Covid symptoms

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How bad was Covid for you and how long did it take to recover?

Symptoms arrived for my DD (1) on Saturday - high temperature until Monday, cough then started.

My DS (3) no symptoms.

I started briefly with a sore throat, milks coughing which has seemed to have gone. I have no taste or smell, I also feel very sicky and have aches and pains which come and go.

What sort of symptoms did you have and how long did it take you to recover?

Have you read anything in the news recently?
People can test positive and be asyptomatic, have long covid that lasts for months on end, be hospitalised or die.
Have you been tested?
Or vaccinated?

I’m aware of the possible outcomes nationwide.
However, I was looking for what people have been through with how long things last, go on for ect.

No not vaccinated. Was due this week.
All positive confirmed PCR

I've had worse hangovers. The most annoying symptom was loss of smell and taste but I've been out of isolation for nearly a week now and it is coming back.

I had like a bad cold for 5 days. Sore throat, runny nose and aches. No taste or smell. After the first five days I then was utterly exhausted for a month. Could hardly move. Slept a lot. Took 2 months for taste to fully come back.

There have been over 6.5million cvases in the UK and probably over 3million different experiences

You know that, right, it's a virus that is pretty much unpredictable

Bad head cold for DH and I. Only loss of taste for DC1. DC2 asymptomatic.

Very strange
Double vaxxed.
Days1-4 mild cold symptoms. Onwards some strange symptoms but not particularly cumbersome so went back to work after isolating.
Day 12 a relapse, felt like death the dreaded burning lungs and crushing fatigue. Spent two days in bed. Now feel dizzy if I do any activities

We were unable to get out of bed for 7 days, in so much pain, high temperature, my husband was as Ill as this for 21 days, (been together 38 years and never seen him like this, he doesn't even get colds) I was okish after 10 days. My hair started falling out 2 months later, another symptom, luckily I have a thick mop, its started growing back and thickening now.
My sons father in law was on a ventilator for 3 months, trachiotomy, and now 8 months on is still not able to walk.
It affects people differently.

Meant to say my symptoms literally came on in the blink of an eye, was walking round sainsburys, then felt like a sledgehammer hit me, that was the start, that quick.

Days1-4 mild cold symptoms. Onwards some strange symptoms but not particularly cumbersome so went back to work after isolating. Day 12 a relapse,…

I don’t get this.

Infected Saturday night/Sunday morning, symptoms started on the Wednesday (negative lateral flow on the Tuesday evening), crushing headache I couldn't shift, nausea and extreme fatigue. Positive PCR test on the Wednesday. Results from PCR on the Thursday evening so did another lateral flow (to see if they work) which was at that point positive too. Cough started a couple of days later along with change in taste but not loss of. Cough got worse over the next week, went on antibiotics after speaking to doctor for advice (i've got pre existing breathing condition). Also developed some tinnitus. The overwhelming symptom of it all was the headache which I couldn't shift with any amount of painkillers. Was ill for about 2.5 weeks and felt really weak for a couple of weeks afterwards.

Conclusion I reached was that lateral flows aren't really that accurate until you've been well infected with the potential to pass it around before you get a positive one. Fortunately I hadn't been anywhere since getting infected at the weekend. But I can understand how this thing has spread so easily despite LFT's being in use

Started feeling a bit rubbish. Fatigue & aches.
Headache that no painkillers would shift for about 5 days.
Annoying cough (this lasted about 4 weeks)
Drippy nose. Sneezing.
Lost smell and then taste. This lasted just over 2 weeks. No smell whatsoever in that time. (Purfume had no smell- couldn't smell a BBQ etc)

Once I'd 'recovered' after 2 weeks I'd have a day of feeling fine, and then the next like I'd been hit by a bus. That continued about 2 weeks. Then all fine.
I was 10 days post second jab.

@Rubyupbeat I had that 18 months ago. Was mid way through eating dinner, went unexpectedly to loo with the runs,then had to immediately go up to bed feeling exhausted and awful. Shivering soon after.

@Monestera I had the relapse that @Siameasy describes.

Me also. Apparently your body is trying to repair cell damage and needs rest to do so.

My family in India live together - 2 elderly grandparents, MIL and FIL, SIL and her DH and their baby.

SIL's husband got it first, had a bit of a fever for 3 days and a slight cough. The whole family then got tested and tested positive except, bizarrely, the two elderly grandparents even though they spend 100% of their time with the rest of the family. They just didn't get it at all. SIL, MIL, FIL and the baby had no symptoms at all except a slight loss of taste which returned after a few days.

FIL has a problem with his lungs yet was fine, none of the family especially fit or healthy, yet all fine.

DM's side of the family all had covid, all overweight smokers/drinkers, and again, not a serious symptom between them.

I don't know anyone who had any worse than cold symptoms.

I don't know anyone who had any worse than cold symptoms.

That's good. My neighbour is a secondary English teacher. He was a covid-denier and didn't get the jab. He's late 30s, healthy and fit. Got Covid and was hospitalised. On oxygen, antibiotics and steroids apparently. He's out now, but I think it's going to be a long recovery.

[quote GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing]**@Monestera* I had the relapse that @Siameasy* describes.[/quote]
How are you now? I found it quite scary.
I’m day 16 (?) post +ve and I feel ok but am still doing very little as not going to risk that again.