For those who believe they’ve had COVID19 ...

[TheLadyAnneNeville]

How are you now? How is your breathing?

I’m one of those who think I had it in December (though I’m told this is impossible). I’m still under par from a respiratory viewpoint. Still cannot exercise in the way I did previously due to breathlessness and a “heavy” chest. Still have to stick my neck out, to get a full breath “in”.

I don’t feel right.

I'm pretty sure I had a mild case 5 weeks ago and I'm still not quite right. Exhausted, short of breath and I get a tight chest in the evenings.

@Didntwanttochangemyname...thanks for the reply.

Whatever I had put me in bed, heavily propped with pillows (couldn’t breath lying down) for ten days. I was exhausted getting up to iron a shirt for DS or empty the dishwasher. Weeks after, I was still falling asleep at 7pm, despite having a snooze after lunch (I work from home).

It floored me. What I’m concerned about now is that I feel like I have a cloud of powder in my chest. I still need several pillows at night due to coughing and wheezing. I was out on my bike today and had to keep stopping. Unheard of. It’s been months.

Anyone else?

I had a slight temperature and a bad cough which came in suddenly. I wouldn't have thought I'd had it, except we saw my brother on Sunday 15th March, my cough started on the 17th and he tested positive (nhs - trial test) on the 18th. I'm now completely fine.

Hmmm, I may be didn’t have it and just a bad viral chest infection. I’m struggling to get my head around the fact that 3 months on, I still can’t breath properly. If it weren’t for Lockdown, I’d be seeing my GP.

Me too.
I was really floored by something in January and my chest has been wheezy since.
What worries me is that if it was not COVID, my chest is still weak and I’m an essential worker so coming into suspected and confirmed cases and I want to be fighting fit if I get it!

My cough variant asthma kicked off apropos of nothing. Breathing wasn't a problem in itself but I developed horrendous upper back pain across the shoulders - not a great combo with CVA. I was constantly trying to suppress the coughs because the pain in my back when I coughed was indescribable.

@Mooey89, can you get a test? Any chance? Should you be continuing to work? If you are vulnerable you need to be very very careful.

Come over to the 40+ thread. Loads of us recovering very slowly or still with symptoms.

I’m about 5 weeks in but mostly better, except for fatigue, a bit of a cough, and feeling my lung function isn’t what it was.

I’m similar. Sure I had it at the end of Jan/early Feb and I too struggle to exercise at the level I was before, I just get so out of breath (gone from running 30k/week to barely managing 10k across a ‘good week’).

@TheWooisStrong 😉

if you wpuld normally see your gp then ring them. They might not see you bit could still gove you something if they thinl ypu need it.

I think I had it, with symptoms starting the week before the lockdown (so about 4.5 weeks ago). Breathing is generally fine but I do still have very sharp pain in my ribs when I take a deep breath. This is getting better but at its worst I could barely move and could only breath in a fairly shallow way. I spoke to a dr about this a couple of weeks ago and she said it sounded like I pulled a muscle from coughing so hard.

I was really ill at Christmas and I’ve never been as ill in my life. I was so exhausted, shaking, sweating, aching, sore throat and cough. I had a runny nose and a runny bum. Had to go to the GP to get a sick note (work threatened to sack me if I didn’t get one) and she said I had an upper respiratory tract infection and a gastrointestinal infection. So a bad cold and the shits basically.

I was ill for about a week but since then my asthma has been a bit worse than it usually is. I’m getting so out of breath just walking up the hill to the point where I feel dizzy. I think like many people who had this bad cold, I keep hoping I’ve already had the virus but in reality I highly doubt it was Covid-19.

You still need to see the GP is 4 months on you can’t breathe, especially lying down as that’s a sign of heart issues

It wasn’t here at Christmas because there were less deaths than normal in UK. If this were here there would have been more. Especially with the number of people claiming to have had it pre-Feb. I had a dreadful virus year before last and was off work for 3 weeks. Viruses happen.

@MichaelBoobins... that’s interesting. I too find that I have to keep sitting down, after doing just a few household tasks. It’s baffling. I’m beginning to think there’s something very amiss but I know that sounds terribly dramatic!

@MerredithGrey... me too. I feel I’m running in shallow breaths. I quite simply GET a full breath into my lungs in the way I could, pre-whatever it was. I feel like they’re weighted down; like I’ve inhaled something powdery that’s just sat there and it won’t allow my lungs to fully inflate.

Sadly, I have less and less faith in my GP. Im talking ore-COVID19 here obviously, but it’s like they’ve got a 5 minute window and just don’t want to go into anything in depth. That’s unfair, I know because the fact is, they ARE really under the cosh, all the time!

“I quite simply CANNOT get a full breath”

Yes, I think I had it about 4 weeks ago. Just before lockdown started. I’m much better than I was, but still a very slight cough and occasional tight chest.

@SugarSugarShimmy... yes, I know reasonably that it cannot be COVID19. And yet .... ????

Well, I’ll have to wait til this is over, to see my gp. I don’t think I’ll get anywhere with it. When I spoke to them in February, I was told to just keep using the inhaler.

We all came down with something that matched the symptoms of the virus the week before lockdown. DC are completely fine. I still have a lingering intermittent cough and am exhausted but that could be just because I am not sleeping well.

I think I had it at the beginning of March but was diagnosed with pneumonia. Just about feeling back to normal now.

As pp said, I'm hoping that was it because I am also a key worker and don't want to just be extra vulnerable.

Had it in early March, breathlessness omit recently went. I have asthma though.

Yes I’m pretty sure that both myself and DH had it. We both had cough, fever and difficulty breathing at the beginning of March. GP prescribed inhalers for me because I couldn’t get a full breath in most of the time. Over the worst now but sometimes still have slight shortness of breath and a cough but not every day.