COVID lungs 7 weeks plus/ 49 days plus plus

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New thread,

I won't be a very good host as I tend to dip in and out of these things but have filled up the last thread. (Sorry)

I had a very quick google of adenoviruses. Some of the symptoms do sound similar:
sore throat (pharyngitis)
a congested, runny nose (rhinitis)
a cough.
ear infection.
pinkeye.
fever.
But I’ve not found any mention of the weird burning chest or cardiac symptoms many of us have had, or the relapsing-remitting time course.

@godhelpusall Fingers crossed for you that that is it now, and for all of us.

I'm at 8 1/2 weeks from first breathlessness. Don't want to jinx this as I've had a few times when I thought it had ended, and it hadn't. But today I've been more mobile than I've been for a few weeks. Just been up and down stairs quite a few times, including carrying our hefty 7 month year old a couple of times (I shouldn't have, for my sake, but I knew I was safe to do so). Sat out in the garden in the sunshine for a bit this afternoon.

Gaviscon seems to be helping the menthol/acid burn in my chest and throat. So I'll carry on with that.

Other than that it's just chest wall inflammation and a general feeling of having been in the wars a bit.

Over the past few days my insomnia has lifted too. I just don't sense this lurking 'presence' around me anymore, which I assume was the virus. The insomnia lifted around the time that I had to dash to the toilet in the mornings. Perhaps this was my body ridding itself of the virus for good. Please let it be so. And please let all of us be rid of it very, very soon so we can all build ourselves up again.

Hi everyone. Nice to see some familiar faces and new ones. I considered myself fully recovered for a couple of weeks. Last 2 days, temp of 38.0-38.5, cough, muscle pains in legs, diarrhoea and oxygen sats of 92%. The same as before! How can this possibly be? I think it’s something else. :(

7 month old, not 7 year old! DD weighs nearly a quarter of my body weight though.

@JackJackIncredible i could've written your post!! I pretty much convinced myself that it's something new but then how can another infection have identical symptoms!! It's baffling and depressing. I spent the entire day crying

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52662065
Anyone come across this? Or been treated for thrombosis?

@JackJackIncredible not sure if it helps but I was recovered for over a fortnight then relapsed in Monday. It really upset me as I was convinced it was gone.

JackJackIncredible and user

I'm so sorry to hear that you've had a repeat of the same symptoms. I've had a few waves of this illness myself and know how frustrating it can be.

Have you both had fever quite a bit with this illness?

I've found this Wall Street Journal video about people with long-running COVID-19 symptoms helpful. on.wsj.com/2Wy155y It explains that some people are getting flare-ups weeks or months along, but that the virus at this point is at a much lower level within the body than at the earlier stages of the illness, or maybe even just be dead pieces that the body is just mopping up. Although I know it must be really hard dealing with these symptoms again - and I've had a few waves of this myself - I found this explanation quite comforting. The virologist and biotech investor Peter Kolchinsky, who's quite active on Twitter, says the science holds up in this video and I found it through his Twitter timeline.

@godhelpusall @user34254356 @JackJackIncredible how cruel, to relapse so badly after 2 recovery weeks.

@Valsemove I hope yours is a proper recovery. You describe it really well as a 'presence' and I can't wait to be rid of it.

@Valsemove thank you for the excellent link. I hope you are properly recovered.

I am sorry about all the relapses after 2 weeks recovery - how upsetting and dispiriting

Before I go to bed (to lie uncomfortably on my right side or tummy trying and failing to drop off!) I'll just post one last symptom that's been bugging me for weeks but I've never mentioned as it's so weird...

Does anyone else have a sensation that their facial muscles are kind of stuck and frozen? I keep having to stretch out a fake smile to sort of feel movement. It's hard to describe. Is that just me?

My new weird possible symptom last week was a few little burst blister looking patches on my fingers. May be completely unrelated.

Egghead me too, a bit much of a coincidence?

Me and DD both feel awful. DH gone bed and we both sat in living room with achey chests, coughs and temperatures.

Judging by this thread we need to prepare for it to get worse before it gets better.

Interesting @Fishflakes.

@ohidontgetit it’s days 7-14 in particular you need to watch out for as a minority of people take a marked turn for the worst then. Otherwise the symptoms are up and down rather than steadily worse or better.

@Deano1649 I do think you need to follow up with a dr about your issue
@Linus1972 how fascinating! I’d assume that significant numbers of mumsnet users would be peri menopausal (because most users come to it when they have kids, and stay. Then you age and get peri or actual menopause) which would make us a fascinating group to study, and also makes us very unlikely to be studied, ironically.

Personally I like the dengue fever quote from the Professor, as i, if something already exists that behaves in this (frigging annoying) rollercoaster relapse way, then people are more willing to believe that’s what’s happening to us. Because that can happen. We haven’t just invented it.

I don’t know about the testing, but I still say I first got ill in January, I was exhausted, disorientated and my lungs felt sore and heavy. And plenty of others say the same thing, from end of last year. So who knows? Maybe there was another virus, or a super flu as well, we may never know.

Valse thank you that was a really interesting video.

Interesting video @Valsemove .

Does anyone know how @Thedrswife is doing?

Hello! Am checking in! Am day 67!
Had been pretty good for last 3 weeks (proper exercise and up on feet all day) but somehow was sick again this week. I believe I caught another virus! Had chills, blowed my nose about 100 plus times one day, Mild breathlessness, but the symptom I don’t like is the pounding heart and very obvious pulse sensations in my body and particularly face when trying to sleep. Am better today than 2 days ago but am so scared of going back to where I was when Ill.
Just got into - I have now had 3 antibody tests and they have all been strongly positive. My husband had symptoms and was positive, my youngest had symptoms and was positive but two older kids had symptoms but came up negative. And also two adults who live in the house with us - had no symptoms and were negative. Have no scoobies how they didn’t catch it off of us!!

@findingschools4myboys this happened to me. I was fully recovered at week 6 and now in week 9 I felt ill again. Might be worth watching the video posted by @Valsemove about blips.

@findingschools4myboys Great to hear about the improvements. Hopefully this is just a minor blip, a cold maybe? Surely our immune systems will be pretty compromised now so would catch anything.
Please may I ask what your lingering symptoms were before you got better?

@Kitcat122 I feel exactly the same about it being chest wall inflammation. Also like you have realised that I cannot do any exercise that involves my chest. I felt great last week so did a light yoga session. It felt amazing at the time but suffered terribly afterwards for 2 days. So I have decided to stop worrying about exercise for now and just walk until further notice.

That's exactly it. I always felt really good after yoga/pilates and maybe my muscles/other parts of my body really appreciated it. But it was pretty much the exact wrong thing for my inflammation. So I have to just accept that I need to stop and appreciate that if I leave my chestwall to heal, I can at least walk. Soon enough I'll be able to run/dance a little bit. Then maybe a gentle bike ride (though I'll try short 'rides' on my static bike first to be safe). And eventually I'll be back to normal, as long as I can avoid as many setbacks as possible and recognise them when they do happen and rest my way through them.

@SimpleKindofLife again, thank you! I look like I've aged about 10 years so that's good to know it might be temporary.

Yeah, I could see that I'd aged and I'd pretty much concluded that was just what I looked like now. Breathing was still such hard work that even though I wasn't happy to suddenly look older, it was pretty much the least of my worries. But I'm embarrassingly delighted to have my old face back.

8.5 weeks is good going in this. So pleased for you. Hopefully we're all not far behind.
Well, it will be at least another month, probably two, maybe more, before I'm back to how I was. But I guess I can see the finish line now and I feel like I know how to get there! Being able to breathe pretty close to normal is a huge part of that.

@Schmoody I had the same trouble in December/January, the little blisters on fingers and toes can show at any point though the virus.

@godhelpusall
Where can I find the video?

@Moodgie
I definitely think it might be another virus as my mom had similar symptoms last week and then couple of my boys seemed slightly under the weather the weekend that passed.
2 symptoms I struggled with the longest - that also liked to show up when I started thinking I was better (post 4 weeks of first symptom) was breathlessness and labyrinthitis . In Particular this incredibly heavy feeling when I felt like my internal and externals were being dragged down in the ground with gravity. It was positional. Oh and also fatigue stayed with me for a very long time!

for those of you who's children have developed the rashes how far along would you say they are @UtterlyPerfectCartoonGiraffe and anyone else please? I did a bad thing and clicked on a link in my FB newsfeed.