Cycling UK Forum

Vorpal wrote: ↑13 Jul 2022, 9:48am

Thanks, it'll have passed by now so not an issue. Main concern for testing, was always prior to visiting >80 relatives!

My wife,NHS staff,tested positive for a third time 10 days ago.The first two only showed mild symptoms.She's been short of breath for over a week and her blood pressure was sky high Tuesday so she insisted on a GP appointment.GP sent her to A&E.After 13 hours and tests she has Pneumonia and 'long covid'.They sent her to a ward overnight.She's on antibiotics for the Pneumonia and I should be picking her up later.It's our daughter's University graduation day tomorrow and she won't miss that.
RE the thread title COVID recovery time do some never recover?She hasn't been 100% for over 2 years but we put it down to the stress of running a Covid ward.It might still be that and that might be why she's now got Pneumonia or it might be down to Covid.We'll never know which way around it is.
I know this.She'll be back at work as soon as the antibiotics have run their course.That's what she does.That's probably a contributory factor to everything.That's the NHS mentality.
Me?I'd do what all the 'long covid' cases at my place of work have done and take 6 months off with full pay.Then phased return.

I had pneumonia with the long COVID, nearly 18 months ago and I'm still not right. My doctor says my sinuses are probably permanently affected.

It’s a decidedly sneaky disease. Today, I went to see my pal who made a remarkably rapid recovery when he had it around Easter ……. The “hay fever” he’s been plagued by since, causing mild shortness of breath and an annoying cough, turns out to be a manifestation of long-covid, and he now awaits outcome of scans to know whether it has left him with scarred lungs. This is a guy for whom it was “a five day cold”.

Well I've had a positive LF after feeling rough since Tuesday.This is my 3rd positive also and like the wife the first 2 were mild(ie no real symptoms) but this time I have the whole shebang Temp is almost 39°,really harsh but chesty cough and loss of taste and smell If I lie on my back I feel like I'm drowning and I'm coughing up horrible thick brown phlegm.My breathing is also a bit laboured.
Typical as it's the Summer shut down and we were supposed to go to the Caravan today
I'm hoping it clears in a few days so I can get out on the bike.Third time unlucky.

Jules59 wrote: ↑6 Jul 2022, 9:15pm Quite a lot of new cases at the moment.
Im 63 and have had all my vaccines.
I caught Covid from my sister last week.
It felt like a bad cold; nothing too bad in retrospect. Initially had sore throat for 2 days, then aching eyes and mild myalgia, mild headache, mild pyrexia. By day 4 those had all gone apart from a persistent dry cough and wheeze on exercise. Had 3 sleepless night due to coughing with resultant sore intercostals and tiredness. Was still positive on day 5. Now day 7 and feel 95% back to normal apart from an occasional runny nose, sneeze and cough. I will retest tomorrow. Aiming to be on the bike again at the weekend.
Several friends, inc my sister have recently had very similar Covid symptoms and duration.
Very different from what many people have experienced.

Sounds very much like me. Hoping to go out for a piddle tonight a week after first first testing positive. Along the valley for a few miles nothing strenuous.

Same again Thursday night just see how I go.

Was hoping to ride 400k to Dorset in a couple of weeks we will see...

PedallingSquares wrote: ↑22 Jul 2022, 9:57am Well I've had a positive LF after feeling rough since Tuesday.This is my 3rd positive also and like the wife the first 2 were mild(ie no real symptoms) but this time I have the whole shebang Temp is almost 39°,really harsh but chesty cough and loss of taste and smell If I lie on my back I feel like I'm drowning and I'm coughing up horrible thick brown phlegm.My breathing is also a bit laboured.
Typical as it's the Summer shut down and we were supposed to go to the Caravan today
I'm hoping it clears in a few days so I can get out on the bike.Third time unlucky.

Ouch that sounds rough - gws.

It's a tricky little virus, disentangling symptoms from covid and other illnesses a problem. Distinction between lingering and long seems vague.
Contracted probably on 24 June (crowded, unmasked (except for us and one other couple), flight home from Faro), any symptoms easily viewed as post-holiday, because a family contact with it we tested on 30 June - positive on both types of test. Bit weary, a cough for me (as always because of copd), upset tummy for herself, but I cycled every day. Tested negative by 6 July.
Back to normal apart from bit slower on bike, BUT that could be standard copd worsening or that impacted by covid. Some ache/pain in ribs, could be lingering covid or, given comorbidities, sudden onset lung cancer - referred for chest x-ray next Monday.
Last Saturday I had to settle for 35 rather than 45 miles, again could be covid/copd or much worse.
This could run and run for many people....

djnotts wrote: ↑28 Jul 2022, 8:25am It's a tricky little virus, disentangling symptoms from covid and other illnesses a problem. Distinction between lingering and long seems vague.

There are several different definitions of long COVID syndrome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID

The NHS definition doesn't require distinction between lingering and long, only that the symptoms are still there after 12 weeks
https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/ ... ong-covid/

djnotts wrote: ↑28 Jul 2022, 8:25am This could run and run for many people....

Yes. It is.

Jonathan

Are the mechanisms by which long/lingering covid affects people yet understood? I get that in some cases it is effectively about quite pronounced damage caused during the main illness, things like lung-scarring, overstrained heart etc, but other things seem more insidious than that, and I’ve not seen reports saying what is actually going on in the body.

As a broad generalisation: No.

The Wikipedia article gives a pretty good picture of the current knowledge and ignorance and lines of enquiry.

And of course there’s a vast amount of research into it.

I’d also expect that to throw some light onto similar conditions such as non-COVID chronic fatigue syndrome.

Jonathan

Nearholmer wrote: ↑28 Jul 2022, 9:45am Are the mechanisms by which long/lingering covid affects people yet understood? I get that in some cases it is effectively about quite pronounced damage caused during the main illness, things like lung-scarring, overstrained heart etc, but other things seem more insidious than that, and I’ve not seen reports saying what is actually going on in the body.

I think it will be generalised as 'long covid' if they can't find any other explanation.

I was diagnosed with IBS about 14 years ago.After much testing and finding no other obvious reason they labelled it 'IBS' which covers a broad spectrum of symptoms.My GP's words were "as we can find no specific causes then it will be registered under the wide umbrella of Irritable Bowel Syndrome".

I think this will also happen with 'Long Covid'.I also have my suspicions that 'Long Covid' will be the new 'bad back' of work related illness in the future

Mick F wrote: ↑11 Jun 2022, 4:28pm Chatted to a friend a week or so ago, and he's had it twice, and he reckons that coffee now smells like poo!

Mick F wrote: ↑11 Jun 2022, 6:17pm ........... personally, can say that coffee doesn't smell like poo, but poo does smell differently now. Mine, someone else's and also the dog's.

In a pub today, and some people were being served curry and rice.
Looked lovely!
The chap next to me had a bowl of it.

It smelled like the "NEW" smell of poo.

Sad, but true.

Mick F wrote: ↑20 Oct 2022, 4:33pm

Mick F wrote: ↑11 Jun 2022, 4:28pm Chatted to a friend a week or so ago, and he's had it twice, and he reckons that coffee now smells like poo!

Mick F wrote: ↑11 Jun 2022, 6:17pm ........... personally, can say that coffee doesn't smell like poo, but poo does smell differently now. Mine, someone else's and also the dog's.

In a pub today, and some people were being served curry and rice.
Looked lovely!
The chap next to me had a bowl of it.

It smelled like the "NEW" smell of poo.

Sad, but true.

It is, and it is, although I've never experienced it with curry.

Am still hopeful that smart people will get down to some research

Bonefishblues wrote: ↑20 Oct 2022, 5:04pm ...
Am still hopeful that smart people will get down to some research

A recent overview:

"Long-COVID treatments: why the world is still waiting":
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02140-w
(I think that it's open access: please tell me if it isn't.)

Jonathan