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Day 200! (trumpet fanfare, bugles)
Until yesterday, I would have said it had been 6 weeks since I'd had any unpleasant symptoms bar fatigue and the occasional bit of chest tightness. But I've come down with a headcold (probably) which gave me a temperature and aching joints. Much more than I would normally expect.
But until then, I was doing better - averaging over 4000 steps a day. My GP did me a sicknote recommending 4 day weeks, so I've had the last 6 Wednesdays off, during which I stay in bed til 12, then do nothing all afternoon. It really helps. Will try 4.5 days from November.
Not sure how much my perceived improvement is down to me recovering, or just being better at keeping my activity levels down to conserve energy. Probably both.
REALLY REALLY REALLY BORED OF IT NOW 😐
I miss being able to sink a couple of pints without immediately feeling shit. I haven't touched my bike since March, and I'm so tired in the evenings that I rarely have energy to pursue my hobby of music. We had a few days in a Welsh cottage, in which I sat while MrsDoris went for a nice coast walk on her own. And I'm putting on weight, for almost the first time in my life. Gah.
Micro has it so I guess its just a waiting gamme for the rest of us.
Got the results of the chest x-ray - normal. That's a relief. There was a price for the mountain biking - back and abdomen pain plus bit of a headache. Slowly improving. Energy levels are a bit low - sleeping about 10hrs a night. Yes, I know, I did it to myself.
Not had the flu shot yet - next week along with another round of bloods, antibody, ECG and a few other things.
After ~1.5 weeks of a head cold with extra fatigue and achy limbs, I felt quite human on Monday, even the achy floating ribs of the last ~5 weeks had gone.
Went for a fairly hilly ~35 mile ride after work, kept the power steady, felt absolutely fine even though my heart rate was a bit elevated and simply put it down to the lurgy I thought I was getting over.
A bit tired on Tuesday, but hardly unexpected, as Monday's "training impulse" score was ~250 and South Downs rides after a work shift have been very rare this year. So had a very lazy day.
Felt ok at work on Wednesday, but after a bit of effort up the hill home, I felt increasingly knackered as the afternoon went to early evening. But I thought this was down to the overnight rain waking me early.
Today I woke late at ~0930 and felt groggy from the off, finally surfacing after an hour. Feels like the head cold is back, along with the achy ribs, in no fit state to fancy riding to Petersfield's Bell Hill or anywhere else.
Every time I start thinking I've turned a health corner since April, I get kicked in the balls once again. The irony of thinking I'd won the metaphorical lottery when my initial symptoms seemed so mild compared to my better half.
Better half got a face to face GP appointment yesterday for her returned breathlessness, that's milder than back in March/April, having got a negative postal test result from 13 days ago. She was told to get a chest x-ray and went this morning plus is now on a 7-day Amoxicillin course.
Bit frustrating not to get call from GP, but maybe I'm being a bit optimistic. Hopefully there will be news in the morning, as better half is now off work again.
My fatigue has got worse in recent days, achy ribs and back, frequent headaches that Ibuprofen don't completely resolve, tickly throat. Was in bed after work on Monday afternoon, rare for me, but happened back in April too. Wore my chest HRM this afternoon to check my resting hr and it's +5-10bpm, stupidly forgot to take it off until dinner and the ache was unreal for a while. Thankfully not crazy busy at work Monday and Tuesday, few days off now until next shift. Five weeks now of not feeling right, seems to be getting worse rather than better, not done a recreational ride since Mon 19th when I felt the best I've been in weeks.
I know to be careful when comparing personal experience with proper professionally collated, national data, but this week has been a very bad week for Covid in my life.
Back in April my FIL had it and died. It was really sad, but I sort of expected it. He was the exact type of person who was going to get it, in every way, as well as the exact type of person who was going to die from it. He was the only one I knew personally who had it in the first wave, mostly I think because the testing just wasn't there.
Things are very different this time around. About 50% of my Wife's old District Nurse team are off with it, thankfully the ones who are older or have asthma don't seem effected, apart from a loss of taste/smell, but the younger, fitter ones have had it bad. One is in Hospital.
Another friend/Nurse sister has it, she's in ITU and will likely be put into an induced coma today, things don't look good for her.
It seems to be running wild amongst Nurses this time around, despite the fact they have better PPE than in the first wave.
I've just had an e-mail from a vendor I use in work, my Rep, who I'd gotten to know pretty well over the last few years died last night. I was talking to him about 10 days ago, he was fine.
I know the data shows we're nowhere near the numbers we were at the peak of the last wave, but it's everywhere I 'look' at the moment.
Agree, I've got staff off with positive tests right now. All seem on a range from absolutely fine to moderately poorly but nobody in hosp.
I had my full work medical last week, full bloods etc and exercise tests plus private cardiac MRI. I had a -ve antibody test but docs are adamant I had C-19 in Feb (as am I). Lingering effects are chest pains, ghost breatlessness and epic fatigue from nowhere. All tests fine and clear, nothing wrong at all so just need to gauge effort and take it easy when i feel rough.
Seeing how people are mingling and not giving a sh1t really worries me though.
What is 'ghost breathlessness' NZCol?
Sounds like my experience of this lovely virus is similar to yours. Really annoys me when I see people mingling or not taking it seriously.
So, just when I thought it was safe to ......... go back on the bike, I got floored by Shingles (and I mean a proper smack down) .This whole post-viral fatigue/long covid thing that we have had was easing off and I had just started going out on some easy local loops ,all good. So I started slowly building up the effort and distances, again this seemed to go ok, there was even a point where I was easily keeping up with clubmates that had never been ill or stopped cycling over the lockdown/restrictions months. Then ,out of nowhere ,Shingles . Initially ,only two tiny areas of blisters, but then came excruciating pain, even with meds/painkillers it was very, very uncomfortable with little respite ,imagine having sunburn, stomach ache and back ache all at the same time .I would not wish it on my worst enemy. Then it morphed in to Postherpetic Neuralgia ,yay. So for the best part of 10 weeks I have been trying to deal with that. Those strange leftover covid symptoms still appear now and again but are mild and it’s only now in the last fortnight that I have felt like things are getting back on track and I have started cycling again. I really don’t want a second dose of covid ,so like NZcol ,large crowds where some people are not giving a toss ,do make me a bit twitchy.
Anyway, keep on keeping on folks and stay safe.
This is maybe interesting / useful re the impact of covid on cyclists and cardiac health in particular. Bottom line, if you feel a bit crap and notice your HR doing odd stuff, back off. Fwiw, I knew my breathing above threshold was 'wrong' before I knew I probably had the virus:
https://www.bicycling.com/health-nutrition/a33634077/exercise-myocarditis-and-covid-19/
That's a chirpy article BWD
Daughter has just had a letter form college. Isolate for two weeks. Her Art Teacher, who had a class full, and close contact, on Monday, has tested positive. Fingers crossed she hasn't picked it up, but they had passed work in and had it passed back.
Reading some of your reports makes me wonder whether I had covid back in march. Before formal lockdown my wife got some sort of flue type thing and was bad for maybe 4 days, my son for a couple of days, and I just felt a bit off and rough for a few days, nothing major, but noticeable. We' not been anywhere or knowingly near anyone suspect, but we self-isolated anyway and then were locked down. My wife tried to get tested, but they wouldn't test her back then despite working in a care setting (as an community OT).
I carried on trying to do my biking and hiking, but really getting fatigued and having to stop a number of rides due to chest pain, nausea and fatigue. I've been putting it all down to a heart condition (microvascular heart diseases and micro angina) I've been investigated for, but seeing my cardiologist yesterday he basically said the the dull ache left side chest pain I've been getting on and off and after doing stuff can't be my heart (i assumed micro angina) as basically i'd have had a heart attack by now and it'd have showed up on the ECG. I've had a cardiac MRI too though, surely that would show up some sort of 'carditis?
Anyway not sure if I'm just being more of a hypochondriac than usual or if it all stems back to my wife's illness in March which we'll never know if it was covid or not now. In any case I've had to back off stuff massively lately as I'm just too fatigued.
Edit: just realised my cardiac MRI was in January, before any potential covid and before the left side chest ache, so it wouldn't have shown up if it is some sort of carditis.
Day 4 or 5 of it for me. Positive case at my son's nursery a couple of weeks ago so they closed the place and he was isolating. Never developed any symptoms and tested negative but my wife caught it and I then got it from her - timings all fit and suspect he had it right at the start of the nursery outbreak and was asymptomatic.
Pretty shit at times and others it's not bad. Started with full on fever, aching everywhere (particularly eyeball muscles!). Today feels like a terrible hangover but a couple of days ago I was absolutely streaming, couldn't stop sneezing etc. Like a cold on steroids. Taking it steady though and no rush to over do it (even when I can go out again) as heard too many horror stories of it lingering on and on for some people.
Did you and your wife test positive then as i thought streaming cold was not a symptom? I had very similar symptoms to you in very early March and the cold went to my chest for a bit but i discounted cv due to the streaming cold symptoms.
In addition to all the Nurses in my Wife's old team with Covid, one in her current team has just gone into isolation pending a test. She treated someone who became ill and tested positive a few days later.
Wife was in a meeting with her (social distanced) yesterday 🙁 At least we'll get a quick test if it comes to it.
The ache around my floating ribs seems to have subsided since Sunday, after having it ~6 weeks, which is about the same timescale for the similar pain I had from around the start of April. Joined a Zwift TT on Monday, was planning to keep hrm under 150bpm (zone 3 ish), but got carried away without any issues and finished Tempus Fugit at ~184bpm... Ironically, possibly my best "negative split" TT attempt to date! 😆
Better half still waiting for x-ray result consultation from GP after the scan last Thurs, she was a little better the last couple of days but still a bit breathless, surprised she decided to return to work (NHS) today. Worryingly they've had the first confirmed patient positive test result in her work department in the last few days.
That’s a chirpy article BWD
Yeah, sorry about that. They were all out of cheery, positive ones 😉
I started having symptoms last Monday evening. Basically a temperature and feeling a bit crappy. Booked a Covid test at 5am in the morning. Got tested Tue AM, result came back on Thu AM saying I was positive. Wife also felt crap a day or so later and get a test result on Friday to say positive.
Crap time for it as I was on A/L. Anyway generally felt really weary with temperature all over the place. Lost my sense of smell and most of my sense of taste. Had some random aches. Back WFH since Monday and my attention span has been awful, needing to take more breaks than normal. Had a shopping delivery on Sun and after packing it away I had to sit down and rest for an hour.
Now seem to have developed a tight chest and an annoying cough. In theory I'm allowed out on Friday so will be good to see how a gentle walk goes down.
Negative test here last wk. Test was simple enough apart from nearly vomming over the dashboard & spending rest of the night sneezing like F!
@myti - yep, both tested positive. Now lost my smell and taste on the way out as well.
A guy I know tested positive whilst out in Turkey, he was well at the time, blue lighted into hospital and further test run, then isolated in his hotel, developed tight / burning / achy chest and fatigue, back to hospital and found that his blood was too viscous so started anti coagulants which he reacted to, back to hospital again.... now tested negative and leaving for home tomorrow.
*short version
Dashed hmmm... now I'm wondering if I had it back in March!
GP called better half, not much showing on x-ray, but reckons the breathing difficulties once again like back in March was Covid and her self-administered postal swab test result was a false negative.
So were my aches/pains/fatigue Covid as well, that have subsided this week after ~6 weeks (just like in spring)? I wore a face covering indoors at work until her test came back, but not since, as I wasn't showing the main symptoms (just like back in March/April).
Posties can still voluntarily van share, but after all this time, apparently face coverings indoors will become mandatory from next week... I imagine social distancing indoors by some colleagues will get even worse.
Awaiting test results from yesterday. Also nearly spewed over the dashboard, not listed as a symptom though.
Had a cough and aches but no temp. Lost smell and taste weds afternoon. Isolating and wfh at present. Test centre was alarmingly busy. Wonder what percentage of vehicles had sick in the foot wells?
bensongd
The loss of smell and taste is now recognised as a key covid symptom .
I was an early adopter of the UCL C-19 app (joinzoe.com) and log in every day, because I still have leftover symptoms from Shingles I post in the ‘ I’m not feeling quite right ‘ box ,this offers up a list of different symptoms that they now believe relates to a covid infection , there are a lot of boxes.
Awaiting test results from yesterday. Also nearly spewed over the dashboard, not listed as a symptom though.
GI stuff can very definitely be a symptom. My first signs back in March were a screaming, one-sided head-ache and an hour of throwing up. Obviously that doesn't mean it is Covid, but the official symptom list is very limited.
Had my results, both myself and child #2 have tested positive. Child #1 and ex went for testing earlier this evening.
Edit: spewing on the dashboard was from gagging on the swab.
Well for the last couple of days I've felt pretty good now. Even went for a walk into town to get some supplies. So around 4 miles completed and don't feel knackered, which is great. May try a bike ride tomorrow.
Steady!
Wife and kids tested positive. I’m assuming I’m positive but now waiting for results after having some symptoms and got postal test kit. Basically being feeling a bit flulike but nothing too dramatic as of yet. Family don’t seem to o be affected much so far. Fingers crossed we get of lightly.
Just had a positive result, possibly had symptoms from late last week. Just feels like a sniffle/headache so hopefully won't be too bad.
p20 tested positive last a week ago, having very picked it up from a patient. I started to feel ill 48 hours later however my test came back negative. Almost certainly a false negative though given my symptoms and his positive test and living in the same house. p20 is now on day 9 and still not right with a temperature and tiredness, and slightly high resp rate (sats are fine though). I’m on day 7 and have had 48 hours of feeling reasonable so hoping I’m on the return stretch - bit short of breath today, but I know I’m tired. Generally don’t feel too bad, but going to take it very steady.
so hopefully won’t be too bad.
Aye,just take it easy and do what feels right for your body.
Plenty stories of folk thinking it was no big deal, launching back in to their normal exercise routine and then being ambushed by a weird collection of symptoms that they had never experienced before.
Very similar here BWD, I'll drop you an email shortly.
I've gone from being the warmest person in the world to freezing all the time.
Impossible to get and stay warm, then on odd occasions roasting. I've worn gloves riding, much to everyone's surprise!
Had a lot of time off the bike, nearly 4 months and I've jumped straight back on in winter, so maybe I should lay off longer?
Anything prolonged up & down floors me and I can barely breathe in.
I'm also on B12, GP has also put me on ferritin, vit D and some others in the meantime.
How have you found sleep?
Nine months on and everything is just trundling. Post July / August bout or relapse has really taken it out of me and recovery is annoyingly slow. When I suddenly feel a bit better I'm now surprised and realise I have just re-set to post covid fatigue and fug being the normal. The random aches, pains and tinnitus just rumble on as background noise. Generally I'm working on if something hasn't vanished after 10-14days then I'll check with the Docs; which generally tells me nothing.
Fitness wise I'm really just doing short walks once or twice a day but the last two of three weeks have managed to be more active. Two days skiing in the Pennines last weekend and road biking the week before. Paid the price for last weekend with not really feeling upto doing much more than short walks this week. At least I knew it was coming and it was worth it.
Other than that it's armchair adventuring through the Kendal Mountain Festival online content and hoping for snow.
Blurgh. 3.5 and 4 weeks on for us. Walking 2 miles every day but then have random days when we feel really wipped out. Putting the Christmas tree up was exhausting. So sad to have been hit harder than I hoped. Mental health is very up and down. This whole ‘mild COVID’ thing still sucks.
I had my positive test mid November after having a runny nose, sore throat Tuesday -Sunday then lost my sense of smell the Sunday evening.
Isolated ten days . .felt ok so I Started some easy runs to get back into it and came back down with another sore throat . Took the week off From Running. Sore throat ended last Thursday, ran on Sunday morning and hey ho - runny nose, sore throat and feeling like crap again.
Starting to think the runny nose / sore throat is all covid related. Certainly been been over doing it with the running.
My 86 year old Dad is in hospital at the moment.
Went in with a bladder infection last week then on 5th day tested positive .
He has had it for two days now.
Hospital says he has a mild case and wants to send him home to his flat where he is likely to transmit it to my 84 year old mum where there is no chance of self isolation and my mum simply isn’t fit enough to care for him.
Dad had high blood pressure and is diabetic as is my mum.
Not sure how we are going to solve that one.
Yes, and it sucks. Daughter has it worse and my Asthma is quite bad. Out of lockdown tomorrow. Will try a gentle ride alone, very alone.
Just checking in from the closed thread. My apologies DezB, I didn't search for this thread as I hadn't seen it for a while and presumed it'd sunk into the usual format of a few super contributors hurling abuse at each other. Turns out it's still a nice, sensible place.
I've woken up today after 10hrs sleep feeling like it's gone. However, in light of all the experience laid out before me, I'll work on the assumption that it's not.
I’ve gone from being the warmest person in the world to freezing all the time.
is this a symptom? I have been like this for months - I thought it was just about getting old!
It might be TJ,and like you I thought ,it could just be getting older mixed in with all the other stuff.
I think it's interesting how fitter people that do regular exercise/training are the ones reporting a lot of the stranger leftover symptoms.It may have something to do with the way they're used to doing a daily 'system check' before any training, so notice more when things are not quite right.
My wife and 15 yr old son tested positive on Boxing day, myself and my daughter negative. My son just lost his sense of smell and taste but is generally okay, my wife same, but feels like she's got a bad cold. More worrying though, is her friend who is awaiting the results of a test to see if she has it for a second time!
I just spent an hour on the computer ordering supplies for work. Am shaking now!
Guess not fully over it eh?