FMTTM Covid Experience

[whinneybanksaint]

There is so much confusion, false information, scaremongering, too many sanctimonious experts about that i thought it might help us ordinary folk if we shared our own covid experiences . Perhaps it may help others in some way .
So for me my experience is in 2 parts. Firstly in April this year after a day at work in beautiful spring weather i developed a pain in my rear lower rib area, i presumed id pulled a muscle in my back after a day laying a heavy EPDM roof. It progressively got worse until i struggled to take a breath without intense pain, so bad an ambulance was called at midnight. I had no covid symptoms , so the crew administered gas and air for the pain, which after 2 hours helped ease it. They left i did not wish to go to hospital at that time. Consequently i deteriorated over the next 2 days my sats were down at 86 and on the 3rd visit by a paramedic i was taken to hospital. Very efficient system saw me moved to a ward and xrays, ct scans , blood tests and coronovirus trial test. within a couple of hours. Test showed negative. ( however staff said there are many false negatives ) scans and xrays showed multiple blood clots and pneumonia. I never felt unwell in myself ie flu like. and left hospital .I continue to be monitored and am on blood thinners. . Contraction, presumed . My labourer had been ill for a few weeks before coming to work for me. A really bad virus, hacking chesty cough.
2nd Part. My wife and i have now tested positive with covid. Started with a tickly throat, background bad head. Irritating cough. 5 days in and feeling rough very lethargic but no more than i would if i had any virus in my experience. My wife went through the same but also had the loss of taste and smell. Shes probably a couple of days ahead of me and feeling better each day. We are isolating at home. Our family and friends who we were in close contact with us have all been tested . Of 10 people only 1 has tested positive, although she has no symptoms. We have no idea where it was contracted, but im very sure it was not from a tomato farm in Spain. Probably Wetherspoons Winchester.
I hope im not out of order nor cause any ill feeling for posting the above and hope others post their experience that will hopefully show that for the majority of us it is very much just a bad virus and there is perhaps a way forward through all this.

 

[Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants]

Mid March - The first thing I noticed was a pain under my rib which I thought I had done playing 5 a side. Like a stabbing pain. It is the first symptom quite a few seem to feel yet doesn't seem to be mentioned on many of the medical websites. My cough developed shortly after, I had mild fever but it was cold in Egypt so I wasn't sure if it was just the weather. Then a week after the cough started, the fever hit me, pithing 2 hours I was dehydrated, burning up (temp over 40), no energy, could barely stand up. I was taken to hospital, CT scans, blood tests and the swab. CT scan showed clouding on my lungs, blood test showed a type of SARs, PCR positive. I was moved from a fever hospital to another new hospital in Alexandria in the middle of the night, the cold set my lungs off, I was coughing severely, bringing up a clear thick mucus for 4 days whist struggling to get my breath. The runs then started which was akin to a Guinness tap, lasted about 2 weeks before it started to solidify. The bad cough stopped and my lungs were extremely sore for about 7 days. X-rays of lungs looked clear after about 12 days, I failed 12 PCR tests in a row 48 hours apart before having a negative, then 3 more positives, then 2 negatives that allowed me back into the outside world after being locked up in isolation for 37 days.

Lungs have improved over the last 2 months, I think i'm ready to start training again. I'll have a month off from Saturday so hopefully i'll make inroads.

It's very real, 'Long Covid' is real.

Avoid it.

 

[UKLL1981]

I went to New York in Feb with the Mrs and both of us were ill when we come back. Back then there was no testing or isolating. Be surprised if I didn’t pick it up out there given it would of been rife and we were in bars, restaurants, tourists spots, sub way etc. I was just exhausted for 3 days straight, slept for 18 hours for 3 days in a row, had a temp for 1 night but no fever, the ***** and a shortness of breath that lasted a few weeks. I had bad asthma as a kid that put me in hospital when I was younger but never felt in danger, I took my ventolin for the first time in about ten years. I was just puffing a lot whenever I walked. One of the guys at work I share a crew room died of it but had health complications. A few of my mates have tested positive and had the same symptoms I had, most were crawling up the walls after 2 weeks of isolating. I went to Namibia a couple of weeks after New York and felt completely fine, if it was it then I’ve had worse normal flu but I’m only 39 and do the gym 5+ times a week. Since then I’ve spent hundreds of hours working inside aircraft, spent time with my son and mixed with my mrs who is police and not even really thought about the virus. I’m 100% back to normal. The worry about my job is all I think about, it’s literally suffocating. My 3 year old son had a high temperature last week and was exhausted (he never sleeps) so we got him tested which come back negative but I was never really concerned about him.

 

[whinneybanksaint]

Mid March - The first thing I noticed was a pain under my rib which I thought I had done playing 5 a side. Like a stabbing pain. It is the first symptom quite a few seem to feel yet doesn't seem to be mentioned on many of the medical websites. My cough developed shortly after, I had mild fever but it was cold in Egypt so I wasn't sure if it was just the weather. Then a week after the cough started, the fever hit me, pithing 2 hours I was dehydrated, burning up (temp over 40), no energy, could barely stand up. I was taken to hospital, CT scans, blood tests and the swab. CT scan showed clouding on my lungs, blood test showed a type of SARs, PCR positive. I was moved from a fever hospital to another new hospital in Alexandria in the middle of the night, the cold set my lungs off, I was coughing severely, bringing up a clear thick mucus for 4 days whist struggling to get my breath. The runs then started which was akin to a Guinness tap, lasted about 2 weeks before it started to solidify. The bad cough stopped and my lungs were extremely sore for about 7 days. X-rays of lungs looked clear after about 12 days, I failed 12 PCR tests in a row 48 hours apart before having a negative, then 3 more positives, then 2 negatives that allowed me back into the outside world after being locked up in isolation for 37 days.

Lungs have improved over the last 2 months, I think i'm ready to start training again. I'll have a month off from Saturday so hopefully i'll make inroads.

It's very real, 'Long Covid' is real.

Avoid it.

Horrific to be abroad and for that to happen. Can take a while to feel well again, but your still here thats the important bit. Dont let it stop you keeping fit. Just adjust to suit how your feeling.