Anyone had a virus like this?

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Started Tuesday feeling rough and exhausted with a slight cold. Slept for 2 days and cough developed and has got worse. Had a temperature and rash to go with it but that's subsided. Now got a painful sore throat and ears. Cough feels like I have a cobweb in my lungs.
Felt marginally better yesterday but today I feel terrible. Feels like after 4 days of a virus I should be on the mend. Very fed up.
Husband has it but is still managing to be up and about whereas I have zero energy and can't move,

I'm on Day 8, sounds similar though my ears didn't hurt much but my teeth ached. "Productive" cough, the "cobweb" analogy is apt.. Yesterday the headache, sore throat and hoarseness subsided a bit. Just now took the dogs out for the first time since it started last Saturday. Definitely on the mend.

DS15 had temp for 16 days plus cough. I am now on day 9, temp has dropped to normal, coughing less but ears hurt, gastric issues and feel rough.

I hate to tell you this OP but we've had something similar going around the place I work, and some colleagues are still feeling awful 3-4 weeks later. 😔

Hey OP

You sound exactly like my son.
When I rang the school they said quite a few had the same

Covid or the virus that is Covid,either way takes ages to clear 😢

I've just done a Covid test although it might have been out of date. Said negative. Am just a very impatient patient. Sorry to hear you/ your family members are all poorly too.
Viruses have never lasted this long for me before. Am usually over them in a few days, even when I had covid.

Is that the 100 day cough one? Right pain in the arse. Or COVID?

Not had it for 100 days thank god and really hope I don't.

I’ve been suffering for the past month. 1st penemonia then loaded of cold and now got some sort of d and v virus so on day 5 of that. Been in bed the full time I am absolutely sick of it now. How’s everyone else feeling? X

Oh OP I’ve never clicked on a thread quicker. I’m on week 3. Started exactly the same as you, 2 days in bed etc. had a week off work (nhs) and went back on Monday but what a mistake. Ended up at gp and given 5 day course of abx but it’s not touched it, no improvement. Cold and flu relief, paracetamol, ibuprofen, sinus relief not touching it so given up with it. Now think it’s sinusitis as well as my whole face hurts, the cough at the night winds me and I struggle to breathe. Back to work tomorrow but the thought of it makes me want to cry. Also going to speak to gp again.

wish I knew what it was, how to cure or at least relieve the symptoms.

Ah hopes for a quick recovery for you! I’m on week 4 now! Pneumonia then cold now d and v for 5 days. Can’t seem to catch a break. I hope and pray every night that I wake up feeling better. 🌺

Thanks @Jadeee123 im hoping I avoid the d and v. I have 2 small ones at nursery so it feels inevitable. I’ve never been this ill for this long.

tbh I did wonder if I had pneumonia at the start, I was so weak and ill, couldn’t keep my eyes open for more than half an hour for 2 days.

even now sitting watching telly I’m breathless

I had no chest problems when I first found out I had it just very very breathless and a high temp, then when I got diagnosed at hospital they said pneumonia, that took 2 lots of antibiotics to start with! I have acually forgot what it feels like to be normal. X is it your chest you’re suffering with or have you got other symptoms also? Have you been to your GP? C

I've been struck down with this since Friday, I feel bloody awful. I'm head is pounding!! Paracetamol isn't helping and my throat and ears hurt 😭 struggling to sleep but no energy to actually do anything.. reading these posts are filling me with dread quite frankly..

Sorry I have just re read the post and seen you have been to the GP xx

My husband has been like you for 4 weeks, he’s never ill and it’s knocked him for 6!
Dr said it’s nothing like covid, it’s a nasty virus doing the rounds

Oh dear that’s not good. I’m praying to feel better very soon!! Xx

Yes, started at the start of Jan with a head cold that lasted 3 weeks. Started feeling better and on the 23rd I started with stuffy nose,l which progressed to being hoarse, coughing really awfully sore throat and my sinuses were so congested. I went to the gp on Tuesday and got antibiotics, today was the first day I've woken up without stuffiness but I'm am absolutely exhausted.

I've had it, I was coughing so hard I was worried I'd do myself an injury, I had a fever, a headache, and a nose like a tap. I rested for a week and all those symptoms started to get better, but I got a rash, which is super itchy (hives?).

Now all I have is the rash and a bit of a cough.

I reckon it's normal for the same virus to affect different people very differently.
Polio is benign to most people.

Took me over 3 weeks to feel anything like normal after catching this virus in November. Definitely not COVID as I done 3 tests and they were all negative

I've just been struck down since Tues Came out of nowhere , bad cough now chesty , no voice , congestion. I'm going on holiday next week and am worried this isn't going to shift

Have similar virus and started another thread. Wish it would do one!

I had something a couple of months ago.

I was sleeping for 3-4 hours then awake 3-4 hours.

Coughing.

And then the snot - it was rock heard - I had to go to sporner corner for help because I could not blow my nose, well I could but it just didn't do anything.

And completely wiped out. It lasted about 2 weeks.

@sashh, thank goodness you have similar symptoms to me! I’m awake early with this virus or not and wiped out for a few hours and asleep or awake again. I had this with Covid but it’s not as 3 negative tests.