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T2 and COPD

drystoneradio

drystoneradio

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I'm T2 and have COPD. Thursday last I came into contact with two persons coughing with no intention of using a capture device...handkerchief, tissue, or bend of elbow...Sunday, I was diagnosed and tested positive for the corona virus. The question I need an answer to is: Obviously my immune system is not what it should be...could I become 're infected' ?...providing I live long enough to get over this!
 
My understanding is once survived you have built up the necessary antibodies to resist further infection, but I may very well be wrong. This is a question for your medical centre/GP (via email!), or the medical help/healthline number...

I am very sorry you got infected.
 
AloeSvea said:
My understanding is once survived you have built up the necessary antibodies to resist further infection, but I may very well be wrong. This is a question for your medical centre/GP (via email!), or the medical help/healthline number...

I am very sorry you got infected.
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Thank you for that...Since posting this thread, I have looked it up online...and...It has happened...In China and America...thank you anyway :)
 
drystoneradio said:
Thank you for that...Since posting this thread, I have looked it up online...and...It has happened...In China and America...thank you anyway :)
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Drystoneradio - My take on the re-infected thing is that nobody really, really knows at the moment. It's all too early days.

Nobody knows if those cases are true reinfections, or whether they weren't totally recovered in the first place. Only time will really tell, which isn't too helpful to you, I know.

Were I in your shoes, I'd be trying, where I possibly could to keep my diabetes in a good state, and do whatever I could to equally manage my COPD. (I don't have COPD, so not entirely sure what managing it well would entail - apologies)

How are you feeling at the moment? How are your loved ones coping with it all?
 
drystoneradio said:
I'm T2 and have COPD. Thursday last I came into contact with two persons coughing with no intention of using a capture device...handkerchief, tissue, or bend of elbow...Sunday, I was diagnosed and tested positive for the corona virus. The question I need an answer to is: Obviously my immune system is not what it should be...could I become 're infected' ?...providing I live long enough to get over this!
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Hello. Please let us know how you get on. Are you at home and if so how did you manage to get tested? (thought it was only for hospital patients). Best wishes for a long lasting recovery.
 
NicoleC1971 said:
Hello. Please let us know how you get on. Are you at home and if so how did you manage to get tested? (thought it was only for hospital patients). Best wishes for a long lasting recovery.
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Thanks everyone, I live alone....so Isolation is a doddle...It was a telephone consultation...I had been sat in a hospital waiting area with a couple....coughing...spluttering without the slightest intention of using some sort of capture device...handkerchief, Tissue or fold of their arm...both were warned many times by the nursing staff after numerous complaints...three days later I developed a cough and woke up to feeling like some one was stood on my chest, dripping wet through pillow and bed sheets! Called 111 and was given an 'examination over the phone' and they decided I had contracted the virus!. I'm feeling a tad better...
 
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