Symptom help..What's wrong?

[Jade--x]

I don't want to google it will probably tell me I've got some incurable disease when actually its not :/ so I'm hoping one of you ladies will recognise the symptoms or maybe had them yourself and know what it could be?

So for the last week-ish I've been constantly tired and not just the usual single mum tired literally as soon as I know they're asleep I'm collapsed because I can't hold myself up anymore..I went to the doctors and they've sent me for some blood tests to check if I'm anemic, and my thyroid and something else but I don't remember what.

Well this morning I woke up around 5am thinking I was having a panic attack I couldn't physically breathe..But after a few minutes it was ok but really painful to take a breath in. Its been like that all day, and I'm coughing up mucus but I don't have a sore throat or a blocked or stuffy nose nothing cold like at all, I have a temp of 38.6 but I can't stop shivering, I feel really sick with one of the worst headaches I've had for years and I can only walk a few steps without almost passing out and needing to sit down, I've pretty much been crawling most of the day and a single mum of 2 kids alone you can imagine how hard my days been

I can't go to the emergency docs or a&e at the minute because I have my 2 LOs in bed and no one to look after them as my mums ill with the same thing and can't move herself, and I'm terrified with whatever it is affecting my chest that my LO will get it..He's asthmatic and ends up in hospital with just a normal cold I don't want his Christmas spent in hospital but I am ringing my GP first thing in the morning.

 

[RachA]

I sounds a bit like what i've had tbh. I've been coughing up mucas and not been able to breathe at night so can't sleep well. I'm coming out the other side of it now - hopefully! I have had a headache too and i've had no energy at all. I spent pretty much all last weekend in bed from around 8pm on the Friday evening until i had to take my eldest to school on Monday morning. Since i first came down with it i've had a sore throat but that didn't last long. It's been mainly the gunky mucus and the tiredness that's been really affecting me. I've had it 2 weeks now and still feel shattered and i've got OH at home weekends/evenings so i can't even begin to imagine how you must feel.

 

[Jade--x]

Thanks hun I'm sorry you've been ill but glad to hears its finally getting better. I pray it doesn't last 2 weeks I really couldn't go 2 weeks of a day like today. I'm hoping tomorrow they'll give me some kind of antibiotics or something or at least some better pain killers than paracetamol and ibuprofen I think they've made me feel worse rather than better lol x

 

[RachA]

Hopefully you won't be ill for ages - i think i haven't helped myself but i've really not been able to eat. I keep feeling a bit nauseous when i eat so i've just been avoiding food (brilliant for my diet!) in general and i think this has made me worse as my body isn't able to fight off whatever the bug is.

 

[amjon]

Maybe bronchitis. That can make you tired, etc. I would go to the doctor to get checked out.