Help me! Have COVID, can’t sleep

[Covideee]

As the title says really. Tested positive and have a fever (38.8) that just won’t go down, despite taking ibuprofen and paracetamol. And I know I need to cool my body but I have the chills and it literally hurts. So talk to me and keep me company and distract me. Cos the alternative is tossing and turning and moaning like a banshee till my husband divorces me 😅 he’s also positive so not much help there.

I'm also positive and had my night like you are describing on Sunday, so you have my sympathy :-(
I cant sleep either and I think it's because I'm not doing anything during the day, just lying on the sofa.

Let the fever do its job. 38.8 isn’t terribly high. Hope you feel better soon!

@Ekerty72Yeah I can imagine that too, must be a nightmare! What did u do to get the fever to break? I’m just dreaming of that moment when the fever breaks and you fall asleep and wake up feeling like a whole new person

I’m up with my two girls (9 and 14) who both have raging temperatures. Hopefully you’ve settled a bit now. Sending hugs x

I’m awake with covid too. Only tested positive today and just like a bad cold so far but the anxiety about it is making me feel worse. My DH has been coughing his guts up for 2 days but is still waiting on his PCR result.

I've been feeling weird since Sunday. Did a LFT yesterday which looked like it had a smudge of a line. Went for a PCR yesterday which just came back negative. I feel like I've been runover. Its gargantuan effort to type this. It must be flu. I feel like I'm dying. Had flu jab 2 weeks ago but that was only a best guess. Stabbing pains in my hands arms feet. Feel so hot and so sick. Head is throbbing. Can't taste anything just up having paracetamol with ribena but it may as well be water.

Husband had a cold last week and says it must be that. He didn't feel so ill he was off work and ran a half marathon on Sunday! He did NOT feel like this.

The viral stabbing pains are the worst thing. All over my body.

@CatherineCawood

I've been feeling weird since Sunday. Did a LFT yesterday which looked like it had a smudge of a line. Went for a PCR yesterday which just came back negative. I feel like I've been runover. Its gargantuan effort to type this. It must be flu. I feel like I'm dying. Had flu jab 2 weeks ago but that was only a best guess. Stabbing pains in my hands arms feet. Feel so hot and so sick. Head is throbbing. Can't taste anything just up having paracetamol with ribena but it may as well be water.

Husband had a cold last week and says it must be that. He didn't feel so ill he was off work and ran a half marathon on Sunday! He did NOT feel like this.

The viral stabbing pains are the worst thing. All over my body.

I’m sorry you are feeling so poorly. I would do another PCR in 2-3 days just to make sure. Hope you feel better soon.

How are you doing now?
I’ve been coughing non stop until I vomit, ache to the point where I can barely move and feel shocking. Only ever had flu once and generally don’t get bugs but I’m floored. Waiting for pcr tests. Really hoping it’s flu.

Melatonin works well and has been shown to help with covid.

We use it ourselves anyway and when our neighbours came down with it the husband struggled so we got him on it and sil gave him iv vitamin drip. New man within hours .

I took night nurse for two nights running when I had it, knocked me out

As Captainj says, try some Night Nurse. DH used it and felt so much better.

I have covid & it’s causing some kinda weird insomnia for me! I’m absolutely exhausted (despite laying on the sofa for the past 6 days) but I cannot sleep. It’s really annoying.. I’m not anxious at all. I’m quite relieved to get covid now to be honest. I don’t have any health anxiety around it whatsoever. So it’s not that. I haven’t had a fever & I don’t have a cough. I do have a head that feels like it might explode from sinus pain though 😩😭

I took some Piriton last night as that makes me drowsy & hurrah, I slept! 🙌🏼

Yeah think I'll go again tomorrow or Friday.

I’m day 7, been tossing and turning because of the aches and pains in my back and legs. I took some magnesium last night and had a much better nights sleep.

I 100% do not have COVID but some other hideous virus. 3PCRs now and all negative.

I had a face to face GP appt yesterday where he gave me oral steroids as the virus has made my usually mild asthma bad. He said to go to A&E for a nebuliser should my sats drop below 95. At 9pm they dropped to 92 so I ended up having to go to hospital. As soon as they heard breathing difficulties they immediately ushered me out of a fire exit (!!) and into the red resus with all the covidy people 😱

I had bloods, a cannula, hooked up to machines and oxygen, chest xray, covid swab etc.They were amazing, so kind.

Got anti biotics and had a nebuliser. Sats went up but dropped again when the oxygen was turned off.

This morning sats are 98% and I feel it is much easier to breathe and my cough has become much less frequent but turned productive.

Steriods/nebuliser/antibiotics are doing their job. Was a bit scary!

Hope everyone is on the mend.

@CrystalMaisie I had those pains too. Awful aren't they. Glad you feel better today.

@CatherineCawood how many days until the pains went? Still got them. Everyday I think I’m going to wake up better tomorrow, and I don’t. Day 9.

Started Tuesday gone by Saturday. Hope you feel better soon! Went back to work today, am pooped!