My lungs Part 5

[Spacecadetagain]

New thread for us

Thanks @KinderWild . I'm really having a day of it, having had such a positive time recently.

More breathless and tingly feet and slightly woozy half an hour ago. Peak flow was down but I took ventolin and it's back up again.

What on earth would tingly feet be about??

Not sure whether you'll agree with a suggestion that we start our posts with 'day x' so that we're clear on the symptoms being experienced by posters at different stages? Would that be helpful at all?

Day 24
After a terrible night and not great in the morning I had a sleep this afternoon and am slightly cautiously saying I feel a bit better today. Not having to catch my breath all day like I did yesterday! I know I had a small worry about pneumonia not long ago but am sort of over that now as my oxygen levels are so normal.

@AnythingPecan great suggestion. Day 18 - developed pronounced upper back burning / icy sensation when I’m breathing more than before. Still have fatigue, breathlessness with movement, but haven’t had a bad cough. Anyone else have this upper back burning / icy thing this far along?

to all the other scared people on here.

Have started the antibiotics. Temperature climbing again this evening. It’s day 24 - why? DH has made me dinner but I’m struggling to get even small mouthfuls down. I’ve lost over a stone already in the last 3-4 weeks and am now borderline underweight. But I have no appetite.

Haven’t felt this shit for almost 2 weeks. Chest hurts like crazy. What is going on? I hate this and it’s really hard to see a way through.

@musicposy I hear you on the weight loss and no appetite- really upsetting. I’ve had the same. Just gotta keep forcing small amounts of food down I suppose. What does your chest pain feel like?

@musicposy I am really sorry you are still feeling like this on Day 24. I have no advice i just feel really sorry for you. I haven't read all your messages (i was mainly on thread 2, 3 and 4) and have stopped posting a bit as have improved symptoms wise. Have you spoken to the GP and they have given antibiotics in case of secondary infection? You poor thing.

Day 24 here, like @findingschools4myboys I had a 40 minute sleep this lunchtime and it really really helped. I still have back ache, slight chest pain and rib pain but otherwise am mostly feeling OK now, I am tired, I can't do what I would normally do and I certainly can't exercise for more than a 15 minute walk but in myself I don't feel too bad. I guess it's just more rest...

@EMichel102 I'm day 18 too.
I swear I felt amazing yesterday. Had the best time - I thought I was fully recovered that I even celebrated by cleaning the house! (Sad, I know - but it needed it after two weeks of me being bed ridden). Then bam! Upper chest tightness came on suddenly that afternoon and had an awful night. The first breathing episode for over a week and felt very scared again....

Not sure about the icy back but I've had upper back pain.

Day 11
I was ok till about 2pm
Chest and back are burning
Feel just 'weird'
I can't tell if it's anxiety though because I stupidly watched the Matt Hancock press conference when I haven't watched the news for over a week.
I really hope my gaviscon comes today as I just want to know if it's heartburn or chest pain.
I managed a bath for the first time today.

@ofwarren aren't the two linked? I find acid reflux is a symptom of this horrible virus, although I do suffer from reflux pre-covid. I've found taking a ginger tea has really helped with settling the reflux and chest pains.

@musicposy

Day 22 here

I've had a similar experience recently - felt shit the last few weeks but it was so much worse the last three days I was shocked and totally dispirited. Even had a cry earlier on I was feeling so hopeless. Couldn't eat anything for days.

Somehow in the last few hours I've picked up again, managed to walk about the house a bit, have a bath and sit on the couch. I know I will be feeling rubbish again tonight/tomorrow most likely but knowing that there's small breaks in between feeling horrendous is what's keeping me going. I'm starting to accept it might be a good few weeks more before I feel fully better and trying to be ok with that but it really wears you down.

@AnythingPecan thank you for the reply! Do you feel any better today at all or has the upper back pain and chest tightness continued? Really sorry to hear - this damn thing sounds so up and down so then people panic with how “down” it will get. I’m hoping now on day 18 we’re in the clear on getting too bad...

I would say they possibly are linked @AnythingPecan as it was one of my first symptoms.
I just get really anxious with the chest pain.
Just had to take paracetamol for the first time in days. Got a headache at the front of my head but also an aching neck so it's possibly just stress related. I should never have watched the news conference.
I've got some lansoprazole to take daily but I need my gaviscon to ease the daily burn.
I'm in bed now. Maybe I did too much.

@sambucus @spacecadetagain i can join the recurrent fever club. Just when I feel i have beaten it it comes back again.Its day 17 for me today.

I also have upper back pain on my left side today. Anyone else have the same?

@jackjackincredible so scary that you deteriorated overnight when you were doing fine for two weeks. We have been told that it's normally days 8-10 when things get worse but it doesn't seem to be from your story. Hope you feel you are getting better as you recover at home?

@EMichel102

My chest pain very much felt like it was at the front of my body then bam, woke up today and feels like my back is aching. I also feeling like I've winded myself and torn or pulled my diaphragm. Argh!

@EMichel102 i have upper back pain today too, doesn't feel icy though and not linked to breathing. It's distinctly on one side and I wonder if I have strained myself as I was pottering about today.

@JackJackIncredible

Hope you're doing well! You don't sound too down considering, so hopefully that means you're properly on the mend.

@EMichel102 - feeling a bit better - after trying to burp out the acid reflux using carbonated water, gaviscon and prescription omaprazole. Chest tightness still there but not as bad as yesterday.

@ofwarren hope you get the lanzaprozole soon!

@user34254356 I think that’s the cruel thing about this virus. It lulls you into a false sense of security then comes back at you
Someone said about an icy feeling in upper back . I don’t know if this is the same but I had yesterday a horrible sensation in the top half of my chest and throat that felt like I’d gone out in freezing cold temps and taken huge gulps of air

EMichel yes, the last day or two it has been my back which has been burning as much as my chest. Chest felt like crushed glass in it but that has subsided a bit today (I can still feel it but less so, saying that it will probably come right back!). Otherwise I feel now like I have flu.

I have been counting from first day of my cough (day 13 now) but from reading this thread wonder if I need to count earlier - I had the heartburn and stabby chest pains and some fever a few days earlier than that and felt woozy but dismissed it as I was quite tired anyway. Luckily I was already WFH. So I might be more towards day 16 or 17, I just do not know.

Jackjack that sounds very scary. I hope you start to recover soon and don’t need to go back in

EMichel102 chest pain feels like someone has a band round my lower chest and is tightening it and someone is sitting on the front of my upper chest. Occasionally getting twinges round the back.

mumlurker that’s so helpful. I’ve been close to tears tonight. I need to focus on the little gaps. If I can just accept it’s going to take a while I might do better.

longshot yes the GP spoke to me and thought it might be a secondary bacterial infection. Who knows? People just posting support really helps. You can feel so alone in this. Thank you.

JackJackIncredible shows how pushed they are that you aren’t in hospital. I’m sure under normal circumstances you would be. Take care of yourself and keep posting on here.

I love how no one really knows if it’s heart burn, muscular or lung related pain! Who knows :)

Since I've been avoiding any sort of media, I will have missed headlines about testing. Do we know if they are rolling out more tests in the coming weeks or unlikely?

KatySun I’m not quite sure where to count from either. I’m counting from the very first symptom, which was a very mild temperature and slight dry cough on the Tuesday 24 days ago. Apart from tiredness, I pretty much carried on as normal (though isolated) until the Sunday when the temperature hit and I felt awful. So if I could from that a Sunday I’m about day 19.

@musicposy I've also started antibiotics today let's hope it helps! I've lost half a stone I think since I got Ill, am really trying to eat properly but not had any apetite for 3 weeks so it's hard.. partner got me some smoothie today which has felt good as at least I'm getting some vitamins into me x