My Lungs Part 7

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@Crayfishforyou @lightsabre @MillStone Good to see you guys checking in, even if you’re feeling a little ropey.

Day 21 now - had 3-4 days of feeling really quite ok & then my lungs started hurting again today. Also had what felt like horrible indigestion in the early hours. So miffed that I just can’t seem to shake this...

@Crayfishforyou I haven't said anything because I don't want to scare my daughter. But she's not daft and probably guessed.
Either way, she's not bothered! 😂

@Lightsabre I had yellow mucous in my throat for a day or two last week and then it suddenly stopped. I found gargling luke warm salt water was soothing.

@UncomfortableBadger Thank you, hope your lungs are feeling better.

Decided to call my GP again. As a result I've started a new course of Amoxicillin for a possible ear infection and I have also arranged to have a blood test in the morning.

@TheSheepofWallSt I wish I could tell you its mild and it might be for you, I hope to god it is because I wouldn’t wish this in anyone. All i can say is that I found days 6-10 the hardest and really fell apart then. But please remember we’re all here, theres usually someone awake at night for a handhold. Xx

@UncomfortableBadger im about day 24 now and at your point thats when i really got the cough, tight chest and just felt more poorly and started the antibiotics.

Afternoon everyone
Glad to see all the check-ins today, and that is what I am doing too.

Day 10 or 11 here. GP calling me every 48 hrs which I find amazing and very reassuring.

Did too much yesterday and almost passed out last night. Chest and back ache again today, feel a it nauseous and extremely tired.

for all, we will get through this.

Hey all been following this.

Well its about Day 15 for me. Had a great couple of days then last night it hit me again. Found it hard to breath stabbing pain in lungs just felt well yuck.

@MillStone, very envious of your blood test - is that at your surgery? The GP said to me that they'd only consider that if I was really unwell and that the likelihood of picking up a secondary infection whilst being in hospital gettingb it was high. The inconsistency is annoying.

We told the dc (7 and 10). Mostly they guessed because I had to self isolate in dd's room so as to not pass it on is possible.

Dd is autistic, and immediately asked "does this mean you will die?". I said no, pretty unlikely and she was happy with that I am used to very blunt questions.

@Lightsabre

Yes it'll be at the practice and take place in the carpark. A nurse will pop out in protected gear apparently. Thankfully this sounds like minimal risk.

I used to have blood work every couple of weeks because I had lowered immunity for a while. As far as I know i'm okay now... but I raised this as a concern and the GP offered up a blood test.

Incidentally I heard from neighbour yesterday who is also a nurse that new local pods have been set up for patients who are experiencing long infections and have been managing at home. The Dr didn't mention this but If you are interested in a blood test it might be worth enquiring.

the sheep yours sounds very like the virus I had. In my case it never amounted to more than a persistent thick mucusy throat and mild cough and tendency to heartburn. The dizziness came and went over about a week. My lung symptoms never developed beyond the fizzy/powdery sensation at the top of my lungs. I was fine to WFH after the first 2 days. Had persistent heartburn for a couple of extra weeks. Now a month on I am fine, just a slight cough which tbh could be hayfever.

@Callimanco

That’s the kind of good news story I was hoping for, thank you

Couple of friends who have had it were similarly lucky- one said if she hasn’t know better she’d have just wfh for 2 days and then been fine to go back to work (obviously didn’t), and the other was mostly troubled by the no taste/smell thing.

Fingers crossed im in camp lucky. Little one has been coughing for a week (sounds productive but nothing coming out)- he’s asthmatic so more worried about him, but he seems 100% himself. Perhaps more inclined to have a nap than usual, but maybe that’s the lockdown life taking its toll....

Help please. Am looking for advice from those with experience as I thought I was over this weeks ago.
Started 17th March had 5-7 days severe coughing, chest tightening like it was gripped, breathlessness, extreme fatigue (crawling as couldn’t walk, having to lay down to rest walking up few stairs) etc. No test and it never got to point of needing hospital. By day 10 was still not fully recovered but back to trying to live normally. GP ended up prescribing me Ventolin as haven’t had asthma symptoms for years and had no inhaler, but couldn’t walk far without coughing/breathlessness. He did say my experience sounded very Corona like.The inhaler did help.
By last week we thought we were all fully recovered, even able to do short dog walks (avoiding everyone!).
Now I’m on day 31 and have recently had several days of severe joint pain (initially googled and assumed maybe it was a post viral thing as came up as a possibility as it was symmetrical). I’m refusing to take ibuprofen which I know would help. I’m having to wear a support as pain so severe in one wrist/hand and I can’t grip or lift. Now my cough has returned (almost identical as at start, repetitive unproductive coughing episodes to point of retching, but slightly chestier and no seal bark sound now) and today my chest is tightening again around the bra line. Breathing is shallower, slightly breathless. Pain in back and shoulders. It’s not as bad as it was before but so similar, so I’m just nervous it’s slowly coming back.

So has anyone had it go away completely, for like ages, then come back. I have read of a few cases of people who were positive, then negative then positive again but they weren’t sure why. Could it be this? Or am I over thinking this because of previous experience and it’s just a cold ....

Take ibuprofen. There is absolutely no evidence that it has a negative effect, medical advice in this country is to take it. It was not proven, more hearsay.

I've had post viral before which can imitate the symptoms of the virus.

CasparBloomberg I have just been given antibiotics in case of Pneumonia, day 31 ish.

Thanks for your reply Breathless, that’s really helpful. I didn’t realise a post viral response could imitate the virus, I only saw about the post viral arthritis (which mine ticks all the boxes for, symmetrical without joint swelling).

I should just take the ibuprofen. I can’t believe how nervous that makes me as I used to take them all the time. Shows how susceptible to the news I am.

@ernieshere Oh sorry you’ve been suffering so long. Hope they help you. I’ve never had pneumonia so not sure what I’d be looking for but so far the new breathlessness feels mild. If it gets worse and I up my inhaler I’ll definitely contact GP.

Sorry @breathlesscommotion forgot to tag in previous reply 🤦‍♀️

UmmmStarting to feel a bit silly now ... DS and I went out in the garden after lunch and sat playing under a pussywillow tree both of us were immediately sneezing, rubbing eyes, coughing....

I don’t think I need to be Columbo to
work out my symptoms also matched hayfever (and a touch of lockdown anxiety)....
Anyway... took some piriton and felt better (still no appetite but I’ve been off my food since we started lockdown).

Slightly embarrassed I jumped to conclusions, but also... maybe if someone else is passing with “mild covid like symptoms...” also consider allergies?

Super embarrassed to have jumped on your board... hope you all feel better soon... also hope that I’m not later afflicted, as karmic justice for being such a hypochondriac.

I'd been sick for 6 days before I started coughing, the cough just confirmed what I already knew. Dh caught it from me. He has had a v mild case, started by just clearing his throat every now and then. Then an occasional cough, chills and a little bit of breathlessness.

OP its probably nothing but personally I wouldn't risk it. I was so pleased I'd not been near my mum when I got sick I cant tell you.

@TheSheepofWallSt I did think mine was hay fever at first, and hay fever symptoms definitely don’t help, but it was very obvious after a couple of days that it wasn’t. The bone crushing exhaustion, dizziness and ill/buzzy feeling were the clear distinguishers.

@Msloverlover

Oh lorrrrrrdyyyyy....

To be honest we have no reason or need to go anywhere for the next 7 days anyway (we’ve only left the house once every 10 day to shop, for 4 weeks anyway) and would keep maintaining strict social distancing with postmen/ veg box delivery etc anyway so it doesn’t materially change anything either way.

Apart from my lungs potentially, ofc.

God any other year it’d just be “ah hayfever. That’s a kicker. What a pain. Poor me. Fetch me piriton and Vaseline”.
This year it’s “ah hayfever, let’s pray it stays that way, eh, and doesn’t turn out to be a potentially lethal virus”. (not envy)

Yes totally mad I know. Although a part of me is quite pleased if this turns out to be the extent of my illness and it is it AND you definitely have immunity after having it (lots of ifs). It would mean we could visit vulnerable members of the family once lock down is over.

Day 8 and dare I say it, I am feeling a bit better? Still wobbly and shaky when I am up for too long but don’t have that awful boat/vertigo feeling any more. I’m sure it’ll come back and bite me on the arse so not getting too excited.

It’s funny because I had a ruptured eardrum about 10 weeks ago that still hasn’t properly healed (judging by continued pain and intermittent vertigo ever since) - and THAT was the fallout of a head cold/infection that started in the first week of Jan and rumbled on for 6 weeks. And I had a tooth abscess 6 weeks ago.

So all in all this year has been frankly, an arsehole already. That’s without covid thrown
in the mix.

@BreathlessCommotion I'm pleased to hear your answer made your daughter happy 🙂
It's horrible to think children would be worried.

@TheSheepofWallSt I wouldn't feel silly about it.
My husband was taking anti-histamine last week and complaining of heartburn on one occasion and very tired on another.
This week I now have it (unconfirmed). It's very easy to think something is something else, just as it is to brush something off as not serious.
But I hope you've just got hayfever and are able to kick it with anti histamine 🙂