Covid - what was it like for you?

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I tested yesterday as had quite a bad cough. Result was positive. Cough seemed a little better today, was feeling sicky on and off, but not too bad.

Now the cough is back to how it was, and I'm achy with a sore head.

Just wondering what the likelihood is of feeling even worse tomorrow. I'm due my period, so not sure what's actually what, cough aside!

If tomorrow is day three, it can't really get any worse, can it?

Horrid. Slept most of the first day as I could only manage about 30 mins of being awake. Nasty headache, body aches, sore throat and a slight cough. Barely slept the next day/night despite being exhausted and the cough was much worse but the headache lifted. Third day felt much better but still achy and the cough has made my chest and throat sore. I have very little appetite and feel sick on and off and light headed. Bizarrely I've also been very windy

I have been lucky. I have only had it once (as far as I know) - in March this year, by which time I had had three vaccinations.

I had a slightly stuffed up nose for a few days. That was it. I have had far worse colds

Not too bad. Tested positive Tuesday. Bit like a not too snotty head cold. Bit tired. Cough now but that's night bad. Ds 23 sore throat mostly. Dd 27 watery eyes head cold.

We've not had it before. All live together. I've had my 4th vaccine about 3 weeks ago.

Dh is cev and got it first but has probably been the least affected (5 x vaccinated) and just has the occasional cough now and thinks he's taste has gone. He's supposed to be entitled to treatment but no one returned his inquiry.

Feel like we're unlikely to get worse (🤷🏻‍♀️) but we're still testing positive.

Cough now but that's night bad = that's not* bad

Bad lower backache. Temperature for one night. Very tired and stayed mostly in bed for 48 hours. Suddenly felt fine again, although had a slight tickly cough for a few days and a bit tired for about a week. No ill effects after this.

Didnt have a single symptom. Only tested because of work (NHS). Was positive for the full ten days. Worked from home.

I’m CEV and fully vaccinated.
I first had Covid in January, I felt a bit off when I woke up so tested and got an immediate positive. Around 7pm I started to feel unwell, I was shivery, aching (even my eyeballs hurt) and my nose was blocked. I fell asleep, woke 3 hours later and felt fine, all symptoms were gone. Four days later I lost taste and smell for a couple of days.

I tested positive again in September. I had a horrible dry cough but had two negative tests over four days. I then had a blocked and runny nose along with the cough, body aches (it was after these symptoms appeared that I finally tested positive) and I felt so tired. It took around 3 weeks before I actually felt better.

Strangely, the night before I finally tested positive I’d been at a football match with my son. One of the negative tests was before we left the house, I only took that because I was exhausted and had slept much of the day before going out which didn’t seem right. We were in the car together for a total of around 4 hours and we shared a bottle of water yet he never caught it.

4th jab a month or so ago. Tested positive last weekend-only tested because I felt a bit off and I'd been in contact with a positive case. All week I've felt like I've had a bit of a cold-nothing awful. I think the 4th jab has made a massive difference though because friends on 3 jabs have been really ill

Has anyone had weird stabby pains? Have had then in my leg and back over the last half hour.

@MadisonAvenue back in the few days before first lockdown, DS had what I can now only assume was covid, and he had the sore eyeballs. Was quite worrying since it was all such an unknown then.

A day and a half I couldn’t get out of bed. Very hot. Was tired for weeks afterwards

Caught it before the vaccines, in March 2020. Chest on fire. Extreme tiredness and breathlessness. No sense of taste. Coughing like there's no tomorrow. Because of other physical and mental irritations, had to get the paramedics out to check me over. One said, I could take you in, but there's no guarantee you'll come out. DH, paramedics and I decided I should stay at home. Was home for a week, then another week at work on light duties, then...fine.

April this year, DD got it. We previously decided against vaccination (lots of reasons why, I won't list here as it's outing) She was 15 at the time. She thought she was fine on day 4, but then went down again. About 10 days in bed. The exhaustion was the thing, and she didn't eat much, just enough to get by, and we had to get her to drink lots of water. She didn't really lose her sense of taste though. Lots of coughing and feeling sick but not actually sick. I didn't catch it again, kept coming back negative. Any immunologists out there to explain why? I was with her every day, nursing her.

DD tested negative on the 10th day despite feeling dodgy still, and went back to school on day 14. She's normal now. That's the thing with her, she catches something big and she has two weeks of bed rest then her huge immune system kicks in to tell subsequent infections to fudge off. She's strong as an ox.

I should add I had 2 jabs but have refused more (despite health concerns) because they only offered Pfizer and I didn't trust it for people like me with a cardiac problem. Anecdotal evidence, granted, but we still don't know the full picture now.

So far I’m testing negative. Today is day 3 of this horrific cold, sore throat, headache, temperature and fatigued illness I appear to have. If I don’t test positive this morning I’ll be amazed!

Im also 38 weeks pregnant and planning a home birth so I’m hoping I feel better before I go into labour

I felt fine. Just a bit snotty. Milk tasted weird but that was it.

Started with loss of taste Did positive lft
had a bit of a cough
no temperature. Felt absolutely fine otherwise
had a great week off work

I had it after the jabs but before the latest booster. I had a bad headache the afternoon before I tested positive the next morning but if i hadn't been testing daily due to being a close contact (when those were still the rules) I probably wouldn't have thought anything of it. I was quite sneezy and snotty but hardly had a cough at all. I worked from home apart from one day when I had a really fuzzy head and called in sick.

For me, it was like a really, really weird cold. And it cycled through different symptoms every 24 hours. Sore throat then BAM! body aches then BAM! fatigue then BAM! snot-gasm then BAM! back to sore throat again.

I had it about a year ago, a couple of days after my first vaccination so i don't think I got much protection from it. I get dreadful migraines so at first I just thought it was that, then I thought it was a cold (I was in bed with the migraine anyway , then the next day DH fell ill & we tested positive. TBH the worst aspects were the month long migraine & the horrendous diarrhoea, which started absolutely without any warning... I had to make an emergency order for some incontinence pants as I couldn't get to the bathroom quickly enough. DH & I both lost loads of weight. DD caught it too but had no symptoms.

To clarify - my tummy trouble didn't actually happen again but mainly because I'd found it so traumatic the first time I refused to eat anything for about a week & just stuck to liquids. I was massively paranoid about it though. DH had horrendous vomiting but thankfully nothing on the other end. Hence the weight loss for both of us.

He lost his sense of taste & smell totally, they are still not fully returned nearly a year later. I didn't think I'd lost mine at all, but I've found certain foods repulsive ever since, like they've gone rancid. And I've realised I no longer like chocolate - not sure if I was addicted & I was just mindlessly munching it, or if I've just lost the taste for it, but I don't want it any more, it all tastes weird & oily now, even the really good stuff. I certainly ate a lot of chocolate before & now it's all awful.

I tested positive on Saturday and again this morning. I had a runny nose and lots of sneezing all day last Monday plus what I thought was food poisoning on Thursday morning. Only tested on Saturday as I was planning to meet my daughter and she has had covid 3 times so I was being cautious as I had recently flown home from holiday. I've had joint aches and pains, chesty cough, fatigue and a weird sense of being spaced out, especially when I stand up. My eyes also watered a lot but that seems to have stopped now. No loss of taste or smell but a complete loss of appetite. I need to lose about a stone in weight so this is not entirely a bad thing!

I currently have Covid for the first time. Four vaccinations, IIRC, latest six weeks ago (Moderna, spike).

I caught a really bad cold in September which dragged on for eight weeks and in many ways it's like that — sinus and upper respiratory tract infection, sore throat and intermittent coughing fits. On top of that I have aching neck and shoulders and arms, my eyes feel watery and my eye sockets feel strange. Yesterday I felt generally rough and headachy. Slightly better today but now sneezing a lot.

My temperature has been within the normal range and my oxygen levels have been fine. Tomorrow will be day five since I tested positive, but I'm pretty sure where I contracted it and I must have been developing it for 3-4 days before I tested. Hoping that it peaked yesterday.

I find taking an antihistamine really helpful: it has dried up the steaming nose and eyes. Paracetamol helps with the aches and general symptoms.

Like a constant morning sickness!

My family got a mild dose (sore throat) and tested positive. I had night sweats for a few nights but never actually tested positive despite plenty of close contact. I had three shots and the booster after effect was worse... My siblings and one parent have never got it or tested positive despite working in healthcare and offices. It just seems to really discriminate based on genetics I guess.

@Libmama I had the same since last Tuesday. On antibiotics for sinus infection too but so unwell. Only tested positive this morning (for first time). Ds has felt ill since Friday and Dh since last night and both tested positive this morning too. Crazy.

Hope everything goes well for you.

Somewhere between the worst ever cold and mild flu.
dh and I got it now. Day 5/6 and improving now.