Have you caught Covid recently - updated poll 2022-23

[xenon]

How's everyone doing?

I feel quite a bit better since Monday. Headaches gone. Just feels like a regular cold now and still a bit tired. Really hoping I test negative at weekend as supposed to be going away for a few days late next week.

 

[chainsawjob]

Fingers crossed xenon

Hope everyone's symptoms clear up soonish, and aren't too bad.

I never got the taste thing SpookyFrank. Weird innit how different everyone's symptoms can be.

 

[aqua]

I still feel wiped out. Bored now. And I got judged twice watching Netflix yesterday ('are you still watching...' yes I am now fuck off)

 

[xenon]

Ha. I've been trying to catch up on reading, well listening to audio book and keep dozing off. That might be the weather as well TBH.

 

[krtek a houby]

Better half is much better, she's up and about. Am still bedridden and mushy headed.

Elders still testing negative, thank goodness.

Am terrified we will be stranded here, after hearing that you can test positive for months.

 

[elbows]

Am terrified we will be stranded here, after hearing that you can test positive for months.

In practice not many people do test positive for that long, and it trends to be associated with people with immune deficiencies that leave them vulnerable to not being able to fight off the virus in the normal ways.

 

[Numbers]

I still have no sense of smell and my left ear is blocked.

 

[xenon]

Better half is much better, she's up and about. Am still bedridden and mushy headed.

Elders still testing negative, thank goodness.

Am terrified we will be stranded here, after hearing that you can test positive for months.

Misread and liked your post. Hope you're feeling well again soon.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I still feel wiped out. Bored now. And I got judged twice watching Netflix yesterday ('are you still watching...' yes I am now fuck off)

My brain has been mush all week. I could be using this unexpected week off to do productive or creative things but all I'm really capable of is watching shite TV.

 

[krtek a houby]

My brain has been mush all week. I could be using this unexpected week off to do productive or creative things but all I'm really capable of is watching shite TV.

This.

And urban.

Finding reading difficult.

 

[SpookyFrank]

How's everyone doing?

I feel quite a bit better since Monday. Headaches gone. Just feels like a regular cold now and still a bit tired. Really hoping I test negative at weekend as supposed to be going away for a few days late next week.

Just feels like the arse end of a stubborn cold now. Throat still raw but the dry cough is mostly gone. Not sure if the general weariness is covid or just heat, most likely both

 

[aqua]

This.

And urban.

Finding reading difficult.

Yep, can't focus to read here either. Mindless Netflix is my limit and even that can't really have a story arc to follow.
I'm a crochet person and can't do that as I can't keep attention. It's really odd. Reading is absolutely out.

 

[miss direct]

I have no headache and feeling a bit better, but when I lie down to sleep I get a horrible hacking cough - intermittently through the day too. Trying to force myself to rest as much as possible. Not been outside since Sunday evening but might attempt a little stroll this evening. I'm going away next Tuesday (I'll be 11 days post first positive test) and really really want to feel well.

Struggling a bit with the lack of contact and the general noise levels from the neighbourhood. I'm sure it'd be better to have this in cold weather when everyone is inside and you could just stay in bed in the quiet.

 

[krtek a houby]

Staying with the elders and there's a new development being built across the road. Jackhammers etc from dawn

 

[SpookyFrank]

Can't smell much of anything today. Except for the overpowering DANGER: WRONG smell of anything containing vinegar. I get to keep that smell apparently, just not any of the others. Seems fair.

 

[zora]

Slightly raised temperature, 37.7C. Wonder if outside heat is contributing? Putting feet in a bowl of cold water.

 

[zora]

Just read hair-raising R-number (remember that one...?) for current dominant variant in Devi Sridhar article, estimated to be as high as 18.6, whereas the original one was 3 - so it's maybe not surprising that so many people are getting reinfected, and so many of the covid newbies are falling like dominos!

 

[krtek a houby]

The only good thing out of this disaster of a visit home is spending (socially distanced) time with the da.

Otherwise it's sucksville all the way.

 

[aqua]

ooo I've woken without the feeling of being utterly wiped out, I wonder if this is a turning point (day 6 here). I bloody hope so.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Budge up on the covid sofa, illers!

Daughter had symptoms starting last Thurs/Fri and tested positive (for the first time!) on Sunday.
Unsurprisingly, identical symptoms/order of symptoms started for me overnight yesterday and I tested positive this morning.

My daughter is still coughy, although her throat has eased, appetite still gone and she has lost most of her sense of taste, which I have been spared so far.

I feel like cack but the one small bonus has been that the temperature spikes are only ever causing chills (not sweating), so I have been in the confusing situation of being more comfortable in this heat, when my temp is up than when it's back down again - very weird to experience!

Other than that I've had a tickly/raw/inflamed-feeling (rather than painful) throat, a dry cough, a headache that won't quite shift, very achey, skin feels sore, the odd bit of joint pain.

So day 2 for me. I am already bored.

 

[cesare]

GWS sheo x

 

[Steel Icarus]

ooo I've woken without the feeling of being utterly wiped out, I wonder if this is a turning point (day 6 here). I bloody hope so.

Aye, but take it steady. My first visit to the shops post-Covid resulted in a two hour compulsory rest despite feeling good before going.

 

[krtek a houby]

2 hour walk by the coast and feeling rejuvenated... that'll suffice for now

 

[aqua]

Aye, but take it steady. My first visit to the shops post-Covid resulted in a two hour compulsory rest despite feeling good before going.

Thank you, will be taking it easy as much as I can

 

[Numbers]

The lack of smell thing I can handle but the problem with my hearing is so annoying, it’s quite distressing.

Only good thing about it is I’m getting out of meetings.

 

[Idris2002]

Day Five here. And I am really, really, fucked off with this whole fucking experience.

Yesterday, it felt like I was almost out of the woods: retested myself this morning, and I still got a postive result. Shit bollocks buggery fuck, curse and kick the wall.

 

[miss direct]

Thought I was a bit better yesterday. Even went out for a short walk in the evening (but there were a lot of people around...I should have gone later)

Woke up today feeling rubbish again.

How can I give myself the best chance of being better by Monday?

I do nothing apart from lie on the sofa, potter around the house, occasionally take an ibuprofen, and watch TV...

 

[skyscraper101]

How can I give myself the best chance of being better by Monday?

I do nothing apart from lie on the sofa, potter around the house, occasionally take an ibuprofen, and watch TV...

I think this is the best you can do really. And sleep as much as you can. Anything more will tire you out and knock you back. Rest, rest, rest. And stay hydrated with water.

 

[skyscraper101]

Yep, can't focus to read here either. Mindless Netflix is my limit and even that can't really have a story arc to follow.
I'm a crochet person and can't do that as I can't keep attention. It's really odd. Reading is absolutely out.

This annoyed me too. I'd imagined at least being able to get through some good documentaries, read a book, or work from bed on my laptop or something but even focusing on a screen or reading anything was proving too much to handle. I eventually just put on an audio book and closed my eyes.

 

[Idris2002]

I've been reading the novels of Mordecai Richler, who fortunately for him died before the era of cancellation by woke snowflakes (he's the Canadian Philip Roth, but with jokes).