Published on 12, July, 2020
I have been ill for the last 2 days with a fever and aches and pains. The thing is there is only one time I have felt like this in my whole life and that was when I had Covid. I feel like there is an anvil resting on my chest which I only ever felt when I had covid and worst of all the "brain fog" is back, where my head completely stops being able to process my own thoughts and I have periods where im not sure where I am and I get confused and start thinking all sorts of upsetting things. This again only ever happened in this way when I had covid, it was like nothing I have ever expereinced before and so Im pretty sure I can recognise it when it happens again
and yet I am testing negative for covid. Its really destressing me cos I feel sure Ive got it yet Im being told by the tests I havnt. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
Turns out I have Hand, foot and mouth. Had never really heard of it before but my little boy got it the other day so I think i may have caught it off him. Got lots of itchy spots all over my hands today and still feel like crap
Wow, interesting! I mean - I'm sorry to hear that. But so fascinating that your body responded to this presumably totally different virus in a similar way to it responded to the covid one.
(I would have deleted my initial response and started with the sympathy in any other forum, but I think here we can relate to how our first reaction is the interest in the facts and then followed by the learned (but genuine) expression of sympathy!)