moonsi til
worked it out now!
My PCR is positive as are many of my team (frontline NHS) for us it’s the worst it has been staffing wise since it all started.
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RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
I tested positive last Thursday after having started to feel a bit odd the day before. I've been quite worried about catching it, partly because of my weight and partly because they've classed me as vulnerable for reasons I've never totally got to the bottom of. However it's been ok (touch wood).
I was feverish for about four days with a slight cough, an intermittent headache and very coldified. No anosmia but not much of an appetite. Days 5 and 6 I had some dizziness, which may have been my ongoing balance disorder but a friend also warned me there is a wobbly patch when you think it's on the way out. It wasn't nice and I still wouldn't want my mother to get it but I was getting dressed every day etc.
I was still testing positive on days 6 and 7 but am on day 8 and tested negative today, so hope to get out tomorrow afternoon.
I was feverish for about four days with a slight cough, an intermittent headache and very coldified. No anosmia but not much of an appetite. Days 5 and 6 I had some dizziness, which may have been my ongoing balance disorder but a friend also warned me there is a wobbly patch when you think it's on the way out. It wasn't nice and I still wouldn't want my mother to get it but I was getting dressed every day etc.
I was still testing positive on days 6 and 7 but am on day 8 and tested negative today, so hope to get out tomorrow afternoon.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
The thing is with this thing, there must be thousands with mild symptoms and we vary in our threshold of "normality"
I effectively quasi-quarantine every week.
In the US for vaccinated people it's now 5 days isolation then 5 days wearing a mask ...
I effectively quasi-quarantine every week.
In the US for vaccinated people it's now 5 days isolation then 5 days wearing a mask ...
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Got my negative test hooray 
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
covid for me was 4 hours of quite a heavy head cold. sore ears. slightly dry throat.
then 3 days of normality apart from a very slight barely noticable dip in energy levels and some sort of ache and tension in my neck, also barely noticable.
so relieved as i was isolating with two kids, on tehir holidays one of whom is on teh spectrum.
then 3 days of normality apart from a very slight barely noticable dip in energy levels and some sort of ache and tension in my neck, also barely noticable.
so relieved as i was isolating with two kids, on tehir holidays one of whom is on teh spectrum.
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
So we're utterly confused as to whether we got / have it or not. All our lateral flow tests have remained completely negative, not a hint of a faint line even slightly. However, over the last 10 days or so, we've had diarrhea, vomiting, loss of appetite, stiff / achey neck, a chest infection type continuous cough, a banging headache for a few days, shivers and fatigue, all as part of an infection that seems to wax and wane over time. Somedays we've been a bit better, then it's got worse again.
I know writing it down it looks like it might be covid, but is the stomach bug part of it too? Moreover, is it plausible that two adults doing LFTs every day would record no hint of a positive test at any point?
Either way, we're done with being this ill for this long.
I know writing it down it looks like it might be covid, but is the stomach bug part of it too? Moreover, is it plausible that two adults doing LFTs every day would record no hint of a positive test at any point?
Either way, we're done with being this ill for this long.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
funny you should say that but i have definitely had weird stomach shit going on, not painful or anything so not even really a problem/that noticable. but a few sessions of the trots and weird grumbling noises.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
There's a few really, really shite colds going around. I know loads of people who, like you and me, tested the living daylights out of it, convinced we'd been Covided, and all came back negative.
blameless77
Well-Known Member
No symptoms at all for me - only found out because I took an LFD before going for the booster
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
yeh it was like an alomst nothing cold. plenty of sneezing and a runny nose and a slight body ache, then fuck all. felt covid systems lasted literally about 4 hours for me.
my daughters got in now though so that's another ten days (not entirely for me luckily) stuck inside. she has literally no symptoms apart from an occasional headache.
In my area lots of families, including my own, having majority of the household testing negative on both types of tests but one person testing positive. So testing is definitely not picking it all up as these others sick too.
Also ear infections and vomiting presenting, the latter especially in the children.
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
Def do a pcr.
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea can be linked to the Omicron varient.....but there has also been cdiff going around.
COVID-19 presents with a range of symptoms of varying severity. It is estimated that 1 in 3 people have COVID-19 without displaying any symptoms.
The main symptoms include fever, a new and continuous cough, anosmia (loss of smell) and ageusia (loss of taste). Examples of other symptoms include, shortness of breath, fatigue, loss of appetite, myalgia (muscle ache), sore throat, headache, nasal congestion (stuffy nose), runny nose, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting.
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Yossarian
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Def do a pcr.
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea can be linked to the Omicron varient.....but there has also been cdiff going around I hear.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
In December I had a norovirus type thing followed by a nasty sore throat and cough type thing, which I consistently tested negative for, and then actual covid. It's entirely possible you've got the first two together. But stomach symptoms can be covid. And testing doesn't pick all covid up.
The differentiating feature of the covid for me (other than testing positive) was that I had a definite fever and felt unwell. The other symptoms were less pronounced. With the other illnesses it was the other way round - the symptoms were the main thing, the general feeling ill less so.
Viruses other than covid are available, and are having a bit of a field day I think to make up for not getting much action last winter.
I seem to be lucky I think -- no Covid (negative LFTs all along), and not even anything like a cold ......... </crosses fingers and touches wooden desk .... 
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My name is Treble-Jabbed Tom and I've had the anti-flu jab too ....
>My name is Treble-Jabbed Tom and I've had the anti-flu jab too ....
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Those of you with suspected symptoms or exposure doing LFTs, make sure to swab the throat properly, as there’s been some data (shared on here somewhere) suggesting that omicron doesn’t always get picked up by nasal swabs, throat is more reliable.
My other half won’t even do throat ones because it makes her gag too much, and I suspect she’s not alone in this, and I’m aware of some non-NHS tests that are nasal only.
PCRs are also more reliable when symptomatic, LFTs more appropriate for the early stages.
My other half won’t even do throat ones because it makes her gag too much, and I suspect she’s not alone in this, and I’m aware of some non-NHS tests that are nasal only.
PCRs are also more reliable when symptomatic, LFTs more appropriate for the early stages.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I find it very hard to do the throat swabs without touching my tongue. I can’t play Operation either.
did you know there is a gene that says whether you can do that or not
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I took a PCR yesterday morning because my daughter had a positive lateral flow on Hogmanay. She has come back positive this afternoon on the PCR, but mine has come back negative.
I took a lateral flow (the nose only one) and it came back negative too.
I honestly don’t believe either of my results. Daughter is (now) symptomatic and obviously has Covid.
I do have trouble keeping my hand steady though, and I wonder if I touched my tongue on the PCR test.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
No, I didn’t.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
I know a couple of people who have lived with others who have Covid and can't quite believe they didn't catch it. But it is a thing, without a satisfactory answer as to yet. I'm talking partners who, by their own choosing, didn't bother swapping to single/separate beds for example.
I was unwell for about a week but that followed flu or fluey kind of virus and I was off work with stress so my immunity was already compromised. I had cough, aches, nausea, sore lower back twinges, not much of a raised temp but shivers and fatigue. Had my booster back in Oct. I'm still coughing a bit and my sleep is poor but then I have a lot of worries atm.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Sorry to hear that RC. Take care.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Didn't you just have Covid yourself quite recently Danny? You've maybe got natural immunity just now.
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