DL45
02-04-20, 17:21
Afternoon
I have HA, and visit and read the board regularly, post infrequently because I think it adds to my anxiety. But I am posting today because I am worried about symptoms and really struggling to convince myself I am not dying. I'm overweight, I don't know if I have any underlying conditions because because of my HA I rarely go the GP and just worry instead!
But I have had a throat clearing type of cough for years now - I think just a little having given up smoking 18yrs ago type of coughcertainly had it before CV came along, so haven't worried about it. About 10 days ago got warmth in my throat, not sore just warmth - again I have had this before and when I spoke to my GP early March (not relating to CV but to my post elsewhere) he said it was probably an anxiety type of response. So over the last week or so I have had headaches, earaches, drippy nose now and then, burning face, warm throat and top part of chest, my cough. Many of which I have had before. Did 7 day isolation as per 111, but never thought it was CV.
Fast forward - last day or 2, the cough has become more chesty, rattly. Got a sudden pain down the left side of my neck, which has remained almost as a bruised feeling which I think could be a swollen lymph node - the right side feels OK. Today I woke at 5am with a really horrible sense of needing the loo, queasy belly, really really dry mouth (only had eggs on toast for tea). The sense of heat to upper chest and throat had ramped up - not red to look at, not razor blades but I feel like I am radiating heat! When I got up I brought up green phlegm, bit raspy, still got drippy nose now and then. Spoke to GP who has given me Antibiotcs and prednisolone as probable chest infection, wasn't concerned otherwise about isolation etc. Have been in bed most of the day just feeling meh, but have had really hot burning legs, I could feel the heat coming off them through the duvet. No temperature.
I don't know if I've had a mild dose, I've got it now, I've never had it so far. I am meticulous about washing hands and disinfecting everything, even the post gets disinfected before it gets opened! Nothing is sacred. But I am terrified of hubbie bringing it in - I keep nagging him about washing his hands but he just isn't as meticulous as I am. I have a horrid feeling that I am going to die, that I will be a statistic. I hugged my friend 13 days ago - only to find out later her husband was in bed with a bad cough but they fall it was asthma related, it was foolish of us both - one of those instantaneous things we always do when we meet once a week. I'm terrified when I read about incubation periods, contagious periods, recovery periods. Everything seems such a long time when people can be thinking everything is OK, that they are well and not knowing they are incubating it and it may even kill them in a matter of days or weeks.
I'm off social media totally. I play scrabble through FB but don't go on facebook otherwise. I have volunteered for the NHS and been registered - just hope that I can shake this off and then go and feel that I can help out others in need. I've been reading my kindle, I've been doing some training with the dog - thats another story - and I bought some exercise DVDs suitable for my fat little unfit self. Vit C in put is good - lemon and grapefruit each morning, multi vit tab, Orange in evening.
I don't know if my symptoms are CV, chest infection or health anxiety. Is it all in my mind because that is how health anxiety works?
Wishing you all well, I know we are all in the same boat. Take good care of yourselves xx
How are you all? I know we don't really know much - the scientists don't seem to either - and I guess we are all crying out for little bright lights!!
I have HA, and visit and read the board regularly, post infrequently because I think it adds to my anxiety. But I am posting today because I am worried about symptoms and really struggling to convince myself I am not dying. I'm overweight, I don't know if I have any underlying conditions because because of my HA I rarely go the GP and just worry instead!
But I have had a throat clearing type of cough for years now - I think just a little having given up smoking 18yrs ago type of coughcertainly had it before CV came along, so haven't worried about it. About 10 days ago got warmth in my throat, not sore just warmth - again I have had this before and when I spoke to my GP early March (not relating to CV but to my post elsewhere) he said it was probably an anxiety type of response. So over the last week or so I have had headaches, earaches, drippy nose now and then, burning face, warm throat and top part of chest, my cough. Many of which I have had before. Did 7 day isolation as per 111, but never thought it was CV.
Fast forward - last day or 2, the cough has become more chesty, rattly. Got a sudden pain down the left side of my neck, which has remained almost as a bruised feeling which I think could be a swollen lymph node - the right side feels OK. Today I woke at 5am with a really horrible sense of needing the loo, queasy belly, really really dry mouth (only had eggs on toast for tea). The sense of heat to upper chest and throat had ramped up - not red to look at, not razor blades but I feel like I am radiating heat! When I got up I brought up green phlegm, bit raspy, still got drippy nose now and then. Spoke to GP who has given me Antibiotcs and prednisolone as probable chest infection, wasn't concerned otherwise about isolation etc. Have been in bed most of the day just feeling meh, but have had really hot burning legs, I could feel the heat coming off them through the duvet. No temperature.
I don't know if I've had a mild dose, I've got it now, I've never had it so far. I am meticulous about washing hands and disinfecting everything, even the post gets disinfected before it gets opened! Nothing is sacred. But I am terrified of hubbie bringing it in - I keep nagging him about washing his hands but he just isn't as meticulous as I am. I have a horrid feeling that I am going to die, that I will be a statistic. I hugged my friend 13 days ago - only to find out later her husband was in bed with a bad cough but they fall it was asthma related, it was foolish of us both - one of those instantaneous things we always do when we meet once a week. I'm terrified when I read about incubation periods, contagious periods, recovery periods. Everything seems such a long time when people can be thinking everything is OK, that they are well and not knowing they are incubating it and it may even kill them in a matter of days or weeks.
I'm off social media totally. I play scrabble through FB but don't go on facebook otherwise. I have volunteered for the NHS and been registered - just hope that I can shake this off and then go and feel that I can help out others in need. I've been reading my kindle, I've been doing some training with the dog - thats another story - and I bought some exercise DVDs suitable for my fat little unfit self. Vit C in put is good - lemon and grapefruit each morning, multi vit tab, Orange in evening.
I don't know if my symptoms are CV, chest infection or health anxiety. Is it all in my mind because that is how health anxiety works?
Wishing you all well, I know we are all in the same boat. Take good care of yourselves xx
How are you all? I know we don't really know much - the scientists don't seem to either - and I guess we are all crying out for little bright lights!!