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Tested positive but need to get out, is this okay?

484 replies

Puffler · 28/11/2020 23:08

I’ve tested positive for Covid-19. I don’t know where I’ve got it from as I’ve followed the rules rigidly. I wonder if one of my children is an asymptotic carrier.

I feel quite rough but I’m not in bed. One thing I always do is a lot of exercise. I walk or run about 8 miles a day and without it my mental health deteriorates rapidly. I paced round and round the house and our tiny garden to do 10k steps today and the thought of trying to do that tomorrow is making me anxious.

If I set the alarm for 6am, do you think it is acceptable to go out for a walk? I live rurally so can take a head torch and go down lanes and tracks where I’m 99% sure I won’t encounter anyone and there is no need for me to touch anything, no gates etc. I will wear a face mask. DH says it is too risky in case I have an accident of some sort (I’m not sure how) or need aid. He thinks that would be putting others in danger. He does agree the chance of seeing anyone is very remote.

What would you do? I have to stay in don’t I?

OP posts:
Lockheart · 28/11/2020 23:48

No, you need to stay in. I know it's tempting, but don't go for a walk.

It's dark and cold now, and even in London we've had some fairly icy mornings already. The forecasts are not getting warmer. Dark, rural roads will be treacherous underfoot.

One slip and you'll have to call an ambulance and take your virus into A&E.

Stay at home.

Gooseygoosey12345 · 28/11/2020 23:48

Don't be a dick, stay inside.

Henio · 28/11/2020 23:49

I feel for you but it would be absolutely typical and would be the one time that you'd trip and hurt yourself and need assistance. Maybe try giving some relaxation techniques a go?

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haircutsRus · 28/11/2020 23:49

I don't think that the level of exercise you are used to is any way appropriate when you have an illness coursing through your body doing who knows what damage. Pace around the garden if you have to, but you need to rest and let your body summon its defences to fight the thing off. It doesn't need the added stress of that much exercise as well.

I'd give this advice whether it was Covid or something else, by the way.

Thehogfatherstolemycurry · 28/11/2020 23:49

You stay in, your husband is right.

Africa2go · 28/11/2020 23:50

And your whole family needs to isolate too

catattoon · 28/11/2020 23:52

If you live in the countryside and you can be sure you're not gonna bump into anyone, I do not see how you could possibly pass anything on. The rules are one thing, common sense is another.

Fastforwardtospring · 28/11/2020 23:54

If my DS has to stay in, self isolating for 14 days, having been sent home from school, showing no symptoms at all, then yes you have to stay in having had a positive test. Please don’t go out, mine and others mental health can not cope with lockdown & isolating indefinitely. There’s light at the end of the tunnel with a vaccine, we might if everyone behaves themselves be back to some normality by next summer.

Original poster
Puffler · 28/11/2020 23:54

I do realise I have to stay in. DH has given me quite the lecture. There aren’t any stiles or gates, it’s all tracks and little lanes but he and many posters are right, if I collapsed it wouldn’t be fair.

We’ve really stuck to the rules so I don’t understand how I’ve caught it. We have online shopping, haven’t been socialising and have both been working from home. It must be via our two primary school children or at drop off / pick up.

Exercise videos don’t work for me. Neither does running on a treadmill. I exercise to lose weight and for my sanity, I struggle with noise and two young children make a lot of it. I become very depressed and tearful after a day or two of not exercising (I am also on fluoxetine, my GP is aware of my MH issues).

I’ll pace the garden again tomorrow.

OP posts:
ImNotCutOutForThis · 28/11/2020 23:55

Go out. Who are you going to infect at 6am rurally? No one.!
Enjoy!

friendlycat · 28/11/2020 23:57

Yes you have to stay in.
You can resume your exercise when you are better.

BlueBrian · 29/11/2020 00:00

Do some of thickos have a problem following simple instructions? The rules are quite clear you stay in, that's it, no ifs, no buts, no maybes.

GabsAlot · 29/11/2020 00:00

no dont stay in noone should whats the point eh youve only got covid

sighs

Original poster
Puffler · 29/11/2020 00:00

DH and the children are all isolating too. We have a weekly delivery from Ocado and the three of them aren’t even tempted to go out although DD had quite a few tears about not going to get a Christmas tree and having to wait another few weeks. My DS is sad he will miss his first nativity.

It sucks, but I know lots of others are in the same situation. I was hoping just to walk or run, but I do appreciate the reasons not to.

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Onjnmoeiejducwoapy · 29/11/2020 00:01

You have to stay in unfortunately, it is not fair to put anyone else at risk and if you are spotted you may well get reported. Unfortunately many people in the same situation as you who find it equally difficult are having to do this and they don’t have gardens.

It also sounds like you could be getting pretty ill from it, if you take a bad spell during a run you put a lot of people at risk.

MyMajesty · 29/11/2020 00:01

Please try to relax.
Keeping on with too much activity, while unwell, can make your illness last longer.
Be kind to yourself by being kind to your body.

GabsAlot · 29/11/2020 00:02

where are you that schools are stil doing nativity

PinkPixie7 · 29/11/2020 00:02

I wouldn’t go on an 8 mile walk (why do you do this everyday?), but I don’t see any harm walking around the block at 5am. Or you could sit in your garden. Staying indoors all day for 2 weeks would damage my mental health (I have PTSD). Some outdoor breeze really calms me.

Thiscantreallybehappening · 29/11/2020 00:02

To be honest, I am absolutely gobsmacked not only at OP asking this question but to all the posters saying ..... go out you will be fine at 6am etc. It is rural, who will you see etc.

What if OP's body reacts to the exercise and she is taken ill whilst exercising??? passers by could stop to help her, paramedics would have to be called. All these people could then become infected.

I know you need the exercise for your mental health, but you need to dig deep, stay home, isolate from other family members as much as possible, get better.

ByebyeOcado · 29/11/2020 00:14

You are unlikely to pass it on, but just follow the rules. There will be 100,000 just like you who think it’s ok to interpret the rules and do what you want. Statistically, some of you will pass on the virus. You don’t know if you will. But everyone breaking the rules is being selfish; as long as they carry on, the longer businesses stay closed, and people lose jobs, and more people die. Isolating for 14 days is not that hard.

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Puffler · 29/11/2020 00:14

Nativity is being live streamed on Zoom! So not the same as normal, I’m sad he can’t take part though. They are down a villager (he didn’t have a main billing!).

OP posts:
DrEllie · 29/11/2020 00:16

Try some Hiit exercises in the garden. Fresh air and it will get those endomorphins going

Staffy1 · 29/11/2020 00:16

Compromise and go up and down the road near your house repeatedly.

Original poster
Puffler · 29/11/2020 00:17

I agree breaking the rules is selfish and since March I’ve not broken them once. Just to be clear since my test, nobody has left this house.

DH read me the riot act. I thought it might be okay but I do totally get that it’s not.

OP posts:
cbt944 · 29/11/2020 00:17

Stacks of free yoga, dance, and other exercise classes on YouTube.