Have you caught Covid recently - updated poll 2022-23

[UnderOpenSky]

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Hope your partner gets through it all ok and that you manage to swerve it, that her new employers are reasonable and understanding about it, and that you can look forwards to celebrating her birthday later instead/that it is something you can easily postpone (and not lose out financially).

Thanks, I think it's going to be fine, but she is a bit worried, so I'll pass it on.

Luckily after seeing the prices on Air B&B we were just going camping. She still hoping to be better, but I'm trying to manage expectations in case we can't. I'll make sure the weekend is nice whatever happens

 

[sheothebudworths]

Yeah I totally get the anxiety (on top of what is already a nervy time, starting a new job!) - such a bloody nightmare when there is no guidance left in place/an active policy of pretence that covid is all done and you are just left to hope that your employers are at least slightly less fucking toxic/moronic in that respect than our gov - but there are still some existing rules left, at least!
Hope she has as good a birthday as she can, either way.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Yeah I totally get the anxiety (on top of what is already a nervy time, starting a new job!) - such a bloody nightmare when there is no guidance left in place/an active policy of pretence that covid is all done and you are just left to hope that your employers are at least slightly less fucking toxic/moronic in that respect than our gov - but there are still some existing rules left, at least!
Hope she has as good a birthday as she can, either way.

Thank you. Luckily mine is sound.

He hadn't even noticed I wasn't in the office, despite me announcing it on Teams this morning

 

[chainsawjob]

Hope your partner UnderAnOpenSky isn't feeling too bad, & it's a quick bout for both of you, if you get it as well. Worrying when you already have a health condition. My mum & partner, both in their 80s were lucky, she has COPD (mildly), he has asthma & a heart condition, but neither were too badly affected, & recovered ok afterwards. So fingers crossed.

 

[strung out]

Just tested positive for the first time - got a cough, chills and aches everywhere, but if this is as bad as it gets, I'll cope. Just need to try and stop my wife from catching it now - we have a spare bedroom and home office fortunately!

 

[Orang Utan]

Can’t change my vote. Had it in July after a festival. Asymptomatic and a welcome week off to recover from post-festivalitis. It was worth it.
I’ve just been pinged for the first time though. Not sure what the rules are any more, but I think I only need to isolate if I have symptoms

 

[klang]

Just tested positive for the first time - got a cough, chills and aches everywhere, but if this is as bad as it gets, I'll cope. Just need to try and stop my wife from catching it now - we have a spare bedroom and home office fortunately!

good luck.

 

[dessiato]

I had to go to the Dr I felt do bad. I've been given stuff to take, ventolin and a different one in a pink inhaler. I was warned it'd be a day or two before they were working.

I'm still exhausted and have no energy for anything. I've slept up to 15 hours in a day. I'm aware I'm getting better but it's so slow.

I'd urge anyone who hasn't been vaccinated to get it, now. I've had three and can't help but think I'd have been so much worse without it.

 

[klang]

I had to go to the Dr I felt do bad. I've been given stuff to take, ventolin and a different one in a pink inhaler. I was warned it'd be a day or two before they were working.

I'm still exhausted and have no energy for anything. I've slept up to 15 hours in a day. I'm aware I'm getting better but it's so slow.

I'd urge anyone who hasn't been vaccinated to get it, now. I've had three and can't help but think I'd have been so much worse without it.

get well dessiato

 

[klang]

I'm so glad I'm finally over it. Energy is back, I can hear / see again etc. Skin issues are here to stay for a while though. (Been offered uv therapy which I don't have the time for, or immuno supressants which I don't fancy atm bc covid.)

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Can’t change my vote. Had it in July after a festival. Asymptomatic and a welcome week off to recover from post-festivalitis. It was worth it.
I’ve just been pinged for the first time though. Not sure what the rules are any more, but I think I only need to isolate if I have symptoms

Is being pinged still a thing? Just be careful as there's a lot of scam texts and stuff purporting to be from the NHS going round saying stuff like that.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Can’t change my vote. Had it in July after a festival. Asymptomatic and a welcome week off to recover from post-festivalitis. It was worth it.
I’ve just been pinged for the first time though. Not sure what the rules are any more, but I think I only need to isolate if I have symptoms

You don't HAVE to do anything. There are no rules, only recommendations

 

[xenon]

Yeah, as above, ignore the ping Orang Utan

Pinging isn't a thing any more AFAIK and they're scams.

 

[strung out]

Is being pinged still a thing? Just be careful as there's a lot of scam texts and stuff purporting to be from the NHS going round saying stuff like that.

Yep, if you're still using the app. A workmate got pinged by the NHS app last week after getting on a bus and going for a meal.

We've got a big project at work at the moment, so he's been staying at home to avoid everyone else on the project getting it (although it hasn't stopped me coming down with it!)

 

[xenon]

Obviously if you're ill you should self isolate until symptoms go or negative LFT if at all possible But there's no legal compulsion.

 

[xenon]

Yep, if you're still using the app. A workmate got pinged by the NHS app last week after getting on a bus and going for a meal.

We've got a big project at work at the moment, so he's been staying at home to avoid everyone else on the project getting it (although it hasn't stopped me coming down with it!)

Oh, I thought even that had stopped. Does anyone still do the QR code checkin thing with it.

Hope you're well soon BTW.

 

[Orang Utan]

Is being pinged still a thing? Just be careful as there's a lot of scam texts and stuff purporting to be from the NHS going round saying stuff like that.

This is from the NHS app. Gonna do a test this evening just to make sure. I was at a demo on Saturday and it must have been someone there who’s since tested positive

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah, as above, ignore the ping Orang Utan

Pinging isn't a thing any more AFAIK and they're scams.

It is a thing and it isn’t a scam

 

[Epona]

Yeah I got pinged a few weeks back, I was dubious but turned out I had been in contact with someone who had it (outdoors and not up close mind), I did avoid contact with people for a few days just to be on the safe side and did an LFT and thankfully I didn't catch it.

 

[Schmetterling]

Boyfriend and I got pinged after we attended the Proms two Saturdays ago. Feeling rather chuffed at how middle class that is.

 

[sojourner]

The fella finally succumbed to it this morning, following a weekend at Solfest. I am testing negative so far, but feel a little ropey - that could just well be the after effects of raving all weekend though. Am masking up until I know for sure.

He's shivery and knackered so far, so I sent him back to bed with a hot water bottle this morning. We still have throat spray and cough medicine and allll the drugs from when I had it, plus he gets to be cooked for, which I didn't, so lucky him

 

[moochedit]

I uninstalled the covid app about 3 months ago. I doubt most people report getting covid to the nhs anymore so its pretty pointless at this stage.

I only ever got "pinged" by it once and at the time decided i wouldn't test myself unless i got any symptoms which i didn't (although i did get covid a few months later).

 

[sojourner]

I uninstalled the covid app about 3 months ago. I doubt most people report getting covid to the nhs anymore so its pretty pointless at this stage.

I only ever got "pinged" by it once and at the time decided i wouldn't test myself unless i got any symptoms which i didn't (although i did get covid a few months later).

My fella's a care worker, so will be reporting it.

 

[moochedit]

My fella's a care worker, so will be reporting it.

Most people won't though. Point is that you are probably near people with covid all the time who don't tell the nhs and therefore won't ping you on the app.

 

[sojourner]

Most people won't though. Point is that you are probably near people with covid all the time who don't tell the nhs and therefore won't ping you on the app.

I'm not really seeing the point of this dialogue tbh. I only replied out of politeness.

 

[sojourner]

Well he's doing okay so far, way better than I was! Mostly sleeping (fatigued), eating, and shivery cold, so he's got a fleecy hot water bottle glued to him at all times. This is the man who is normally like a furnace!

 

[Artaxerxes]

Now testing negative, only took one LFT on Tuesday, probably should have had one Monday, so about 5 days to clear it. Started feeling sick Sunday with sore throat and headache and had an LFT but negative then.

Still feeling rough around the edges, chest still sore and some very crispy sounding coughs.

Wife had to order LFTs so had her first test Friday and that was super positive and still positive today but she’s been ill since Tuesday for sure.

Overall this is an absolute bitch of an illness, I’ve had four jabs and I think she’s had just two. The worst part has been the fever and temperatures and the way those just kept coming and going. That first night it properly kicked in on Monday I was vibrating with fever.

 

[Gerry1time]

So at the risk of jinxing something, I may have just had the most ineffective covid possible. The good lady started feeling ropey on Tuesday, worse by wednesday, and finally tested positive on Thursday. Her first ever time of testing positive. We think we've had it before, possibly a few times, lots of classic symptoms but never actually tested positive. I've been feeling fine all the way through, but have been testing too, as it's implausible that I wouldn't get it.

So yesterday (Friday), I got a slightly faint line on the LFT, but definitely still clear enough to say I had tested positive. First time I've ever tested positive too. No symptoms at all though. We're running low on LFTs, so I waited until this morning to test again. Tested negative! Tested again just now, negative again. According to the LFTs, I basically seem to have had covid for at most 36 hours, with zero symptoms.

Meanwhile the good lady have been pretty ill, shivery, achey, coughy, all sorts. At least one of our kids has tested positive too, and seems a bit under the weather with it. With three small kids, we live in extremely close proximity to each other, literally in your face on a regular basis, so we must have been infecting each other. I've just either had an extremely small dose of it (unlikely given how we live together), or I'm actually pretty immune to it.

Has anyone ever heard of only testing positive on a single day at all? Just interested to know what it might mean.

 

[kalidarkone]

So at the risk of jinxing something, I may have just had the most ineffective covid possible. The good lady started feeling ropey on Tuesday, worse by wednesday, and finally tested positive on Thursday. Her first ever time of testing positive. We think we've had it before, possibly a few times, lots of classic symptoms but never actually tested positive. I've been feeling fine all the way through, but have been testing too, as it's implausible that I wouldn't get it.

So yesterday (Friday), I got a slightly faint line on the LFT, but definitely still clear enough to say I had tested positive. First time I've ever tested positive too. No symptoms at all though. We're running low on LFTs, so I waited until this morning to test again. Tested negative! Tested again just now, negative again. According to the LFTs, I basically seem to have had covid for at most 36 hours, with zero symptoms.

Meanwhile the good lady have been pretty ill, shivery, achey, coughy, all sorts. At least one of our kids has tested positive too, and seems a bit under the weather with it. With three small kids, we live in extremely close proximity to each other, literally in your face on a regular basis, so we must have been infecting each other. I've just either had an extremely small dose of it (unlikely given how we live together), or I'm actually pretty immune to it.

Has anyone ever heard of only testing positive on a single day at all? Just interested to know what it might mean.

I'm sure there have been reports on urban of people only testing positive for 24 hours......can't remember who though.

 

[Gerry1time]

Well here's an odd thing then. Having only tested positive last Saturday, I tested negative twice a day on Sunday and Monday, only to wake up this morning feeling a bit shivery with a runny nose, and lo and behold, I've tested positive again, only this time with a much stronger line on the test.

So have I had covid twice in a week? Did I have it, fight it off, and then it came back? Did I pick it up again from one of my kids? Who knows, see how long this bout of it lasts I guess.