Have you caught Covid recently - updated poll 2022-23
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Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
You should get that holiday back, shouldn't you? I work for an unfathomably shit employer, and even we get back annual leave that falls during a period of sick leave. I thought it was a general right, rather than our particular policy. Could be wrong though.I’m still coughing two weeks on and it’s productive too. Didn’t test negative until Day 9. Worked from home until Day 10 - I was on holiday anyway for the first few days.
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
I had awful fatigue and brain fog but the fog lifted on day 9 and now three days later I'm still a bit low energy but it's improving. I didn't realise just how bad I was cognitively until it got better - tried to work last week and today has been spent unfucking all the things I fucked up.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Yeah my test came up very quickley on saturday with 2 strong red lines. I'm on day 3 now. First 2 days the main thing was a blocked/runny nose and coughing. Now it seems to be a tired feeling and a very annoying sore throat. Not noticed any issues with smell or taste. I had my 3rd vaccine just before christmas.Day 2. Feel basically fine, a bit tired, the odd cough, but nothing out of the ordinary. Apropos of the idea of strength of LFT signal being a proxy for severity - my test came up positive within a minute and made a strong solid angry pink line (yesterday evening). It is still only day 2 of course - still plenty of time to go downhill. But fingers crossed not eh?
E2a: definitely no loss of smell yet - if anything the reverse, super-sensitive to smells; not in an unpleasant way, just everything smells even more like itself.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
You can, but have to get a doctors note and not sure I can be arsed for a couple of days. I have a lot of leave left to carryover this year as it is.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Yeah I started with headache, runny/blocked nose, and sore throat. My sore throat was probably the worst/most annoying symptom. It was really painful at times, especially to swallow, I kept looking in the mirror expecting it to be massively swollen or something but was just a bit red. Faded after a few days though.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Yeah the sore throat is what's annoying me the most. Feels like sand paper scraping it and plays up more when i swallow food. Not had a headache (yet).
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
My work agreed to accept my PCR/LFT test result on the grounds that the GPs are a bit busy and really the test result is far better proof than you telling the GP and them writing it down.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
Riklet
procrastinación
To those still feeling grim, def worth remembering it can take 21-28 days to fully recover from a viral infection. Even a milder one. Obviously covid is not a mild one.. and hits some people harder.
Not much you can do to speed the process up or "cheat" yourself better either. Aside from rest/pacing.
Probs not a bad idea taking vitamin D and zinc if you can though. I have the drops and theyre great!
Not much you can do to speed the process up or "cheat" yourself better either. Aside from rest/pacing.
Probs not a bad idea taking vitamin D and zinc if you can though. I have the drops and theyre great!
Ranbay
The same rules apply
Like shit, sleeping it off mainly, triple jabbed so nothing like it could have been, just flu like stuff , hurty back etc, defo milking once better
Ranbay
The same rules apply
Xanax helps , cos you just skip whole days then with out recalling being I’ll
Ms Ordinary
randompointlesschemistry
ok so everyone in my job is coming down in covid bar me,
dafaq
*shakes fist at antigen test
look i'm bored of 50+ hours a week
not that i want covid but seriously come on
you know i'm starting to think some people just want the weeks holiday
I know you are joking, but if everyone at work has it, and you feel ill, you probably do have it.
I'm assuming I do, since I'm on day 9 of feeling absolutely wiped out, slept most of the weekend & crash as soon as I'm back from work (where 2 people have it confirmed, and 80% of the rest of us are down but unconfirmed). I'm resigned to people being in work with it, as even if you do the LFTs properly it seems not show up, or not until you've passed it on.
No-ones had it badly enough to have more than the odd day off when it's at its worst, which is clearly what's helping it spread but I'm not sure what else we could do.
It does leave you in a kind of depressing limbo though, the weather isn't helping but I feel a bit like I did I last January's depressing lockdown, trudging into work but too exhausted to do anything else, & staying away from people as much I can - even if this isn't Covid I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Aye your right due to the work mini pandemic i've been staying clear of almost everyone i really know
don't want to give it them if i have it and don't know, so is feeling like being back in proper lockdown
hopefully coming to the end of it we all have to wait and see
crossthebreeze
Well-Known Member
Have finally got a negative lft test - on 9 of self-isolation. Still feeling tired, still got a bit of a chesty cough, but everything else is easing off now (i hope).
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I'm on day 12 since symptoms started. Stopped testing as had 2 negative LFTs a few days ago. No ongoing specific symptoms (apart from an occasional chesty coughing fit) but still feel a bit grim, like mild hungover or having been up all night, so not at work, think hopefully next week will be in.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Finally got it!
Felt a bit shit on Tuesday which I assumed was a hangover as I did drink a fair bit Monday night
but after that had been fine.
Roll onto Thursday morning still feeling OK and a weekly visit to my mother at the care home, temperature taken on arrival and LFT test as usual. Then the usual 20 minute wait for the all clear as per the norm. All fine and we were allowed to see her.
Got a call in the afternoon saying my test was positive
Errr you what? Don't you check the tests?
Had some tests at home and did three of them, all positive.
Slight tingle in the throat yesterday evening which went after having a Strepsil and that's it (touchwood) so far. No cough, runny nose or anything else.
Taking my normal daily vitamins along with a Lem-Sip Day/Night capsule thing.
Will stay in until a negative test. Annoying as it means missing out on my nieces's birthday tomorrow, but hey ho.
Felt a bit shit on Tuesday which I assumed was a hangover as I did drink a fair bit Monday night
but after that had been fine.Roll onto Thursday morning still feeling OK and a weekly visit to my mother at the care home, temperature taken on arrival and LFT test as usual. Then the usual 20 minute wait for the all clear as per the norm. All fine and we were allowed to see her.
Got a call in the afternoon saying my test was positive
Errr you what? Don't you check the tests?Had some tests at home and did three of them, all positive.
Slight tingle in the throat yesterday evening which went after having a Strepsil and that's it (touchwood) so far. No cough, runny nose or anything else.
Taking my normal daily vitamins along with a Lem-Sip Day/Night capsule thing.
Will stay in until a negative test. Annoying as it means missing out on my nieces's birthday tomorrow, but hey ho.
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
I've got it for the first time, slight fever and aches for first couple of days and now on day 5 I just feel fatigue and brain fog. Feeling quite frustrated as I can't concentrate on anything so can't read or stick to a TV program.
Only have a couple of LFTs left so not confirmed so its either Covid or just a bad cold. First symptom last Sunday - terrible headache nausea. Then felt ok after early night. Yesterday I thought I was going to be sick around lunchtime (I'm never sick). LFT test is negative. Feeling very tired and wake up in the night with a very sore throat. I've done very little today so I'll see how I am tomorrow.
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
So I started feeling weak and disoriented on Friday morning, then got diarrhea, then really shivery and achey, before feeling a bit better yesterday. The bad bum has continued the whole time though, even after immodium, and today I'm really shivery, with a banging headache, feeling dizzy a bit and am weak as a baby. No cough or runny nose at all though. However, this is how things started with what I'm pretty sure was it that we had over xmas.
The second however however is that I'm not testing positive. Just like I didn't test positive at all over xmas. I've literally never tested positive ever, not once. But if this isn't it, I'm jiggered if I know what it is. Especially as it's just like what we all had over xmas, which we now think was it, especially with it coming and going in waves like this.
The second however however is that I'm not testing positive. Just like I didn't test positive at all over xmas. I've literally never tested positive ever, not once. But if this isn't it, I'm jiggered if I know what it is. Especially as it's just like what we all had over xmas, which we now think was it, especially with it coming and going in waves like this.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
Just caught it for first time. LFT lines are strong. Fever. Aches. Drifting in and out. Was going to go with children abroad this morning and took test last night. Have moved flights to half term. Can't believe how grown up they were about it. "Just another part of the covid story" my son said. Really not well at all though. No strong coughing thank God. Feels like strong flu with a sore as hell throat.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
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