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

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@judyfa43

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. 🙂

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I feel the same way, but I am 36 overall healthy male... forgotten to ask if others were vaccinated or not? I had covid 2-3 times before this one and never vaccinated. thx