Think I’ve finally turned the corner now on day 19. Managed a gentle 45 min spin on the turbo for the first time which felt ok despite lots of coughing but no lumps coming up. I feel a fair bit brighter and less sinus pressure but I’m still very snotty… hopefully things will only get better now!
Come down with it since Friday. Nasty little thing. Aches and pains all over, fever massive headache. Not Covid as had a test. Not I'll enough for bed but no energy for excercise. I normally get over these things quickly but it's sticking around.
And yes I caught a train to Manchester last week and it was packed. I have lost some immunity.
Pretty sure I've had this f***** thing. First came down with a cold last week of September, felt like I was ok after a few days so went on a pre-arranged biking weekend in the Lakes and could barely breathe riding uphill. I was convinced I'd had covid but passed all the tests. After that I just felt wasted for a couple of weeks. Then came down with what felt like something else a couple of weeks ago, but stupidly went out on a road ride and ended up having to be rescued by the Mrs after getting chest pains.
Since then the bloody kids caught covid but miraculously I seem to have avoided it. I wasn't too keen on that after my lungs were already trashed by the flu/cold bug. Have just started to ride again on the turbo and my breathing seems ok now but the fitness has taken a major hit. Reckon I've lost at least 50w off the FTP so will be intesting to see how long it takes to get back to where I was in September.
I know a few people who've had norovirus too so I'm praying that doesn't come anywhere near me as I don't think I could cope 😄.
No idea what going on here but after almost 4 weeks I thought I was mostly over it. Woke up this morning with a raging sore throat, snotty head and feel pretty awful again. It’s almost like I’ve had 3 colds / viruses back to back where I haven’t quite managed to get over the previous one before the next thing comes along. Don’t know if it is just one long bug or several but I’ve never been so rough for so long before.
Yep , Mate gave it to me on a biking trip.
Day 13 so far. Sore throat , Swollen tongue then sneezing and runny nose.
Massive sinus pressure and lethargy for a week , followed by the non productive double cough that mimics covid. Lost my voice, which then returned as Marge Simpson which is funny , until you have to work on a counter serving builders all day.
I finally started to feel a bit like my normal self last Thursday, 27 days after this flu/cold began with such an innocent scratchy throat on the evening of 9th Oct, my legs and knees finally not constantly aching and getting even more unhappy if I got up to move anywhere. My first days back at work this week were physically challenging after such a long absence, but I literally just about got through up to 5 hours delivery on my feet each shift.
Cycling power and stamina has unsurprisingly taken a big hit, but seems to be slowly improving over the last week, if improvements continue I might need to leave Zwiftpower D soon and start heading in the direction of being a very low end B again.
Here we go again.... woke up yesterday with a raw sore throat again and the beginnings of another head cold. That will make it 4 colds, back to back in 5 weeks since 15th Oct.
I've never had anything like this before. I haven't been terribly poorly as such but have been through all the usual symptoms over and over and it's completely draining me physically and mentally - Sore throat, cough, sinus pain, loads of snot, fever on and off etc etc. I'm not convinced it's one long bug as I do perk up for a day or two in between. But what are the chances of catching 4 colds back to back when I normally get 1-2 a year lasting about 5 days??
Wife and toddler have had a couple of matching symptoms too but much more mild than my own.
I eat healthily, take daily vitamins etc. I'm just loosing my mind over it now as it's keeping me off my bike.
Has anyone had a spinny-head kind of feeling ? My household all have coughs, lightheadedness, slightly dizzy. My 6yo girl feinted one morning. It's dragging on now towards week 3. Total PITA.
bad cold directly after my booster, put it down to coincidence as first 2 jabs were fine. that was october tho and havent really shifted it. first cold lasted a couple of weeks, i had maybe 2 or 3 good days when i thought it was over, then straight into another which im just coming out of now.
just generally feeling lethargic and cant be bothered, diets gone to sh1t as i just feel like eating crap and ive put a fair few lbs on. loooooads of phlegm too, seem to be gogging it out on a regular basis still....
Yet another cold hit me a couple of days ago. Sore throat, tired, aching, slight headache when I do strenuous activity. Won't be covid because I'm in China and we don't have it in my region of the country.
Lost a long weekend, and tomorrow back to work. It did rain all weekend so there's that....
It’s almost like I’ve had 3 colds / viruses back to back where I haven’t quite managed to get over the previous one before the next thing comes along.
Don’t forget, the common cold is a Corona virus, and there are four distinct varieties, and being a Covid, they’re just as adept at mutating as the SARS and MERS strains, as shown by the latest version of SARS-Cov 2 running riot around the world, which appears to have picked up some bits from HIV and the common cold, which may account for its ability to spread so much quicker than the Delta version.
I haven’t had a really bad cold-type virus for some years, possibly because I’m no longer working inside a big steel box with a load of virtually sealed interior rooms with a bunch of other humans busy incubating a rich variety of bio-weapons! Which is where I caught the last two doses of something unspeakably vile, as I think I posted earlier.
Sweet baby Jesus, it was truly horrible, I’m convinced that aliens from planet snot had opened a wormhole from one of the deepest parts of one of their snot oceans and were busy trying to empty it into my sinuses! I honestly couldn’t believe that the human head could produce such huge amounts of green goo pretty much continuously. It’s a good thing nobody noticed the number of bog rolls I was pilfering from the loos, I was going through at least one a day. For three sodding months. 🤧👾
Hope I’m not speaking too soon but I think I’m in the all clear now… In the end I had 45 days / over 6 weeks of constantly reoccurring cold symptoms. I’m still producing a lot of the green stuff throughout the day and still have a bit of a cough on and off but I’ve been back on the bike for 3 weeks or so and feeling mostly ok. It’ll be 10 weeks since I started with this thing this week.
Two tests later and I'm reassured it's not COVID, but what an almighty pain in the arse.
All the worse for just not quite being bad enough to call off sick, although I'm mostly working from home so the bar is probably a little higher than usual...
Day 8 - productive cough lacerating my throat with supersonic phlegm, fevers on and off, conjunctivitis requiring me to unglue eyes every morning, even the DOMs from last Tuesday's feeble workout took a week to shift 🙄
Wife and child seem to have got off reasonably lightly, I'm not used to being the sick one!
Well it looks like I've got something awfully similar again, albeit this illness didn't start with a streaming nose.
Only been around others at work and briefly in the Tesco Express down the road in recent weeks, colleague I worked with in van only told me they returned from recent Covid towards end of shift a week before this started. There were other Covid absences at work preceeding me feeling rough.
No energy, aching all over, sleeping loads and full of brain fog. Beter half could feel it on top of her usual daily long Covid symptoms. Been off work a week so far, first absence since the similar bug that started this thread ~8 months ago, still no sign of feeling like I've turned the corner.
LFTs daily have been negative.
Is there a non-Covid bug doing the rounds this summer, that feels like flu?
Yeah, we all had a flu-like thing that didn't return positive on repeated LFTs. I was wiped out for 2 weeks. It could have been covid though although I expected repeated tests would have narrowed the margin of error.
Is there a non-Covid bug doing the rounds this summer, that feels like flu?
Could be, or you've just got another dose of Omicron which, for some reason, isn't showing up on your LFTs.
This winter is going to be interesting as our immune systems encounter various things we haven't experienced for a while.
Me. Tested daily for Covid. Two test types. Negative every time. Dragged on for a couple of weeks. Mrs S didn't catch it though. I behaved as though I had Covid on the basis that, even if it wasn't, there was no need to be passing whatever it was onto someone else.
I had something similar in June. 3 LFTs showed negative. Took me a while to feel better, so I just kept away from people.
Yep, had something that started out as symptoms like hay fever early June. Itchy eyes, sneezing etc. Then went into a full on flu laid me out for a week. Tested negative. Resulted in a chest infection and having antibiotics.
Then again last week while on holiday, raised temperature, chesty cough and runny nose. Again tested negative.
Yep - had the same in our household - all the symptoms of the current COVID variants yet none of us tested positive despite several tests each.
I had what I thought was just a really bad cold a few weeks ago, didn't bother doing a test as "its just a cold", tested positive when I decided to do a test just to prove to my girlfriend that it was just a bad cold!
I'm mostly back to normal now, but breathing is sometimes strange, hopefully that'll eventually get better.
“Sleeping loads”
Where do I sign up
Had a weird throat infection thing the other week. Woke up on Sunday morning feeling very hungover (no drinking, but did a 400km audax Sat, and finished at 3am Sun, so not unexpected) with really painful sore throat (ulcer-like pain, but nothing visible). LFT negative.
Felt really out of it Monday - not unexpected after the audax but still sore throat and headache, but no other cold symptoms. Negative LFT.
Didn't really feel much better til Thursday or Friday. Heatwave Mon/Tue didn't help, but still think there was more to it than that. Bit weird.
Aren't LFTs a bit void once you've been vaccinated or previously infected?
The viral load is too low to show up.
They're not that accurate at the best of times.
Aren’t LFTs a bit void once you’ve been vaccinated or previously infected?
I wondered that. But surely if it's making you feel ill, there must be some viral load - or is it just the body's reaction?
They’re not that accurate at the best of times
Probably that TBH.
LFT positive = you almost certainly have covid (99.97% chance according to https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2022/01/11/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-recent-changes-to-testing/)
LFT negative = you may or may not have covid (false negative rate is dependent on how the test is done and whether asymptomatic, e.g. https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj-2021-066871)
(I am not a statistician 😉
yeah, sample quality is central to a LFT - no offence, all of you 😉, and yes, other viruses are available !
Can confirm though that recent COVID (last week, I'm ASSUMING BA4 or 5) does show on LFTs but I do use the combo throat and mid-turbinate back o'the nose version
Another throat bug here, just about through it now on day five. Horrid spiky swollen throat, fatigue, dizzy, sharp muscle pains, alternating chills and fever to start. Snotty and sinus pain too. LFTs from two batches negative, but have isolated anyway. I'm getting back to work today, house renovation/decorating but swerving any heavy work for another few days at least.
Aren’t LFTs a bit void once you’ve been vaccinated or previously infected?
The viral load is too low to show up.
They’re not that accurate at the best of times.
I did have thoughts on similar lines, as I initially had a very mild Covid infection days before lockdown one, before I tried to jump back into training and then discovered massive physical fatigue plus moving daily very sore patches under my ribcage. I had rough reactions to each Covid vaccination jab last year (but not my first ever flu jab), which gave me flu-like symptoms with massive fatigue for ~2 weeks each time very similar to what I have now and had last October.
I've yet to ever give a positive test on an LFT, possibly not helped by a gagging reflex that makes throat swabs (including by a nurse) impossible. I've had a few presumably colds and a couple of flu-like bugs since the pandemic. I've tested negative each time, but I do wonder if any of them were Covid and my body gave an immune response that made me feel rough, but kept the viral load low enough not to trigger positives and respiratory difficulties.
My better half did a nasal LFT and two throat/nose LFTs early last week, all negative, given what she has been going through with a relapse that brought on long covid in Nov '20 and has kept her off work since Xmas '20... It was hard enough work getting her to those three tests, even though I thought she should have done a couple more towards last weekend at least.
Interesting to see there's a number of forum members that have gone through similar in recent times, feeling rough but no positive test result.
It's a bit of a shame... was hoping that everything we went through during lockdown would've pretty much put an end to traditional colds and flu
If only they could dedicate the same resources to developing suitable vaccines
Welp, just cutting the grass has left me a tired sweaty mess, going to put my feet up again.
Has anyone had a spinny-head kind of feeling ?
Yep, nearly fell down the stairs last night.
Also in the feeling rough but 'no positive' test camp, been feeling super fatigued since Friday and got a slight sinuses headache and tickly throat.
Gutted though as will have to miss the lads Mtb/camping trip to the Peaks tomorrow, also got a three day bikepacking trip planned in nine days time, which hopefully I'll feel better for.