Covid Lungs 40 plus plus plus

[SimpleKindofLife]

New thread for those having longer symptoms of Covid.

I'm so sorry to post here but I been reading all the lungs threads and I feel desperate! I'm on day 13 with what started as a sore throat. I've not had a fever but occasional dry cough. The body pains are insane in my chest shoulders and back. My throat feels although I've swallowed razors and I'm still really full of 'gunk'. I cant get out of bed.. I did get up for a while this morning and felt okay but by 12 I was back in bed. I'm really really struggling with this and I'm so scared. Is day 13 'safe'. I'm literally thinking about writing letters to my children at this point.

@musicposy I hear you. I am two days ahead and know exactly how you feel yesterday I was a wreak and today I still feel as though I am under attack from the inside. I hope to be near the end too

@AvocadoPrime sadly none of us know how long this virus will last. It's like the unwanted gift that keeps giving. I have never known anything like it. What are your symptoms? If I'm doubt call 111 is my best frame of mind or go to A&E but there are things you can do from home. If you own an Oxometer it will help you track how much oxygen you are getting. Keep an eye on your temperature, drink lots of water to flush the virus out and eat healthy as much as you can.

@musicposy I'm a few days ahead and similar, very little activity still, lots of palpitations, breathlessness and chest pain and still the stupid sore throat!

@AvocadoPrime I think the majority of hospital cases are in the second week- I seem to remember day 8 and 11 being significant? Anyway if you aren't struggling to breathe you should be ok. Not to say it won't be a good long while before you feel properly better if our experiences are anything to go by. But if you know that it may be easier?

I’m taking Quercetin and it’s really helped me turn the corner - please do your own research but it’s a safe supplement from what I’ve read.
It’s also coincidentally my period this week. So I’m taking two ibuprofen in the morning as otherwise I’m crippled with cramps.
I think one or the other has chased off most of the last lingering symptoms. I’ve still got a few lingering post viral things but I’m mostly pretty good. Nearly 7 weeks though!
Hopefully I won’t relapse.

@AvocadoPrime at your stage I told my mother I’d had a wonderful childhood, told DD1 where I was going to hide online banking passwords, told DH I would love him for all eternity and sorted out with my two girls who would have what dog should neither of us survive. Reading a lot of other experiences I was by no means the only one. But I’m still here. I can’t really say if you’re out of the woods yet but if you get really scared, do phone for advice, even if to get some reassurance. I can say that the stage you’re at was probably the shittiest of all the shit times I’ve had with it.

@SimpleKindofLife, crying mainly! In seriousness, exhaustion is the worst probably. Everything wipes me out and even when I rest and think I feel normal, I do the tiniest thing and just cannot do any more. Cough has pretty much gone now but still get chest pain, though the tight band round my chest has mostly gone. The awful feeling where I’m trying to breathe in but someone is covering my nose is gone. Heart is one of the worst now, racing every time I do something and terrible palpitations. I’ve also had quite severe muscle pains and a good few neurological issues like stuff going randomly numb and pins and needles. Sore throat comes and goes. Temperature occasionally still goes up in the evenings enough to make me feel hot then shivery and wretched, but nothing like what it was. That sounds a long list and explains my first answer!

Day 63, still have awful pleuritic pains which worsen through the day.

Vertigo (a week) and oscillopsia (3 days) too but I think it's unrelated to my Covid recovery.

@musicposy @pinkoneblueone @Tangledyarn I'm with you too... first symptoms 28th Feb so think thats 61 days or something... 2 months!

Breathlessness up and down, burning chest sensation, fatigue, nausea and my new favourite symptom... palpitations. Oh and still have the mild raised temperature! Trying (and often struggling) to remain calm, sane and taking each day as it comes.

@Tangledyarn hi! (waves)
It’s so never-ending, isn’t it? It’s reassuring when others at more or less the same stage are going through exactly the same, but kind of depressing at the same time. We don’t know when we will be over it, that’s the trouble.

Thanks for setting up the new thread @SimpleKindofLife. @WorriesomeDad had set up another thread that me and @Linus1972 had been posting in, so thought i'd tag them.

Day 46 for me and still seem to be getting slightly better each day. Trying not to do too much, but am managing to WFH 4-5 hours a day and went to the hospital today. Bloods all came back clear including a glandular fever test and the chest x ray looked pretty clear. Still waiting for the GP to come back on that though. The PPI medciation for GERD hasn't made much difference to my long running sore throat yet, but the GP said to give it a few days. My chest pains, which were really bad around days 25-32 have virtually gone, so the doctor thinks it was costocondritis.

I hope you all start to see some improvements and I hope that a positive update will help show that things can start to improve, but unfortunately it does seem like a very long road. Have a good night all X

@fedupofbed and @CanIdoItLater, you’re even further ahead. Not easy when you’re so far along as the doctors really don’t know what to say except keep resting. At least I’m mentally desperate to get back to normal now. DH thinks I’m improving because I’m nagging him about stuff he hasn’t cleaned properly. In week 2 or 3 I didn’t even notice, much less care!

@Tangledyarn Sore throat still here too.

@Gunner30 what a wonderful, positive post, thank you! So glad you're slowly and steadily getting there.

@pinkoneblueone let’s hope we can look back fairly soon and even if not fully recovered, can see progress! The relapsing part of this is so hard to take.

@Moodgie and @Tangledyarn sorry to hear that your throats aren't improving either. Have the doctors suggested anything for you, as i'm running out of ideas and so is my GP. Next step or me will be a gastroscopy :-(

I've got Quercertin in my amazon basket thank you @TheWooisStrong and zinc I will beat this horrible virus I have been in tears twice the last few days feeling beaten down and I have had enough now. I will try anything!

@wildthingsinthenight and @toothfairy73
Just a little wave, please dont ever think you’re intentionally being ignored on these threads. For me, on my phone i see something I want to acknowledge but it was five pages back the user names blur to me as long sentences rather than punchy names to remember like @cod anyone remember cod? Anyway...wave to you...

Thankyou for tagging me in. I have no progress to update other than I still have neurological symptoms, a buzzing in the base of my skull, neck, spine and legs. The tablets are working. Im about day 40ish and I am finding it mostly okay to just be sitting in a chair and waiting my days away. Not living mind you...

@longshot I think it was you who has pointed out the myocarditis stuff. I know everyone here is largely avoiding news etc but I had seen that in an article, in the same vein as I know neurological symptoms are being recorded. I’d much rather heed a warning from an mnetter who has filtered the news that smacking me about the head with a news article. My stepmum sent me an article on neurological Covid Symptoms and wondered why I found the concept of stroke alarming.

And anxiety. From the moment I came to these threads Lungs 3 it was....it was back when adam and eve were still children it was that long ago. So im five weeks down the line now, am I anxious? Yes sometimes like when my dd2 says she feels poorly and it throws me into a panic. But are my Covid symptoms anxiety no. Because ive had pulmonary embolism i can recognise the similarities to that now and distinguish the two, i often get intermittant chest pains, my heart suddenly races at rest and i can feel my breathing become shallow. Because i wear an apple watch I can see how these episodes arise from nowhere and it is very similiar to the hot feeling/tachycardia i had with an embolism. Thats not to say that the symptoms dont make me anxious, they do! But when i experienced them through diazepam Im confident that what I experiencing is no panic disorder and I am remaining calm and sedate through much of those symptoms and having been to A&E at no point when a doctor examined me and my history did he give me platitudes of “anxiety”. HOWEVER if you are finding it hard to manage the anxiety that comes with your symptoms please DO ask your GP for help. Ive had various options available including sleeping tablets and have settled on the amytriptiline for nerve pain and have managed to cope without more.

I hope everyone has a peaceful night. And i’ll keep checking in ready to tell you that I’m well and graduate!

I find taking gavisgon at bedtime has helped me sleep and eased the pain so I mainly get a threatening sore throat I sometimes have to take 4 tablets but it has helped

Thanks @fedupofbed. Sorry to hear you, @pinkoneblueone and @musicposy are still struggling and really hope you improve, as 60 days + is really long.

@TheWooisStrong glad you're starting to feel better again too. May give the Quercetin a go ;-)

Read up on Quercetin if you are taking. Other meds I look to this link kindly shared with me by @stayathomegardiner

rosemarycottageclinic.co.uk/blog/2020/03/29/5-nutrients-that-might-help-your-body-fight-off-coronavirus/

I've been conflicted over whether to post as I've lurked for so long without contributing. I am I think day 39 of symptoms but it's been two weeks since I had a fever and first saw improvement so believed I was getting better. Chest pain/discomfort, breathing feels compromised and a painful cough have come and gone a few times now, disappointed they have returned the last few days when I thought I was getting through it. This thread has helped a lot, as I don't know anyone experiencing the same. I have questioned my sanity at times. Thank you for keeping this thread going and I hope everyone feels well soon. My main worry or I suppose uncertainty is should I seek support from my GP or just keep resting and waiting? I was referred from 111 to my GP who did a video consultation and said expect to see improvement in another week or so. That was three weeks ago! I really don't get why these cases of long lasting fluctuating symptoms aren't being more widely reported. I feel quite alone

@Gunner30 Sore throat is a post viral symptom so I’m holding on to that.

@Gunner30 To be honest I've not mentioned it to my GP since I gave some thrush treatment a go a while back, I think for me at the moment I'm quite accepting of it just being part and parcel of the long recovery for me along with all the other weird symptoms that wont go away, so although its painful and annoying as im struggling to talk for long without losing my voice, I'm not worried about it, i might change my mind in a couple more weeks but for now I'll just see what happens with it.

@faithinnature1 Welcome to the thread. You are definitely not alone.