COVID lungs 7 weeks plus/ 49 days plus plus

[pinkoneblueone]

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)

Has anyone tried naproxen?
I can't have codeine and I'm struggling with the chest pain, it seems to have ramped up whilst the heartburn has a break.
Today I've also decided to get a splitting headache.

One thing I’ve been doing that has helped is this, pursed lips breathing. I meant to share it earlier. I have occasional anxiety, palpitations, but it can help with lung issues too. www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325555#other-techniques

@pinkoneblueone I’m so glad to hear your ds is feeling better and the rashes have gone. That’s such a relief for you! Sorry to hear that you and your dh are feeling so ill though. It feels endless sometimes doesn’t it

@crayfishforyou my hubby takes naproxen for his joint pains and he has been ok with it though it doesn't seem to be helping his pain sadly

@godhelpusall I hadn't thought of it like that, but that is a horrible thought. Do you think these lingering cases could be that we haven't yet fought the virus off? I really hope not

Thankyou everyone - I didn’t sleep last night so I don’t have the energy to go back and tag people- I’m sorry!

To update: I am home after just over 24 hours in hospital. Thankfully, my ct scan was clear, so although the dr thought I had a pulmonary embolism (raised heart rate, raised d dimer and shortness of breath) I don’t have one! I was given some anticoagulants anyway, and told that my raised heart rate may well be due to POTS @Egghead68 I think you introduced me to this syndrome.

I also had issues with kidney damage (strange as tests 12 days ago showed perfect function) so I have been advised to drink, drink, drink. I was given iv fluids in hospital to help with this and need to have follow up blood tests next week. I am also on the waiting list for a 72 heart monitor to confirm POTS/ rule out anything else.

I am exhausted so off to bed for some sleep tonight, thanks everyone for checking in on me- this is such a lovely group of people. I really hope we all get to a good recovery soon, this illness is hideous xxx

@Countingsheeps good to hear from you. I'm very glad it wasnt an embolism and that they are doing follow up investigations.

@Crayfishforyou sorry you're feeling so rough.

@faithinnature1 does anyone know? I'm going with post viral but I'm not sure. It's so strange, and so unknown.
Glad you are home @Countingsheeps - and the news was (generally) good.

*@linus prolonged series of Casualty where I play every patient... *

That made me laugh! It's so true. Sorry to hear you're in so much pain though, but glad your GP is listening. Mine isn't great unfortunately. Sympathetic but reluctant to engage in discussions about potential tests or treatments and keeps encouraging me to just wait it out at home...

@user34254356 I don't think the antibody tests available at the moment are sensitive enough, that's why the government are waiting for the new ones which are more sensitive and 100% accurate apparently. Hopefully you'll get a positive result for the next one.

@Crayfishforyou @Lightsabre
Could be a tiny dip, all fine tomorrow. Fingers crossed for you both.

Glad you're home and it's nothing serious (just this bastard virus!) @Countingsheeps. I was utterly relieved after my trip to hospital but it leaves you with so many unanswered questions too. Sometimes you want something not too bad to show up so they give you some medicine to make it all better. Sleep well

I've had an ok day today after a horrendous night, such a contrast. But I've barely moved from the sofa today as my HR is still on the high side and my chest is tingly and in spasms again. Upper back burning again. But I feel myself rather than in a fatigued fog. I watched a film with the kids this evening, laughed, ate dinner outside in the sunshine. It made me happy but sad at the same time. We're living such half lives at the moment.

Sorry bold fails!

@SimpleKindofLife hopefully we will appreciate every tiny bit when we get back on form 😊

@Countingsheeps
So glad you are home and getting some kind of answers.
My husband has only 33% kidney function and is 14 days behind me with covid. Last year he was in hospital for kidney stones and a massive infections the nurses flooded him with antibiotics but they also made him drink loads and loads of water. When I asked why they said it was a well known fact it flushed the body of toxins and viruses, But they also insisted that he ate well with some salt on to maintain the bodies defence mechanism. Hardly any sugar, All day they were on patients to drink water. When I got ill he made sure I was drinking loads of water the only thing we could do as well as taking paracetamol and we did the same when he was ill. I will be honest he was very ill from birth to about 5 years old and in and out of a very large teaching hospital in the early 1960''s.for a number of years until he was a grown adult He was actually very lucky to live but it was because of the exceptional pioneering doctors so we were extremely worried when I and then he got ill. We reverted to the things he had learnt through his time in hospital and had low expectations of what a day might bring for us. It has for us worked. It might not for you but when you have nothing else as we had it was something to cling on to. So we went for paracetamol, breathing exercises when we found them on the internet, loads of water, fresh air, sunshine when we could get it ( even if it was through a window, Vitamin supplements, good food and loads and loads of rest.

I know how you all feel each step is so small but my husband said why do you think recovery is going to be fast if your body has taken a battering like a wall in an storm It does not repair overnight. It repairs one brick at a time and sometimes a bit fall down as the repair is not so good so it should be but it goes back and tries to repair again. He is right you know because he did that 57 years ago and after 2 comas from childhood illnesses plus numerous operations he led a life that no one when he was born would have imagined he would have. I take heart from him, He talks a lot of sense. Don't rush, symptoms will come and go Take each hour and day as it comes. Take pleasure in the small things ( the sunshine, being up for 5minutes) and relish those moments. Use them when you are feeling bad. It will get better,

@Meercatmama Thank you for your post, sending love to you and your husband.

@Countingsheeps I am so glad you are home and your chest CT was clear. I really hope the kidney problems are reversible.

Thank you for your lovely post @Meercatmama.

We will get better. I have been very lucky that he has recovered from a very serious illness in a time when medicine was not so good. He went through a lot in hospital as a child and has a very different view of how to recover from an illness that in the past I would have said he was making it last longer. His view has always treat symptoms as they appear, think about is it worse or better even marginally, what can I do that is different (better or worse), now what can I do to make it better myself or by the doctor or hospital if necessary. He has always moaned at me for carrying on when ill saying you will have it longer and worse. Actually in recovery time he is doing better than me. He is in tune with his body and has cut the lawn, cooked dinner, hoovered but boy if he feels he needs it, he rests and reverts to his early program if he feels worse. A straight backtrack. He knows you do certain thing. Keep you body clean, take the medicine you need, eat drink and rest do what you need to around the house or with children with minimum exertion ie rest and do the rest when you feel better. I have learnt a lot off him in the last two months

@Meercatmama lovely words, thank you.

Lovely post @Meercatmama

@SimpleKindofLife my whole life seems to be a series of tiny dips at the moment!
I did manage to walk 100 yards and had 1/4 of a glass of red wine!

@godhelpusall my GP swears the likelihood of infection after a few weeks is really really small. She is so convinced I'm post viral that I am allowed into the GP surgery for blood tests next week, and through the main doors no less.

@Countingsheeps I'm glad you're being thoroughly checked over and cared for.

I haven't had a panicky day in a week now, which is brilliant, just sad days. Hopefully they will begin to diminish.
I'm writing three good things I do each day now. It does help.
Today; wine, I cooked a lunch, I loaded the dishwasher.
Tomorrow I hope to gel my toenails and fill my car at some point with cheap petrol.

He is the strong one not me. Now you understand why I married him. He is also talking sense now into me regarding infection rates, chances of catching it again and working back in school. This is the man who has been a bricklayer all his life and walked out of school with little exam results due being in hospital a lot of times. He seems to be taking this more in his stride than me. I am the one who is anxious and needs medication to help. He is right though.

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You are quite right @Meercatmama, your DH is very wise and sensible.

@Crayfishforyou how did the wine go? my DH is convinced red wine will help me sleep and calm my HR down but I'm terrified! It'll be 7 weeks tomorrow since I had my last glass of wine (the night I fell ill).

@Crayfishforyou

I'm writing three good things I do each day now. It does help.
Today; wine, I cooked a lunch, I loaded the dishwasher.
Tomorrow I hope to gel my toenails and fill my car at some point with cheap petrol

You are starting to do what my husband said look at the small things you can do. If you cant do them oh well not a problem they can be done at some other point. But then look at the small things you have done to get there washed, dressed , got down stairs. These small actions mount up and are energy consuming but previous to becoming ill we took no notice of all these small actions

everyone for a better day tomorrow. My latest wierd symptom is a blister (just air in it, no pus or liquid) appearing on a finger pad a couple of days ago. Is that a COVID finger thing or random? I pumiced all the blister skin off and still have a red shiny blotch where it was. It isn’t sore. As the Guardian article said, this things is full of weird symptoms.

Hi placemaeking for tomorrow x