Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on April 04, 2020, 07:20:46 PM
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Several have been known to recover but the figures are not obvious enough.
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Well as 80% are supposed only to have mild symptoms, there must be thousands.
Prince Charles springs to mind.
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One of the men I play golf with text me today to say he's had it along with his wife. Both mid 70s
He said he rang dr with h is symptoms and Dr said no question about it, he has covid 19
He said his wife got off lighter with a bad chest infection but he's had symptoms for 2 weeks now x
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He shouldn't be out then? I would allow at least another 2 weeks B4 resuming activities.
Where does the 80% spring from? That was the initial idea that 80% of the UK population would suffer. :-\
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That as well, but definitely 80% estimated to have it mildly.
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Yes two of my children and my son in law have all recovered. However since only those admitted to hospital and now somne NHS workers are beibng tested they along with thousands of others, will not appear in the stats either as being a confirmed case or recovered. As Shadyglade said - thousands.
The guidance is actually 7 days isolation from onset of symptoms provided the symptoms have gone (or 14 days for whole gousehold if one person, but if some gets the virus on Day 13 they still have another 7 days after that but everyone else can go out). Hence Bojo still isolating after more than 8 days as he still has a temp. WHO guidance I think is longer because you may still be shedding virus after 7 days even if recovered.
Theoretically the NHS is keeping track and releasing figures of those who have been admitted to hopsital with serious symptoms of Covid-19 and who have subsequently been released.
The 80% was approx the proportion of those infected for whom symptoms would be mild ie anything from almost no symptoms through to a normal dose of flu from which you recover at home.
Hurdity x
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:thankyou:
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I had a freaky couple of hours, :'( went to sleep OK but woke at 12.40 a.m. with a headache :-\ which didn't last long nor did it require Nurofen 'cos I didn't dare move. I read. I worried. I dozed.
Nose is running. ? hay fever ? :-\ :-\
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He shouldn't be out then? I would allow at least another 2 weeks B4 resuming activities.
Where does the 80% spring from? That was the initial idea that 80% of the UK population would suffer. :-\
He's not out, I text him to check on him x
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Is there any improvement Annie, we're not hearing a lot about recovery patterns :-\
I'm snuffly. Back ground headache which is the biggest problem - in case :-\.
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Tree pollen count is high. I'm suffering. Daren't open my mouth whilst out walking or I start a coughing spasm (I can clear a whole street - ;) )
Good way to make sure everyone gives you your 2m distance, I might try it next time someone comes too close in the supermarket :)
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Is there any improvement Annie, we're not hearing a lot about recovery patterns :-\
I'm snuffly. Back ground headache which is the biggest problem - in case :-\.
He said he's fine. He's mid 70s and still has a mother alive !
I worked with a guy back in 2005-12 who was late 50s and had a mum and nan alive still ! , at the time I was late 30s and hadn't had a mum for a few years x
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Crikey that's a hardy gene pool ;D
I read of someone last night celebrating being 105 - we tried to work out how old we will be should Mum decided to ......... :rofl:
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QEII - King's Lynn, Norfolk statement: 75 of our patients, who had earlier tested positive for COVID-19, have recovered sufficiently and have been discharged from @TeamQEH.
Thank you to everyone across the trust for the part you are playing in keeping our patients and staff safe and well during this challenging time.
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Western Hospital Trust: Edinburgh
Welcome home - 73 year old
Miss Brown said her grandad started showing typical coronavirus symptoms of coughing and fever on March 23rd ? but his condition worsened and he started struggling to breath and began coughing up blood. He was admitted to hospital on March 30th and was discharged on April 16th.
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A 79-year-old man who contracted Covid-19 has praised the "care and attention" of staff at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Malcolm Airs tested positive for the virus and received oxygen and antibiotics at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
He is now recovering at home in Dorchester-upon-Thames.
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Vera Beeley was taken to the Northern General hospital in Sheffield on Easter Sunday.
A video showing a guard of honour by staff when she went home last Friday (pictured) has been shared thousands of times.
Her grandson, Ian Whitehead, said the family were looking forward to celebrating her 103rd birthday in November.
He said: "She's always been a character, she's always been the life and soul of the party - she loves a party."
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:tulips2: a small baby has recovered :-*
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Tracy Maguire remembers the moment she saw doctors insert a swab into her three-week-old baby's nose to test for coronavirus.
Born prematurely at just 3lbs 5oz (1.5kg), baby Peyton was diagnosed with Covid-19 at just three weeks old.
Survived - now home :-*
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Coronavirus: Hampshire woman, 99, survives Covid-19
A 99-year-old woman is recovering at home after being admitted to hospital with coronavirus.
Carrie Pollock tested positive at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, in early March after she was admitted with hallucinations and suspected pneumonia.
The former Special Branch officer is now back at home in Hayling Island with her family and says she's feeling "much better".
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Marianne Faithfull.
Discharged from hospital after three weeks. 73 years old and a chain smoker all her adult life.
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Now I have a Kinks tune playing in my head but it was Rolling Stones?
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I like Marianne Faithfull. ...Not that I know her personally, you understand. 😆
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The aunt of my daughters partner is home and doing well.
Also read today that a Cheshire hospital have adapted the black boxes used for patients at home for sleep apnoea and have seen improvements. Using them instead of ventilators. Some patients are showing improvements within 15 minutes.
I will see if I can find the link and post here
Here it is
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-hospital-cuts-covid-19-death-rates-with-black-boxes-for-sleep-disorder-11977789
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Anyone who takes Trump's advice literally certainly won't recover >:( ......... :bang:
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A 98-year-old war veteran has left hospital after recovering from coronavirus.
Douglas Moore from Wellingborough, who also has a lung condition, received a round of applause as he was discharged on Wednesday.
He had been admitted to Kettering General Hospital on 15 April after having a fall and suffering from a high temperature and a cough.
Mr Moore said: "I felt very special when they gave me a clap when I left."
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Hello ladies
There was a report that patients may not need to go on ventilators if their blood oxygen levels can be kept above 85 percent. Levels can be detected by using a monitor that clips onto your finger. It seems that falling levels are an early symptom and if blood saturation is soon corrected the patient does better.
Take care everyone.
K.
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A man who has survived coronavirus described the hospital staff who cared for him as "living angels".
Maurice from Torquay spent four weeks in hospital after he was admitted as an emergency with coronavirus symptoms, during which he had two life-threatening incidents.
The 59-year-old insisted on walking rather than using a wheelchair when he was discharged on Saturday.
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust staff applauded him as he left in honour of his fight against the illness.
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One of the men I play golf with text me today to say he's had it along with his wife. Both mid 70s
He said he rang dr with h is symptoms and Dr said no question about it, he has covid 19
He said his wife got off lighter with a bad chest infection but he's had symptoms for 2 weeks now x
Another golfer gave me an update on my golf friend. All these weeks on he can't Manage more than 6 steps without getting out of breath bless him. He is very down in the dumps x
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Did he end up in hospital? Are they expecting a full recovery in time or can it leave permanent damage to the lungs?
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It's a dangerous Virus. It will take it's time, hopefully physio has been suggested Annie? The body has been fighting hard so any energy will have been diverted, also, muscles don't take long B4 they atrophy so the body overall becomes very weak.
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I'm losing track of what I've told you all so here's a recap
A Guy me and hubby went to school with age 54 was taken to Papworth on life support, he's discharged (April) but still can't manage flight of stairs
My golf friend (mid 70s) was week of lockdown(not hospitalised) he still can't manage 6+ steps
My friends mum sadly passed away last weekend age 84
My friend and her hubby (Both 62) (daughter of 84 yo) tested positive too. Friend in bed with flu symptoms but physically doing ok I think (I ask how she is but she is so upset about her mum I don't get answers) don't think hubby had to go bed but had hacking cough and temp then lost taste and smell, his wife had temp and lost taste and smell but no cough x
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Wow, do you live in an area with a high infection rate??
I can honestly say I don't know anyone who has had it. My husband knows one person, but it is someone he has only spoken to on a Zoom meeting.
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A friend knows 3 people who have died in the Fens.
How is Boris continuing? Everyone I have heard of who needed hospital treatment will take months to recover fully. The 1st muscles to atrophy are the thighs to it stands to reason that people will have difficulty standing and walking which is where physiotherapy should be applied. I think that patients think they should recover quicker! but it's a huge strain on energy as the body maintains Life. Plus all the pulling about as treatment progresses. Intensive Care isn't a gentle process when there's an emergency.
I would suggest Annie that those two friends ask for physiotherapy - R they being followed up?
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Wow, do you live in an area with a high infection rate??
I can honestly say I don't know anyone who has had it. My husband knows one person, but it is someone he has only spoken to on a Zoom meeting.
Gosh that's amazing!
I live in SW England and I know 3 separate people (households) in our village who have had it, and two of my children and partner in London (two separate households) have also had it. Also several other people around the country loosely regarded as friends.
Hurdity x
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Huridty: Have they been tested yet? When the anti-body test arrives for the public, then there will be a better picture of who had seasonal 'flu, who had a cold, who had C-19 - at the moment, people who have suffered, even a few who had hospital treatment, are not showing anti-bodies to C-19 :-\. It will be a while B4 the true scale will imerge.
Have they recovered or have they struggled. Many who had been affected are very weak as muscles waste really quickly. Mentally they can get up and go but the body tells them otherwise :'(
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I don't have a thermometer and wouldn't know what my temp ought to be ::)
Paracetamol did the trick?
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Wow, do you live in an area with a high infection rate??
I can honestly say I don't know anyone who has had it. My husband knows one person, but it is someone he has only spoken to on a Zoom meeting.
I know of three families who have tested positive for the virus. The children are doing well but the adults are really suffering in each family. I also know of various friends who are convinced they have had the virus but this was when testing hadn't been rolled out. Other friends were also convinced recently that they had all of the symptoms but their tests have just been returned as negative so, who knows who had it, and who didn't before the testing got underway. There are also many reports of false negatives if the test is not performed correctly. My daughter in law is waiting for her result - although she feels it is just her "normal" tonsillitis/sinus infection - and she said the test was really difficult to do and she still doesn't know if she did it properly. Her GP said that if it doesn't hurt then you're not doing it correctly which filled her with enthusiasm obviously!
Taz x
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That's why it is important to 'do' the test correctly as well as knowing where it will be sent and how long the result will take to come back.
I have seen people with a sick bowl when queuing up to be tested at a 'station' :-\ and a neighbour had hers taken and said it wasn't a pleasant procedure: negative. Her blood anti-body test is ages coming back ..........
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Do you do them at home if you don't drive? How does that work?
Mine was done at a hospital before my hysteroscopy. It was slightly uncomfortable but bearable but I think I would have found it hard to do myself.
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You order a test online and it's delivered by Amazon Logistics within 48 hours. You then email them to say it's arrived and you are given a date/time when the test will be picked up again. The result is then texted to you within four days. Directions are in the test pack.
Taz x
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I wouldn't class our area as high risk. East Anglia but the local paper said this week figures aren't coming down here as fast as they'd expected and the 3 ?bad ? towns are all next to each but on the London to Peterborough train line which is interesting x
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King's Lynn has had huge death rates ............ :-\
I noted that other Hospitals in East Anglia/Beds have had large rates too .........
I was with a friend last night: who apparently had symptoms in Feb., the last time we were all together, that is 18+ of us intermittently during 3 weeks throughout Feb.into March - but none of us has contracted C-19 :-\
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Huridty: Have they been tested yet? When the anti-body test arrives for the public, then there will be a better picture of who had seasonal 'flu, who had a cold, who had C-19 - at the moment, people who have suffered, even a few who had hospital treatment, are not showing anti-bodies to C-19 :-\. It will be a while B4 the true scale will imerge.
Have they recovered or have they struggled. Many who had been affected are very weak as muscles waste really quickly. Mentally they can get up and go but the body tells them otherwise :'(
The three in the village were all tested and confirmed. I only know about one of our neighbours who recovered and is back at work. In her 50's and overweight but didn't have it too badly.
My offspring etc in London weren't tested but will have had it. I would say 99% certain. London was the epicentre. They were in all the places and with people who had it. It was not seasonal flu in April and for young people in 20s and 30s. They all incubated it in that period of time before proper lockdown. My son got it from work as he sat next to someone who had it and visited pubs where it was confirmed and the pub closed. The others were with people who had it. No question about it. They all had it mildly ie temp cough shortness of breath, tight chest, achey limbs. For them more like flu type symptoms but not bad flu which they don't generally get anyway.
Hurdity x