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I’ve been a bit congested over the last week, with an irritating cough, which I’m assuming is a summer cold; I haven’t had one for several years, I’d forgotten just how grotty a cold can make you feel! I used to get one or two a year, but none for eight or nine years.
I do suffer from hay fever and I’m allergic to cats, so antihistamine tablets are a part of my life, but they do sod-all for a cold induced blocked nose. ?
Easing up now, thankfully, ‘cos I’m meeting friends for a meal for my birthday tomorrow, so I’ll be able to taste the food! The Buttercup cough syrup actually works, too.
Got it about 4 or 5 weeks ago.
Trip to Laaarndan and several hours in a pisspoorly ventilated Wembley Arena with 12,000 diseased southerners.
has anyone had covid with just extreme fatigue as a symptom, nothing else?
Been pretty much in bed more or less 5 days, almost 6. Feeling utterly wrecked, sort of comes in waves but no sore throaght, confestion or anything. I had a weird upset stomach for one specific afternoon last week, kind of an instant get to the bog moment. It was unpleasant but over in an hour
has anyone had covid with just extreme fatigue as a symptom, nothing else?
symptoms match perfectly here. No tests here, but all this talk and lots of colleagues have it… been wfh all week and can’t get through the afternoon without a nap.
Thought I had it Monday, did a test came back negative, ended up at docs and i've got pleurisy instead.
No but Mrs 100th has whooping cough(probably) and has had for the past 4 weeks. Doc has given heavy duty antibiotics. Weirdly in three appointments in a single week not 1 covid test or suggestion of taking a test
why are people still testing?
So they can post on the internet about it of course.
Page one of the virtue signalling handbook. Tell anyone and everyone about how you still test for covid.
A sad indication of what society has become. Full of attention seeking vultures.
Full of attention seeking vultures
Good job you're here to stop them hey?
Full of attention seeking vultures.
Are the vultures in the room with us just now? Can you show us on the doll where they hurt you?
Perhaps they would like to have information in case they are ill after their infection. I did not test and when everything went tits up and I ended up housebound for months I could have done with that information,
This is not a game for pathetic wee culture warriors. This disease can bite you hard.
The extreme tiredness is something I've not experienced before. Itching to go to the gym, bike etc but still positive yesterday so best to isolate.
A sad indication of what society has become. Full of attention seeking vultures.
Well you seem interested.
How did you end up on a thread with the title "Anyone got Covid at the moment?"
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attention seeking
Currently in Oxford on "holiday" surrounded by tourists from all four corners of the globe. So bound to be infected when I'm due back at work ..
Are tourists any more likely to have it than Brits?
Are tourists any more likely to have it than Brits?
Potentially - because they've all spent N hours packed into cramped planes and trains to get here.
MrsDoris has had COVID twice, both times it kicked in 2 days after being on a crowded flight
I thought that it was now widely accepted that aircraft provide a low risk of covid transmission due to high air quality compared to other indoor venues?
The risk of transmission in the modern cabin environment is low for a number of reasons: passengers face the same direction, seatbacks act as barriers, air flow is from the top to bottom, and the air is also very clean.
Well, that's what I'd read too. But now I have two anecdotes that contradict it! So that's one in the eye for the scientists, I'm afraid
Fairy nuff
hello old friend
my daughter's been ill the last few days, fever aching etc but she's bounced back fine by yesterday, then i suddenly get aching joints, absolutely miserable night of high temperature and family bank holiday plans all shelved today , dug out the tests from the medicine cupboard (only 2 years put of date !) its hit me as hard as it did the last time i got it which was probably 3 years ago, its almost nostalgic
planning a ride with mates for next weekend, glad it wasn't this one!
It's still out there, just not the threat it was to those of us with some level of immunity.
Rest up though, can take some shifting
My wife has it at the mo, it's absolutely floored her. Sending healing vibes your way dude.
its hit me as hard as it did the last time i got it which was probably 3 years ago, its almost nostalgic
planning a ride with mates for next weekend, glad it wasn't this one!
You are still planning to go on a bike ride next weekend even though it's hit you really hard?
Just off a plane on Wednesday and wiped out now. Might reach for the rapid flow test. Raced this morning and DNF. Then crawled home. Probably just a cold but I’ve had Covid five times and still have no smell. As the smoke in the kitchen yesterday attested.
You are still planning to go on a bike ride next weekend even though it's hit you really hard?
I don't know how much of a bimble a cannock bimble is but fairy nuff. Although if covid has floored you that much I would give it more than a couple of days before getting my arse on a saddle.
I genuinely feel for TiRed and all those plagued by long covid, and I am eternally grateful that for me covid has never been worse than a very mild cold.
Yeah, Im thinking might be optimistic with a ride this weekend, still not right
I hear there is a new possibly more contagious strain about, of course my immunity might have just waned, of my kids only 1 has shown symptoms and my wife and I have had it worse
We have a study in work, Ive asked them if they want a sample, hopefully theyll say yes and I can find out what strain.
as much as it pains me to say it
Ernie was right ! went for a bridleway ride with the kids on friday evening and it was obvious even a bimble round cannock wouldn't be happening ( as it turns out my kates did 50k & 1600m of climbing!
feeling left out & mostly better went for a ride round lical wiids this evening, started well, but over confident and messed up a drop, otb and stiff shoulder now, looking at my HR it was quite high for most of the ride .
I'd failed to spot this thread had been revived until a few minutes ago.
Better half brought something home with her two weeks ago. She's not been at work since the Bank Holiday weekend. Coughing a lot plus fatigue, sore throat, runny nose. Weird taste during and after ingestion.
Somehow I didn't show any symptoms until her day 8, last Monday. Just like covid, I've barely coughed, even though my lungs feel rough. Thought I was massively turning corner on Friday, possibly one of my best feeling days since October '22, but it's hit me much harder over the weekend.
As a pair of long coviders already, we haven't got any test kits left to see if it's covid for the first time since the variant I brought home in late September '22 and not worked since. But I think it is.
Whatever it is, we're both really cheesed off at having another respiratory illness, less than six weeks since we got over two weeks colds in early April.
As a pair of long coviders already, we haven't got any test kits left to see if it's covid for the first time since the variant I brought home in late September '22 and not worked since. But I think it is
More than likely I would have thought as covid often peaks in summer whilst other respiratory viruses tend not to.
I've had a head full of yellow mucus and quite a lot of fatigue for the last week, didn't really think it was Covid due to the nasal symptoms but now I'm wondering...
Was kept up with a cough t'other night (well, my wife was kept up!). Waking with a little phlegm but feel fine and -ve test. TBH, I've never tested +ve, and we did daily tests when it was at it's peak as I work in health. Wife and kids haven't ever had a +ve test either
I'm pretty sure I caught covid mid April. After a couple of days in bed the fatigue has only just gone away. My cough has only just abated.
I went to the hospital on Friday and a big notice on entering saying 'wash you hands' The sanitiser unit under the sign did not work, not was anyone apart from me reading the sign, or tried the sanitiser.
It seems today I'm experiencing my third relapse on day 11 of whatever respiratory infection we both have, suspected to be covid, after going to bed last night feeling like I was starting to get much reduced symptoms. Better half still off work on day 18 and signed off until next Monday for now.
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One of our residents provided a +ve test on Friday. Was the quickest I've ever seen one go positive. I seem to have avoided it, again. *touch wood*.
Several folk at work have been off ill over the last month or so with "a really bad cold" or "like flu".
Felt a bit rough yesterday evening, struggled to sleep due to a phlegmy cough and muscle aches, now just feeling rough and achey and a bit sorry for myself, so presumably just normal manflu.
Why suspecting COVID @n0b0dy0ftheg0at?
Lateral flow tests are still available, test and make sure. As Sandwich Jr is currently suffering long covid I am less than sympathetic to those who spread the plague because it costs a couple of quid to test and make sure.
@Bunnyhop it seems that the message that it's an airborn infection hasn't permeated all areas of the NHS.PP3 masks are the most efffective means of preventing spread.
Had slight runny nose, lasted a day, never really gave it much thought, next day felt a bit lethargic but eating ok, 10.00pm suddenly started vomiting. After a bad night and now coughing up blood and difficulty breathing my wife called an ambulance. Put on oxygen and blue lighted to local hospital. Diagnosed with covid which had infected my lungs. I was in hospital, on oxygen, for nearly two weeks before being discharged. That was four weeks ago, now feeling fine and back riding my bike so all good. I should say I have anca P3 vasculitis, the treatment for this gives you very low immunity. Unfortunately if I get covid again the same thing could happen.
☝️ Blimey.
Impressive recovery though!
It's down to a brilliant NHS. Care and treatment was nothing less than excellent.☝️ Blimey.
Impressive recovery though!
Me and MrsD both had fairly bad flu type bugs the last few weeks - fever, days off work, and then coughs and general roughness lasting 15-20 days.
Felt very COVIDy, but we both tested negative. So i dunno. MrsD picked it up at a work do - two days later half her office were off sick!
Well, I'm official - forgotten we had a box of tests. Spent part of yesterday with my parents who are in their 80s and my daughter who is flying to Lisbon for a gymnastics event on Monday. Really hope I've not passed it on.
I reckon picked it up at a packed Paphos airport, main symptom for me is a persistent cough and sounding hoarse, feeling generally a bit under par, that's two weeks now 😕
Tested positive a couple of weeks ago, I had what I thought was a cold the week before, and had recovered from it OK. Then the following week the "cold" returned, by the end of the day I felt completely drained, went to bed and had the worse fever, hands felt like they were on fire. Over the worse of it now, but still got some weirdness going on with my lungs.