Day 12-13: Feeling much better and finally have an appetite. The chest pains were gone too and it became easier to breathe.

Day 9-11: I could not get through to the NHS 111 helpline, having stayed on the line for 1 hour and 12 minutes. Paracetamol helped and I started feeling better and pain subsided during these days.

Day 6-8: I could hardly cook or eat anymore, I was so weak. My temperature fell from 38°C to 37.5°C and wouldn't move either up or down. Paracetamol stopped helping. I wasn't getting better or worse and it started to get really scary.

Day 3-5: Temperature fell from 39C, but settled and stayed at 38C. I was getting increasingly weak. Cooking and eating food became very difficult and getting through a whole meal without falling asleep became an impossible task.

Day 1&2: Temperature continued to hike above 39C