Covid2025

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Does anyone else have the current version of covid. I read online apparantly it is a though one. I don't have it and I don't feel ill either.

However apparently it's supposed be a though one.

I know my local hospital is cancelling a lot of outpatients appointments because apparently they are over run. I don't know why. If it's covid or something else.

From about 2022, covid fell into the background for me. I am not obsessed with covid and isolation. I got covid twice and they were both reasonably bad for me. It was like a flue type of illness for a week or so. The here was the exhaustion.

Basically I only ever remember getting flu twice in my life. I don't think it is normally to be so suspectible to such a serious illness so many times.

I am dreading my next round of covid which is probably just around the corner no doubt.

I know my partner and his family - there is sickness flying around his family and I am trying to avoid them all. It's just not right to be so ill all the time. Then you are expected to keep on going and go back to work asap without properly resting and healing.

I got covid last summer and it was so hard on me.

A 'though' one?
What does that mean?
Or do you mean tough?

I had it a few weeks back and coped a lot better then when I had it a few years back and was hospitalised

Yes I mean tough

Yawn.

Do you suffer from health anxiety?

It’s strange to claim not to be obsessed with Covid yet starting a Covid-centric thread, I’ll say that.

No I don't have health anxiety. Not am I obsessed with covid.

It's just it was in the news lately mainly online. There was a few comments about a symptom that sounds dreadful called razor throat - it didn't matter what one would take, there was no soothing the pain of that cutting deeping throat pain. It sounds dreadful.

I find it odd how there is a lot of sickness going around again. I know someone who got a flu like illness last week and now it is just spreading. Noone testing so noone knows if it's covid or not. I think that's a dangerous stance. I was so glad to have covid tests when I got ill last year and it was covid. I was so ill with a fever nearly 40 not responding to any over the counter meds and I knew I was likely going to be in trouble and I was successful at getting the anti viral.

Now my local hospital is cancelling planned procedures and outpatients. I just find it odd. There's something brewing for sure.

I suggest you look for more lighthearted on line reading if it will make you so worried to start a thread.

You can buy covid tests
I even saw tests for flu in my local tesco

OP, there's always something brewing as far as covid is concerned.

It hasn't gone away, it's just not in the main news anymore and hasn't been for a long time.

There's always a care home in any given region that is reporting online that their facility is in lockdown because of covid or influenza.

It's just the way it is post-covid.

I was at a shopping centre this morning and I saw more people wearing face masks than I've seen in many months.
They were either ill or trying to avoid becoming ill.

Keep up with your influenza and covid vaccinations, choose an earlier time of day to shop, when least busy.
Listen out for friends and family that mention being ill and then avoid them if you can.
Keep a test kit handy.

Covid is a nasty disease, debilitating particularly to those who suffer with long covid.
Try not to worry too much OP, take care of yourself.

I had the latest Covid varient in March. Brought it back from Turkey with me and shared it with my daughter. It wasn't awful, just fluey and uncomfortable. My friend and my line manager have recently tested positive as well. Guess it's just a part of life now but tests are readily available in supermarkets and chemists.

well i have something ,i have not been able to talk for 5 days so far. My 5 year old is driving me nuts , usually i answer all her questions or just respond to any of her ramblings .I think its good to listen and talk to her even if it just random crap but i cant respond now =p

Not sure if it covid though ,covid knocks you to the floor .But even if covid not flying around there's always something .Its why you tell your children wash your hands before you eat or wash your hands after playing in the dirt .Just part of life theres no use worrying unless your have a weak immune system

Well there are lots of stories online that this strain can be a bit nasty and has caused a uptick in hospitalisations in the east up to now.

I imagine it's no where near as bad as it was pre vaccines obviously and let's face it COVID has always been a bit random in how it affects some people really badly others barely at all.

Ice had 5 COVID five times so far which is 5 times more than I've had flu though!

Oooh, I had it afew weeks back
Was awful. Was ill for 2 weeks and for a week struggled to get out of bed
Had every single symptom
It was NASTY

FYI, just looked it up myself.
The latest variant of covid , NN.1.8.1 , which does indeed include, among a handful of other nasty symptoms, a sore throat that is like having swallowed razor blades or broken glass, has, according to credible news outlets, been detected in multiple locations across the US.
The earliest cases in the US date back to late March, early April, and were detected through a screening programme at airports for arriving international travellers.

Sorry, typo, it should be NB.1.8.1.

I've got it, and it's not nice. Incredible muscle weakness, walking upstairs or around the garden is exhausting and I can't eat. It started with a raging temperature and feeling sick. I think I may have picked it up on a flight (I had two in two days).