40+

[MilesJuppIsMyBitch]

A thread for people with CV19 symptoms that have lasted for more than a couple of weeks.

First thread here

(Called 40+ to keep a rough tab on when the first symptoms started being reported on MN).

@Dimsummummy it's great that you are posting now. My symptoms match yours almost exactly.

I'm about day 36 now and did 20 minutes sat down weeding in the sun before remaining chest pain ramped up and I got The Fear.

Interesting you gave up smoking (and congratulations on that) as @Spacecadetagain did the same and it's been hard to tell if their experience was a post smoking fall out or Covid.

Thank you @Kitcat122! Do you get randomly without doing anything as well?

@WorriesomeDad it's as much mental as physical isn't it!

It does sound like you are improving.

Those that have been back to say they have recovered had pretty impressive jumps in recovery towards the end.

@SchrodingersKitty thanks for the update, glad DH is doing so well on steroids.

@stayathomegardener interesting that our symptoms match as we’re very close timeline wise too.

I have wondered if any of it can be attributed to giving up smoking and of course I cannot rule that out. Although i had smoked most of
My life and has only restarted in the last few years (led astray as a mature post grad student ) so didn’t have any smokers cough etc and on giving up prior to this time (after having smoked for 12 years) I never had any of these symptoms.

Although, I certainly wholeheartedly believe that smoking (and my penchant for a wine most nights pre-virus) made me a sitting target for catching this and/or it not remaining a mild case. I was a 39 year old extremely energetic/cardio vascularly fit woman with no underlying health conditions, an extremely physical job and the energy of a certain battery brands bunny, so I’m sure my vices come into play somewhere...

@pinkoneblueone sorry I’ve just seen your reply. Sorry you’ve been worried about your dad. I think (from what I took from the article) that the bruises are a bit like the missing smell/taste symptom and can often indicate a largely asymptomatic case. So even if they appear it’s not always a cause for concern.

In fact, not linking their presence to covid at the time and only seeing this retrospectively has provided me with reassurance that my children are more than likely both now asymptomatically immune, as I’m on day 34 (which was roughly when the eldest got these feet bruises). Both my boys share a bedroom so I hope this means they’re both off the hook (the youngest spent 9 days in hospital when he was 11 days old with bronchiolitis so I worry more for him respiratory wise)

@Dorual my second wave started on first day of period and it was awful!

@Moodgie I am also still breathless, varying in severity... The GP I saw this morning (in-car blood test and other tests), found my oxygen saturation was 98, which is so reassuring. I had a raised temp though, so he agrees it's Covid. He thinks this is me first getting Covid though, rather than part of a lagging recovery, but I find that so unlikely when we haven't been anywhere for a month, other than walking round our village...be interesting to see if blood tests show anything up.

Hello. I was wondering if someone could tell.me about the nausea symptoms. I've on day 34. I was getting better for a few days and it's come back. Tight chest, tiredness, sore throat, aches and pains, nausea/being sick and loss of taste and smell. Plus I have the metallic taste. I don't know if it's Covid or if I'm being sick because of something else. I haven't eaten in almost 24 hours as I can't stand the idea of touching food.
Also, really, really weird dreams.

@Andromeida59

I've had nausea for about ten days not (day 33). Gastro symptoms are my main complaint at the moment, but it's really hard to force myself to eat. I've read that stomach upset and nausea can continue in the post-viral stage, but it doesn't really feel like the virus has left the building!

@ Moominmamma33 How long have you had symptoms for? Does the doctor think you have only just got it? I’m confused.

@Moominmamma33

When I spoke to 111 a few weeks ago the doctor suggested I'd either had one infection, then caught covid, or had covid, then caught something else, because 3 weeks was too long to be recovering! I think most doctors/GPs have started to change their tune in recent weeks as more and more people present with long running symptoms/recoveries. Really frustrating though - made me feel like my crappy experience was being treated as me over reacting!

@mumlurker
I have a similar experience - at the end of week 3 the doctor thought either a prolonged infection and gave me antibiotics, or first an infection and then Covid. In retrospect, I think it has been Covid from the start, but stupidly I went for a run at the end of the second week when I thought I was getting better and then it immediately came back with a vengeance.

Hello everyone, checking in rather late on this new thread. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to catch up on sleep today.

Day 43 I think (possibly a bit longer with earlier symptoms). Still in bed! Bit of an improvement today though - still completely exhausted but have lost the horrendous nauseous/passing out feeling whenever i tried to move, which means I can shower today, hooray! Small pleasures. My temperature is just beginning to rise which it does like clockwork every afternoon (but only up to 37.8ish) but that doesn't seem to have a huge impact.

Sorry I've been catching up on lots of threads and a bit muddled but was it you @Moodgie who was talking about still having breathlessness? I'm exactly the same . It kind of comes and goes - I find it such a worry that it's suddenly going to deteriorate after all this time.

Sorry to hear from those who've had bad nights/relapses ( @TheDrsWife46 @WorriesomeDad and apologies if I've missed others) - hope the day improves.

Thank you again everyone for keeping me sane. Well not sane exactly but less er derailed!

My mind was just in overdrive it keeps happening.

@fedupofbed Yes, it is me.

Day 35 ish I think and I'm a nearly fully recovered one.
Still not back to full energy, still coughing up a bit of gunk., did the Joe Wicks workout with the DC today and went for a lunchtime walk.

And - TMI me and DH DTD last week for the first time in ages. When I had ovulation symptoms. Without protection. And yesterday I swear I got alllll the implantation symptoms. Rather hoping we don't end up with a quarantine baby. I'm 39 and really should know better.

@Moodgie I had initial symptoms 4 weeks ago (cough, low fever, stomach things, fatigue, eye pain, headaches, it was mild like a bad cold). I got better I thought after 10 days, then in the last week or so I noticed increasing bouts of breathlessness (no cough or anything else now though)..similarly to you, I had started running again, which I think started off the second wave. As @mumlurker says, and as with your experience, I think our GP is also not yet aware of the possibility of longer periods of symptoms with Covid, and was more inclined to think it's two separate illnesses. It's really interesting to hear that from both of you, thank you. I understand that frustration as well, mumlurker.

Thankyou to everyone for such lovely messages @WorriesomeDad @Dorual @fedupofbed @stayathomegardener @FabulouslyElegantTits and anyone else Ive missed.

@Dorual i deffo relapsed last night, i think we cam all agree and your message made me sit up because I came on my period yesterday. The burning in my lower spine isnt like period pain but maybe my period has made me worse. I looked at the muscle relaxation. I laid in a room alone quitely but it highlighted that I cant tense my leg muscle groups!!!! Although my legs are weak, I tried to tense thighs/calves/achilles etc and i cant! When i tense each muscle group they just shake. You know if you try to make a fist after sleep and you cant grip! Like that.

I rang the GP who initially said over the phone that it was clearly anxiety as i’d asked for valium two weeks ago (didnt get or take any!) I practically begged him to please listen and that i dont hve anxiety/depression and he called me straight back on video call to my mobile. Once he saw I was calm etc he was more receptive. Explained that im getting real neurological symptoms, buzzing/fizzing across body, snapping sensation of nerves across buttocks/legs, shaking like low blood sugar. Explained that im wiped out like when i was a teenager and friends got glandular fever. He agreed that its a long recovery and that I cant have a blood test or neurology referral as all referrals are off at the moment and I’ll have to wait it out. Im sick of being told its anxiety. The symptoms MAKE me anxious but they happen when im happily asleep and wake me. THEN i get anxious. Its more anxiety inducing to have an illness without healthcare. He said that his dr colleagues are taking three weeks to come back to work and then offered me sleeping tablets for a week which I declined and then I think he believed me that I had genuine distressing symptoms rather than trying to get sedated.

@SchrodingersKitty lovely to hear you and dh are managing over Easter xx

@Dorual just to say that I feel the same symptoms but I’m not nearing my period. Body shaky / tremors, headachy (pressure on both sides of the head), dizzy, and fatigued. And still get muscle twitches lying down! I think this is post viral fatigue and just hoping it dies down over the next couple weeks!

@Dimsummummy thankyou for putting your experience on here too. It is so so heartening when people put their experiences on here that give us all hope.

And anyone who’s followed my mums constructive comments. She rang to check on me. I said how i cant feel my legs properly and I cant walk far as pain/weakness in my spine and legs. And that it was a bad day.

“Well you’re not dead. You’ll have to just get on with it wont you”.

True. But hardly motivational. I dont know what she thinks i can be getting on with when ive been stuck in a chair for 3.5 weeks

Day 30 here. Feeling distinctly better the last couple of days - able to walk fast for 40 mins, still tired in evening and tend to flag during day.

Do we have any answers yet as to whether we are still contagious at this stage?

Do the neurological symptoms indicate the virus is still present, or is it just damage?

I’ve been so scared about it reactivating.

Your mum makes me so so cross

@Aisforharlot the neurological symptoms dont seem true for everybody.

This article is brilliant and the red parts for contributors are hyperlinks to twitter users like @misfia and significant people experiencing the buzzing/fizzing

nypost.com/2020/04/10/coronavirus-patients-report-strange-new-symptom-fizzing/

@Moominmamma33 Thank you for your comment. Yes, it feels like doctors haven’t seen many people like us - although someone commented here (sorry, not sure who it was) that their GP said they were starting to see these longer ‘roads’ as well.