Anyone else with covid?

[AmazingLemonDrizzle]

I have covid.

It's not as bad as it could be (maybe all the vaccinations. I have had eleventybillion)

But I feel so tearful. I'm feeling a bit mid life crisesy anyway and my kids are really irritating me and unsympathetic teens to the fact I'm sick. I feel SO low.

And food. Last time I was quite ill and didn't want to eat. This time I want ALL THE FOOD. Why?! I've eaten far too much.

I'm a bit short of breath and my chest is tight but oxygen good.

Does anyone get antivirals? I rang 111 and they said I've been referred but the next people might not ring til Monday so is that even worth it?

I don't know when day 1 was. I tested friday but felt hot/headache tueaday but tested negative then.

I know most people aren't testing now so no idea about avoiding people/work when I do feel better.

Anyone else want to check in or join in?

Also had multiple covid vaccinations.
Also have covid.
Also feel awful.

If you become at all worried about your shortness of breath you must get seen by a pro. Better safe than sorry!

I'm just letting myself go through the motions as I would any old flu.

My sympathies 💐

I had antivirals and they helped me feel better very quickly
Downside was the awful taste in my mouth, and I rebounded so positive, negative, positive and symptoms came back but much less

I'm on the tail end of it now, tested positive on Monday, needed a few days off work. Very very very tired. No cough this time though.

Sorry you all have it too.

Crab how far through are you? I feel crapxbut because I'm not scared for my life like 2020 I kind of tell people "it's not too bad" but I've slept most of the day and jusy feel horrible.

Paws. I've not had them before so have been googling. Are you glad you took them? I don't want to prolong the pain!

Living it's the tiredness that is hitting me this time as my main symptom I think. Did you tell people at work you'd had it? I'm struggling with the whole thing of worried people will think I shouldn't be in work if I say go back Wednesday (important group to run - I could run it then sleep) or should I not incase I'm around vulnerable people. Or accept there's lots of bugs out there. My brain is foggy and overhanging everything.

My cough isn't constant and my asthma isn't awful just want it all better. Last time I was left quite unwell with lung scaring and a chest infection for y months also a bit scared of that whole also not feeling that bad.

Hooe you all feel better soon. I think I'm going to watch TV amd sleep tomorrow. My kids haven't been every sympathetic. But are moody teenagers.

My husband is classed as vulnerable he has psoriatic rheumatoid arthritis, should he be getting antiviral? We have both been very very ill.

I'm in my fourth week of it now. It's fucking dreadful. I'm so sick of it. Awake now as I've started coughing again. Third time I've had it and it's just as bad this time as before. 🤬😷

I know a lot of people are all 'its just a bad cold' but my office ask us to test if we are ill and not come into the office covid positive. We are a fairly small team and its just not fair to spread it around. I'm feeling well enough to work but will still work from home tomorrow if my test is still positive.

Living - my goal in the future is to have a job where you can work from home! I think that makes sense to work from home anytime you're ill really if possible. I am letting people down each day I don't go in and it feels horrible. I don't know if I'm better on day 5 to go in or wait for a clear test or what now.

On the flipside it seems in person jobs want people in. But I work with different groups of people every day so really would feel bad spreading it now I know I have it (I'm not well enough yet but I hope to be soon). I really think most people don't test now in real life.

RainBow 4 weeks?!?!? That's unfair. I did have it turn into a chest infection the previous time and that rumbled away until treated. My work will be unimpressed if I am not in for 4 weeks 😬.

Yellow- I dont really know the criteria but have attached pictures! There's a other document attached.

I dont feel awful today. I am however very very sleepy and had a couple of phlegm coughs. Chest still feels tight. But I could rally the troops to have done something.

How are people?

I feel crap today but not in a "dying" way just a bit of a headache absolutely no energy and want to stay in bed and not move and so very very low. I hope the low mood is due to being ill and goes again. I'm rethinking all my life's choices so I really hope it's due to being ill.

On the flip side- because I've had really bad ill health before (I hate it when I can't breathe/asthma is bad/covid has been scary before) this feels like me wallowing rather than "ill". But I think my bar for "ill" is high and many people would call this ill?

I might go back to sleep 😔

The problem is..People just don't take it serious now. I've had it 3 times 2020 was in hospital for a week really poorly on oxygen etc. 2nd time not too bad then at Xmas was really bad again. I've had all vaccines. Recently at hospital with dh (before my recent covid) with breathing difficulties... was told by 2 nurses that 'covid is nothing now'. Unbelievable.

(((Captain))) That does sound frightening.

Yes it's strange to know how to handle it now- especially when the NHS are saying it's not a big thing! I'm nervous to inflict it on vulnerable people although that's when I thought I'd be well enough to be up and about and I'm not.

Hope your husband is okay now.

Certainly from all I've read j thought I'd get the antivirals pretty quick....

But they've not called back yet and nhs 111 said it might be a while!

Hope you feel better soon.

One thing I do get is your appetite, the first time I had covid I was ravenous. Only problem was DH and I felt ill with it at the same time, I felt like a zombie and couldn't focus on anything and he didn't have the energy. When one of us made it into the kitchen, we were coming back with the most simple meal, plus yogurt, fruit and snacks for me each time (only ever have a meal normally).

In some ways I'm lucky in that I've had pneumonia twice, so I know when I really need help with my breathing - for me it's feeling I can't get a full lungful of breath and it hurts at the same time. Do you have a sats monitor?

But to be fair, in the context of infectious disease the nurses are correct. I currently have flu - definitely flu and not Covid. I have not felt this bad in many years (since I had Swine flu in 2009), and I am far, far worse than either of my Covid infections. I am now on my sixth day, getting no better, and can barely move. And people have never "taken flu seriously". For the majority, it's an inconvenience at worst, and something to joke about. But people, often the young, the old or those with underlying conditions can die from it - a close friend of mine did, and he was in his 40's and only mildly diabetic.

The fact is that it isn't that people don't take Covid seriously now - it is that in the UK illness is seen as a measure of weakness. We are supposed to power through it. In a medical context, as the nurses say, Covid is just another infectious disease, but we still have a mentality that it is something "special" compared to other equally serious (in the right circumstances) disease. We need a reset on our social attitudes - at one point it seemed like Covid might begin to do that, but it hasn't. There aren't any prizes for powering through any illness. I learned that in 2009 when I went back to work too soon and ended up off sick for 3 months with pneumonia and bronchitis. And yet employers still expect people to be in work when ill, and the OP is wrong - working from home is not the answer because if you are ill you shouldn't be in work.

I've just come out the other side of Covid. Felt shocking this past week. No energy, chills, very low mood and lost my voice completely. Just feel wasted. Much worse this time round.

I've really got low mood. I hope it is the covid then - although sorry you've been through it bad too.

I'm not particularly coldy/snotty and can breathe but keep reminding myself that "bejng able to breathe" isn't the marker of ill health. Bejng in bed all day isn't normal.

I am exhausted. I'm currently planning to return to work Thursday but it's delivering training and I will need to be on all cylinders 😬.