I live in a region that only yesterday had its first confirmed case. About two weeks ago I was very unwell and taken to hospital with unexplained chest pain that they couldn’t find any reason for. For three or four days prior to that I had been unwell with a high temperature and dry cough that started with a sore throat. It seemed to get better for a day or two then came back for another couple of days. Two weeks on I am mostly better but still have a bit of a cough.
My mum put the idea in my head as from mid January to mid February she had a horrible illness. She had an awful cough and high temperature and was given three lots of antibiotics that didn’t help before eventually going on a brown inhaler. She is mostly better now too but she said to me that through her work, she had four Chinese clients. She thinks she may have had it, in hindsight.
I’m now wondering if the chest pain I felt that eventually settled on my right side just between my lower ribs might have been some type of pleurisy but my chest sounded clear so they didn’t X-ray. Just ecg of my heart and bloods.
My baby also became unwell around the same time as me with the same symptoms but he was also cutting a tooth too so I put it down to that.
What do people think? Thankfully I live in the country and very rarely go out just now so if I have had it I’m fairly certain I haven’t spread it about but I can’t help worrying.