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I think my job is making me ill.

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Horehound · 05/01/2021 20:37

Just looking to see if anyone else experiences this?
Last night I started feeling shivery and achey. Today I woke up with a sore throat, still achey, sore back and neck and just a general feeling sicky.
I haven't been anywhere at all. I don't think I could have picked anything up and also I had this same feeling a few months ago.
I cannot warm up when I feel this way and my husband let's me lay on him and wraps me up. Also have a fleece onesie and I still shiver.
It crossed my mind today that it seems to occur when I'm going back to work. I am not really enjoying my job. I started at the company in Feb 2019 when I was three months pregnant. I worked for 6 months and quite liked it then I was off on maternity for over a year.
I had also built up a tonne of annual leave and so when I returned to work (part time from full Time) in September I think I worked about 20 days until beginning of Dec when I felt Ill and then was off until today.
So obviously I haven't worked much at all and on top of that we are working from home. I don't feel confident in my role and even though I have raised a flag for help and bit feeling confident my manager doesn't seem to be concerned. She has kind of got it into her head that for the six months I worked before maternity I was very good and so I just need to get into the swing of things.

Except, what's actually happened is that I was working doing my role in one department independently of my team mates who work doing the same job just a different portion of it. (Oil and gas sector) and now on my return I have been given their type of work. Allocated onto three projects and I just don't know what the hell I am doing.

So I think the way I feel is caused by stress. Could it be?! Sorry this is longer than I was expecting it to be.

OP posts:
Ohalrightthen · 05/01/2021 20:42

No, it sounds like you've got a virus.

floorplanner · 05/01/2021 20:45

You've got chills, so prob running a fever.

AnyFucker · 05/01/2021 20:47

Are you sure you haven't got Covid ?

LividLovely · 05/01/2021 20:52

Nobody can answer this until you’ve done a Covid test.

Original poster
Horehound · 05/01/2021 20:58

I don't think I have covid. I don't have a high temp I took it and was 36.2. I still have taste and smell and and I'm not coughing 🤷

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Ohalrightthen · 05/01/2021 21:03

@Horehound

I don't think I have covid. I don't have a high temp I took it and was 36.2. I still have taste and smell and and I'm not coughing 🤷
Yeah, but you have all the other symptoms of a virus. And not a great understanding of how illness works!
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Horehound · 05/01/2021 21:08

Lol no I do realise it sounds strange but I messaged my mum telling her I was ill and she actually suggested the stress for work as being the cause and I had told her actually the same thing had crossed my mind.
I suppose stress could impact my immune system making me more vulnerable to viruses maybe.
I'm also just bloody knackered. My 16m old has obviously not been to nursery over the festive period so I've had him A lot more than the last few months and he is still breastfeeding so he's been at me at lot more than usual for feeds and still wakes one to two nights for feeds although be has started sleeping through on occasion.
I dunno just seems weird I felt perfectly fine until I started thinking about work.

Ok I must just have an illness.

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BridgetDrones · 05/01/2021 21:28

I've had similar type symptoms when I've had a shock or just sort of get very low. Shivering and so on that literally disappears once I've had a chat with someone and a mug of sweet tea. Could be some sort of blood sugar dip or something. However I've also had full on flu when work got too much one winter. Hope you feel better soon. Xx

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Horehound · 05/01/2021 21:33

Thank you @BridgetDrones

Yes that's kind if what I feel like. Like if my husband said ok quit your job and find a new one, I feel like these symptoms would disappear. And things have happened like that before just as you describe.
I have had flu a couple of times before and I did think "oh oh". I didn't get the flu jab but should have. Hmm Gona go to sleep soon and see if a longer night's rest helps. Fingers crossed.

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Puddington · 05/01/2021 22:19

Agree with @BridgetDrones that does sound like sort of shock or dread, FWIW I haaaaaaate my job with a passion (fingers crossed getting to leave it soon) and I'm perfectly fine on my days off but when I get close to the building and know I have to start a shift I start feeling churning nausea, headache, my entire mood dips and I feel physically very low/weak. So it can happen!

Crinkle77 · 05/01/2021 22:54

Good God get a test. Not everyone has the classic symptoms of temperature, cough or change in taste. You shouldn't assume it's stress and go round infecting everyone.

AnyFucker · 05/01/2021 23:02

Back in May I was working on Covid ICU.

I thought I was just stressed snd exhausted. I didn't have any typical covid symptoms. I was achey, lethargic, feeling low and with joint pains. Didn't get a test at the time and carried on working.

In June I had antibodies Blush

AnyFucker · 05/01/2021 23:05

In my defence you couldn't get a test back then unless you had a temp or a cough

Dereg · 05/01/2021 23:05

You felt ill at the beginning of December & you feel ill again now, at the beginning of January?

Have you ever heard of 'period flu'

I get this every single month now, (I make a note on my calender and look back, as sometimes Im at work rattling, shivering, throat, headache etc and I have to remind myself to check the dates)

Its a sigh of relief when I realise I was the same 4 weeks before. It lasts 2-3 days usually for me. (Ive actually got it now & feel like shit)

It happened after I stopped BF, never had it before.

YouJustDoYou · 05/01/2021 23:08

Same. I quit. Sickness went away.

Mumisnotmyonlyname · 05/01/2021 23:11

I had covid with chills and shivery-no temperature, and no cough until the second week. Tons of people on here since saying same. Breathless day 6 and 7 only.

Please test.

Aquamarine1029 · 05/01/2021 23:15

I don't think I have covid. I don't have a high temp I took it and was 36.2. I still have taste and smell and and I'm not coughing

I didn't have any of those symptoms, but I had covid. You really need to get tested.

However, it could be stressed related, too. Physical symptoms due to anxiety are definitely not unheard of.

First thing to do though is get a covid test.

WeeLors · 06/01/2021 05:34

I get this occasionally too OP, whenever I'm feeling really stressed or overwhelmed with things I need to get done (usually correlates with being really tired at the same time when it happens). No amount of layers can warm me up and I feel really achy and very suddenly bone-tired, exactly like I'm coming down with a virus. The only thing that helps when I get it is a hot drink (seems to warm me a bit from the inside) and an early night (it's only ever happened in the evening). Once I'm in bed and relaxed it eases up and I always wake up the next morning completely fine with symptoms gone. I realised a long time ago it was a weird physical reaction to things getting on top of me.

lovelemoncurd · 06/01/2021 05:37

It's amazing what symptoms people attribute to other causes to avoid thinking it may be Covid!

Aldilogue · 06/01/2021 06:35

Even though we are in the middle of a pandemic and a covid test maybe be due, I think that stress plays a huge part in our health. I had a job where I was under huge stress and could feel myself getting weaker.

I ended up getting pneumonia and was off work for 8 weeks.

If your job causes you that much stress, it may be worth looking into getting another one.

Hope you feel better soon.

Aldilogue · 06/01/2021 06:39

Puddington if you don't mind me asking, what do you do that makes you hate your job so much?

SandysMam · 06/01/2021 06:43

Definitely how my Covid started off.

Dereg · 06/01/2021 06:56

BTW I had Covid in March & nearly ended up in hospital, Im still being seen by the Resp team, Physio & SALT.

My symptoms were chills, runny nose, aches, headache & fatigue. The resp distress didn't start until day 14,

Yes of course get a test but be aware of other causes, as well.

Bluesheep8 · 06/01/2021 08:16

You need to get a test op. Not sure why you need people to tell you that

Bluesheep8 · 06/01/2021 08:18

Actually, there could be a link with the issues you're having at work...this may be causing you to doubt/question yourself in other areas of your life. You do need to get a test though