Does anyone else suspect that they’ve already had CV last year?

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I teach (primary) and the last week of term before we broke up for Christmas I literally had to drag myself to the finish line (I had cold symptoms)

Then, as soon as the holidays started, I became completely bed-bound, barely able to get out of bed to go to the toilet, ached all over, coughing- couldn’t eat, could barely sleep because I was so congested, couldn’t even look at my phone or listen to the radio for days on end, just lay still feeling horrendous. At one point, I thought I was on the brink of death I felt so rotten. I ended up having D&V but not sure if that was dehydration/ too many days of paracetamol/ ibuprofen on an empty stomach.

A week later, I was on the up but felt completely shellshocked by the experience and just thought it was bad flu.

Did anyone else have a similar experience and find themselves wondering if it was CV?

Yeah I am now almost certain that 2 of my DC and my DP had it on the 28th Jan. live in herts. I didn’t get it but DP did sort of self isolate, he stayed in the playroom all day alone, and to sleep and eat.

There was another thread about this. I had a flu type bug at the start of this year that I absolutely would put down to Coronavirus if I had it now. I've never had a bug like it before - high temperature and it started with a tight, painful knot in my chest that turned into a painful dry cough that lingered. Bugs like this I've had before have all been fairly similar.

However, it makes no sense with respect to passing it on to other people. Presumably it was a similar but less virulent type of virus.

To add, I don't have vast amounts of social contact and no one else had it so have no idea where it came from - I wandered through Chinatown at the end of Jan but That was afterwards - perhaps it was a time travelling virus!

No you just had a regular old flu.

I know @EmmaBridgewater20 it's a gigantic coincidence, but I can't believe it's anything more than that as nobody else has caught it from DH.
His Gran is 89 and a smoker, he danced with her at Christmas and had to stop because of a coughing fit, he spent almost six hours in a car with a colleague in his sixties with chronic asthma. Given what's being said about how contagious CV is surely they would have caught it.

Given what's being said about how contagious CV is surely they would have caught it.

I agree. DS1 spent 2 hours in the car with me when I was ill but he didn't get anything (which was odd for any illness really!).

However, it does show that not everyone with the symptoms necessarily has Covid-19.

They pretty much know where it started, in Wuhan, in December. A family all presented with pneumonia, which is unusual, this was traced back to the wet market, where there were suddenly other cases. You haven't had it in December unless you went to that wet market.

Australian flu was virulent last year. I did think I had had it but I now believe this is wishful thinking. www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/03/hospitalisations-flu-10-fold-higher-last-year-official-figures/amp/. Telegraph article 3rd jan saying flu admissions up 10 fold on the previous year. Had it been Coronavirus, someone would have joined up the dots...

I read that they are talking about being able to test for immunity. That would answer that question.
The best outcome would be that it has been circulating for much longer than they think.

A colleague thinks she had it over Christmas as well...coughing so much she was nearly sick etc, and it did do the rounds of all the people who work on her floor of our offices, and her family too. Including the wife of another colleague who took whatever it was home and who ended up in ICU with an unusual type of pneumonia...she's only about 40 and it was touch and go for her for a couple of days. So who knows, I wouldn't be surprised to be honest...

My DP is a teacher in London, he has a huge amount of contact with kids from everywhere. He had a cough, a fever, and was off for 4 days. Never known him to take painkillers or days off for anything before. He didn’t even eat the food I made him and that’s unheard of, he’ll eat 3 day leftovers given the chance.

DS and DD had a fever, deliriously so, DS went a bit mad and started trying to run out in the street shirtless to cool down. Better after 2 days and only a bit of muscle aches which stopped them sleeping well.

I have never known anything like it, I’m now sure it was covid.

And again, end jan, start of Feb, in Herts where there has been found to be community spread.

i keep thinking my husband had it back in the second half of january.
he had a severe case of pneumonia and ended up in hospital for weeks. it did a lot of damage and antibiotics (normal and IV) were not helping. they tested him to see if he was drug resistant etc but it kept coming back as a virus but they didnt know which one.
while he was in hospital i had a cough for three weeks and a low rise in temp just for one day,i had a lot of chest pain but my GP listened to my chest and said it was clear.

my husband is still very unwell and bed bound, so whatever has caused it it was very severe in his case (fit, young and otherwise healthy)

However, it does show that not everyone with the symptoms necessarily has Covid-19.
Indeed, if DH presented with the same thing now we'd probably be convinced he did have it. He wouldn't be tested as he was ill but not seriously ill, the only reason he went to the Dr is that the cough was really lingering despite him being otherwise well.

About 4 weeks ago, I went to Alicante. I flew back to London all fine. 4 days later I came down with awful flu like symptoms. My symptoms though were cough, fever (chills were the worst), muscle aches, headaches, runny nose, and felt so weak. I was bed bound for 4 days. Felt rough for longer though. Doctors weren't worried as at the time they were only interested if I'd been to the affected area, (Wuhan).
I never really get flu so it was weird and I didn't know anyone else with it.

My mum is convinced I had it.

However my thing is, I can't have had it because I live with 3 other people and they didn't get it! No one at work got it either.

But I do recall thinking it was a very odd illness.

It made me think ok definitely getting the flu jab next winter anyway!

Yeah, very possible it was just flu but just makes you wonder...