Went to the hospital for coronavirus...

SallyHart · Mar 10, 2020

Very hard to know what to do. I just read that UK are telling the Country in the next little while that even if they have mild symptoms, cough/cold etc then they must self isolate. It hasn't happened yet. I am not sick but my son has a full blown cough/cold....I have kept him off School and isolating him for a couple of days. I don't think it matters about travel. My doc asked yesterday have we been close to anyone that has travelled? Go figure!

triceps · Mar 10, 2020

It's such a shame that the US is so behind on test kits as I feel you should have been tested. You'd have to go through a ton of anxiety awaiting the results but you'd know for sure. Very sorry you're in such a tough spot.

Cuchculan · Mar 10, 2020

That is the whole 12 day incubation period. Could be fine for 11 days. Day 12 you begin to show signs of it. How many people get infected during those 11 days when no signs of it are shown at all? Here in Ireland they are like a pack of dogs chasing their own tails. Making up new rules as they go along. Lord help us if a thousand people come down with it in one day.

Rathgar · Mar 10, 2020

Hey- I am feeling shortness of breath but I keep telling myself it's my anxiety, reading too much about the symptoms etc.
I have xanax and I took some but it's not helping. I keep thinking I have a pain in my chest, that I can't breathe.
Anyone?

Daisymae · Mar 10, 2020

I’m getting anxiety just reading this. Don’t worry if you get it you’re gonna recover because you’re young. I’m in my 60s and everyone at my work is coughing around me I’m convinced I’m going to get it and drop dead.

Izthewiz · Mar 10, 2020

I'd say just rest and not focus on Coronavirus.
To be honest anxiety can make you feel like you're dying and not getting better.
3 months ago I had a bad cough for a week and asked one of my clients who happens to be a retired MD if I could possibly have COPD? Looked at me like I was retarded and said that's a disease in old people!
Best to just relax and focus on now.

Lanchparty7 · Mar 10, 2020

JustMe said:
I finally broke down and couldn't stand it anymore so very early this morning I went to the hospital. I went because I have been sick now for almost a week. My cough has gotten pretty bad and I felt like a horse was sitting on my chest last night and couldn't stop couching so I finally grabbed my lysol spray, clorox wipes and the small container of hand sanitizer and went to the hospital.
My experience...
So you aren't able to go into the ER directly. Someone meets you outside and screens you for coronavirus and then brings you inside to the ER. I was able to get in a room right away and there were no other people waiting to be seen. After the exam I was told my lymph nodes were super swollen and that I definitely had a virus, my oxygen levels were ok, my heart rate and breathing were elevated but not to a concerning level and I did not have a fever. They kept assuring me I didn't have coronavirus and that I must likely had the flu or RSV so they ran a test. While we were waiting for that I was able to get a breathing treatment and an inhaler which helped a ton! The tests came back neg! So I'm like well does that mean I have the coronavirus and was told most likely not but there is no way to test me because we have a very limited supply of tests and strict guidelines of who can be tested and since I had no recent out of country travel I wasn't considered high risk and couldn't be tested and I'm also not 60+ years old. They sent me home with an inhaler and told me to come back if I develop a fever or worsening symptoms. I feel like I should've been tested for corona since the rsv and flu came back neg. I asked about self isolation or quarantine and they said no reason to do that at all.
What do you gyys think? Are they under reacting or am I just over reacting?

I don’t think you are overreacting at all. You definitely should have been tested and I continue to be aghast at the way this is being handled and the extreme lack of testing available. I am no fan of the Governor of my state. At All. But he is being more cautious and actually doing a better job of handling this. I believe we now have the most cases of any state and he quarantined the area where most of the cases are. I’m not anywhere close to that area and so far my area doesn’t have any cases although I am not sure that will be the case after they have the parade this weekend with tens of thousands of people in attendance packed into a small area.

Trikay12113 · Mar 11, 2020

They have seen a lot I’m sure and know what to do, if they thought the slightest that you could have it they would of kept you and done further test. I wouldn’t be worried and with weather/seasons changing and what not it’s probably something normal.

TenLettersRap · Mar 11, 2020

you have to remember not everyone dies from corona.. most of the people who've had it got better, and im sure their immune system knows how to fight it off... people keep acting like this is the end of the world... look ....over 12,000 people in the US alone died from the flu... the regular FLU...from oct 2019 to feb 1st 2020...5 months..

Trikay12113 · Mar 11, 2020

JustMe said:
From what I've heard this is way worse and way more deadly than the flu. Especially if it spreads to as many people as the flu did the death toll would be exponentially higher.

its mostly deadly to 60+ older people and very young children that’s a big reason why it’s killing so many people. They either don’t have a good or healthy immune system or don’t have one big enough to fight it like children/babies.

Asgmiami1 · Mar 11, 2020

I wonder if my wife and work partner had it. Both got sick within a week from each other and were both down for a week. It wasnt nothing like a regular fly that I've ever seen.

Certate · Mar 11, 2020

At this time we should be testing every person with flu like symptoms, how the **** are we ever stop the spread of this or get true numbers
without testing.

I'm sorry you are going through this, I hope its not anything serious.

Cuchculan · Mar 11, 2020

This whole thing seems to have started in Italy, not China. Italy had its first cases at the start of the year. But doctors just thought they were treating a very bad flu. I do recall warnings over here that a new flu was on the way. That was very early in the new year. It is possible we could have had 2 outbreaks in 2 countries. The one in Italy was known about months ago. But not exactly what it was. Life continued as normal in Italy. Then China had its first cases. Italy then had more cases and even they blamed China. Some people even thought that China had made the virus in a lab. Protests in Hing Kong. Release it to put a stop to the protests once and for all. But the WHO were quick to rubbish those claims. But now it is coming out that Italy had it first. That puts an end to the whole man made virus theory.

I simply don't think people expected it to get this bad. Everybody was looking at China. People visiting China and coming back home. When most carrying it back home were coming from Italy. Nearly all the cases in Ireland are linked to visits to Italy. If I use Ireland as an example. Death rate is zero so far. Cases = 25 so far. Have a population of just over 6 million. There is only 2 cases they can't link to visits to Italy. Should the country go on lockdown for 25 cases and zero deaths? The first weeks of the flu we had thousands down with it. Not saying this is not going to get any worse. Italy is on full lockdown because the death rates are high and the infection rate are high.

No idea what the population of the US is? They will be looking at the infection rate and the death rate based on the population of the Country. If it does begin to get higher they will take more tougher measures. In Italy only 3 people are allowed in any shop at any one time. Will this help? Not really. Outside you have large queues. People in the queues could just as easily be spreading it around. They have banned all football matches. No crowds of people allowed to gather. But you can still leave your house. Italy and China were ground zero.

matisworried · Mar 11, 2020

folks... please DO NOT freak out and run to the ER unannounced if you think you have this!!! this is not recommended by ANYONE.

it is still recommended that you call ahead of time and seek instruction. when you run to the ER unannounced, you are potentially jeopardizing/exposing every person you come in contact with, from the folks at registration to the people in the lobby to the doctors who may not be prepared to deal with it.

OP - i understand this is causing you extreme anxiety, but this is the type of rash behavior that has helped the virus spread. the reality is, that even if you DID have it, there's no treatment and you would likely just be sent home to self-isolate. reports from people in actual, medically monitored quarantines are that they're essentially being given ibuprofen and gatorade and that's about it. unless you need intensive care, there is nothing they will do for you.

regarding testing, i think the US's response to this has been pathetic. P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C. from an article i read last night, we're averaging 5 tests per million people. japan is the second worst, and they average 66 per million. hard-hit countries like Italy are testing 826 per million. south korea is testing 3,692 people per million. every single one of us have the right to be frustrated... heck... we have the right to be FURIOUS with our government's response to this, but understand that doctors are currently between a rock and a hard place. most hospitals have been allotted a very small amount of tests so they need to use them sparingly. if they tested every person that came in freaking out about having COVID-19, there's a strong likelihood they wouldn't have tests for the people that were at the highest risks of complications or serious illness because our government has fumbled literally every single aspect of this.

@Cuchculan - population of the us is 320,000,000 (approximately.)

i'd like to add, because i don't want to sound like i'm scolding you OP, that i am extremely anxious about this. it is a large part of the reason that i have not been very active around here lately. i have several pre-existing conditions which puts me in the "high risk" category (high BP, i smoke MJ, i'm overweight and while i've never officially been diagnosed with specific respiratory illness, i tend to get really bad coughs when i get colds that linger much longer than others around me and often need steroids/antibiotics to get rid of it.)

i'm also currently sick with what i hope is a cold and have been for two weeks. i recently traveled to/from texas via airplane through chicago and san antonio - the same airport they allowed a cruise ship patient to roam free around before bringing her to the mall.

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