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Have all the PCR testing sites closed? The local ones to me in Brighton seem to have.

My daughter tested positives on Saturday. I've done 2 lateral flow tests and both positive but wanted to get us both done properly.
 
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A consequence of looking after my aged parents is not wanting to be the one who takes c19 home for them. So as well as being miles away from my home I don't feel like doing any socialising where they live. As they are both fairly deaf and senile it's a boring and solitary task.
 
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Have all the PCR testing sites closed? The local ones to me in Brighton seem to have.

My daughter tested positives on Saturday. I've done 2 lateral flow tests and both positive but wanted to get us both done properly.
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Lots have. I started symptoms 2 weeks ago and went to book a PCR. The nearest one to me is usually 500m away, but that and lots of other local ones had closed leaving the nearest one being about 15 miles away. Ordered a home test instead.
 
mod said:
Have all the PCR testing sites closed? The local ones to me in Brighton seem to have.

My daughter tested positives on Saturday. I've done 2 lateral flow tests and both positive but wanted to get us both done properly.
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I think you need to pay if you want a test now (eg for travelling), and you can't report the results to the NHS :confused:
 
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Does anyone know the best cough medicine to use to help a covid cough please?
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This may not be what you want, but I’ve only just discovered Ultra Chloroseptic - which is a spray that numbs to back of your throat and so suppresses dry/tickly coughs.

You shouldn’t suppress productive / bronchial coughs though, apparently.
 
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Does anyone know the best cough medicine to use to help a covid cough please?
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I found the blue sore throat and cough strepsils quite helpful. They do I think have a mild cough suppressant in them, but not enough to stop you hacking up anything you need to hack up.
 
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spanglechick said:
This may not be what you want, but I’ve only just discovered Ultra Chloroseptic - which is a spray that numbs to back of your throat and so suppresses dry/tickly coughs.

You shouldn’t suppress productive / bronchial coughs though, apparently.
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Some cough medicines will help you clear mucus rather than prevent coughing. Expectorants. I swear by this stuff:

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RubyToogood said:
I found the blue sore throat and cough strepsils quite helpful. They do I think have a mild cough suppressant in them, but not enough to stop you hacking up anything you need to hack up.
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I caned strepsils when I had it but I never really had a full on COVID cough. More of a dry, scratchy throat, which Strepsils dealt with brilliantly.
 
It was the chestiness with me, it was the first symptom along with fever.
Chestiness was the last thing to go.
I wonder if it was because I am diagnosed with COPD
 
I took my youngest to a visitor attraction yesterday. It was not well managed and very busy because Easter holidays and there was a couple of points where we were corralled indoors with a large impatient crowd. Even though the majority of people are still wearing facemasks in that kind of situation here it was horrible. I felt really claustrophobic and trapped. Will I ever be able to enjoy a busy pub or a gig again? I feel like my personal space has permanently expanded.
 
My 92-year-old step-grandma and her daughter have COVID now - fortunately seems very mild. Hope SG doesn't have to go to hospital (which doesn't sound likely) because she has dementia and while it's not that bad yet I think that would be very confusing for her and probably exacerbate things.
 
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My 92-year-old step-grandma and her daughter have COVID now - fortunately seems very mild. Hope SG doesn't have to go to hospital (which doesn't sound likely) because she has dementia and while it's not that bad yet I think that would be very confusing for her and probably exacerbate things.
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Hope they both stay as well as can be Cloo.

My (unvaccinated...:facepalm:) partner has just got it, so far reasonably mildly, which is a relief. I'm negative, though I suspect the next couple of days will tell. I'm not all that worried about getting it given that I'm 3 x jabbed, more worried about getting long covid, which sounds very similar in symptoms to the Fybromyalgia that I already have.
 
Ah fuck me dad's got it.

My parents have been really careful throughout and didn't go out for 18 months, they both have heart/circulatory conditions so are in a high risk group and are due for another booster jab soon.

Fuck this complete shower of politician wankers and their "carry on as if nothing happened" attitude.

I hope neither of my parents become badly ill.
 
So we got together for Passover with my family on Saturday night - thus far me, my mum, my dad and my brother, and I think now my youngest seem to all have/be coming down with horrible cold (and my other half and sister think they might be getting a bit sore throated/sniffly), everyone's done an LFT or two but all negative. Thus far it feels exactly like the horrid cold I had before Xmas that wasn't COVID - sore throat, very blocked nose, slight headache. I guess we'll all keep testing next day or two and if anyone gets a positive or no one does then that's a fairly clear answer (I am aware a few friends have said they only got a + test after 2-3 days of symptoms). It does seem a remarkably high hit rate, even for COVID, in a room full of vaccinated people. I'm kind of glad that, whatever it is, it's so simultanous that there's no obvious person whose fault it is!

I'm supposed to be off work to entertain son this week who doesn't go back to school this week - I guess if no one has a + tomorrow I'll stick to outdoor activities, as I didn't have anything specific planned.
 
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Ah fuck me dad's got it.

My parents have been really careful throughout and didn't go out for 18 months, they both have heart/circulatory conditions so are in a high risk group and are due for another booster jab soon.

Fuck this complete shower of politician wankers and their "carry on as if nothing happened" attitude.

I hope neither of my parents become badly ill.
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Just an update to the above, my dad wasn't very ill and got over the worst of it in 3 or 4 days, and was back outside doing the gardening today like nothing had happened. Slight cough remains and tires a little more easily than usual, which is to be expected after any virus really - but he seems to have got over it quickly (and isn't exerting himself too much, just some light garden stuff and enjoying being outdoors with a cuppa I think!)

My mum tested positive a couple of days after, she was a bit worse and spent a couple of days in bed with a fever but is improving well now.
 
wemakeyousoundb said:
personal consequence of catching it:
best part of £1000 not earned in 8 days, this is well above what I would normally earn as well as it was an anormally busy 8 days
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If I test positive during pre project mobilisation it’s at least a 1/5 of my annual income down the shitter. Not recoverable
Hence going to ground a week before I fly and wearing masks in airports/‘planes etc
 
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Are people still wearing masks in other parts of the country then? Honestly it's like it never happened now in London.
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No, they're not. It's rare to see masks on buses and shops here (Lincs). I see at most two or three masked people total besides me daily, almost always elderly.
 
I keep hearing the WHO say there's a new variant and a wave on the way. And another in September.
It's so weird that the west is basically saying "nothing to see here back to normal".

Especially when scientists and medical scientists now know covid can cause longterm problems in the brain.
 
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