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

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Sosickofasshats · 29/10/2020 22:36

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

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Grimbot · 30/10/2020 09:58

There was something very nasty going around last winter. I am a fit and healthy early 30s and I ended up in hospital with what ended up being a very bad virus. As well as fevers I had breathing difficulties, it made my heart tachycardic, irregular heart rhythm, liver results went strange, had an ultrasound (to check liver) and found my spleen was enlarged - all because of a virus! It took me 5 months to recover from the post viral fatigue. It was in December and my husband had just come back from a conference in New York with many people from all over the world. I don’t think it was COVID as I never had a cough but it was a very strange, long illness which completely floored me. If I’d had it in February/March I may suspect coronavirus but it was too early.

Blobby10 · 30/10/2020 09:59

Had a rotten stinking cold but my immune system was on the floor after the stress of moving house - am convinced that the cold was exacerbated by excessive inhalation of cleaning products as I cleaned my old house ready for the new folk (who were friends so double the pressure not to look like a dirty bugger!!). Felt really rough for a few day then went on a 30 mile bike ride up some steep hills, coughed up the contents of both lungs on several occasions and felt much better Grin

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 30/10/2020 10:16

Gancanny

Yep same area (Low Fell, though it spread to Jarrow)

cologne4711 · 30/10/2020 10:22

I don't think I had it, although DH and I both had something with very tight chests in March but I think it was probably something else.

DH had a horrible chest thing in Febraury 2019 - if it had been 2020, he would have definitely thought it was covid.

cologne4711 · 30/10/2020 10:23

February

Metroland · 30/10/2020 10:32

I was one of those people who later just 'knew' I'd probably had it in early March, once lack of smell and taste was subsequently listed as a symptom. I wasn't that ill, even though I'm asthmatic. I had a cough for a day, ill for two, tired for a week. Then loss of smell/taste for eight days. Didn't think it was covid at all back then. At the time I thought loss of smell/taste was something completely different. DH was then very, very ill just as we went into lockdown. Given his symptoms and with hindsight on mine, by May I was pretty sure we'd both had it. The number of smug gits who equally just 'knew' we hadn't, without a test, was shocking.

We had antibody tests in August - yes we've had covid. I'm also pretty sure it will have been from two different colleagues who came back ill from skiing in Italy, over Christmas and New year. I was one of the last to be ill in our central London office. Almost 60% got ill. Of those about half have had an antibody test, all were positive (we have a wiki page on teams!)

wink1970 · 30/10/2020 10:51

I was convinced we had it in January, but I have just had a negative antibody test. I know they say the antibodies degrade but even so.....

cardibach · 30/10/2020 10:58

I had a really bad cough/illness in Feb. I don’t think that was Covid though, as I got something else in April which was much, much worse (still no test as didn’t go blue and that was the criterion applied then). I think a lot of people had something but it wasn’t Covid. If it was here all along, how would you explain excess deaths only starting to increase once we knew about Covid? Doesn’t make sense.

Bibidy · 30/10/2020 11:01

I had something in Feb. Feeling under the weather with an uncontrollable cough that would wake me up in the night. It went away and then came back again. Could have been.

Plussizejumpsuit · 30/10/2020 11:03

I don't think I've had it neither do any of my family think they've had it. Or any of my friends I know of.

Canyousewcushions · 30/10/2020 11:05

I lost my sense of smell in March, with no blocked nose and a very mild cough.

It would be uncharacteristic for me to get something like that so mildly ad usually anything I get goes straight to my chest and cough for weeks. But I've never had a sudden loss of smell like it (and I had had some exposure as colleagues tested positive around this time).

So no idea really whether I've had it or not, certainly don't go round telling people I thought I have, but would love to do a test and find out!

BluebellsGreenbells · 30/10/2020 11:05

I think we’ve had it. Terrible cough.

DD was at the doctors and they ummm and arrr about it might be COVID but tests weren’t available. Didn’t want to admit her to hospital in case it wasn’t and other patients might transmit it.

My step father was ill and the neighbors were in bed two weeks in January.

I think it’s been here longer.

Scarlettpixie · 30/10/2020 11:09

I don’t think I have had it. I didn’t have a cough/cold last winter.

foxtiger · 30/10/2020 19:04

Not me - if I had anything at all last winter it must have been asymptomatic.

However if I had had anything that in any way resembled Covid, before it should logically have been going around in the UK, I wouldn't assume that it was that. That sounds illogical to me.

emmathedilemma · 30/10/2020 19:10

Me, wasn't ill last winter at all that I can recall. It was even the first Christmas in about 20 years that I didn't have a stinking cold. Think I've only had one slight cold earlier in the year all year. The joys of not mixing with infected people! ;)

WriteronaMission · 30/10/2020 19:14

If I had it, I was completely asymptomatic. The only time I was I'll was when I got an infection after having my wisdom teeth out. Great start to 2020, should have known it would be a bad year. Wink

But seriously, I didn't even get a cold, and I usually do.

Maryis · 30/10/2020 19:15

My sister was really ill in Nov last year with a cough etc, hasn't been ill since, she was tested a few months ago and does have the antibodies -obviously she doesn't know if had it then or just had it more recently asymptomatic,

Whitney168 · 30/10/2020 19:16

Not me, but my mum ended up in hospital for 5 weeks in Jan/Feb, from nowhere, and we’re increasingly convinced that she had it.

Itswritteninthestars · 30/10/2020 19:16

I had the virus that was going around last winter and I remember thinking ‘this is not like anything I’ve had before’. I now have Covid and it is similar but the breathlessness this time is worse. I know someone who had ‘that’ virus last December and has now been diagnosed with reduced lung capacity. Her consultant has said only Covid would have done damage like that. I have no clue if that is true, but that is what she says she has been told 🤷🏻‍♀️

Whatwouldscullydo · 30/10/2020 19:23

I had similar sounding thing last December, seemed to move through the staff at work too.

Had a cough that carried on for ages. Woke me up all the time.

At times my chest felt realky tight/heavy

I cant remember whether I lost taste or not I think I did but I put that down to a blocked nose that wasn't blocked but tail end of blocked if that makes sense.

I had 2 or three days where it seemed to come in waves almost. Felt rough in the morning perked up a bit in the afternoon ajd then crashed a bit but perked up enough to get through work although walking to and from work left me a bit breathless.

There was one day clothes were just agony. I had to come home from school run strip off down to my pants even had ti remove the bra as it hurt to feel them. Ajd just crawled into bed. Felt like wearing clothes over sunburn.

Didn't last too long thankfully , I managed to work but not had anything similar before or since

BogRollBOGOF · 30/10/2020 19:34

I had nothing worse than the usual colds last winter.

DS (9) had a nasty virus that knocked him just before Christmas. A week off school, it's bad for him to have a day off. At first it presented lile a bad cold then an awful sweat to the point I checked if he'd wet the bed. Exhausted. Rallied after a few days then went downhill again. His glands came up like a hamster after 6 days. Tried ringing the GP on the Monday but gave up after 35+ attempts of the phone being consistently engaged. It took him weeks to have any energy, and a few months to be 100%.
DS2 came down with a nasty cold too. He managed to go into school, but did come home with me straight after his nativity as he looked exhausted and burst into tears at the end.
There were a lot of children off ill then.

I am suspicious of DM's stubborn "chest infection" that she aquired in hospital in February. Slow recovery. DVT scare shortly after.

Paintedmaypole · 30/10/2020 19:38

No, I don't think I had Covid

Newkitchen123 · 30/10/2020 19:38

I don't generally get very ill but something floored me last December leaving me with a lingering cough

VickyEadieofThigh · 30/10/2020 19:38

Covid-19 is not the only Coronavirus, much less the only virus. It's most unlikely that the people who think they had it prior to its theoretical arrival here actually had it.

Sorryusernamealreadyexists · 30/10/2020 19:39

I didn’t have a single sniffle all last winter, nor at all this entire year until the kids went back to school