← Return to Low-grade fevers weeks after COVID: Is this common with long COVID?

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I tested positive with Covid 7/4/2022. Fever of 101 , sinus congestion, cough. Sick for 3 weeks. The 2nd and 3rd week I had low grade fever 99.0-99.6 along with extreme fatigue. Went to ER, got blood work and chest xray. Doc said lungs were clear but I probably had lung inflammation. I returned to normal after 5 weeks then started exercising, then 6th week strenuous exercise. After that my lungs started hurting, difficult talking, extreme fatigue and constant low grade fever, max 99.8. Gets worse upon mental or physical exertion. This went on for 2 weeks, contacted my PCP. He told me I probably overexerted myself. Scheduled a lung pulmonary function test for Oct 5th. In the meantime I'm struggling daily with fatigue, lung pain, and low grade fever. The only thing that helped I noticed was when I took vitamin c my temp would go down. So I started taking larger amounts spaced throughout the day and all my symptoms started improving. I also take a multivitamin and sublingual vitamin B12. I'm continuing with the vitamin C until my lung function test and we'll see how that goes.

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To this day I will spike a fever of 99.0 to 99.5 every night since 2020. My normal temp is 97.5. It’s annoying and disruptive and no amount of Advil or Tylenol helps.

Then how about now, did you completely recover?

Covid January 2021, positive test, very sick for about two weeks, temp 101 - 102. A full recovery by March of 2021.

Woke up in the middle of the night with what felt like exaggerated symptoms of covid Aug 1 2022. Went to ER and tested negative. Doctors said they'd seen plenty "covid pneumonia" that tested negative, and diagnosed me with Covid Pneumonia from a lung MRI or CAT - cant remember which. Temp 100.1 . Over the next week or two I improved and fever was only in the 99's. No improvement since then (today 1/15/2023) - just steady malaise that comes and goes in various strengths. Fever sub-normal in the 97's or low 98's in the morning, and usually 99.5 to 99.9 about 3 or 4 in the afternoon till bedtime. I know them minute my temp goes from 98.6 (normal) to 98.7. Once fever crosses the normal to "just above normal" is the same "fever feeling" as higher 98.+? fever. When it gets to the 99's I KNOW it and feel worse.
My symptoms are brain fog and confusion( maybe because I am 79), occasional tremors, fatigue, shortness of breath , overwhelming desire to sleep at times when my fever is in the 99's, slight headache sometimes. I never sleep during the day as I already have trouble sleeping through the night. Wake up every night at two and four thirty and go back to sleep, up at 7 for the day, asleep by midnight every night. I'm a 79 year old female with Sjogren's, other auto-immune complications, arthritis, history of several pneumonias before covid. My recovery, although not complete, is a great surprise as doctors warned my history did not bode well for covid recovery. Not only was I vaccinated IMMEDIATELY upon each one becoming available, but always masked as well. Now I am still super isolated and careful, masked around everyone, no indoor restaurants, very little grocery shopping. Dr. appointments with every specialist one can think of are my social life. I live alone, and glad to have kids near enough to help if necessary. My mother was a nurse and a visionary. She said an invasive virus was in humanity's future once antibiotics became abundant. Although antibiotics treat bacteria, she felt the entire immune system would become affected so that viruses could thrive more easily.
I want so so much to get well. And I hope all of you out there get well too. 🙂

Thanks for the Vitamin C tip! I have a lingering low-grade fever as well. I’ve taken Vitamin C once a day since my diagnosis, but I will bump it up and see if that helps.
Thanks again!

Thank you for the vitaminC tip, I’m going to go get a vitC shot asap! I recovered and tested negative from Covid 3 weeks ago and recovered from flu 2 weeks ago (got both back to back). The flu caused major muscle weakness that is still lingering but improving. Last week I started feeling weird in evenings and my temp is between 99.1 to 100.3. Now it seems to be every evening, take Tylenol and wake up just fine. I started exercising last week and wondering if the over exertion is causing me to feel sick again. I could barely keep my eyes open after 4pm and I feel winded and weaker than normal. Hoping this passes soon! This is my 3rd time with Covid and all three were fairly mild and easy except for the post Covid with this last one. I will up my vitamin c, d and b12. Thanks again!

Hi. Just wondering how you’re doing? Did your test show anything? Hope you’ve had some improvements. I’m still getting the mild fevers after Covid in August.

Thanks for the Vitamin C tip - how much do you take and how often? Would a B complex help as well for headaches?