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

Posted by pdd @pdd, Feb 28, 2022

I was hospitalized for COVID and home since 2/3. On 2/24 started to have low grade fevers in the evening. Tylenol takes care of the fever. I am on home oxygen still but improving. Mobility and strength is better. Important to note immunosuppression due to cancer therapy a year ago. Lymphocytes are still depleted. Is this common with long COVID?

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darceysue710 | @darceysue710 | Dec 28, 2022
In reply to @jlgrniz "I’m so sorry to hear this . I hope you feel better. I had covid almost..." + (show)
@jlgrniz

I’m so sorry to hear this . I hope you feel better. I had covid almost 3 weeks ago . Fever lasted 3 days. I got one good week in after, although I may have run myself down with the holiday, and now I’m back to fevers . In the morning I’m fine , by night I reach 100.6 . Are you still having fevers everyday ? What had your dr said ? This is so worrisome .

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Yes that’s common at least for me
March 2020
Your fever is higher than normal for covid usually tuns around 99.1 or so for quite awhile but my normal temp is in the the 97. Range
So if your normal temp runs higher that makes sense
Can’t tell you how long mine would go up and down sometimes my temp would drop to the 96 point range
Think it lasted about 6 months plus for long covid
🤷‍♀️

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jwright29229 | @jwright29229 | Jan 6, 2023
In reply to @edbigd "I still have a fever every night but no fever in the morning. Since my February..." + (show)
@edbigd

I still have a fever every night but no fever in the morning. Since my February 28 post nightly fever has come down from 100.5+ to around 100.0.
Need to see my PCP again to recheck my blood panels.
Recent development has been tinnitus.

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I know this is pretty old but I'm wondering if you ever found a cause and/or the fevers stopped? I first got covid Jan 2021 and it took 18 months for my body to return to normal. I had covid again 5 weeks ago and the daily low-grade fevers are back. I do not want another 18 month recovery period 🙁

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jwright29229 | @jwright29229 | Jan 6, 2023
In reply to @pamhilliard "Any Advise welcome....Had mild case of covid in November 2021 (9 months ago!) Every day 2:30-3:00pm..." + (show)
@pamhilliard

Any Advise welcome....Had mild case of covid in November 2021 (9 months ago!) Every day 2:30-3:00pm I run a .5 - 1 degree of fever & get fatigued to the point of not being able to stay awake. "Dirty Ashtray" smell has returned. Dr said these were long term affects.....anyone have OTC beneficial advise?

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How are you doing now? Any luck on getting rid of the fevers?

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ygas999 | @ygas999 | Jan 16, 2023
In reply to @soap "I tested positive with Covid 7/4/2022. Fever of 101 , sinus congestion, cough. Sick for 3..." + (show)
@soap

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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Then how about now, did you completely recover?

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judyfa43 | @judyfa43 | Jan 16, 2023
In reply to @soap "I tested positive with Covid 7/4/2022. Fever of 101 , sinus congestion, cough. Sick for 3..." + (show)
@soap

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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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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sandyviolet | @sandyviolet | Jan 16, 2023

It’s been 9 months since I tested positive, and I still have a low grade fever that comes and goes, among other persistent symptoms.

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athomason | @athomason | Jan 17, 2023
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@sandyviolet

It’s been 9 months since I tested positive, and I still have a low grade fever that comes and goes, among other persistent symptoms.

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Same here! 8 months out and persistent low grade temps with all the long covid symptoms that come and go.

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carsonwyler | @carsonwyler | Jan 22, 2023

I'm another one. I had COVID in August 2022 but still have a few long-COVID symptoms, primarily intermittent fatigue. What's puzzling me is a persistent elevated temperature. Pre-COVID, my steady-state body temp was 97.7. Since COVID, though, it's never lower than 99.0 and often rises to 100.0+ in the evenings. I've told my doctor, who basically said, "That's interesting. Maybe it will go away in a few months." Do I care?

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sunflower1220 | @sunflower1220 | Jan 30, 2023
In reply to @stephanparnell "I as well have this persistent low grade fever. I tested positive for covid on 6/3/20...." + (show)
@stephanparnell

I as well have this persistent low grade fever. I tested positive for covid on 6/3/20. I was very ill for 2 weeks. After the 2 weeks I returned to normal. On the 3rd week I started having intermittent low grade fever. My temperature now fluctuates, staying normal (98.2) for an hour or so then jumps to 99.0-100.2 for several hours . Today is day 57 of this intermittent low grade fever. When my temperature is normal I feel ok but still weak. When I have the low grade fever I feel very weak and is accompanied by an headache. I should also mention I have slight wheezing when I breathe in. Also when I take deep breaths I have a uncomfortable pressure on the right side of my chest almost as if something is lodged. I am 38 years old male, I have always been healthy and active. I hope this is temporary.

Stephan

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I’m 37. Did your fevers end up going away? What happened? I’m so frustrated… 🙁

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