Have you caught Covid recently - updated poll 2022-23

[weepiper]

This is the correct answer



If I theoretically caught it on Saturday night, can I go out next Saturday? Does that allow for the five days thing the government are currently advising?

I think so. Just. If you had a sore throat on Monday morning that puts you just on the five days. Whether you'll want to/feel well enough to is a different question!

 

[story]

I actually feel pretty good. I had a good long relaxed sleep last night and a restful day today.

I always feel a little bit ropey at this time of year regardless of any other factor, but covid had made me super-aware of it, every sniffle and scrape makes me think “uh-oh…!”

Another negative test today and everyone at work says they’re comfortable with me coming in tomorrow. So I’ll go in.

Everyone else I was with on NYE is also testing negative with no symptoms.


I am wondering if the heavy chesty thing I had in early December was actually covid, despite negative testing then too. I was dead tired and swimmy and the respiratory symptoms were unlike my normal response to colds. Maybe I had it then and was thereby protected on NYE? No way to know, of course.

 

[steeplejack]

Just confirmed this morning after beginning to feel scratchy 24 hours ago.

sore throat abd slightly bloody coughing up but otherwise it feels just like a nasty cold preently.

I had my fourth booster jab just before the holidays so hopefully that will keep it mild. Fingers crossed.

I avoided the bastard thing for nearly three years.

 

[RD2003]

Just confirmed this morning after beginning to feel scratchy 24 hours ago.

sore throat abd slightly bloody coughing up but otherwise it feels just like a nasty cold preently.

I had my fourth booster jab just before the holidays so hopefully that will keep it mild. Fingers crossed.

I avoided the bastard thing for nearly three years.

I avoided it also, right through and beyond the no vaccine period. Until getting it (mildly) after three vaccines.

I'd watch the coughing blood thing, however. Unrelated to Covid, and worriedly consulting a doctor, I discovered it was through excessively vigorous throat clearing.

 

[steeplejack]

Thanks- I just came back from one of the most polluted cities in the world, so the blood stuff may have been two weeks of marinading in industrial smog and 1980s exhaust fumes.

 

[PR1Berske]

Partner and I have had the viral infection that's been going around for the past week; it's hit us the same way Covid did, really sucks everything out of your lung capacity. Sounds like there's a Morse Code operator down my throat.

 

[RD2003]

Partner and I have had the viral infection that's been going around for the past week; it's hit us the same way Covid did, really sucks everything out of your lung capacity. Sounds like there's a Morse Code operator down my throat.

There's some really weird stuff going around. Mrs RD caught some slight chest infection just after Christmas. Tested negative for Covid. It wasn't enough to stop her working, or doing anything else really, but she said that every time she took a deep breath she got a tickly feeling, resulting in a fit of coughing.

About two in three where she works have some kind of virus. These are the insane working conditions we have to put up with now, with everybody too scared to stay off when infected with something, whether it's Covid or anything else. So every other fucker ends up with it.

 

[Chz]

There are indeed some odd contagions around, even accounting for Covid. I've had two weeks of tight chest, chills, light-headedness, headaches, occasional fever. Had to get checked out at A&E just to kill the anxiety over the chest pains. Clear bill of health on a cardiac level. Absolutely no issues with lungs or sinuses. Best they figure right now is that there are some "odd" viruses in circulation and I should check back in if it gets worse or lasts for more than two more weeks. My co-worker has also picked up something (I haven't seen him in the flesh for a month) giving a more gut-focused aches and pains but remarkably similar in terms of general malaise.

 

[steeplejack]

Well day 3, mentally don't feel too bad but physically...I've never had a sorer throat. A salty sandpapered handcuff at the back of my mouth and swallowing v painful.

Low level fluey aches and bubbly cough.

Fuck this thing, really.

 

[weepiper]

Weird post-Covid symptoms no 347: wrinkly fingers like you've been in the bath, but you haven't.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Weird post-Covid symptoms no 347: wrinkly fingers like you've been in the bath, but you haven't.

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Is that a COVID/convening symptom? I’ve had that off and on for years!

I thought it was just aging

 

[weepiper]

Is that a COVID/convening symptom? I’ve had that off and on for years!

I thought it was just aging

It can be dehydration or other things like diabetes/thyroid issues but apparently it's a Covid thing too.

 

[May Kasahara]

Strong positive test this morning, after i sprayed perfume on and realised I couldn't smell it I have been ill for the last three days with sore throat, snot, constant coughing, swimmy light-headedness and a bit of a temperature, but my sense of smell was working fine until this morning

Ironically I feel much better today than I have the last few, so at least I can make myself useful around the house. Still quite fatigued though, will take plenty of rest breaks.

 

[cesare]

Strong positive test this morning, after i sprayed perfume on and realised I couldn't smell it I have been ill for the last three days with sore throat, snot, constant coughing, swimmy light-headedness and a bit of a temperature, but my sense of smell was working fine until this morning

Ironically I feel much better today than I have the last few, so at least I can make myself useful around the house. Still quite fatigued though, will take plenty of rest breaks.

GWS May.

 

[Looby]

Has anyone else heard this current variant isn’t showing up as accurately on LFT? Mr Looby’s colleague was told this in hospital recently. I know this has been an issue previously but apparently more so with the kraken.

 

[elbows]

Has anyone else heard this current variant isn’t showing up as accurately on LFT? Mr Looby’s colleague was told this in hospital recently. I know this has been an issue previously but apparently more so with the kraken.

If its true then its just the latest chapter in an ongoing decline in the ability of such tests to pick up as many cases/as early. ie this phenomenon has been emerging for ages. And the variant that some have decided to call Kraken is not the only current variant, its on the rise but the latest wave that the UK experienced featured a lot of pre-Kraken infections. That picture is laggy though, I dont have a timely and highly accurate sense of what proportion of cases are Kraken right now.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I feel like I am about to come down with something and got pinged this morning :/

 

[2hats]

Has anyone else heard this current variant isn’t showing up as accurately on LFT? Mr Looby’s colleague was told this in hospital recently. I know this has been an issue previously but apparently more so with the kraken.

Post #1506.

 

[kenny g]

If its true then its just the latest chapter in an ongoing decline in the ability of such tests to pick up as many cases/as early. ie this phenomenon has been emerging for ages. And the variant that some have decided to call Kraken is not the only current variant, its on the rise but the latest wave that the UK experienced featured a lot of pre-Kraken infections. That picture is laggy though, I dont have a timely and highly accurate sense of what proportion of cases are Kraken right now.

In a way it makes sense that if a mutation isn't picked up by LFTs it will spread and become more commonplace due to people with negative lfts not self isolating. I've taken a general rule with my team that if you feel shit and are coughing your guts up you are best at home.

 

[May Kasahara]

For the record, my symptoms so far:

Day 1 (Thursday): sore throat, then my ears started popping, had that illness coming up feeling where you go all swimmy and lightheaded, sharp stabbing pain in my right ear mid-afternoon, cough, moderate temperature, increasingly achy joints. Slept abysmally that night - woke up every hour after midnight.

Day 2: ongoing light-headedness, constant dry cough, loads of snot, achy joints, moderate temperature. Slept even worse that night, constant wake ups and dreadful dreams, too hot.

Day 3: more constant coughing including some horrible uncontrollable bouts, but very dry - not phlegmy like the one I had last month. Aches, temp, exhaustion, snot.

Day 4 (today): sense of smell gone AWOL. I feel less shit overall but still coughing lots, still knackered and still quite a bit of snot. E2A and increasingly furious sneezing.

 

[weepiper]

May Kasahara I didn't notice any effect on my sense of smell or taste until several days after I'd tested positive. I didn't lose it completely but it was like the volume had been turned down - nothing smelled or tasted especially interesting.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I feel like I am about to come down with something and got pinged this morning :/

Is the pingy thing still running??!

Well, it obviously must be if you got pinged

May Kasahara I didn't notice any effect on my sense of smell or taste until several days after I'd tested positive. I didn't lose it completely but it was like the volume had been turned down - nothing smelled or tasted especially interesting.

Yes this was my experience of the timing too. Thankfully it also started to come back in a week.

 

[CNT36]

In a way it makes sense that if a mutation isn't picked up by LFTs it will spread and become more commonplace due to people with negative lfts not self isolating. I've taken a general rule with my team that if you feel shit and are coughing your guts up you are best at home.

Perhaps there is a case for updating LFTS with more of a mixture of antibodies.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Didn't test yesterday but this morning

Not even feeling that bad, maybe slightly feverish but not as bad as yesterday.
The ping was Thursday which narrows the infection to working at a gig as I didn't go anywhere else that day, have since worked another 2 in the same venue...

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Could I ask everyone a quick question - has anyone else noticed their immune system being lowered enough in the few months afterwards to pick up infections they probably shouldn’t have done?

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Sorry that’s a bit vaguebooky. I’ll be more specific.

My children are in the recovery stage of chicken pox. I have had chicken pox so should be immune. However, 12 days after my eldest became infectious, I now have a growing number of spots on my chest and face and am on the borderline of a fever. I also had a noticeable headache and general feeling of malaise a couple of days after she got her rash, and was itching like mad a week age (my youngest itched like mad a week before her rash).

I already deleted a post elsewhere because it sounds so ridiculous I pretty much gas lighted myself, but after a bit of searching have found quite a few sources suggesting COVID can suppress the immune system afterwards.

I also had a COVID rebound a few weeks after my November infection. My eyes are quite sore today so I did my last COVID test on a whim. Am I seeing things now or is that a very faint but present line?

 

[weepiper]

I can see a line there Agent Sparrow.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Guess I am calling my GP tomorrow then to let them know and see if we need to make any plans!

 

[Orang Utan]

I can see a line there Agent Sparrow.

Just the C though

 

[Epona]

If you've had chicken pox and your immune system was depressed due to COVID, you probably wouldn't be getting chicken pox, you'd be getting shingles.

That is a distinct possibility. I've had shingles when I was at a low point in terms of stress and health. It presents as blisters, pain/neuralgia, itching, tingling on the skin along nerves, along with fatigue and maybe other stuff like nausea, muscle pain, personally I felt like I was being sawed in half for a couple of weeks (but it took longer to feel well). The blisters are usually on one side of the body though along a nerve branch, although the pain and fatigue can affect your whole body.