Good luck - hope you're negative!Got a really tickly cough since Tuesday but no other symptoms. Booked a test for this evening. Freaking out if I'm honest.
Remember. There's two ends to world beatingTested on Thursday but still waiting for the result. World beating...
Getting my test in 20 minutes.
and colds are I believe a lot less infectious ...Don't have it.
Found out the funeral I went to must have been a superspreader event. Lots of people came down with a cold but luckily not covid.
Oh god...tight chest, bit wheezy...
At the beggining of the pandemic I had a few episodes of what you describe....I think it was anxiety. I hope you feel better soon and its nothing serious xOh god...tight chest, bit wheezy...
Aye, and it’s not just Covid-related symptoms that are causing anxiety- I’ve got a lump in my mouth that I would normally not worry about - probably a sebaceous cyst - but I’ve been googling and fretting that it has to be the Big C. Every twinge or ache or headache or sneeze or cough is a sure sign of imminent demiseIt's not you it's most of us. What would have been incidental health incidences are now centre stage as potential dreadful illnesses - that's not us, it's the context of covid testing and spreading. Damned If you do etc
If its any consellation and help, I've managed not to catch covid despite being close up and personal with patients and there being no social distancing at work. I just keep washing my hands and wear different clothes in to work and diffefent clothes home (scrubs go in a special cotton drawstring bag, or a pillowcase will do- straight into washer at 60°) shower as soon as home and wash my hands. Doing those things might help your mind? Don't forget to have hand cream due to amount of washing- ie between classes and hand sanitiser after you have touched a door handle etc. Wipe down where you are working from before and after. That's all you can do really .Being a hypochondriac with anxiety "issues" is just grrrreeeeaaaatt in a global pandemic
And all the students are back at college tomorrow. And us Success Coaches are on a rota in pairs doing refectory policing
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Thanks lovelyIf its any consellation and help, I've managed not to catch covid despite being close up and personal with patients and there being no social distancing at work. I just keep washing my hands and wear different clothes in to work and diffefent clothes home (scrubs go in a special cotton drawstring bag, or a pillowcase will do- straight into washer at 60°) shower as soon as home and wash my hands. Doing those things might help your mind? Don't forget to have hand cream due to amount of washing- ie between classes and hand sanitiser after you have touched a door handle etc. Wipe down where you are working from before and after. That's all you can do really .
I've never considered private health care, but I'm really considering an antibody test. Because frankly I feel fucked. Not ill. Just fucking knacked the whole time, got weird skin shit going on I've never had, my bowels aren't quite right. I can just about run 3km, last year I was doing Ultras. I'm pretty sure I have had it along with my partner. Shes in a far worse stait then me and is really worried about developing fibromyalgia.
I guess I just want to know. Because there's a small part of me that's worried that I havnt had it and all this is something else. Fucks sake.
You've got a continuousish cough and feel feverishish - I would get a test.any advice from the hive mind?
i've come down with something since yesterday evening -
felt reasonably ok until late evening when i felt freezing cold (it wasn't that warm but it wasn't as cold as i felt), then woke up couple of times in the night very hot and sweating (again, i'd not got enough duvet for that.) i'm possibly a bit warm now (i don't have a thermometer so can't say with any accuracy) but not drastic.
rotten headache, guts don't feel quite right but nothing too bad, no obvious rash but skin feels sort of itchy.
bit of a sniffle, coughing occasionally - certainly not a 'continuous cough' but some of the advice says if you cough more than than 3 times a day then that counts. smell / taste seems ok
i had a flu jab about 10 days ago and felt a bit shit for a couple of days after but was ok after that.
i think it's a cold or something like that, what's the advice on covid tests? i don't want to clog up the system, or is it now 'if in doubt, get a test?'
i'm working from home, and did a big food shop late afternoon yesterday so could just self isolate for a few days (although i have got a job interview where they actually want me to go there planned for tuesday, which i'll have to try and postpone) - bugger