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Long Covid just keeps giving!

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UndertheCedartree · 21/01/2021 14:29

I went shopping yesterday and had a few heavy bags to carry. As usual since Covid I struggled and felt a bit shaky alongside usual overwhelmed feelings due to Autism/EUPD. Anyway, I got as far as the bus stop to go home and my phone rang. It was the pharmacy to say they would charge me £10 a month to put my meds in blisterpacks and half the tablets they wouldn't put in atall etc and only if my GP would change how often I got the meds etc..i.e really stressful (struggling with meds not being put into blisterpack anymore)...anyway next thing I know I'm on the floor. A lady is asking if I'm ok, I tried to get up but lady tells me to stay lying down...she is calling an ambulance.

I get taken into the ambulance and told I am presenting as Covid + and asked if I've had a test recently - I said no as no symptoms. She says but you do have symptoms - I had no cough, no taste/smell issues and while my temp was probably a little elevated for me I had no high temp (36.8). All the rest of my symptoms are long covid. But I was made to feel I'd done something wrong. Anyway in hospital i was swabbed and Covid negative. Given oxygen for breathlessness, heart rate settled eventually. Discharged home and told to bed rest and not go out alone. I'm a single mum to 2 kids....Long Covid can just do one! AngrySad

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YogaLite · 21/01/2021 14:34

Oh my goodness, how scary!

Please please take it easy BrewCake

MoirasRoses · 21/01/2021 16:52

Are you sure you didn’t have a panic attack? You sounded like you got really overwhelmed & couldn’t breath? Not dismissing the long covid but it sounds more like everything got a bit much? High heart rate, couldn’t breathe, overwhelmed with shopping & medication concerns?

ichundich · 21/01/2021 17:03

Just wondering if your GP can class your long Covid as chronic illness so you can get cheaper or free (?) subscriptions from the pharmacy.

UndertheCedartree · 21/01/2021 18:14

@MoirasRoses - no it definetely wasn't a Panic Attack as I know what those are like.

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