Worried I have Coronavirus

[ohshit2020]

I know this might sound silly or far fetched but hear me out..

I'm very rarely ill. Probably once a year if that. But now I have the most horrendous cough, I can't catch my breath sometimes when the coughing starts. It's come out of nowhere and I'm absolutely floored.

Im seriously worried that it's something sinister. Like I said I'm rarely ill so this is out of sorts for me. I feel like I can't function because of the sore throat, coughing and general feeling of being unwell.

AIBU here? It's just so scary with everything that is going on at the moment, I'm thinking all sorts in my head.

Unless you have travelled to Wuhan, or China in the last few days the chances of you having it are very small.

Wash your hands frequently, and get yourself to the GP.

I had the worst flu of my life over NY, so I think this year's strain is just exceptionally nasty (but not coronavirus). The coronavirus apparently doesn't make people drip snot all over the place, so if you have that as a symptom you're probably fine.

Is it @Cal72 who mentioned Nexium? That stuff is brilliant and fast acting. And OTC.

real flu can be terrible op.the doc said to me if you see a 50 pound note on the floor and you have flu you wont have the enrgy to go pick it up!
and can make you breathless and so can a chest infection.and it can compeltely floor you.
so can some colds.especially if its in the sinus area.those types of bunged up colds can almost make you feel slightly depressed.
try not to worry.do all the things people say to look afte ryourself
keep dry and warm.keep rested.take really full deep breathes so you filling and emptying your lungs properly. keep fed.try taking some multivits and or other boosters.
lots of fluid even if you dont feel like it.
sleep

I live in Hong Kong and trust me I know how you feel, every little ache or cough makes me wonder. The panic here over masks and how to stay healthy is over the top.

The chances of you having it though are so incredibly slim, it'll just be a normal cold or a standard flu if you're unlucky.

Anyone's else noticing the irony that if the OP has a common cold, then she has a 15% chance (about 1/6) of it being a coronavirus?
Just very unlikely that it's the 2019 nCoV strain.

It probably doesn’t help that flu season has lined up nicely with the Lunar new year, so a large number of Chinese people from around the world have gone ‘home’ over the past month or so and the migration of so many to and from an affected area has spread both the disease and the panic along with it. We’re scrutinising every sniffle and twinge this year, while last year there wasn’t anything unusual going about so we automatically wrote the same symptoms off as “that’s my third cold this winter, grah ” The NHS is on it, though. We still have only 2 confirmed cases here, both returned home from China so direct source rather than random spread. Any flights in are being quarantined. Other countries are being safe too.

No it's not. I have had flu twice. Both times, I wanted to die. I couldn't move, never mind pick up a phone. After the first few days, maybe. But not at first. I couldn't do anything. The DC were very small then, and asked me (with great interest): "are you dying, Mummy?"

Yes it is. The flu was severe for you. It isn't for everyone. Wishforsnow is correct.

Have you been to China love. This whole chorovirus is very scary. Don’t believe a WORD that the Chinese government says, they’re are full of lies. Nothing against the Chineses people but there’re government is a propaganda machine. only 400 people have died MY ARSE. Why would they quarantine a whole city????

Have you been to China love. This whole chorovirus is very scary. Don’t believe a WORD that the Chinese government says, they’re are full of lies. Nothing against the Chineses people but there’re government is a propaganda machine. only 400 people have died MY ARSE. Why would they quarantine a whole city????

Er.... are you okay?

@florababy84 Smh my head. More of the Chinese Communist Party’s bots spreading lies and misinformation. Wake up to the truth, even if it is not pretty.

I have had seasonal flu a couple of times. Horrendous. My usual advice to people is that a cold comes on more gradually. You feel not great a day or two before. Flu is usually hours. You are at work and feel fine. You go home, two hours later you are in bed, shivering, temp is high and you won't be out of bed for the best part of a week. At some point you are probably thinking you are actually going to die. You would not be on Mumnet unless after 3+ days most likely as you literally won't be awake/have the energy to do so. The general test is the 'if you were offered £50 to sit up and take the banknote and you do, it's a cold. If you have no idea there's anyone else in the room/your thought is f* off/the banknote is going in and out of focus/you wish you had the energy to even get up to go to the loo' you have flu.

If you've never had flu and you are unsure it's a type of flu, it's not flu.

However, do make sure you get a flu vaccine every year, without fail. Also, if you are in a higher risk category or environment, have a sort of distress signal to someone - so you can let someone know you are about to be really ill. People do die of seasonal flu, it is serious.

You know, I'd be more prepared to accept "the truth" from someone who doesn't call it "chlorovirus" and who can spell.

Step away from the David Icke forums.

Ok. Normally trolls are annoying, but Got actually made me giggle

This whole chorovirus is very scary

Shit. Is there new virus that isn't the coronavirus now?? We are doomed.

Yup. You get the chlorovirus from swimming pools, obvs. If you don't believe it, you're a sheeple.

Phew! I don't go to swimming pools. I am safe.

I had whatever this is at the beginning of Jan.
Started off in my chest ,then had aching joints ,sneezing, blocked nose ..
Was in bed for a week .
Lots of people I know had the same thing so it seems to be a very bad cold virus (convinced it wasn’t flu as some days I could get out of bed for an hour )
I did joke to my husband that I could’ve had corona virus but I don’t think you could really know as it seems similar to any other virus unless you have other health issues from what I can gather

Chorovirus.

Chrorovirus actually exists.
And, actually,
Chlorovirus ATCV-1 is part of the human oropharyngeal virome and is associated with changes in cognitive functions in humans and mice
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4234575/

I'll stick with the chorovirus. The one the Chinese government isn't telling us about at all, because they also never heard of it.

Sorry:

ChLorovirus actually exists.

My dd told me some kids were being horrible to a boy on the bus as he has a Chinese family. I worry about the racism being created... :(

Look you can attempt to ridicule my views but the Chinese government controls all information coming out of that country. How can we trust the words of an authoritarian regime??

It has been discussed in similar threads that the Chinese government isn't telling the whole truth, either by blatantly lying or because they don't have the whole picture.
The WHO has recognised that they are being much more open this time, though.