Anyone else got this horrendous cough and cold?

[Pantalaimon88]

I’ve had it since Thursday. Coughing so hard I am urging, lungs feel like they’re being squeezed and I can’t smell a thing. I also feel like I’ve been hit by a bus.

Apparently loads of people have this awful virus at the moment. Is anyone else here suffering too and can share a moan, tea and sympathy?

Wow, what a thread!

I also had all the covid symptoms end of November, and remember thinking that I had never felt this ill when in hospital

@leolion1 sometimes I think the same.

This was me over Christmas - we were supposed to host and had to cancel. I still couldn’t taste or smell anything by the time I went back to work in January, and the cough lasted for weeks. The cough was a wet cough though, and I was really, really mucus-y and sinus-y.

I hate the ‘my friend’ type of posts lol but my friend has tested positive for Covid, was quite unwell with it but has no antibodies. Her husband who was mildly under the weather has antibodies. Apparently this is quite common.

So interesting reading back through this

Yep I had this in November too. Worst cough I've ever had in my life, made me throw up. No cold though. Chest was awful. Had just come back from the Caribbean. Went to docs and she said it was 'viral.' Yep!

I was chatting to sil (nurse) this weekend. She was saying the A and E consultant she works with was saying they had loads of influenza admissions over the winter that went on to test negative for flu. I think it was here in the early part of the winter but I don't understand why it didn't spike until March if that was the case.

Oh wow, what a thread! How long ago this seems and how naive we were, no idea what was coming! This thread would suggest that what we saw in March/April potentially was the second wave, but will there be a third...?

I wonder if this year was a second wave too.

It never made any sense that people in care homes and the very elderly were the first to catch it. In fact everybody had it then they got it.

Wow. Bloody hell. I’m positive my dd (3 year old) and dh had it. She was poorly for nearly three months from November to the point I pulled her out of nursery. About two months in they said it could be hooping cough and have me steroids and inhaler but it didn’t really shift it. Dh was on his hands and knees in coughing fits.

Really would be interested to see the deaths around that time.

And there were no excess deaths because Covid isn't very good at killing people, especially younger, fitter people.

Perhaps the higher subsequent death rate was a combination of younger (mobile, travelling) patients, with higher late Autumn vitamin D levels and possibly a milder strain which caused milder disease but which also provided some protection against a stronger subsequent strain?

Relatively speaking in that I wasn’t hospitalised - but I felt really very ill for a couple of weeks, and have ongoing symptoms still over a month later

Quote fail! That was for @PicsInRed

DH and I think we had it mid January. Terrible cough, DH had rattling lungs, and neither of us felt as though we could get enough breath. Never had anything like it before.

@leolion1

This is why we're unlikely to get a second wave, we've already had it.

God yes, and they said it would be worse.

Chilling

I think that’s why Boris is saying ‘yeah we will be back to normal by Christmas!’ - he knows!

Can’t remember if it was this thread I was on or a similar one. I’ve had the antibody test it was negative.

Everyone else who had it at work also tested negative for antibodies. And the people who had it in Feb/March also tested negative for Covid at the time.

There was something going around this winter with a persistent cough that lasted weeks and was very unlikely to be COVID.

DD's school was shut in November because of a high temp cough bug. I think they thought it was some type of influenza. Who knows. Could have been anything.

@cariadlet

I read the first couple of posts thinking it was some kind of stupid "funny" thread where people were posting covid symptoms and feigning ignorance.

Couldn't believe it when I saw the dates. Zombie threads are usually annoying but this was a really good find.

Oh gosh me too! It quite gives you the chills when you realise though...

I was Ill in late December and well into mid January.
I had the worst cough I’ve ever had, so much so my bladder was shot and I ended up wearing tena pads for weeks. I thought I was going to cough up my lungs it hurt that much.
I’m absolutely convinced I had Covid, I had a flu jab in October so though not impossible it was unlikely to be flu.

Yes I was very ill end of October with an awful virus: chesty/cough but with stomach issues for 6 weeks. Ended up at the doctors and they gave me an inhaler which I’ve never had before. I had pain on breathing and in my lungs. Exhausted. Would feel better for a few days then it would come back.

Who knows. There is growing evidence it was in Wuhan in August so why wouldn’t it have been here from Oct/Nov? Yes it hit the young travellers/ businessmen etc first.

The first deaths in hospitals here were people who had no travel connections. There was no community testIng. We had no idea really. For many it’s a mild/ asymptomatic disease so it has to hit the elderly on big numbers before the death rate rises?

I hope we get some answers anyway.

@eurochick because they were not testing. The spike only came as we were able to test

@leolion1 Totally agree. I think loads of people had it November/December time.

But we were testing at the start when we were trying to control it. Not community testing, but people with symptoms.

By the end of February only about 0.002% of people with symptoms similar to Covid and got tested had covid. Even if you allow for the 30% false negative rate the vast majority of people who though they had covid at the start of the year had something else.