Bastard cough virus (that *probably* isn't C-19)

[Tenpintonpin]

Those of you that have had the crappy everlasting cough that has been doing the rounds, how long did said cough last? I'm at the end of week 4 and don't think I can take much more. I started with flu symptons for a week or so and then they calmed downed but left with chest infection, which in turn left me with bastard cough (hospital didn't swab for C19 as it kicked off before the major outbreak here).

This went round my OH's place if work early January and totally floored everyone including a few who got pneumonia. OH's boss is still feeling rough with it. OH cough ent in for weeks

I had something similar back before Christmas. Took ages to feel better.

This went round my OH's place if work early January and totally floored everyone including a few who got pneumonia.

Sounds like c19?

I had a terrible cough and flu in early Jan and since then I keep coming down with coughs, it’s like I’m 95% recovered but it doesn’t take much to bring it on again.
Now I have a bad cough and feel rough again.
I’m hoping the weather warning will help, it usually does.

Even without C-19 it seems to have been a terrible winter for viruses and flu.

We had this in December. I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was C-19 if I am honest. The Chinese government have known about this since well before xmas.

Sorry to say I had it from October until December. Horrible!

Oh bloody hell October to December @sertralinehelp?! You poor thing! I keep thinking I'm getting better and then the cough returns. It's exhausting, and I really would like my lungs to get back to normal before I catch anything else.

I had it in December/January and it lasted about 6 weeks. It is exhausting and frustrating. My boss ended up with pneumonia after it. Nasty bug.

I'm on week 3 OP, it's been rough! I think I'm getting better and then the sore throat returns or the cough comes back with a vengeance. Just can't shake it at all!

still coughing occasionally after starting this in January - never had a cough like it and believe me I am an expert. Sorry!

I had that cold - with the everlasting cough - at the end of January. The cold disappeared but the cough has only just gone in the last week or so.

Agree with Primrose89, it seemed to get better and then came back again. Very tiring and frustrating.

I've had it for 5 weeks now. I've been told to work from home until it's gone, as although me and my boss know it's not CV, everyone else is panicking everytime they hear a cough.
I was told to go and wfh mid day and by leaving the office it sparked rumours that I have cv and that why I had to leave.

I had that in December. It was bad (Victorian street urchin bad) for a month. Then it slowly cleared over the next month.

I’m not prone to coughing either. I’ve only had a cough this bad once before after an illness that was much worse.

I had this in Nov of 2018, as did many of my colleagues, one of whom was hospitalised with pneumonia, (40's, non-smoker, very fit, does a lot of running.)

It lasted two months for most of us. The symptoms fit CV to a T: ragingly high temperature, barking, constant cough, lethargy.

I think CV has been around for a while.

DH has had a cough on and off through the winter. I've had a couple of "almost" colds, start with a sore throat, sniffles and then nothing.
I too would not be at all surprised if Covid-19 has been lurking in the UK longer than we think. We have better access to healthcare, much lower smoking rates and we don't have the air pollution issues that the big Chinese cities have. We will have people who develop pneumonia from C19, but I suspect at much lower rates than China.

But if it really has been around for months longer than we think is that not a very good thing?

It would mean lots of us have already had it and it hasn’t overwhelmed the NHS. It would mean the peak everyone is so worried about won’t be so big. It would mean the death rate isn’t all that bad at all (I know some deaths would have been attributed to flu because no one knew what C19 was to test for it but if the flu death rate this year was already multiples of what it normally is this would have been noticed).

I would like to think we’ve all had it but I suspect we haven’t.

CV has been around forever. This is just a strain of.

Many of the above will be the current CV, we'll never know.

If they do go on to catch the actual CV then they could hazard a guess to it being because they already had it.

*dont

Not do

I've had some sort of mild phlegmy chest thing since December. I cough a few times, bring phlegm up, cough eases for days/weeks, then cough comes back and repeat.

I had it just before Christmas. Took about 6 weeks to clear, coughing and feeling like shit. It went round work and two people ended up with pneumonia. Just about everyone and their dog had it. Talking to ky hairdresser yesterday and her partner had it Christmas time as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was C19 and loads of people have already had it, just put it down to "a virus". I'm not very up on the science of it, but it would be interesting if they could test some people who were ill at Christmas and see if was the same.

Well whatever it was it has certainly done the rounds. I've been off work for several weeks - going to stagger in on Monday and see if they want me to go home again once they hear The Cough.

I had something that sounds quite similar to this in November. Have idly wondered if it was covid in retrospect but dismissed the idea as it seemed too early.

Whooping Cough is also going around - and immunity from the vaccine wears off over time, and you can still get it even though vaccinated. When my youngest was little there was a weird "lingering cough" that everyone at pre-schools all over town got, and their parents most of the time. That was almost certainly Whooping Cough - especially in the vaccinated you don't tend to get the whoop in your cough.