Healthy people why are you so scared of catching covid 19?

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Serious question. I’m interested in why healthy people with no underlying problems are so unhappy about starting to get back to normal. I’m not talking about shielded people who need to stay shielded. But everyone else.

I thought paracetamol was best not taken so the fever does it’s job(adults only) and that taking it can prolong the illness. Is that not what medics are advising?

I've been on different antibiotics, as they thought there might be secondary infections, but to no avail. This thing just won't go away.

It is possible to be healthy and vulnerable to this. DS and I both have asthma so are vulnerable to being very ill with COVID but we have well controlled asthma so we are healthy.

@Mesomeplace thanks - I am taking every single supplement under the sun though.

@Mittens030869 that's awful! I'm angry about the no testing too, I don't understand it at all. It feels like we're just collateral damage, expendable.

We're hidden away in our homes so the general public have no idea of the true extent of this. There are hospital beds empty because people with Covid are being told to manage horrific symptoms at home. It's scandalous really.

@Greenpop21 As I understood it, it was ibuprofen that we shouldn't take. I've tried to avoid paracetamol but I get very bad chest pain from all the coughing and I have to take a painkiller of some sort so I can manage to cough when I need to.

A lot of people aren't getting a fever @Greenpop21 I didn't. It went straight to my chest. I'm using paracetamol for the crippling constant chest and lung pain.

Interestingly the colleagues of mine who are most scared are doctors and nurses. (We're in mental health, not general.) Me and the other sws are quite blasé, but the medics and nursing staff are generally very worried. I suppose for them it's because they have, when doing their training or working in general med before moving into psych, seen apparently healthy people die or suffer greatly from what should be quite easily defeated illnesses, and they remember that.

In my head, I seem to assume I won't get it, but that if I do get it, I will die. I don't know how common that is. I am also really worried about getting it and passing it to someone who is vulnerable.

Can't believe this is a serious question. OP why are you being goady? Read the news please!

Disclaimer- I’m not a medic.
I’ve been watching Dr John Campbell’s videos on YouTube and heard some doctors discuss the benefit of fever. Basically, in very simple terms, your body’s immune system will fight the virus better if allowed to heat up. ADULTS ONLY as children can have a febrile fit. I’m not ill and obviously if you’re in pain I’m not telling you not to take it. Wondering if there’s pain relief without antipyretic effect.

Wishing all of you suffering, a quick recovery to full health.

I haven't had a high fever myself, unlike last year when I had flu that turned into pneumonia. With this, I had 38 once and that's the highest it's been. Mostly it's fluctuated between 37.5 and 37.9, and only gone up late morning/early afternoon.

Although it has to be said that my normal temperature is very low, it never even goes up to 37.

@SimpleKindofLife Thank you for the kind words. I also get the rage when people go on about it being a 'mild infection'. For some people it is(it was for DD2), but for a great many of us it really isn't,

Wishing all of you suffering, a quick recovery to full health.

Thank you but unfortunately that’s not the nature of it for us unlucky 50ish %. It’s an extremely protracted (3-6 months best guess, possibly 12 if hospitalised) up and down recovery.

@Mittens030869 are you on the Covid Lungs 40 plus plus plus thread? Sorry if you are and I've missed you. It's been a great support.

@Egghead68 That's certainly fits with what I'm going through. I already had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome following my pneumonia last year, so I'm certainly not expecting a quick recovery.

@SimpleKindofLife Thank you for reminding me about that thread. I had a look at it a few weeks ago and I'll go on there again, I'll really appreciate the support now, as it's been really discouraging to think I'm better and then to go downhill again.

I find it infuriating when the government say the NHS has managed not to be overwhelmed by the virus. Of course they haven't! They've achieved this by not taking us into hospital or even testing us!

I will check out that thread. It does feel like you are left to feel like you are going to die at home. It's no one's fault it's just how it feels. The breathing feels like a tight band around my chest it being slowly strangled. Blood oxygen levels are normal so I have no bloody idea what the hell is going on

@Mesomeplace As I understand it, what tends to happen is that the immune system goes into overdrive and that's the reason for all the distressing symptoms. I'm exactly the same as you, it's been so scary. Last year, with the pneumonia, it was much more straightforward, as the blood tests led to a proper diagnosis and I was given the right antibiotics.

Of course, as this is a virus, there really isn't a lot they can do.

It does feel like you are left to feel like you are going to die at home.

Yes in week 2 I wrote my will and instructions for after my death.

"Yes in week 2 I wrote my will and instructions for after my death."

This is so scary and people ask why we're afraid of getting it.

People should be afraid. Even if you don’t die there is a good chance it will be horrible. Try not to get it.

It's still scary for me now. I'm self-isolating obviously and so my DH is in the spare bedroom. I've heard of people dying during the night because they weren't able to call for help. The thought of that you s very unnerving, especially as it has a way of suddenly getting worse again.

One very weird symptom is extreme nausea on and off. It's not the same as a normal stomach bug, though, as it comes and goes. I had a very bad time with it last night.

@Egghead68, @Mittens030869, @Mesomeplace, (sorry if I missed anyone out) it sounds horrific, I’m so sorry! And the lack of testing and of proper support is outrageous. to you all.

Thank you earlgreywithlemon.

Egg head I wrote my will too. The thing is the symptoms go so quickly from a week of feeling poorly to drastic illness i think I might die. It's very scary and I would never have believed it myself if I hadn't experienced it. For me after the initial mild flu symptoms it couldn't be less like the flu. More like having lung failure. No energy not even able to walk from room to room. It's no joke and I fear for people when lock down ends if they catch it.

Mittens I had terrible pains in my stomach like labour for 48hrs it was so painful. I hope it passes for you soon. Now I have daily diarrhoea what a joy along with weakness and not able to breathe

@Mesomeplace Yep I've had diarrhoea too, though on and off and not for a little while now.

For me, the hardest thing has been staying upbeat as much as possible and reassuring my DDs that I'm going to be okay, when at times I haven't been sure of that at all. (They're adopted and often get anxious in normal times.). They're 11 and 8 as well, so too big to be fobbed off, they know that people do die of COVID-19.

I wouldn't say it's like flu, it's more like the pneumonia I had last year, but antibiotics won't get rid of if, so it's worse.

I'm sorry so many of you are going through the same symptoms, it really is so grim.