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Epona I recently had a mildish cold go to my chest (first with asthmary symptoms, then coughing up a bit of gunk, then laryngitis which has been quite amusing for everyone). I have wondered whether COVID weakened me a bit, even though I hardly had a cough with it and it felt very different from the ones I usually get. Mind you I had a bad chest infection in December so it might just be I’m prone to them.
 
Agent Sparrow said:
Epona I recently had a mildish cold go to my chest (first with asthmary symptoms, then coughing up a bit of gunk, then laryngitis which has been quite amusing for everyone). I have wondered whether COVID weakened me a bit, even though I hardly had a cough with it and it felt very different from the ones I usually get. Mind you I had a bad chest infection in December so it might just be I’m prone to them.
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Aye, I mean although I have had problems with post-viral fatigue over the years (including some long-term issues), I've never been prone to coming down with something bacterial like a chest or throat infection in the aftermath of a virus (and I don't believe that to have been causing issues for me with coughing up stuff occasionally a couple of weeks later, or if it was I fought it off without assistance pretty decently). OH however is the other way around, his energy levels go back to normal after a virus but he tends to get some sort of bacterial chest thing shortly afterwards - he has severe asthma which hasn't always been very well controlled (although much better recently with a change of medication).

Fortunately in my case, my energy levels seem to have bounced back after a few weeks since Covid - or at least to their usually low state, it doesn't seem to have made anything worse than it already was, thank fuck. I'm already a 10 hours sleep a night to feel vaguely functional type person on a good day iykwim.
 
For my first time ever, while in hospital I was (PCR) tested, and positive, for Covid 19, last Wednesday (13/4) :eek:

The same day as my Left Foot operation, too! (See 'My Left Foot' thread in the H + S subforum)

Fortunately, I was entirely symptom-free at all times.
Also, the duty-Doctors insisted on testing me twice, they were so sceptical! And concluded that I was in a (hospital?) category called 'Low Covid' :oldthumbsup:

They advised me to retest (LFT) once I got home. I was too knackered to remember to do so on release-from-hospital day (Friday 22nd April) :oops:, but I did test today -- negative :cool: -- they'd said that even after the first negative test, I can go out :confused: ... too tired to anyway, until today ...

I will (as advised)-test again four days later -- on Wednesday (27/4).

I'm pretty confident that I will again test negative, so if so, that means that my constitutional to The Pub! after my dual-antibiotic course finishes next Wednesday, can safely happen on Thursday 28/4 :) :beer: :thumbs:
 
Got over Covid recently. Been triple jabbed so it wasn't to bad. Mainly extreme tiredness and vertigo. Went back to work. Got myself fit again. Went back to my swimming routine. This week started to feel a bit rough. By Friday felt like a cold. Very tired and weak. Test was negative.

Reading posts here seems like my immune system is not 100%. I do get colds but don't normally get two illnesses pretty well straight after each other.

It's annoying more than anything else. I've things to do and am feeling irritable. Trying not to be irritable with my partner. As know its because I'm frustrated with feeling under the weather.
 
I said above that I'd had zero symptoms, but there was fatigue to a certain extemt, at least for a while.

I was attributing that to infected, etc. foot, but no doubt Cocid-positivity didn't help either. I'm feeling a fair bit better now though ..... :)
 
Gramsci said:
Got over Covid recently. Been triple jabbed so it wasn't to bad. Mainly extreme tiredness and vertigo. Went back to work. Got myself fit again. Went back to my swimming routine. This week started to feel a bit rough. By Friday felt like a cold. Very tired and weak. Test was negative.

Reading posts here seems like my immune system is not 100%. I do get colds but don't normally get two illnesses pretty well straight after each other.

It's annoying more than anything else. I've things to do and am feeling irritable. Trying not to be irritable with my partner. As know its because I'm frustrated with feeling under the weather.
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Sorry to hear that. I think it takes time to regain strength. Can you adapt work/life at all for the next few weeks or even months? Def worth not overdoing it and pushing yourself too hard. There is NHS advice on pacing and energy conservation but might just be youre doing a bit much at the moment?
 
Got it about a month ago with mild symptoms. Felt like a bad cold. Runny/blocked nose, cough and very tired. Symptoms lasted just over a week.
 
Well who knows? I'm not right. Sore throat, earache, cough and mild fatigue. Felt OK on Sunday after being wiped out on Saturday, felt ahut today. .My taste was weird for one day. Been testing daily but negative. I'm not sure if I can get a pcr through work ...I'm on leave atm.
 
I'm about a week or so into it. Partner - not jabbed :( - got it about 12/13 days ago and was bedbound for a few days (she's still worse than me). Thought I might have swerved it being triple jabbed but got a cough 10 days ago, along with a -ve test. Couple of days later I got the sweats and a +ve test, so the cough was probably Covid despite the -ve test at the time.

Can't say it's been too bad, one night of sweats and about 3 days of feeling slightly out of it, flu style. The thing I haven't shaken off is the dry cough. I was worried about getting it due to pre-existing issues, particularly fybromyalgia (the symptoms of fybro and long Covid sound to be remarkably similar from what I've heard). Anyway, so far so good, though my fecking sciatica has come back with a vengeance in the middle of having Covid - unconnected, I'm sure. All I really wanted to post was that I'm yet another advert for the vaccine (seem to have got a mild dose myself and suffered notably less than unvaxxed partner). And all the best to those of you still struggling with it.
 
kalidarkone said:
Well who knows? I'm not right. Sore throat, earache, cough and mild fatigue. Felt OK on Sunday after being wiped out on Saturday, felt ahut today. .My taste was weird for one day. Been testing daily but negative. I'm not sure if I can get a pcr through work ...I'm on leave atm.
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That 'in limbo' thing, ugh, I sympathise, kali. I had negative tests right through too - you just want to know one way or the other don't you?

I'm not sure our tests pick up Omicron and it's variants so well now. I had the same symptoms as my partner who tested positive but had negative tests throughout.

Get well soon, everybody, irrespective of what you've got.
 
I haven't caught it recently but annoyingly it seems to be getting closer. My boss is now ill with it and two other employees at my work are off sick with it. That and the only other occupant of my office had it a few weeks back.

I am like Houdini .. for the time being :) :(
 
I had covid at the end of Feb and I'm triple jabbed so it wasn't too bad; like a bad cold for 3 days and then I was right as rain. A few weeks later I noticed I couldn't get my breath while exercising and it has gotten worse as time has gone on. Been on antibiotics which didn't do anything and had an xray this morning so I now have to wait 2 weeks to find out if they can see anything. No idea if it is covid related because of the gap but it's possible. Anyone else had a similar experience?
 
krink said:
I had covid at the end of Feb and I'm triple jabbed so it wasn't too bad; like a bad cold for 3 days and then I was right as rain. A few weeks later I noticed I couldn't get my breath while exercising and it has gotten worse as time has gone on. Been on antibiotics which didn't do anything and had an xray this morning so I now have to wait 2 weeks to find out if they can see anything. No idea if it is covid related because of the gap but it's possible. Anyone else had a similar experience?
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Not me, although GP said if antibiotics didn't clear my tight chest and cough up I'd get a chest X-ray in a few weeks, but it seems to have cleared up, although I think the antibiotics didn't have anything to do with that tbh, didn't seem like a bacterial chest infection to me.

But I know a good handful of people that have had chest x-rays after Covid (few weeks like you when SOB and/or cough has persisted) and none have come back picking up anything significant. It's as much to look for other issues (infection, etc.) as the cause as Covid stuff.

Assumed they asked if you had chest pain, any medical conditions, other symptoms, etc etc?
 
Yeah the doctor ran through a few things before the antibiotics and booked the xray the same day. I had asthma when I was younger and at first I thought it had maybe returned but it's the periods of complete exhaustion that are worrying me. They don't last very long so that's one positive. Fingers crossed it's nothing too serious.
 
krink said:
I had covid at the end of Feb and I'm triple jabbed so it wasn't too bad; like a bad cold for 3 days and then I was right as rain. A few weeks later I noticed I couldn't get my breath while exercising and it has gotten worse as time has gone on. Been on antibiotics which didn't do anything and had an xray this morning so I now have to wait 2 weeks to find out if they can see anything. No idea if it is covid related because of the gap but it's possible. Anyone else had a similar experience?
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had it 3 weeks and a few days now, chest is tight and I'm fatigued and out off puff quickly, went for Xray last Thursday so waiting for the docs to call me back now,.
 
Positive LFT this morning, they would've been fine with me going in to work as I am OK apart from sore throat & fatigue, but we have no urgent work in so I have day off - "no point spreading it for nothing"

I strongly suspect my LFT will be positive again tomorrow (although in fact I only have one left so am going to do it Sunday instead).

Was at theatre Monday night, prob half a dozen people wearing masks, one of whom was sitting next to me - lately I have been assuming that people wearing masks quite probably have covid & just out & about, or maybe getting over it & playing safe - unless they are wearing them for work (& maybe even then, given isolation is no longer a legal requirement).
 
So now I think last month when loads of people had it at work, and I felt rough but tested negative, maybe I really didn't have it after all?

I didn't have sore throat then, although I felt generally iller & more covid-y (fatigue, sweats, fever, dizzy, more generally really rough - enough to have a day where I phoned in properly sick because could hardly get out of bed - at one point I was convinced the washing machine was on permanent spin cycle as the walls & floor felt like they were shaking so much) v odd it was
 
I'm just about through it, 10 days on from my first positive test, though I suspect I had it a day or two before that. The tests I've done have all gone positive within, literally, a minute or so, though the one yesterday took about 5 minutes and was a thinner red line. I've not been anywhere but guessing that I'm now up to the point where I can do stuff, even with a lingering positive LFT. :hmm:
 
Ms Ordinary said:
Positive LFT this morning, they would've been fine with me going in to work as I am OK apart from sore throat & fatigue, but we have no urgent work in so I have day off - "no point spreading it for nothing"

I strongly suspect my LFT will be positive again tomorrow (although in fact I only have one left so am going to do it Sunday instead).

Was at theatre Monday night, prob half a dozen people wearing masks, one of whom was sitting next to me - lately I have been assuming that people wearing masks quite probably have covid & just out & about, or maybe getting over it & playing safe - unless they are wearing them for work (& maybe even then, given isolation is no longer a legal requirement).
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Sorry to hear you've got Covid. The people wearing masks could also be worried about getting it, I'm in this group and continue to wear a mask in enclosed spaces, public transport etc.
 
krink said:
I had covid at the end of Feb and I'm triple jabbed so it wasn't too bad; like a bad cold for 3 days and then I was right as rain. A few weeks later I noticed I couldn't get my breath while exercising and it has gotten worse as time has gone on. Been on antibiotics which didn't do anything and had an xray this morning so I now have to wait 2 weeks to find out if they can see anything. No idea if it is covid related because of the gap but it's possible. Anyone else had a similar experience?
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I hope it clears up quickly, but just to say that it's very common for people with long covid to have a gap between recovering and when they started getting the 'long' symptoms. This is one of the things that should be publicised much more - and would be if any element of our political and meda class gave a fuck. For me it was 3-4 weeks I think and that's not uncommon. Best thing to do is rest and not push yourself in any way that would make it worse. And also be prepared for the fact that if it is long covid, everything the doctors test and suggest will probably come back negative and they will not have anything helpful to offer (sorry!).

I wouldn't worry too much unless you're also getting significant fatigue after exercise.
 
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