How long did it take you to recover from Covid?

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Just that really if you had more than mild symptoms but were not hospitalised.

I'm entering my 3rd week of symptoms. I was lucky I have medics in the family that pushed me to call 111 who prescribed antibiotics for the secondary chest infection.

I STILL have a temperature (15 days on from the major onset of the more serious symptoms most of which are dwindling) and feel like I've been hit by a bus and generally exhausted.

Totally appreciate drs can't give me a timeline, just wondering what peoples experiences have been?

Sadly, I'm 4 months in and still suffering chronic fatigue.

I wasn't particularly ill with Covid, but it's not getting better. On the other hand, DH recovered in about a month. DS shook it off in days - but spent a whole term coming home from school and falling asleep, exhausted, for a couple of hours. (He's 15).

Hope you feel better soon. It's horrid.

Took me about three weeks but I was much longer feeling tired and having odd side effects such as racing heartbeats.

The first week of COVID I wasn't so bad, the second week I really went downhill, I was so ill, I stayed in bed having paracetamol every 3 hours. The third week I was achy and couldn't breathe so well but was over the worst. After that I was tired for weeks, had aches and pains, headaches, heart palpitations, all sorts of weird stuff. But I was on furlough so had the chance to rest lots, it took a couple of months to be back to any sort of normality and even after that I wasn't right.

I'm fine now, even got my sense of smell back but my sleep patterns are disrupted, I wonder if they'll ever be the same again....

I had "just a cold" in the first week "a really nasty bug" in the second then started to feel better but it was at least 4 weeks after that before I was back to normal.

DH, who has cancer, but was not receiving treatment at the time, actually recovered much quicker than I did.

I'm 19 days post symptoms starting, I was very lucky to have a mild case, for about the last week the only symptom I've had has been a cough. I lost taste and smell but luckily only for about 5 days.

I am on my 11th day. I still have the most horrendous pains in my legs. Did anyone else get this? I wake in agony during the night. I am absolutely shattered too. I don’t think I will be okay for work on Tuesday.

About 3 1/2 weeks of being poorly but not bad enough for hospital, then felt better apart from another 5 weeks of constant headache.

Got a positive result on New Yrs Eve and still not 100%

Thanks ladies.

I sound quite similar to you @WanderingMilly In that the first 4/5 days were just a sore throat and cough before it went downhill and my temperature started with the other symptoms following. I was in bed for days. Even now I'm so dizzy after a couple of minutes of walking around.

I'm having palpitations too which has been unnerving as I have a history with those. Hand on my heart, I feel worse with covid than I ever did with the heart issue which saw me have have a trip to resus and an operation to fix a problem!

I have quite a stressful job and they've been understanding so far, but think I'm going have to try to suck it up and see how I go from next week.

It shocking how debilitating this has been. I really hope you all get better soon!

@TCMcK

I am on my 11th day. I still have the most horrendous pains in my legs. Did anyone else get this? I wake in agony during the night. I am absolutely shattered too. I don’t think I will be okay for work on Tuesday.

Yes! I have had this. And across my back too even before the cough started.

About 10 months and I still feel tired but I think that's just because of the lockdown lifestyle. I'm okay on the whole now.

Hope you feel a lot better soon, OP.
I tested positive mid Jan - a week of feeling v ill - like bad flu, picked up a bit and just for another week, so went back to work the following week, but could not deal with it at all - couldn’t think straight, exhausted, emotional - so went off sick again. That was 3 weeks ago - I’ve just been trying to rest, and gently increase activity and I’m definitely starting to feel better now, and managing to do a bit more. Will take another week then do a phased return to work, if I continue to feel better.
If you can, please continue to rest - I pushed it too soon, and ended up feeling ropey again. The more you can rest now, the better your recovery will be, so please take it easy as long as you can - at least give it another week.
As someone on here pointed out to me - 4 weeks is very normal in terms of recovery from any virus.
Rest, and feel better soon!

Approaching 11 months now since I had it March 2020.

On the whole, I’m much much better.

However, on several occasions (eg when triggered by stress) I’ve noticed a specific Covid symptom I suffered at the time comes back to the fore. Can only describe it as the remaining cough you get at the very end of a bout of bronchitis: dry & unproductive. Usually goes again within a few hours.

@TCMcK I didn't suffer leg pain but others have reported this on covid threads. On day 11 - well, there's a Jackass sketch where Johnny Knoxville tries to rollerskate into a buffalo herd. That's what I felt like. Hope you feel better soon, it's a bore but rest as much as you can and don't rush back to work, don't push yourself.

For me, I slowly started to turn a corner after 13-14 days but didn't feel properly fully recovered for a couple of months and still had a few niggles until the 6-month mark, tbh. I do a desk job but still lost 13 working days and was lucky that my employer let me phase back in on reduced hours over my first month back.

@TCMcK the legs aches and pains were the worst thing, combined with horrible twitching and pins and needles. Actually brought me to tears one night, and I am not a crier.

Have never tested positive for covid but was hospitalised recently (7 days) for generalised abdo pain and all they could come up with was some opacity something or another at the bottom of the lungs suggesting possible covid. I think they now believe that I have Long Covid which is strange as I've never been diagnosed with Covid in the beginning!

On day 2 I started with shooting pains in my arms & legs which were painful but the pains in my legs now feel like they are muscular. I have felt nauseous and keep smelling funny smells? I’ve lost my appetite too. Luckily I didn’t get the cough as I have been worrying about that as I have Chronic Bronchectisis which has been under control for many years but I still have scarring.

I could have written you post op. Day 14 here. Day 2 of antibiotics for chest/ear/ sinus infection. Two weeks of sofa or bed. I had a runny nose too so that had means I still have to isolate although I think that has shifted since the antibiotic started

Hearing has pretty much gone today -very distorted abs loins sounds painful. I do feel Much better today and was really tv first day I could do normal things like get up and make lunch or tidy bits away without feeling like it was a mammoth effort.

Had an hour nap on the sofa.

Also got weird leg pains- never know that was a thing! Really sharp pains behind my knees.

Hope you perk up. I need to go back to work on Tuesday but would like another week off to feel better.

Did any of you experience incredible anxiety for no reason?

As in anxiety which needed to be treated with medication?

Mrs MM (41yo) started symptoms March 2020 and is still very ill. She has spent the last 2 of the last 3 days in bed feeling utterly jaded and with lack of energy, brain fog, no driving, and unable to walk anywhere without a stick and more than 30m is impossible. If anyone would like anymore information regarding support of long term COVID then please PM me.

@mm40

Mrs MM (41yo) started symptoms March 2020 and is still very ill. She has spent the last 2 of the last 3 days in bed feeling utterly jaded and with lack of energy, brain fog, no driving, and unable to walk anywhere without a stick and more than 30m is impossible. If anyone would like anymore information regarding support of long term COVID then please PM me.

Has Mrs MM symptoms of pain for which they can find no cause?

Leg pains, muscle and joint pain. She has had multiple blood tests and nothing irregular has been found, 3 or 4 MRI’s and another at the beginning of March. She had pneumonia twice ( May and July) and completely thrown our lives upside down.

@mm40

Leg pains, muscle and joint pain. She has had multiple blood tests and nothing irregular has been found, 3 or 4 MRI’s and another at the beginning of March. She had pneumonia twice ( May and July) and completely thrown our lives upside down.

Thanks. My pain is localised (no pain in legs). I don't know what the hell is wrong with me, but I know what an upheaval ill health can bring. The last time I cleaned my house was Christmas Eve. Now it resembles something you'd see Kim and Aggie venturing into when attacking a student houseshare. Constant nausea, vomiting, debilitating pain and lethargy.

I am sure that Mrs MM would be happy to discuss this as she is on several long COVID recovery groups and in direct contact with medical professions on those groups who are suffering with LTC, and is also being monitored to assist with the recovery of LTC. I know that support in different parts of the UK vary as well as there is campaigning to ensure that all areas get the same support and that all information is shared.

About 9 days. Just like a bad flu for me.