Covid Lungs 40 plus plus plus

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New thread for those having longer symptoms of Covid.

@Lougle not everyone w COVID coughs immediately, or even coughs at all (of course lots of different bugs can cause temp and sore throat).

I started with fatigue and diarrhoea, didnt get cough til day 6. Dh and ds1 started with hoarse throats and barely coughed at all.

My friends family - her eldest dd started w a temperature, and she and her other dd by losing their sense of smell and taste.

I've had my best breathing day in 3 weeks. Apart from the dull pain I get in my right lung at times on a deep breath I'd call it perfect. I still have some chest/lung pain not as bad, though I am still taking regular ibuprofen and using deep heat. I might try a wire free sports bra tomorrow if I haven't slid back!!!!!!

I have a sore throat again but this time it feels even more of a surface pain. It's so weird, my first sore throat at the beginning was deep and glandular. And each sore throat since then has seemed to come another layer closer to the surface of my mouth/throat. I also have what feels like oral thrush this time. My symptoms are very, very mild compared to anything I've felt since my 4 day interlude of perfect health over 3 weeks ago. I really, really just have to remind myself to take it incredibly easy now as I get better. I want to dance and stretch and do work outs and skate. But I'm thinking if I take it nice and easy for May and stave off a big backslide I can think about getting my old self back in June!!!

@Egghead68 Hang in there. You'll pick up again, the ups and downs are hard though

Morning. Thank you so much @moodgie, @onlinelinda and @tangledyarn for your support with my freak out. It makes all the difference (and a large glass of wine and binge-watching Normal People helped too!)

I am glad you had a better day @alittleprivacy @meetcatmama and @crayfishforyou. Really glad you have had over a week of feeling OK @standrewsschool. @onlinelinda - over two weeks well. That’s brilliant and long may it continue.

Sorry you are having a bad spell @pinkoneblueone. Hope your daughter is OK @Lougle.

I hope everyone has a good breathing, strong energy and pain-free day today.

Hi @Moodgie yes I feel breathless too at the mo - but it's weird as my ox sats seem fine. I still have a lot of burping and needing to get burps our symptoms and the breathlessness seems to tie in with that too. Once I've got the really big burps out I'm less breathless. Can't work it out. (Day 49)
I've woken with a high temp again today 38.1 - is anyone else still getting fever?
Hope everyone had a good night sleep.

I am feeling fine but still sweating at night. Anyone else feel recovered but still sweating at night? My fear is that this is a temporary better which will be snatched away. I hope the sweating is related to something else. Do I ring the dr?

I'm nearly 7 weeks in. 2 weeks ago I returned to bed with chills and shivering after a few days of feeling much better, and even gardening a little. It lasted 2 days. Then I started walking out and built that up. A week later I felt unwell again, although I didn't feel cold-just that feeling you have when you're asking yourself consistently if you are starting to be ill with something, because you don't feel right. That lasted overnight and some of the next day.

Both times I became unwell again I rested.

Each time I became unwell again, it lasted 1.5-2 days.

I've concentrated carefully on diet, eating protein, healthy carbs (mostly!), fruit and veg, with some lower fat dairy. Ive included 2 Brazil bits for selenium and taken a basic 400mcg/10iu vitamin D tablet (not a great big dose).

I have wondered if my 'dips' were caused.by exercising too quickly, diverting my body from repair to supporting the exercise.

Anyway I've been perfectly well now for 8 days, and 6 days before that, excluding the dip.

I hope you all get well soon.

@godhelpusall yes I've been sweating at night (day 49). I called docs on day 36 as I've felt worse than ever this week - feeling v poorly with gastro and neuro symptoms and fever. I feel back to the start on symptoms tbh. My bloods have come back clear, I'm awaiting stool results. She seems to think it's all part of post viral stuff and could last some time. It is reassuring to have some go advice. Hope you're doing ok.

• sorry I'm say 41. Serious brain fog atm

@emoojoo exactly the same here. Sats are ok but just don’t feel can get breath in properly. Have made a massive effort to disconnect the last two nights and sleep has been a little better. Ibuprofen does seem to help residual chest pain though bit concerned it shouldn’t be taken with the myocardial bell in posts above (which also seem to fit and have been having palpitations / ectopic beats on ecg)

@Wingingit15 it's awful isn't it, and hard to try and stay calm with it as anxiety will exacerbate! I've put the Calm app on my phone and am using some of the meditations on there during day and night when symptoms flare to try and keep calm or help sleep.

@emoojoo thanks for answering. I had some blood tests from medicheck a couple of weeks ago and they came back normal so it seems there's no infection. Leaves me wondering why my legs are drenched when I wake up. Post viral seems to cover a lot of ills!

I think I am very much suffering with Costochondritis atm and I think this is hindering my recovery, I have middle chest pain, pain to the left of my chest, shoulder blade plan and swelling in 3 of my lower ribs. I should say I have been had an ecg and bloods done these were normal. I am going to confirm my suspicions with a doctor though there isn't a lot can be done for this literally paracetamol and ibuprofen to help ease the pain and rest. Breathing is still iffy at points but I think this is down to wind gavisgon oddly seems to help though I only take it at bedtime currently. Day 54/55 today and I have had just under two hours sleep as i woke with my other half getting up for the loo and couldn't drop back off

Hi all, long time lurker here, since the very first My lungs thread. Very helpful.

My dh is on day 41 at least (not sure if a previous bug was connected or not - if it was, he'd be on about day 100!). He is still having flare ups every few days/other day and was sent to the hospital for a chest x ray yesterday due to shortness of breath, low oxygen levels, the cough back and a high temperature spike. He's not had the x ray results yet but his doctor gave him antibiotics before he had the x ray.

I saw this on Twitter yesterday and wondered if this would be helpful for anyone:

twitter.com/vonny_bravo/status/1255910968082804736?s=09

This has interesting info I didn't know about the dangers of corticosteroids - as my dh has bad asthma, he is on high dose inhaled corticosteroids (Seretide) and in fact chose to return to using an old inhaler rather than his current high dose one because he noticed that the new one seemed to make him really short of breath.

I'm wondering how many people on this thread are asthmatic, and whether inhaled corticosteroids could be having the unintentional effect of prolonging the illness in some people? I know in the link it refers to a course of so presumably a 1 week dose of oral steroids, which is much stronger, but wonder whether inhalers could also be having the same effect, albeit much less so?

Please note I am not suggesting stopping taking inhalers without checking with medical professionals if you are asthmatic, as that could be very dangerous in terms of the asthma!

But just wondered if anyone else had heard more or noticed any effects of their inhalers?

Also wondering whether asthmatics are more likely to have the virus drag on for weeks and not be quite able to shift it?

So if you're asthmatic, please answer below. In fact, also answer if you're not asthmatic, as it may be that only a few people on this thread are asthmatic, and if only asthmatics answer, it would give the false impression all those that are 40++ are asthmatic.

Thank you and wish everyone better.

@pinkoneblueone i also had a bad night no sleep. Short of breath all night. Middle burning chest pain and sore throat. I’m only on day 25. Really disappointed as the last 2 days i have felt much better.

Thank you all. DD3 woke up and said 'I feel fine, really'. But her temperature is 38.5 and she's coughing a bit now. Not enough to call it continuous, though.

I hope you all improve rapidly

Happy May Day, fellow travellers! I am giving myself until June 1st to feel fully recovered. Here's hoping we will all be free of this by then!

I'm not asthmatic.

I've woken up feeling drowsy and weird. Sat up in bed and git a really lopsided/dizzy sensation in my head. Stood up and careered off to the side. I want to keep my head still , what's all that about?

@Annie20061

At your stage I resorted to accepting I wouldn't sleep unless my body was ready to as i wasn't feeling comfortable enough. I would watch funny programmes or movies avoid anything that could cause worry or upset. I would be up in the night for refills of water and hot honey and lemon (several cups) jakemans cough sweets snacks etc . I am asthmatic too so my inhaler where required too. I know that doesn't help for now but I hope it helps for future restless nights.

I've been googling vagus nerve.
I think it is affected by coronavirus and that's where a lot of the weird symptoms come from.
Someone on the slack group's cardiologist came up with it after seeing healthy hearted corona sufferers with weird pulses

@myguy thanks for the heads up. I argued with my doctor about not wanting to take my steroid tablets but did increase my symbicort to 4 a day as the doctor said it was a lower dose and would do less harm I had no choice after taking an asthma attack

Morning all, i think this was posted on an earlier thread but I signed up and it is another useful resource for covid symptom experiences - seems to be across US and Uk I'm on day 41ish and have found the GI and neurological threads v helpful. Sign up link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScM2EeJhgisTUdo5Op6euyx1PYu8O-aNeDVYhXuPFa_Gs9PnQ/viewform hope that works

@pinkoneblueone thank you some nights seem much better than others. Still sob & other symptoms this morning. I think i overdid it yesterday i felt really well - rest on the sofa day today. I really hope you get rid of this virus soon & recover fully.

Morning all
After a fairly good day had a weird night. Had a rise in temperature and the a little bit of shortness of breath. Then weirdly both my arms at the top began to ache really badly like cramp and my fingers went a bit numb. It felt like my body was trying to get rid of something At first I couldn't sleep and then managed to doze off and slept really deeply. Woke up this morning at 8.30 feel ok except for a bit of stiffness across my back at neck height and the intermittent cough which seems looser. Head is clear from the headache of the previous two days. This is a strange virus , Hopefully onward and upwards. Day 47 for me

Bad night again. Every time I tried to drop off I got disturbed by chest pain and heart palpitations.

Usual burning stabbing aching chest pain but also pressure like it's a whirlwind inside and it judders and twitches around - does anyone else have this? It's scaring me.

Sorry to hear many of us are still suffering, also really lovely to hear some positive stories. It gives me hope.

I'm not asthmatic but my doctor gave me ventolin at about week 2/3 to help with my breathing, that's safe isn't it?