To think this is the worst virus about?

[Yahyahs22]

So it's not covid, tested negative as did DP.
But for a week now I have been wiped out. It started off as the typical flu. Body aches, shivvers, lathergy, cough ect ect. Now I'm extremely dizzy and faint and still have a fever. I've had both covid and flu before and they started to get better around day 3/4 not gradually worse!

Has anyone else caught this one and recovered recently? If so how long did it take? I'm so over feeling this way.

been in bed last 2 afternoons ,something i never do unless just had an operation,finally got antiobotics, 4 weeks in , getting worse not better,i feel all your pain,lots of my neighbours also ill, having blood tests on thursday as i have a low immune system,will i make xmas i keep thinking

Been at work today. I am on the phone a lot and talking to people in person. My voice has actually gone tonight as in actually cannot speak. Have to whisper. Really hope it comes back after a sleep.

Hope the people who were struggling earlier have now turned a corner and are feeling better.

I first went down with it three weeks ago tomorrow (albeit I did have a positive COVID test). I started to feel better around two days ago.

This one's a lingerer. Whether or not people have tested positive, it does sound like a very similar condition.

Get well soon!

I could have written your post OP. We have had all these symptoms for nearly 3 weeks, still feel so tired, dizzy, wooly head and constant cough. Ringing ears.
All our covid test, 4 of them have been negative too. It is awful i sympathise

Forgot to say we both had Covid in February and it was unpleasant, but we didn't feel this bad

Know so many more people who have been struck down with a similar sounding not-covid virus including now DD (who had covid but was ill for a morning - this one took her out for a wéek.. In South west, interested to know if it's a nationwide thing?!

I'm still not 100% after having this bug in the middle of October - my sense of smell and taste are either missing or totally changed - and I'm still coughing occasionally and tired - but I tested negative multiple times.

week 7 ,bit better spent 5 days last week with virtigo,my sinus was so bad it went to that,3rd lot antibiotics,think i should be 100% by xmas,never known anything like this

Oh gosh I had vertigo too I was just laid still in bed with the room spinning. I thought it was separate to the illness to be honest as I do get migraines etc but now I think about it it was probably part of it.

Im still coughing but after about a month my energy is starting to come back thank goodness.

i live northwest area,so sounds like it nationwide,few neighbours similar but i seem to be the longer time span and worse but i have a low imunne system

Day 22 here and still blowing clear thick, sticky mucous from sinuses constantly. My ear is blocked / I can hear my heartbeat in it. I am coughing up yellow phlegm, really rattly, chesty cough. No fever the whole 22 days, no sore throat. Just full of thick mucous.

Here to join the feeling like shit club.

i feel utterly miserable, absolutely awful.. started with a sore throat and that progressed to a heavy cold plus severe facial and jaw pain from my sinuses. Not to mention the horrific head ache, body aches and feeling sweaty and hot and then freezing cold. I can barely sleep which is so unusual for me!!

caught it from my youngest, now my partner is starting with it, my mum and dad are also starting with a sore throat and cough.

had COVID in January and this is certainly on a par with it. 2x negative tests in the last few days.

get well soon everyone, this is absolutely GRIM.

Fit and healthy and feelin' fine!

im on day 5 - spent two days high temperature in bed. The body aches something else - like my actual joints ceasing. Throwing up and taste buds gone slightly crazy.
Temperature more controlled now but left with sore throat and snuffles. Both my daughter and I had high heart rate - my Apple Watch was reading 127 while I was asleep!
Daughter is on day 7 but she is going back to school tomorrow- she does still have a cough but more standard cold symptoms now.
i just have no energy:(