[Closed] Have any of us actually caught the Coronavirus yet then?

Not sure, been at home for 3 weeks though.

About 3 weeks ago, had an onset of tiredness/aches which put me in bed for a few days. Similar time was hot/cold.

Then a sore throat which lasted a day and went, then a strange cough where thick yellow globs were coming up, at the same time breathing felt 'odd' (labored?) - that lasted about 3 days.

This week still left with a cough, and still getting the odd hot/cold feeling.

Pretty much got all my energy back though.

It was confirmed at my place of work that someone tested positive for it - but that was yesterday, and not in the same office as me (only 1 street away though) 🙂

Me I think, tickly cough for last 24 hours and temp at 38ish. At least 3 possible direct/indirect contacts. Car in garage, how do I get that back? Hmmmm

I haven't.

No, but just returned from Austria, felt like we were almost getting caught up in the lockdown. Out of our party of 11, 2 have definite symptoms and the rest of us were waiting for it too, nothing as yet though with the rest of us.

Girl at work caught it whilst skiing in Austria a few weeks ago, positive test result, then self isolated for 2 weeks. She said it was no big deal, just like a mild cold, cam back to work on Monday, but then we all started wfh from Tuesday.

Another chap at work caught it at the Liverpool Madrid game last Wednesday, he still a bit ill, but again no big deal

Mrs TJ has just developed a temperature. Great! Where do I get a thermometer from to check how high a temp?

I had a pretty much exact description of the symptoms 2 weeks ago. But they were no longer testing non hospital cases even back then so just took 4 days off work while my lungs tried to climb out of body (I work from home anyway).

Had seasonal cold so was sent home. That then turned into sinusitis so signed off for another week and was told to self isolate.

I've not been abroad recently or been in contact with any confirmed cases. I'm normally pretty antisocial so pretty low risk.

Work had split everyone into two teams. The idea being to alternate each team between office and home. Given today's news about schools, I can see that changing as some will now have more need to WFH than others.

I started feeling tired and achy and developed a dry constant cough 2 weeks ago. After a couple of days a got proper fevery, freezing cold while hot to the touch, waking g in a puddle of sweat etc.

This came and went for 3 days. Cough is easing, still feel run down and tired. Followed the 7 day rule and went back to work this week.

Quite a few people off work with varying degrees of this. All started from a 2.5hrs meeting with a director who had just got back from skiing in Austria with same cough and fever symptoms. Yet he refused to go home (albeit before this all really kicked off).

I dont know if I've had 'it' although I hope so. I assume I'm fairly immune now so can get on, being very careful with handwashing distancing etc so I dont share round anything else. The instructions aren't very clear if you think you're post-corona.

I went to Portugal for a few days at the end of October and got most of the symptoms within a couple of days of returning.

Probably completely unrelated, but makes you think (how long is actually been out there).

Ps as xora I wasnt tested. Did nhs111 online, said speak to doc, had a telephone consultation and told to take paracetamol and drink water. Wish I'd asked a bit more but I was proper done in.

Neighbour had it, said like worst flu ever, found it difficult to breath for a couple of days, couldn’t lift their arms. Up and about now, ten days after symptoms appeared, looks rough and thinks will be a few weeks before back to normal.
Spoke to another who tested positive and had a week with mild cold like symptoms.

Tried to get tested but didn't have the required combination of symptoms/contact with positive cases so couldn't. Had shivers and sweats for a couple of days then just extreme tiredness for a week, seems to match the story of a lot of positive cases. Didn't have a temperature a couple days after it started when managed to procure a thermometer. Been self isolating for best part of two weeks now, people at work laughed when I said I was. Still tired!

Really hope that was it so it's out the way but no way of knowing I guess. Plenty people of work have been skiing in Italy etc, some were ill after, 50% of the positive cases here in Denmark are in the 40 - 59 age group, they think maybe because of so many people coming back from skiing holidays.

Possibly daughter has it. She’s been poorly since Saturday. Tickly cough (heavy cough), feeling very run down and a sore throat. We’ve been self isolating since. She doesn’t have a temperature so could just be a normal cold.
Daughter is an asthmatic so most colds give her a bad cough.
Both Mrs W and myself have a sore throat, only mild. I’ve a very gentle cough.

Meet isolation criteria. Who the flip knows is the answer - could be virus could be manflu. Without a test it's Roulette. Without any indication of how endemic or where the hotspots are cant really get an idea of more or less likely. Have had contact with people who had same symptoms and who also self isolated. I have thought realistically if I had it the figures must be way out - what would be the chances it would find me in the opening phase. Turned out background levels might be higher than thought. Friends have been great in terms of checking in / sorting food - will be paying that forward.

If it's not virus then what ever I have had has softened me up nicely. Done all the symptoms in no particular order of no particular difficulty apart from the breathing. Started with chest thing which I thought was part of asthma. Seem to get other things every other day. Latest is sore through for last 48hrs+. Wouldn't have done isolation in other times as it would just be a bug thing. The only thing that makes we me think it may be virus is the dramatic drop in fitness / easy onset of fatigue. Tried an easy Zwift start of week. I said it was mild - mentally felt ready for a flat spin. Not going to try again until the weekend - bowing hard at about a third FTP and that's not high. Had to sack it off feeling I'd done a 2hr session after a virtual 10km. Guess as more people post up their experiences those of us at the random and mild end will get a better frame of reference.

What I have had / have is an inconvenience but not being inconvenienced might have potentially lethal consequences for others. It's going to embarrassing if I get it over the next few weeks or months. I'm sharing a perspective because it's a novel times and people are still getting to grips with this. A week ago isolation was a relatively rare thing - now that's much more common the views of a criteria meeter aren't as relevant because more people are having the same experiences.

I'd already had a mildish manflu19 for three weeks, but came home to a coughing better half yesterday, she phoned work and they said stay away just in case it's the real deal... So I have to now self-isolate too.

I'm still not coughing, but I've developed a scratchy throat, a headache that paracetamol doesn't completely shift and an extra level of fatigue compared to how I've been since late Feb.

As much as the idea of going for my first road bike ride today in the dry weather in over two months was very appealing, I ended up doing a steady Zwift race, where I raced for the first ~130secs.

Ah bugger, daughters temperature has increased, not reached 37.8 yet, but gone from 36.7 this morning to 37.5 now. Bugger.

On 20th of Feb my 4yr old developed a dry cough and a high temperature (38.5), went away within 48 hours. A day later I developed swollen glands and an sore throat. Lasted five days, but knackered for a week afterwards. Day after I recovered (fifth day) my missus got the same thing, but worse. 24 hours of temperature incl cold and hot sweats, with swollen glands, trouble swallowing, minor breathing issues and then a very, very sore throat. We went to the doctor and told low risk but self isolate, which we did. On reflection I think we probably had it, we live in Traffird and there were a few confirmed cases at that time. No way of knowing for sure though..

End of January,killing headache, dry throat,really sore neck and swollen,couldnt get my breath, sweating one minute then shivering like a jelly in a wind tunnel,lasted about a week,then a terrible cough like something stuck in throat, for 2 weeks plus, cheap cough medicine Halls branded, and lots of milk seemed to take the itch away, now recovered a lot, quite a few customers had similar symptoms at the time.

Paracetemol and ibroprofen seemed to take pain away and let you sleep better as does hot steamy showers and propping up pillows eg quite a few pillows.

Felt like the time i got septicaemia, but not quite as bad.

Let's face it, if reports are to be believed, any of us could have had it with the mildest of symptoms or even none at all.

Possibly, but like everybody else, without testing its difficult to know for sure.

Had a sore throat on Saturday morning, and by lunchtime had to go to bed and slept through until 5pm. Felt like the usual symptoms of man flu - fatigue, shivering, sweating, repeated all the way through to Monday morning by which time the sore throat was tailing off & the other symptoms were virtually gone. I couldn't sleep properly at night as I was tossing & turning so frequently.

I haven't coughed once since the sore throat started, or had any trouble breathing.

Both kids have also each had one of the main symptoms, ones had a cough (which could just be his regular asthma cough) without any fever, and the others had a high temperature for a few days but no cough.

Would be interesting to find out for sure.

I've had a cough for nearly 2 weeks. And a nasty cold. And some breathlessness, which led to chest pains and a visit to A&E last night (all clear).

But no test so no idea.

This is a big issue really. People would act differently if they knew, both during the illness and afterwards.

I've been told on 111 and at the hospital that we don't have enough tests, thus the current system of only testing people so ill they are hospitalised.

If a sore throat and feeling a bit off are the symptoms then about three times so far - so probably no then.

I’ve developed a scratchy throat, a headache that paracetamol doesn’t completely shift and an extra level of fatigue

Had this for a week or so. The fatigue in the limbs is impressive enough, but the headache just doesn't go.
No fever (we're still measuring twice a day at work), and no cough. So whether I have it is up in the air. We do have a factory or two in North Italy, and people have been travelling extensively up until a week or so ago

I do, day 3 and it’s absolutely awful

So far 9 people at work have it none of us have direct contact with each other however our chief exec came round early last week to update us on plans for covid 19 so we’re guessing he’s the carrier.
We all have the same symptoms which are inline with government guidelines.

I’m on the 3rd floor at home, it comes in waves of feeling almost human to feeling like the worst fever ever, shivers, sweats etc

I’m currently in bed with two fleeces and a duvet and hat.

I’m missing my family despite them only being a floor below.

If you catch it stay positive

Pretty sure I had it last week. Returned from ski trip, had all the symptoms. Many people from the ski accomodation also sick and 6 confirmed ( including the guys sharing our bathroom) via testing in their country. TBH it wasn't all that bad, just felt shite for 4 days and slightly ill for two more. Now back to full health.

Would be worth the government highlighting the fact that for the majority of people it will just be a slight inconvenience. I didn't even need a day off work - I just worked from home.

Just got home and my wife, who works in the nhs has declared us isolated. She has a cough that has come on in the last couple of hours and is currently sat in her bra and pants ( stop it children) sweating profusely. I feel absolutely fine but have felt a bit rough for a few days earlier this week. My business partner has this evening got one of the last flights back from Cyprus so fortunately we can keep the business running for the time being. Might be fitter coming out the other end. Cross trainer, treadmill, turbo and sit up bench all need dusting off. We are in South Yorkshire and up to this evening I hadn’t heard of one person who had got symptoms. It has been astonishing watching pictures of relatively deserted parts of London when things up here have been carrying on pretty much as normal.

Just back from 2 weeks in Spain at the weekend, no fever but cough for last 7 days, tight chest and pretty tired.

Its impossible to tell without testing, the symptoms have such a broad range dependent on host.

Not sure, felt really tired Saturday, woke up Sunday with the raging fever and cough, spent the day asleep. Have felt okay since Tuesday, but work have signed me off for the week.

Dry, wheezy cough and aching legs, no temperature. Mrs has cough and temp of 39. Both sent home from work and self isolating. Whether it's Covid 19 or not who knows?

so plenty of probably/maybe's but no confirmed/tested cases.

SIL has all the symptoms obviously not tested, got to drive to Kingston upon Thames on saturday to drop her food. Is that london? If I was locked down with her I dont think we'd both survive 48hrs!!!

God knows if I’ve had it.

3 weeks ago I had severe muscle aches and dizziness that last about 3 days, was waking me up in the night.

Last day or so developed dry throat and dry tickly cough, dizziness, but then I’ve been working long hours with little food/water.

I’ve been around people who are now self isolating.

Who knows though.

Started a few days ago with feeling very cold and tired. Since then I have had a slight tightness of breath, the odd dry cough, a few aches and pains, an unsettled feeling in my stomach, a few minor headaches and feeling tired. All symptoms have been pretty mild though. But, again I have no idea if this C 19 or not. However me and partner are self isolating anyway as it seems quite likely.

Been thinking about the experience a bit more. From a poorly in a pandemic point of view:

It's like walking in someone else's shoes

Any of us could get ill during this, might be virus might be anything. If any of us are ill it's going to be against a background of people having their life experiences dialled to eleven.

My suggestions:

Be considerate - follow the precautions, no one really wants it but you cant avoid it alone

Be kind and tolerant - we're hot housing people on the life event front and then we are going to chuck in a bout of illness.

Pandemic is the new thing and everything else is just more in greater combinations of what people already deal with day to day. If it's already been experienced by someone else then there's usually an answer kicking around somewhere. Following that logic:

In the words of Bill & Ted - Be Excellent to each another

so plenty of probably/maybe’s but no confirmed/tested cases

And unless we're admitted, we won't be. Extrapolation from current death toll would suggest around 150k live cases in UK, only 50k tests, a mere 2.6k confirmed.

The UK desperately needs more testing, to know. where this thing has got to.

Well this is interesting. My other half has a temperature but I do not know how high because there is not a thermometer to be had anywhere near us and the GPs does not want her there! do I isolate or not? I am supposed to be at work tomorrow - looking after old folk. The advice is to isolate if temp above 37.8 but how the heck can I tell this?

Either Amazon Prime (if you can wait - there are one or two on there still - try kids section rather than medical?) or if you know anyone with young children, chances are they may have a spare thermometer they can leave on your doorstep?

Ta

Edit - I found one! what sort of nurse am I not having one!

My wife and the kids had the "lurgy" just after xmas, all the symptoms mentioned here and elsewhere. She's asthmatic, so it knocked her out for a few weeks, and now she's convinced that was it. A GP friend of ours is also convinced she had it before xmas, so who knows. I've had a headache for about a week, but as all my work has gone for the foreseeable future, I think it's just stress.

Mrs TJ has a temp of 37.8. We are in isolation for two weeks. Wish us luck - their may only be one of us reappear as being together 24/7 for 2 weeks might well mean murder!

We'll look for you under the new patio TJ. Good luck.

Edit – I found one! what sort of nurse am I not having one!

I wasn't gonna say anything.

🙂

Daughters School just rang, she's started coughing... so that's 2 weeks isolation for us.

Our only hope is that Mrs is NHS so we might get tested so she can keep working.

2 of our Subbies have just laid off staff.

I blame the virus for me not being fit on my bike. Cant possibly the pies and lack of excerse, can it ?

I think I might've had it - I was in northern Italy a day before the news broke of their crisis. I felt quite crap immediately after getting home, I was weak, and struggled on the bike in an all-over weakness sort of way when I finally got back on it about ten days later. My wife was also ill and she had breathing difficulties. I had bad guts which is one of the rarer symptoms. PHW said we were fine after an intense grilling on the phone.

I had the norovirus back in January. Was totally wiped.

Picked up a bad cold/man flu a couple weeks back. Headache, one day of feeling really shit, shivery, might’ve been a bit feverish for an hour or two. Went to work next day as feeling okay and there’s been a bit in the office already. Developed a dry cough which has persisted.

I was supposed to go to the dentist but decided he’d not want me coughing at him so cancelled. As my dentist is >100 miles away I’d planned on a weekend trip, as cancelled ended up pretty much self isolated. No symptoms other than the persistent cough. Spoke to the doc,who said >7 days you can go back to work. Couple people at Work freaked out (inc the person I’m blaming for giving me the cold in the first place!) at my cough so been WFH ever since. Still got the cough. Nothing else.

Work is pretty much shutting down in the office anyway, everyone who can is WFH.

Only 4 official cases reported in Highland so far, but no testing so WTF knows.

Us 4 Listers self isolated on Tuesday evening when my 11yr old daughter came home from school with a new cough.
All of us have a mild cough and I’ve been sneezing and have snot.
I’m fairly sure we haven’t got it but are doing the right thing and are staying home.
I can’t help but feel a bit like a fraud but we can’t take the risk for the greater good.

Can’t wait for another 2 weeks lockdown in the future when we DO get it! 🙄

So one person knows someone who has. If you haven't been tested, then you don't know. I might as well post "I am fine, but 20% of sufferers are asymptomatic, therefore I have had it".

Hopefully we will have more widely available testing soon - so we can actually understand what is going on.

Maybe, I've had some matching symptoms at the very low end of the severity range but without testing how can you know? Looking at even the higher estimates for its prevalence in the population though it's highly unlikely just on the numbers.

We're in a strange position, i've been ordered to self-isolate as my 10 year old daughter is Type 1 diabetic and work have agreed to let me work from home and look after her, but my wife is on front line at local hospital having slightly changed roles as normally she is a therapeutic radiographer on a cancer ward, but they have noted that COVID19 seems to be quite distinct on CT scans, so they're back in training on their CT scanning techniques that shes not done for a while.

So she is in and out of hospital each day and they're still not testing NHS staff despite the fact she walks through a cancer department full of people with no immune systems, then back home to us where we're self-isolating but the biggest risk is my wife!!

All of us have a mild cough and I’ve been sneezing and have snot.
I’m fairly sure we haven’t got it but are doing the right thing and are staying home.

This is just what I thought, and mostly still do.

But the cough got worse to the point that I'm ticking off more of symptoms and now feeling 50/50 on whether I've got it.

Ultimately it doesn't matter I know, but it's something to talk about, eh?

I think I've had it for the last eight days, looks like my mum has it too. Symptoms are very mild for myself, a very slightly stuffy nose and a consistent bad throat that's always a bit worse in the morning, dry cough always worse in the evening and when I do manage to cough something up it's like swallowing broken glass.

I think me and now our son may have it. Not sure where from, but horrid head cold, then very sore dry throat, headache, general aches and a bloody awful cough and really tight chest/ shortness of breath. Thankfully no temp though, so we're all in the 14 day isolation, thankfully I can escape on Tuesday after 7 days. Test would be great to know if we do have it and then I can get back to work and support my colleagues who are flat out with and have been since the start of the outbreak.

Edit – I found one! what sort of nurse am I not having one!

Was it with your upside downy watch

Similar to chakaping, got a cold but the cabin fever as much as anything else is making me doubt myself...

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy......
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Dunno, tbh. I've had a sore throat/ annoying dry cough for 10 days now. No feverishness/ flu symptoms so I started out by thinking it was just a sore throat/ annoying dry cough.

Now I'm not sure, and with a complete absence of testing*, I suspect I won't know until I actually catch Covid19.

*see, people can only test positive if they can actually get tested. So limit testing and you limit the number of cases - genius!!

Edit – I found one! what sort of nurse am I not having one!

One who doesn't steal from work?

Wife felt pretty rough a few weeks ago with sore throat & cold like symptoms. I think she caught this from her mum who was similar. A few days after that I felt really rough with a bad chest. Fortuantely it only lasted a couple of days. Our 9 week old however came down with a very severe temperature of 41'c and we spent 3 nights in hospital with him. He's fine now though

Right - we have been in isolation for 5 hours now. Boredom is setting in so :
We have 14 rolls of bog paper at 160 sheets per roll and if we average 8 sheets per shit we have enough to shit 10 times a day for the 2 weeks we are in isolation

I started feeling tired and achy and developed a dry constant cough 2 weeks ago. After a couple of days a got proper fevery, freezing cold while hot to the touch, waking g in a puddle of sweat etc.

That perfectly describes a set of symptoms I had. Seven or eight years ago, maybe more. Utterly miserable, felt really ill, I was wrapping myself in bath towels when I went to bed, otherwise my bedding was cold and wet within an hour or so. I ached, had a cough, my head was producing what seemed like oceans of green goo, and I was working while feeling like that!
In fact, most winters I had a virus with most of those symptoms minus the heavy sweating, because I worked in what was a a fairly sealed environment with a whole bunch of people in close proximity.
Since changing to driving jobs, I’m outside most of the time, and I haven’t had anything like it since, however I’m in self-isolation from today, my g/f suddenly developed a dry cough last night, and I was feeling very achy yesterday, although I have an arthritic knee, a history of it via my mum, and achy joints have become more noticeable with colder, wet weather.
Do I have it? Christ knows, without testing, and that’s just not an option. Does my g/f have it? Same answer. We’re assuming she has, but as her shifts with B&M mean she wouldn’t be working until Sunday, and then not until Tuesday, so she can just skip one day and have the seven days to work through it.
Me, I now have an unexpected fortnight’s holiday!

Do I have it? Christ knows, without testing, and that’s just not an option. Does my g/f have it? Same answer.

There's the rub, once back into the real world it's roulette again. It's going to be interesting once the tedium kicks in few weeks / months. How many people are going to be in our situation and then decide it was it and want to be out? With a biosecurity it's not for me I've had it attitude.

Had a sore throat and felt a bit off on Friday morning, the throat has been sore the whole time since, but I've not once coughed or had a temperature. So probably not.

I think they are developing antibody tests so they hopefully will be able to tell if you have had it.

So one person knows someone who has. If you haven’t been tested, then you don’t know. I might as well post “I am fine, but 20% of sufferers are asymptomatic, therefore I have had it”.

I know two people who have been confirmed as having the virus, one from work and one mate

Both are at home and feel like absolute shit, but doing ok (both under 45 and healthy)
Plus two others that I don’t know personally that have it, that were on the same stag do with my mate.

tjagain
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Right – we have been in isolation for 5 hours now. Boredom is setting in so :
We have 14 rolls of bog paper at 160 sheets per roll and if we average 8 sheets per shit we have enough to shit 10 times a day for the 2 weeks we are in isolation

You’ll be wiped out at the end of that

I haven't, feel a bit crap but don't think it is that.
one of my guys at work has got it, and his girlfriend has been hit hard.

Nope don't know anyone who has.

Haven't panic bought anything either. I'm waiting for it to calm down a bit, then I'll swoop on the mountains of dirt cheap bog roll.

Right – we have been in isolation for 5 hours now. Boredom is setting in so :
We have 14 rolls of bog paper at 160 sheets per roll and if we average 8 sheets per shit we have enough to shit 10 times a day for the 2 weeks we are in isolation

Get a bidet.

I really like bidets.

An antibody test would be a game chnager.

If the people on here were confirmed to have had it; you can't get it, you can't spread it.

How much good could be done in the community as volunteers?

tjagain
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Right – we have been in isolation for 5 hours now

If you update us every 5 hours for the next fortnight, I'm coming down there and building the double sized new patio...

I’m not sure if I’ve got it or not, but taking notes chances as am in self isolation

Was in Austria last week where one direct contact has it as confirmed and 4 more who have had direct contact with friends with whom we socialise have it

I’ve been in bed with aches, dry throat, congestion (but more like inflamed sinuses rather than snotty) and a migraine for about 3 days. Am also fatigued. Normal illness, I hear you cry...

The interesting thing though, which is consistent with all of the people testing positive on our whatsapp group is that we have all lost our sense of taste and smell. Totally gone.

So I am not sure if I have or haven’t - but taking absolutely no chances.

tjagain
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Right – we have been in isolation for 5 hours now

If you update us every 5 hours for the next fortnight, I’m coming down there and building the double sized new patio…

Hourly updates?

Wife, generally healthy (cycles part of commute), non smoker, no underlying health issues.

Two days ago, rapid onset of severe tiredness, severe aches, shortness of breath/laboured breathing, dry cough, slight headache.

Came home from work.

No runny nose, no elevated temp.

Said it felt like flu but a bit worse.

Lay down. Didn't move.

Had no previous breathing issues but noticeable shortness of breath with this infection.

Rapid upswing today.

Cardiac Physiologist, Midlands hospital. No PPE. No testing available for her. Patients "lists" (scans) still running up to Tuesday afternoon. Some test (bubble) essentially require them to cough.

I'm comfortable in saying she's got Covid-19.

The symptoms that McCraque and BaronVonP7 describe are the same as mine and son's. Which is reassuring if it is COVID-19 that we can share how we're being affected and it reinforces the evidence that it's the majority who will get mild symptoms.

I panicked a bit this morning as I had a tickly cough that persisted for about 10 minutes. I then coughed up a bit of crust from some toast I had at breakfast and the cough disappeared....

Girlfriends just messaged saying she has shortness of breath. It might be nothing, but who knows? 😬. She's fit, young and healthy, so should be fine. I on the other hand, have had pneumonia twice, and slight asthma, and a bad chest infection before Christmas. Wish me luck.

Got something at the moment, quite tired headache etc. Hopefully it's my seasonal man-flu.