My lungs feel like they are on fire. Anyone else? - Part 2

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Hi all, new thread as we'd neared the end of the other.

I thought it might be useful to list symptoms we are having / have had:

Day 1 - Diarrhea (mild), slight aches and pains
Day 2 - Flu like symptons, achey joints, fatigue, chills, slight cough, slight chest discomfort, upper back ache
Day 3 - Flu like symptons, achey joings, fatigue, chills, slight cough but felt better than Day 3
Day 4 - Perked up, still a slight cough but more energetic, chest 'ache'
Day 5 - Back to flu like symptoms, burning lungs sensation and ache around bra line began, upper back ache
Day 6 - Pains in chest area (intermittent), cough, fever, very heavy achey chest, trouble sleeping, bit breathless, can't lie on my back as painful
Day 7 - Increase of Day 7 symptoms, pains got sharper in chest
Day 8 - Same as day 7, fever, breathless, can't lie on my back
Day 9 - Feverish, exhausted, achey limbs, chest easing
Day 10 - Feverish, exhausted, achey limbs, chest easing, sore boobs
Day 11 - No fever, felt a bit better, mild chest ache, slight cough
Day 12 - today, exhausted, no fever, chest easing

I have carried on taking my steroid inhaler and not been told otherwise. You have me worried about taking it. Is there evidence to support not taking it. I thought it was ibuprofen and naproxen that had to be stopped

@pinkoneblueone the advice others getting is that it's fine to take preventer as it's not an oral non steroidal.

@pinkoneblueone: my GP said should keep using steroid inhalers if use them regularly. I don’t except when I have a chest infection and didn’t start this time because at that time advice and info seemed unclear. GP was very clear that it is only oral steroids - prednisone - that might be an issue and inhalers fine. She recommended I restart mine if needing more than two doses of the reliever a day. But I am only reporting what she said - please don’t rely on this.

@littleninja there is a thread from 2005 which details how poorly I was but it started with a roaring temp (40) and also very suddenly a day or so before New Year .. I literally aches and aches and felt terrible .. pounding head etc but no cold symptoms and no sore throat .. nothing got the temperature down .. I shivered and burned up for days .. developing an awful initially very productive cough .. bringing up vile coloured brown and green yack .. after a few days my temp went down and the aches etc eased but I was left with an awful hacking cough and I literally couldn’t stop coughing .. I couldn’t sleep or do anything .. I got up and started to move around the house and every step left me exhausted and coughing but by then I didn’t feel I’ll as such .. the cough was dry and non productive and I was literally exhausted with it but I don’t remember odd rib pain or anything like that and the temp was consistent for days before dropping and it didn’t go back up .. My back was hurting all over but more an ache from the constant coughing .. I ended up in hospital when I started to feel confused (due to not getting enough oxygen) and was diagnosed with left lower lobe pneumonia . It then took another week for the cough to ease and several more weeks to start to feel less exhausted etc but I didn’t have weird symptoms that kept coming and going and knew I was on the road to recovery . I did develop pleurisy though which isn’t uncommon and that made my lungs feel like they were grating on my ribs

And even then- I've been TOLD to take oral steroids if I get too breathless. Because of need to treat underlying condition, if so. I'm really hoping that wont be necessary 😳

Only sore chest today, and mild headache but slept all afternoon.

Thank you! My whole chest area is aching so much I am finding it hard to breathe and having it, it feels raw sore and sticky if that makes sense. This is 14 days from feeling the firs chest pains. I feel dreadful and it'd taking every effort not to call 111 again

I think I am panicking a lot I am trying to. on down have taken a couple of puffs of my inhaler

@pinkoneblueone have you tried opening the window? I find breathing fresh air for a bit helps. Or a hot shower with the jet aimed at your upper back. Both will help you calm down a bit and breath more easily. Have you checked your peak flow?

Hi
Did anyone’s start with just an awful headache? Had it for 2 days now and it only fades a little when I first take paracetamol. My temperature is fine. Feel a bit tired but nothing major. Have had a slight sore throat on and off for a week. My only other symptom is slight collar bone pain and occasion pain at the bottom of my ribs. Just really stressing about it as my aunt died from it Saturday. Think I’m just being paranoid.

Interestingly my tickly dry cough is now more persistent than it was at the start of my illness. (I'm day 7 of chest pain).

My DD(7) is now coughing, has a temperature and sore throat.

@Casino218 sorry mum

@coronade so sorry to hear about your aunt.

Were you in contact with her?

Yes some people's started with a headache, I had a dehydrated headache at one point but it wasn't the very first symptom, but everyone is different. It could be CV but it might very well not be.

I'm so sorry about your aunt, coronade. I've had a sore throat for a few days, nothing bad enough to make me worry until the diarrhoea and shivers last night.
The symptoms seem very vague and variable.

@coronade I had collarbone pain but no headache. Mine started with chest tightness and exhaustion.

I know it's scary and easy to be paranoid. I remember from the other thread I think you said your aunt was over 90 and poorly? It's so sad you lost her but it doesn't mean that will happen to you.
Remember the vast majority of people recover and don't need hospital treatment.

Day 1 - sore throat didn't think much of it
Day 2 - mild cough starts, constant and dry but only in evening
Day 3 - cough is worse big still mostly evening
Day 4- cough is much worse all day and chest feels like I'm wearing a t shirt 3 sizes too small. It doesn't hurt as such it's just tight. Requires a bit extra effort to breath
Day 5 (today) - same as day 4, cough a bit better but chest tighter then yesterday. I can still breath ok though so waiting to see tomorrow.

I had no fever or aches and pains

I have felt very tired though

Day 9 here. I have quite a lot of pain in my chest, some confusion, a bit of a productive cough and started sneezing. The confusion abates a fair amount when I have a couple of puffs of ventolin. I had a telephone call with my Gp, who wasn’t sure if it was pneumonia and has given me a course of antibiotics. Idk if it will work if this is primarily viral. However, with the sneezing, I suspect this may have turned bacterial.

Yes I remember you from the other thread @coronade and how your aunt was already ill and over 90. Not that her death isn't sad of course, but I think that's the thing about this virus - to put it very bluntly it seems to be the tipping point that is finishing off many people who were already on their way out.

All any of us can do is follow the NHS specified symptoms and guidelines. The NHS website is still warning about two symptoms only which don't include headaches:

*Either/both:
a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)**

Last Tues I had a night of jitters, aching, dioreha, feeling very strange.

But it went. Now yesterday and today I have the loss of smell an nose. I've slept most of the day.

Would symptoms be this spread out.
How does doctor know by phone when it needs antibiotics

I'm afraid I'm finding the NHS info scant to say the least. I know they need to keep it simple as possible, but I feel like there is no way to access good information. Maybe it's just too early to have solid info at this stage.

This is WHO's info about Covid-19 symptoms, slightly more comprehensive than the NHS:

**The COVID-19 virus affects different people in different ways. COVID-19 is a respiratory disease and most infected people will develop mild to moderate symptoms and recover without requiring special treatment. People who have underlying medical conditions and those over 60 years old have a higher risk of developing severe disease and death.

Common symptoms include:

fever
tiredness
dry cough.
Other symptoms include:

shortness of breath
aches and pains
sore throat
and very few people will report diarrhoea, nausea or a runny nose.
People with mild symptoms who are otherwise healthy should self-isolate and contact their medical provider or a COVID-19 information line for advice on testing and referral.

WHO Covid-19 symptoms

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I agree with you about how the info from the NHS is scant. I think it could be more compressively written without being wordy.

But they're the only gatekeepers here regarding who needs and gets treatment so we have to follow what they say.

I'm just conscious that's while this thread is really helpful, we obviously can't properly answer people when they ask whether they have covid-19, none of us know even definitively know whether we have it ourselves. And a headache for example could be anything, including covid.

Yes, of course, Dandy, and thanks for the link.

There's a brilliant COVID symptoms app you can fill in daily that will help medics track the illness as we are not testing.

I can't do a link but if anyone else could that would be good.

Has anyone seen the App from Kings College Hospital launched today. Was talked about on Channel 4 earlier. Covid symptom tracker Self report symptoms daily. Help slow the outbreak. Identify those at risk sooner.
Download the App (I just searched google) and then spread the word to get as many people doing it, in the absence of testing, as possible