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Pretty sure I had Covid-19: am I over the worse of it?

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kevintheorangecarrot · 03/04/2020 22:54

In my late 20s. As far as I am aware, I have no underlying health issues. The bottom line is that I'm 99% sure I've had covid-19. I have been exposed to a lot of the public before lockdown occurred. I have posted most of my symptoms back on the "lungs" thread but just wanted to put out there my timeline:

Day 1-7: very sore throat and severe indigestion/heartburn all day and night for a whole week. I never suffer from gastro problems except when I was pregnant 3 years ago. Gaviscon didn't touch the sides.

Day 7-8: Shivery and feverish all night and first thing which subsided once I woke up, still felt chills and dizzy.

Day 8-14): throat soreness and severe indigestion has disappeared. Now I am very short of breath. I had to sit down every 2 minutes when I was walking / pottering about. I couldn't take a deep breath and was petrified and my husband almost called 111 but I managed to get my breath back. This is the first time I have suffered from any respiratory issues. Antibiotics was prescribed incase it was a chest infection. Course has finished and didn't even touch the sides. I don't think it was an infection!

Day 14-16(today): my shortness of breath has improved dramatically. It's only worse in the evenings now after being active all day and keeping busy. I was very short of breath later on but managed to get it back once I went outside in the garden for fresh air.

Throughout this, I've not had a cough at all (touch wood), or any more fever apart from that one night. Does anyone think these are mild covid signs or something else? I wish there was an antibody test available!

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everythingisginandroses · 03/04/2020 23:27

HI @kevintheorangecarrot. Your symptoms sound similar to mine, minus indigestion and plus fever for me. I am on day 18 and, touch wood, my chest/breathlessness has eased in last few days. Days 8-12 have been the worst for me.

I am pretty sure we have had covid here: DH, DS and I have all had symptoms, we live in a hotspot, we don't generally get ill and we are aware of probably a couple of dozen people across our respective workplaces reporting similar symptoms.

Wishing you all the best in your recovery, sounds like you have turned the corner Flowers

kevintheorangecarrot · 05/04/2020 22:53

Thank you @everythingisginandroses I hope you and your family are feeling much better now Thanks

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Feelingpoorlysick · 05/04/2020 22:57

Similar to me, except I also had bad sinuses and loss of taste and smell for a few days. At the time I didn't really consider covid as it started around the 20th Feb which was fairly early on but looking back the symptoms are very similar. Several weeks later now I'm still not 100%. My chest doesn't feel fully recovered.

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