Underlying health risks such as asthma

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The pedant that I am for high risk people it's classed as shielding as opposed to self isolation.
Self isolaters can go out for shopping & exercise & live with people and stuff.
The high risk advice I have had is to isolate from partner, sleep in separate rooms, use separate bathrooms Etc.
do not go out & stuff. Bit difficult if you are like me when there are just two of us in a tiny flat.

When I first took this up two weeks ago to try and find out what was what and to let work plan around it my doctor
wasn't sure. I subsequently spoke to occupational health who said no, I was not high risk. I have had both a letter and text to
confirm I was deemed high risk; this is probably more down to partial remission from lymphoma than mild asthma.
On the other hand, my 82 year old father in law who has recently developed asthma has not, we believe, been deemed high
risk. He might be lying or its because he tries to keep himself underneath the radar.

I reckon I have quite a strong constitution and think I would weather the virus quite well. Some of the advice is
difficult if not impossible for me to follow, I would rather err on the side of caution for my benefit and also not to place
further strain on the health service and needing medical treatment.

If you have not seen this, you might like to swing by down here.....

https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/support-thread-for-12-week-isolators.370014/

 

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The 12-week thing for me was due to crohns medication, which is an immunosuppressant. I’d not actually had any of the medication for about six weeks as my GP advised holding off as I had a case of shingles and immune system needed to beat that. After that had mostly cleared I just stayed off the medication as I’ve been OK for a while with the crohns anyway so thought it best to try and hold out for a bit in case I’d picked up C19 anywhere - thought I could hold out for about ten days after being told to isolate so I’d know that I was ‘clear’.

Started to get some crohns type symptoms at the weekend so relented on Tuesday. Same night I felt knackered and headachey, aching limbs (which I’d had since the day before injection) and got pretty scared. Feeling a bit better now, and remembered that I used to get those symptoms when I first started on biological treatment, and probably just that my body had ‘forgotten’ the treatment so getting a stronger immune response to it on restarting.

The crohns/colitis association posted a list of the NHS guidance for the isolation, and according to that criteria I would only be a ‘moderate’ risk for the medication I’m on, but I’ve also had a long chest infection recently (about four months over Autumn/Winter, cleared on fourth round of antibiotics) and seeing specialists for that (suspected ILD, possible complication/side effect of my medication) so suspect that’s bumped me up to ‘severe’ category. I guess having had a four month chest infection and shingles might also be an indicator that my immune system is not performing well, although I started working at a school in September so I’ve been exposed to all kinds of crap.

 

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At the start of all this, a work colleague who is having serious meds for his crohns was off like a startled rabbit as soon as self isolating was announced.
I am not sure he looks after himself as well as he should. The person I previously knew with crohns was very careful with what he ate and avoided
flour and sugar amongst other things. My colleague appears to live on junk food

 

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The pedant that I am for high risk people it's classed as shielding as opposed to self isolation.
Self isolaters can go out for shopping & exercise & live with people and stuff.
The high risk advice I have had is to isolate from partner, sleep in separate rooms, use separate bathrooms Etc.
do not go out & stuff. Bit difficult if you are like me when there are just two of us in a tiny flat.
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I’m in a fairly roomy flat (2/3 bedrooms) but with two kids under five the ‘two metres from everyone else’ isn’t going to happen, plus only one bog/bathroom etc. Basically everyone has to stay in. Sister is dropping food round, gf going out to nearby co-op for bread/bananas about once a week taking all precautions, both of us also exercising outside a few times a week, I’m on the bike so touch nothing (even though not supposed to go out at all). Just have to be practical really.