My Lungs Part 7

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@Mammaaof sorry to hear that (but pleased it's been picked up and is being treated iyswim). Are your children with their dad?

It's day 16 for me and I'm mostly back to my usual health expect for an upper back pain I develop after too much activity such as standing around in the kitchen cooking/cleaning . Back sort of aches through to my chest like a dull pain and i cough more.

Has anyone experienced this ? Just wondering if it's normal. It gets better after resting /hot water bottle and sometimes taking two paracetamol.

No other symptoms except for this - oh, except the loss of smell and taste which is veeeery slowly coming back !

Yes they are thankfully! Although I have asked him not to let the Easter bunny come tonight 🙈 I just want people to know and be aware that you don't have to be really unwell and I'm so lucky I've caught this early as it I rode it out at home for few more days maybe a very different story x

Oh no @Mammaaof , I know you said this was your worst nightmare. Hope you are okay and managed to get your children sorted.

@Mammaaof did they send you an ambulance or did you have to go in yourself? I think @babdoc said her blood test showed she was bordering on sepsis. Im not gonna lie your post has really put the wind up me now because im in day 20...
Have you had a chest x ray? You’re in the right place, so glad you sought help.

@fogginghell yes im on day 20 and significant chest pains. Theres another thread called 30+ where people are still symptomatic and the chest pains are what troubles most people.

Sorry, cross posted! So glad they are being looked after so now you can concentrate on getting better.

@fogginghell, I'm Day 15 and still have the back lung pain and chest tightness/breathlessness on activity. I've been in the garden today and helped to cook lunch but largely still resting. I'm experiencing a strange throat/chest sensation, as if a deep cough is coming but it hasn't materialised yet.

Oh gosh @mammaof I'm so sorry to hear about your sepsis. Wishing you a recovery at Gods speed love x

@TheDrsWife46 ah I'll check it out thanks. How are you now love, I popped into this thread last week and your messages stood out to me as the anxiety was palpable. How's your dd now love ? Hope you're both better x

@Lightsabre it's upon activity , that's what I've experienced too. I don't think it helps that I've started to act as though I've never had the virus and carrying on with my usual crazy cleaning! I'll definitely be taking it easy tomorrow .

Thank you all so much, its so kind of you all! Yes had chest x-ray and haven't long come back from CT scan and they put dye into my air down into my lungs I think?? Just waiting on results of things now x

@fogginghell yes I was extremely anxious but in hindsight I think a lot of that was attributable to the actual physical manifestations i had, heart rate racing up (my apple watch shows it hit 200 on my worst night), difficulty breathing so fast shallow breaths, shaking, leg tremors etc. These are all reactions in your body that occur when your anxious and then that would tip me further into despair.

This week im still having leg shaking, muscle twitches, fast heart rate etc but they happen sporadically and so I can rationalise through them. Its not pleasant but its not consuming me. My dd1 is much much better thank you. She has a cough before/after sleep and thats all.

@Mammaaof fingers crossed that your lungs are okay and that you get to come home soon like @Calyx72

@TheDrsWife46 yes that does sound like anxiety. Sadly I'm familiar with it after losing my mum (while I was heavily pregnant) . I remember sitting in front of my Gp explaining my symptoms to her and expecting her to tell me its symptoms of some major illness - she looked into my eyes, smiled almost sadly and said 'it's delayed grief and anxiety' ... and it really was. I was convinced I was dying. Looking back I am amazed at the very real very physical symptoms I had - severe muscular pains, palpitations, pins and needles all over my body, my skin crawled and burnt all night , at one point I unintentionally overdosed on Co codomol and developed a dependency on them and then had to wean myself off which came with its own set of worrying scary symptoms. it was absolutely horrific and so so scary ... but I came through it ... and so will you . Sending you strength and love

@fogginghell were you prescribed anything for anxiety? I genuinely dont know where anxiety ends and my illness begins anymore. I just know I cant get well no matter how calm and rationale I am resting in the garden all day, safe in my home, im still experiencing chest pain, shaking like terrible low blood sugar etc

@TheDrsWife46 yes I was given propanalol - it's a beta blocker. I couldn't do without it at the time it all started , I just couldn't function, my heart rate was all over the place, I'd have panic attacks so many times a day. I was Prescribed that a couple times a day I think but she did say I could take it as and when I needed it, and that it wasn't addictive. I found that to be absolutely brilliant. I only took it for a couple of weeks as and when I needed it and when i started to feel better I tried to use other things to help me such as distraction, calming music, reading , anything and everything that would help me think of something else for even 5 minutes was a win. And slowly the 5 minutes changed to 10, and then to longer, and then I realised my symptoms were slowly disappearing one by one . You really have to work at keeping yourself busy and distracted though.

I feel like I dont even know myself. In my normal life i just finished studying, retrained etc, renovated a house. Im a really strong busy person. The only anxiety ive ever had is a fear of flying. Now im ill, everyone tells me its anxiety etc, and i start to doubt my own mental health. Was I always anxious? Am i not ill? Have I had some crazy psychosomatic reaction to the news? This is so wsy off beam to my usual self that I cant climb out of the hole. There are plants sat waiting for me, craft projects and cleaning etc. I sit there telling myself to get up out of the bloody chair and grab my life back. But im so weak and shaky i cant get up out of the chair or even a short walk for long. Its completely changed me.

Hi all. Day 13(?) update... My anxiety took over and I reached rock bottom someone went to collect my prescription this morning issued by the gp first thing and the chemist was closed. I rang out of hours gp and he could see how anxious I was and he told me to go to the out of hours in Cardiff where there's a covid section. Lovely nurse checked me over, temp is on the high side of normal but normal none the less, listened to my lungs and heart and all good plus my oxygen was at 98/99. Still have this awful headache and nausea and now my mind is wondering down the route of severe sinus infection thats going into my brain. I love health anxiety. Did anyone on here suffer with sore neck? That's where the pain seems to be radiating from and my neck feels lumpy almost and bruised on both sides. Gaaa I wish I could just be reassured. For what it's worth, they said all my previous symptoms tied in with cv. In fact, the receptionist there has a positive result 2 weeks ago. Slight headache and mild cough!

Wishing you all a peaceful night and a better day again tomorrow x

@Taffyapple8 hiya, im having my worst night in a week. Lungs are hurting to breathe in and only because its 1am and dark and lonely my mind wanders to what if im dipping.

I know im probably not because this is now day 21 but usually ive managed to sleep through with tablets and tonight I havent. I’d do anything to just feel completely well. I feel like the only poster who hasnt had antibiotics and wondering would i feel better if i had had some?

Aww I'm sorry to hear you're having a crap night. I've got antibiotics which have done nothing but make me nauseous and are probably exacerbating my symptoms. Is there an out of hours gp you can contact in the morning and get a prescription? How is your breathing? I succumbed earlier and took half a valium which was all I had left from a course I was given 4 years ago. The prescription in was meant to get today was for more. The chemist doenst reopen until Tuesday so I'm without now but it did help at the time. Can you watch a trashy show? I have the vampire diaries on again ha xx

I do have valium from when i flew. But i havent taken any. When i fly they knock me out cold. And if Im honest Im scared to take one. Im scared that having “covid” if it is that. Will have reduced me to someone that needs valium in their day to day life. I’ve never had anxiety/depression before so if I take it it feels like Ive fallen really far. Even though i know it may really help me.

I only took it because the gp was happy to prescribe it this morning. I did however make sure I was downstairs and that DP was there so he could check I was breathing! It was all very short lived anyway as it was half of an already low dose.

I havnt had antibiotics.

Trust in your body's ability to heal itself. We are all in the same boat x

Day 18 here. Cough still quite bad and dizziness is horrible but almost finished my course of antibiotics. This is the best day I've had but I've been here before.

Such a bad night. Every time I relax, I gasp for breath. It's like someone is squeezing my throat.

I'm really bad tonight, my body is shaking all over, chest hurts, back hurts. I have been given a steroid tablet for asthma, don't know whether it is that but I feel dreadful. Anxiety is making me worse. I'm trying to deep breath and relax, felt so much better when I got up yesterday.