Anyone else have a cold from Satan?

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Feeling sorry for myself over here 🤧

Started on Friday with a slight headache and sore throat, by bedtime full on cold but hoped it would just be your bog standard grin and carry on cold.

Woke up yesterday feeling rotten, managed to carry on with Paracetamol but by the afternoon I was in bed shivering feeling like my head waa going to explode. Had one of those restless nights sleep with bad dreams that you only ever seem to get when ill.

I'm meant to be going to family for our Christmas Dinner today as usual Christmas plans have changed. I'll have to stay behind because I don't even have the energy to sit up. I have work tomorrow so hoping I'll feel better by then. So annoyed my weekend has been ruined by this plague!

Anyone else want to join my mystery party?

Yes, me. I felt ropey Friday, and like death yesterday morning. Genuinely didn't know how I'd get through the day. Doubled up one cold abd flu tabs and ibuprofen. Feel shit this morning but significantly better than yesterday.

Misery loves company! Hope you feel better soon.

I'm allergic to ibuprofen so have been relying on Paracetamol and hot toddies.

If anyone knows how to stop my head from feeling like it's about to explode I'd be very grateful!

Tiger balm for your head - I swear by that stuff.
Plenty of fluids so you don’t get dehydrated.
lots of rest and keep warm - sending you get well wishes.

Another feeling like hell. Started with a tickly throat Monday, by Tuesday it was raging, bunged up the rest of the week.

Yesterday I had to drive to Central London from Portsmouth (via Farnham) the traffic was awful and I spent over 6 hours driving having got up at 4.30am and now I've got a horrendous cough which makes my head feel like it's gonna split in two.

Merry bloody Christmas 🎄 😫

I've got it too, I've had this bug in various forms since mid-November, and I'm beyond fed up with it now! The worst thing is that I'll feel better for a few days, then a new symptom kicks in and I'm back to being miserable. It's absolutely awful, you have my sympathy OP!

Bad news mine is into week five.

I have the same symptoms and tested positive for covid so that explains why I feel so horrible 😞

@Curiousforever same here- had a couple of days of terrible snotty cold and cough symptoms and then Covid+ . Now dh, ds and I are all +

Me too, started with a horrible sore throat on Wednesday, congestion in my head Thursday and Friday it's now moved to my chest and I've spent half the night awake coughing.

There’s Flu running rampant too, so if you test neg for covid, try and get swabbed for Flu.

Have you tested for covid? I had cold symptoms for 3 days before thinking to test. Positive.

Yep me too i feel awful! 37vweeks prg too so belly hurts evrytime I cough! Least the baby will be getting into position! 😅

I've been ill for more than 3 weeks. Took a covid test on Friday and it was a firm positive. Felt like utter shit yesterday and only a bit better today. I have done NOTHING to prep for Christmas - I still have to buy presents, decorate the house, prep food, organise guests. I don't even know if the guests can come now as who knows when I'll be better! I have never known so many people be so ill as this winter.

Same! This was meant to be weekend I organized christmas, going out last night, babysitter ready etc. Instead I've spent the weekend in my pyjamas coughing like I'm 60 a day with a fever and feeling like death if I move too much. Its pants.

Yep. Taken two covid tests both negative so assuming flu, can't remember the last time I felt this rough. Shivering, can't taste anything, coughing, feel like I'm breathing in razor blades, chest and throat are on fire, nose bunged up, aching teeth, palpitations and everything aches. I've had weeks of this but it seems to be getting worse instead of better so I'll phone the GP tomorrow. Hope you're all feeling better soon.

Yes me. Been pretty much bedbound since Tuesday and I really don't have time for it. House is a tip, I'm meant to work all week etc. Nightmare. My chest is on fire and fever really high. Testing negative for covid

Hmm I've got a grim cold but COVID negative? Should I be testing again?

I’ve been so ill this weekend. Raving fever, a really high heart rate at rest, throat and chest absolutely on fire, sinus headaches, congestion, coughing, body aches, chills. NOT covid, I’ve had covid a few times and it has NEVER made me feel this ill. I presume this is the flu. Thankfully today I have no fever.

I honestly thought I was getting sepsis at one point. Awful.

I've just tested got a faint positive on a nasal test but negative on throat one, going to assume it is covid. My household have all just have it in the last fortnight so it's probably just taken it's time to hit me.

Yes I have it :( the weirdest thing I’m getting though is really vivid dreams that when I wake up I’m convinced are real. Last night at 4 am I got up and had to check the ring doorbell to make sure my team weren’t outside for a team meeting.