Have you caught Covid recently - updated poll 2022-23

[Pingety Pong]

Are you more or less back to normal now, T & P?

I am on day 5, and for the first time since testing positive really wanted to leave the house and go for a walk. Also, I just did a test and the line has gone very faint.
On the downside, my GP put me on a course of steroids and one of the new antivirals because my asthma was really bad and I was coughing non-stop to the point of choking. The cough is better but now I am really out of breath when talking and walking up the stairs.

My other half has got is as well now but his only symptom so far is extreme irritability

 

[andysays]

I tested positive last Monday morning and started to experience symptoms later that day.

Still experiencing symptoms (sore throat, runny nose, tired, achy limbs) now, over a week later. Although they're not serious, they don't seem to be getting any better.

Most other people I've heard about recently seem to have had symptoms for a week or less. Has anyone else had a similar experience to mine?

 

[T & P]

Are you more or less back to normal now, T & P?

I am on day 5, and for the first time since testing positive really wanted to leave the house and go for a walk. Also, I just did a test and the line has gone very faint.
On the downside, my GP put me on a course of steroids and one of the new antivirals because my asthma was really bad and I was coughing non-stop to the point of choking. The cough is better but now I am really out of breath when talking and walking up the stairs.

My other half has got is as well now but his only symptom so far is extreme irritability

I tested negative yesterday (day 6), and again today, so got my early release. I’d say I feel 90% recovered and certainly not infectious or having fever of big aches, though I still got a mild throat soreness, and hints of nausea here and there during today.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I had symptoms over Christmas and beyond but tested negative. So it was just an annoying cold.
My son has now tested positive who I was in close contact with over the weekend. I really can’t be arsed with more symptoms having just escaped the cold ffs.

 

[T & P]

I tested positive last Monday morning and started to experience symptoms later that day.

Still experiencing symptoms (sore throat, runny nose, tired, achy limbs) now, over a week later. Although they're not serious, they don't seem to be getting any better.

Most other people I've heard about recently seem to have had symptoms for a week or less. Has anyone else had a similar experience to mine?

I’m 36 hours behind you, and as I was just telling above not fully recovered yet. More like feeling slightly off than properly bothersome symptoms like a chest cough, though I’m still sneezing a bit and am off food. I think I’m making daily progress, but a much slower rate than with any flu or cold I’ve had in the past.

 

[Dogsauce]

Still waiting on PCR result (have symptoms and likely exposure through school but negative LFTs which is same as lots of others).

Supposed to be a priority as I’m CEV and get to have the new antivirals if positive, so had special kit with priority labels to post. Posted it off in a priority box at 9:30 am, didn’t enter the mail system until nearly 10pm, but was delivered about three hours later. I could easily have gone to the walk-in place round the corner and it’d have probably got there sooner. Still waiting on result nearly 48 hours after taking test, then up to 24 hour wait for the drugs. I’ll be better by then at this rate.

 

[kropotkin]

Got out of quarantine last Friday after very few symptoms, just in time to work the weekend! Now my son has it so I'm off again .

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Still waiting on PCR result (have symptoms and likely exposure through school but negative LFTs which is same as lots of others).

Supposed to be a priority as I’m CEV and get to have the new antivirals if positive, so had special kit with priority labels to post. Posted it off in a priority box at 9:30 am, didn’t enter the mail system until nearly 10pm, but was delivered about three hours later. I could easily have gone to the walk-in place round the corner and it’d have probably got there sooner. Still waiting on result nearly 48 hours after taking test, then up to 24 hour wait for the drugs. I’ll be better by then at this rate.

Do you get a priority test bc of being CEV? Asking for a friend who has serious lung disease but not had any priority tests

 

[andysays]

Still waiting on PCR result (have symptoms and likely exposure through school but negative LFTs which is same as lots of others).

Supposed to be a priority as I’m CEV and get to have the new antivirals if positive, so had special kit with priority labels to post. Posted it off in a priority box at 9:30 am, didn’t enter the mail system until nearly 10pm, but was delivered about three hours later. I could easily have gone to the walk-in place round the corner and it’d have probably got there sooner. Still waiting on result nearly 48 hours after taking test, then up to 24 hour wait for the drugs. I’ll be better by then at this rate.

I hope you are better by then, but my experience suggests that's far from certain.

 

[Dogsauce]

I hope you are better by then, but my experience suggests that's far from certain.

Yeah, I’ve felt worse today but still way better than last time. PCR should have been back this morning, it‘s a priority one due to me being classed as CEV so they said on he leaflet to call after 48 hours if no result, but when I spoke to the call centre they said they can’t do anything until it’s five days past which is ridiculous.

I’m still going in to unlock the school first thing as there’s nobody else that can do it at the moment, but I don’t encounter any people, masked up, sanitise hands and just disarm the alarm on the keypad and fuck off home. Felt a bit rough after riding up there and back this morning. If I do get a positive result I will have to stop doing this, but at the moment working on the premise that I haven’t go it and it might be something else.

LFTs negative still, but in a bit of a curveball one of the tests done this morning does have a really faint positive line that was only noticed when tidying them up at lunchtime, but we don’t know who took that particular test and there was no sign after 30 mins when originally done. I’ve retested just now and still clear.

 

[petee]

last sat: slept alot, i thought I was just catching up.
sun: in bed all day, couldn't get going, something was wrong.
mon: woke up sick sick sick. fever, furious sore throat, cough, leaden eyes, achy muscles, lethargy, you know, the flu.
tue: tested positive. so, not the flu.

the fever and the aches receded fast, and i feel stronger, but i doubt I'm going back into the school monday. I'm asthmatic so i worried about any effect on my breathing but there's been none.

two odd elements: i wasn't nauseous, but my stomach was vaguely painful, and this got worse when i ate, however little or whatever the food was. my appetite returned only yesterday. and, I'm completely off alcohol, i can't even imagine putting it to my lips. no drink + little food = 2 lbs lost this week. I'm 16 stone so i can easily afford it.

 

[quiet guy]

Had a sore throat on Wednesday but nothing else, Thursday a tickly cough got added to the mix, Friday I was advised by the Zoe app to get a PCR and on Saturday I got the positive notification. As I wasnt coughing all the time, hadn't lost my sense of taste or smell I hadn't considered that I might have a positive result.
I'm going to need to set up a food delivery as I wasn't expecting this and let work know tomorrow that I'm isolating.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Both my kids have had it. Both my parents have had it. Dozens of people I work with (in a busy, publicly accessible building on a campus with thousands of students) have had it. moomoo had it.

I’m testing most days for work. Every single one negative.

I’m either the worlds luckiest individual or at some point I’ve been asymptomatic and not realised, which coupled with 3 jabs has kept it at bay

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I would watch saying things like that beesonthewhatnow, I was just beginning to say that and boom! Positive LFT today.

Definitely feels more like a bad cold than the original classic COVID, mainly tiredness, achey hips and congestion/snot. Bit of a borderline fever now. Had a decreased appetite a few days before, not sure if that was related.

Not sure if it’s been brewing since the weekend when youngest had something and just wanted to cuddle/breathe in my face (PCR was negative but possibly an insufficient sample) or from Monday when I worked with a colleague who was confirmed to have it two days later.

 

[Numbers]

Similar here beesonthewhatnow - loads of family have had it, colleagues in work have had it, mates etc, some twice.
I've been to footie games, gigs, restaurants, busy tubes, out and about but, touch wood, am yet to get it thankfully.

 

[moomoo]

I would watch saying things like that beesonthewhatnow, I was just beginning to say that and boom! Positive LFT today.

He’ll probably be asymptomatic and I’ll catch it for a second time from him

Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Dogsauce]

I’ve been pretty wretched all week but tested negative all the way, including the ‘priority’ PCR for CEV people done first thing Monday that finally gave a negative result on Thursday PM after much chasing via the call centre.

Symptoms have varied, lots of snot, muscle aches not much coughing (though barely had a cough when I had Delta in October) but after having managed a full day at work on Friday with no bother I had a horrible head/eye/earache thing all day yesterday that was totally debilitating, began to think I had some sort of abscess in my cheek as it seemed focused there above the roots of my teeth.

Better today but I now seem to have strained a muscle in my chest which makes it difficult to bend down and pick things up, or turn my head (was really hard getting out at a busy slip road type junction in the car earlier). So don’t know what it is but it isn’t Covid apparently. Work (primary school) is rife with it at the moment though.

 

[Dogsauce]

Following up tha last post, quite a few staff at school have returned having been off with quite a nasty fluey ‘not Covid’ thing, similar symptoms but multiple negatives (lft and PCR). So that may have been what I was suffering, unless there’s another variant that evades detection. Some staff and pupils also off with the real thing, but the other is just adding to the confusion. A sickness bug doing the rounds too, my son who had it on weds was OK for a few days until projectile vomiting all over our bed last night. We’re all tired of being Ill!

 

[Dogsauce]

And the annus (and anus) horribilus continues... Just woken up at 3am feeling very nauseous, quick dash to bog and it’s watery bum time. Urgh. The eldest son’s tummy bug has called. Meanwhile the missus has been at children’s hospital A&E since before midnight with child #2 who has done something nasty to their foot after colliding with child #1 during the usual pre-bed charging-around-the-bedroom-jumping-off-stuff malarky. Last update at 2AM said they‘d been through triage and have another 3hr wait, and he’s wide awake singing jingle bells really loudly. I haven’t told her about my situation as I’m not sure the additional stress would be welcomed. Fuckarama.

 

[PursuedByBears]

Three out of four of us now down with covid. More like mild flu than anything. The teenager still doesn't have it but she had a mild case before Christmas that no-one else caught. I'm still working from home but trying to take things easier than normal, fortunately my work allows me to do that.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Three out of four of us now down with covid.

Same in this house, though eldest has a sore throat and obviously swollen tonsils so despite no positive LFT she’s now off with us too, with a postal PCR on the way.

I’ve felt dreadful for over two days but have had a burst of energy this afternoon. Still not working though - a quick email I wrote this morning absolutely exhausted me.

Something I never would have known if it wasn’t for needing to monitor my blood pressure due to a medication I’m on - it’s high. Not dangerous short term but much higher than my baseline. Hoping it goes down again as I recover. Accidentally googled reports of elevated blood pressure being a longer term sequelae of COVID for some

 

[Agent Sparrow]

There is an extremely disappointing lack of chocolate or cake in the house though

 

[Miss-Shelf]

There is an extremely disappointing lack of chocolate or cake in the house though

How do feel about using one of the same day delivery apps? Getir can be handy when you're Ill or in need if cake. Or if you have the ingredients in this is a super easy tasty cake

 

[wtfftw]

I have intro referrals for all of the instant deliveries if anyone wants

 

[RubyToogood]

Something I never would have known if it wasn’t for needing to monitor my blood pressure due to a medication I’m on - it’s high. Not dangerous short term but much higher than my baseline. Hoping it goes down again as I recover. Accidentally googled reports of elevated blood pressure being a longer term sequelae of COVID for some

My understanding is that many illnesses can raise your blood pressure for a while. I've been waiting for a gap in the bugs for some time now so I can do a week of monitoring mine.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

My understanding is that many illnesses can raise your blood pressure for a while. I've been waiting for a gap in the bugs for some time now so I can do a week of monitoring mine.

Yes, this is what I’m hoping for

 

[Agent Sparrow]

How do feel about using one of the same day delivery apps? Getir can be handy when you're Ill or in need if cake. Or if you have the ingredients in this is a super easy tasty cake

I think I should hopefully be up to some very gentle cake making tomorrow, mainly thanks to a food processor and dishwasher

 

[moochedit]

I have still managed to avoid it myself so far but a lot of people i know have caught it recently. I also have had 2 neighbours on both sides of me go into hospitol with covid in last 2 weeks or so. (One of them was released then went back in again a few days later). Also a mate that visited my house last weekend and was there a few hours tested positive about 4 days later. ( i have done lateral flow's since and was negative). Also 3 cousins and one of their partners got it. One work mate of mine has it as well. Up until now i haven't really known anyone with it.

 

[ddraig]

I’ve been pretty wretched all week but tested negative all the way, including the ‘priority’ PCR for CEV people done first thing Monday that finally gave a negative result on Thursday PM after much chasing via the call centre.

Symptoms have varied, lots of snot, muscle aches not much coughing (though barely had a cough when I had Delta in October) but after having managed a full day at work on Friday with no bother I had a horrible head/eye/earache thing all day yesterday that was totally debilitating, began to think I had some sort of abscess in my cheek as it seemed focused there above the roots of my teeth.

Better today but I now seem to have strained a muscle in my chest which makes it difficult to bend down and pick things up, or turn my head (was really hard getting out at a busy slip road type junction in the car earlier). So don’t know what it is but it isn’t Covid apparently. Work (primary school) is rife with it at the moment though.

Nightmare! Hope it passed quickly
I've been feeling a bit like your middle paragraph that I've bolded the last couple of days

 

[Maggot]

I was at my girlfriends place on Saturday when she tested positive. I was negative and left straight away. Started feeling tired and sniffly on Sunday but still negative until this morning, when I got a positive. Still don't feel too bad, just the runny nose, tired and sleeping more.