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Gerry1time said:
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.
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I doubt it. You have probably had it low level bubbling along. It's just the LFTs aren't very sensitive for low levels of infection/virus.

I was ill a couple of weeks back. LFT neg initially but symptomatic so stayed in/away from others. After 3 days retested - stonking pos.
 
Waiting to find out. Daughter tested positive yesterday and I'd used her spoon to eat some of her soup the day before. I tested negative yesterday and feel fine. But apparently with the current variant it can take up to 4 or 5 days to show a positive following infection. Anyone know if this is correct?

When I was out on Monday (after seeing her) I wore a mask on the bus, train and in Asda, glad I did now. I was the only one, I didn't see a single other person in a mask.

I also uninstalled the app, I thought there wasn't any point any more, but I'm regretting that now. I only uninstalled it because it was continually telling me it couldn't check for exposures, because I'm often out of signal. Probably reinstall it if I end up testing positive.

I was due to spend today working outdoors, but have been told not to come in given I might turn out to have Covid (others I work with are maybe vulnerable and we travel to the job together in a van). I can currently hear the torrential rain hammering on the windows, so I'm not as disappointed as I was! (new vol job I was looking forward to starting today).
 
Ugh. I tested positive on Friday. Took a test cuz I felt absolutely rotten, but every time I've felt rotten it's been something else.

Positive.

My mum is coming from the UK to visit me and I haven't seen her since her 70th birthday last December... Tuesday will be my day 5.

Anyway, I still feel like garbage. Had awful awful nightmares last night and woke up with a temperature of 37.8c!! Then I get all sweaty and woke up in a puddle of cold. And I have the WORST headache.

Last time I had it the symptoms came on gradually and they all went away gradually, over about 10 days. This time round everything hit all at once.

Hopefully that'll mean it'll be short lived.

My husband, however, seems absolutely fine.
 
ive just got it. triple jabbed as well. likely caught when flying of late.3 tests yesterday and all positive.

the headache was the oddest one I have ever had- kinda low level migraine, my teeth ache. cannot focus correctly, eyes feel furred and up my shoulder and neck are wrecked and sore. odd sweating randomly. Its certainly not a bad cold as deniers and anti vaxxers say it is. Oddly, as a vegetarian for decades( a crisp and chips variant of vegetarianism) I am craving a steak. this is very strange. I have not has a steak since my teens. I wont submit to these cravings tho
 
not-bono-ever said:
ive just got it. triple jabbed as well. likely caught when flying of late.3 tests yesterday and all positive.

the headache was the oddest one I have ever had- kinda low level migraine, my teeth ache. cannot focus correctly, eyes feel furred and up my shoulder and neck are wrecked and sore. odd sweating randomly. Its certainly not a bad cold as deniers and anti vaxxers say it is. Oddly, as a vegetarian for decades( a crisp and chips variant of vegetarianism) I am craving a steak. this is very strange. I have not has a steak since my teens. I wont submit to these cravings tho
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You'll be over it in 3 days.

The new version is quick. My husband cane down with it on Wednesday and he's already negative. It took me 5 days and I was fine.
 
Wife took 6 or 7 days to be fully negative, think I managed 3 days (though given LFT's maybe I just didn't do it right). Physically, we were both a sick for a couple of weeks to some extent. Mostly just residual coughing/sore chest or runny nose.

Headache was my first clue it was Covid, its been the most persistent thing from vaccines. That combined with the fever confirmed it was time to get a test.
 
All of us had it finally end of February/beg March 2022 althought the youngest who was 3 yo never tested positive. It took me a week into Covid in our household to get it as well and by this time i actively tried to also get it (didn't want to be the only one not to get it and also wanted the milder variant Omicron to build up....you gonna like this ;) some natural immunity!).

It was okay for me only one night with temperature but a longer period of low energy perhaps 9 days.

Really glad we didn't take the vaccinations which would habe been about 11 of them for all of us. Also after a year of observing the vaccinations (which was my minimum) they didn't convine me and we will not take any for the time being.

edited to add - for us it really wasn't worse than the flu, it was lighter.
 
Choc said:
All of us had it finally end of February/beg March 2022 althought the youngest who was 3 yo never tested positive. It took me a week into Covid in our household to get it as well and by this time i actively tried to also get it (didn't want to be the only one not to get it and also wanted the milder variant Omicron to build up....you gonna like this ;) some natural immunity!).

It was okay for me only one night with temperature but a longer period of low energy perhaps 9 days.

Really glad we didn't take the vaccinations which would habe been about 11 of them for all of us. Also after a year of observing the vaccinations (which was my minimum) they didn't convine me and we will not take any for the time being.

edited to add - for us it really wasn't worse than the flu, it was lighter.
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"observing the vaccinations" :hmm:

That sounds suspiciously like "I did my own research" :D
 
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I think it's fine "not to be convinced" by the need for boosters.

This virus is here to stay and will keep evolving around our immunity, vaccine induced or otherwise.
Everyone's immune system works differently and immunity will wane at different rates for different people.

In my case, I had two jabs, and caught COVID (in December) just before my 6 month booster was due in January.

So I didn't bother with it, because what's the point if you've just had it?
Then I've just got over it again (Septemeber).
So it seems my vaccine endued immunity lasts just under the 5 month mark, and natural perhaps double that although who knows?

Future waves and transmission will happen regardless of how you become immune - it's an evolving virus.
 
FabricLiveBaby! said:
So I didn't bother with it, because what's the point if you've just had it?
Then I've just got over it again (Septemeber).
So it seems my vaccine endued immunity lasts just under the 5 month mark, and natural perhaps double that although who knows?

Future waves and transmission will happen regardless of how you become immune - it's an evolving virus.
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Vaccines don't stop you catching it, they potentially reduce the negative health impact catching it has.

One of our neighbours died after catching it once and then deciding he didn't need the second jab as he'd been I'll with it, second time catching it killed him(50 yr old healthy man btw)
 
FabricLiveBaby! said:
I think it's fine "not to be convinced" by the need for boosters.
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There isn't [yet] a strong scientific case for additional boosters for immunocompetents under the age of 60 (perhaps up to 70 for some) who have already received a primary series plus single booster (particularly with prior infection). Not so for the immuno- senescent/dysfunctional.
FabricLiveBaby! said:
So I didn't bother with it, because what's the point if you've just had it?
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Probably not much point if you are immunocompetent, already had the primary series, and are within 6-9 months of the infection. Though those with any contact with clinically vulnerable persons might want to consider otherwise.
FabricLiveBaby! said:
Future waves and transmission will happen regardless of how you become immune - it's an evolving virus.
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They will happen because the opportunities for transmission events still exist; significant sub-populations have inadequate degrees of immunity, for a range of reasons.
 
ska invita said:
Vaccines don't stop you catching it, they potentially reduce the negative health impact catching it has.
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Yes that's true. I gets your body used to the idea of it, and I would have thought that was the point of the two original jabs. I'm not sure of the evidence we have on how the double jabs effect T-cells, but once can presume there would be some effect, hence it being less lethal.

But I'm talking about the booster itself. Does COVID get less, and less severe with every booster? Does the infection become more severe with so-called "natural" immunity (I use so-called, because all immunity is a natural response, I'd prefer to say virus induced).
Once you've had the double jab, then caught the fucker, is it really going to make that much difference? I just think there's too many variables, which is why I'm not bothering.
Last year it was pretty clear the virus was seasonal with peaks in late autumn and early spring. This seems to have changed. I was actually going to get a booster around October time (to have immunity through the dark season when it hits and is a bit more nasty due to the lack of vit D), but again, I seem to have bad timing.
But yeah, I think by this stage it's ok to be not convinced / that bothered about boosters.
 
Obviously (I hope) I'm not talking about immunocompromised people. Much with the seasonal flu jab, there are some in the population who would benefit, likely depending on age/ immunocompetence. I'm not talking about those people.
 
FabricLiveBaby! said:
Last year it was pretty clear the virus was seasonal with peaks in late autumn and early spring. This seems to have changed.
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Its not settled into a tidy seasonal pattern at any stage yet. The timing in the first few years was driven by the evolution of the virus but also largely the timing of lockdowns, school holidays etc.

Traditional ideas about seasonal diseases involve stuff such as the population immunity picture reaching a state that made it hard for a virus to find enough victims to enjoy significant exponential growth at times of the year when it doesnt have the environmental, human behavioural and human health advantages that winter offers it. So far Covid hasnt had to rely on those seasonal advantages in order to gain enough traction, and so we have had waves well outside the winter months. There was a resurgence of the virus in the summers of 2020 and 2021 but these were slowed by how far down the number of infections had been pushed by prior lockdowns, and by school holidays.

Whether this ever changes depends on what happens in the coming years in terms of population immunity, continued viral evolution, whether we end up with vaccines that do more to prevent infection and transmission.
 
Choc said:
All of us had it finally end of February/beg March 2022 althought the youngest who was 3 yo never tested positive. It took me a week into Covid in our household to get it as well and by this time i actively tried to also get it (didn't want to be the only one not to get it and also wanted the milder variant Omicron to build up....you gonna like this ;) some natural immunity!).

It was okay for me only one night with temperature but a longer period of low energy perhaps 9 days.

Really glad we didn't take the vaccinations which would habe been about 11 of them for all of us. Also after a year of observing the vaccinations (which was my minimum) they didn't convine me and we will not take any for the time being.

edited to add - for us it really wasn't worse than the flu, it was lighter.
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I'm glad you had it easy. Shame about those other 200,000 that died in the UK because of it. Unlucky hey.
 
Triple-jabbed and first noticed sore throat last Wednesday afternoon. Tested negative.

By Thursday evening, things had got worse and this time tested positive. My wife had started getting snotty and coughing as well and also tested positive.

Bit of a grim Friday, but started to improve Saturday evening.

Still having annoying coughing fits and we've both almost completely lost sense of smell and taste, but otherwise back to normal now.
 
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