Was the tightness right in the middle of your chest at the solar plexus? That's where mine is and my stomach was a bit sore earlier on as well. So far I don't have a cough and my temperature is down to about 38.1 degrees after a sleep for a couple of hours and my pulse rate is right back down now to 64 to 70 bpm.
@oss I would have said the tightness was down the middle of my chest, so quite high up. Strange thing that you mention your stomach, mine was sensitive too. I had a little diarrhoea too in the early days. Hope you feel better quickly.
Yes round about the junction of the ribs over the heart, that's where I feel tight. My bowel was a little upset earlier with the need for sudden bowel movements but no diarrhoea at this point. Thanks, so do I mate, so do I, for the sake of my kids, I am the only financial support they have.
This is some of the corroborating evidence I mentioned earlier for the UK test numbers, these are numbers from around a week ago. The UK has been quoted as doing about 4000 tests a day with the aim to ramp that up so 100,000 test by now seems reasonable. South Korea has been doing 20,000 tests a day. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing
My probably unpopular view is that it has been a little unsettling at how readily people the would over have accepted being under virtual house arrest. I am not convinced that it is proportionate to the problem at hand. From looking at the local Facebook groups for Manchester and Bury, we have a large supply of people eager to become Stasi informants if their neighbours goes out twice daily. Everyone's become a curtain twitcher. And the police themselves are demonstrating their own untrustworthiness as they go beyond the remit of the law and become moral guardians. Filming people practicing self distancing in the Peak District, telling people they are only allowed 1 hour of exercise, sending drones to deliver messages to people queuing up 2m apart outside Boots. As I said, I know this is a minority view but I won't apologise for it. I'm only a little sorry in that I feel a bit like valued ex member Bootsonground and his paranoia of the Big Brother State.
I don't remember you saying anything on this subject that could be construed as paranoia mate, I've always thought you provided a very balanced view on most things. However I do not agree with you that the response to this is disproportionate, this is about protecting the capacity of the health care system and by doing so saving lives. How do we respond to this kind of spread of something that kills a large number of those who contract it, this diagram shows an R0 of 2 and this virus might have an R0 of 3 or more. The only way to reduce the R0 transmission rate is to break the contact between people, there is no other way to do it.
I can more than tolerate the closure of bars, cinemas, shopping centres etc. I'm happy to do all this social distancing and wait outside before being allowed in the supermarkets. I don't like the more extreme aspects of the nanny state which say I'm only allowed outside once and I especially don't like the response of many police forces who have gone beyond what the law allows. I'm so angered by it all that I think I'm gonna walk my dogs twice tomorrow.
I think you had a panic attack. Try to take your mind off all the covid problems..dont get involved in internet discussions with idiots like me. Concentrate on the things you enjoy in your life.
Have you ever had one Malcolm, a panic attack, I have about 4 times in my life the most recent was last year when I had a serious tightness in my chest and pain in my left arm, prior to that the last one was in 2005 or 2006 I had one in the 1990's and the first one in 1980. One thing that does not feature in any of those attacks is a rapid spike in temperature which continues for 12 hours up to bedtime. I've screen-grabbed these from my phone so you get the date and time of these images, I've cropped to remove the map that shows my location. Right now my pulse is 80 bpm that's up from the 62 bpm when I woke up. When I went to bed last night my temperature was 38.1 and pulse about 85 bpm. edit: and yeah that's my teeth in the background edit: and I still feel a tightness in my chest at this point in time once I got up and started moving around.
I enjoy writing computer programs, but I would probably be having a beer if I had nothing else to do but honestly given that alcohol can be an immune suppressant, I'm not "dying for a drink" as I mentioned elsewhere I will probably never know what this was yesterday unless I get worse over the next few days.
yes--i have. i had a heart attack xmas 1996. for years after i carried a gtn spray when i got chest pains--i also had frequent palpitations. in about 2001 i had a bad experience which left me a bit panicky..short of breath. as the morning wore on i drove to a supermarket, which was over the road from our main hospital. in the s/market i started having chest pains--and felt really ill. i walked over to the hospital--a & e--and said i might be having a heart attack. i was whisked in to an examination room --given air and various tests taken. after a while--the heart specialist, mr laurence olivier !--came to see me--and said the enzyme test showed no new heart attack--but all the symptoms pointed to a panic attack i was referred to a specialist panic attack clinic and had several weeks of consultations and counselling about it--what to look for and what to do about it. Oss..if your symptoms persist--call it in and get checked out, before all the beds are taken with corvid cases, 90% of which wont be.
Yeah I thought I was having heart problems on the occasions I panicked, I could feel a heart arrhythmia but they always turn out ok. The only known problem I have is that my red blood cells are bigger than normal, but that is just my bad diet and lack of excercise. Well no fever at the moment and pulse is low enough just now, still tight chest and slightly sore stomach, I would be wasting their time just now, I will monitor myself as best I can for the next couple of days and any signs of it getting worse will be acted on.
I think you may remember that I had severe chest pains when my daughter was born, Jim. The doctor asked me about my circumstances then told me they were stress-related as I was worrying too much about my wife and new baby who was about to arrive. The doctor said it was a "phantom pregnancy" and that it was a common thing. I didn't measure my temperature at the time though. Sometimes we need to distance ourselves sometimes. Try to do something that relaxes you and takes things right down.
My uncle Joe is a big strong bloke, but elderly, he came back from a holiday in Spain 10 days ago, just rushed into hospital, sunderland now has 69 cases, it's spreading quickly.
It is easy for me to say at the minute but we all have to hope that the people we know will be the "recovered". My thoughts as well as others here are with you and fingers crossed.
I really hope everyone of us, families included comes through this unscathed, the tunnel ahead however dark at the moment has an ending
