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Thread for continuing long-term Coronavirus support

Sorry I haven't been able to catch up on everyone's posts today but @Meercatmama thank you for the fab survey and @Egghead68 I had low blood pressure for at least a couple of weeks. That's now changed though and along with my escalating heart rate, it seems to be a bit higher. When it was low I took diarolyte.

So I'll try not to make this an essay but just reporting back from my hospital referral yesterday. I ended up staying the night and much of today so that they could do a ct scan too.

On a positive note they were very thorough- lots of bloods, including D-dimer, X-ray, ECG, and yes a CT scan too. The results were generally all good, lungs 'pretty clear', ECG normal. Swab test negative, but of course it would be after 60 days. The first consultant cast doubt on whether it had ever been covid, the second said it was post covid.

I was a bit worried at first as they put me in a covid ward but I was in a private room with en-suite tucked away at the end so felt comfortable with that. The nurses were angels. I was monitored throughout the night which I thought would be reassuring but actually had the opposite effect as one line on the monitor kept crashing and beeping which made me anxious and also my sats and heart fluctuated a lot.

I was actually really ill the whole time I was there with nausea and palpitations, and my shortness of breath was back again.

The doctors were a bit harder, no doubt as they're helping people who are much sicker than me. After all the results were clear, there was a lot of talk about anxiety. Yes there is anxiety but I was pretty much too weak to walk (had to be wheeled everywhere) so there's a bit more to it too.

So all a bit mixed - relieved that there's nothing really sinister but also frustrated.

I do seem to be right in the middle of a heart symptom phase (palpitations, huge heart rate spikes, completely unable to sleep/drop off as a result) and I think I'm finding it the toughest yet. Has anyone out there had these symptoms and then moved on from them? If so, how long did you have them for? I need something positive to focus on.

@moodgie Yeah it's been there all the time I think, although I find it hard to remember the middle couple of weeks at all as I think I was just too unwell, although it definitely feels worse again in last couple of weeks. I think its post viral for me, it definitely seems worse when the fatigue is worse too, I thought it might be thrush but the treatment has made no difference, I have got a weird purple mark on one side of my throat that looks like a small bruise but to be honest I don't don't usually inspect my throat so it might have been there at other times too!

@Tabgledyarn I am hoping this is post viral too. I do have like a scratchy feeling in the windpipe too though. Have you got something similar?

@Tangledyarn Sorry, misspelt you’re handle.

*your - sorry.

I have completed the survey and out of interest I am a teaching assistant in primary. Slim and exercised alot.

I'm quite little too, a regular runner and work in HE.

Same as KitKat. Slim, TA in primary. But didn't work out.

@Moominmamma33 thanks very much for setting up the survey. I have filled it in but I forgot to add in sore throat and hoarse voice as symptoms (I am the one listed with severe asthma if you are able to add these into my data).

Sorry one more symptom to add from me -weird bubbling sensation in the middle of my torso.

@fedupofbed I am glad you were checked over thoroughly in hospital. I am sorry you are feeling so I’ll.

Chest heavy, breathing feels like it should be bubbly (it's not, it's still so dry), headache again. And a new one... Eye floaters. Many more obvious ones. Or perhaps that's just a coincidence.

Thanks for all the survey responses so far, 25 of you👍 looking very briefly at the results it looks interesting already, possibly with blood groups for example, but need more data.. Will wait for more responses for a couple of days and then post the results. Possibly need to do a survey of those who have recovered quickly to compare, as well!

Oo @Egghead68 I have the weird bubbly sensation in my torso too - great description!

I'm a lecturer but was a teacher. I was talking to someone had read hat teachers fare worse because of the number of viruses they are always fighting or something.

Have done the survey too :)

Still 97/98% recovered here. Just started a new supplement (Quercetin), which after two days I’m hopeful is making a bit of a difference. Spent the day reading trash, letting the kids run riot, and that’s helped too.
We’ll get there, and we’ll be fully recovered, healthy and hopefully immune before the 2nd wave rolls in.

Primary here. And to think they want to open schools up soon... 😩

Another lecturer here - seems a lot of us work in some form of educational environment with high population density!

I’m a teacher. Not in school any more but teaching pupils from home. Before I got ill I was seeing almost 30 pupils a week from around a dozen different schools. I have the standard teacher thing of catching everything that’s going and always falling ill the minute holidays start. Interesting theory @godhelpusall. We do seem to be quite highly represented on here.

Just done the survey. Wish i knew my blood type!

Survey done too.

@Moominmamma33 Brilliant survey thank you. Hope you get a good response.

Survey done, another one working in Education.

@Moominmamma33 Thanks for survey👍 I'm also fairly little.. 5ft1 and slim-ish. Not especially fit and active though. Fairly sure I caught mine from the tube.. I have a long commute, always on very packed tube trains.