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.

I’m sorry you feel so ill. I had covid very recently and had only just had my second jab so not sure how much protection it gave me. I also felt pretty rotten, and didn’t lots of time in bed. I felt cold, headachy, tired, emotional and lost all sense of taste snd smell. The taste and smell thing really scared me. Like you I was so so hungry but couldn’t eat. I found things like pineapple, melon, chilli beetroots and salads with sharp tastes like gherkins/spring onions were more appetising and whilst I couldn’t taste it properly I had a sense of the taste. My smell and taste have come back and whilst not 100% I am enjoying eating again! I shall never take it for granted again! I hope you start to feel better soon. You will feel better. X

As previous posters have said, please please be kind to yourself and rest. Your kids aren't going to come to harm from a few days tv watching. I (touch wood) haven't had Covid but I've had flu a couple of times and it wiped me out. Trying to do too much too soon will knock you back. Listen to your body - it's telling you it wants to rest to get better. I really hope you feel better soon

Did you mean to be so nasty @crapshow?

@crapshow

Oh FFS have a word with yourself! Are grown adults now going to CRY every time they have a cold/flu/bug/virus. You're being totally ridiculous as are all the wet saps replying as if you're at deaths door. You don't know what "ill" is. Get over yourself!

Completely unacceptable post!

Covid is a range of symptoms and levels and can be pretty scary given it's completely Russian roulette with how bad you can get it and how quickly it can change.

I went from one day of a cough and sore throat to the next day struggling to breath and oxygen levels which were hypoxic as a fit and healthy mid 30s.

Realistic? Hysteria?

Here’s hoping your tearful 18 year old who can’t cope with Covid gets more sympathy eh?

How is this ‘pathetic’ and the behaviour of your son not?

I wonder if you are this realistic with your son…

And that is for you crapshow

@crapshow

Oh FFS have a word with yourself! Are grown adults now going to CRY every time they have a cold/flu/bug/virus. You're being totally ridiculous as are all the wet saps replying as if you're at deaths door. You don't know what "ill" is. Get over yourself!

saw you said in a previous thread you're a clinician - a doctor?

hope your patients don't get this attitude!

OP you're only 23 so guess this is the first time you've been properly ill

It's horrible and scary isn't it? The first time I was floored with a virus (literally couldn't walk), I was terrified. You'll feel better soon but take it easy and don't stress.

Zenab - I do hope you feel better soon, as others have said plenty of rest. My adult son had Covid over Christmas and was very unwell but with rest, plenty of fluids etc., he slowly made a recovery. The day he rang to say he had managed to eat a piece of dry toast - I cried. Once a mum always a mum.

My father (a Doctor) always said the difference between flu and a cold was in the following scenario:-

Imagine there is a £50 note outside your front door. If you have a cold you will go and retrieve it, if you have flu you just don't care and can't summon the energy to get it!

@MagicSummer

My father (a Doctor) always said the difference between flu and a cold was in the following scenario:-

Imagine there is a £50 note outside your front door. If you have a cold you will go and retrieve it, if you have flu you just don't care and can't summon the energy to get it!

That's absolutely spot on.

Covid is even worse for some people.

@Oohlookahypocrite

Realistic? Hysteria?

Here’s hoping your tearful 18 year old who can’t cope with Covid gets more sympathy eh?

How is this ‘pathetic’ and the behaviour of your son not?

I wonder if you are this realistic with your son…

I think there's a big difference between a grown woman crying because she feels unwell and an 18 year old who has had his life turned upside down - education destroyed and normal human activities denied which will affect his future - No? If he contracted Covid he'd be well able to cope and wouldn't be crying. I know which one is being pathetic. And yes, I am a clinician but not a doctor.

@MagicSummer

My father (a Doctor) always said the difference between flu and a cold was in the following scenario:-

Imagine there is a £50 note outside your front door. If you have a cold you will go and retrieve it, if you have flu you just don't care and can't summon the energy to get it!

This analogy was already posted upthread!

I am definitely middle aged, and I've had flu only twice. Not a cold, a bad cold or bronchitis/chest infection. Honestly, you absolutely know when you have it. It's silly how often people claim "flu".

I understand that some have found it difficult crapshow

Others have made the best of it.

Some have coped fine with getting Covid. Some have not. You don’t know how your son would cope. He doesn’t seem to be coping at all well with the world the rest of us are coping with.

We have all had our lives turned upside down, had our futures halted. We have all had our moments with the denial of normal activities. No ones education has been destroyed. There is no time limit on learning.

We are all different and it doesn’t hurt to have compassion.

In my mind, neither is pathetic but if you forced me to choose….

@Tinpotspectator

I am definitely middle aged, and I've had flu only twice. Not a cold, a bad cold or bronchitis/chest infection. Honestly, you absolutely know when you have it. It's silly how often people claim "flu".

this absolutely. first time I was a fit healthy teen, second time a healthy actve 40 something. its not "a bad cold" "48 hour flu" or any of the other nonsense its genuinely horrible.

The amount of times a colleague of mine claims flu…

Yet they manage to get to work (not sedentary) and function.

Flu my hoop.

Sorry @Meraas - hadn't seen that one!

I live with serious chronic illnesses which leave me in hospital yearly at least twice. So getting flu or covid wouldn't be much of a surprise to me but, I can imagine if you've never had anything this will be quite a shock to the system! As others have said ...don't push yourself, rest. There's no point doing things and making yourself feel worse. It's hard I know, and even I'm terrible at accepting what I can and can't do and I've been at this for about 17 years.

. Take paracetamol up to a limit of 2x 4 tablets in 24 hours and drink water or whatever you can.
If you need to look after your kids put them in bed with you if you can't make it to the sofa. Stick some TV on an ipad, phone or whatever for as long as you need, or occupy them with anything they like. There's no such thing as too much screentime at a time like this.

Pushing yourself ... Just don't .. it really does only make things worse, and won't achieve anything.
Sleep if you can and as much as you can. This will pass.

crapshow

There are no limits to compassion.

I haven’t missed the point at all.

And the hysteria hasn’t affected me at all because I’ve worked all through it. I’ve seen plenty of people crying because they were ill. Plenty worrying about the health of their family members. Nobody was crying because of their lack of education. They were more worried about death.

You don’t know how ill OP feels. Or if she is frightened of complications. Worried about vulnerable members of family because of the actions of her SIL.

The millions of people you speak of (uni etc) include members of my wider family. They and their friends are managing fine. They are glorying on and getting on with life. Of course it isn’t ideal but everyone is in the same boat.

The hysteria has passed me by thank you. And them thankfully.

I’m sorry it has affected your son. It sounds as though the ‘hysteria’ has affected him and as a clinician, perhaps you might be advising him to count his blessings.

Sorry again that was for crapshow