I have been reading these threads with interest. Last week (shortly after you started the first thread OP), I felt like I was coming down with a mild cold (sore throat, sneezing, runny nose etc). Usually, I suffer very badly when I get colds. I get through 2 boxes of tissues per day, my eyes stream so that I can’t see and I feel terrible and the symptoms are usually bad for a week.
This cold didn’t seem to progress and I felt as if I was fighting it off. On day two, as well as the mild symptoms, I felt like I had a burning in my chest (I was trying to think if I’d eaten anything acidic), I also developed a cough (not hacking, more like if you inhale an irritant) and I suddenly felt exhausted. I was walking along and I felt like I had to stop and wanted to go to bed. This was at 9.00 in the morning. I felt exhausted all day. I carried on though and commented to DH that I felt breathless like my bra was constricting my chest and like the area behind my breastbone was burning. I also felt cold.
I was reading Mumsnet in the middle of the night worrying about the burning, when your first thread came up in Active. I didn’t see the topic, but I clicked on it thinking “thank goodness someone else knows this feeling”. I was fully expecting a thread about acid indigestion. However, when I read all the posts, my blood ran cold as they were almost identical to what I was experiencing. I didn’t post though as my symptoms weren’t as bad as other people’s.
My mild cold symptoms abruptly disappeared after 4 days and I felt ok again, but 5 days later, they came back minus the chest feeling. I don’t know whether I’m just fighting a cold or what, but the chest thing last week was quite painful and I also had some upper back pain.