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Welcome to a group none of us want to be in.

Apologies to anyone missing or added that didn't want to be.

Please do add more, don't feel pre day 30 is a barrier.

This is info on how to spot common signs of sepsis. It’s from the Sepsis Trust so it’s legit.

Try to be kind to yourselves and not panic. We’ve got each other.

Thanks @JackJackIncredible .

I think it would be impossible not to be anxious right now. Our worlds have changed, we have all these crazy symptoms and they're taking a cruelly long time to go away. We're also having to self manage and try and monitor symptoms ourselves in a way we never have done before.

When I spoke to my GP on Thursday she offered me talking therapy to help manage my anxiety. I didn't ask for it - she just offered it as I was a bit emotional on the phone. I haven't taken it up (yet!) but the service is out there and certainly readily available where I am, if you think it would help.

I mentioned to my dh that anxiety could be a symptom of this illness. He wasn’t very sympathetic and said I was parenoid.

Interestingly my two friends (one of whom have it to me and the other) didn't realise or think they had it and they didn't experience any of the anxiety symptoms. Whereas I assumed I did and was incredibly anxious.

Thank you for sharing and having a temperature. I'm on day 35 and getting a bit worried about how long I've had a temperature for. It's mostly been 37.5-38.5 and it spiked higher around days 10-12.

I've never known anything like this. I wake up each morning thinking that it surely has to be back to normal soon.

Today I've had added fuzzy head and nausea, so that's been fun...

Hi, I’m sorry to read about everyone’s struggle with this virus.

I am not suffering myself but reading the posts is making me wonder about my dd (7). She has been ill since mid Feb - just before half term so Coronavirus wasn’t really on the radar. It started with a high fever, earache, headache, feeling sick, lethargy, lymph nodes up (no real cough to speak of) and she was completely wiped out for the entire half term holiday.
Ever since (so almost two months now), she has had a low grade fluctuating temperature (usually hovering around 37-37.6) and complains all the time of headaches, feeling sick and being sick in her mouth. She has no energy, looks dreadful and is very anxious. Despite us not leaving the house for over a month, she now has tonsillitis.
She had lots of blood tests, all ok, and we are currently waiting for a paediatric appointment.
It might be a long shot, as she became ill before the Italian skiers returned and we live on the edge of a small city which hasn’t been too badly affected so far. It just seems to fit with some of the ongoing symptoms posted here.

Wishing you all a full recovery.

@Takenebackto98 Sorry about your DD i have found it harder to see my child with Covid symptoms than my own. The fact that you are awaiting a paediatric appointment is good because you already have a foot in the door. Sorry she is suffering so much. My own dd1 is much better, she is 11. My dd2 today declared she felt sick and my blood ran cold but im hoping its too much easter egg!!!

@Takemebackto98 that sounds really difficult for you with your dd. I always think that much as this is tough for me I would find it much harder to watch one of my immediate family go through it especially a child.

@godhelpusall did your friends have obvious symptoms? Are they fully recovered now? I also think if you have dependents it’s more difficult to not let your mind go into overdrive as you worry that you are going to infect them or die.

@TheDrsWife46 @Takemebackto98 my 9 year old daughter has had it for three weeks and has been really up and down. I've really struggled with it. You both have my utmost sympathy

@porcupineinwaiting thanks - managed to have some plain toast and banana. How are you coping?

@Bornlazy well it's difficult to say. I think one of them had had it for a week or so already but mild symptoms which she attributed to this and that. The other one got better after two weeks but when I asked she still had tiredness (which she put down to her baby not sleeping) the bad breath, achy arms etc. But she didn't put them all together and worry about it

@godhelpusall it’s interesting isn’t it. Maybe they didn’t have anxiety over their illness as they didn’t feel that ill but I suppose they could have anxiety about something else that you might be unaware of. My dh who I am hoping has had a mild version of this said to me today that he felt really unsettled, like he couldn’t sit still and had to be doing something. Now his mother died 6 weeks ago and we are in the middle of a pandemic so I suppose that could explain his feelings but I wonder if this is part of the virus. He is absolutely not worried about his health as he doesn’t think he’s had anything wrong with him.

@Bornlazy - yes, it is interesting. Attribution theory right there, they could well have felt anxious and put it down to something else. Definitely for me the shadow of corona with its daily roll call of death led to some very dark moments. And the symptoms I had have been largely mild- I would phase carried on working for most if it had been. Normal time.

@Bornlazy my first symptom was the burning diarrhoea, which was string enough to give me a sore and tingly anus (sorry tmi).

My worst and most enduring symptom has been chills , sometimes severely. Even so, the worst days for me have not been quite as severe as sepsis, which I have also had some years ago. I could contain these chills by layering silly amounts, plus duvet plus blanket, and hot room-but with sepsis that hardly helped.

Weirdly-and I've been well for nearly 3 days now-I had 45 minutes today where I got chills and had to layer up etc. Then it went. Previously, it lasted 24 hours and return to bed was quickly necessary, to keep warm if nothing else.

@onlinelinda yip that’s the one it’s really, really sore and even farting hurts and there’s been a lot of that.

I’ve dipped a little again tonight. My throat and ear are sore and my legs are aching. Time for bed after falling asleep watching tv. Hope everyone has a restful night.

Had to take my son to the hospital to be checked over as he’s been sick as long as we have and now I am coughing more, I am trying to talk myself down, it’s my asthma, it’s hay fever, it’s way too soon to be getting symptoms. It’d driving me insane and making me anxious. I’m the only one coughing as much and I know the pollen is high atm you can smell it in the air tonight but it is worrying me.

Please anyone around day 33/36 coughing tonight? To ease my nerves

@pinkoneblueone Im on day 37 ish I still have intermittent cough, worse in evenings and morning. I think its it's ok/normal for symptoms to still be here and for recovery to be up and down, although its scary I think we are well past the danger stage now x

Thank you so so much for talking me down. I appreciate it! I think we are too but we were I the red zone In hospital for 9 hrs yesterday so I am a little worried

You really have helped thank you @Tangledyarn xx

@pinkoneblueone I know, its really hard not to worry, I've had to do a lot of talking myself down over the last few weeks! Its very tough. Hope you can get some sleep..or of not some rest!

Thank you, I am not good at sleeping atm so I am sitting up watching tv until I am tired

Take care thank you so much for taking the time to answer me tonight xx

tangledyarn the up and down recovery is mentally hard. I had quite a good day but I’m awake tonight and coughing and can feel stuff on my chest. I guess I just need to go with it overnight as things are always worse then.