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To be getting quite worried now?

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Anon9839399720 · 01/10/2024 12:49

Posting for traffic I’m sorry

I have been unwell since about the 20th august. First saw a doctor on the 25th august, said I had a virus. saw a doctor a few times over the course of a week a few weeks later, on the Monday the dr agreed it was viral, by the Friday I needed antibiotics.

Initial symptoms were terrible cough with mucous, fever, headaches etc with awful sinus pain.

Last Monday I was put on another course of antibiotics, symptoms lessened but still there.
I’ve now finished these antibiotics. This was due to on going sinus issues. I also had a mammoth cold sore due to being so run down.

Yesterday and today I have felt extremely sick, no vomiting but stomach pain and waves of dizziness/cramps and I have no appetite at all. I don’t have a fever but my temp is 37.4 which is warm for me.

I just feel dreadful. im worried something else is going on. I saw a GP yesterday who said let’s give it a few more weeks to clear. I am so dizzy, I feel so sick and hot. I just don’t know what else to do? Still coughing slightly but the temp and stomach issues are worrying me more.

also have a breastfed baby so limited on what they can give me and also worried about having to go to a&e because she would have to come with me 😢😢😢

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LeonardsDenims · 01/10/2024 12:55

That sounds really difficult! Any chance it could it be mastitis as you are breastfeeding? Alternatively, any chance you could be pregnant?

If you are not feeling right, blood clot or sepsis are the 'silent' worst case scenarios, it's probably not this but worse mentioning. Disclaimer, I am not medically trained.

I EBF mine and found it at times physically extremely draining, it could be that you had a virus and now another one.... Are you all good on your vitamins? Babies deplete you, even more so if you are EBF.

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Anon9839399720 · 01/10/2024 12:58

LeonardsDenims · 01/10/2024 12:55

That sounds really difficult! Any chance it could it be mastitis as you are breastfeeding? Alternatively, any chance you could be pregnant?

If you are not feeling right, blood clot or sepsis are the 'silent' worst case scenarios, it's probably not this but worse mentioning. Disclaimer, I am not medically trained.

I EBF mine and found it at times physically extremely draining, it could be that you had a virus and now another one.... Are you all good on your vitamins? Babies deplete you, even more so if you are EBF.

Definitely not mastitis and definitely not pregnant.
The silent things are the things I am most worried about to be honest.
my daughter has a peads appointment today and her eeg tomorrow so I feel stuck 😭 I just don’t know what else to do!

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Cobblersorchard · 01/10/2024 13:02

I had a virus with secondary bacterial infection like this last year, ill for 7 weeks. I’m saying this to reassure you, it was grim
but ultimately nothing serious. It just took forever to go.

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Anon9839399720 · 01/10/2024 13:04

Cobblersorchard · 01/10/2024 13:02

I had a virus with secondary bacterial infection like this last year, ill for 7 weeks. I’m saying this to reassure you, it was grim
but ultimately nothing serious. It just took forever to go.

Thank you.
my plan right now is, if I stay the same and get no worse I’ll go back to the gp on Thursday. If I do get worse I’ll go to urgent care and have to rearrange my daughters eeg :(

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PixieMcGraw · 01/10/2024 13:25

I am not a doctor but have a relative in hospital atm. Covid is presenting largely with gastrointestinal symptoms and a temperature so it might be that and quite separate to everything else that has happened. Can you test?

LeonardsDenims · 01/10/2024 14:20

How old is your baby?

LeonardsDenims · 01/10/2024 14:21

I'm asking as I wondered if it could be an infection related to child birth?

MathsMum3 · 01/10/2024 14:42

Have you tested for Covid? It's doing the rounds (DH just had it), and symptoms can be longlasting and varied.

hydriotaphia · 01/10/2024 14:46

Perhaps see another GP for a second opinion? No one can diagnose you on here and it isn't really safe to take medical advice from a forum like this.

ForPearlViper · 01/10/2024 15:19

Cobblersorchard · 01/10/2024 13:02

I had a virus with secondary bacterial infection like this last year, ill for 7 weeks. I’m saying this to reassure you, it was grim
but ultimately nothing serious. It just took forever to go.

Me too. 3 months to clear. When a bad virus hits, it gives your immune system a big hit so you are more inclined to get everything that is going one illness after another. You could see if your doctor is willing to give you a wellness check - blood screen, etc - just to put your mind at rest.

Geneticsbunny · 01/10/2024 16:33

I felt awful after I had my daughter for months and it turned out to be anemia. It lowers your immune system.

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Anon9839399720 · 01/10/2024 17:48

My baby is 12 months. So not a recent birth. She has multiple allergies so breastfeeding is her main source of nutrition, hence why I’m so worried if I had to go in and leave her :(

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Anon9839399720 · 01/10/2024 17:49

I’ll get my hands on a covid test. Just had something to eat for the first time in a few days and I can feel my stomach gurgling already 😭 my sinuses are killing! But no fever

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staypositivex · 01/10/2024 17:57

I had this in July and it was Covid!! I had awful sinusitis which spread to an ear infection from I assume blowing my nose constantly, I couldn't breathe properly, my hearing was muffled, on and off fever, cough with mucus, GP prescribed antibiotics for acute sinusitis and the day after I started them I found some left over Covid tests, did one out of interest and it was positive. I felt AWFUL for weeks it literally took weeks for my sinuses and ears to clear as I was SO tired for weeks after. Try and do a Covid test if you're able to get some, I was also worried I had something serious going on and although I was panicked when I saw I had Covid, it was a slight relief to know what was causing it

staypositivex · 01/10/2024 17:59

staypositivex · 01/10/2024 17:57

I had this in July and it was Covid!! I had awful sinusitis which spread to an ear infection from I assume blowing my nose constantly, I couldn't breathe properly, my hearing was muffled, on and off fever, cough with mucus, GP prescribed antibiotics for acute sinusitis and the day after I started them I found some left over Covid tests, did one out of interest and it was positive. I felt AWFUL for weeks it literally took weeks for my sinuses and ears to clear as I was SO tired for weeks after. Try and do a Covid test if you're able to get some, I was also worried I had something serious going on and although I was panicked when I saw I had Covid, it was a slight relief to know what was causing it

My temp was also mid 37s like you so not a raging fever but still higher than usual. Paracetamol for the pain, plenty of water and plenty of rest! X

HelloVeritas · 01/10/2024 18:06

Another one here to suggest Covid or post covid symptoms.

I had dreadful cough/cold symptoms initially followed but pretty much everything else you've listed and had a positive Covid test.

This was 4 weeks ago and I'm still not 100%

Geneticsbunny · 02/10/2024 08:19

My blood loss was so severe that I was still anemic nearly a year later. Low vitamin d also screws up your immune system and causes low mood and back ache. Could it be that?

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