I am currently having treatment for OCD although it’s undiagnosed and I am struggling so much with covid at the moment, which I know everyone is but I feel my anxiety around it impacts me almost every second of every day.
My main anxiety ridden thoughts at the moment surround my 3 year old daughter and whether she has a new persistent cough or not. I find the NHS guideline of ‘coughing episode’ very vague, what the hell is classed as an episode. She coughs sometimes, if I took her for a test every time she coughed 3 times in a day we’d be testing every week.
I have spoken the GP and occupational health about this to try and get some clarity. They advised the little coughs I can essentially ignore and could be just she is clearing her throat but anything bigger to consider an episode. Still a bit vague as she sometimes seems to do something in between this. And surely if she had 2 episodes a day for a few days she hasn’t technically met the criteria but I would call that a persistent cough.
Sometimes she’ll have a bit of a cough during the day, then nothing for a few days and the a bit of coughing in the day again. It’s so hard to determine when to take her for a test, as she absolutely hates it , lots of tears and we struggle to even get the swab in her nose. I come away feeling awful.
The last thing I want is to be taking her for unnecessary tests ‘just in case’ as again we’d probably be there weekly.
I am terrified of accidentally passing covid on to someone vulnerable because I made the wrong decision and say, didn’t test. Im even worried now I’ve got the GP info (above) wrong and putting it in this post and someone may read it and get something wrong too!
My husband is at the complete other end of the spectrum and never thinks she needs a test, she could be coughing all day. This leads to us arguing and I feel like I’m alone dealing with it.
Sorry for the extremely long post! Not sure what I’m looking for, maybe just a rant!