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I'm not going to get in trouble for the fact that I told them to leave us alone and not phone again, am I?

(Probably ridiculous but I have this mental image of plod in full biohazard suits turning up to arrest us for failing to comply with pandemic legislation or something. And yeah, I have an overactive imagination with a slightly paranoid streak)
 
The "survey" that I just completed (that they said was 15 minutes) took 45 minutes and ended with an exam about self-isolation regulations.

Please tell me that the increase in NIC is not going towards paying for this?
 
The thing is, I've actually worked in animal health epidemiology - mapping and contact tracing during outbreaks of disease in livestock, so I have some idea of how it is supposed to work - and this is just all ridiculous.

It is useful in terms of stopping early spread to try to halt or slow an outbreak of disease, but the horse (or the blistered pig, perhaps) has well and truly left the stable at a full gallop several months ago at this point. I'm in favour of measures to protect people, but this is just a box-checking exercise and a bureaucratic nightmare. It could be useful if it was more efficient, but I don't think it is achieving what we might imagine it is supposed to achieve.

None of what I have experienced is doing anything to "head it off at the pass" so to speak or to prevent or minimise transmission - it is all follow-up after the event, a lot of which is just form-filling for the sake of it, and while that follow-up might be important in the early stages of a novel infectious disease to learn about transmission, it is just a paper exercise at this point. IMO.
 
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Bahnhof Strasse said:
Yes, thanks. A very mild cold. God bless them vaccines!
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Glad to hear it is not too bad for you, we've been quite unwell despite being triple vaxxed and I wouldn't want to get this fucker full blast that is for sure (milder than when I had that really nasty swine flu, but not by much).

Hoping it stays mild for you and that you have a swift recovery!
 
Epona said:
Glad to hear it is not too bad for you, we've been quite unwell despite being triple vaxxed and I wouldn't want to get this fucker full blast that is for sure (milder than when I had that really nasty swine flu, but not by much).

Hoping it stays mild for you and that you have a swift recovery!
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Thanks x
 
Epona said:
Glad to hear it is not too bad for you, we've been quite unwell despite being triple vaxxed and I wouldn't want to get this fucker full blast that is for sure (milder than when I had that really nasty swine flu, but not by much).
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Similar here.

Day 8 today and yesterday I felt so shitty I couldn't even summon up the energy to come on here and moan about it :D
Just lay on the sofa and watched documentaries, oh and Arrival which is as bloody brilliant as I remembered it (although it turns out I'd forgotten quite a lot, which was nice).

Better today. It's a right fucking rollercoaster though. Tested earlier for the lolz and it came up positive so fast that the two lines basically formed at the same time as I watched after dropping the solution in.

Thank fuck for online grocery deliveries.
 
I'm out of isolation. A very weird suspended-in-time period. Got a bit draggy towards the end but I'm very thankful I had it really mildly. I've been getting wheezy and short of breath before bedtime and first thing and occasionally my legs feel shaky and weak but if that's all then I've done very well. Hugs to everyone who needs 'em. You got this.
 
I'm snotbags and sneezbags again ffs. Started with a scratchy throat yesterday afternoon, then sniffles and sneezes, followed by a crap nights sleep cuz it felt like I'd swallowed a knife, now my nose is running like a tap, sneezing like anything, and my head hurts.

No cough. No temperature.

Negative LFT yesterday evening but it was day 1 of symptoms. Gonna do another one today.

FFS I cant have it again, can I? I only had it at Christmas. 🤬🤬🤬
 
FabricLiveBaby! said:
I'm snotbags and sneezbags again ffs. Started with a scratchy throat yesterday afternoon, then sniffles and sneezes, followed by a crap nights sleep cuz it felt like I'd swallowed a knife, now my nose is running like a tap, sneezing like anything, and my head hurts.

No cough. No temperature.

Negative LFT yesterday evening but it was day 1 of symptoms. Gonna do another one today.

FFS I cant have it again, can I? I only had it at Christmas. 🤬🤬🤬
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You should get a PCR if you have symptoms, which you do
 
Day 9 today and still feel shit - tomorrow is supposedly my last day of self isolation but I was still testing positive yesterday - really thick line showing immediately, which I guess means I've got a high load in nose/throat still, so unless I test negative today I'm probably going to be sensible and stay in a bit longer.

I wonder if the fact I didn't test positive until day 5 is relevant, I just got vertigo and dizziness the first 3 days so might have been a very early symptom.

Anyway I don't want to give this to anyone else so am going to go by LFTs to know when to stop isolating even if it means I do an extra couple of days in Covid Jail.
 
S☼I said:
You should get a PCR if you have symptoms, which you do
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Lol! Fuck that!

If I do that my husband would murder me!

Over here they quarrentine the whole house straight away just on request of PCR (for 2 days) and then if its positive they quarrentine the whole house for 7 days if everyone else is symptomless regardless of vaccine status.

Sick people have to quarrentine for 10 days, and then if anyone else in the house gets sick (ie my husband) then its 10 days again for EVERYONE (including me!). One household was HOLED UP FOR 40 DAYS.

Plus its quarrentine 10 days from positive PCR result not from onset of symptoms so I'd likely be holed up with my husband for 2 weeks at least.

Then they sign you off even for working online - except I don't get sick pay cuz of my shitty contract.

It's not like I'm going anywhere anyway.

I'm sitting on my arse until/if I test positive and if it clears up without positive goodo, and if not I'll let the school know I wont be doing my office visits.

Fucking sick of this shite honestly.
 
I really feel today (12 days after testing positive) as though sitting doing nothing for ten days gave me a false sense of how unaffected I was by Covid. Last night I walked to the shop (5 mins each way) and was very breathless by the time I got back. This morning I've cleaned and swept the kitchen and had to have a two hour rest. Seems any physical activity makes me very tired. My legs are weak af and I never feel like that, and I'm coughing now and again. I just feel so drained.
 
S☼I said:
I really feel today (12 days after testing positive) as though sitting doing nothing for ten days gave me a false sense of how unaffected I was by Covid. Last night I walked to the shop (5 mins each way) and was very breathless by the time I got back. This morning I've cleaned and swept the kitchen and had to have a two hour rest. Seems any physical activity makes me very tired. My legs are weak af and I never feel like that, and I'm coughing now and again. I just feel so drained.
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Mrs B still feels like this 24 days after testing positive, fortunately she was only back in school for a couple of days before half-term. I tested positive after her, had more time off work, and feel completely back to normal now. It's an odd virus.
 
Day 8 and a clear test. Did feel quite ropey at times, then Monday felt fine, then shit yesterday, feel fine today. A clear test tomorrow and I'm free to go (free to go anyway from tomorrow according to that clown Johnson).
 
Have done my first proper exercise (two return shortish cycle rides and an hour long dance class) since getting ill. Did get out of breath slightly more quickly, but probably comparable to what I would have felt like anyway after 3 weeks of no exercise more vigorous than walking. However, my muscles, particularly my leg muscles, were noticeably struggling much more.

We’ll see how I feel tomorrow. I could cycle to work but could also opt to get the bus if I’m feeling overly tired.
 
I mentioned it on another thread but I still have really quite bad vertigo (OH also has the same, but I am quite exhausted still whereas his energy levels are ok - I do have issues with fatigue anyway though).

I went 2 stops on the DLR (outdoors and elevated above ground section of the line) on Monday and had to sit down and take some deep breaths when I got off to stop myself hurling. Very unpleasant, I don't recommend using that particular form of transport if you are dizzy or are suffering from vertigo or ear-related balance issues.
 
Have a thing which not sure if related or not, but for three weeks now the muscle at the top of my right arm has ached like crazy when I stretch the arm, not massively stretch, just plucking a tin of beans off a shelf slightly higher than head height. It was that arm the jab went in, could it be related?
 
Agent Sparrow said:
Have done my first proper exercise (two return shortish cycle rides and an hour long dance class) since getting ill. Did get out of breath slightly more quickly, but probably comparable to what I would have felt like anyway after 3 weeks of no exercise more vigorous than walking. However, my muscles, particularly my leg muscles, were noticeably struggling much more.

We’ll see how I feel tomorrow. I could cycle to work but could also opt to get the bus if I’m feeling overly tired.
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For some reason I had really fractured sleep last night, gave in and took 2.5mg (1/4 tablet) zolpidem at around 2am which at least gave me a four hour chunk of sleep. Today I feel tired, foggy headed and a bit achey, not usually things I can attribute to that low dose of sleeping meds. I think I’ll be taking the bus today and considering cycling again on Monday. No real reason for overdoing it apart from impatience.
 
Agent Sparrow said:
For some reason I had really fractured sleep last night, gave in and took 2.5mg (1/4 tablet) zolpidem at around 2am which at least gave me a four hour chunk of sleep. Today I feel tired, foggy headed and a bit achey, not usually things I can attribute to that low dose of sleeping meds. I think I’ll be taking the bus today and considering cycling again on Monday. No real reason for overdoing it apart from impatience.
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I think definitely don't push yourself too hard - even if you don't usually have to use it, the "spoons" method can be useful too when recovering from a virus - if it is going to cost you 2 spoons out of an available 10 to cycle to and from work right now, then definitely get the bus so you have a bit more energy to do other things.

Taking it easy and not overdoing it is a big part of recovering well from anything of this nature.

Hope you feel a lot more back to normal soon!
 
I did cycle in today but went the route with more traffic but fewer hills. I can tell my leg muscles are noticeably weaker but that might just be deconditioning from not having done much these last few weeks. It wasn’t too bad, hopefully wfh tomorrow anyway so will be getting back to normal exercise routine gradually.
 
Got my dance class tonight, last week’s was my first return to exercise. Feeling shattered (broken sleep last night) and the tail end of an allergic reaction yesterday. Normally I would push myself to go, but just remembered I’m only a few weeks post COVID. Would probably be silly to push myself, wouldn’t it? :(

Edit: staying at home. Maybe this is a good opportunity in general to rethink the whole “pushing yourself” thing when you’re not feeling great.
 
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Well my son has it, absolutely hellish yesterday vomiting, face bright red lips looking sort of dark and swollen, completely floored, pounding headache. He's way better atm though he did spew again this morning and the red face has returned to normalish. But last night he said he heard really loud noises in his head like thunder when I went to check on him. WTAF. Thankfully no such auditory halluncinations this morning!
 
HoratioCuthbert said:
Well my son has it, absolutely hellish yesterday vomiting, face bright red lips looking sort of dark and swollen, completely floored, pounding headache. He's way better atm though he did spew again this morning and the red face has returned to normalish. But last night he said he heard really loud noises in his head like thunder when I went to check on him. WTAF. Thankfully no such auditory halluncinations this morning!
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I remember my sister used to hallucinate often when we had bugs as a kid. Hope he feels better soon!

Edit: Often rather than "all the time"
 
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