Suffering Covid

Continuing Get Well wishes and I hope you make a full recovery in the near future. ?

Meant to add my very best wishes to you Maddy, and I do hope that your ongoing problems are soon resolved - you really have gone through it

Thank you for the update maddyone
I am pleased to hear that you are progressing well, albeit slowly.

How wonderful for you to have spent time with your grandchildren, as well as a little outing in the car!

The time spent with the little ones would have been marvellous for your morale wouldn’t it?

All the best for your continued recovery!

I have read every word through twice, and when my husband returns from his walk I will ask him to read it too. Thank you so much Maddy and all the others for sharing your experiences.

Delighted to hear you’re on the road to recovery maddyone. It’s taken a lot out of you but you’re heading in the right direction.

Lovely to hear that you’re making such good progress Maddy, may you continue to recover your health.

Wishing you a smooth and peaceful recovery, thank you for sharing.

Good news maddyone

Take care, rest and take it slowly and I hope you make a full recovery.

How lovely that you can see your DGC and so good that your DH was there to take charge.

All the best, Spring is on its way!

Hello Maddy
It's wonderful to hear of your progress. It sounds exactly like that of my husband - very, very slow.
Sending you my love and very best wishes

Good to read you are on the mend .

Thanks everyone for your kind wishes. I just thought I’d pop back on here to tell those of you who are interested that my recovery is progressing, slowly but surely. I still rest most mornings and then spend the rest of the day downstairs wearing clothes . Real clothes, my goodness! I can walk around the house, I do get a bit breathless but it’s improving slowly. I can walk upstairs now without feeling as if I’m about to collapse when I get to the top, although I do need to sit on the bed for a few moments to get my breath back. Yesterday I went for my first outing in the car. We had to pick three of our grandchildren up (childcare bubble) from school which is about a 15 minute drive from here. I didn’t get out of the car, my husband got the little one from the nursery class and brought him to me in the car, and then went to get the twins. We took them back to our house to feed and bath before taking them home. Mum and Dad were both at work till evening. It was lovely to get out of the house, and at the moment I’m not up to to walking anywhere but the car ride was lovely. And it was delicious seeing the children and getting a cuddle, yes we do cuddle them, we’ve had the virus and so have their parents and one twin. The other two children have either had it asymptotically or are immune at their age. My husband did the donkey work, making the meal and the bathing, but it really cheered me up to see them. And my recovery is progressing slowly but steadily.

Thanks for the update maddyone,what a grim time you’re having. Great to hear your GP is so involved. Please rest as much as you can xx

Thank you for lovely comments and good wishes everyone.
Please stay safe, take every precaution.

Wishing you the speediest of recoveries Maddyone ??.

Maddyone Just to say thank you again for sharing what has been a dreadful experience for you. It is very helpful to have an insight into how terrible Covid is and to hope anyone who thinks it is a mild disease for all of us will think again.

Hope you will feel much better soon.

Thankyou for giving us this information and explanation despite the fact that you must be so weak after your horrible experience. So glad that you’re on thee mend

Thanks Maddyone for coming back to keep us all informed when you must be feeling totally drained.
Glad your GP is looking after you so well. We have much to be thankful for in this country.
Keep on getting better

Get well soon

Yes. Thank you, maddyone. The probiotics I take are sweet cures probiotic blend. Their delivery service is excellent but I’m sure Yakut etc would be just as good. I do hope you feel better soon.

Thank you very much for sharing your experience. I wish you a full recovery. Take it slowly.

Thank you for checking in on GN, Maddyone. This subsequent illness sounds equally miserable and difficult. You must be wrung out and exhausted with it all.

As a general note regarding Dioralyte, it’s very easy and cheap to make your own oral rehydrate solution at home.

ORS.
One litre of water
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 teaspoons sugar.

Dissolve the salt and sugar in the water. Refrigerate and sip regularly throughout the day. Throw out remains after 24hrs and make a fresh batch.

You can add a little fruit juice or squash to make it more palatable or drink it through a straw. Ime, it tends to stay down better than plain water, if you’re suffering from sickness.

Maddyone , what a dreadful time you have had. ?

Just a quick hint for those talking about Diarolyte to replace fluids: in an emergency or if you can't get any, flat coke or lemonade will do as well, but not the diet versions as it is the sugars you need to replace. Thanks for the update Maddyone you poor thing, thrush is miserable and very uncomfortable and probably a side effect of the antibiotics. I hope you feel a bit better soon, what a dreadful disease covid19 is.

Glad the treatment is getting on top of the infection, maddyone. You could have done without all that!
I do remember GN posters complaining about gps not doing their routine checks for various conditions, saying they were hiding behind the locked doors. You explained how they were very busy but still available and now you can tell everyone how it really is.
You have a lovely army of well wishers on this thread. Do keep us posted and keep recovering.

Oh dear, that sounds thoroughly miserable, maddyone.

Has she prescribed Nystatin for the oral thrush?
Can you ask your GP if probiotics would be helpful if you have such awful thrush?
I don't know how good such drinks as Yakult are but you can buy capsules from health food shops (they have to be kept in the fridge).