Is there anyone who doesn’t think they had covid last winter

[Sosickofasshats]

no trolling or trying to be clever, almost every single person I know thinks they could have had it last year. I was in hospital for a virus which caused breathing difficulties in December. I feel like I’m losing touch with relaity

[quote TestingTestingWonTooFree]@Blondiney what’s your secret? (I haven't had a cold since 2008.)

I haven’t had Covid.[/quote]
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I was convinced I had it last March. I was really ill in bed with a bad cough.

Then I actually did get Covid, tested positive a few weeks back. I clearly didn’t have it in March. Weirdly I haven’t felt as ill with actual Covid as I did with what must have just been flu in March

I think I’ve had it! I get a bad cold every year and have had flu twice in my life (proper flu, not a bad cold) I was really poorly in both December and March. December was odd as I have no recollection of about 10 days - it was like I was drunk, I cried on Christmas Day because I didn’t want to socialise, didn’t even eat my Christmas dinner. Then in March I was exhausted and had no taste/smell, I didn’t eat for around 3 days, used all my energy to get downstairs for tea and ate mushrooms for the first time in my life and assumed I must now like them. Then it took me about 40 mins to get back to bed because I was so exhausted. I’ve since tried mushrooms again and I still hate them and my 5km time is still 7 mins longer than it was 7 months later.

I am never sick but got really ill last December, to the point I could not get out of bed for a week. My breathing was really bad and I couldn't take a deep breath in and was like that for weeks. I was convinced I had it, but I work for the Nhs and my covid antibody test came back negative.

Last December was quite probably the only december where I haven't been laid up in bed (a normal cold really does knock me off my feet). My brother was hospitalized though with an unknown virus/pneumonia and a 'strange chest xray result' (drs words not mine!). Whether it was or wasn't that, we won't know now. He was hospitalized the previous year though with flu. So it could just be another normal virus knocking him out. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I do slightly suspect we had it Feb/March (youngest dd was ill first and then it ran through us - me last with cough, fatigue and breathlessness and my once perfectly under control asthma is still not under control now. We were shockingly ill about a month ago though (dd2 class had a positive case at that time) with covid symptoms but we all got neg tests so maybe March was not covid like I suspected and just yet another virus/bug. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I didn’t have it, but I was very unwell around a year ago and it’s very unlike me to be unwell or take time off work. I could get out of bed I felt dreadful.

Me, not so much as a sniffle. Mixed with loads of people from Germany, Russia, Sweden and many other countries (who'd been on tour for a while) close up end of Feb too. That was the last time I was that exposed to a large amount of people, we shared drinks etc. Nothing then either. I caught a rotten cold when DD went back to school after lockdown but that's it.

No I don’t think I had it last winter. I believe I had flu. Everyone I saw in the two days before my flu symptoms came on (DP, DC & PIL) had had a flu vaccination and they were fine. Also last year’s flu strain was supposed to be quite weak and I know I recovered much quicker than I did when I had it late 2017 — that was the year that lots of people died.

I live in the South East and know a lot of people who think they had it last winter, my friend works in a supermarket, she and a lot of her colleagues were dropping like flies.

I think I may have had it in the Spring. Regularly reading this means I am primed to get it again any day

I don't know anyone who thinks they had it over the Winter, the earliest cases I know of were March and are largely all confirmed cases/nhs workers.

I've got it now, definitely different symptoms to those who claim to have had it as they had a virus which caused a cough last winter. The one symptom I can say everyone I know who has tested positive including me is the complete loss of taste and smell. Both senses have vanished.

I don’t know anyone who thinks they had it last winter, me included.

I was really ill end of November 2019 for few weeks. I had headache, temperature, body pain, coughing, sneezing and loss of smell

I had this in November 2019 too and the fever that came with it kept coming and going for over a week the cough then lingered on for around 7-8 weeks. I saw my GP at the time who said it was all upper respiratory and viral and that they were seeing a lot of it. Almost everyone around here had it to the point that several schools closed and the ones that were open had high absence rates- DS class of 30 had 22 pupils off during their worst week of it.

I don't think it was covid, its not outside the realm of possibility that it was but without evidence to go alongside there's no way to say that it realistically could have been. Maybe once the current crisis is over they'll retroacttest samples from the time but I doubt it because of the cost and, really, what would be the point?

I do think we had it in late January of this year though. Someone we know went on holiday to the Lombardy region of Italy. Around a week after they got home they developed "the flu". DH had contact with this person during this time and around a week after he too came down with "the flu". He had fever, lost his sense of smell (which still hasn't entirely come back), and a dry cough. He saw the GP who said he could hear 'something' in his lungs but didn't think it was a chest infection so he prescribed steroids. It took four courses of the steroids before DH started to get over the cough. During this time two of our DC got the same cough and fever and one got a fever and D&V but no cough. I had a fever, tiredness, and a tight feeling in my chest like I was coming down with the same thing but it never fully developed and stayed at the mild fever/tight chest/dog tired stage for a few days then went away.

Me ds brought 2 tummy bugs home and cared and shared them around the whole family though

I got hospitalised late in January, I think I had it then, I was bad. But you will just never know will you, that’s actually the most annoying part as some who say they were fine last winter could of actually had it but had no negative affects, it is rather frustrating.

I didn’t but I did have to take my son to A&E with breathing difficulties on Christmas Eve.

I remember saying to my husband that I’ve never heard a cough like it.

Who knows OP.

All these people who are convinced they didn't have it, presumably know that most "cases" atvtbw moment are a result of track and trace and those people didn't think they had it either?

I was ill in a very odd way (mostly dizzy and headache) in March when I am never usually unwell at all and had time off work which I never do but never had classic symptoms. I did wonder if it was Covid but an antibody tear later proved it wasn't.

In my experience loads more people think they had it than actually did. In my team at work we had one colleague return from Japan with typical symptoms early on and it turned out she just had ordinary flu. Then another came back from Italy with a cough but he was -ve too. Quite a few more people thought they'd had it yet when we all had our antibody tests nobody actually had.

It's human nature to look for reverse causation. People are remembering viral illness symptoms they likely have most years but dismiss and attaching significance to it that isn't there.

I had flu in December (despite vaccination) but it wasn't too bad. End of Jan I got something that scared me, the breathlessness was that bad. I was taking oral steroids and nebuliser and neither worked as quickly or as well as normal. Went back to work but frequently was nearly passing out, seeing stars, it was gruelling. It took me a few months to feel ok.

I've definitely not had it

Well I don't think I've had it, ive not had so much as a sniffle for years really. But, then again, who knows?

My son had really bad flu at the end of feb, so bad he had to go to the hospital and then he came home from uni. But again, he wasn't tested so who really knows. No one else in the house caught anything from him and his uni had, and still have, very low numbers.

I had something unpleasant from october through to the new year, DP too. And I've felt all post-viral knackered since, even now - fully matching a mild version of 'long covid' as is described by sufferers.

It's not covid though, I've had the antibody tests for that.

I had cold symptoms for a day a year ago but apart from that I haven't had a proper cold for about 5 years let alone covid. I haven't had flu since I had it badly in 2007.

So I know I definitely haven't had covid and no one else I know thinks they've had it, though I'm sure some people did.

I had a very strange, high, persistent cough and could barely walk due to severe shortness of breath for weeks.
Took me months to get back to a semblance of normality, doctors were baffled what was wrong as nothing was working, even had a heart and chest scan.
I honestly thought I was dying at one point I've never been a hypochondriac and am one of those who never usually gets ill, even very rare that I get a cold. Only go to the doctors if I really have to.
So yeah, I definitely think it was here the back end of last year.
I never want to get that bad again.

@Merryoldgoat
I remember saying to my husband that I’ve never heard a cough like it

Curious as that's exactly what was said about my cough - DS late teen said "What the hell is that cough?!"
It was like some high, barking seal
Suppose we'll never really know as it wasn't a "thing" end of last year and even if it was, we didn't know.

I was hospitalised with lung difficulties last November. Looking back, it did present very similarly to Covid, but I really don't think it was here in November. I actually have an anti-body test waiting for me to do here. I am going to do it in the morning.