Are You Worried About Your Ability To Endure The Physical Suffering Caused By Covid-19?

[JoeBidensDisintegratingBrain]

I was always hit harder by colds and flus than other members of my family. I was only able to bear the aftermath of wisdom-teeth removal by staying drugged up to the eyeballs. I'm a baby when it comes to pain.

I've read accounts on this site of people who have caught this virus. They mention still having symptoms 3 and 4 weeks in. This sounds like a nightmare to me.

Anyone else worrying about this?

Yes. I have asthma and damaged lungs. I suspect if I get it, it will kill me.

Yes it is something I worry about. I think my anxiety stems from not feeling like I will get any help. I am actually a lot braver than I think, and I come from a family of nurses. Even as a 14 year old girl I broke my wrist and wrapped it up myself (as I didn’t want to waste people’s time in A and E for what I presumed was a sprain, even though secretly I was in terrible pain) I’ve been left with terrible arthritis now as my wrist bones healed unevenly.

It was the same attitude that had me delivering my baby girl at home.

The anxiety is knowing HOW bad you need to be before you seek medical help. I know it’s wise not to leave it too late, but nine times out of ten if you’re not at deaths door you get fobbed off??

So yes that worries me a lot. This time I have promised myself if I get ill I will be seeking medical advice much sooner, and I will not worry about any potential time wasting.

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I'm healthy but I'm a lone parent so I really worry about becoming too Ill to look after dd. Especially if she also gets it. Her dad lives with his elderly parents so really don't have anyone else to care for her.

Another single parent worried about both being able to look after dc if I get it badly. However, also worry about her going with exh and what if I'm really poorly and die. I know that's an irrational thought but still worries me.

Given that the overwhelming majority of people only get mild symptoms and recover in days, no - I’m not worried at all.

What does worry me is whether I’ll have a job and enough money to keep a roof over my head once this fiasco is finally over.

It affects everyone differently but if it helps I have a reeeeally low threshold for pain and it actually wasn’t that horrendous for me when I (probably) caught it.

I still have a cough after 5 weeks (caught it from someone tested) but it hasn't been terrible. It has lasted a long time for me, but in terms of pain I've had much worse with migraines.
You are only hearing the worst versions of this. Lots of us would have barely noticed it - my dh & children were fine after a couple of days of cold-like symptoms.

Yes, this scares me. I'm terrified of ending up unable to breathe well, calling for medical help and being told that if I'm not gasping for breath every few words, they won't do anything. I had asthma as a child and remember being completely exhausted but unable to sleep at night because of near-constant coughing. I'm afraid that if I catch this virus, I'll get it badly.