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?

I'm on day 51. Temperature is now normal I'm incredibly tired and light headed all the time can only take a few steps unaided and simple tasks leave me exhausted. I have mild asthma generally but have flare ups once or more a day, my heart rate is elevated and I cant think straight.
I just want this to be over.

This is awful hearing how everyone is still suffering so badly. My symptoms started 23rd Jan. I am still suffering now but have definitely improved. I didn't have any of the respiratory symptoms it was more extreme lethargy/fatigue. Still have dizzy spells, palpitations, headaches, dry mouth and lips, extreme thirst, aching and pains in my legs. I'm also 37 weeks pregnant which probably hasn't helped matters.

8 days but since then I get a splitting headache at two points in my monthly cycle which I never used to experience pre-covid.

I got ill in April. First week fatigue and headache, after that awful lung pain and dizziness. Could barely stand, and breathing was awful. Much worse than an asthma attack, each breath was a struggle. Was treated with antibiotics and steroids.
I didn't return to work until September, and that was a gradual phased return. Still under occupational health now. Long term symptoms are fatigue, dizziness, tachycardia, joint and muscle pain, and 'fizzy' legs.
But although it's a slow process, recovery is going the right way and I feel more like me.
Don't push yourself. I would relapse every time I did. My doctor sent me links to M.E. sites and the advice is very good.

My worst symptoms were over in a week. However I still had fatigue, irritated chest, hoarse voice all the time for around 20 weeks. I also had occasional palpitations, upper chest irritation, occasional chills and leg pains, mostly in my calves. I had a week of chest pain towatd the end of that period, possible pleurisy then started feeling better so I could take some exercise again. Even now, not far from a year later I can get rare bouts of chills or hoarseness but I count myself as mostly recovered. I am post menopausal and that makes long covid more likely.

10 days probably, only really had sore throat and tiredness though.

I did have the agonising leg pain, but paracetamol and hot baths sorted that out no bother.

Get well soon everyone. I’m on day 7 but been so busy caring for son (severe disabilities) who developed the cough & temp. All tested positive. Today absolutely shattered and quite teary. I’m waking every night around 3-4am and can’t get back to sleep is that a thing. Taste/smell gone just today, no cough but croaky & so weak.

I had awful backache for weeks after I felt otherwise well. At the time I didn't link the two but now?

The first few days were cough and feeling generally “off”, had a temperature just for one day.

Next ten days or so, persistent and at times wracking cough, and general lack of energy. I’d get showered and dressed, then need a rest. Couldn’t sustain any sort of activity, physical or mental for more than 10 or 15 minutes. There was a lot of naff TV and gazing into the distance, because reading and jigsaws were too demanding. It stayed exactly the same, with really no sign of improvement until two weeks after onset of symptoms.

Then I gradually started improving over the next couple of weeks - each day a little more energy.

By 4 weeks I would say I was 95% recovered. I could do a normal day’s activity and walk at my pre-Covid pace, but would feel very tired at the end of the day if I had done that.

I was almost certainly infected in March, first symptoms on the 18th. I'm not 100% recovered yet though my life has been pretty normal since the end of June. And pretty much all the pain from chest wall inflammation has been gone since December. I still have recurring oral thrush from a mix of my immune system being lowered and the proton pump inhibitor medication I was on in the summer. And I still have a little mild post-viral thyroiditis that comes in waves but it's certainly less noticeable now when it does come.

My advice is to rest as much as you can and when you feel better still act as if you were sick for the first few weeks. Even if you feel absolutely fine, take it really, really easy. I recovered completely on day 20, went overboard with activity on day 23 and relapsed that night. Spent most of the next 2 months in bed.

In three weeks it will be a year since I was briefly hospitalised with CV and i'm still trying to heal. My airways are damaged and I have exercise intolerance, although the latter is improving all the time. It's been a slow recovery but i'll get there. With every relapse (it feels like i'm taking covid all over again) i improve a little bit more. It's snakes and ladders, but i'll eventually win!!

It's been 11 months so far and I'm not better yet. I spent almost two months in bed, at one point I had to be helped to walk to the bathroom. I'm much better than I was, but my previously mild asthma is much worse and it has taken me months to improve my exercise tolerance. Any sort of stress seems to cause a relapse and set me back.
Please please rest. I seemed to be following the 'standard' path for symptoms until I pushed myself too hard to get back to normal a couple of weeks in. It wasn't worth it.