Repeat covid is ruining my life

[recurringcovid]

As the title says. I am on my 5th bout of covid in the last two years.

I am fucking sick of being sick. Having to cancel my plans again this weekend, as A. I am currently too sick, and B. a friend I am meeting is starting a new job on Monday and obvs doesn’t want to catch my lurgy!

Covid wipes me out for days, my sickness record at work is now getting out of hand. Luckily work still have retained a policy where covid doesn’t count towards absence policy triggers. But the guilt of missing work is still there.

I am just fed up (and possibly highly irritable as I have my period, the remnants of a fever caused by Covid, and it’s so fucking hot and humid).

I have good hygiene, a healthy diet, and take multi vitimins etc. I don’t know if having covid so many times has made my immune system better or worse, as on top of getting covid so frequently, I also get all the colds, sickness bugs etc going around.

I am really fed up now, I am supposed to be a professional in quite a senior role, and have had to cancel so many things last minute because I get totally wiped out with covid. I always test as I want to know, if it’s Covid or just a cold, although I can always generally tell as the fever is a give away..

I don’t know what my aibu is really, just that covid fucking still sucks and I have spent the last 48 hours in my sweaty bed feeling really sorry for my self.

I kinda hope I am alone, but I feel I may not be, so please include sweary covid rants below if that makes you feel better too!!!!!!

I hear you. I’m on, what I presume, is my 4th bout of covid (our childminder and a couple of her other kids have tested positive in the last week. DC2 and I, who have been around her a lot, have both become poorly in the last 48 hours). I have been really rough each time, although thankfully this time I can still function. The previous 3 times I spent at least some time bed bound. Generally, other viruses barely register with me. I too am sick of it!

Thanks @VivaVivaa - so sorry you are experiencing the same but glad to not be alone!!

it’s also the mental fatigue of being ill so often, it takes days to feel normal again. I am lucky not to have any underlying health issues so the worst I get a is a day or so in bed with a fever.

but the brain fog after, combined with peri is awful

Are you being vaccinated? Is that an option?

I am the same op.
I'm on my 6th round so far but I suspect I've had it more times!
This one is particularly bad. I'm on week2 and although way better than I was the first week. , I'm still getting tired after 10 mins of doing anything and my sinuses are blocked.

Five times here since 2021, OP, and same with catching everything that goes around. I take so many supplements now and paid for a vaccination this spring. I have experienced fatigue since the third bout two years ago. I really feel it's had an impact on my immune system.

Yep. Fully vaccinated here.

Sympathies OP. I have had 8 heavy duty viral illnesses in the last 9 months. I'm still getting over the last bout, with the associated stomach issues and all food tasting horrible and my nose totally stuffed.

Why it's worse for you in your "senior professional role" than anyone else, I fail to understand.

Im on my third bout. It doesn’t make me that poorly tbh, just very tired and feels like a bad cold, I WFH so I can work through it.

But what pisses me off is my mouth - I spend weeks feeling like someone sand papered my tongue and lips and everything tastes of… nothing. Or metal, or bleach.

OP, so sorry. I was signed off at the end of last year for 2 months after getting 2 viral infections in a row, 2 of which were Covid, and which put me on my arse. 6 months on, still not quite normal, had a difficult start to the year where I was still catching everything going. I am hopeful things are getting better but at some points it felt like it has ruined my life. I missed so many things and have also really struggled with my mood for the last 6 months - I think it is all related. Again, I have no magic answers, just wanted to commiserate.

Yep had all the vaccines, but being a normal healthy person in my 30s haven’t qualified for one since the pandemic.

I am going to write to my GP to see if I can get one on the NHS this winter, as private was around £90 last time I checked (flu is £20, so a big difference) not sure if it will work, as I seem to not be able to build any immunity to covid at all!

Hence why I don’t want to spend £90 (I also work with the NHS, not clinical but I cost them £100s a day off sick!)

Op you have my sympathies It is so mentally draining to feel ill all the time.

I just finished radiotherapy and then almost immediately tested positive a week ago. I've been in bed for the whole week and only just starting to feel a bit better this afternoon. Totally gutted to have got it after months of feeling terrible with chemo, then this! Feeling very sorry for myself. Bloody virus! And I had a booster 2 months ago!!

I hear you too op. I've just finished another bout, felt fine for 3 days and now got what feels like flu! I'm pretty sure Covid lowered my measly immune system even more.

The only good thing about it was that I lost my appetite and used it to kick start my diet. But yup totally fed up of being ill ALL the time!

Have you been anywhere sunny recently?

As i went in oct half term and instead of constant colds all winter wasnt iol till apr!

I think you should just pay the £90 it isnt that much.

In Scotland as a frontline worker you qualify for winter booster and flu 🤧

Perhaps your employer could stump up for the private vaccine - it will save them money.

They did with winter flu last year (I am privately employed but offer services to the NHS if that makes sense!)

I am really sorry to hear that @SheldontheWonderSchlong - that really sucks, I am wishing you a very speedy recovery and a very very healthy future 💐

Some pharmacists in the PharmaDoctor scheme are charging £75 for Pfizer and less than that for Novavax. Surely your health is worth that?

The NHS jabs have closed now:

www.nhs.uk/conditions/covid-19/covid-19-vaccination/getting-a-covid-19-vaccine/

Consider wearing N95 or 3M FFP2 or FFP3 masks.

It's expected that for autumn, the eligibility for an NHS booster will be as restricted, if not more so, than it was for the spring booster.

@recurringcovid thank you. Wishing you the same

I'm really down in the dumps with it too OP. Fourth bout for me, i'm on day 13. 2nd and 3rd time weren't too bad but this time round, I feel bloody awful. Splitting headache, achey and weird diarrhoea that's a funny colour. Sorry if that's TMI. I cannot shift this headache, my head feels like it's going to explode when I cough.
Feeling a bit better this evening. I hope I feel better tomorrow because it's shite when I'm self employed.

I’ve had it 5 times now. Last bout has left me with high blood pressure, chronic fatigue, lung issues. Made me old before my time

Is it actually covid? Are you testing?