To make a thread for those who have just tested positive

[ContemplatingLife435]

Thought I'd make a thread for those of us who just tested positive within the last week to help each other through our covid journeys

Bit stressed now. I tested positive on Saturday (work test - got result on Monday), but I'd already done the Sunday test( testing every day at work at the moment) which has come back negative. Work want me to do another test tomorrow.
If that is negative too then what?? I can't see school letting the kids back or dh to work? I only had a slight temp on Saturday, but have been out of breath and feeling exhausted.

Hello. Tested positive tonight. Started with the raging wild squits and a gurgling belly. Put that down to a dodgy lunch then body aches from Sunday. Stabbing pains in joints. Awful back/ kidney pain. Hot then cold and very fluey. Woke up this morning and felt better....then back to feeling crap by this evening. No appetite either. Slight cough and slight burn in lungs.

How's everyone doing today? I'm on day 8 today. @Cafcesque I hope like you say this is the end now, that I will start to improve as rapidly as I declined. Looking back now I realise I was actually more unwell than I realised on Friday/Saturday/Sunday.

Yesterday I stayed in bed all day, I'm still working from home and previous days I have literally sat in the lounge with the children, my laptop and my office phone and done a full days work. Ludicrous really. Yesterday I sat in bed and at least didn't have the phone constantly ringing. What's everyone else doing about work? Are your employers supportive?

My symptoms are coming in waves, which I think is quite typical. Feeling ok for a bit, then getting this all consuming feeling of almost like anxiety/panic; my throat closing up, my chest tightening, feeling really flu like (but without the cold, just the full body urrrrrggghhh feeling). Yesterday my finger tips were numb and my lips and mouth, and felt like my eyes were struggling to focus.

It's frightening how misunderstood this virus is, and how misunderestimated it is. Considering I think I have been exceptionally lucky and have had a very mild case, I would not wish this on anyone elderly or vulnerable. It's a full body attack on all systems and I think people have been hugely misled about how powerful it is.

@blobbyface that's confusing, personally you'd hope that a positive test would 'overrule' a negative and you'd continue to isolate. Your symptoms sound like mine at the start. Hope you feel better soon

Also what's everyone's app saying about self isolating? My symptoms started on 4th nov but I have realised this morning that my app says to isolate until 15th at 23.59 (eg Sunday night) which is too long. I thought it was 10 days from symptoms, not 10 days from positive result? Luckily that falls over the weekend and I will still return to work on Monday, but I can't imagine employers being happy about me having to do an Extra 2 days in Error. Plus I was looking forward to 2 days semi normality before returning to work.

I think it depends when you logged your symptoms with the app. I logged it when they started, then just updated with my test result, and it’s kept me on the same countdown.

@thenewaveragebear1983 The app wasn’t working on my phone, so I went for 10 days from start of symptoms, back on work on day 11.

Day 13 now, and other than feeling slightly sinusy/ the occasional cough I’m mostly back to normal. I feel very fatigued today but I’m blaming DS who was up at midnight!

I'm Day 12/13ish, and after a good few days, my temp has now risen, from my usual 36.6 to 37.1. Given me a bit of a fright, but I'm hoping it's just a blip
@thenewaveragebear1983, you're so right. Like you, I have had a mild case, and it's floored me, yet in many ways it's hard to define how. A headache here, sinus pain there, some pains and needles - it's not the struggling for breath we're led to believe, but literally no part of you emerges unscathed. And, my word, the utter physical and mental exhaustion

@thenewaveragebear1983 @SheilaTakeABow same here, 'mild' case but no part of my body feels normal and I am so exhausted. The anxiety is really tough aswell. Getting very fed up reading comments on other threads aswell as there seems to be a lack of understanding that even if you're not 'vulnerable'and you may not get sick enough for medical treatment, it can still feel absolutely awful. I would do anything i could to avoid catching this a second time.

And the thing that's really upsetting me now is not knowing when it's over. I've been back at work (from home) and my employer thinks it's all over; today I'm feeling rotten again, but I said I was better and now that's it

@thenewaveragebear1983 hi I felt drained again today. Dragged myself out of bed to feed the child this morning. Feel like the cough is coming back a bit :(

My work are being good. I work for a small company and the head of hr phoned me yesterday said I looked shattered and to take sick leave! I can work from home luckily. I may do some work tomorrow if I feel better as I'm a bottle neck for my team otherwise.
I hope you are on the mend 👍

Day 5 and I haven't got any worse, still have a slight headache and still can't smell, but that's it so far. Hoping this is it for me!

Hi, my first post on this thread, feeling very fed up, now on day 10 and I still have a temp of 38. Has basically been like that since the third day, first 48hrs was a lot higher. I can’t come out of isolation until it drops and I’m starting to wonder if it ever will! Otherwise just feeling tired with slight cough. Taste and smell returning. Anyone else got hope of this temperature going? Feels like it never will 😕

I had a high temperature for some time but it has suddenly dropped. Hope you feel better chasing!

i got a positive result yesterday evening. my symptoms were headache (from friday), sinus pain (over the weekend) then brain fog plus loss of taste and smell on monday which is what made me book a test.

Day 6 of sense of smell going and it's coming back so is taste. About 70% I reckon.

That’s reassured me a bit BloomedAgain thank you, how many days did you have yours? My GP seemed baffled when I said I still had it which just made me feel worse.

Urgh day 18, had a better day yesterday and did a couple of hours paperwork. Overdid it as I had to pop out and run some errands for an hour. Feel shocking today.

I was tested this morning, hoping I just have a cold. Symptoms are cough (main symptom), weird feeling in my nose and head ache. Hopefully get my results tomorrow. Not sure I could cope with 10 days indoors as I usually exercise outside every day.

Interesting reading everyone’s symptoms and how much they very.

Our family of 4 adults and 1 child are positive, (first case a week ago and last one confirmed this Monday) trying to rest as much as we can but the volume of calls from test and trace are ruining any chance of rest. I'm afraid I lost it at the last person who called.

I'm now on day 12 and feeling pretty much normal - just went on a long walk and power walked uphill with no issues. My sense of smell is about 10% of what it should be.

I am a nurse and most of my colleagues have had it now - I would say most were completely recovered about two weeks in, some after only a few days. But a sizable minority took quite a long time to get better, and of course some were seriously ill. It's very unpredictable but important to remember that most people will be absolutely fine - I could have done with someone reminding me of that early on when anxiety was peaking!

Well I've decided I'm not well enough to return to work just yet but have had some fun and games getting a sick note. I waited all day for a GP callback after an hour queuing on the phone. When they finally called it was to say they were refusing to give me a note as according to their records, I had actually tested negative. Not what you really need feeling so low with Covid symptoms - being accused of lying about it! God knows if it's another track and trace cockup -they've certainly sent enough 'you have tested positive' messages to me in various formats.

Smellie - that's awful. So you can't get a sick note? I can't believe you and the gp were given different results.

@blobbyface thanks, I've got the sicknote now. After a second call, the doctor decided to 'give me the benefit of the doubt'. Surely they should go on symptoms anyway? I know they've got a really tough job at the moment but seriously...

Urgh, I feel mostly better, but something has irritated the inside of my sinuses and my entire head now feels itchy/tickly. Miserable. Still only about 5% of my normal sense of smell too.