Sensible advice please - unwell and not sure what to do

[QuestionableMouse]

I've woken up feeling awful - sore throat, sore mouth, blocked nose, horrible productive chesty cough, sore chest (from coughing) and bad fatigue. Normally I'd just treat it as a viral bug but I've had a couple of moments with palpitations (where I'm really aware of my heartbeat.) I am feeling pretty dry at the moment so sipping water.

Pulse and o2 is fine per my monitor but it's freaking me out. On hold to 111 currently but I'm not sure if I should just head through to the local walk in.

I do have some health anxiety and I'm not sure how much that's playing into this!

Thank you!

This 100%

Mine started last year after my parents and I got Covid. My mum is CEV and became seriously unwell with encephalitis very quickly - but I'd encouraged her to get checked the day before because she really wasn't right. She literally went from talking to me to just not there in minutes and it was absolutely terrifying. I thought I was watching her die. And then she spent weeks in ICU hanging on by a thread.

Then she came home and collapsed with weird "seizures" that made me think the same thing was happening. It wasn't, iirc it was a medication issue. (which honestly, I'm not sure if I do because I was in survival mode from Sept-Jan). And then we get to December.

I got a call from my dad saying she was unwell again. I got there after driving like a mad thing to find her wheezing with an o2 sat of 84 (on the home one). Got her in the car and through to the hospital. Two days later, right before Christmas, I'm there dropping some clean stuff off and her doc takes me to one side and says she's not really improving and what are my wishes.

Thank God she made it, but honestly it was months of unrelenting hell (during which I got Covid again, was assaulted at work and my little nephew ended up in the RVI with a ruptured appendix and was also very poorly). And probably because of all the stress, I now have Long Covid which comes with some fun and interesting symptoms.

So yeah, I'm anxious, but honestly wouldn't anyone be?

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4436990-I-dont-think-I-can-do-it-any-more

You’ve been through some awful things OP. But If they make you have extreme anxiety for the rest of your life then no. That’s not normal or healthy. I get it. We spent a year thinking our eldest child might die (health related). It took treatment for me to avoid panicking at every health related thing. But it’s worth it.

Honestly 99% of the time I'm fine - it just occasionally sneaks up on me!

Take some Paracetamol with about 1/2 a pint of water. Go to sleep. Take more Paracetamol in 6 hours. Repeat. About 1/2 the population has got, or has had, this bug.

So learning some techniques to help in those moments would be helpful.

Glad you got help - do ignore all the posters twats saying take paracetamol & go to bed.
I've had similar for a few days, without the palpitations, but the phlegm, fevery, temperature etc. I have a history of throat and chest infections developing into bronchitis, so recognise the symptoms, although thankfully this is the first time in a while.
I filled in an e-consult with the GP, the surgery called within five minutes, GP appointment in the morning.

Hope you feel better soon.

Sounds similar to the latest form of covid doing the rounds. Had it end of November and still getting over the cough.

Seriously? I listened to a Dr on Radio 4 Today in the early days of the pandemic who said everyone should have an oximeter in their home.
So I bought one and I keep it with our digital thermometer and blood pressure monitor

It states in the OP that the poster has checked her pulse and oxygen - maybe you need to add a home eyesight test to your box of tricks?

If someone has had pneumonia or bronchitis, sore throats over the next year or more have a tendency to develop into that again and again until the damage is healed. Not getting treatment promptly is likely to exacerbate the repeat episodes and/or make them more severe, so the damage will take longer to heal.
OP may have health anxieties - but getting this checked out and appropriate treatment is pragmatic.

Not covid, or at least it isn't testing as Covid. I've done three tests from two different sets and always got a negative.

(I test often because my mum is CEV and so is the lady where I work as a housekeeper)