My lungs Part 5

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For my mental sanity I need to know of people who have 100% recovered from this.
I'm not a particularly anxious person but this bug has turned me into a maniac, I think the racing heart and breathing difficulties simulate what I think a panic attack would feel like.
I'm also reading page after page after page of people who just haven't got better.
Somebody must have got better???
Or is this heartburn never going to go?

@GrapefruitsAreNotTheOnlyFruit No, no test! One of the GPs was suspicious but as I'm on the up now I don't meet the criteria. Wish they'd checked whilst I was abroad though, I feel guilty I might have spread it. We are all self-isolating anyway as a family, and will remain that way (DC2 is vulnerable, so just in case we haven't had it already, we have to take care). I'd be very interested to have the antibody test when it's available.

I have been prescribed bisoprolol to keep my heart rate down. No one can figure out why I also had temporary bradycardia during the ECG though.

I do feel a lot better so I'm not too bothered though wish the fevers would stop.

@Crayfishforyou what day are you on? I would love to say I feel really good but this eve my chest pain isn’t mildly back (so annoying!!) it’s mild and I have felt pretty good all day but it’s day 23 and I’m fed up.

@TheWooisStrong how had loads of the rib pain at the back, really annoying, all on one side. I now have a pain that sort of runs downbeat my windpipe, thought it was heartburn but now thinking it’s probably inflammation,

Off to bed to hopefully feel better again tomorrow. Good luck all.

What I get anxious about, which is sort of what brought me to this thread after reading a troll thread, is that what if I havent had CV19? What if it was Flu or something else which complications and pleurisy etc. Then when I go back to work properly, what if I then catch CV19?! I'll be screwed as this has been almost 4 weeks, my immune system and lungs are shot.

I did voice this concern to my GP on tuesday though and she says she's pretty confident that it is CV19. But there's still that niggle

@Mintypylonsfryingsurplus I'm so sorry that sounds terrible.

@fatima
I have those same exact thoughts. I have also been told I most likely have had it but we can’t know for sure. All I know is that I don’t often get sick and I have never in my life been sick for this length of time.

Crayfish, I can't say I'm 100% better but I know I am on the mend. I feel a bit crappy, like one does with a normal virus. I am no longer fearful for my health.

Most people on this thread are here precisely because we haven't yet recovered, with a couple here to offer some support for people just new to it.

It's understandable to be scared and anxious about something that is causing so much enormous upset and stress for the whole world! But bear in mind 99% of people will recover from the illness. Just a matter of getting through it.

Right! I'm going to get rid of this fucker by making my body as inhospitable as possible. I think I slackened off last few days.

Currently back in the sauna, last thing I feel like but I know it doesn't like heat.

Then super high dose vitamin c/iodine and water, water water! X

It's nice to know I'm not the only one
I've never been this ill before definitely, and it is completely different to anything I've every experienced before. So I think in all likelihood it was CV19.

The day I started with it I thought I was just coming down with flu/bad cold although not snotty at all, I dragged myself in to work. At this point nhs/gov only seemed to be interested in people that had travelled and CV19 in the community was deffo being played down. I got worse as the day went on at work and the cough started and I remember joking with my boss about it being CV and saying "if this is CV then we're in a far worse position than what the government are letting on". Lo and behold a week later...

That's the spirit, stayathomegardener! I think I turned a corner when I got really pissed off with it.

I'm on day 6 of paracetamol 3 x daily (but havnt had a high temperature since day 1). I find they're helping with other symptoms but worried about taking them for so long. Anyone else?

Thank you scrimpshaw
It's the not knowing. You sort of know where you are with flu, or stomach bugs, or colds.
I think I'm on day 6 longshot it started with sore eyes and fatigue on Saturday. No real fever yet.

@stayathomegardener that sounds a great idea!
I been using the time to research holistic stuff and am taking extra vitamin D.
I do think that the countries that suffering bad are the winter ones?
If it global surely poor countries such as Cambodia, Thailand etc would be riddled with it? I use those examples as many travellers from affluent countries fill these places using several modes of transport to get there?
All European countries with very little sunlight after a long dark winter seem to be much worse.
Anyway my bargaining phase continues to make sense of this so I will be trying;
Continue with 4 7 8 breathing then Yoga fire breathing when lungs feel stronger
Higher doses of vit D vit C Zinc selenium and panax ginseng
Spirulina in smoothies
Lemon juice and honey
Extra relaxation sessions
Daytime naps
Trying to keep a positive attitude that I will get better over time
Any other tips people have massively appreciated

These was my symptoms does it sound like covid?

Day1: sore throat, tired
Day2: sore throat, even more tired
Day 3: sore throat and terrible heartburn
Day 4: dreadful heart burn all day and night
Day 6: fever at night time
Day 7: fever gone but now shortness of breath
Day 8: shortness of breath, tiredness
Day 9; shortness of breath
Day 10: shortness of breath
Day 11: shortness of breath
Day 12: shortness of breath
Day 13: shortness of breath much, much better
Day 14: shortness of breath coming back again
Day 15 (today): shortness of breath

All through I've been feeling so unmotivated and depressed.

When will it actually go away? I no longer have a fever, I've not had a cough at all throughout either.

Crayfishforyou, we're about the same time - I'm also still really breathless and have a racing heart but it also feels like anxiety - night time is worse I find. Watching rubbish, light tv until I fall asleep basically or put music for sleep on.

I should add a friend of mine had it mildly (same symptoms as me but much less of them and less severe). She got ill two days after me and it last only 12 days in total and she’s back to full health working out loads etc. I figure if I’ve had it at least twice as badly it will take me at least twice as long to recover.

My point is her symptoms were the same just less severe and she’s now fine so I guess we should also be once it’s worked out Of our system.

Really hope everyone starts to feel better. I've had a really rough 48 hours. Spoken to GTD GP. Despite me testing negative two weeks ago, she believes I've had it since then. I have been prescribed an inhaler and antibiotics. I'm just so relieved someone is listening.
Sleep well all xxx

I guess it is down to how much your immune system fights it off.
There seems to be a sweet point of over reacting to it (cytokine storm) to effectively shrugging it off?
Its like it goes to all the different parts of your body which is why everyone got such variable symptoms.
Doesnt feel like flu, doesnt feel like a cold, just feels like different systems in your body getting attacked.
Hope you all have a peaceful evening and turn the corner tomorrow.

God im so sorry just read loads ready to name check but my dd is in the lounge with me again and i can hear her yawning and sucking big lungfulls of air cos clearly she feels like shes not getting enough in again. Anyway listening to her ive lost the names in my head. Apologies.

Sorry to the poster who has had it 45 days etc. I think i’d be trying to seek a private test. Well im already googling the test 18 times a day but 45 days in I would be. I wonder though what help they can offer for post viral complications. How very frightening.

For those asking has no-one recovered. Please please go back and look at thread 3 and 4, Im going to assume that like me your lying in the dead of night with chills/fever/breathing issues anyway so go back and read those threads, you’ll find some really detailed and reassuring timelines.

Have I self isolated?

So in my house DD1 (11) started first on Fri 20th coughing. I say in her room for the first three nights holding her hand to soothe her to sleep as frightened. On the sunday she was laid across my lap with a fever but still sleeping in her own room.

Monday 23rd I went to bed but felt extremely sick, I had diarrhoea, a fever of over 39 and was then sick to the point i couldnt breathe.

From that point onwards i came down into the living room. Purely because day in and day out, hour by hour I felt like i needed to escape my own body, cool down and breathe cold air. I made my bed on the sofa and since that day 11 days ago ive treated it like labour. I do whatever i have to get through that hour, and the next, walk the garden, pace the floor, watch youtube, head out the window. No-one was in with me anyway because ive been writihinh about asking them all to piss off and leave me to it. Dd1 by this time was fine with just a cough. Once i was bad and in the lounge we agreed that the downstairs loo was mine alone and the uostairs bathroom was bleached and towels out etc so that the kids had a safer space. I literally stay in the lounge or my loo. Eat meals in here etc. I see the family when i walk the garden. Thats it really. Dd1 has now joined me in the lounge as she has been bad for two days now with breathing issues but shes 2 weeks since the cough.

Dh and dd2 touch wood havent started although dd2 who is 8’has started a cough over the last few days. Im still going to sleepnin the lounge until i no longer feel ill. Whilst im prob not contagious the symptoms are so that im up all night anyway so isolating myself helps me manage my own schedule to cope. I did initially stay upstairs for a while but i felt trapped. I couldnt hear family life, couldnt get out to the garden etc. Ive sat in the lounge window for 11 days. The neighbours must honestly be talking about “that woman in bed on the sofa in the window” you cant miss me. But seeing out helps my anxiety at being trapped in

@stayathomegardener you WILL beat it.

@TheDrs sounds like a living nightmare I really hope you all feel better soon a test would be very good at this point 💐

I've been reading with interest. To reassure anxious lurkers, many people are reporting 'mild temperatures' with perfectly normal temperatures. Temperature can range from 36.1-37.5 anyway, without being 'lowered' or 'raised'. That isn't to say that you can't feel chills/sweats with a normal temperature, just that it isn't significant if it's under 37.8 or over 36.1.

Similarly, it's great that people have oximeters if it reassures, but many people with lung histories will have chronically lower O2 and have lived perfectly happily with it without knowing. So if you have a history of asthma, smoking, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc., you may well have 'normal for you' lower O2 levels than other people. Even if not, then any time you exert yourself, talk, cough etc., your O2 saturating will dip slightly. It becomes concerning if your O2 levels dip below 95% (92% for people with COPD) while you are at rest for a period of time.

Heart rate will rise with anxiety, fever, lowered blood pressure (your body compensates for the lower blood pressure by pushing your blood around faster to keep the same volume of blood circulating), etc.

I'm not saying that any of this isn't something to watch. I'm just saying that thinking of yourself as having a 'mild fever' at 37-37.3°c is not helpful - it's normal.

Thanks, Lougle. That's helpful and reassuring.

When I was feverish (no idea if I actually had a fever, I was shaking, shivering and sweating, and I cannot work the stupid ear thermometer thing) I tried to remember this is my body's immune response, this is how it deals with a virus, it's working to help me. I found that reassuring.

@tangledyarn @EMichel102 and @ofwarren thanks for that - glad it’s a symptom for others but not glad you’re all suffering too! Of Warren you’re right it does almost feel like being drunk or a mixture of that and hungover. I keep thinking I’m almost there and then another set back - tonight bad diarrhoea again, which I’d been free of for nearly a week. Holding onto the fact that as others further have said, it just takes a while but boy is it hard to not worry incessantly..

Can anybody link the previous threads here please, having difficulty finding them. Thanking muchly