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?

I had two weeks of this last year with Covid, the fever went on for over a week it was horrendous,I lost 7lbs on the first week. It was 5 weeks before I felt anywhere near well. Drink lots, keep up with pain killers,rest. Hope it passes soon for you.

This! The length of time you've been so ill also.

This is a great explanation. Never understood it before!

Sorry, edited to say that I hope you feel much better very soon op. The symptoms you describe in your op sound very scary. If you can get to A&E they will hopefully reassure you one way or another.

So relieved to hear your update. A relative of mine in her 40s recently died suddenly, sepsis suspected.
💐💐💐

Bless you. Hope you feel better soon

Sorry to hear that you're still poorly @Daffodils9 , but I'm glad that you're getting lots of treatment. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Apologies ^^ when I posted this last night I had somehow missed your update op.

So glad to hear that you are in hospital
receiving treatment and hope you are starting to feel a lot better! 💐💐💐

@IAmTheSockThief I had sepsis last year and my experience was very similar.

I just remember laying there - god knows how many days into it and thinking "oh ok this is what dying feels like - I wonder how long it'll take".

It's definitely left an impact on me. I hope you're well now.

Thank you everyone. Not sure what the diagnosis is still but looking like pneumonia with other things going on as well. Waiting on more test results.

Hope you get well soon. How scary.

Oxygen was 89/90 and heart rate high. On continuous oxygen at the moment and hooked up to lots of stuff. Feel very weird.

I'm glad you went in and got help.

Thinking of you OP - glad you are in the right place .

Also - to anyone reading please, please never underestimate sepsis. If in any doubt then be see . I'm a nursing student and I've seen it kill incredibly quickly - I knew a fit and healthy lady who scratched herself on a rose gardening, and who died 5 days later.

Yikes! Really hope that changes soon 🙏

Goodness, your GP has a few questions to answer.

sh1t. thank goodness you went to hospital. Your GP needs a letter, from what you wrote they sounded extremely dismissive.

I have to say, not surprised to read of male doctor 😪 My cousin saw a male GP one Fri after suffering with excruciating headache all week. He said maybe meningitis and sent her home. She had a Massive stroke the next day, hosp suspect due to meningitis.

Too many women aren't taken seriously.

My best care has been given by my male GP. He asks me what I think about my symptoms. He asks me to write a summary of events to date so that he completes referrals more thoroughly. Let's not go down the 'male GPs are rubbish' route.

The reality is that almost any symptom could be a symptom of a life-threatening condition, or something that will pass without treatment. It's the combination of those symptoms and the history that helps them piece it all together. It's not easy and they can get it wrong.

So glad you are in the right place and being taken good care of now, OP. We're all with you wishing you a speedy recovery!

I don't want to derail this thread, and obviously there are many excellent male GPs - like my own mothers.

But there is significant evidence of a Gender Heath Gap, not just in the UK.

www.equipsme.com/blog/the-gender-health-gap-and-what-to-do-if-youve-fallen-in/#:~:text=4.,being%20referred%20to%20a%20specialist.

When you point me to the evidence that it is the sex of the doctor that determines the treatment the woman receives, I'll listen. The gender gap is well known. I haven't seen anything to suggest that female doctors treat females better.

Try this https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/hospital-death-rates-doctor-b2532796.html

So the difference is communication skills and how women respond to a female doctor, according to the article. Not quite the same as misogyny.

I had this 4 weeks ago, went to out of hours GP expecting an infection or virus of some description, three hours later I'm admitted into our main hospital with sepsis from an underlying kidney infection.
REALLY poorly for 5 days and still recovering now!