Hi Guy's
Please to meet you all , been through quite alot physically! Really struggling health wise. I am recovering from COVID-19 also sepsis middle of last year.
So health wise has taken a kicking, I am really struggling for energy, spending a lot of my day's lethargic, bit like jet lag and could really do with some help or suggestions
Baby steps. And be patient with yourself! Not sure how you think your body & mind should be responding considering both have been through a traumatic traumatising event? Just focus on resting, not doing to much before you really should be doing and treat yourself as if you are a baby again who is learning/doing/seeing everything for the first time and is clumsy in their feet and needs lots of naps and tlc. Be patient, give yourself time to recovery, it doesn't happen in weeks. I was in an intubated coma over 2 years ago now, I'm still recovering, but am much much better than I initially was.
Do some very gentle excerise sitting down if you must or can't stand. I bought a door frame push up bar, I'm still very weak and muscle hasn't fully returned, but I have a good go at it, it also help strengthen wrists. Try just lifting your legs up and down as if cycling when lying in bed or on floor/sofa. Try balancing on one leg then the other. I'm guessing things my feel extremely heavy picking them up. I remember my mobile when I finally got it back felt like it was the weight of two bricks. Make a fist hold then relax it, and do that several times. Try touching your toes if stable enough on your feet standing, if not try touching them sitting. Everything currently is going to exhaust you. You must accept that and ensure you rest often, but also try to excerise no matter how gently it will build back up your strength. Good luck. x
Hi there. I just wanted to say well done on being in recovery with this horrendous illness.
Hi Bawn, thanks for posting and thanks also to those who have replied. I am in a similar situation and got home from hospital 4 weeks ago today after Covid-19 with underlying asthma. I am just realizing that it is still very early days and that baby steps are definitely required. Some of the pneumonia infection is still there. I tried short walks this week, which left me totally exhausted and unable to function for 24 hours. Yesterday I tried the exercises posted from the ICU Steps Chester on this site and managed most of them. healthunlocked.com/api/redi...
Stay positive and take your baby steps! Wishing you a full recovery in time.
Do you know where you picked up Covid from? And with you having underlying asthma how did having Covid impact asthma? Were you on a ventilator? Your lucky to have survived. Have they checked your lungs to ensure no signs of covid are still hiding in them? I worry because these Covid tests are give false negatives so there are people wandering around who have been tested negative but test faulty they don't know that and they do actually have Covid but are asymptomatic and go back to work thinking themselves well when they are not and infect offer people in having been active as if free of it. Yes you must take baby steps. I currently have a cough that doesn't really let up much have had it for weeks, I'm exhausted from it but due to my brittle asthma it's hard to tell if it's a flare up only or related to Covid. Don't feel well at all but don't feel critically unwell but do think this cough is heading that way. Had my annual asthma review via phone consultation on the 5th, nurse was very concerned about my cough but said she didn't think it Covid, but she rang me back the next day unexpectedly to say about a medication she had prescribed for me to have collected that should help, I've had the medication before, but as of yet the prescription hasn't been authorised by my GP despite it being urgent. I'm in shielding so someone else is having to collect everything for me. I'm coughing so violently it making me retch and almost vomit. I really hope you fully recover. Look after yourself. x
Don't know precisely where I picked it up, but was working in Germany a week before my symptoms came, so either there on the flight home. My asthma has been much worse and is still brittle. I thought I had a chest infection at first, but over my week of self-isolating the cough got less productive and I began to sink into a kind of stupor. I live with my father and he roused me and called an ambulance. My oxygen levels and peak flow were low. I tested positive with pneumonia on both lungs. I think I managed to stay off the ventilator (although on lots of oxygen in ITU) because I kept telling myself I needed to live. For myself at the time it felt easier just to go, but we lost my younger brother 18 months ago and I knew my family could not cope with losing another sibling/child/... so soon! I kept a focus on my breathing and slowly recovered. They tested me several times in hospital and the last 2 were negative. My first test was 9 days after my first symptoms and my last positive test was 16 days after first symptoms. They said they do not accept the first negative after a positive, but 2 in a row mean it has gone. They also x-rayed again 2 weeks after I came home because I had very severe chest pain. Although the virus has gone, I still have patches of infection in my lungs, which will take time to go. I have been referred for physio this week, although it will probably also happen by phone. You don't sound well at all. Have you called 111? If you have this persistent cough, I don"t see how they can diagnose it as not Covid over the phone. I think 111 would send you to A&E for testing. Even if it isn't the virus, they could prescribe what you need there and then. I wish you a speedy recovery. Take care!
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