Just home from hospital

[Sorehandsandfeet]

Hi,
I just want to add my experience for info and to remind people to be careful.
I am not yet 40, healthy weight with no real health problems. I am now in my 3rd week of Covid.
The first week was all flu like. Awful headache, pains in limbs, sore, hoarse throat. No smell and taste funny. The cough started after a few days.

The second week became hell, temperature spiking, lying in puddles of sweat, all other symptoms too. Phoned doctor and given an antibiotic incase I developed a secondary bacterial infection.
I lay in bed hoping to get over it, as the doctor said, I'm young and healthy.
My husband, after another week made me phone the doctor who told me to go to a and e.
My immune system had crashed and I have pneumonia. I'm home on steroids and antibiotics but have been told that it will be a long recovery.
Please take it seriously. I should have had a mild case if rumour were to be believed.

This is not a tiny minority, please stop trying to make it seem like the virus is the equivalent of a minor cold for all except the elderly and vulnerable. It doesn't help.
I suffered similarly to the OP for months in March. My own pulmonologist tells me they are full all day with similar cases. In my office of 1000 people there are 6 healthy under 50s (5 under 40) who have been seriously Ill, and less than 100 who reported having corona or corona symptoms.

It is still unlikely that people will become seriously ill but it is not 1 in a million chance. So just take care of yourselves and minimize your risk. OP hope you are feeling a bit better soon. Steroids really helped me.

Fair play to you sharing your experience op. If more people took it seriously, perhaps there would be less seriously ill people in the hospitals and less dead. I’m sorry people are not receptive to you sharing your experience and are downplaying the illness and I certainly would be interested to see the data that supports the risk in catching it as being on a similar par to a tooth infection. I hope you have a speedy recovery and that you feel better soon! I also don’t think you are trying to scare people either!

Fucks sake, some lovely people on here tonight 🙄 miserable fuckers.
Get well soon op

Thank you for your post, sorry to hear you have been so poorly.

Rest and recuperate and I wish you and your family well

So sorry you've been through that OP, and also sorry you've had to read the he heartless comments from the deniers.

As someone who is ecv, and not at deaths door ready to die as the deniers think an experience like yours terrifies me. I sincerely hope you are on the road to recovery now

Reinfections have occurred happened so herd immunity not likely.

OP - we know so little about this virus. The way some people have no symptoms and others get really ill. Hope you improve steadily.

Just when I think the level of arseholery on Mumsnet can't shock me anymore.

Get well soon op

re: 1:1,000,000 chance.

The epidemiological evidence globally is (irregardless of the testing programmes) pretty consistent that around 2% of people infected get serious symptoms and that depending on healthcare availability between 2% and 7% of people hospitalised die within 28 days.

Plus, nobody really knows what the long-term effects are for the people who have severe symptoms and 'recover/survive'

DD19 developed pneumonia after asymptomatic Covid. It has damaged her lungs ‘Ground glass’ is the description I think they saw on the CT scan. It’s a horrible sneaky disease.

I wish you a speedy recovery. I hope everyone else in the family manages to avoid it.

@user1471518104
Thank you for your comments. May I respectfully point out that it is the odds are, not the odds is.

Get well soon op

Best wishes for a quick & full recovery.

All very well saying mostly mild for most people and no one should be frightened. Until you are very poorly.

I really love (sarcasm alert) when non experts (fill in other appropriate descriptions in whatever colourful language sensible people consider more accurate) come out with inaccurate tactless rubbish. Whose knowledge is gathered from such peer reviewed sources like random facebook or twitter or daft right wing newspapers.
Op I hope you get well fully & quickly - best wishes & ignore the ignorant idiots

Wishing you well OP, hope that you make a full recovery

Thank you for writing about your experience, many people think & believe that the young & healthy are not the ones who need to worry...this is not true, we all need to be concerned about Covid & its potential impact on ourselves and those around us.

Thanks for writing your experience down. It is interesting but also worrying to hear. I hope you make a speedy and full recovery.

I wish you a speedy and full recovery OP.

I have just read how a 47 year old male patient who was waved out of a Blackpool hospital after 60 days in the ICU has died of long Covid:
www.thesun.co.uk/news/12977877/dad-60-days-coronavirus-dies-weeks-long-covid/
Very sad.

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

I had it for four weeks, and wasn’t fully well for ages afterwards. In the last few years, I’d hardly had a day of sick. The second and third week was awful.

I had no underlying conditions.

Wishing you well soon. 🐻

@alpinia

This is not a tiny minority, please stop trying to make it seem like the virus is the equivalent of a minor cold for all except the elderly and vulnerable. It doesn't help. I suffered similarly to the OP for months in March. My own pulmonologist tells me they are full all day with similar cases. In my office of 1000 people there are 6 healthy under 50s (5 under 40) who have been seriously Ill, and less than 100 who reported having corona or corona symptoms.

It is still unlikely that people will become seriously ill but it is not 1 in a million chance. So just take care of yourselves and minimize your risk. OP hope you are feeling a bit better soon. Steroids really helped me.

Exactly. Since the op already has covid, telling her she is 1 in a million because she is quite ill really is a ridiculous lie bit of misinformation

Once you catch Covid , it is much more like between 5-10 in a 100 chance of getting moderately/seriously ill ( though not of dying )

I find a lack of sympathy and belief for people who say the are quite ill with Covd is usually an indication of a terrified poster who can't admit that risk to themselves so has to ridicule the ill person to make themselves feel better.,

Ignoring the voices that don’t deserve to be read.

Thank you for posting OP as a reminder to us all that it is not only the elderly that suffer.

Sending you plenty of good wishes for your recovery

@Youandmeareluckytobeus

I wish you a speedy and full recovery OP.

I have just read how a 47 year old male patient who was waved out of a Blackpool hospital after 60 days in the ICU has died of long Covid:
www.thesun.co.uk/news/12977877/dad-60-days-coronavirus-dies-weeks-long-covid/
Very sad.

I'm sure that's reassuring for the OP

Hope you feel better soon

Thank you for the timely reminder OP wishing you a speedy recovery

Get Well Soon OP.

It must be a very frightening time, sending all my well wishes to you x

Wishing you a quick and full recovery
As you see, you cannot state that it really affects healthy young people too in MM without a "telling off"