My Lungs Part 7

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@BreathlessCommotion thank you, if I get to the place I was yesterday again I won't hesitate to call 999. I'm up in the North East and my city has a high number of cases so I'm hoping they will begin testing in the community. Hope you all have as restful sleep as you can.

@JustStayHome I think from reading these threads a common theme is that people feel a bit 'off' for the first day or two, then quickly decline into feeling atrocious experiencing a wide range of symptoms. If I were you, take some paracetamol and have a hot drink. I hope you're feeling better in the morning. If not, come back to these threads as I've found them very useful when I've been panicking and frightened.

@MrsPworkingmummy

Yes, thank you...

Im shielding, in the extremely vunerable group... My consultant said as soon as i have symptoms, to ring 111 but will wait and see if ot leads to anything worse.

Thank you

This resource looks useful

@LakeFlyPie, thank you, that's a really useful resource.

How us everyone today? I'm coming into day 11 since the mildest of chest tightness started. Slept better than I thought I would, although have woken up and my lungs are burning again. Putting it down to have been lying down all night.
I hope everyone is feeling ok today

I don't think there will be community testing any time soon, they are hardly making progress with NHS workers. Also it will be too late for me/us. Antibody tests are a long way off yet.

I think I'm Day 25 now but unfortunately had a funny turn this morning and 111 sent the paramedics. I had a crushing feeling in the centre of my chest which came on suddenly and I started panting. It was frightening and has really knocked my confidence. All checks ok including ecg (although blood pressure was very high, probably because I was panicking). I didn't go to hospital but they said if anything changes then to go straight to A and E as the local hospitals are very quiet. I feel breathless still but it's eased off a bit. Had a cry today for the first time as I'm so cheesed off with the lack of progress. It makes me wonder whether I have an underlying condition that hasn't been picked up and that's why my recovery is so slow.

@SheilaTakeABow thanks for asking. I thought I'd turned a corner, but my breathing isn't right again. I'm finding I'm constantly trying to yawn to get a satisfying breath so I'm dizzy. Cant wait for the oxymetre to arrive x

I'm sorry you've had a setback @Lightsabre - did the paramedics' checks reassure you in any way? I'm only in the early days (well, who really knows), and it's simply the strangest thing I've known, how quickly you can feel better and worse, new symptoms arriving, others disappearing.
In my earlier days, I spent ages poring over these threads, as everyone dismissed it as just hayfever, but it was the bra line pain and cold, Vicks feeling across the back that really made me feel I wasn't going mad! So, much as it's miserable that everyone feels so crap, I think threads like these - where nobody witters on about testing - are so helpful.
@MrsPworkingmummy, sorry to hear you're feeling rough again, my oximeter is such a help for reducing panic. Have you tried the lying on your front thing?

@SheilaTakeABow yes I have thanks. I've also been practicing some of the 'In bed' exercises described in the resource a previous poster attached. I've had no energy at all and am desperate to get some back. X

Hi on day 24 here I think
I had great days Monday and Tuesday, went for a walk and to my allotment too.
Today the headache is back, I feel as though I am a Victorian women being forced into a tiny, very restrictive corset and I am breathless walking up the stairs.
So I haven't done much but potter around, I am going to have a long hot steamy bath and early to bed.
I find insomnia means I never feel fully rested

I have been prescribed extra, stronger inhalers for asthma and steroids. Dr and nurse said to behave as though I have had it so I stayed in for 2 weeks and still feel reluctant to be around people. I feel shattered after conversations, which is the opposite of my normal life! 😉
I do the breathing exercises too

Does anyone else feel as though they have to often remember to breathe out as though the body is conserving the oxygen?

@IamEarthymama - yes to the breathing! Despite the fact I'm so conscious of it, I frequently find I'm inadvertently holding it, that's the best way to describe it. And talking is such an effort too.
Sorry, you may have been on an earlier thread - have you had any medical input or simply managed?
@MrsPworkingmummy I know what you mean about the energy. I sat in the garden for ten minutes earlier and was exhausted just getting back up to bed. Are you eating and drinking ok?

SheilaTakeaBow
Yes I have spoken to our asthma nurse and GP, they said just presume you have it

I am so tired today, just have no mental or physical energy
All my friends are exercising and walking miles and doing all sorts

The most I have done is to don a hippy hat and beads and attend Folk
On Foot, Front Room Festival on my sofa!!

Has anyone had mild breathlessness and chest tightness that lasted a week or so, disappeared for a week and then came back? No particularly bad symptoms, but I keep feeling completely better and then it reappears after what seems like a decent length of time. I’m hoping it’s a weird bout of hayfever or something.

I had that and other symptoms, gp said it sounded like classic Covid. Now on antibiotics as I've had these symptoms a month so may have secondary infection

Broadwayb & WanderingLost167

I'm day 38 ish, still breathless at times, & tight chest plus occasional chest pain.

I was given antibiotics last Monday, for query Pnuemonia/Pluerisy. 500mg twice a day.

They didnt touch it, I rang G.P this week to ask for more, he said as that high dose did not help at all, we can say its still Covid 19.

Breathless today again.

It is utterly shit.

@Broadwayb Yes iv been fine for the last few days then tonight bang out of breath and lung pain. Thinking the same hay fever but not so sure I think its still lingering.

How is everyone doing this morning? I thought I'd turned a bit of a corner yesterday (day 9), but have woken up feeling blurgh again. For about an hours stint each day, I struggle to breathe and can't take a deep breath. This seems to come on in the afternoon. @SheilaTakeABow for the first seven/eight days, I was hardly eating a thing (perhaps a piece of toast and some orange segments which I was forcing myself to eat) but my appetite has increased over the past two days. I'm so grateful that my husband is here as I honestly don't know how I we ould have coped.

It is interesting to see that some people for example @Broadwayb have relatively mild symptoms. Obviously they are not mild but compared to others iyswim. I have had a on and off temp of 38, exhaustion somedays but generally just a lethargy. My cough has been increasingly bad and breathlessness has been increasing daily. I'm now on day 6 and managing to cope, I believe, as I am lucky enough to have an inhaler that is helping me to manage. I have been doubting myself and 111 that I even have 'it' but wonder if all my isolation has fortunately helped me 'get it' but with only a minor viral load.
Anyway I hope everyone slept well. If you can request an inhaler (as an asthmatic I have one) I truly believe it helps me. I have a preventer and reliever combined.
Xx

I'll be honest, I'm feeling awful and scared again today. I felt ok all yesterday, and stupidly thought I was near the end of it, but I went downhill in the evening and woke at 2pm unable to breathe and with a racing pulse. I eventually got my sats up and pulse down, but every time I tried to doze off, I could feel my lungs closing up again.

I'm just wondering l, when do people count the beginning from? I've been having really mild chest symptoms since Easter weekend, and the GP and nurse I saw counted me at day 10, but now I'm scared that was day 1 and I've got the scary 7-10 day danger zone ahead of me.

I have asthma and two kids and I'm just so scared of leaving them.

YES!
I think the up and down nature of this virus is one of the worse things about it!

I went to my allotment on Monday, did some work, was tired as I expected and then completely wiped out the next day.
Still not feeling as well as I did at the weekend

Luckily my wife is wfh and has the most immense patience with me
And the crying has stopped, I felt so scared.

I have steroids now, which I am trying to convince myself will give me toned muscles!

I am being Pollyanna today and making This too will pass my mantra and plan to sit down in the garden to sow some seeds.
I am fully aware of how grateful I should be to have this opportunity and I really am, two weeks ago I thought I would never go outside again.

I hope everyone on here has a better day.
Please contact your doctors surgery if you feel you need help, sooner rather than later.
My GP, asthma nurse and local pharmacy have been so kind and supportive.
(I am in Wales, registered at an excellent medical practice; I am sorry this is isn't always the case)

Same experience here was feeling better since monday gradually improving on day 17 now. Then last night breathlessness woke up gasping then found it hard to go back to sleep because you don’t want that feeling again. Burning chest & breathing issues most of the night. You seem to feel a bit better and then go downhill again.

Also, I'm worried about DH and the kids getting it. I'm keeping my distance as far as possible, but our paths cross sometimes. DS2 is only four and he can't understand why he can't see me. I really couldn't stand it if I gave it to one of them, or, worse, if DH got ill and neither of us could look after them.

Because I didn't think this was it, I've been sitting in the same room as them, pretty close, for weeks now, when all the time I was harbouring this bloody virus.

And DH is on his third day off to look after the kids, and I don't know how long his work will be supportive of that.

I fucking hate this thing.

@SheilaTakeABow go on the 111 website and tell your husband to print off the 'I'm living with someone with coronavirus' letter. He can then stay off for 14 days without fear of not being paid etc. I'm on day 9/10 and am also experiencing the up and down nature of it. It's the debilitating nature of the lack of energy that is really getting me down. My husband is doing a fantastic job, but isn't, fo example, wiping door handles and cleaning bathrooms etc. There's absolutely no way I could do this but I would love to be able to give a hand.