Has anyone else got a virus that they just can’t shift?

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A couple of weeks into it now and it’s really starting to get me down, has anyone got anything similar?

Yup feel like utter shite. 3 weeks ago we went away, I had 3 drinks one night, woke up and puked for wales, had the poops, felt run down. Husband thought hangover but after 3 drinks? Then he started to come down with something, I had a sore throat which I still have but it’s not as bad, I’ve been on antibiotics for my chest, (and asthma so anything goes to my chest) and I’m so so so tired. I just feel tired behind my eyes. Oh and a big fat cold sore which I get when I’m run down. I’ve had tonsillitis 5 times in 2 years so I think that’s coming. I just feel constantly shite!!

Im so sorry to hear others are struggling too.
Is anyone else feeling out of character sad?!
Big hugs to everyone, I hope we all get better soon.

This year, I'm fine. Hooray for me.

But

In January 1988 I started a virus that went on and on. I stupidly tried to fight it with exercise (very dangerous, lucky I didn't kill myself) and got one secondary bacterial infection after another - I think I had five courses of antibitoics, and five weeks of sick leave over about three months - the most I ever had to take in my life. Eventually the GP took an armful of blood into those little sectioned-off plastic bottles and sent me for a chest x-ray, after which he told me I didn't have pleurisy, brucellosis, glandular fever, TB, pneumonia, but did have an infection. Gee, thanks doc. He advised me to take a tonic. Which I did.

Over the course of the summer I improved, started fighting sore throats with ice cream as a local analgesic and general unwellness with blue cheese, and boosting my system with protein, but it wasn't until late November that I caught an old fashioned cold in the head and realised all at once that snotty and sneezy as I was, the other infection had GONE! The only time I have ever been grateful to catch a cold, but it saw the other thing off.

So my message would be, don't despair, these things can be clingy and debilitating, look after yourself, and trust that it will eventually shift.

PS, the blue cheese sounds counterintuitive but it is very good for getting the gut flora back into order. If your gut has been affected by the thing it is important to take B vitamins - the cheapest supermarket multi-B will be fine, take them last thing at night, preferably with a little glass of milk. Not with tea, coffee or alcohol.

Thank you @DeanElderberry 😀. I have had to take antibiotics just before this viral infection started so you think that could’ve added to the fatigue?

Sounds like what DH and his mum have got.

It's possible - try the cheese and the multi-Bs, and be kind to yourself - don't push yourself to exercise until you feel your blood is clear of infection. Being ill is horrible and hard for a usually healthy person to adjust to. With luck, it passes. Eventually.

Tired for about a week, sore throat started Sunday, diarrhoea Monday, not bad today,but I've been very unusually irritable and noise intolerant. This thread has made me wonder about covid, with me not being too bad, and also vaccinated.

is it still going round, i started 29th dec last year only felt 100% better mid feb, thought i was never going to feel well again,try sleeping well get vitamins drink plenty of fluids. eat lots of fruit and veg,get well soon

Had a nasty one at ours. First child was out sick 2 weeks. High fever, cough, exhaustion, negative covid.
I and other child caught it. Child was fine in 3 days. I couldn't shift it - high fever, sore throat, cough, exhaustion, headache. After 10 days hospitalised as I had a secondary bacterial infection in my chest.

I had it and was a pathetic miserable mess. I have never felt sooooo achey and feeble. I very rarely use the GP but called twice (they were v good and stuck to guidelines not prescribing ABs as clearly viral and talking me
down from google-diagnosed pleurisy...)

But i felt so crap and entirely convinced i'd never get my life back

FWIW - rest, ibuprofen /neurofen plus at the worst times and lucozade got me through

but it's crap and i really feel for you. It does
get better- don't be a martyr . look after yourself

Yes and I’m also feeling really low about it, I just can’t seem to shake it although I’ve had some time off work. The coughing has got so bad that my pelvic floor is giving up and I have to wear Tena pads as I’m peeing with the constant coughing/sneezing.

Yes, I have been ill for 5 weeks. Cough but not persistent, sore throat, fatigue and on some days body aching and no matter how much I sleep I still wake up tired.

I had this about 6 weeks ago. The illness itself wasn't too bad- cold like symptoms and a fever for a few days- but I was incredibly fatigued for a month- and that is very upsetting, not being able to do all the stuff you need to do. It went away all of a sudden after the kids nagged me to go kayaking- it's like the effects of exercise on the body chased it off! But I remember feeling so low a couple of days prior to that- despairing at not feeling better at all. I did a LFT and it was negative- but I lost my sense of smell for about a week, so I'm still suspicious it was Covid.

I’ve had it, just starting week 3 now. Such a bad cold to start with, exhausted, so much sneezing, couldn’t breathe through my nose for around 5 days, waking up gasping at night, no taste or smell.

Then went through a wheezy stage, tight feeling chest, still sneezing.

Now super runny nose, feeling dehydrated and run down. My husband is a few days ahead of me and he has a cough so guess o have that to look forward to next.

@MsRosewater i too convinced myself I had myocarditis and/or pleurisy

I have all of these symptoms too, along with a really bad cough, I feel so down, two weeks in and not feeling any better.

have hardly left the house in two weeks, done no exercise at all as my chest is so wheezy and I’m so exhausted I don’t think I could cope.

100 day cough whooping cough variant. I started beginning of April, I’m almost better.

Exercise is dangerous when you are ill. Sorry to repeat myself, but I've known three hitherto strong and healthy people who died because they insisted on keeping up their usual running regime while suffering from an infection.

Again, B vitamins - take a little more than the recommended daily dose, last thing at night - it will help with the depression as well as everything else.

Sorry you're feeling so ill, I'm exactly the same as you. It goes and then comes back. I started with it on the 20th March. It's been awful but the dizziness and fatigue are worse. I also get a poorly tummy which comes and goes too.

Can I ask, do you feel a sort of pressure in your head? Like it's full of something? It's the weirdest thing I've ever had. Ruined my big birthday plans too.

I've had chronic fatigue - literally not been able to stay awake.

Pain in arms and legs along with muscle spasms.

No cough or sickness. This is day 6.

My brain is clear and the fatigue has shifted but the muscle aches in my legs and arms won't go

If I try to lift anything my arms turn stiff and if I go upstairs my legs turn stiff. Physically can't move because of the pain. Feels like I'm being weight down by a tonne of bricks on my arms and legs.

Yes, I had the head/pressure thing too. Assumed it was my sinuses but weird and painful

Yes fatigue, cough, aches and pains, wheezy chest and breathless. It's horrible. I'm on day 4 was hoping it would go soon!

@MrsDeaconClaybourne

The pressure in my head has been so awful. Like a mixture of feeling dizzy, feeling like someone has squeezed my head really tightly and let go, and like my sinuses were full of gunk.

I had it for a couple of weeks over Christmas, then it went away until March and I've had it on and off now for two months. It's horrible.

Also had a migraine for a couple of days at its worst.

I'm almost pleased it's not just me!!

I’m glad I’m not the only one. Went abroad for Easter and picked up this virus on the plane. Had it all through holiday and until nearly end of April.

Clear for two and half weeks and it’s back and worse. But now no cold but appalling chest infection and coughing. Nights are exhausting.

Have now been given antibiotics and desperately hoping for the thing to clear.
The fatigue is off the scale. I’m lucky I run my own business and it’s a quiet time but there’s work ahead next week. I can take myself off to bed in the day and just do the basic stuff I need to.