I blame the virus for me not being fit on my bike. Cant possibly the pies and lack of excerse, can it ?
I think I might've had it - I was in northern Italy a day before the news broke of their crisis. I felt quite crap immediately after getting home, I was weak, and struggled on the bike in an all-over weakness sort of way when I finally got back on it about ten days later. My wife was also ill and she had breathing difficulties. I had bad guts which is one of the rarer symptoms. PHW said we were fine after an intense grilling on the phone.
I had the norovirus back in January. Was totally wiped.
Picked up a bad cold/man flu a couple weeks back. Headache, one day of feeling really shit, shivery, might’ve been a bit feverish for an hour or two. Went to work next day as feeling okay and there’s been a bit in the office already. Developed a dry cough which has persisted.
I was supposed to go to the dentist but decided he’d not want me coughing at him so cancelled. As my dentist is >100 miles away I’d planned on a weekend trip, as cancelled ended up pretty much self isolated. No symptoms other than the persistent cough. Spoke to the doc,who said >7 days you can go back to work. Couple people at Work freaked out (inc the person I’m blaming for giving me the cold in the first place!) at my cough so been WFH ever since. Still got the cough. Nothing else.
Work is pretty much shutting down in the office anyway, everyone who can is WFH.
Only 4 official cases reported in Highland so far, but no testing so WTF knows.
Us 4 Listers self isolated on Tuesday evening when my 11yr old daughter came home from school with a new cough.
All of us have a mild cough and I’ve been sneezing and have snot.
I’m fairly sure we haven’t got it but are doing the right thing and are staying home.
I can’t help but feel a bit like a fraud but we can’t take the risk for the greater good.
Can’t wait for another 2 weeks lockdown in the future when we DO get it! 🙄
So one person knows someone who has. If you haven't been tested, then you don't know. I might as well post "I am fine, but 20% of sufferers are asymptomatic, therefore I have had it".
Hopefully we will have more widely available testing soon - so we can actually understand what is going on.
Maybe, I've had some matching symptoms at the very low end of the severity range but without testing how can you know? Looking at even the higher estimates for its prevalence in the population though it's highly unlikely just on the numbers.
We're in a strange position, i've been ordered to self-isolate as my 10 year old daughter is Type 1 diabetic and work have agreed to let me work from home and look after her, but my wife is on front line at local hospital having slightly changed roles as normally she is a therapeutic radiographer on a cancer ward, but they have noted that COVID19 seems to be quite distinct on CT scans, so they're back in training on their CT scanning techniques that shes not done for a while.
So she is in and out of hospital each day and they're still not testing NHS staff despite the fact she walks through a cancer department full of people with no immune systems, then back home to us where we're self-isolating but the biggest risk is my wife!!
All of us have a mild cough and I’ve been sneezing and have snot.
I’m fairly sure we haven’t got it but are doing the right thing and are staying home.
This is just what I thought, and mostly still do.
But the cough got worse to the point that I'm ticking off more of symptoms and now feeling 50/50 on whether I've got it.
Ultimately it doesn't matter I know, but it's something to talk about, eh?
I think I've had it for the last eight days, looks like my mum has it too. Symptoms are very mild for myself, a very slightly stuffy nose and a consistent bad throat that's always a bit worse in the morning, dry cough always worse in the evening and when I do manage to cough something up it's like swallowing broken glass.
I think me and now our son may have it. Not sure where from, but horrid head cold, then very sore dry throat, headache, general aches and a bloody awful cough and really tight chest/ shortness of breath. Thankfully no temp though, so we're all in the 14 day isolation, thankfully I can escape on Tuesday after 7 days. Test would be great to know if we do have it and then I can get back to work and support my colleagues who are flat out with and have been since the start of the outbreak.
Edit – I found one! what sort of nurse am I not having one!
Was it with your upside downy watch
Similar to chakaping, got a cold but the cabin fever as much as anything else is making me doubt myself...
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy......
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Dunno, tbh. I've had a sore throat/ annoying dry cough for 10 days now. No feverishness/ flu symptoms so I started out by thinking it was just a sore throat/ annoying dry cough.
Now I'm not sure, and with a complete absence of testing*, I suspect I won't know until I actually catch Covid19.
*see, people can only test positive if they can actually get tested. So limit testing and you limit the number of cases - genius!!
Edit – I found one! what sort of nurse am I not having one!
One who doesn't steal from work?
Wife felt pretty rough a few weeks ago with sore throat & cold like symptoms. I think she caught this from her mum who was similar. A few days after that I felt really rough with a bad chest. Fortuantely it only lasted a couple of days. Our 9 week old however came down with a very severe temperature of 41'c and we spent 3 nights in hospital with him. He's fine now though
Right - we have been in isolation for 5 hours now. Boredom is setting in so :
We have 14 rolls of bog paper at 160 sheets per roll and if we average 8 sheets per shit we have enough to shit 10 times a day for the 2 weeks we are in isolation
I started feeling tired and achy and developed a dry constant cough 2 weeks ago. After a couple of days a got proper fevery, freezing cold while hot to the touch, waking g in a puddle of sweat etc.
That perfectly describes a set of symptoms I had. Seven or eight years ago, maybe more. Utterly miserable, felt really ill, I was wrapping myself in bath towels when I went to bed, otherwise my bedding was cold and wet within an hour or so. I ached, had a cough, my head was producing what seemed like oceans of green goo, and I was working while feeling like that!
In fact, most winters I had a virus with most of those symptoms minus the heavy sweating, because I worked in what was a a fairly sealed environment with a whole bunch of people in close proximity.
Since changing to driving jobs, I’m outside most of the time, and I haven’t had anything like it since, however I’m in self-isolation from today, my g/f suddenly developed a dry cough last night, and I was feeling very achy yesterday, although I have an arthritic knee, a history of it via my mum, and achy joints have become more noticeable with colder, wet weather.
Do I have it? Christ knows, without testing, and that’s just not an option. Does my g/f have it? Same answer. We’re assuming she has, but as her shifts with B&M mean she wouldn’t be working until Sunday, and then not until Tuesday, so she can just skip one day and have the seven days to work through it.
Me, I now have an unexpected fortnight’s holiday!
Do I have it? Christ knows, without testing, and that’s just not an option. Does my g/f have it? Same answer.
There's the rub, once back into the real world it's roulette again. It's going to be interesting once the tedium kicks in few weeks / months. How many people are going to be in our situation and then decide it was it and want to be out? With a biosecurity it's not for me I've had it attitude.
Had a sore throat and felt a bit off on Friday morning, the throat has been sore the whole time since, but I've not once coughed or had a temperature. So probably not.
I think they are developing antibody tests so they hopefully will be able to tell if you have had it.
So one person knows someone who has. If you haven’t been tested, then you don’t know. I might as well post “I am fine, but 20% of sufferers are asymptomatic, therefore I have had it”.
I know two people who have been confirmed as having the virus, one from work and one mate
Both are at home and feel like absolute shit, but doing ok (both under 45 and healthy)
Plus two others that I don’t know personally that have it, that were on the same stag do with my mate.
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Right – we have been in isolation for 5 hours now. Boredom is setting in so :
We have 14 rolls of bog paper at 160 sheets per roll and if we average 8 sheets per shit we have enough to shit 10 times a day for the 2 weeks we are in isolation
You’ll be wiped out at the end of that
I haven't, feel a bit crap but don't think it is that.
one of my guys at work has got it, and his girlfriend has been hit hard.
Nope don't know anyone who has.
Haven't panic bought anything either. I'm waiting for it to calm down a bit, then I'll swoop on the mountains of dirt cheap bog roll.
Right – we have been in isolation for 5 hours now. Boredom is setting in so :
We have 14 rolls of bog paper at 160 sheets per roll and if we average 8 sheets per shit we have enough to shit 10 times a day for the 2 weeks we are in isolation
Get a bidet.
I really like bidets.
An antibody test would be a game chnager.
If the people on here were confirmed to have had it; you can't get it, you can't spread it.
How much good could be done in the community as volunteers?
tjagain
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Right – we have been in isolation for 5 hours now
If you update us every 5 hours for the next fortnight, I'm coming down there and building the double sized new patio...
I’m not sure if I’ve got it or not, but taking notes chances as am in self isolation
Was in Austria last week where one direct contact has it as confirmed and 4 more who have had direct contact with friends with whom we socialise have it
I’ve been in bed with aches, dry throat, congestion (but more like inflamed sinuses rather than snotty) and a migraine for about 3 days. Am also fatigued. Normal illness, I hear you cry...
The interesting thing though, which is consistent with all of the people testing positive on our whatsapp group is that we have all lost our sense of taste and smell. Totally gone.
So I am not sure if I have or haven’t - but taking absolutely no chances.
tjagain
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Right – we have been in isolation for 5 hours nowIf you update us every 5 hours for the next fortnight, I’m coming down there and building the double sized new patio…
Hourly updates?
Wife, generally healthy (cycles part of commute), non smoker, no underlying health issues.
Two days ago, rapid onset of severe tiredness, severe aches, shortness of breath/laboured breathing, dry cough, slight headache.
Came home from work.
No runny nose, no elevated temp.
Said it felt like flu but a bit worse.
Lay down. Didn't move.
Had no previous breathing issues but noticeable shortness of breath with this infection.
Rapid upswing today.
Cardiac Physiologist, Midlands hospital. No PPE. No testing available for her. Patients "lists" (scans) still running up to Tuesday afternoon. Some test (bubble) essentially require them to cough.
I'm comfortable in saying she's got Covid-19.
The symptoms that McCraque and BaronVonP7 describe are the same as mine and son's. Which is reassuring if it is COVID-19 that we can share how we're being affected and it reinforces the evidence that it's the majority who will get mild symptoms.
I panicked a bit this morning as I had a tickly cough that persisted for about 10 minutes. I then coughed up a bit of crust from some toast I had at breakfast and the cough disappeared....
Girlfriends just messaged saying she has shortness of breath. It might be nothing, but who knows? 😬. She's fit, young and healthy, so should be fine. I on the other hand, have had pneumonia twice, and slight asthma, and a bad chest infection before Christmas. Wish me luck.
Got something at the moment, quite tired headache etc. Hopefully it's my seasonal man-flu.
Cough subsiding here. Chest tightness relaxing. Feeling more alert again.
Might even risk a bike ride tomorrow.
... all lost our sense of taste and smell.
Do you have a loss of appetite?
One of the symptom mentioned in the far east was a loss of appetite.
I am 49 and have started having symptoms of something since Monday/Tuesday.
The symptoms were diarrhea on Monday, a gradually worsening cough, running a temperature, muscular aches and an increasing wheeziness in my chest.
The sun has been shining here for the last couple of days and I have tried to go outside into my garden and enjoy the sunshine, but each time I quickly felt quite chilled and had to come in.
I started working from home on Tuesday and since then my family and I are self-isolating.
all lost our sense of taste and smell. Totally gone.
Both the confirmed cases I know said the same thing independently of each other.
The smell and taste thing is very interesting. Only case reports so far but then I guess it’s not on the priority list of symptoms to check if you’re about to stick someone on a Ventilator
My wife came down with a cough on Tuesday and we’ve both lost all sense of smell and taste. I feel a bit sinusy but no temp or cough
Sounds like some people have Mono / Glandular Fever! I had it earlier in my 40's and it knocked me on my back.
I'm off work for two weeks due to getting a mild sore throat. I don't know about the UK, but the on-line checker in Canada basically says that is you have any remote cough / cold / flu symptoms then you need to self isolate. I don't have any of the main symptoms so who knows.....
The difficulty is the syphons can vary a lot. From a a few independent groups of 1,000 positive people only 60% actually had a dry cough yet 99% had a fever but even then the fever can be just feeling hot for an hour. A few people have diarrhoea, many have sore throat, many have fatigue, many have tight chest and so on.
I would put money on my wife having it due to combination of symptoms and now feeling as though she has mild pneumonia. If my wife has had it then I am sure I would as well as we have taken no measure of isolation between us over the last 3 weeks.
Hopefully the anti body test will be widely available soon and hopefully she will get tested she is NHS and works specifically with elderly. Once people know they have had it then can go back to normal and the more people that can go back to normal the better.
Since Thursday, my better half is breathing surprisingly heavy whenever she gets up and walks between rooms, which makes me thing she has the real deal. If it wasn't for that I'd be unsure, as I reckon she is coughing less than Tuesday evening.
I'm still not coughing, but very fatigued and even for me, very woolly-headed with dull headache and so far this morning a slightly milder general body ache. But in "normal" times, I wouldn't have gone into work this morning, for what should have been my final shift before a week of annual leave... How I've felt since Weds has definitely been worse than the relatively mild "manflu19" that began on 27th Feb.
I just hope this is the real deal and we don't get re-infected with a mutation of the virus, not just because of how that might complicate getting full sick pay from work and not having another 7+ day absence not put on my attendance procedure record, but because just like this time last year I'm rapidly losing all the cycling performance gains I made in earnest since January.
A girl at work returned from a conference in the US in which there were several confirmed cases. Airbus tested and confirmed she has it, deep cleaning and quarantine of all areas she might have used and instructions to staff she came in to contact with to self isolate. That was a week ago. Just yesterday she confirmed that her persistent cough has turned into breathing difficulties. She’s 25.
Those of us self isolating - anyone else in a flat with a communal stairway? We live at the top of a mainly commercial building so the main stair counts as a public space. By my understanding if I obey the rules properly then I am actually not even supposed to go out of the flat! I haven't since Wed! Not even a garden to walk around! I cannot even take the rubbish out of the flat - we are going to have to store it on the roof I think. Anyone else isolating in a flat?
