I have covid, just keep crying

[Zenab12]

Hi so this week I tested positive for covid. It came from my lovely sister in law who didn't tell us she had covid before coming to our house. First my son had a cough and he tested positive, he is 4 and only had a cough. Then my daughter got ill (5&half) she was quite bad, high temp, dizzy. My husband is completely fine.

I'm only 23, had my first jab of Pfizer last month ( 2nd one due 30th August) and I just feel so so bad, I started with a fever and just general feeling of being unwell for the first 3 days, I'm on day 5 now, yesterday the fever subsided but I feel so sick and dizzy every time I stand up, I've completely lost my taste and smell and its actually pretty scary to me whenever I try and smell something or eat something and I can't even taste it. I feel hungry but I can't eat. I keep calling my mum and crying down the phone bevause I'm usually a very active person and every time I feel the slightest bit better and I get up and try and clean etc I end up not being able to stand up bevause I feel so ill and weak. I'm taking paracetomal every 4hrs. My head really hurts and my ears really hurt. I just never imagined it would hit me this bad and thank god I had the first vaccine when I did otherwise I don't know how bad I would have been.

Does anyone have any advice on absolutely anything I can do to make myself feel better 😒 I know the only option really is to just ride it out but I just keep feeling so bad, upset and scared. My kids are both better now and it's just so so hard feeling this bad when I need to run around after them, I haven't got dressed in 5 days and I'm practically bed bound and the mum guilt is killing me bevause they are just sat at home watching me in bed all day.

Why are you pushing yourself to do chores/entertain the kids when you have a healthy husband at home?

@Passthecontrol

Why are you pushing yourself to do chores/entertain the kids when you have a healthy husband at home?

I have no idea really, it's just the way I am and usually if I get a cold or anything like that I still have to get on with things and I'm finding it hard to just rest. It sounds mad but I do know that I need to give in, it's just getting used to not doing things and accepting help.

Don't push yourself. Rest, rest, rest. Sounds like you've got a fairly bad dose so your body needs all it's energy to fight the virus.

Keep drinking.

Lots of vit c, d3 and zinc

Little bits of food- toast, banana, yogurt.

In very much the same boat minus the husband - just myself and two kids and posted a fairly similar thread this morning! It's horrible and I've cried a lot from feeling totally rubbish/incapable, I'm sure it will pass soon but right now just do the bare minimum, be grateful you have another adult around to help and keep up with fluids/food/painkillers

I hope you feel better soon. Sounds very unpleasant. Plenty of fluids and rest and fingers crossed you feel better soon. You need to re-evaluate your relationship with your SIL. Coming round to your house with an active covid infection and not telling you is shitty behaviour.

Just to reiterate, do not get up and start doing things. I had this back in January and was in bed feeling awful for 2 weeks and then needed a further week of doing very little and taking naps when I could. Get yourself an oximeter to keep an eye on your oxygen levels and then just rest up in bed, sleep, eat, keep hydrated, watch TV, but do not push yourself. Do some breathing exercises and make sure you have a little walk round your bedroom, but mummy duty and household stuff needs to be left to your husband.

Have soup, lozenges, hot honey and lemon, herbal teas and take vitamin c and zinc tablets. The loss of taste and smell is awful. Try and catch up on some box sets or trashy films to keep your mind occupied. I felt like I’d been run over by a bus for quite a while after, but I’m fine now.

If your breathing gets tricky lots of people recommend lying on your front.

I hope you feel better soon. If you can, and don't have one already, get yourself an pulse oximeter just in case you get any worse so you/your partner can check on your o2 levels and heart rate.

If your husband is fine then please stop doing anything. Have him do it, you need to conserve your energy to get better.

Your SIL was breaking the law. I’d be furious with her.

Rest, rest, rest, drink lots of water and hot drinks and, I agree, get yourself a pulse oximeter from Amazon or similar and keep an eye on your SATs.

Get well soon

Well your SIL is a piece of work.

Flu would leave you on the floor. Stay in bed stop fighting it

Why are you trying to ease down on the paracetamol when you are so far below the safe daily permitted max?

You are ill, aside from resting, you should absolutely be taking available medication, obviously within safe limits.

You’ll be ok. I felt like that this time last week. Today I’ve returned to work. One day (around day 11/12) I just felt like the virus had almost gone. I still can’t taste or smell properly but that will come back

@MaggieFS

Why are you trying to ease down on the paracetamol when you are so far below the safe daily permitted max?

You are ill, aside from resting, you should absolutely be taking available medication, obviously within safe limits.

I had a comment saying I was heading for a dangerous amount of paracetomal x

Take the paracetamol every 6 hours if you can. Lots of hot drinks, lots of fluids, small meals. I’d be inclined to take a vitamin c pill too to help your immune system!

Stop pushing yourself. Listen to your body and rest. Your husband is there, your kids will not starve, youcan't have visitors so don't worry about cleaning - please, just rest.

I have had real flu twice and am also a retired clinician. How you are feeling is typical for a viral infection and the more you struggle the worse it will get. paracetamol will make you feel better but yes be careful with the dose. Don't mistake feeling better for getting better though. Sorry to say you should also expect to be easily tired for quite while after you are no longer actually ill.

Do not push yourself to do anything. Rest is important.

I found the smell and taste thing very unnerving and disorientating.

I also found I got quite weepy and felt very low and negative mood wise. Once I felt I'd turned a corner and was recovering this lifted.

Well easy thing you can do is reduce your stress and not cry. Your body is already under enormous stress sont add more to it it needs all the energy to fight the infection.

It might sound silly to say it but its true. Stay positive and continue to rest.

Invite your SIL back to do the cooking, cleaning, childcare and nursing. She caused the chaos.

I had it and I felt awful for about a month, my headaches and being sicky lasted about a week but I was tired and had no energy for a month.
Drink lots of water and take multi vitamins .
Hope you feel better soon 💐

I can only reiterate.
Rest.
Then when you think you feel up to doing something, rest some more.

I agree the first time you are knocked out with a virus its scary - I have had COVID, swine flu, Pleurisy and Glandular fever and you need to REST and take plenty of fluids

Rest is absolutely key - and take it easy. Listen to your body and dont push it too hard. Any virus that knocks you out takes time and you need to give yourself that.

Get your husband to help - he can clean and keep on top of things.

For me Lemonade is my go to something I can drink and keep down and gives me something back. Find yours

I'm so sorry Zenab. It is awful isn't it?

I promise you it will soon pass.

Rest.

Drink loads.

Get someone to get you some soup, I know you can't taste it but even a small amount will help energy levels.

Take paracetamol, take what it says on the packet. When I had flu I took Day and Night nurse liquid - NOT as well as paracetamol.

I would find it very hard to speak to my sister in law again if she knowingly came to my house with Covid. That is not a lovely person.

The OP said she'd been taking paracetamol every four hours. She's now said she's taking it less often than that, but had she been having two every four hours for five days, she'd indeed be in choppy waters. When we was at school, there was a lot of publicity surrounding the deaths of two unwell girls who had drink significant quantities of Lemsip on top of fairly heavy 'ordinary' paracetamol use. It can be extremely dangerous.

With kindness, you need to accept being ill and let your body rest. Stop stressing, stop trying to do too much. Your job right now is to rest and recover.