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.

Ignoring the unfeeling detailed….

@Zenab12
This may sound a bit cheesy but don’t focus on the 10-20 days you cannot care for your son but think about the 1460ish you have done so far and the 5000 or so days left until he’s 18! It’s a drop in the ocean!

@HereticFanjo

As someone who had post-viral fatigue many years ago, I urge you not to push yourself and just REST. Get your husband to make you nutritious food (lots of salad / fruit / steamed or stir fry veg with lean protein), take a good vitamin, drink water and just take it very easy.

Women seem to be more prone to long covid than men and in a lot of cases I suspect it is just trying to push through illness instead of resting. Future you will thank you for resting now. REST!

Exactly this. I had a nasty virus years ago in my twenties and it wiped me out for 2 weeks. Afterwards I suffered from various weird symptoms for months: bad fatigue, muscle aches, joint pain, racing heart beat, depression. I tried to keep going as I thought it would just be a case of mind over matter. It's only looking back now that I realise I had post viral fatigue syndrome and wish I'd been kinder to myself ( and had a more sympathetic GP!) Hope you feel better soon OP 🤗

“And yes, I am a clinician but not a doctor.”
Oh Christ, Crapshow, you’re a nurse!!

I just searched crapshow's other MN posts.
I'm lost for words at her lack of empathy

@EsoNoSeHace

“And yes, I am a clinician but not a doctor.” Oh Christ, Crapshow, you’re a nurse!!

If she is, and if she displays these attitudes in her professional life, then she deserves to be struck off the NMC Register.

An alternative therapist, perhaps.

I was generally fine when I had Covid, extremely ill with flu though 20 years ago.

For me the loss of smell and taste took five months to return OP, so healing can be a slow burner. The return of my senses was so slow, nothing like having a cold, it was often one step forward then two back and tiny tiny improvements weeks apart.

I was really worried it wouldn’t ever come back and even bought a kit to retrain my sense of smell. I’m not sure it helped, but maybe it did?

Just rest. Let your DH look after the kids and house, you stay in bed and sleep. You haven't mentioned breathing issues, do you have an oximeter to check your oxygen levels?

Hi,

I think we tested positive around the same time. I also have two godless and I'm no day 9 and honestly struggling to remain positive. I can handle the no taste and smell but the fatigue is honestly crippling me. I can't function I'm angry that I can seem to get better and look after my kids. I'm scared the fatigue with never pass. Did anybody else experience fatigue and when did it get better?

@courtney251 this is me, I am on Day 12 and have been bedridden for the past five days. I feel utterly useless and helpless and don’t know what to do. I am reliant on painkillers, the chills and shivers cripple me. I can barely eat but am forcing myself too. I crave anything cold, but can’t smell or taste a thing. I have no strength in my legs and feel really emotional. The pains in my head are bad, the cough has largely gone and my throat doesn’t hurt so much any more. I wonder if it will ever go and miss my stamina and endless energy in a way that I can’t describe. I long to return to running and cycling but it feels like an eternity away