Feel like I've turned a corner today - had all the symptoms described particularly the fatigue and my lungs were really sore and one day coughed up a tiny bit of blood (rung docs they said its normal). This is a really informative & balance discussion about vaccines/viruses - didn't know this but swab studies show 80% of infections are transmitted by 20% of the infected.
The 20% that are symptomatic
I can't prove it was me that gave them Covid, but the two colleagues I shared a van with for eight periods of ~5mins on the two shifts before I came home to my partner being symptomatic (continuous cough) on a Tuesday, both had to isolate with symptoms by Sunday. I had a splitting headache on the Saturday having isolated since the Tuesday, but was asymptomatic as far as the three "main" symptoms are concerned.
Nobody else at work developed Covid around that time, as far as we are aware.
The 3 main symptoms are bollocks if you've been vaccinated. Most other countries have updated their guidance e.g. USA CDC
- Fever or chills
- Cough
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Fatigue
- Muscle or body aches
- Headache
- New loss of taste or smell
- Sore throat
- Congestion or runny nose
- Nausea or vomiting
- Diarrhea
If you feel ill with anything, best to get a test
I end my isolation at midnight tonight, and for the first time in a couple of weeks I actually feel something approaching “normal”. Sense of smell and taste are still missing, but I’m not falling asleep every time I sit down and the prospect of having to tie my shoe laces doesn’t make me think “I can’t be arsed”.
T&T called me again to say “goodbye” and said that many people thought that the loss of smell and taste was the worst bit. I replied that being dead was way worse in my opinion and the guy on the phone laughed.
Anyway. I seem to have come through this with nothing more than knackeredness and the inability to smell my son’s bedroom. Given the alternative I’ll take that as a win.
Take care everyone and get your jabs!
If you feel ill with anything, best to get a test
+1
I was convinced I didn't have covid because I had major snuffles/sneezes and I didn't think that was one of the symptoms.
Mrs Zip started coughing on Tuesday. It wasn’t until Friday that the tests proved positive.
I end my isolation at midnight tonight, and for the first time in a couple of weeks I actually feel something approaching “normal”.
Good news! Mine ends tomorrow and I'm still knackered and taste only halfway back but doing ok.
I've felt better at points during the last few days but it's made a bit of a comeback. My experience of post viral fatigue in the past says to not try and rush back into doing lots too soon.
Would agree with you there. I felt fine on Sunday, but did 90 minutes WFH yesterday and fell asleep watching the lunchtime news!
Came here looking for something like this -
Was really ill last March/April for a few days and bounced back well, like a parting of the skies 4 days later and even went for a jog. Then fine till November when badly fatigued - put down to work stress no break etc but diagnosed with covid toes Jan so dr suggested long covid.
Then had a period of poor health including a very random eye ulcer - I don't wear contacts they have put it down to herpes simplex (Because I am prone to cold sores with stress)
Anyway felt better again but now I am getting really fatigued in the day randomly and far more lethargic towards everything including work.
The weird thing is I can kind of get through it or avoid it by working out .. can feel ratshite but put my runners on and go do a fast 5k off the bat, Seems worst early afternoon - Is this just me getting older at 43 or is anyone seeing the same sort of thing?
It's all rather odd for me and I'm sure there are plenty of factors in play here including a bit of burnout with the last 18 months, I'm usually so career and business-driven but am just posting it in at the moment ..
Sorry for the ramble on her but don't really have anyone else that might understand really
Cheers
Thank you Carbon - interesting!
@makkag maybe go through the process of elimination- you haven't tested positive & there's no evidence (at the moment) for the covid toes hypothesis then maybe look at your diet and sleep routine, alcohol intake and work life balance. Restart your exercise routine after a few days recovery and when u feel relatively fresh then measure it on day by day scale maybe look into using heart rate variability (plenty of free apps to use for this). 'Burnout' is a real possibility most of us can say our anxiety levels have been higher due to the world events recently. I use HRV as it not only gives me a physical read out taken form my HR every morning but also I can log my sleep/mood/muscle soreness/mental energy/ etc. I found this so valuable after my +ve covid result - I knew exactly when was the best time I could return to exercise. Good Luck.
yup, have heard of people refusing to get tested because of government guidance, despite it obviously (including my own experience!) being WAY out of date with respect to whatever variant is currently doing the rounds. Just another thing to add to the **** up list...The 3 main symptoms are bollocks if you’ve been vaccinated. Most other countries have updated their guidance
Anyway felt better again but now I am getting really fatigued in the day randomly and far more lethargic towards everything including work.
The weird thing is I can kind of get through it or avoid it by working out .. can feel ratshite but put my runners on and go do a fast 5k off the bat, Seems worst early afternoon – Is this just me getting older at 43 or is anyone seeing the same sort of thing?
That's interesting. I've felt like that since my first vaccine. Really tired and lethargic, particularly early afternoon, but feel great if/when I lift myself and go for a ride/race (Zwift/IRL - doesn't matter). My times good as well when I do. Then afterwards I feel wrecked again. Certain I have not had Covid (WFH with Mrs and neither of us go anywhere, take regular LFTs, don't know anyone directly who has had Covid, etc). I'm 60 so been putting it down to age and just being worn out with all of the restrictions
Well, made it 18 months without getting infected and thanks to Boris relaxing everything and school we now have it.
Our 6 yr old and most of his class are out, i am waiting on pcr test but have the aching muscles, elevated heart rate, snotty nose and intermittent sore throat and a bad head.
Thankful for the vaccine as this isn't fun
I've been feeling pretty much better and quite a bit more active with chores and driving kids to school recently (since quarantine period finished) and I feel like there's been a bit of a comeback of the virus, or at least the post viral fatigue has ramped up again.
Feeling v tired, achey and fluey again today. Taste is kind of 60% back to normal I think.
You are me. Been uber careful since it started, no eat out to help out, no foriegn travel, pretty much kept ourselves to ourselves, washed food and took huge precautions at work (no furlough for us, just taking up the slack) , got eldest (17) vaccinated as soon as we could - her choice.
Then the 14 yr old comes in with a positive test on Sunday night as she always tests twice a week and I got mine today. She can only have picked it up from school or possibly from a shop on the walk there or back or possibly the fair the previous week - who knows as its business as usual out there and masks are but a memory.
Still hopefully the vaccination will give me and probably my wife a lighter dose....I think this is going to rip now. During the last 18 months I didnt really know anyone who had had it, quite frankly probably because I live in a nice bit of East Sussex where we have all been able to easily take the precautions needed without it impacting hugely. My local area constantly came near the bottom of case numbers.
Now its a free for all and no matter how sensible you are its going to get you sooner or later. Just this week at least 5 people I know have got it.
I'm through it now, although taste is at 50% and smell at 10%. Have managed a couple of full days WFH (on Monday I had gone to bed by midday). Back in the office from next week.
Not fun, but not too bad either when you consider what has happened to many. Get your jabs kids!
@winston
To be honest we have been waiting for this to happen. The boy was really the only likely route in and with delta we were just waiting.
Sounds like it has emptied his class though so hopefully some longer term protection, I'm just glad he seems to have had a mild dose, started Sunday and he seems to be on the way out of it now. Just us to go
Winston - sounds like you are near me. Im in Robertsbridge. My 13 y/o only had light symptoms for a day or so then a few days tired. Rother was almost Covid free for so long, with only 2 monster spikes - Alpha in January, then Delta.
I dread to think what Mrs Zip would be like without the jabs. She's been coughing for 10 days now, no appetite and zero energy. I was lethargic for 3 days and bit of a cough but hopefully well on the mend now.
Yes my 14 yr old is (fingers crossed) pretty much back to normal and so far the only symptoms were a light flu and cough with a raised temp. We thought we might get away with it before my black line of doom this morning!
One thing though, on Tuesday I started sneezing uncontrollably from about mid day and didnt stop till I went to bed. Then yesterday I sneezed a lot mire than normal but not as bad as day before. I felt absolutely fine just couldnt stop sneezing. Then as soon as the positive test came and my nowflu symptoms the sneezing stopped completely.
Now if I was a virus and I wanted to evolve another transmission method.......that is pretty much perfect. Feel great, think you have some pollen or dust up your nose all the time you are covering every surface with a fine aerosol of virus.
Yep - I sneezed a lot too for a few days after my +ve PCR
I tested positive 6 days ago and tested positive today.Everyone says you should book a PCR. What does a PCR test tell me that I don't already know?
Is it more of a tool to get a definite clear before going back to work?
What does a PCR test tell me that I don’t already know?
Whether you've got coronavirus or not? The LFT is pretty unreliable.
update on me/mrs from 1 page back if interested
she tested positive tuesday 7/9 had a 2 days of feeling rough - bad headache, snots, sneezes, bunged up nose etc, slight tickly cough, then more or less felt ok by the friday the same week, so for her just a few days of cold type symptoms, she said she could have gone to work everyday bar 1 but if it was just a cold (and not known to be covid) she'd have muddled through the day
i went for a pcr on friday 10th as advised by T&T and came back negative - have since tested negative LFT everyday (as im in work too)
shes out of isolation period as of tomorrow - so looks (touch wood) like ive escaped it somehow, not sure how, doesnt seem any rhyme or reason - we have effectively lived on different floors of the house/bathrooms etc and not slept together since her positive, ive slept like a dream since 🙂 so not in a rush to go back hehe!
im sure ill get it at some point though - hopefully as mild as hers has been would be nice
other than that im glad she's got it out of the way, after being a deputy head throughout covid and avoiding it in the dark days when they had no support what so ever and selfish horrible parents, it seems a silver lining she has come out of it unmarked
Now its a free for all and no matter how sensible you are its going to get you sooner or later. Just this week at least 5 people I know have got it.
and yet cases are down 22% week on week, admissions are starting to drop and deaths are levelling off.
obviously this is the nationwide picture but logically, its a infection spread by social contact, so if its in your social group then its going to feel like its all around you.
it rocketed here in the SW early august and is now receded to a 1/3 of that , in fact looking at the coronvirus dashboard, the trend for the SE is very similar.
Am interested to see what happens over the next few weeks with schools returning in England
they'be been back nearly two weeks. wouldn't you expect to see an associated rise in cases already?
Certainly the start of it yes.
What does a PCR test tell me that I don’t already know?
My understanding is that some sampling is done from positive PCR's to further genotype it in order to track variants.
There's proper sciencey info out there but this is an accessible version that I quickly found on googling
So getting a PCR done is still valuable whether it informs you further or not.
"they’be been back nearly two weeks. wouldn’t you expect to see an associated rise in cases already?"
No, hasn't been enough time for it to feed into the data yet but its coming.
Eldest tested positive (PCR) on wednesday after a faint line on Lflow she did for school that morning so far rest of family negative, she's just tired/headache with a bit of a cough, I think currently I know more people with covid than I've ever done family/friends/neighbours/work colleagues probably about 10 that I know of that have tested positive this week/last week.
I think currently I know more people with covid than I’ve ever done
+1
I think currently I know more people with covid than I’ve ever done
Yeah us too.
But importantly I think, I don't know of anyone who's needed any sort of care.
I always thought it would end this way, Boris in England seems happy to open the 'taps' as wide as possible, hoping to close them if it starts looking like it will over-run the NHS, well he's got shit form for acting before it's too late.
In the other Nations we're being slightly more cautious and here in Wales, numbers are slowly falling, or have been for a few days, it might be a trend, it might not be, in either case they say more than 90% of Adults here now have antibodies one way or another.
All this talk months ago that we could roll out the vaccine and achieve herd immunity, seemed unlikely to me at the time, and even less so now. As I've send before, we'll all have to take our turn with Covid, my Son had it last week, I didn't, despite living in the same house, didn't touch me thanks to the vaccine, next time I might not be so lucky, but I think it's inevitable that I'll not only catch it as some point, but multiple times over the course of the rest of my life, each time and at some point, it simply won't be a dangerous virus anymore.
“they’be been back nearly two weeks. wouldn’t you expect to see an associated rise in cases already?”
No, hasn’t been enough time for it to feed into the data yet but its coming.
Leicestershire has 5 out of the Top 10 Covid areas, and the head of public health was on TV the other day saying it was because their schools went back early, plus out of school activities resuming.
Did 20k on the bike yesterday and that did me in for a few hours afterwards. First day back in the office after a week of WFH and I have to admit that I’m having a bit of a “wobble”.
they’be been back nearly two weeks. wouldn’t you expect to see an associated rise in cases already?
Six kids in my daughter's class tested positive on LFT last week, then negative on PCR. Those same kids are now re-testing on PCR and are coming back positive.
My own PCR was negative yet I have nearly all of the symptoms. I went for a re-test today.
Well, I can now join the gang. Double (Pfizer) jabbed and think I caught it from a friend's 8 year old son in Sheffield who tested positive a few days after I saw them but, had just started coughing the evening we met. 20% of the kids in my daughter's year at school (Year 10) in Derby have it, as do 10 of their teachers. It's running rife. So far for me just a head cold after first testing positive on Friday morning (LFT, *very* faint hint of a line, confirmed with a PCR on Friday afternoon) but I can feel a bit of chest discomfort starting. I had full-blown pneumonia once so really hoping to avoid that..
Did 20k on the bike yesterday and that did me in for a few hours afterwards. First day back in the office after a week of WFH and I have to admit that I’m having a bit of a “wobble”.
I'm similar, took the kids to loather castle adventure park on sat then did only about 10k Sunday morning - went to Booths after and suddenly felt like I was about to collapse. Been mostly in bed since.
For those that lost their sense of smell and taste - did it return?
My test came back positive this morning. I can't even smell the Olbas oil I've been sprinkling liberally on my pillow.
My wife, who has identical symptoms, tested negative. We don't believe a word of it.
For those that lost their sense of smell and taste – did it return?
Partner lost her taste and smell for 3 months,a year on she still has a few things that don't taste/smell right and sometimes gets a'petrol/fuel' smell for no reason.
Well, it caught up with me a fortnight ago. After 18 months of being pretty cautious (no travel at all for a year last year and even now, pretty limited radius of travel) I went to Germany to the Eurobike show. Took the (pretty empty) overnight ferry from Hull and drove. The show itself required a vax certificate to get in and a mask in all indoor areas. Pretty reassuring... Anyway, somewhere along the line I caught C19 - had a violently sneezy cold from Sunday 5th and lost my taste and smell for a week - but only had snotty nose/cold for the week. After five days, I could smell coffee again. And now I reckon I'm back to 90% taste/smell again.
What was interesting is that, as we were going to visit the mother in law after Eurobike, I got a (pro-administered) Covid test in Germany on the 7th. And then, ahead of coming back on the 11th, got another test on the 10th. Both negative. Did the day 2 PCR on the 14th and it came back positive on the 16th (while my wife was negative), with instructions to isolate until next Friday (ten days after the positive PCR). After a chat with Track and Trace, though, they reckoned that if my symptoms were my big cold that first Monday, they'd count ten days from then, so I was free to travel yesterday.
So, as a twice-vaxxed, once Covid survivor, does that mean I can go clubbing and stuff? Not that I'm going to...
@chipps Yay we share a +ve anniversary day. Except I have to isolate till Sunday!
Glad to hear your smell came back. I had cold symptoms from around the 16th when I tested positive (though I had been in voluntary isolation from a few days before when my daughter tested positive - it just seemed sensible) but seemingly made a full recovery after 4 days until yesterday when my sense of smell abruptly left me.....which was a bit weird.
The smell things is weird, @winston, I had a loss of smell last summer too. Just realised that I'd not tasted my morning coffee. Then went through the jars in the cupboard, trying to taste/smell anything. Coffee, no. Peanut butter, no. Lime pickle? Nope... Went for a test and that came back -ve and my smell returned after a couple of days.
This time round, it was preceded by a heavy, snotty cold, which usually isn't great for smelling things anyway, but I really couldn't notice anything. I chose food on texture and not taste for a few days. Slowly, though it came back. Probably took a good week after getting the slightest hint of coffee aroma to fully get my taste/smell back. I could still do with a couple more points on the smell scale to make me completely happy... Enjoy the enforced week off! Hope the smell comes back soon...
What I did find was that I started philosophising about 'What IS smell' and 'What IS taste' and really over analysing it, which doesn't really help when you're just trying to drink some tea... 🙂
18 days after positive test and still tired. Just had to walk to our welding shop and back, a distance of 500m (ish) with a few flights of stairs on the way. Dizzy with fatigue now.
Also, my sense of smell returned long enough for me to appreciate that my teenage son had dropped his guts the other night, then promptly vanished again.
Getting very bored of it.
I'm 52 and I'm double jabbed, but I've finally managed to catch it. Negative LFT wednesday, positive PCR Thursday. Two of my kids go to school and third one works in a school where there are currently doing LFT everyday and have reintroduced mask wearing, So I've git school pools where it could have come from.
On Tuesday night i went for a 5k run, it felt easy enough but heart rare was sky high.
On Wednesday I went rapidly downhill, most of it is a blank, dont recall at all.
So far so dull...
However I haven't had a sense of smell for over a decade, but it's come back!
Might be my turn.
I've felt a bit lethargic since monday. No cough, no fever. Smell and taste are fine but just feel a bit yuck. I've done at least 5 LF tests and they've all been negative.
The missus woke up this morning feeling ill with an occasional cough. She did a LF test and the second the sample hit the T section the line appeared. I did yet another LF test and it's still negative.
We went for PCR tests this morning and just waiting for the results. Perfect timing seeing as I'm absolutely stressed out my head at work and I booked my first week off in 6 months next week 🙄
Well, I’m in the club… 🙁
Felt a bit off yesterday morning, usually do a lateral flow on a Wed before I go into work Thursday and Friday.
Came back positive, just got PCR result and it’s a positive which I expected as I had a massive fever last night. Lost taste today, got a bit of a cough and a bungy nose but just tired really.
Most likely infection date was Saturday when I spent all afternoon in pubs watching rugby.
Double jabbed, 5.5 months ago, so hopefully this will be the worst of it.
For those that lost their sense of smell and taste – did it return?
Mine went Christmas day, like a switch - ate Christmas dinner, fine, half hour later, poured a JD and coke - nothing, was like drinking water.
Not sure I have the same strength of taste and smell as before, but most things seem normal, with two very distinct exceptions. I've mentioned one before, not sure about the other.
Poo, trumps, any excrement, be it human or animal, doesn't register. I simply cannot smell it. At all
The other one is onions and that happened some time after. We went to Dorset in the summer and visited quite a few restaurants. There was always a really unpleasant smell - like nothing I've ever smelt before. I assumed for a while it was seafood. Took me a couple of weeks to determine that it's actually onions. It's a bit annoying, as I used to like onions and a lot of dishes that contain onions. It's still ongoing
So I was training all year for trail marathons, building up to it with a Lake District half marathon in June, followed by a 30 mile trail ultra in the Brecon Beacons end of July, then an mtb/kayak/trail adventure race first weekend of September. So felt quite fit. Started to feel really stressed, couldn’t figure out how to basic stuff at work, was wondering what was going on. That fuelled anxiety and stress at this ‘out of the blue’ brain fog. Seriously considered quitting job and industry as I lost all confidence. Got signed off with stress, assuming it was work-related. Then started to feel snotty and head-aches every night and couldn’t sleep more than a few hours. Kept checking for Covid symptoms but nothing unanimous and LTFs showing -ve. Then, four days after being signed off and feeling really rotten, noticed - but almost imperceptible - intermittent smell of something moudly socks. Like a basset hound I went off round the house trying to figure out where the smell was coming from (clean clothes on!). Then thought maybe it was C19, and lo, LTF popped up +ve in the way as mentioned above, sample barely touched the testing thingy and both bars were clearly showing.
Lost smell and taste that day (before I’d even got to the PCR centre). Lit an incense stick and couldn’t smell it at all. Food and drink tasted neutral. Although interestingly, the sugar/spice/bitter receptors on my tongue were still working, just not that actual taste of something. That was weird. Gave up eating anything tasty but also found that I could eat masses of chocolate because the overall taste wasn’t making me ill. All food tasted and felt like mush. A friend said the smell of diesel made him feel sick, although I didn’t have that experience.
Struggled to walk up a 100 metre hill I was previously doing multiple running reps up and down, just a few weeks previously. Chest felt really tight and had no stamina. Heart rate was mental. Normally 145ish on the running, but shot up to 185 (running max is 183!) so stopped running by then. Couldn’t do zwift at all, ‘cos legs were screaming and hr maxing out.
Tested -ve about five days later, smell and taste returned around two weeks later. Gradually building up fitness. Can just about handle a half hour zwift training session or a 5km easy flat run.
So yeah. That was just with one jab though. Had the second two weeks after recovering from C19.
My PCR came back as negative, the mrs is positive. Utterly bizarre. She was at a large concert on Tuesday and started feeling ill on Thursday. I've done another lateral flow this morning which is still negative.
Just getting over it now - picked up my 8 yr old twins from their mothers house on Friday and my son came into my room at 5:30AM complaining of being hot. He has a +ve PCR later on Sat, his sister and I both on Sunday.
It wasn't too bad - felt rough through Sun evening until Tuesday and have been gradually getting better since.
My resting HR has just dropped from 50 ish to 44 though - saw 40 at one point. No obvious ill effects from that though and blood oxygen levels still as before according to my Garmin watch - is that a normal Covid effect or I have I suddenly just got really fit ?
Sounds like a black and white science fiction movie....
The Omicron Variant
I'm in.
Interested in the comment about tight chest above. I've defo got that.
Don't like being ill at all. Actually a teensy bit scared.
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Sounds like a black and white science fiction movie….The Omicron Variant
**** me. Did they design that name to scare people!lol
Someone left out the apostrophe - and it's not African, it's Irish.
The other one is onions
That interesting, my father in law was ill last year, had all the symptoms but tested -ve several times, he is a gantastic chef and has had the same happen to him. Can't stand the taste or smell of onions, which has gradually morphed into peppers and ginger now.
Has anyone had to wait longer than 72hrs for PCR?
Mrs STR has been really ill for over a week with a chest infection, relentless cough, sickness, diarrhea, temperature, fatigue, dizziness, loss of taste and smell, had to crawl to the loo one night
Many lateral flows all negative, had a PCR Wednesday, rang up today and results apparently not back from the lab
If it's not covid, it is flu
Interestingly, she's double jabbed. My daughter who is single jabbed has been feeling a bit rough, but only feels like a bad cold. Me, who historically has the worst of respiratory infections in our house (pneumonia as an infant, bronchitis through teens every year, heavy smoker), no jabs, barely even registered as a cold, light cough for a couple of days. And I kissed the Mrs when she was likely most contagious
Can’t stand the taste or smell of onions, which has gradually morphed into peppers and ginger now.
Weirdly with the poo thing, there's was someone on here reporting the same. There's definitely some correlation with the way receptors are affected
Has anyone had to wait longer than 72hrs for PCR?
My wife never got the result of her PCR by post
My wife never got the result of her PCR by post
Neither did my fiance.
Yeah, she never received her previous postal (months ago) one either
Ah well, here we go. Finally tested positive 4 days after the Mrs. No real symptoms yet but been doing twice daily LFTs. This morning's was negative, the afternoon was positive. Just been for the PCR. At least the Mrs doesn't have to hide in our bedroom alone now!
Positive test here.
Wife is a teacher for reception class where one of a child's parents and sibling tested positive and but said child and other parent didn't, as per guidelines the other parent did daily LFT's but didn't test the child who went to school all week, negative parent after a few days failed a LFT, child and parent failed PCR.
Child in school has passed COVID-19 to my wife and 11 other children from the class. Same day as wife heard of childs failed PCR tested via LFT which was negative, then 2 days later failed a LFT and PCR.
I took a LFT same day as wifes positive PCR and was negative, 2 days later I took a PCR and was negative, took a LFT day after that and was negative then 3 days later I failed a PCR.
2 days after failed PCR for myself am now feeling quite rough with cold/flu like symptoms. We are both double jabbed.
Surprised me that it took so long for COVID to infect me and then for symptoms to show after the test.
Day 3 since testing positive and it really kicked in overnight. 1st couple of days felt like a bad cold.
Fever kicked in during the night. Sweating buckets even without the duvet. Resting heart rate is up at 70 whereas my usual is low 50s. Massively fatigued and walking up the stairs has me gasping. Sense of taste and smell disappeared yesterday. Thankfully no cough but I'm extremely congested, sneezing constantly and have a lot of sinus pain.
The Mrs is on day 6 and she's properly floored. I'm at least up and moving, she can't get out of bed.
Have just lost a friend to it. Pretty shit, but more so as he seemed to have beaten cancer a couple of years ago.
Sorry to hear that nick. Sadly so did we. I just found out yesterday. He was early fifties and non-vaccinated.
If anyone is feeling really crap with a capital C, you can do worse than getting an oximeter from somewhere (prime, or friends) and keep an eye on your sats. If your symptoms get worse, being able to say O2 of ninety-whatever is going to be useful.
Nick & P7 - so sorry to hear that. As a nation we need to keep putting a human face on those statistics. Every number is someones friend or relative.
We got one of those Oximeters. They aren't very accurate in absolute terms, so worth getting a baseline number whilst you are healthy. Mine, for example, never shows me higher than 92% saturation!
Finally tested positive on lateral flow and PCR yesterday after feeling bad since last Wednesday.
We’d had dinner on the previous Friday with some friends, one of whom developed a telltale cough during the evening, and tested positive the following day. Mrsmidlife was ill from the Monday, and PCR positive on the Tuesday, but had tested negative three times on LFT, so I got hold of a different batch of LFT and it showed a strong result, side by side with the other batch which still showed negative.
So far, much like a normal cold for me, with a bit more lethargy and fatigue. Little bit of chest pains, nothing drastic. Trying to avoid passing it to my kids now, but if we manage that, by my reckoning only need to isolate until the weekend. Fingers crossed.
Team dinner Wednesday in trendy crowded restaurant, joking how it was a perfect covid spreader
Started feeling ill Friday night
Bad 'cold' on Saturday, lateral flow negative
Email Sunday sayin positive PCR from someone on the team, slightly less snotty by then
Positive lateral flow Sunday
PCR test monday and just had positive PCR result today (Tuesday, I think it's tuesday? What is time any more?)
Just like many above started with snotty cold with a hint of flu, thought was getting better as snot decreased, then sweaty, achey, fevery, absolutely exhausted, deaf as a post, no taste or small whatsoever except when crunching raw garlic, out of breath on stairs, very hard to sleep. Really surprised how bad I feel after being double pfizered in the summer. Breathing at rest is fine which is good. Colleagues going down like dominoes.
So, as a twice-vaxxed, once Covid survivor, does that mean I can go clubbing and stuff? Not that I’m going to…
No!
I had Covid in January and it was 24hrs of unpleasantness, but by day 3 I was fine
I'm double jabbed - last dose in July
And on Sunday night came down with worst flu of my life,+ve lft that evening,
my 4 kids now have it, but my wife who didn't get in Jan but is also double jabbed keeps testing negative, my kids all pretty mild to varying degrees , bit of fever & snottiness
Meanwhile I'm on day 5 and while the fever has mostly gone, I have never felt this rough since I had suspected meningitis as a teen.
I've not had a cough, just sore throat, tight chest & no loss taste or smell, by lethargy, aching limbs, hot n cold, headaches, congestion
Absolutely grim
I commute on busy trains to London every day- wonder if its omicron and is good at immune evasion, tho my wife still seems protected
Either way get your boosters!
Really feel for those who've recently lost people. Thoughts with you.
Son has been coughing and sneezing badly all week. So far negative, but has been to the docs and has been given anti-biotics. MrsF sniffly with a bit of a cough - negative still - but having to WFH as the company lost a whole floor last week due to someone being in with a 'cold' that eventually turned out to be covid. Similar rules here - sniffles etc, then stay at home.
Count me in.
Daughter (S1) had a bad cold at the back end of last week, son's class (P5) sent home due to high case numbers. Wife also a bit of a cold.
They had PCRs on Tuesday, results came back Weds, wife and daughter positive, son negative. I was negative on LFT (although feeling a bit coldy and achey) took a PCR Weds and a positive result back this morning.
No change in my symptoms - yet.
An update - I seem to be almost back to normal (bar taste / smell) 2 weeks after likely infection date.
Days 1-4 didn't really feel bad, bit of a sniffle.
Day 5, felt but bad, LFT immediately +ve mid-morning. Had fever in the night.
Day 6 extreme fatigue, no smell / taste. PCR result +ve (unsurprisingly)
Day 7 bit more fever, more fatigue.
Days 8-9, no fever, bit of a cough can taste salt & feel chilli / heat.
Days 10-11, less fatigued, worked from home with some longish breaks
Days 12 - fatigue came back, stopped work early.
Day 13/14 (today) - some taste is coming back a bit very low level fatigue. LFT yesterday still a slight +ve (quite feint took 15 mins to come out).
Mrs Dubs seems to have avoided infection, but we've been doing quite well isolating from each other in the house.
Last day of isolation is tomorrow.
Double AZ jabbed and had the Pfizer booster yesterday. Felt cranky enough to take a LFT (neg) but feel shit today, can't even face driving. Is this a good or a bad thing?
