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To ask if anyone has been wiped out with nasty cold with sore throat recently

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itsmehere1 · 30/11/2025 21:58

Started with earache last Sunday. Sore throat Monday - had an afternoon nap which is unusual.
Glands up in neck on Tuesday , throat felt like swallowing shards of glass. Lost voice, sense of taste and smell. Again, fell asleep during the day.

Coughing on Wednesday which is particularly painful because of sharpness in throat and feeling cold.
Slept most of Thursday and Friday. No fever but tickly ear, nose and sore throat/ chesty cough.

Still tired today and haven’t been able to do much let alone think about commuting to work tomorrow.

anyone else having something similar?

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pollydollydoodlealltheway · 02/12/2025 20:37

159 kids absent in my DDs school one day last week with this cold/flu bug doing the rounds

Fluffydogonmylap · 02/12/2025 20:36

Yes me. Awful headache, ear ache and swollen glands. Feel knackered but can't sleep as my extra loud snoring keeps waking me up!

BlueSkies2026 · 02/12/2025 20:34

MCF86 · 02/12/2025 11:01

I had it in early October and seem to have known at least one person with it at any given time since then. Horrible! Absolutely wiped me out, the fatigue was the worst part and longest lasting symptom.

How long did the fatigue last?

I am tired on a deep cellular level 🤣

Nutmuncher · 02/12/2025 11:04

Definitely current Covid strain.

noramoo · 02/12/2025 11:03

Do you have kids? HFM been going round near us - DH and I caught it off my daughter 2 weeks ago and it was diabolical! My throat has never been so sore!

HelenaWaiting · 02/12/2025 11:02

Yep. Four adults here - three of us sick. Not covid. The fourth seems to be immune to whatever it is, the jammy sod.

MCF86 · 02/12/2025 11:01

I had it in early October and seem to have known at least one person with it at any given time since then. Horrible! Absolutely wiped me out, the fatigue was the worst part and longest lasting symptom.

BlueSkies2026 · 02/12/2025 10:58

I'm in the post flu stage of being completely knackered.

I could happily sleep for a week. Literally fantasising about being asleep.

Maraudingmarauders · 02/12/2025 09:56

Yes, I’d had a new type of tea just before bed and woke up thinking I was having an allergic reaction as couldn’t swallow. Ended up lasting a fortnight along with full cold symptoms - DH then followed and unconnected my SIL and her family had the same.

Franklyannoyed · 02/12/2025 09:54

Me too, I started coming down with it last Wednesday, really sore throat, and it’s alleviating now. But I still have it.

TheAutumnCrow · 02/12/2025 09:48

Flibbertyfloo · 01/12/2025 22:40

Negative covid test doesn't mean it isn't covid. We have to test a lot due to a vulnerable family member, and I've found that if I'm ill with covid for say 10 days, there's probably only a 12 hour window in which I will actually test positive.

Yeah, same here.

I did test positive a few days ago but it was very faint, a real squinter.

MannersAreAll · 02/12/2025 09:47

I’m pretty sure mine isn’t Covid - I had that at the beginning of October and tested positive.

My 8yo had Covid at the end of September and had tested positive again this time so it is possible.

MannersAreAll · 02/12/2025 09:46

We've all had it. 8yo tested positive for Covid in hospital.

Rest of us didn't, but Dr said we very likely all had it and they're not finding testing very reliable atm.

Flowertopz · 02/12/2025 09:43

Mine came on suddenly Sunday evening . Sore throat aching all over horrendous cough and hoarse voice.headaches i keep drifting in and out of sleep then cant sleep threw the night as waking every hour and a half have had to take time of work which I never do I can usually power threw anything but I cant power threw this

Nincompoo · 02/12/2025 09:24

Flibbertyfloo · 01/12/2025 22:40

Negative covid test doesn't mean it isn't covid. We have to test a lot due to a vulnerable family member, and I've found that if I'm ill with covid for say 10 days, there's probably only a 12 hour window in which I will actually test positive.

I’m pretty sure mine isn’t Covid - I had that at the beginning of October and tested positive.

Flibbertyfloo · 01/12/2025 22:40

Negative covid test doesn't mean it isn't covid. We have to test a lot due to a vulnerable family member, and I've found that if I'm ill with covid for say 10 days, there's probably only a 12 hour window in which I will actually test positive.

Olinguito · 01/12/2025 12:52

Unfortunately I'm a member of this club too. Into week 2. Loads of strange aches and pains, fever, cough and now have completely lost my voice. Tested negative for covid.

cinquanta · 01/12/2025 11:19

Yes, in the the third week now.

HangryBrickShark · 01/12/2025 11:14

I've had something on and off for the past two weeks, sore throat, aching shoulders, and between my shoulder blades, feeling nauseous and extremely tired.

Been at new job past two weeks, come in today to be met with an empty office and everyone off sick! Oops.

JennyForeigner · 01/12/2025 10:59

Another one here in the East Mids. School has been emptied out by it - I nursed one health vulnerable DC through it and she had a terrible time - slept 22 hours a day for three days and wouldn't have a bite of food, then the next who was more classically gastro symptoms into flu symptoms. And now of course I have it and feel like I have been hit by a truck. Muscle pains, sore throat and headache. Also testing negative for COVID but surprised by the results.

Tomomomatoes · 01/12/2025 08:49

Another yes! Negative covid and flu test. But totally knocked for six. Unable to really move on the worst day and the cold and fly drugs did NOTHING

StitchHappens · 01/12/2025 08:47

Yep. Sore throat for a few days, nose won't stop running, and ears are all over the place.. I'm pretty sure it's covid, as I've also had a couple of nightmares, which I seem to get with it.

User1786 · 01/12/2025 08:34

Yes. Possibly influenza which is doing the rounds unseasonably early. Had it 2 weeks ago and I was wiped out for 4 days. Pretty much in bed and temperature rising to 40C. I had the vaccine but this years strain is still causing symptoms, probably would have ended up in hospital if I hadn’t had the vaccine though as I have respiratory problems

MrsMariaReynolds · 01/12/2025 08:31

I had it a few weeks ago--razor blade sore throat, horrible fatigue, loss of smell and taste and plugged up ears. Tested positive for COVID about a week into it.

I now have another cold at the moment that is frighteningly similar, without the loss of taste and smell. Children at the school I work at are dropping like flies.

Fridaysgirl17 · 01/12/2025 08:23

We all had it here in our house,my 2 boys were down for a week with it,youngest had a rotten cough,oldest had headaches,cough etc & then I got it 2 weeks on & my throat finally feels normal,I'm still coughing,not as much but it catches me off guard,if I stop after walking, chatting with someone etc still feel a little bunged up but have more energy. I'm in Ireland & everyone is getting it,it's quite prevelent