To be utterly fed up of covid

[SingMeToSIeep]

I've just tested positive for the seventh fucking time. Last time was mid September. I've had it five times this year.

I've had to cancel a hospital appointment that had been rescheduled from the last time I had it and a dentist's appointment that I'm desperate for. Also a long planned day out yesterday. Plus I feel like utter shite. Again.

Just want a moan and some sympathy really. Bastard covid.

You have been very unlucky. Where do you think you are catching it? I have had it once in July and I’m pretty sure I know how and where I got it.

Eh?

Fully vaccinated here, large family still regularly testing due to our jobs and vulnerable family members, most of us haven’t had it once.

Couple have had it multiple times but certainly seeing no correlation with vaccination status here.

DD's a teacher and I think that's where most of the infections are coming from. That said she doesn't have it this time (yet).

In my experience you can't 'try not to catch it' unless you're able to stay home, not use public transport and not have much contact with the outside world generally - all things I can't do. Throughout lockdowns I didn't catch it once (DD started teaching last September). I don't really go anywhere but when I do I need to use buses to do so.

There's no evidence that vaccines are exacerbating the situation.

DD is a teacher and has brought it into the house a few times (currently they have loads of staff and kids off with it so that may be it this time too). Also I'm immunosuppressed and catching every bug going is my superpower apparently.

Thank you for all the good wishes 💐

And to all those currently lurgyfied too, get well soon!

You are completely missing the point about the need to remove confounders.

Repeating the raw data does not replace the need for that.

<bangs head on desk>

Please look at the peer-reviewed international evidence base

<gives up at this point, but still hoping that at least some readers will recognise why that example is bad science>

Nah, it's just that removing cofounders isn't the get out clause that you want it to be so you can try and pretend the UK domestic examples didn't happen. It says everything that you've been completely unable to come up with an explanation as to how that might actually work: because you know it will immediately be possible to pull it full of holes.

I've only had it twice that I'm aware of. I think getting it early pre vaccine in hindsight makes me feel less concerned. But I still know people have only caught it for the first time in the last few months. Weird virus for sure how it impacts different people. Sounds like 50% of one of the dc has it right now. If ds goes down I won't test him now I know he's had it once.

No idea what the answers are?

This. Treat as any other virus.

Get well soon!

That's exactly what I'm doing - unfortunately when you're CEV that means something a bit different than it does for most people!

Also re hospital appointments - I'd cancel even if I was asymptomatic but positive, as the department I visit is full of people with autoimmune conditions like mine so it would be a bit twattish to do otherwise.

The problem is - it is not like any other virus. I needed two weeks off last time, this time it looks like it is going the same way. We have all been really really ill!!! If I had a cold I would expect it to be done and dusted in three days and take some meds and get on as usual, even the flu is just 5-7 days for most people. Every time we get covid it takes weeks and weeks to recover. So whilst I don't expect fanfare for struggling through it yet again, as I am sure op doesn't either, it is taking months and months out of my life.
And it keeps reinfecting everyone!
We can't just pretend it is all fine. It is not fine.

I can't even walk and down the stairs I am so breathless, or stand straight as I am so dizzy and feel wretched. I am healthy and young, my kids have been utterly flattened by it.

I am sure you have your own reasons to minimise and ignore people's concern and suffering, but honestly a little empathy for op would go a long way!

Oh yes that will do it. There’s a reason those washing pod adverts say ‘keep away from children’. Any sign of her getting her own place? 😀

You poor thing

I have had it 4 times
The worst for me was the last one in October.
But I'd had it in July too so I wonder if that's why.
I have to test for work.

I hope you feel better soon.

I have read research that some people are more genetically susceptible to covid.

7 times eeek. I’m on my 3rd round and feel terrible. I have just had antivirals arrive, I’m CV, not CEV so not sure why they won’t give them to you anymore?

Its weird, here in the NHS we have staff who have had it multiple times 5-7 on average, I worked on covid ward the whole way through and never got it but have been plagued by horrible non covid lurgies one after the other.

Neither am I! Last time I had it someone I spoke to said they're now only giving them to the most vulnerable patients (solid transplant recipients, blood cancer patients) because of cost issues. Which is fair enough, they definitely need them more than I do. It was very reassuring though knowing that I was able to access them when I caught Covid - it's a bit more worrying now I'm on my own as it were!

I hope they kick in for you quickly and you feel better soon, they're marvellous and always worked a treat for me 💐

I think it has to be down to genetics. I got it DH did not isolate from me, his brothers wife got it, BIL did not. My SIL (his sister) works in a hospital, everyone she works with got it at some point she didn't!

No, they do not.
LTFs have a fairly low sensitivity - they miss some positives.

But they have a low false positive rate.
If they say you have covid, you probably do.
If they say you don't have covid, you still might.

Ah that really sucks OP. I’m sorry you’ve had it so many times!

I think there’s some truth in this. None of my husbands family have had it despite being around it.

My household has had 3 bouts, me and the kids one after the other. My friend’s household is on their 14th or 15th round between them. Both two adults and two teens (who are all close friends and go to the same school). It’s weird.

Why do you think a new strain is coming out of China? It looks like they are having another outbreak but I can’t find any information on a new strain?

I've only had it twice that I'm aware of. I think getting it early pre vaccine in hindsight makes me feel less concerned

I got it pre-vaccine. Five weeks off work almost hospitalised and then phased return. Managed to avoid it for two years but now I’ve just had it again triple boosted. Five days this time. Nowhere near as bad.