Omg I’ve woken up feeling so ill!!

[SquishyBones]

Woke up an hour before my alarm, my tongue is burning and my throat aches but worse of all, I am so, so nauseous ... I keep balking ... not actually been sick yet though, feel altogether shite.

No idea what it could be? I’m not normally Ill ... no chance of pregnancy 🤮 supposed to be at work today, without actual vomiting would it be unreasonable to call in sick? I feel like like I have the hangover from hell.

@Twinklelittlestar1 I'm looking into presenteeism at work post Covid-19 as part of my studies. It makes me so cross. Its very prevalent in healthcare workers

I assume if you test again and it comes up positive, test and trace comes into action.

You sound exactly like I did. Sounds lile Covid. I didn't get a cough until a week later. Of course you can't go to work.

My DH has had it (verified: he is now donating plasma with antibodies).

His symptoms were hard to in down and cane and went for the first couple of days, and he did feel nauseous.

Stay at home.

And he never had a cough at all.

I would be seeking another test. Please don't go to work and put your colleagues at risk. Even if there wasn't a risk of Covid, you sound too unwell to go in. Given there is a risk of Covid, you absolutely must not go in!

One of my colleagues caught Covid and it started with a migraine, before it progressed to more obvious symptoms.

It doesn't help that workplaces put pressure on you to come in even if you are sick.
I had suspected covid early April and went home from work ill. Came from nowhere as i was ok in the morning but by lunchtime I was hot, had a cough and felt awful so I went home..didnt stop work hassling me to come back after 5 days as they were short staffed. I didnt and occupational health told them to bugger off

Gastric symptoms like nausea, diarrhoea are the first symptoms in some people. Also sore or rough throat, bad headaches, exhaustion. Fever, cough and muscle aches are common first symptoms but there are many ways it first presents which is why until proven otherwise it’s vital to isolate and get tested/retested. It’s is also vital that you do NOT go to work today and until it is safe. A negative test at this stage doesn’t mean you don’t have CV.

It worries me that people still consider going to work when they're unwell...

I just got a text to say my covid test was negative. Perhaps there other bugs going around.

A negative covid test does NOT mean you don’t have the virus, it means it wasn’t detected. Detection is not 100%: strains vary, good samples are hard to take if self administered, virus levels vary.

Is it just me? I only have to have a slight frog in my throat and I’m convinced I’ve got the virus, start making plans in my head for when I’m hospitalised, going through every imaginable worst case scenario - yet on here people are literally coughing up blood and they’re all “anyone know what this could be, I’m in work at the moment and not sure what to do.”

SurferRona

So you’re saying that the test doesn’t detect the virus but she possibly has the virus?

What’s the point of the test then?

In fact, what’s the point of a testing system at all if we should believe we may have the virus even if a test says we...don’t have the virus?

@MrsKingfisher

I just got a text to say my covid test was negative. Perhaps there other bugs going around.

It's unlikely that other bugs are going around at the moment given the fact that most people have been careful not to go out with symptoms and other bugs are not as infectious and/or mainly spread when people have symptoms. More likely it is a false negative.

Interesting side note on presenteeism that it's thought one of the reasons for Germany having a relatively low number of cases is that it's not the done thing to go into work even with a cold a be rude enough to spread the germs.
Every winter I sit in meetings with people with noses streaming. It's grim.

It sounds nothing like Covid. No high fever or cough.

Plenty of people have tested positive without either of these symptoms.

@CountessFrog the test, if done correctly (which is v difficult) at the right time, has an accuracy of about 70%. This is a new virus and it presents in strange ways. Some people get a few minor symptoms eg loss of sense of smell and carry on feeling fine, others feel fine for a week or two then wham, develop a full range of symptoms.

There are people on ventilators being treated for COVID that dont test positive until the 3rd or 4th test.

There is something going round that looks pretty similar. It’s been going round all winter.

I know there’s some issues with false negatives from the testing but the people who’ve had it at work since testing started have had a negative covid test and a negative antibody test.

@ImInYourMindFuzz

If you have been tested with these symptoms and it's negative, you've not got Covid She tested negative “a couple of weeks ago” certainly enough time to come into contact and incubate the virus and present symptoms. She needs tested again. OP honestly stay home, het tested. If you’re not a habitual piss taker with illness your work will be fine.

Op doesn't actually say when she had a test. The symptoms she had then have now stopped and she said the cough she had was through hay fever. I misunderstood what she's said and what other people have written. Obviously if she has different covid symptoms since her negative test then she should get tested again.

@PuppyMonkey no its not just you. I had a bout of coughing the other week. Just a ten minute bout but I started to clean for the paramedics and plan food for my teens .

Note: I did not call anyone let alone paramedics. My brain just goes into overdrive.

I had a similar illness recently and it was just an ordinary virus, felt awful, really awful, had four days off sick.
I went for a CV test because I work in the NHS and it was not CV.
The usual virii and illnesses are all still there as well but if you are concerned do ring 111 to discuss it.

@SurferRona

A negative covid test does NOT mean you don’t have the virus, it means it wasn’t detected. Detection is not 100%: strains vary, good samples are hard to take if self administered, virus levels vary.

If it's not detected, you don't have it. If the sample is contaminated, you're asked to take another test.

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

There is something going round that looks pretty similar. It’s been going round all winter.

I know there’s some issues with false negatives from the testing but the people who’ve had it at work since testing started have had a negative covid test and a negative antibody test.

It's not winter now though and we have been in lockdown for weeks. I know people who had symptoms, thought it wasn't COVID and now have antibodies so it obviously was.

You need to order a Covid test and self isolate. Sounds highly likely.

@mrpumblechook

It's unlikely that other bugs are going around at the moment given the fact that most people have been careful not to go out with symptoms and other bugs are not as infectious and/or mainly spread when people have symptoms. More likely it is a false negative.

So why do I have a cough and swollen glands? And why has my grandson had croup?