I'm coughing. Coughing until I puke kind of coughing and am achey AF. Could this be it?

[TheLightSideOfTheMoon]

I'm coughing to the point I vomit. Ache all over. Really, really ache. Lungs feel weird - dusty?

I've had pneumonia a couple of times but this feels different.

Temperature is normal.

Is this it?

I've been doing the Covid symptoms tracker app with Kings College and reported feeling a bit unwell one day. And Lo a test was sent. Awaiting results but it was a one off and I'm sure it's negative

No, no sick pay.

Company policy is to get a test and go into work if it's negative.

I don't have a leg to stand on.

Already stressing about the hours I've lost.

TheLightSideOfTheMoon I can really sympathise. We have 3 SE in our house who are all on UC atm and apart from Dd who had whatever this illness was earlier in December and missed the shifts she was booked up for in the run up to Christmas but was able to start work again a month before lockdown. Ds and myself haven’t worked since Christmas.
Dp was about to start a job and that was put on hold and he too is claiming UC until this is over.

It has been a very expensive time but if your body won’t work all you can do is get the rest and get on as many payment holidays as you can to get you over this time.

“He also said they are getting a lot of false negatives and if mine comes back negative I’m to still isolate for 14 days because I’ve probably got it."

The rule is 7 days for the person with symptoms and 14 days for family with no symptoms, so even if you do have it, you only need to isolate for 7 days.”

Yes I know that and so does the doctor I was talking to but we both agreed in our opinions that the government hasn’t a clue what they are doing and so 14 would be best.

It will have been two weeks since symptoms this coming Monday. I’m still coughing daily and still having breathing issues. So I think his advice was coot the or I could have gone out and coughed over every where.

They say that the cough can go on and on, well after you finish being contagious.

My neighbour had no symptoms but was tested as positive. Off for a week. Tested again- negative and no antibodies. So a false positive.

Other neighbour a nurse in ICU said they test every patient three times as false negatives come a lot - A LOT

The cough has actually gone. Probably went about 5 days after it started.

Still very tired and achey but have been working a lot of hours and it may have just caught up with me.

I don't think it was coronavirus. My chest/lungs feel fine now and I've heard that peeps with coronavirus are still have chest problems weeks after it 'goes'.

It was incredibly weird though. Really sucked the energy out from me.

I get coughs like that... I assume it's a form of mild intermittant asthma that can be triggered by any mild respiratory virus.

False positives are more likely than false negatives for c19, the tests are designed to have that bias.

Ache could be from any virus, too.