Anyone had American Covid yet?

[Slightyamusedandsilly]

Or more precisely the XFG variant / the Stratus strain.

I've heard it's nastier than the dumbed down covid I've had the last couple of times.

Ive had it. Tested as I was supposed to be seeing an elderly vulnerable relative and lost my sense of taste and smell. Horrible virus this and knocked me out for a few days.

Interesting. I had some kind of killer virus that gave me a sore throat, totally lost voice, and utter exhaustion that made my legs not work. But tested negative for Covid. Pretty ancient tests tho.

lasted about a fortnight.

We got my test kit from Sainsburys the other day. Box of 5.

Because if what you have turns out not to be Covid, then it is something else. You might have bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, TB instead for instance, and you do need to find out if you have one of those.

Incidentally, I filled in the online appointment thingy for my GP practice this morning and it told me to ring 111 for advice straight away, and to go to A&E if things don't improve very soon. So I'm not being a pansy with a cold.

Covid cases are up 28% and hospital admissions by 15%, since end of August.

Yes,last week

I was at work,finished my shift and dropped a colleague off at home

We'd just got to the end of her street when I said to dp 'I have a really weird headache'

Woke up next morning to a sore throat,banging headache,a cough and aching from head to toe

It's taken about a week to feel better and still have the cough

I think we are going to get hospitalised cases every year aren't we ?

I don't see him that often. If I wake up with a itchy eyes and a streaming nose and it's not COVID he might choose to meet up anyway and just keep a distance. If it's COVID, not a chance I'm seeing him till all safe again.

A cold virus usually doesn't leave you on a ventilator in intensive care, though, does it.

It is actually important to know what you have, because if you pass the common cold onto someone vulnerable they might be ok. If you pass this onto them (and your own symptoms may be mild!) they could actually die.

It's not much effort to get a test to see what you have.

Same here.

Negative tests, I do feel off.

The average lateral flow test is only about 50% accurate - it will miss about half of real positives.

If you test with a lateral flow several times on different days when you have symptoms, then you might be more likely to see a positive result on one of them if you do have covid.

You can get lateral flow tests for flu too.

Yes. Never caught covid before and was vaxxed six months ago. Just due the winter one. Felt really rotten. Exhausted, thirsty, weak, shivery. Smell and taste still not fully recovered.

Oh and my test came up immediately.

Only surprised Trump hasnt put a tariff on it and sent us all a bill incase we get it

We've all been so tired too! I the aches before the throat problems, it felt like it was in my bones. The more I think about the past couple of weeks, what I thought was just post holiday run down, might actually be something more.
My neighbours have been ill all last week too and she had to take the week off she was so exhausted, she's a nurse and very rarely takes time off so she must've felt rough. I've finally got my voice back, but am still coughing and the cold aspect of it seems to be coming back.