Anyone else struggling with this cold that's doing the rounds at the moment?
Started Sunday and has just got worse each day, usually I'm pretty resilient with colds but this is the worst one I've ever had.
Is it just a cough/cold?
5 weeks mine took. Wasn't covid as i tested a few times... but dragged on for ages.
My entire family down here has had a form of cough that started with one of us in September and slowly worked its way through us and lingers for weeks. It’s miserable, but none of us has tested Covid positive.
I've tested twice since Sunday, both negative. It's gruelling!
took 6 weeks for my cough to clear.
Just a thought though for anyone with long lasting coughs ... is it just a cough, or do you get coughing fits that go on and on and on?
I had whooping cough about 10 years ago, subsequently a couple of years ago my wife had it, seems the vaccinations that you get in childhood last about 40-50 years and then you can become susceptible again.
Wife tested positive for it last night after struggling with a cold for a couple of days.
No cough yet but mine kicked in on Sunday too and has just been ramping up since, I'm a snotty mess and can't concentrate as a result.
I'm actually going to WFH today just so I'm not spreading it any further.
My youngest has had a cold for what seems like the last month, missus always seems to be ill.
Normally I'm not touched by these things.
Theotherjonv I had whooping cough about 12 years ago too.
Jeez it was horrendous and terrifying thinking I was going to choke and pass out, I couldn't even risk driving it was so bad. Totally ruined that Xmas and I've had a scratchy cough on and off since. I was just letting my 4yo son at the time didn't get it, and he didn't.
6 weeks here. Hideous cough and absolutely drained of energy. Didn't test as we have no tests left. Got to the point where climbing the stairs would leave me breathless. All fine and peachy now.
I'm on week four.
Cough is slowly leaving but still got an almost constant headache and lungs of an asthmatic hamster.
Reassuring to read this thread. Now five weeks of coughing and really sick of it. No energy. Good to read that the end is in sight.
Mines been going for weeks and weeks. My daughter went to school one day completely fine, arrived back home completely full of cold, that was about 5 weeks ago, we've all had various ongoing symptoms since. Endless snot is the main one, endless nose blowing, plus major lack of energy. I put it down to getting older.
I was really bad with it last week, better this week but still got the cough. Was weird because I ran my fastest 5k for ages a week last Saturday and then later that day developed the cough. Hoping it buggers off soon....
I'm 3 days into a very rough cold.
Coughing up all manner of wonderful substances, feeling groggy and tired. Hope I don't have another 5-6 weeks of it 😱
Had it two weeks now. Cough abated but cold symptoms seem to come and go. Whole house is affected and feeling generally miserable. Not tested for COVID, but this feels very different. <br /><br />Plenty of pathogens out there other than SARS-CaoV-2, and we are entering peak respiratory virus season
https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/topics/other-respiratory-viruses
My wife has been struggling with it for probably 4 weeks now and had some brutal coughing fits, seems to just be starting to get better after a month or so
Started feeling rough on Thursday night last week, by Friday afternoon i felt like i'd been hit by a car! All the aches, head and joints, rubbish cough and cold. Spent most of the weekend curled up on the sofa sweating it out of me or trying to. It's not covid, 2 negative tests so far.
It is a bit frustrating that my work colleagues who 'could' work from home have decided to come and infect the office. I've had to be on site for trials and equipment moves and had to suffer the infected germ fest that is a communal office with the heating on flat out.
People still covid testing is just virtue signalling, nothing more, especially when you can’t wait to jump on the internet and tell everyone and anyone all about it.
Or maybe they use the result to decide whether they can visit immunosuppressed or otherwise vulnerable friends and relatives.
nov 15th. worst of it was over in a week or so but its got a really long tail.
just about back to normal now and doing some easy Z2 turbo sessions but still a bit snotty at times.
Wife works at local hospital and they have christened the cough that seems to come with latest COVID variant, the "hundred day cough"
It's winter. I expect the usual rounds of ill or injured, or both like now. I think I have had 4 coldy things since September. That's all of them, isn't it....? Smashing it to summer now.
The kid bought something back from his nursery settling in days. It's not the "mild illness" that killed loads of people, but whatever it is, it's brutal. Not felt this rough since my last proper bout of flu.
Just had a week off work with either the worst cold I’ve ever had. Not COVID.
My mum has got Covid at the moment though, exactly a month after I tried and failed to convince her to have the latest vaccination. There’s a large subset of society - mainly retired Facebook users - who are convinced that the vaccines do more harm than good, and they all feed off each other’s anecdotes.
People still covid testing is just virtue signalling, nothing more, especially when you can’t wait to jump on the internet and tell everyone and anyone all about it.
It's down as a contributory factor on my mum's death certificate (we cremated her on Tuesday). How much of a contribution we'll never really know, she had multiple issues by the end but it's there.
She was in hospital for the last 4 weeks of her life, so someone, somehow, took Covid in to her. Was it me? I wasn't routinely testing and when i was ill earlier on in her stay, I tested negative as others have but stayed away anyway. But perhaps someone else didn't because testing is now just virtue signalling?
I don't have words for you right now. Or rather I do but they'll get me a ban.
they have christened the cough that seems to come with latest COVID variant, the “hundred day cough”
That'll be the other hundred day cough.....'cos whooping cough's also known as that.
Had Covid at the end of October. Was typically uncomfortable for a few days and exhaused for a couple of weeks more.
Coming out of that I got the cold and it's been brutal. Currently on week four and I can just about get through the night without needing to hack my lungs up or clear my sinuses in a noisy manner.
On the plus side, I've pretty much stopped all alcohol consumption at home (because even one beer made the sinuses waaay worse overnight).
I've had it about 4 weeks, same for the wife it's not been that bad and manageable with cough sweets and paracetamol. Wife has been testing for covid as she has an autoimmune condition, she's had one mild positive a couple weeks ago and then nothing on them - I doubt the reliability and accuracy of the correct issued tests.
Customers have been coming into the shop coughing all over the place.
Son has gone down with something and now has a chest infection. Loads off at work too. Works do last night, out of 30, five were too ill to go.
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People still covid testing is just virtue signalling
That's unnecessarily unpleasant. No need.
Yep, got 'the' cold. Probably 4 weeks and counting. NOT Covid though symptoms similar (for me). Restricted lung capacity, sore throat but much more 'gunk'... 🤢
Wife works at local hospital and they have christened the cough that seems to come with latest COVID variant, the “hundred day cough”
Yeah that’s a media label.
My eldest has had it, my wife too both were quite ran down with it. Seen an elderly friend yesterday, normally a very fit and active guy. He’s had for a few weeks and tells me it’s only the second day he left the house. Looked absolutely terrible and walking very badly.
Whatever it is it’s a nasty virus, it’s making a lot of people unwell and helping fill up hospital beds.
I'm just coming out of something, passed on to me by Mrs S. Hit me for about a week or so but not particularly bad. She'd tested negative for Covid and I'd recently been vaccinated so didn't bother to test. I still avoided mingling though. Regardless of which particular virus we'd got, I wasn't keen to be passing it on.
Or maybe they use the result to decide whether they can visit immunosuppressed or otherwise vulnerable friends and relatives.
Don't feed the troll!!!!!! It just wants attention!!
MrsD has got the big bad cough at the moment, a good 2 weeks in, she's very fed up of it. She's now started sleeping downstairs on the sofa so at least one of us can get a proper kip. Only fair for it to be my turn on the sofa tonight....
I've had it about a week, started with a sore throat, then nasal congestion, then worse throat, cough/phlegm still lingering, no signs of abating.
People still covid testing is just virtue signalling, nothing more, especially when you can’t wait to jump on the internet and tell everyone and anyone all about it.
Or we're just sharing our experiences of something that is causing us all issues. it's strangely helpful to know you're not the ony one facing such things.
The very real impact to my family is that I'm probably going to have to call off a planned visit to my parents this weekend, My mum had a bad Stroke in May, my Dad is now struggling having unexpectedly become a primary carer in his 70s and our visits are valuable for both morale and practical help, but if I add mega-snot and two months of coughing their lungs up to a growing list of problems I'm not sure it's worth it.
At the same time MIL lives with us and has COPD, is very vulnerable to respiratory issue, Covid was a trying time and this Christmas is looking to be more of the same...
Sorry to virtue signal you miserable ****... Merry Christmas!
People still covid testing is just virtue signalling, nothing more, especially when you can’t wait to jump on the internet and tell everyone and anyone all about it.
It's true, there were only 2,000 Covid positive people admitted to hospital in the past seven days. And 245 deaths involving it.
Perhaps this particular poster should enjoy a moment of self-reflection then realise that he/she is woefully short of virtues to signal.
I've had it for 3 or 4 days now, been training hard since September, just tapering for testing then this happens, gutted, hoping it's not lasting for weeks and I don't lose all my gains
Four of us in our house had it in the past two weeks, the two of us oldies (50s) who got it first didn’t suspect covid and didn’t test but passed it to the youths (26&21) who got much chestier and fatigued with it straight away and gave strong positive covid tests. Not feeling ill now but no stamina.
then realise that he/she is woefully short of virtues to signal.
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I’m probably going to have to call off a planned visit to my parents this weekend, My mum had a bad Stroke in May, my Dad is now struggling having unexpectedly become a primary carer in his 70s and our visits are valuable for both morale and practical help, but if I add mega-snot and two months of coughing their lungs up to a growing list of problems I’m not sure it’s worth it.<br />At the same time MIL lives with us and has COPD, is very vulnerable to respiratory issue,
Are you saying that if you test positive for COVID you'll avoid them but test negative and it's OK to visit them?
The advice from doctors atm is not to hug/cuddle or kiss relatives or friends this Christmas period as this whooping cough is doing the rounds.
Whooping cough can be quite dangerous.
I'm fed up with people openly coughing. They should cough into a tissue which gets discarded straight away, or into the crook of their arm. Oh and hand washing seems to have gone out of the window.
Also this week my mum's dentist was off sick and a friend's surgeon, each of these appointments have to be re-organised which is inconvenient to all.
Oh and I have covid which means as a self employed person I haven't been able to work (earning nothing) and I have not been out and about spreading it around. If one has a cold it's still worth testing, then you don't pass it on to vulnerable or elderly people.
Also our doctor's surgery has asked the public to wear masks during visits.
These precautions above are not too difficult or onerous a task.
Maybe another round of experimental jibby jabs may help?
