Anyone think they might have Covid atm?

[wavingfuriously]

Based London and apparently it's starting to be a bit rampant here. Thought it was food poisoning but now got cold symptoms and shivery. Massive headache when first started 3 days ago.
Going to dash to chemist shortly 🤞

Today is day 8 for me, and it's the first day I've actually put proper clothes on instead of showering and getting into fresh pyjamas.

I definitely feel a lot better today, but am still completely knackered!

I'm just getting over it after 13_days
Felt horrendous.
Went to Northumberland on 24th June. Came back on 29th feeling terrible. Thought it was a bad cold till I started vomiting and aching from head to foot.

Ahhhh - yes I think I've got it. Felt vaguely odd at work yesterday afternoon, but still cycled 12k home no problem. Got up and took the kids to school, not feeling off, went to the hairdresser pre booked and had to get up halfway through the cut to be sick (lovely). Now have the shivers and aches.

On reflection I might have had mild symptoms this week- had a bit of a headache 2 days and also what can only be described as sharp stabbing pains in my veins since Monday, said to DP it was like being poked with a needle. Put it down to being shattered due to very busy at work.

Heartened that some of you are saying the gastric symptoms are near the end. We're going on holiday in 12 days so we'd better all get it quick. Have ordered some tests on Amazon to confirm. Have had it loads of times before, hopefully this is a mild bout.

Mine came on quickly like that. Started feeling sick towards the end of a flight (but was circling, so not unusual for me).

Still felt sick in airport, then once we were in the car I got the shivers, and had to get my husband to whack the heating up to really high (poor bloke was sweating!). This shivers and sweats carried on for about 24 hours, then fortunately stopped, but everything else carried on. Been feeling queasy on and off all week.

Hope you feel better soon, I'm sure you'll be fine for your holiday.

Dh started feeling tickly throated and had a cough at the weekend but we thought it was his hay fever. Monday night he had the worst headache he’d ever had. I got him a test on Tuesday and it was a strong positive, turns out several
at work have it but his managers kept it quiet from everyone!

DD16 seems to have it but no more than a heavy cold.

I tested positive on Wednesday and still feel dreadful. One minute I think I’m feeling on the mend so go and put some washing out or do a bit of a tidy up and then I end up in a hot sweat and feel as though I’ve run a marathon, so I retreat back to bed.

It’s the sore skin, headache, achy, achy jaws and sore scalp that I’m hating right now. Even my teeth hurt!

The only thing which brings me comfort is to sit in the bath with the shower pouring over my head and body, I just wish I could sit there all day tbh.

I have awful health anxiety and hate being unwell (especially as I have some chronic health issues so often feel
below par anyway) and just keep wondering when on earth will I begin to feel better as it’s one step forward, one back. Thought I’d felt a bit brighter this morning but after an afternoon nap I now have a splitting headache and feel hot/cold, rough and feeling very sorry for myself.

Oh, it’s also making my tinnitus scream!!

'. I got him a test on Tuesday and it was a strong positive, turns out several
at work have it but his managers kept it quiet from everyone!'

So much wrong with this.

Hello fellow sufferers.
Day 4 here. 3 days of high temp, sweats, exhaustion, aches, runny nose, headache, tinnitus, sinus pain, nausea.
This is the worst I've had it except pre vaccines. Feel stupid for not getting a top up as I am on the list to get it.
Just beginning to feel bored which is a good sign as my mum always used to say!
Hope everyone starts feeling better soon.

I’m so bored, it’s making my teeth itch.

NW based here, tested positive Tuesday - assume caught on flight home from holiday

Sinus pain and earache have been the worst symptoms so far, felt like my head was in a vice yesterday

Mine came on quick aswell, really thought it was food poisoning..went to sleep for 36 hours asap - think that saved me from actually throwing up! Good luck everyone

Thanks @macandcheeseforthewine , I hope so too. Hope you're feeling better.

Hooray! tested negative at last! two weeks after this thing kicked off..

I'm so soooo bored with this. Neck glands up, temp and a cough like I smoke 40 a day when I lie down at night so I'm snoozing propped up like some elderly Victorian consumptive 😪

I might do a short drive to the coast tomorrow and hoping a good few lungfuls of sea air will kill or cure me!

Well that'll learn me. 8 days after I tested positive and was feeling ever so slightly smug that I'd managed to keep working (desk job so not strenuous but quite stressful and long hours), BAM. Absolutely wiped out of Friday. Managed to work in the morning, then bed and slept and slept. Zero energy, groggy, dizzy and nauseous. Upset stomach. Saturday and Sunday could get up but having to rest and sit a lot between doing the lightest of jobs. Taste and smell still zero, hoping it comes back soon!

99% certain I have it as the people I was out with last week came down with it on Friday (they tested). Typical timing as I am so busy this week with work. Very tempted to take the day of tomorrow (I work alone most days so can't infect anyone if I do go in but I'm so worn out!). Hoping I don't give it to DD as she goes away on Friday for a week.

@Titsywoo my first time catching it, partner and daughter haven’t caught it so far! So you might be lucky 🍀

B& M have test kits in case that’s useful for anyone to know.

What works for me with Covid is giving in straight away, going off sick, placing a shopping order for soup, fruit & ready meals & spending a few days in bed / on the sofa without going any further than the fridge & microwave. Although I’m aware I’m bloody lucky to be able to do that.

Oh sorry didn't say i have symptoms and feel crappy!

I got ill last Sunday. Tested negative. Tested Tuesday before going into the office and it was positive. I managed to work from home Mon, Tues and Weds and by Thursday I was done in. I couldn't do anything other than lay in bed. I still feel rotten with it. Everything hurts, the dizziness is extreme and the cough and phlegm is really bad.

First time I have had it and I really don't want it again.

How long was the incubation period for those of you who have it now/ have had it recently?

Hope you all feel better soon.

@Chatbotsarerubbish to you and anyone else who's a first timer with this thing. 🤧..learnt that you certainly can't hurry it up ...it's a long virus like bad flu & just has to take its course..two weeks for me but I feel SO fatigued it's crazy!

Incubation period - son picked it up at the weekend and came down with it on a wed and i came down with it on the thursday evening. As others have said it came on very suddenly and full on.

I too have found it drags on. Took a week to get over the worst, another week of taking it easy and only doing 1 lightish thing a day. then just over 2 weeks i did 2 things and thought i was coming down with it again - fealt awful

this is the 3rd covid i've had (last one in May) and they were a breeze compared to this,

I've spoken to so many people who are ill at the moment or have confirmed covid. We caught it last weekend - I believe on Friday as we spoke to a friend at an event who said they weren't well and nearly didn't go. So I assume they had covid and we caught it from them! I started to get symptoms on the Monday and tested positive on the Tuesday. We went from 0-100 very quickly with the symptoms. Now one week on and I'm finally well again, although I'm left with a bit of dizziness and a fuzzy head.

It's the 5th time I've had it and the second bout of it this year. The only silver-lining, I believe (hopefully correctly), is that my immunity is strongest right now and we have a holiday coming up. So I don't feel worried about covid ruining it as our whole household just had it.

13 days for me aswell and then negative
Hope all get better soon whoevers reading x

Just out of curiosity does anyone know why some people test negative quicker than others?

DH tested positive first, last Tuesday. He has tested negative today and will return to work tomorrow.

DD16 tested positive last Thursday and has tested negative today. She has had the least symptoms out of us all, more like a heavy cold but still has cold like symptoms yet negative on the test.

I tested negative last Tuesday after discovering dh had it and because I felt a little ropey but tested negative, felt worse on Wednesday and tested positive, lines came up straight away. Feel much better today but still have cold like symptoms, still a strong positive though 5 days on.

Why do some people test positive for longer than others?