My lungs....part 4

[Casino218]

Continued support for those who need a few kind words to help them through the dips.

Please do not come here to ask 'but how do you know if you haven't had a test'

@alittleprivacy it sounds like TENS would work. I might risk Brufen. The virus has passed now so I'm going to try that.

@SchrodingersKitty that's good that you know what's happening now and that he can remain isolated for the time being.

At what point would you worry about stabbing chest pains when breathing in if oxygen levels are still good?

@Casino218 when can we assume the virus has passed? i am day 14 now and still have slight niggles about: what if it changes course again? I have been feeling a lot better but am a pretty paranoid and anxious person.

Do let us know if your symptoms improve with it.

www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/cambridge-virologist-explains-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-covid-19-9104220/?fbclid=IwAR08v9VYZVkTYXNtw_QXG4FROLsDeYvkXmOqewIytKgMPqip6QqKAim3aKU

Can you relapse after recovering from the virus?*
That doesn’t happen with these respiratory viruses. The symptoms that drag on are your body’s response to the virus, but the virus is gone after a few days. I take great umbrage at the lengths of time you are meant to be infectious for because it is just not true. Nine days is nonsense. You don’t excrete a live virus that long.

re acid reflux if you can get hold of some ranitidine or omeprazole that will help, plus Gaviscon when you are lying down. Also milk of magnesia or maalox helps. The coughing will be pushing your diaphragm around letting acid leak.

I’m really glad I’ve logged back in this afternoon as have been quite worried about my pains this afternoon.

Costochondritis is something I have spotted last week and thought it matched perhaps more than pleurisy and weirdly I’ve had it before following a ski holiday where I was ill with a chesty cough. I went to the Drs and the Dr examined me and said I must have injured myself whilst there, I couldn’t think of how I had but now I wonder if it wasn’t an injury and was an after effect of the cold. It was nowhere near as painful as I have now but it took a couple of weeks to go.

I asked my GP friend who still advises against ibuprofen but says yes to the gel form. I’ll do that tonight as don’t think I’ll sleep. Might also try a hot water bottle. The bath helped last night.

Im totally wiped out now. Haven’t done much really but I guess have been around with the kids more today and sent some work emails. Also went for a 10 min wander, I can’t believe it is 3 weeks tomorrow since I became ill and I can still do so little. Getting quite fed up but I know a lot of you are feeling worse so feel bad for you all.

Could someone give any ideas/advice about what my post earlier could be and what to do?

@EMichel102 Just hopping on to show solidarity: I’m also D15 and still, despite antibiotics, getting a daily raised temperature around 37.7. Can’t believe it is still going on. And I am still self isolating, trapped in the bedroom away from the family. Wish I knew whether I was actually still infectious! Hope you’ll be feeling better soon.

@Casino218: Yes it is - but still curious the length of time they are wanting him to be free of symptoms (I'm assuming they are working to two weeks). It doesn't seem to tally with any official advice, but they must have a protocol.

@NowSissyThatWalk I think you should self isolate. I think I said that. Do you mean about symptoms? Perhaps I didn't understand.

@SchrodingersKitty I think they are just being extra extra vigilant given the immunocompromisation of the patients.

Day 19 and still so short of breath. Have improved from the worst time (around days 5-12) but painfully slowly and I can't see an end in sight. Anyone else?

@NowSissyThatWalk: from what you describe about your symptoms now I don't think you should be back at work yet, particularly in a public-facing role.

@Casino218: yes - I'm sure you are right. I does make me feel a bit more reassured about when he does have to go in.

So sorry @Casino218 and @tangledyarn I totally missed your responses.
Thank you. Phlegm has been a mix of clear and bloody at times.
DH kids have just left to stay at their mum's. Feeling a bit better now but it just hits me so quickly and out of no where.
I'll check what 111 say.

My lovely neighbour who is on week four says hello, a week ahead of me. Picked it up in hospital on the 21st feb, came down with it a week later.

87 tomorrow and on steroids.

She felt she would die at one stage, all remarkably similar symptoms to many of us but no real coughing, didn't really eat for two weeks and interestingly @TheDrsWife46 felt her severe back pain was a neurological type, her Dr had her on morphine patches for relief.

Anyway she continues to improve albeit not in a linear form but I can see no signs of pneumonia (which she has had before) or serious symptoms of a relapse.

Whilst Muriel is still with us I am encouraged for us all.

@NowSissyThatWalk are you asking if it sounds like it could be CV? I would say from what you are saying it definitely could be and you should be isolating. Would you be able to get tested through your work?

@Sambucus so nice to hear from you. End of D15 here and I’ve started to come out of my bedroom occasionally to interact with my family as I think they would have got it by now. I’m so exhausted though I can only manage 2 emerging from bedroom visits a day. I wasn’t too too bad overall today compared to other days but in the last hour my chest has started to feel fiery / burny again and I’m wondering if my breathing is changed (hope not!). I think we shouldn’t worry about the temperature unless it spikes significantly.

@stayathomegardener: she looks like a lovely lady - and your care for her is so heart-warming. It is indeed really reassuring that she is recovering - though she must be pretty tough, given what you've said about her life.

Ah Muriel bless her. Hello Muriel 😁👋

@SchrodingersKitty she really is fabulous and apparently might attempt a birthday whiskey tomorrow.

At least you have a positive decision regarding your DH appointment and surely new cases will be reducing by the time he next goes in.

Perhaps consider iodine in a mask if he isn't allergic to it when he does go in.

Hello just to say I think I’m on day 15 for those of you with kidney pain I got this on day 6 and much worse fever so had a phone call with the Dr and they gave me a 7 day course of slow release antibiotics (I’ve had kidney and urine infections before). They really helped I think.

@EMichel102 yes, you’re right, the prolonged temperature seems to be part of this although I’ve not found anything ‘official’ documented about it. I too am taking it very easy, not much else to be done with all the coughing! Let’s hope tomorrow is a better day!

@stayathomegardener: thanks for the suggestion - why iodine? An any idea how I would get hold of some masks?