I had it in May with no symptoms other than greater breathing difficulties & faster heart rate which I still have now although the breathing has eased a bit very slowly. It took a while for me to realise as I have asthma & tachycardia, fast heart rate, anyway & by the time I went into A&E to get checked out, the virus was in my lungs & showed up on an x-ray! The doctor thought it was pneumonia & gave me intravenous & oral antibiotics but, 10 days later there was no improvement & was back in A&E to be took that the initial doctor, not an expert, was wrong & it wasn’t pneumonia but, the CV virus in my lungs that showed up in the x-ray! Wasn’t ill enough or had the typical symptoms, fever & dry continuous cough, of CV so, didn’t need admitting into hospital so, not tested: 10 days after was too late to get tested! I did have my sense of taste affected quite intensely but, that was only added the list of symptoms later & wasn’t mentioned in the early days!
Things were VERY tough breathing wise for a couple of months with me mostly in bed & it’s only been the last couple of months that breathing has eased a bit to where I can move around the house without being quite as pantingly short of breath! My heart rate, on the other hand, is still very fast & it has actually hampered by hypo awareness a bit as that’s my first sign of going hypo but, with it being fast all the time anyway it’s harder for me to differentiate so, it’s a bit later before I catch hypos with secondary signs of clumsiness & shakiness! I have compensated for that with much more testing!
With things at my local hospital having calmed down a bit recently I have appointments with the cardiologist on Monday 02/11/20 by phone & a 24 hour heart monitor on 10/11/20 to see what’s going on?
It’s been a VERY slow recovery from CV for me & I’m still not fully my usual self yet! It was a TOUGH battle to keep my blood sugars in range times, especially in the early weeks, but, my constant vigilance in MUCH more testing than ever before for insulin changes has lowered my Hab1c by 1 point more than I’ve been all last year without CV: on a LOT more insulin, of course; very high blood sugars at times but, not left high for long!
To be fair though, my problems with CV probably have been more to do with my already underlying vulnerabilities of asthma & tachycardia more than diabetes itself but, it’s definitely impacted it with higher & more erratic blood sugars & there’s been a LOT of insulin dosage changes! It’s been a tough year for my diabetes that’s needed a lot more closer attention than ever before!
I hope you get better soon, not have such a hard time of it & recover sooner!
