Long covid

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Anyone think they have this? If so, what are your symptoms? Anyone think they had this but got better - what helped?

Early days for me I’m on my fourth week now and slowly recovering, back at work this week but today I woke up and I feel dreadful. Shaking everywhere, I have patches of skin that sore painful and really nerve sensitive and my heart is palpitating with everything I do. I’m so so so tired. This is after a handful of good days.

I’m worried about having the vaccine. I was one of those who did decline it, and I’ve learnt my lesson from that with having it so bad, I was very sick with it. My GP thinks I might be in it for the long term after my
Sinus problems and other issues I’ve had. I know I need the jab now but I’m worried about having it so soon.

I’m worried that my immune system isn’t strong enough and I’ll react badly and feel like I did again. My heart feels weak. Has anyone had it after having covid and how did your body react to it?

Im week four, had a relatively mild dose due to having had my first vaccination.

For the past few days Im experiencing constant acid reflux in my throat & constipation. Everything I eat tastes off as I lost my sense of smell.

Feeling ok some days and others Im shattered.

Themadcatparade*, I had my first Pfizer shot eleven months into long Covid, my second at fourteen months in.
I found significant improvement a few weeks after the first dose, which has been sustained. My relapses are further apart and shorter, and although I still get breathless I can walk much further (up to an occasional max of four miles in a day, spread out over several shorter walks).
Other patients describe very varied responses, but a heartening number are finding vaccination helps.
It is of course impossible to know if the improvement would have happened anyway, but I am delighted to find my level of disability is so much less.
You should definitely get vaccinated, as a second infection with a different variant of Covid while you are debilitated could make you seriously ill. The vaccine will give you a high level of protection.

@Babdoc

Thank you that is very reassuring! I am being extremely careful whilst I’m in the interim and waiting to get booked in to not contract anything else. I believe the doc said I had to wait 28 days since covid cleared so not too long to wait now

Well about 10 days ago I developed a tickly cough/chest infection. Over the Monday and Tuesday it got worse, so much so my employer - I work in a school - gave me a box of LFT tests for corona. I used one and it was negative. However, I was still coughing persistently and the policy is to arrange for a more accurate PCR test and stay away until that is done and processed. I did that and again, the result was negative, so I went back to work last Friday and have been there all this week.

The problem is, my cough/chest infection still wont go away. I’ve tried various cough mixtures and tablets etc. and I know the next step will be a telephone-based Dr’s consultation leading probably to antibiotics. I’m also well aware of the radio advert saying if you have a cough for three weeks and it is not corona, seek help and that will be a concern to me in a week or so if I can’t sort this out. I’m a non-smoker and in my early 50’s & as a result I got a corona vaccine in mid-March and the second one a month ago.

If I move around carefully, I'm ok - but as soon as I have to exhert myself, a PE lesson, stairs! I often have a small 'coughing-fit' which gets me dirty looks and I splutter "I'm Ok I had a test!"

So what I’m asking is this: does anyone know, could a person get covid-19, possibly without any symptoms (perhaps because they have had the vaccine), but then some time later experience long-covid?

Any advice much appreciated…

gillianwalmsley, other chest infections still exist, and not every cough is Covid!
Particularly as you work in a school, you are exposed to all the little darlings’ snotty bugs, including such delights as respiratory syncytial virus.
Please phone your GP if it doesn’t settle, and consider whether you would be sensible to take some time off to recover properly.

@Babdoc thank you, I did actually manage to have an 'over the phone' Drs consultation today and she told me it is most likely a viral infection (not covid of course) and suggested honey and lemon, no antibiotics or even expensive cough mixtures. It could last 4-6 weeks!!!

Oh Well. I did ask her the question that I posed on here last night: could a vaccinated person get covid (& not know it) then develop 'long-covid' after effects, she said "No", as long-covid is more like an M.E. type thing, you just can't get out of bed.

I’m back asking questions and need some reassurance I’m currently sat on the stairs having a little sob

Week 5 and I’m still unwell, so far since the ‘covid’ symptoms stopped and i started to feel better it’s like my immune system has been in pieces. So far I’ve had an ear infection, a sinus infection and then when I started back in work last week all of a sudden I had a sodding UTI!! So my second round of antibiotics in three weeks and guess what? They have failed and I still have a UTI! I feel like I’m coming down with a cold, my glands feel sore, I’m knackered and my stomach is sore from the antibiotics.

Please tell me this is normal Im constantly anxious about my health and whether I’m strong enough to even fight any new infections now it just seems like my body is giving up

Im one year and two months after suspected covid infection (we weren’t community testing then) and have just been dx last month with probable long covid.

Symptoms mostly:
-tiredness / fatigue
-breathlessness

• low mood
• recurrent inflammation in left eye (episcleritis) and inflamed skin on face- rosacea-like

-palpitations - particularly every time I catch a cold/other bug. Had a benign murmur before but now am being investigated for possible heart damage or thickening of heart muscle.

• gastric symptoms
• hair loss
• weird periods
• every minor bug knocks me for six

All started after I had “a bug” a year ago in April, that GP dx over the phone as covid. But as I say, was never tested so 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Themadcatparade how are u now? How long did the sensitive skin last for? Its driving me crazy :( i feel sooo upset and lonely over this :( xx