SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

Definitely a very unusual presentation. Whether or not she’s been tested for covid I’d be thinking about a CXR and ECG for someone with ongoing chest symptoms for 7 weeks+.

When my allergy to dust was not yet diagnosed this was a common occurrence for me. Would start with sinus congestion for a couple of weeks and then migrate to my chest for at least 4-6 more, sometimes as many as 8. Even getting a cold would trigger a similar response.

Now that it's under control a cold lasts for three days. They're almost fun, I suspect due to the sheer novelty.
 
My wife who is in the vulnerable category just got a mail from nhs saying stay at home til end of June.
Anyone else received similar? Didn’t know this was coming but guess it’s not a surprise

Is this the first communication your wife has received re shielding?

I know the shielding advice had been extended to the end of June - so effectively 14 weeks from the date of the announcement. Likely to go way beyond that though.
 
Is this the first communication your wife has received re shielding?

I know the shielding advice had been extended to the end of June - so effectively 14 weeks from the date of the announcement. Likely to go way beyond that though.
This is the first text that she got we figured she must have been missed off a list somewhere as she is definitely someone who needs to avoid getting it and we’ve been conscious of that since it all kicked off.
Perhaps she was just picked up in the recent run of texts.
 
When my allergy to dust was not yet diagnosed this was a common occurrence for me. Would start with sinus congestion for a couple of weeks and then migrate to my chest for at least 4-6 more, sometimes as many as 8. Even getting a cold would trigger a similar response.

Now that it's under control a cold lasts for three days. They're almost fun, I suspect due to the sheer novelty.

I get very similar symptoms to this pretty much every year, starts as a cold, cough, etc, then in to my chest for many weeks. Usually I get the diagnosis of Bronchitis, and some antibiotics.

What do you have to cure your allergy, if you don't mind me asking?
 
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It's funny as the staff that want to work are producing production figures around 20% above average per person.

I suppose it makes sense that the staff that want to be furloughed are also the staff that could well be dragging efficiencies down long term (although there are other factors like space).

The stick of there potentially not being a job at the end isn't one we've used and we've actively said that owners are not taking a salary Q1 or Q2 to ensure liquidity. It may well be that we need to make this clear if we get greater problems.
Not a stick just genuinely being open and honest with people... If there is a big downturn we will have to assess overheads in line with the market
 
Still on the medical register (so can write prescriptions etc) but my specialty (pharmaceutical medicine) means no patient contact. Thank feck. Something I appreciate now more than ever!

Did not know that! Cool.
I actually opted out of the clapping last night. I think my parents thought I was a cnut but I'm kind of done with it now, it feels too much like an episode of Black Mirror. Our media spends 23hrs a day terrifying people like my parents with doom and gloom news then pressures them into going outside on cue in their pyjamas to clap and smile like a fecking circus animal. Its making me nauseous now. There's plenty of positives from around the globe they could be slightly telling us about to give people some light at the end of the tunnel but no. Not our media.

I now realize why the world calls us whinging Brits. Nothing but negativity 24/7.
 
Definitely a very unusual presentation. Whether or not she’s been tested for covid I’d be thinking about a CXR and ECG for someone with ongoing chest symptoms for 7 weeks+.

Thanks. I agree with this and called my useless GP about it (I stick with him because he's useless and gives me anti biotics when I self diagnose, specially dental, but that's another story). I kid you not he suggested my daughter has some biscuits after a meal as it may be acid build up or heartburn. :wenger: :rolleyes:

I can call him again to request a letter for an ECG or similar but am ridiculously scared of sending her into hospital. Just hoping she gets better. And like I said she's not the only one with these almost exact same symptoms, so comfort in numbers.
 
Thanks, so each Fri is reducing by 100+ so far. Our peak each week is getting lower since 'Bad Friday' and our lowest number each week is also lower. That's as good a trend as we can hope for at present.

We have peaked. We are now in a plateau stage.
I thought a plateau was if it was staying the same? It seems to be dropping
 
I get very similar symptoms to this pretty much every year, starts as a child, cough, etc, then in to my chest for many weeks. Usually I get the diagnosis of Bronchitis, and some antibiotics.

What do you have to cure your allergy, if you don't mind me asking?

Well, I still have the allergy but I use a nasal spray daily that keeps my sinuses from overreacting and setting off the chain of histamine reactions. I prefer Omnairis (ciclesonide) but can use Nasonex (mometasone) in a pinch, though I find the Nasonex burns a little.
 
Thanks. I agree with this and called my useless GP about it (I stick with him because he's useless and gives me anti biotics when I self diagnose, specially dental, but that's another story). I kid you not he suggested my daughter has some biscuits after a meal as it may be acid build up or heartburn. :wenger: :rolleyes:

I can call him again to request a letter for an ECG or similar but am ridiculously scared of sending her into hospital. Just hoping she gets better. And like I said she's not the only one with these almost exact same symptoms, so comfort in numbers.

ECG possibly overkill if she’s young/otherwise healthy but you’d have to be thinking about a CXR by now. Is she still coughing? Does she have a fever?
 
I don't want hijack this thread but all her symptoms are covid related, and constantly moving around. She must have one of the mutated mothers. The wife has picked up a milder version of it from her and my neighbour's daughter also has had the same as my daughter for the same length of time. Thankfully it's not affecting breathing in all three. We all need to be careful of these mutated mofos which is where Remdesivir failing has got me worried.
Curious if you have used an oximeter?
 
ECG possibly overkill if she’s young/otherwise healthy but you’d have to be thinking about a CXR by now. Is she still coughing? Does she have a fever?

Never had a fever, just occasional mild temperature (less than 37c). Hardly any coughing. Main complain of pain in the centre of chest and pins and needles in arms and legs/fatigue. No breathing problems though had the covid tight chest feeling in the early days. Now it's just pain in the middle which has been there since day 1.

I'll call the GP on Monday to arrange a check up.
 
Unhelpful headlines in the MSM are starting to bug me.

New story on Guardian: Needs an 'a' before coronavirus

Revealed: UK ministers were warned last year of risks of coronavirus pandemic

Needs an 'a' before coronavirus regardless of its validity.

It's just one of many. Are the media doing the right thing or?

(disclosure, Tory reading Guardian as I prefer it to the more right-wing press. I pay for access to the Telegraph, but theit site is shite)
 
When my allergy to dust was not yet diagnosed this was a common occurrence for me. Would start with sinus congestion for a couple of weeks and then migrate to my chest for at least 4-6 more, sometimes as many as 8. Even getting a cold would trigger a similar response.

Now that it's under control a cold lasts for three days. They're almost fun, I suspect due to the sheer novelty.

How did you get it under control? I'm allergic to dust too but I'm kinda resigned always being blocked up.
 
Unhelpful headlines in the MSM are starting to bug me.

New story on Guardian: Needs an 'a' before coronavirus

Revealed: UK ministers were warned last year of risks of coronavirus pandemic

Needs an 'a' before coronavirus regardless of its validity.

It's just one of many. Are the media doing the right thing or?

(disclosure, Tory reading Guardian as I prefer it to the more right-wing press. I pay for access to the Telegraph, but theit site is shite)

They're shite man, they're just going for a sensational headline every time to get people to buy their bullshit.

I've already moaned once in here about the state of journalism so won't go on about it again too much. The coronavirus just brought more attention to it, it's been the same for all journalism for a while.
 
How did you get it under control? I'm allergic to dust too but I'm kinda resigned always being blocked up.

I got the scratch test for environmental allergies done and dust was the only one the generated a response. Once that was sorted I got prescribed a nasal spray as below:

Well, I still have the allergy but I use a nasal spray daily that keeps my sinuses from overreacting and setting off the chain of histamine reactions. I prefer Omnairis (ciclesonide) but can use Nasonex (mometasone) in a pinch, though I find the Nasonex burns a little.
 
Unhelpful headlines in the MSM are starting to bug me.

New story on Guardian: Needs an 'a' before coronavirus

Revealed: UK ministers were warned last year of risks of coronavirus pandemic

Needs an 'a' before coronavirus regardless of its validity.

It's just one of many. Are the media doing the right thing or?

(disclosure, Tory reading Guardian as I prefer it to the more right-wing press. I pay for access to the Telegraph, but theit site is shite)

Are the media doing the right thing or on what? Making grammatical errors? In your example yeah sure it's not right. Bit of a small hill to die on when you compare to the lionisation of Johnson.
 
Never had a fever, just occasional mild temperature (less than 37c). Hardly any coughing. Main complain of pain in the centre of chest and pins and needles in arms and legs/fatigue. No breathing problems though had the covid tight chest feeling in the early days. Now it's just pain in the middle which has been there since day 1.

I'll call the GP on Monday to arrange a check up.

Less than 37C isn’t a fever. If her temp has stayed that low the whole time she almost certainly doesn’t have covid. Which is good news! Worth seeing your GP anyway. It’s an odd picture. I wonder if she’s feeling very anxious about this whole thing? Lots of people are. Hope she feels better soon.
 
Well, I still have the allergy but I use a nasal spray daily that keeps my sinuses from overreacting and setting off the chain of histamine reactions. I prefer Omnairis (ciclesonide) but can use Nasonex (mometasone) in a pinch, though I find the Nasonex burns a little.

I have one, but it says a side effect is lowered immunity which is not really so good at the moment.....
 
Don’t know if it’s been posted, but apparently the University in Trondheim, Norway (NTNU) has developed a new method of testing for the covid-19 virus. They are confident they can test 100 000 people every day, and up to half a million at a stretch. The Institute of clinical and molecular medicine and the Institute of chemical processing technology are behind the invention.

Don’t have the time to translate at the moment, perhaps some other Norwegians can, or else I’ll do it later.

Link: https://www.nrk.no/viten/ntnu-metode-er-avgjorende_-na-skal-sa-a-si-alle-koronatestes-1.14991827

Edit: Apparently this was done a few weeks ago, but they’ve enough equipment to start testing on a large scale from the 1st of May.

Link in English:https://norwegianscitechnews.com/20...etic-balls-to-150000-covid-19-tests-per-week/
 
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Unhelpful headlines in the MSM are starting to bug me.

New story on Guardian: Needs an 'a' before coronavirus

Revealed: UK ministers were warned last year of risks of coronavirus pandemic

Needs an 'a' before coronavirus regardless of its validity.

It's just one of many. Are the media doing the right thing or?

(disclosure, Tory reading Guardian as I prefer it to the more right-wing press. I pay for access to the Telegraph, but theit site is shite)

What's wrong with the headline? They even included a scan of the warning?! And how is it unhelpful? Other than politically for the goverment.
 
I think that anyone working in the field is reluctant to put people on ventilators, since the weaning process is an absolute bitch. It's a tough decision though.

How long do you leave someone with a saturation of 80-85% despite treating them with 100% oxygen on a high flow nasal cannula in a semi-prone position before accepting that they won't turn it around? I reckon a few will turn it around if you refrain from intubating for a day or two longer than you normally would, but some will also get kidney failure (among other organ failures) from sustained hypoxia, so how do you predict who's likely to turn it around without mechanical ventilation and who won't? That's the main issue and something that we won't get an answer to until we retrospectively analyse the outcomes for mechanically ventilated/non-ventilated patients, if we ever do that.
 
Less than 37C isn’t a fever. If her temp has stayed that low the whole time she almost certainly doesn’t have covid. Which is good news! Worth seeing your GP anyway. It’s an odd picture. I wonder if she’s feeling very anxious about this whole thing? Lots of people are. Hope she feels better soon.

Not having a fever doesn't preclude not having covid though. That's just one of the 30+ symptoms that keep being discovered. It's just one she hasn't hit. She passed it on to the wife who did get the dry cough, tight chest, some breathing problems, pins and needles in the legs and arms, fatigue, etc.

After 7 weeks none of us are anxious anymore. I've exhausted my panic levels, now it's just acceptance as long as we stay well clear of pneumonia.
 
Never had a fever, just occasional mild temperature (less than 37c). Hardly any coughing. Main complain of pain in the centre of chest and pins and needles in arms and legs/fatigue. No breathing problems though had the covid tight chest feeling in the early days. Now it's just pain in the middle which has been there since day 1.

I'll call the GP on Monday to arrange a check up.

That's the symptom I had for a good 3 weeks. It's weird, I wrote it off for anxiety after about a week. And then all of a sudden when it went away, I realised there was actually something wrong with me - it felt like I'd only just breathed again properly in 3 weeks. Never had a fever, and though I did have a bit of a cough at the start - it wasn't persistent.
 
Don’t know if it’s been posted, but apparently the University in Trondheim, Norway (NTNU) has developed a new method of testing for the covid-19 virus. They are confident they can test 100 000 people every day, and up to half a million at a stretch. The Institute of clinical and molecular medicine and the Institute of chemical processing technology are behind the invention.

Don’t have the time to translate at the moment, perhaps some other Norwegians can, or else I’ll do it later.

Link: https://www.nrk.no/viten/ntnu-metode-er-avgjorende_-na-skal-sa-a-si-alle-koronatestes-1.14991827

Edit: Apparently this was done a few weeks ago, but they’ve enough equipment to start testing on a large scale from the 1st of May.

Link in English:https://norwegianscitechnews.com/20...etic-balls-to-150000-covid-19-tests-per-week/

Yes I just watched a video on this. They can quicky scale up to producing 300k tests per day. They use magnetic spheres to separate RNA for the testing machines. Still, one has to produce enough swabs etc to be able to test, but this method does not rely on rare chemicals or reagents that are hard to come by. If we can get the swabs etc. produced in high numbers, then we can test as much as we need every day.