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February 2024 Babies 🇬🇧

Feeling poorly

Hey everyone,
Just a little post to see if anyone is going through or has been through similar experiences..

For the last month or so I caught a virus from one of my older children, it lasted a few weeks and developed a pain in my right shoulder tip into back around the right lung area, the GP diagnosed me with pleurisy from the virus… it eventually went away by itself… I was fine for a week then the symptoms came back, high temperature, body aches, weirdly enough the pain in my neck on the side where my glands are were so painful and bruised feeling, the headaches were awful generally cousins function and needed to sleep badly, it was pure exhaustion and feeling poorly, that prompted me to contact the GP to request some blood work which came back “satisfactory” I’m assuming the satisfactory was because I had elevated white blood cells from, I’ve tried to talk to someone but doing that was impossible…after that second illness I was fine again for a week which brings me to this week and bang on time I got all the symptoms back again??? It’s been half term and I’ve been floored, no energy and feeling so poorly AGAIN!!!
I’m so confused and have never had anything like this happen before.. could this be pure exhaustion? I’ve got 4 children, 2 being under 2, I’m on my own all day long and still work in the evenings a few hours cleaning, my 3month old has regressed back to feeding through the night like a fresh newborn he has been breastfeeding every 2 hours this week which is killing me, I just can’t go on like this!
He also has multiple allergies so my diet has been massively restricted since he’s been 14days old, I can’t eat dairy, soya, wheat, eggs, oats and some legumes / nuts 😵‍💫😵‍💫
I’m googling but all this stuff coming up is freaking me out and I’m so worried I’ve got something sinister going on… I’ve got bad, bad anxiety and health anxiety too it’s crippling!