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The precise onset is difficult to tell, but I’ve been suffering for at least two full weeks now. The thing is, in the last three days, it has got radically worse: the headache, the joint pain, the fatigue.
When, oh when can I hope for some relief?
I had brief headaches on and off for maybe 5 days and loss of taste/smell for 3-4 days before it started coming back.
Felt tired a couple of days, but that's probably the booze. No temperature at all
Had a bad cough for a week, but also a snotty nose, so maybe just a cold.
Caught it off a guy on 18th, notified on 21st, positive result on 22nd. Feel fine now
2 colleagues who are very fit in their 50’s were still wrecked after 4 weeks and still feel breathless climbing steep work stairs after 2 months. One still has no taste.
Sorry to add weight to what you were possibly thinking. On a plus Micro Sims was better within 24hrs.
Anything from 24 hours to months but remember it doesn’t exist then you’ll be fine.
Seriously I hope you get well soon.
About 4 weeks for me, tested positive at the start of November. Still tired and not 100% yet. Was back at the gym on December but taking it very steadily.
I my assumptions are correct, and I had it last Spring, then it took months to get over the effects. Breathlessness and lack of strength when exercising seemed to plague me until November or so. My wife lost her sense of taste for a similar period.
For me, 3/4 weeks until the break came.
My brother's tier 2 christmas bubble all caught it within a day. All the men have tested clear ,all the ladies positive.
A friend who works in a hospital says that ladies seem more susceptible.
I had it for 3 weeks, first week wasn't too bad, second week was very scary and during the third week things started to improve.
Cycling and walking really didn't start normally until around week 6/7. My GF has had no sense of taste and smell since March last year.
Get well soon and make sure you get loads of rest.
I only got a mild dose of it I think but 2 weeks later I still feel wrecked. Dodgy digestion and breathlessness off just two flights of stairs.
Could be anything from one week to 2+ months, if you get a form of long Covid it could affect your physical fitness for much longer (there's at least a few on STW who fell ill back around March and still can't do much beyond a very short and gentle jog/ride).
It's such a Russian roulette illness, where the symptoms bullet can be made of anything from ice to armour piercing.
Its probably worth bearing in mind that any virus can cause the ongoing symptoms that get referred to as long covid - it's called post viral syndrome and unfortunately it has only started to get attention due to covid. Lots of people have had to live with post viral issues long before 2020 but unfortunately have been treated very poorly before it became headline news from covid.
A friend who works in a hospital says that ladies seem more susceptible.
Your friend is mistaken.
Our 10 day isolation ends today. I feel well enough, other than a cold, to do yoga session this morning and will do gentle zwift this pm. Wife still feels awful, kids are fine.
in the last three days, it has got radically worse: the headache, the joint pain, the fatigue
That could be the the point before it gets even worse. Do you have or can you borrow a pulse oximeter, to check how well your lungs are actually working? It seems covid can reduce the amount of oxygen in your blood to a degree that would be much more noticeable if it had any other cause, and you can be very ill quite suddenly. There's a post in https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/have-any-of-us-actually-caught-the-coronavirus-yet-then/ from @franksinatra about it.
Completely variable. Had no temperature, no cough, aching muscles, weight and pain on my bottom of my chest and serious breathlessness for about two weeks. Had rigors and chills and a headache and confusion after about 10 days. Loss of smell on and off for months. Still getting lung pain nine months later. Had several bouts of hypoxia since but could be other pathogen or residual damage.
Hope you are feeling better soon. Take your resting pulse if you can’t measure oxygen. Mine went up by about 30 bpm at my worst. For me it was not a bout of influenza (two month recovery).
I'm currently on day 7. Tested positive. I feel it's peaked as I've gone from an aching mess to just a slight headache and sense of the surreal. However I'm continuing to maintain bed rest and good nutrition as I know it's not gone yet.
Bit unnerving isn't it?
Our 10 day isolation ends today. I feel well enough, other than a cold, to do yoga session this morning and will do gentle zwift this pm. Wife still feels awful, kids are fine.
The advice from specialists is at least 7 days clear of any symptoms before resuming any exercise more than a gentle walk. Just take it steady - one idea is that long Covid can be made worse by going too hard too fast. Better to have a couple of easy months rather than 9+ months of feeling shit (post viral fatigue is clearly a lot more complex than that, but try and help yourself).
We are 5.5 weeks on now (mine was mild and only really lasted acutely for 5 days or so). P20 nearly 6 weeks on (after 9 days of a temp), finally ready to return to work. I’m still struggling with tiredness, headaches and joint pain in my ribs, but it is improving and as I work at a computer will return to my WFH next week (I worked heavily reduced hours before Christmas). I’m hoping by 8 weeks I feel more normal. Hope you start to improve soon Saxon.
@zippykona - I had two false negative tests - had all the symptoms (minus the temp) and living with someone who tested positive. About 30% of results at the point of developing symptoms are false negatives. Without symptoms it can be much higher.
I remember having flu one Christmas about 6 years ago. I didn't fully recover until the sun properly came out in April and warmed my bones. I work outside so remember things by seasons more than anything. Point to remember is that whilst at the time it was really frustrating as I was/am a keen xc racer, it was just a tiny blip in my life. Best to play it really safe with this one as it sounds a bit of a beastie.
A friend who works in a hospital says that ladies seem more susceptible.
Your friend is mistaken.
Indeed:
Edit: get well soon OP
As Airvent said "Dodgy digestion and breathlessness off just two flights of stairs." is exactly where I am after 3/4 weeks. Digestion is the real issue when contemplating a pootle out.
I was meaning to ask how it's going, SaxonRider. Sounds like it's not going well!
you get a form of long Covid it could affect your physical fitness for much longer (there’s at least a few on STW who fell ill back around March and still can’t do much beyond a very short and gentle jog/ride).
I’m in this group. Caught it in April, started with a bad cough and progressed to scary breathing issues and uncontrollable coughing. I was close to going to hospital one night but rode it out laying on the bathroom floor and trying not to panic. Still can’t exercise now and get breathless if I do anything over a steady walk. Sold the MTB and bought a gravel bike. Only ridden it three times on very short rides. It’s shit and I hope you’re better in a few days SR 👍🏼
Mrs S picked it up in hospital just before Christmas as she tested negative on day 1 and positive on day 3 which meant she couldn't have an operation on December 24th. She then passed it on to me which meant my biopsy planned for December 29th was cancelled and she's now back in a Covid ward for 5 nights until her op on Tuesday. We've both got fairly mild symptoms and hoping it stays that way given the underlying health issues that have recently sprung up.
I'm sure some of you know or are frontline health workers so pass on our thanks as they are doing an incredible job under extraordinary conditions.
I my assumptions are correct, and I had it last Spring, then it took months to get over the effects. Breathlessness and lack of strength when exercising seemed to plague me until November or so. My wife lost her sense of taste for a similar period.
Same as this^^
I don't like to say I have/have had long Covid, because to the ill-informed that just sounds like you are trying to be trendy or an attention seeking hypochondriac.
"Post viral fatigue" causes even more frowns, so now if anyone asks, I just say that it took a while to get over and I still don’t feel quite right.
Good luck Saxon take things slowly go with what feels right for your body.
I got it in April, I went from running ultras level fitness to being rolled over to stop me chocking in my sleep within a week, had 12 weeks off work as I couldn't pass a fitness test not that I tried til week 10 tbh as I was ruined and I know I went back too early tbh, still only just back to a few miles running at a time and still getting internal pains in the back that I've had since the onset, my resting heart rate is finally dropping now as it jumped up 10 days before symptoms showed, doc said that's when I will have got it I went from 37bpm resting to 80s its now back to 50s , I felt better in aug but pushed it and ran 10 miles and had a relapse of sorts with full return of symptoms, it seems very hit and miss as to how it hit you,good luck
Anyone want to chip in with a story of how they felt rubbish for a week then went back to normal within two weeks?
That's the story I'd like to hear right now.
@rollingdoughnut - Micros Sims who is 3 developed a cough and temperature mid morning at nursery. Was sent home and we got him tested that day. Next morning his temp had gone, got positive result that afternoon. By bed time he was no longer coughing. We then all spent a very unexciting 2 weeks stuck inside as it was raining incessantly.
Hope you make a quick recovery SaxonRider.
It’s such a Russian roulette illness, where the symptoms bullet can be made of anything from ice to armour piercing.
Anecdotally seems very much this. The day before Christmas Eve I felt a bit off-colour (bad cold/mild flu kind of thing). Christmas Eve itself I was fine again until the evening when I had a very weird few hours - physically no energy, unable to concentrate, almost drunk-but-not where I was aware of things happening but not really registering them until a few seconds later. That had passed by Christmas morning but then I had about 5 days of being unable to do anything but sit still - no 'notifiable' symptoms, just a complete lack of energy. Took two days really before I even had the energy to eat anything. No issues with breathing, etc. other than really being aware of it - that thing where you feel like you wouldn't be able to breathe unless you focus consciously on it? Sats as measured on a consumer unit were a bit all over the place but not worryingly low. By New Year's Eve felt OK to try a gentle ride which was fine apart from a couple of hills which were probably 10% harder than usual.
Anyway, New Year's Eve Zoe suddenly lost her sense of smell but no other symptoms. Test came back positive today and the only real contact she's had in the couple of weeks since school broke up was me, so we assume I picked it up at the end of term.
I think I've been lucky.
Rollindoughnut one of my colleagues got hit virtually the same as me but the other one tested positive a didnt show a single symptom he didn't feel unwell or anything, my doc said from his findings it appears that if you have very good cardiovascular fitness it can hit you harder than the average person and take a long time to get back to normal, but who knows
Anyone want to chip in with a story of how they felt rubbish for a week then went back to normal within two weeks?
That’s the story I’d like to hear right now.
My 92 year old grandmother got it in her care home. Dementia, heart failure, diabetes and history of COPD. Had a mild morning cough for 10 days and complained she wasn’t allowed out of her room - after that she carried on as normal. 6 months on she absolutely fine and just celebrated her 93rd birthday.
My total guess why: she didn’t know what she had so didn’t worry about it; by the nature of her age she rested and didn’t jump back on a bike; and one assumes the care home did a good job to make sure her viral load was low. Who knows - but that is a good news story.
So like I mentioned earlier I tested positive a couple of days ago.
Day 1-3 sore throat and chills, slight cough.
Day 2-5 really achy, sore body
Day 5-7 feeling better as days went on but a bit phlegmy. Morning always the worst.
Day 7 (today) bit spaced out in morning plus headache but now after a nap I'm really starting to feel like I'm getting back to normal. Breathing feels clear and I wish I could go out for a walk. Have still got a bit of a ringy head though.
Sounds promising doesn't it? I mean that's about the normal run time I'd expect from an illness.
I dont want to be the bearer of bad news but literally every time me or the mrs felt better it was the calm before the storm, but fingers crossed for you mate
On the plus side my 80s father in law had it felt crap for a week and is now ok
Fingers crossed indeed. Like you I've got an active job so my major concern is how that'll be affected. Still, it's my quietest time of year so I've timed it well.
I was lucky with work tbh, well I wasn't at first as they were trying to get me back but then they seemed to twig it was quite serious and and a gaffer with some balls stepped in and all the pressure to return was gone until I felt ready and able. We think we got it when a druggy we dragged out of a house coughed all over us as it fits the timings and as it was early doors for the virus we were still a little behind the safety standards at work tbh
Best of luck mate
Good luck rollin. Please take it steady though. On day 6 I thought wow, I feel like a new person. I’ve got away with this very lightly. And then have got stuck in a rut with loads of random secondary symptoms that I didn’t have at the start like indigestion, tinitus, tingling legs, painful rib joints etc. Everyone’s journeys are different but listen to your body and I personally think it’s best to urge on the side of caution.
Don't worry I'm going to be well cautious. In my mind I've blocked out the next month as gentle rehab. I'm using the time to try quit alcohol. Seeing as I've not had a drink for a week, it seems like a good opportunity. At least I feel I'm doing something positive towards my training whilst lolling round the house.
Anyone want to chip in with a story of how they felt rubbish for a week then went back to normal within two weeks?
That’s the story I’d like to hear right now.
My lad. Tested positive as part of the Oxford/ONS program. His only symptom was needing an afternoon nap one day.
Definitely having a bit of a double dip, we've all got better then got a bit sick again. Not serious this second round though.
Rolling doughnut
Mrs Tj got it. 2 days of fever. 3 days no appetite or sense of smell. Then fine.
Much sympathy an all that, but why isn’t this in the Covid thread?
Oh well! It made it to page two before someone was an arse.🤣
Oh well! It made it to page two before someone was an arse.🤣
🙂
Get well soon OP and you others too.
Get well soon. As others have said beware of false dawns, in some ways that was the worst part for me, thinking I was better then crashing again. Rest and don't push yourself too soon is my advice. Hopefully you'll shake it off soon, I know a bunch of people at my work did
As for time I reckon mine was 6 weeks initially, then ongoing recovery since
Oh well! It made it to page two before someone was an arse.🤣
I hate to do this, I really do, and I wish SR all the best. But I think this is a discussion which benefits all readers from being in one contiguous place and we already have a thread.
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/have-any-of-us-actually-caught-the-coronavirus-yet-then
Please please, if I've got this wrong then Report Post or DM me and I'll change it.