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I’ve had periods of feeling dizzy, nauseous (and a two day headache) last week but I had a deadline and like the dickhead I am I pressed on.
Yesterday was boat move day, we walked 4 miles down the river bank back to our boat after moving the car, it was a huge effort to get off the couch in order to move our boat.
I woke up this morning with a sore throat and congestion and a cough. I am tired and I’ve spent most of today asleep. The spare tests are in the granny flat (which I use as my office) at my parents. Going down there tomorrow so I guess I’ll find out. 😳
 
So what do I have to do now. I guess rest, but online it says after five days you don't need to test so I should be able to go back to work tomorrow. I'll test and see what they say. Only got the nose and mouth ones which I didn't really like as they are to fiddly.
 
Day 5. I feel 95% fine now, slept fine all night, but did a test this morning and I’m still testing positive since last Wednesday.

I can’t really go back to the office until I’m testing negative even though the NHS app says I’m fine to come out of isolation now. I’m wary to go out at all until I’ve got the all clear.
 
skyscraper101 said:
I feel absolutely terrible. Headache, sore throat, achey muscles. I’ve just wanted to sleep all day. My impression of Omicron was it was quite mild until now. Am triple jabbed etc.

Day 2 and I really hope this is the worst of it.
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I went down with it Friday night, was similar to this first full day of it. Like a bad flu, could hardly get out of bed. Seem to have been feeling better with each passing day but I know these things can appear to be improving then suddenly relapse, just hope it doesn't go to my lungs. Was quite snotty on day 2 but that seems to have gone on day three.

Think I had it in March too but that was very mild, slight fatigue for a few days, tested negative by the time I managed to get hold of a LFT that time though. Maybe worse this time with new variant or because the hot weather last week meant I'd been out drinking every evening, probably not great for my immune system.
 
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Indeliblelink said:
I went down with it Friday night, was similar to this first full day of it. Like a bad flu, could hardly get out of bed. Seem to have been feeling better with each passing day but I know these things can appear to be improving then suddenly relapse, just hope it doesn't go to my lungs. Was quite snotty on day day 2 but that seems to have gone on day three.

Think I had it in March too but that was very mild, slight fatigue for a few days, tested negative by the time I managed to get hold of a LFT that time though.
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Hope you continue to feel better. The first two full days definitely the worst for me. With slight noticable improvement starting about halfway through day 3 and more noticible into 4. Now on Day 5 just feel like I have that post-cold slightly phlegmy feeling which usually lasts days but I'm mindful I'm still testing positive and I've some way to go still.
 
Several of my friends I was with at Glastonbury are testing positive. It's been rife amongst some crews there. Inevitable really.

I got it at a festival a month ago, and was just over it in time for Glastonbury fortunately. I thought I'd struggle with the walking because it was the lingering fatigue that affected me for over 2 weeks that was the issue, after only 3-4 days of intense symptoms. But in the event I felt fine, and healthier and fitter after Glastonbury than before. Well, maybe a little post-festival snuffly.
 
I’ve woken up this morning, well... all through the night with aches all over, headache, throat is sore and closing up, feeling shattered. I was at a wedding in a Marquee on Saturday and a gig Sunday night. Will do a LFT shortly when I come to a bit.
 
I'm wondering if LFTs are that good at picking up all the variants now.

All anecdotal this, I know, but my sister and her partners daughter are both positive right now. Her partner with identical symptoms is testing negative. I had the same thing when I was ill at the same time as my OH. Same symptoms but she tested positive, I didn't. The amount of people with 'just a cold' at work right now seems stupidly high for the middle of Summer.

I could be joining dots that don't need joining but it does seem odd.
 
Voley said:
I'm wondering if LFTs are that good at picking up all the variants now.

All anecdotal this, I know, but my sister and her partners daughter are both positive right now. Her partner with identical symptoms is testing negative. I had the same thing when I was ill at the same time as my OH. Same symptoms but she tested positive, I didn't. The amount of people with 'just a cold' at work right now seems stupidly high for the middle of Summer.

I could be joining dots that don't need joining but it does seem odd.
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Is that new though? Maybe there's different degrees of it but there's been examples of that sort of thing throughout - the LFTs have always been a little bit hit and miss I think.
 
Day 5 of my quarantine. Felt pretty much back to normal when I woke up, cough seems to have gone now, which is a relief. Then walked a very short distance to local shop to buy some milk and realized I'm still quite wobbly & could feel I have some fatigue in my body, I also have a slight "fuzziness" in the head. Will be returning to work tomorrow as long as my LFT test is -ve, luckily work is very quiet at the moment so not much energy required.
 
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2hats said:
The LFTs may appear less sensitive because widespread vaccination has generally reduced the amount of antigen available for them to pick up. They still work with any variant as they detect nucleocapsid proteins which are highly conserved.
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Ah that's interesting, ta. That makes sense.
 
Indeliblelink said:
Day 5 of my quarantine. Felt pretty much back to normal when I woke up, cough seems to have gone now, which is a relief. Then walked a very short distance to local shop to buy some milk and realized I'm still quite wobbly & could feel I have some fatigue in my body, I also have a slight "fuzziness" in the head. Will be returning to work tomorrow as long as my LFT test is -ve, luckily work is very quiet at the moment so not much energy required.
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The advice seems to be don't hurry back to work, several people I know have found they went back too soon and set themselves back. Ditto with exercise. Is it WFH? I was fatigued for a good 2 weeks. But (fortunately?) don't have a job to get back to atm.

GWS Numbers, hope it's mild.
 
2hats said:
Then, as you suggested, convolve that with the entire spectrum of Joe Public's swabbing methodologies from thorough to piss-poor...
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Yeah I'm sure there's all sorts of things at play.

It does worry me the amount of people wandering around with 'just a cold' right now though. I'm glad I can work from home still.
 
Voley said:
Yeah I'm sure there's all sorts of things at play.

It does worry me the amount of people wandering around with 'just a cold' right now though. I'm glad I can work from home still.
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I had to tell some cunt in work the other day to get out of my office. Comes in, shuts the door (it's a windowless office) then starts to tell me about the cold he's just got! FFS, I've only just got over Covid, and given I don't know which variant it was, I'd rather not risk getting it again you stupid FUCK.
 
rich! said:
Also on the Moderna trial. Big red line. Emailed them to let them know so they asked me to come in to do a once-over and take bloods at the A&E at Royal Free.

All was going well until just about the end of the blood-taking when I fainted.

Spent several hours in the resusc bay on a saline drip and having BP and ECG done. Eventually sent home about 3-4 hours after I arrived. The trials doc seemed more disconcerted by it than I was... The saline seemed to make a massive difference to my overall state of being, too.

Anyway - seems that if you're COVID-positive even if your SPO2 seems good you may be dehydrated or otherwise on the point of collapse at almost any point. Which is another mark for spending as much time as possible lying down until you're better.
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update. This is day 8 of testing positive on LFTs. One day I had a very faint line, every other day it's been a decent width line.

The NHS app now has me starting my second 6-day period of avoiding people.
 
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