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Thread for continuing long-term Coronavirus support

Thanks for getting back @babdoc

I feel bad today. The worse breathing soreness and SOB since week 1. I'm day 23. But my o2 sats are 99. So I'm getting enough oxygen, it just feels all weak and warm and weird in my lungs.

moodgie
Yes, I wonder if Boris is okay.
My GP keeps comparing me to Bojo as our time lines are the same.

How many days are you @Rosesofeyam?

36 days from the start of high temp, but was unwell the week before with sore throat.
I got worse the weekend Boris did.

Sorry, high temp and cough

@Moodgie, just had the text to say the same. Do you know what time it opens?

@Rosesofyarn It’s my 33rd day since I had to go to bed. But from the start of the sore throat it’s 50. Makes you wonder.

@Lightsabre I think 8.30 - I think I saw it in some news article.

@fedupofbed I've also had bloods. That show red and white cells all fine. Does this mean @Babdoc that the virus is gone? Sorry to ask you but as a doctor you might

Know (sorry)

@TheDrsWife46 if it’s any consolation you are not alone. I am a similar time frame to you - I think 32 days, and the idea of exercise is just not a reality for me. I really wish it was- I’m 39 and was fit and healthy running/ weight training several times a week. I can only spend a tiny amount of time out of bed these days, my legs are so weak and heavy and I keep getting waves of tingling still which unsettles me hugely. If I’m still the same come Monday I will be back on to the gp to get something to settle them down like you have - as I’m not sleeping well at all.

I was stupidly rather looking forward to ‘lockdown’ with my little family, and homeschooling my 5 year old whilst juggling the 2 year old. Seeing all the lovely memories people are making together makes me really sad, as my family are missing out. However when we are better- and I really think we will be, I don’t think we will care looking back- we will just be happy to be well again. Big hugs xxx

@Dorual, I'm Day 27/28 and havnt had a great week as I had a sore throat and raw windpipe into my chest. The windpipe has eased off a bit but sore throat, tight chest and breathlessness still there. Weak again this afternoon.
@fedupofbed, you must be relieved that there are no signs of infection now.

@Countingsheeps you are so right. I have such a renewed insight into my life. Everyone is bored of lockdown and yet that cossetted family time is what ive craved. And its made me realise how much time as a family we devote to clubs that the kids begged for and then whinge that they have to go. Grandparents commandeer our weekends, turning up unannounced and then we never get time as a family to go anywhere.
What I really crave isnt bars, restaurants, cinemas and meeting friends. Its being able to go for a walk, with the family and the dog somewhere really picturesque. And whats sad is that that is what everyone else is taking from lockdown. That’s their respite and for me it’s my goal.

Im coming out of lockdown with a static caravan bolthole somewhere I can feel it!

@Babdoc thankyou for sharing that you came out with anxiety meds. When the doctor prescribed me amytriptiline I was really ashamed and embarrassed that I wasnt stoic and brave, but an utter mess that couldnt cope with the night times of this. Its very reassuring when a doctor comes back and says “me too”. Thankyou

@theDrsWife46 and others with neuro symptoms.

Dominic Cummings' wife said he had fever and bedridden for 10 days with spasming abd twitching muscles.

Thanks to the few of you who asked how I am can’t remember names to @ you but in answer to Qs:

I was released from A&E in the early hours. Was kept in for over 4 hours. Had a chest x ray, bloods and ECG.

My oxygen saturation was initially low but came up. My lungs and bloods looked fine. Which was great news.

Dr definitely thought I had Covid. They couldn’t give me a Covid swab as they’re only swabbing patients they admit. He said they, the staff, aren’t even getting tested. And even with the new swab that’s only for those with symptoms.

He said that it’s much worse than flu in his long it lingers, and they’d heard from other patients what I was saying, that I was still absolutely fatigued and walking up the stairs made me breathless. I said I think I’d relapsed from doing you much, which was barely that much, last week when I felt better. I was walking for 20 mins or so with the dog, staring outside for an hour while she played, doing light things around the house. But it completely wiped me out and my cough is now worse then it ever was. I’m past Week 5 from when it first started.

Dr said I was well enough to go home but as my symptoms have re-started, to self-isolate away from family for 7 days - again

He said if I worsened in any way - and he set the bar low for that - to come straight back to A&E.

So sympathising with you all that this lingering so long and taking it out of us so much sucks so much.

Good to hear your lungs and bloods look ok. That's a relief @DandyPeguin

Wow @DandyPeguin. I’m sorry you are feeling so bad. Me too today. I’m fed up now but hoping tomorrow may be better and I may be back to how I was last week.

Somehow I just can’t shake the feeling i an in for a night of palpitations and chest ache though!

I can’t believe I’m on day 45 of this now!!

I'm day 39 or 43 from the first of my symptoms. I'm nearly scared to say this but I am improving. I got up this morning no symptoms at all. Managed to get breakfast, feed cats, clean 3 windows, do an hour of wedding and some seeds. Made lunch and had a few twinges in centre of chest, so lay down for an hour reading. Got up fine. Done another hour and half of wedding and made dinner. Few twinges again but that's it.

I'm not going to push my luck though, so resting now for a while before dishes and cats.

I read somewhere earlier that some people were taking 70 days to recover from this

Weeding not wedding!

@tootsey don’t tell me 70 days!! Argh! I was like you are today last week and I hoping to get back to that swiftly after this blip! I could cope functioning at 50% but not at what feels like 10% again!

@longshot Sorry to hear you are having a dip. I had a better day yesterday, today First thing was not bad apart from a sore throat - now feel like breathing is off again. I was so positive last night and this morning. Speaking to a GP this afternoon I said I thought as slow as it is I think I am better, and now this. I just want to feel normal! I don’t even want to go running and do masses of stuff, just to feel normal!

Just checking in on day 39. (But I think more likely at least day 46, just counting from when all the pain started.)

I can't write much, I feel too down today. But you are my tribe and I'm so grateful for your posts, although I wish you weren't suffering. My hay-fever is raging on top of the unrelenting covid. I get my tree pollen allergy every year and that alone often floors me for weeks, but to have it now is hell. I don't know how much more I can take without going off my rocker. The broke back feeling, breathlessness, fatigue, and the sense of utter futility are taking their toll now. Day after miserable day.

Sorry, I don't want to make anyone feel worse but I know many of you will understand. People generally just don't get it, and I don't want them to because I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Yes, I'm feeling extremely sorry for myself today!

Thank you again for all your posts that keep me from feeling like I'm going round the twist. Wishing everyone better days beyond this crappy plague and beyond lockdown. Hope I have brighter news to report tomorrow 🤞

@baroqueandblue, it's so disheartening and I think we are all experiencing low mood with this as it's so relentless. People are coming back to the thread at 6 weeks plus saying they feel substantially better so just hang on in there. We're all with you.

Oh @baroqueandblue I know exactly how you feel. Sending love and really hope tomorrow is a better day 💐.

The general recurring theme on this thread is that even the slightest excursion seems to tip people right back. I guess we just have to take it really really slowly and not be lulled in to a false sense of security when we start to feel a bit better.