Tested positive but feels like flu

[JellyTots2009]

Hi I have a weekly test at work and I tested myself Sunday morning. Got a phone call Tuesday to say I tested positive. I only had a blocked nose up to that point.
Since Tuesday I have steadily gotten worse to the point I need tablets every 4 hours.
I have the most awful aches all over my body, hot then cold, my nose is still blocked.
I couldn't lift myself off the sofa today other than to use the toilet and then just now come back to bed.

I've looked up flu symptoms and I tick a lot of them, so I'm wondering if these are actually covid symptoms or I've been unlucky and caught covid and flu at the same time?

Just after other people with/or had symptoms similar to mine and how long it took for you to fully get over it.
I hope to be able to clean my house at some point in the next few days but atm it's impossible.

at all the people getting ratty with the OP because ‘how can she not know flu is a Coronavirus’

The irony being that a coronavirus is nothing like a flu virus in structure, They are not the same at all, though there is a big overlap in the symptoms both cause

NHS website says four hourly.

Policeandthieves (great username btw) is right.

You can take paracetamol 4 hourly up to 4 doses of 1g in any 24 hours totalling 4g per 24 hours. If you were to take it every 4 hours you would take 6g in 24 hours which would be an overdose for some people, especially if you took it this way for several days.

If the NHS website isn’t clear on this it’s wrong and dangerous. Do you have a link?

OP - hope you feel better soon. My 81 year old DM has just had it - a fortnight ago she was very sick in hospital and now she’s back at her care home - exhausted, but on the mend thanks to the advances in treatment.