Long story short, I have all of the symptoms and my baseline resting heart rate has now been elevated for 8 days along with symptoms that match flu, bronchitis and pneumonia. The worst symptoms are the chest pains, body aches, congestion and blood-tinged phlegm.
The scariest thing is that it’s not uncommon for the first symptom to be heart failure or sudden cardiac death. I’ve seen some misinformation on this forum including one guy claiming that there are only 1000 cases of myocarditis per year worldwide, but there are actually 1500,000 cases per year. It’s so common, in fact, that it can be a side effect in up to 6% - 10% of all influenza infections.
Doctors won’t screen me for this because of my documented history of HA - an unfair assessment of my multiple presentations for allergy-related symptoms as I was discovering what food to avoid with my new allergy to nuts.
EDIT:
The HA diagnosis was made by a hostile doctor who put it in my patient notes and it’s now held against me, but I actually did see a psychotherapist of 8 years training who actually sided with me that I didn’t have HA/somatization and actually discharged me after only a few sessions when the original plan was to see her for 6 months. She even included her assessment that my mental health was affected by physical symptoms, and not vice versa as the doctor thought. This was included in my discharge notes but for some reason her professional assessment is overlooked in favour of the doctor’s assessment despite him not being anywhere near as qualified to make that assessment as the psychotherapist that he himself referred me to. Seems like a cop out to me -the specialist didn’t agree with his assessment so now they choose to ignore it.
Usually my concerns are founded. Dr Google has actually saved my life on one occasion, and the only time I’ve ever had it wrong was when I suspected I had a DVT. Every other time I’ve stood vindicated, which is why I do rely so strongly on Google, or, more specifically, the peer-reviewed papers and studies it can link me to.