Day 21 for me. I ran an online seminar for two hours yesterday and then had online book group for a couple of hours in the evening. In the middle of this I started coughing uncontrollably. Today throat is very sore. I also managed to put my back out this morning by twisting and reaching behind me while sitting on the bed. So there's that as well.
Symptom-wise - still coughing more than I have been over the last week, some chest tightness. Don't feel as well as a couple of days ago.
What I am REALLY anxious about - and could do with some reassurance from others who've had this a long time, is if we are really sure this IS corona virus. I explained DH's situation earlier in this thread. He has been told he has to go to the hospital cancer centre tomorrow for a lumbar puncture. He is really worried about catching it there as social distancing won't be possible. Until discussing it with him this morning, I hadn't realised that he really doesn't think I have corona virus, since the symptoms have not been those highlighted by the government (ie: my cough was not 'new' as I already had a chest infection through most of Feb; I have had mostly low rather than high temperature). I passed any doubt about this at least a week ago, but it has made me wonder. The GP I spoke to around day 14 was pretty sure it was.
I am now worried that if this is NOT cv and he does catch it at the hospital I am in the worst possible shape to get it. I am also terribly worried about him getting it if his immune system is lowered, and if he does have lymphoma (by no means certain at all). He did have a week of on-off symptoms of extreme lassitude, brief headaches, general fluey feelings (he went to bed for a couple of days), but hasn't had anything for a week. I was very hopeful that that was him getting it, as he never gets respiratory aspects of usual viruses.
To try and recap my symptoms over the last three weeks (going back over my posts):
I am 55 and have asthma which is mainly set off by chest infections, to which I am very prone.
Days before: Beginning in late Feb I had a hacking, spasmodic cough which was setting off my asthma. Saw doctor in early March and she thought it was viral but since she heard crackles in lungs gave me antibiotics for secondary bacterial infection. I was just beginning to feel better and cough reducing but not completely gone when new symptoms started.
Day 1. Odd swollen scratchy throat with a feeling like something was stuck in it.
Day 2. Same throat thing. Repeated episodes of diarrhoea much of the night.
Day 3. Sore throat plus a flash of temperature and very hot red face lasting for about an hour.
Day 4-7. I self-isolated. Additional symptoms of chest tightness - round the bra-band area, with some back pain. Swollen neck glands around now. I first posted on the first thread on day 7 as I was showing signs of breathlessness when climbing stairs. My peak flow rate was fine and has continued to be. A few more hot-face flushes.
Day 8-10. Tighter chest and more aching and prickling in lungs mainly on left. Intermittent - some days feeling better then worse again. Chills, particularly in legs. Muscle aches and weakness. Breathlessness.
Day 11. Sinus symptoms - very stuffy blocked nose. Otherwise feeling notably better.
Day 12. Slept less well than usual (had been sleeping very heavily). Woke feeling hot and shivery. Peak flow slightly reduced. Coughing quite a bit more. More wobbly and 'fluey' feeling than at any point up to now.
Day 13. I felt better on getting up and for first hour or so after. Just coughing. Spent morning working then sick and dizzy and more lung pains and breathlessness.
Day 14. Feeling worse. Heart racing. Shaky. More coughing and more breathless. Muscle aches and weakness especially in arms. Temperature 36.4 rather than the 35 of most other days (but don't trust my thermometer). Tried to call 111 and doctors and got cut off. Very panicky. Eventually got call back from GP who thought it was very likely to be CV and prescribed antibiotics in case of a secondary bacterial infection.
Day 15. Felt better than day before since I had just given up and gone to bed. Still coughing, tight chest, lung pains, exhausted.
Day 16. Same as day 15.
Day 17. Up for first time in three days. Lungs still tight. Coughing a bit less. New symptom: solid, hard feeling across top of chest - from collarbone down. Increasingly this area felt very cold, like a block of ice. It stopped me sleeping and I finally managed to only with two duvets, two hot water bottles, a jumper and a shawl.
Day 18. Icy chest receding. Cough increasingly productive (though not as much so as many people).
Day 19. Slept really well and woke up feeling that I could breathe to the bottom of my lungs for the first time during this. Then half way through afternoon developed a different cough - high in windpipe and wheezy. Back to bed.
Day 20. Up and working from home. Still have wheezy cough. Well enough to teach live online session in afternoon. Very bad spasmodic cough started from about 8pm.
Day 21. Slept ok. Woke with cough but less bad than day before.
DH (71) had symptoms of extreme tiredness, etc from my day 11 on and off for about five days. DS (20) had a sore throat for about a day. I've tried to isolate from them but I'm sure I wasn't able to do so completely, and didn't at all in the days before day 4, when I would have been most infectious.
So, my impossible questions for which I really need reassurance - does it sound, on balance, as if I have had it, and does it sound like my DH is likely to have had it mildly?
Sorry for such a long post. Hope the symptom list, at least, is useful to others.