To find it annoying when people go on about their long term Covid symptoms when they’ve never even had a positive test result

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Basically, they don’t even know if they’ve ever had coronavirus but go on about their ongoing ill effects from having had it. It annoys me as it’s just another way of scaring a load of low risk people into staying locked up unnecessarily with absolutely nothing to back it all up.

I say I had covid symptoms and was diagnosed by a neurologist based on symptoms.

Basically ds has a disability and his consultant rang. His genetic condition is rare and so they said to consider he's clinically vulnerable as he has flu jab.

He asked me if we'd had it and I explained how I'd been. He said he was the same symptoms and pattern but much milder and he'd had a positive test so it was very likely to have been covid.

There are people claiming (there may still be a thread on here) they have still got covid after months. Many have been tested and got a negative result. They just declare it failed and then they want another go. It's plain old hypochondria with a bit of spice added because of the current pandemic.

They list symptoms that have nothing to do with covid and then instead of realising that means they have something else they act like they have discovered something about covid that mainstream experts have missed.

It's mostly harmless (though perhaps not for them) so I'd leave them to it.

Which symptoms that have nothing to do with Covid would they be?

Yes as pp say you couldn't get tested in April unless you were admitted to hospital.

I was nursing both my parents who were admitted to hospital, both tested positive and both subsequently died. I had exactly the same symptoms and was quite ill but not ill enough for hospital so I never got tested.

After effects - fatigue, my sense of smell hasn't properly returned - I can smell things faintly and other things I used to be able to smell I can't smell at all, and my hair falling out in handfuls - to the extent that I am considering getting a wig before going back to school next month. My GP and my late parents' GP both agree that I must have had it.

Sorry it annoys you.

They list symptoms that have nothing to do with covid and then instead of realising that means they have something else they act like they have discovered something about covid that mainstream experts have missed.

Could you explain which these symptoms are, seeing that mainstream experts at the moment seem to accept a very wide range of symptoms- from blood clots over heart and kidney damage to joint pain and abdominal pain/gastric upsets- as part of Covid?

Blimey op you walked right into the bear pit there..

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

Which symptoms that have nothing to do with Covid would they be?

Have a look to see if the thread is still there if you want details.

corythatwas yeah see their thread/s for details. While some other things might go wrong as a result of having covid that doesn't mean that everything that goes wrong is rhe result of covid.

I've not posted in their threads as I didn't want to spoil it for them, but OP asked.

@iwantmyownicecreamvan

Yes as pp say you couldn't get tested in April unless you were admitted to hospital.

I was nursing both my parents who were admitted to hospital, both tested positive and both subsequently died. I had exactly the same symptoms and was quite ill but not ill enough for hospital so I never got tested.

After effects - fatigue, my sense of smell hasn't properly returned - I can smell things faintly and other things I used to be able to smell I can't smell at all, and my hair falling out in handfuls - to the extent that I am considering getting a wig before going back to school next month. My GP and my late parents' GP both agree that I must have had it.

Sorry it annoys you.

Sorry to hear about your parents.

It's so sad when people go on about the hoax and flu etc as it undermines the real suffering and loss people like you experienced

Don’t be so thick Op

Became sick the week before lock down, never had a test and was told to not come to hospital unless I couldn't draw a breath. Spoke to 111 because I could barely breathe or talk for coughing. The doctor I spoke to said my cough was "textbook COVID".

To this day, my lungs burn and I am so fatigued I can barely get out of bed some days and my sense of taste hasn't recovered properly yet. Although a lot of that was the inability to rest and recover while poorly being at home with 2 DC, my youngest was 5 months old at the time and poorly with me - he ended up needing an inhaler mask just to get through the nights. He still hasn't shaken his cough, I have recordings on my phone of his hacking breathing because I was terrified, but again, was told he shouldn't go to hospital until he couldn't breathe - so no tests.

A relative of mine works in a birth centre, four staff there tested positive and none of them showed to have antibodies at a later stage.

@iwantmyownicecreamvan oh my gosh, I’m so sorry for your loss how utterly heartbreaking.

Of course you must have had covid. Do the doctors think the hair loss is also an effect of the disease? I hadn’t heard that one.

@LastTrainEast

Are you enjoying shit stirring? Some people are really unwell after a post viral illness. I feel fortunate I recovered from my illness. Try to learn some empathy.

OP, not to be patronising here but your reaction to people talking about the long term symptoms, life changing in some cases, would scare the crap out of you if you believed it was true, so you reject that by denying and minimising it.

This is your issue not those people who discuss how this virus affects/affected them.

OP, not to be patronising here but your reaction to people talking about the long term symptoms, life changing in some cases, would scare the crap out of you if you believed it was true, so you reject that by denying and minimising it.

This is your issue not those people who discuss how this virus affects/affected them.

This is what I strongly suspect. Otherwise it is hard to explain why people should suddenly be so quick to dismiss the diagnoses of doctors who have seen hundreds of similar cases and who know there is an epidemic of this particular infection, simply because a test was not available.

When chickenpox is doing the rounds in the local nursery, you don't get people saying "Ha, ha, your little one can't have had chickenpox, you didn't take a test, there is no evidence at all, some people are just attention seekers".

My friend was recently admitted to hospital as had never got over Covid. She stayed for three nights, the X ray showed extensive Covid scarring on her lung, she's never had a test.

[quote Bizawit]@iwantmyownicecreamvan oh my gosh, I’m so sorry for your loss how utterly heartbreaking.

Of course you must have had covid. Do the doctors think the hair loss is also an effect of the disease? I hadn’t heard that one.[/quote]
Thanks Bizawit

The doctor said it was an after effect rather than a symptom - apparently she is on some kind of internet group for doctors who compare notes and she said it was quite common. Of course it is also a sign of stress too, so it could be both or either.

I have had blood tests and there are no other problems. I hope it is slowing down now, but don't know if it's just wishful thinking on my part. My ponytail is really thin when I tie it back.