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Yeah took me a week of feeling pretty dreadful, then a week of being functional and kind of OK, but not brilliant. Today is 2 weeks plus one day since symptoms started and feel very nearly back to normal. Am going back to work tomorrow, last week I didn't feel at all able to do that.

The thing you mentioned is just some rumour, no evidence to show that, and too many variables. But generally after a week you should be feeling better anyway. I was testing only faintly negative from the start, but felt bad still, other person in the house was very strong positive all the way from the start and for longer, but didn't feel as bad as me and recovered quicker.
 
Been fine since the other day, but don't want to waste a test. Stll just staying in for the time being and will probably use a test tomorrow afternoon to see the current situation. No symptons or anything.
Will go and have a sit in the garden this afternoon if the weather forecast is to be believed.

Mrs. Griff took a test this morning and was fine.
 
Mine was weird, I got chesty first, then sore throat and headache came together, then cold, then chestiness was last to go. It felt weird, kinda "artificial". Get well soon all current covid people.
 
Mine was weird, I got chesty first, then sore throat and headache came together, then cold, then chestiness was last to go. It felt weird, kinda "artificial". Get well soon all current covid people.
I know what you mean re the artificial. I guess you are jabbed as well? This feels like my reaction to moderna in terms of muscle/ nerve pain and confusion combined with a whacking head cold. My lips this morning were cracked and swollen like an artic explorer's. Back to lie down for another few hours. Crazy to think I was swimming 2km in decent time only four days ago and now need to take a rest after breakfast.
 
I know what you mean re the artificial. I guess you are jabbed as well? This feels like my reaction to moderna in terms of muscle/ nerve pain and confusion combined with a whacking head cold. My lips this morning were cracked and swollen like an artic explorer's. Back to lie down for another few hours. Crazy to think I was swimming 2km in decent time only four days ago and now need to take a rest after breakfast.
I'm not jabbed, I don't trust the jabs, my gut tells me to leave well alone.
I'm glad you know the articial feeling of covid.
Funny how more people seem to be getting it after the jabs.
I was told, no sure I believe it, but part of me does, that jabbed people are "shedding" that is to say, unknowably giving some artificial virus to others, like me.
Sorry you feel like poo and hope you feel better soon.
I got off pretty lightly with my covid, it took about 7-10 days then aftermath.
Yeah, plenty rest, fluids, listen to your body and may you get back to your swimming soon.
 
Your views on that tell me nothing about the virus or the vaccines, they only tell me things I already knew about your perceptions and the manner in which you consistently struggle to appreciate how disordered they are. Your gut instincts are faulty and fuck you up time and time again. And of course you are resistant to such possibilities, making interacting with you here an utter waste of time. But on this occasion I reached my limit for how much dangerous bullshit on the subject of the virus and vaccines I can read from you before feeling like I had to respond in this brutal manner.
 
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Also the idea that humans are well equipped to 'feel' when something they are infected with is artificial is laughable. Because most of the symptoms we experience, regardless of cause, are caused by our immune responses. There are only so many immune responses, and so there is a pretty standard menu of things we can feel, with an annoying degree of overlap of symptoms between very different conditions. This is why formal technical diagnostics are such an important tool, such as proper testing for Covid rather than guesswork based on symptoms alone.
 
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Your views on that tell me nothing about the virus or the vaccines, they only tell me things I already knew about your perceptions and the manner in which you consistently struggle to appreciate how disordered they are. Your gut instincts are faulty and fuck you up time and time again. And of course you are resistant to such possibilities, making interacting with you here an utter waste of time. But on this occasion I reached my limit for how much dangerous bullshit on the subject of the virus and vaccines I can read from you before feeling like I had to respond in this brutal manner.
That's ok, you are allowed your say. Peace.
 
Also the idea that humans are well equipped to 'feel' what something they are infected with is artificial is laughable. Because most of the symptoms we experience, regardless of cause, are caused by our immune responses. There are only so many immune responses, and so there is a pretty standard menu of things we can feel, with an annoying degree of overlap of symptoms between very different conditions. This is why formal technical diagnostics are such an important tool, such as proper testing for Covid rather than guesswork based on symptoms alone.
Again, you are allowed your opinion.
I was instructed to get PCR by a doctor, she sent a link to gov website, and I tested positive.
The gov site also gave me free LFT tests, before they started to make them chargeable.
Peace
 
Thanks for taking my post well.

I get depressed that we cannot all rely at all times on our intuition and gut instincts to correctly inform us about the world and events in our lives. Especially since our brains are wired to pay the greatest attention to our own minds conclusions. With our minds we make the world, that is inevitably the form of reality that is closest to us, and yet it is frequently at odds with objective reality. Never mind. Training ourselves to have greater self-awareness of our own typical mental errors, and trying to compensate for those, is the best we can hope for.
 
Thanks for taking my post well.

I get depressed that we cannot all rely at all times on our intuition and gut instincts to correctly inform us about the world and events in our lives. Especially since our brains are wired to pay the greatest attention to our own minds conclusions. With our minds we make the world, that is inevitably the form of reality that is closest to us, and yet it is frequently at odds with objective reality. Never mind. Training ourselves to have greater self-awareness of our own typical mental errors, and trying to compensate for those, is the best we can hope for.
That's ok.
 
Thanks for taking my post well.

I get depressed that we cannot all rely at all times on our intuition and gut instincts to correctly inform us about the world and events in our lives. Especially since our brains are wired to pay the greatest attention to our own minds conclusions. With our minds we make the world, that is inevitably the form of reality that is closest to us, and yet it is frequently at odds with objective reality. Never mind. Training ourselves to have greater self-awareness of our own typical mental errors, and trying to compensate for those, is the best we can hope for.
elbows Have you caught covid recently? If not could you take your wafflethon elsewhere please? All I can suggest is a little reflection based on the last sentence of the above quote combined with that old adage 'less is more'.
panpete The sensation of artificial doesn't provide evidence of shedding any more than a wine taster's reference to taste forms would relate to actual ingredients or lemon haze skunk weed actually contains lemons. Taste, smell, and sensation can be used as one line of enquiry but are notorious red herrings.
 
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Day 11 and it's been and on and off shit show, so drianed of evenrgy and just want to feel human again, monday was like my lungs where full of lead....

calling into the officce today, done fuck all for the last week, i tested negative after 6 days... and have since.

i foolishly thought that once you where neg it was over :(
 
We're both still getting intermittent feelings of exhaustion and both still have sore throats. Been over 3 weeks since we were properly ill. This is a very strange virus. I've never experienced anything flu-like that lingered this long. My first symptoms were on 22nd March, my other half's a day or two earlier.
 
We're both still getting intermittent feelings of exhaustion and both still have sore throats. Been over 3 weeks since we were properly ill. This is a very strange virus. I've never experienced anything flu-like that lingered this long. My first symptoms were on 22nd March, my other half's a day or two earlier.
Same here, mine’s 4 weeks tomorrow and a bit less for Mr Looby. Still exhausted and with colds, coughs and sore throats. I also still have horrendous vertigo.
Took today off as leave until I can see the GP tomorrow.
 
That's grim Looby. Just goes on and on doesn't it? Mate of mine at work got hit with vertigo when he had it too. Said the room was spinning like he was drunk. Bloody awful.
 
I was back in work (NHS) yesterday just over 2 weeks from developing symptoms. Feel mostly OK. Chatted to a fair few staff at work that have had it the last month or so and it seems to have knocked everyone out a bit more than than they expected (week or so of rough, week or so of not right), and a few have mentioned vertigo as an issue. (It's a symptom rather than a condition.)


Just read this on Covid recovery as well Thinking Carefully About “Long COVID”
 
elbows Have you caught covid recently? If not could you take your wafflethon elsewhere please? All I can suggest is a little reflection based on the last sentence of the above quote combined with that old adage 'less is more'.
panpete The sensation of artificial doesn't provide evidence of shedding any more than a wine taster's reference to taste forms would relate to actual ingredients or lemon haze skunk weed actually contains lemons. Taste, smell, and sensation can be used as one line of enquiry but are notorious red herrings.
I know. It's just a thought. I have a weird feeling about this whole pandemic. Well, possibly I am immune to whatever strain of covid I got, I dunno. I am not worried about COVID, if I get it again, it is what it is. I do social distance though, that's important.
 
I know. It's just a thought. I have a weird feeling about this whole pandemic. Well, possibly I am immune to whatever strain of covid I got, I dunno. I am not worried about COVID, if I get it again, it is what it is. I do social distance though, that's important.
Have to concur that it felt like a program unfolding rather than an organic illness but am quite ready to accept this is bullshit. It's like seeing patterns in the weather- or faces in rocks- the brain loves to impart agency.
 
I've finally got it! Felt abit off on Monday at work, then Monday evening came down with a cough. Did a LFT test Tuesday morning, and there was a faint but definite red line.. Mainly bad cold symptoms, but noticing my eyes and face are aching like hell... and a dull headache.. can't say I feel great!

Was out and about at the weekend, and my mask wearing has decreased, so I suppose I had it coming..
 
Also in the late to the party Covid catchers club. I feel I've been quite lucky to be honest. Last Thursday I felt a little off in the afternoon, then by bedtime I definitely felt like I was coming down with something - running a temperature, feeling really quite rough. By Friday morning though most of it had cleared, I felt like I hadn't slept but otherwise just like I had a cold. Since then I've just felt like I had a mild cold and even that has mostly cleared now. Still testing positive though.
 
Day 11 and it's been and on and off shit show, so drianed of evenrgy and just want to feel human again, monday was like my lungs where full of lead....

calling into the officce today, done fuck all for the last week, i tested negative after 6 days... and have since.

i foolishly thought that once you where neg it was over :(
Rest, rest and rest. Keep nutrition levels high and try to sit in the sun when it's out.
 
I've finally got it! Felt abit off on Monday at work, then Monday evening came down with a cough. Did a LFT test Tuesday morning, and there was a faint but definite red line.. Mainly bad cold symptoms, but noticing my eyes and face are aching like hell... and a dull headache.. can't say I feel great!

Was out and about at the weekend, and my mask wearing has decreased, so I suppose I had it coming..
I reckon the new sub variant is hitting those who had high immunity and would have dodged all the others- masks or otherwise.
 
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