless. Do you have a pulse oximeter to keep an eye on your sats?

Oxygen at 96 isn't great though. When I was admitted, I was told if it went below 95 I would be given an oxygen tank.

96% is absolutely fine. The normal range is 95-100%.

I thought it was oxygen levels late 80's that meant you should have oxygen mask?

We've just had a virus op and it was horrendous. D&V and felt like a massive hangover. Body aching, headaches, nausea and then a sore throat so I think it was probably Covid !

Why would a doctor prescribe antibiotics for a VIRAL infection? Antibiotics are for bacterial infections. So much ineptitude today in the NHS unfortunately. Also, as I said in an earlier post, anything containing paracetamol will MASK your high temp, which will then be disguising your symptoms. I would dial 999 and ask for an ambulance, let them triage you. If no luck, a&e. If no luck, Martha’s Law (your right to a second opinion from a different doctor)

95% oxygen saturation for an elderly person is normal

Unfortunately, many patients have died from sepsis because their temperature has been lowered from taking paracetamol - they arrive at a&e in an ambulance, feeling generally very ill, temp taken, docs don’t know what to do with them, few hours later, patient dies from septic shock. Sepsis is one of the biggest killers in this country. Medics do not always get things correct. My DF died from septic shock because of an infection that was not acknowledged or treated.

Ps when I had my first covid vaccine I felt so ill I thought I was going to die - as others are experiencing this with covid, it sounds like the “impending doom” feeling could be related to covid as well as sepsis.

96% is normal

Please dont spread panic

The OP's SpO2 of 96% is normal for a child, adult, elderly, or whatever.

It's only a worry if she has something like COPD in which case it would be too high.

That temperature. Mixed with your heart rate and how ill you feel i would honestly go to A&E for some blood tests

There is no way a doctor just looking at you can rule out sepsis

My GP sent an ambulance for me for less. Please go to A&E

I didn't meant to spread panic! That's what I was told at the hospital.
To he fair when it dropped to 95 I felt terrible.

Really wishing you feel better soon op.

Adding to the PPs advising you to go to A&E, OP. Or call for an ambulance. I'm not assuming I know more than a GP, it just isn't worth the risk.

im an ex nurse , I think you should go to A and E .
12 years ago I went to my gp after a cut on my finger caused my hand to balloon and went black , I felt so ill and had a sense that something terrible was happening , but I couldn’t put my finger (excuse the pun) on it … my temp was 40 , gp sent me away with antibiotics . 8 hours later I was rushed to hospital with life threatening sepsis and told if I’d gone to sleep I’d have died in my sleep , I had two surgeries to save my hand and spent a year having appointments and hand physio . My hand was permanently damaged and I have contracture in the finger going into my palm .. I only ended up in an and e because a friend begged me to call 111 , they sent an ambulance .

I second get to AE - I had similar HR & Temp recently during my illness . I'm an HCP too and didn't have a sense of impending doom but knew things would get much worse if I wasn't seen .
Are you keeping fluid down and passing urine ?

It’s not really flu season is it? I’d put money on it being Covid. I was like this three weeks ago. Tested myself and it was negative. Tested by hospital and I think you never do it to yourself quite as invasively. Positive. Feel shit, even still.

Perhaps you could test yourself again.

@Daffodils9 I am concerned for a couple of reasons.

~The GP has not (presumably) done a urine dip, or a blood test. That means that if there is a bacterial infection, they don't know if the antibiotics are the right ones.

~'Viral' is not synonymous with 'minor'. Many viruses can be very serious.

~'keep it until it gets better' is only a good saying if it gets better. You are getting worse.

~You have a significant fever, high heart rate, and we have no idea about blood pressure.

I would not be waiting to see if you got better if you were in my house

More red flags than England bunting. You need to go to A&E, be sure that it's not sepsis.

When my Dad phoned 111 with a temp and heart rate like that, they sent an ambulance

He had the start of sepsis

I echo other PP's - go to A&E, you have nothing to lose

How are you feeling OP?

Just got back from A&E with my kid she wasn't even that sick, I just need emergency care as she was given an antibiotic that wasn't working! That's what it's for, and now she's running around. Please get checked out better to be safe than sorry

You're actually feeling worse not even slightly better, I think you do need to go to A&E.
You've not had a blood or urine test.

How are thing now op?