Covid looky-likey virus?

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Not sure where to post this, so putting here for traffic.

I've been ill with a virus for 2 months. Started off like covid and ended up in a&e with low oxygen, high pulse and, breathless , horrible cough. Clear X-ray and negative covid tests so sent home to ride it out.

Roll on 7 weeks and I'm still poorly. Weak, tired, coughing, sore throat and chest, dizzy/feeling spacey, croaky voice, no energy. Get out of breath easily when doing light exercise like going up stairs. I'm usually fit with resting pulse low 60s, it's now 70s-80s most of the time, and pounds in my chest.

GP has done full bloods ( I was ill enough for a face to face appointment and to have bloods done, despite the shortage of blood test vials) and all are fine. I don't have covid antibodies so v unlikely to be long covid. She thinks likely just a nasty virus and I have a crackly chest but no evidence of bacterial infection, but every day I wake up feeling pretty much the same, no improvement.

Anyone else hearing of a nasty long-running bug doing the rounds?

It's really starting to get me down and I'm still not well enough to work.

I'm not sure why I'm posting, other than to vent a bit and to see if anyone else is in the same boat.

[quote ablutiions]@Coffeeanddarkchoc commiserations. I think it's just so frustrating not having a diagnosis and therefore a little certainty about how long it might go on for. My dr cert runs out next Tuesday and I really don't feel any better than 2 weeks ago, although I am coughing less (unless I speak). Just walked upstairs and my heart is pounding and I'm all dizzy. Pulse 100. Ridiculous. I can relate to the pelvic floor a bit - but mine is so much stronger after 5 years of regular yoga. Do you feel like you are improving at all?

@bumblingbovine49 that sounds dreadful. I know that covid is a (dysfunctional?!) family of viruses so it makes sense that symptoms would be similar. How's your cousin now?

To cap it all just had a row with DH, who in trying to help, started to interrogate me about which 'dodgy' internet sources I'm getting my info from. He hates seeing me floating around, pale as a ghost unable to manage much. It's a strain on us all. I'm normally a bit of a Dynamo in the family so they find it hard to adjust when I'm not at full speed.

I have a chronic illness that I manage to keep at bay (mostly) but I have to say hats off to anyone living with long-term illness - I just don't know how you cope. Serious admiration for you folks.

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This is so true about coughing less when you dont have to speak! I think thats my problem - at work I have lots of calls early morning so it just flared back up again when I went back to work on Monday.

I'm finding the shortness of breath and the dizziness the strangest. Its happening even when doing simple things like singing a song to 2yo then lifting him down into hit cot

I was improving until I went back to work and have really gone backwards now. I'm just getting through one work day at a time at the minute. You should definitely extend your cert if you can.

Hope you're feeling better. I'm on my 4th day of feeling awful. I haven't felt this rotten for a long time.

My worst symptoms are my muzzy head and mucousy cough. Hoping that I turn a corner over the weekend and start to improve.