HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Yeah he's certainly had the visual ones before so I imagine it's a similar sort of thing!
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steveo87
22/11/2022 - got a maths joke.
I'm OK so far, but Mrs o87 caught it last week, but I've just about managed to dodge it.
She's definitely getting better, but I've been worried all week (because she's has asthma) that it would 'get on her chest' and make it a million tinea worse.
She's triple jabbed, incidentally.
She's definitely getting better, but I've been worried all week (because she's has asthma) that it would 'get on her chest' and make it a million tinea worse.
She's triple jabbed, incidentally.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
If I don't get it it will be a miracle, leaving my son in his room on his own with the state he was in yesterday was just a non-starter, and I was up checking on him through the night too. At least I've been triple jabbed but muh viral dose will through the roof mun.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Research suggests asthmatics are not necessarily more at risk - perhaps due to their medication..
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Aye, OH's asthma was poorly controlled up until recently when he was put on a powder preventer which made a world of difference - thankfully this happened just before we got COVID - he was using his reliever more during the first few days but it didn't get really bad like I'd feared.
I think had his medication not been changed, it could have been worse - he has been in and out of hospital with it the last couple of years and it was not under control at all - thankfully his GP finally pulled his finger out and got him on some new meds.
I think had his medication not been changed, it could have been worse - he has been in and out of hospital with it the last couple of years and it was not under control at all - thankfully his GP finally pulled his finger out and got him on some new meds.
Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
In regards to asthma I got a cold virus in December, which caused an asthma exacerbation requiring oral steroids. It lead to such an awful cough I took another PCR after the first one (both negative). As ill as I later got with COVID, the cough wasn’t nearly as bad and qualitatively different to December’s. There was a time right at the end when I felt a bit tight but then it went again.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
May I have a warm welcome to the party. Pretty symptom free atm, the only thing that alerted me was a bit of a sore throat.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Welcome to the thread. Hope you and your son are OK.
I spoke to a doctor yesterday after still not being better seven weeks after testing positive. I'm mostly just experiencing fatigue now, but it was particularly bad at the beginning of the week after I overdid things on Sunday.
Doctor thinks I may be experiencing post viral fatigue so I'm going for a blood test next week to rule out other possibilities and said if I don't feel significantly better in three weeks they will refer me to a Long Covid clinic.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Vertigo? I've thinking I've been feeling a bit dizzy. Which feels very odd not like normal flu. Is that what you mean?
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
After having all the jabs Ive got Covid. Hoping the jabs mean I don't get long Covid. Is that a gaurentee if one gets the jabs?
I was hoping I'd got away with not getting it. Been five days.Not coughing but feeling unusually weak. Which isn't me as I'm physically very active normally.
I was hoping I'd got away with not getting it. Been five days.Not coughing but feeling unusually weak. Which isn't me as I'm physically very active normally.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Yes vertigo and dizziness were our first symptoms - both me and OH. He got it very badly and was throwing up due to motion sickeness because the room wouldn't stop spinning. Then I got it. He tested positive 3 days later and me the day after that.
Apparently it is a not uncommon early symptom of some variants (I think Omicron). Mine is still persisting a bit (vertigo).
If it's only been five days you feel weak because you're still ill!
Amazing you've only just got it, I've had it about 3 times already.
Reno
The In Kraut
I currently have Covid, I got sick on Wednesday. I'm triple jabbed and it's my first time. At work we have to test twice a week. I still had some of those tests at home and it turns out they are useless because they kept coming back negative. Only the test which I did yesterday at a test center confirmed that I'm postive.
I've got a dizzy feeling which if I had a cold or flu I would associate with having a high temperature but while slightly raised, I don't have a fever. Otherwise I've got a cough and that's it.
I quit my job and am supposed to start at my new work on Wednesday, so I hope I'll be alright by then. I've alread informed them that I'm sick. In Germany you have to isolate for 10 days but if you have a negative test after 7 days you can end your quarantine.
I'm worried that I'm going to infect my cat, he's got several pre-existing conditions and I don't know how badly animals are affected by the virus. I air the flat a lot and I'm wearing my mask when he comes near and then he looks at me like I've gone mad and scampers off.
I've got a dizzy feeling which if I had a cold or flu I would associate with having a high temperature but while slightly raised, I don't have a fever. Otherwise I've got a cough and that's it.
I quit my job and am supposed to start at my new work on Wednesday, so I hope I'll be alright by then. I've alread informed them that I'm sick. In Germany you have to isolate for 10 days but if you have a negative test after 7 days you can end your quarantine.
I'm worried that I'm going to infect my cat, he's got several pre-existing conditions and I don't know how badly animals are affected by the virus. I air the flat a lot and I'm wearing my mask when he comes near and then he looks at me like I've gone mad and scampers off.
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Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
Been informed that somebody at a thing I was at on Thursday morning has the Rona (indeed tested positive less than an hour after it finished - not sure why they didn’t test before they went 
). If it was the sneezy person I was in quite close contact. Hoping that myself and youngest, who was also there, should be still immune given we were ill just over a month ago!
). If it was the sneezy person I was in quite close contact. Hoping that myself and youngest, who was also there, should be still immune given we were ill just over a month ago!
Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
Reno, even if it’s a new job don’t start unless you genuinely are feeling better. I found that I had many false starts, which might have been due to trying to restart things too quickly.
And I’m pretty sure I didn’t infect my cat, despite lots of cuddles when ill and a really high viral load (my positive line was the strongest I’ve seen). She was sick a few times but as she bounced back when kids went back to school, vet thinks it might have been stress from having us all at home.
And I’m pretty sure I didn’t infect my cat, despite lots of cuddles when ill and a really high viral load (my positive line was the strongest I’ve seen). She was sick a few times but as she bounced back when kids went back to school, vet thinks it might have been stress from having us all at home.
Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
Any people who have periods - did you get some weird symptoms pre menstrually after your initial recovery? I definitely needed to start pacing my activities again as I started getting light headed on standing, several times a day. Got slightly worried as friend with long COVID has POTS but thankfully it does seem to have stopped with my period.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Cats (and dogs) can catch it from humans, but are usually symptomless - if your boy is immunosuppressed (FIV or other conditions or certain medications) it might be a good idea to phone your vet to ask for advice, otherwise I would try not to worry too much - obviously take the usual precautions like washing your hands before touching your cat or his food/bowls, don't kiss or cuddle him close to your face, don't sneeze or cough on him etc. - most that catch it do not get ill. Of course if he does become unwell, contact the vet right away.
Here is the CDC page on COVID and pets:
(EDIT: I do wonder whether Jakey got a very mild case, he is on me a lot of the time, and he did have a few days where he was a bit sneezy and slept a little more than usual - but it didn't last long and he wasn't unwell unwell iykwim).
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
Not caught it yet afaik....but was in close contact with a patient who had a positive lft. We were both masked.
I accepted quite a while ago that I was always going to be in contact with positive people on mostly daily basis.... I just wouldn't be aware of it. Hence continued 3 x weekly lft and masks in public.
We now have to perform a lft on patients prior to their surgery so that we can physically see the test result develop.
Previously daycase patients just had to show an lft result.....unfortunately this is not evidence of whose test result it is!
I accepted quite a while ago that I was always going to be in contact with positive people on mostly daily basis.... I just wouldn't be aware of it. Hence continued 3 x weekly lft and masks in public.
We now have to perform a lft on patients prior to their surgery so that we can physically see the test result develop.
Previously daycase patients just had to show an lft result.....unfortunately this is not evidence of whose test result it is!
Oula
Voice of a Goddess Giant
Is this how it's done, rather than PCR?
Also do you know if you have to wait a certain amount of time after having covid before having an operation?
I'm waiting for my gallbladder removal and just had covid.
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
In my trust, as a daycase patient you would just have to have a negative lft. But if you were staying in then it would be a pcr test as well.
Thora
Differently Ethical
My 11 year old has covid at the moment (for the 1st time) and has been surprisingly unwell with it - fever and just slept pretty constantly for a couple of days.
I've been a close contact a few times in the last couple of years and don't seem to have caught it but obviously I have been a very close and prolonged contact of my son so we will see. Negative lft today and yesterday though.
I've been a close contact a few times in the last couple of years and don't seem to have caught it but obviously I have been a very close and prolonged contact of my son so we will see. Negative lft today and yesterday though.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
Lots of anecdata on facebook groups where people with periods have changes to messes after covid and to pmt
My period stopped when I got covid
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
I think luck is involved. I know some people whose partners had it and they never caught it. Some people just don't get the virus.
I'm finding it a bit stressful isolating in flat trying to make sure my partner doesn't get it. She is worried about getting virus.
I've worked most of the pandemic and not caught it until know. I had my booster some time ago and maybe its not so effective now.
I also regularly work with someone who is not vaccinated. He caught it and I came down with it week later. So guessing I got it off him.
If it wasn't for positive tests I'd go back to work now as apart from feeling a bit weak I'm ok.
My household has had it 3 times. The first time testing wasn't available so hard to say who but the very ill person had it.
Second time some of us tested positive, but zero symptoms.
Third time the sickest person tested negative and the slightly sick positive.
So it's really not always clear from symptoms and/or testing.
But glad you're feeling better.
Riklet
procrastinación
Anyone else got contacts who are testing positive for ages at the moment, not 5 days regularly bandied about.
My housemate is still testing positive after 8 days.
Other housemate also has covid now too.. possibly from work rather than home though.
Friend in Bristol (NHS worker so cant work) still got a faint line at 11 days.
My mums carer in her 50s was only ill for 5-6 days though.... hrmm.
All double or triple vaccinated. Maybe this is normal?
My housemate is still testing positive after 8 days.
Other housemate also has covid now too.. possibly from work rather than home though.
Friend in Bristol (NHS worker so cant work) still got a faint line at 11 days.
My mums carer in her 50s was only ill for 5-6 days though.... hrmm.
All double or triple vaccinated. Maybe this is normal?
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