Anyone else have this awful virus?

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Day 3 and I'm fucked! I have never experienced a sore throat like this. It's agony.

Dr prescribed naproxen and co-codimol. Can't take the naproxen yet as it's bid and I have already taken ibruprofen.

Not slept at all for 48 hours as my throat is too painful. Had to write a note for the Dr as I couldn't talk to explain symptoms.

He said there is a particular nasty virus that is poleaxing people for up to two weeks . I can't afford to take that time off work.

What I'm really after is self help for my throat - it is AGONY and I am besides myself. If I cough it feels like layers of skin being ripped from my throat. Strangely I don't think my tonsils are affected as it's more central roof of mouth.

The most impressive nasal drop you've ever seen.

He didn't say the f word though - just rest and fluids. Pain relief etc.

Anyone want to join my pity party?

Morning all! Woke up aches but it seemed to pass. Still have cough and on and off gut disturbances.

Hi treedragon I'm glad that you are feeling slightly better. I don't think that I've had the same strain of virus as some on here as I've had no stomach problems at all.

It maybe some have a couple of viruses at the same time because believe me, I've been really ill but not as bad as a lot on here.
Mine has been the headaches, none stop mucous coughing, no appetite, weak and achy type.
Anyway, to all still suffering. This too shall pass!

I’m missing my last day of training with my favourite work people :( and the subsequent after work drinks. Then I have family coming to stay all weekend :(

I've woken up feeling much more human I actually slept all night for the first time since I don't know when. And my legs and my body feel like they're joined.

Just need to remember to take it easy though and not go rushing about and give myself a set back.

So pleased some of you are also feeling a bit better. And to those of you who are still poorly, sending healing thoughts your way x

Sounds like some of us are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel? Those of you at the beginning of this journey - I hope it isn't as drawn out as it's been for some of us.

If I dare say so I am feeling slightly less fatigued and coughing is bothering me less at night. Still have fits of coughing and phlegm that need to clearing. Voice a bit better. Still on steroid inhaler but will gradually start to drop dose.

Maybe the sunshine is just making everything a bit more bearable?!

Thought I’d got away with no illness all winter after being hospitalised the previous winter with pneumonia...
Tried to go out this morning and thought I was going through pass out (always happens with me when I get a virus). Bad throat, shivery and wheezy. Doc checked out and said chest clear- anyone else had the wheeziness? No cough just feeling breathless.

Great woke up this morning with a migraine on top of this bug and struggling to control my temperature all day.

I'm the worse today, DH seems to be managing better and DS is still the best of all of us, he's really not that ill. I want the naisel spray next year. I haven't been this ill in years.

Oh great! Temp up again. Two weeks in and I thought it was going. Was complemented on my hacking cough at work today by my usually unobservant boss. Don't think it's a chest infection.

Im on day 7 now - at least my throat doesnt feel like shards of glass when i cough now! Still very asthma-ee and coughing gunk up though. Best wishes to everyone who is suffering.

@Lisette40

If you are two weeks in it seems to follow the pattern that you think it is going then relapses.

@treedragon 10 weeks to go then!

Nearly into week 5. Stomach issues seem to have just about gone. However, temp back up on Wed with a rotten headache that I couldn’t shift all day. Back to feeling ‘ok’ today. DH who started with the virus on New Year was at the docs yesterday for bad dizzy spells. Diagnosis post viral vertigo although likely still fighting off the virus.

I forget exactly when I came down with this but it was probably early January. Regardless, it feels like forever. I've had one absolutely horrendous phase (which I'm still surprised I survived), and two less dramatic but still grim phases. My breathing isn't right, my lungs are sore, the phlegm and post-nasal drip go from skulking in the background to full-blown drowning strength. I feel generally drained and "old" and depressed. The dryness of the cough and throat and mouth - despite all the mucus and snot and stuff - is very wearing. And to cap it all, I've now got a few lumps of cystic acne on the back of my neck. The only other thing ever to give me acne is anti-depressants!

I've been active enough this week to go out a couple of times for some retail therapy, clothes shopping in a desperate attempt to cheer myself up. It has been the oddest experience. I really like what I've bought, but it's all just sitting there in the bags, completely untouched, because I neither feel like wearing any of it or have any hope of ever enjoying it. This evil virus takes over your life.

Sorry to drone on. I really hope most if not all of you are feeling more positive than me and much better today.

That’s exactly how I felt on Wed me33 - paracetamol didn’t touch the pain but ibuprofen helped. Thankfully I woke up yesterday without it. Hopefully you’ll be the same tomorrow.

I asked earlier but got no reply but interested to know if my son has the same virus everyone else has suffered with as I'm at my wits end trying to help him and the Drs aren't that helpful.

Started off with severe headaches and earache but progressed with dizziness and nausea and then chest and stomach pain.
He has had this for nearly 8 weeks constant but the most pain is the severe headaches

We don't know Sausage, it sounds similar, but we don't even know if we all have the same thing.

Dizziness could be dehydration so make sure he drinks enough. I had a headache for ages too.

Thanks for reply it's strange though my son hasn't had a temperature with all this so I don't know if you have to have a temperature to class as a virus?
It seems as though illnesses are getting worse lately and taking longer and longer to shift.

I am curious how the @kikashi residence is fairing today.....

How do people here describe the stomach issues? Are yours like mine:

1. Intermittent
2. Random with no pattern of appearance
3. Causing significant lack of appetite.
4. Like acid bubbling indigestion
5. Like 4 and causing nausea.

????

My tummy issues were intermittent but I get intermittent upset tummy anyway, when I am stressed or have a routine change I get liquid for about two days, s it might have just been that or it might have been an actual part of the virus.

No nausea. But I have had some cramps. Lack of appetite - not really, just didn't eat cos was too lazy to get it for myself!

Hi treedragon - I think we are slowly getting better. My chest was so tight last night, lots of dry coughing and so a poor sleep but miraculously I have felt a good deal better today.

Ventured out to the deli to get bread and milk and managed the walk up the hill back home much better than a few days ago. My DC (teens and twins who are 20) are improving too - their appetites are returning - they even baked a plain cake today. Hopefully the end is in sight (but I have been at this point before...)

treedragon - our stomach issues are not anywhere near as bad as yours. No acid indigestion - just a total lack of apetite and nausea last week, no enjoyment of food merely eating plain food to exist and everything tasted weird.

Sillysausage - have you asked a doctor about the headaches? SeniorRita is right - is your son drinking enough? Is he eating? Your poor son he must be so worn down by it. Does paracetamol or ibuprofen help with the pain?

I hope everyone has a good night's sleep and a better tomorrow.

I had stomach issues with the first onslaught last month - nausea, loss of appetite, bowel movements affected for a while. I went off a few foods because every time I thought of them - fish, for example; I don't eat meat - I'd feel intensely nauseous. That lasted for a week or so and then my appetite improved slowly. Since then my stomach hasn't really been affected, but my bladder has, I go much more frequently than usual. Sorry, probably TMI! I couldn't say if I've had one long virus or a handful of smaller ones that came one after the other, but I feel it's the former because the symptoms keep repeating, especially the respiratory and sinus and aches and pains and fatigue. On the other hand, I haven't had the really intense, disabling achiness since the first phase. The pain in that respect has generally been less intense, but as treedragon has said earlier in the thread, it definitely affects sites in the body that have previously been injured or problematic. This week I've been feeling like I'm on the verge of costochondritis, but so far it has only been twinges, so i'm hoping it doesn't become a full attack. Where I broke my back a few years ago though has been very painful for a couple of days this week. Then again, I've got fibromyalgia so that probably complicates things.

I thought I'd recovered. But it's come back.

Bastard.