Urgh double vaxxed, +ve LFT feeling rough

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Waiting for my PCR results. Feeling so rough. Everything aches. I've taken paracetamol and slept most of the day. Feel like I've got the beginning of a cold and feel feverish but can't take my temp as the thermometer broke a while ago.
Urgh urgh urgh. Not really sure why I'm posting really!

Some interesting news articles today about vaccine effectiveness and boosters.

Day 9 (I want to say "In the Big Brother House" there ) and bloody hell I feel shit still. No taste or smell but it's my chest that is giving me the most trouble. I absolutely hate ringing my GP (she is lovely, it's not that, it's the ominous monitoring word I worry about! I'm considering it though.

Interesting to see the smell and taste comments, I'm drinking but not eating so not that bothered atm, but it's weird sticking my head out of the window but not feeling like I am inhaling fresh air IYSWIM?

Sorry there are so many new recruits to the thread! Hope everyone is coping this morning.

I’m on day 8 and most symptoms have gone now except tiredness, brain fog and my sense of taste/smell. DH brought out my fav chocs last night and I thought, “these are a crap batch” only to realise I can’t taste the damn things. Or anything, really!
I don’t feel like wine, obvs, but what if I can never taste wine again?!

Interesting news today re double vaxxed people passing on the virus. Def happened in this house!! (I’m looking at you, DH).

I’m sleeping like a log - clocking 10 hours a night and still waking up knackered. Really want to go for a walk but I’ve got to wait til Monday….

Can I join? Day 5 for me, was on holiday last week, come home Sunday had a slight sore throat negative lft Sunday, woke up Monday felt like I was getting a cold took another lft, very very faint positive, have felt rough since really heavy head cold, sweats, blocked noise chesty cough and a headache from hell, hurts to move my head, my dh is still negative and so are the kids, just a toddler to deal with feeling this crappy so hoping a day of Disney films will help 🤦‍♀️ cant taste or smell anything either 😢

Didn’t think I’d be posting on this thread again . Still no sense of smell - taste is back a bit but it’s more sensation. ie I can tell if I’m eating something spicy rather than actually tasting it. Last night I became very aware of my heartbeat which seemed fast. I then started to struggle with getting a deep breath and ended up with a full panic attack
Bloody Covid

Day 2 - this feels like a bad cold. I have a horrible mouth taste and slept badly last night as I felt hot and my brain was too active.

I'm feeling marginally better today. The head cold has lifted but I'm absolutely wiped out exhausted. Night Nurse helped me sleep last night but woke feeling like I hadn't slept at all.

No taste or smell at all. Not even a faint whiff. Brushed my teeth but couldn't taste the toothpaste.

Random symptom possibly... the skin on the palms of my hands is peeling. Very odd.

Another day in bed. Trying to watch TV but my concentration is zero.

@AvonCallingBarksdale the breathing thing can be a bit scary. I had it for a day or so. I hope it doesn't last too long for you.

The 'news' of the double vaxxed passing it on surely means isolating should still be a thing for covid positive households.
It just doesn't make sense.
But then so much of it doesn't make sense, including the symptom list. We're proof of that.

the 'news' of the double vaxxed passing it on surely means isolating should still be a thing for covid positive households.

My dh tested positive last week , very mild cold symptoms didnt lose smell or taste, only tested because he was pinged , none of the rest of the household caught it. DH DD and I double vaxed and DS was due his 2nd vax that day.

Got my positive PCR back - feel really tired today. I got up just now to brush my teeth and wash my face. I now feel shattered!

Hi All. Think I’m around day 8 now. Shakes have gone and feeling a bit brighter today, still exhausted though. I am starting to smell again woohoooo.

DH is now positive too so out of 4 of us in the house, DS 11 is the only one who is negative. He had Covid back in October last year so looks like he may have good immunity still.

DH and myself vaccinated (him Johnson, me Pfizer). DS13 unvaccinated and he’s had the mildest symptoms out of the 3 of us. DH seems to have very similar symptoms to me.

I’m starting to think it’s nearly better to get Covid as it may provide the best immunity of all. Two different vaccines in this household made no difference, we still got Covid and have not been well with it.

To be fair, in my house, the longest lasting symptoms have been DS2 who is unvaccinated. DS1 (one Pfizer) got off very lightly. I was iller than DS2 but everything seemed to work through more quickly so I assume it's because I am older that I was more ill!

DH (double jabbed with AZ) never caught it (or if he did no one , including him, noticed).

I want to taste food so bad

Day [redacted]. Have been sleeping on the sofa bed since a few weeks before I got ill as I was plastering the bedroom. Decided a few days ago that I just needed to finish sanding the undercoat, clean and move back in. Joints are fucked because bed is too unyielding and spent ages trying to get to sleep in pain last night. DH took the day off to help me and all he did until about 4 was change the hoover bag and make a hash of cooking fish fingers and chips which resulted in me expending more effort to sort out than if I'd just done it myself. Realised I was going to have to just blitz it myself if I was going to sleep in my own bed tonight. I got annoyed and sweaty and have done 73 active minutes according to my Fitbit. Windows are covered in tinfoil as we have no curtain pole and DH never took the measurements for me to order a portable blackout blind (I've got hideous brain fog so don't trust myself to measure properly at the moment). Trying to sum up the energy to wash my hair and get out of the bath.

@Guylncognito

Hello achey gang

I'm going to have a grump about T&T. I know the people on the calls are just doing their job, I have no issue with the people doing the calls. But as a service it's the absolute pits, I've got so many missed calls from them that I missed because I was .... passed out asleep due to coroanvirus. I filled in my details online and it was the biggest pain in the arse and I'm just generally really grumpy about it.

This annoyed me too; got six texts in the space of a couple of hours; register here… do it NOW… why have you not done it… if you don’t we will RING YOU! Surely they could make an allowance for people being, you know, ill??

My first symptom was sneezing; I rarely sneeze, unlike DH who is capable of multiple explosive sneezing bouts a day.
Then a runny nose; assumed this was a cold but lateral flow and pcr positive. I tead somewhere that sneezing is a more common symptom for double-jabbed than any on the nhs list.
I felt ok today until a little light ironing brought me out in a sweat; cool room, through breeze.

Hi everyone. Think I'm on about day 8 now. Energy levels slowly increasing - don't feel the need to constantly sleep . Sneezing loads and today my ribs are very sore. Managed a small dinner last night .

How's everyone else getting on ?

I definitely feel better this morning. The head cold has gone and I slept better last night. Still no taste or smell. Gosh, that is grim. How do you cope with that? I'm struggling to make myself eat or drink anything.

@changeoflife feels pointless doesn't it I'm just making myself becayse I'm pregnant and have a toddler but prettt sure she can't taste either she's launching most on the floor and she's usually a really good eater

I have had a day 16 relapse...back to vomiting and sleeplessness. Fed up..

Piggywaspushed yesterday was day13 for me and I had an upset stomach and the night prior to that I had very little sleep. Just when you think you’re out of the woods Hope it passes quickly.
On the taste/smell front, mrssunshinexxx, I have some taste back and I got a brief whiff of a Reed diffuser yesterday woo hoo .

Oh no! I hope you fare better this time around Piggy.

Is anyone else suffering from ear worms?

Day 8 since testing positive here. The lack of smell and taste persists. Still feel absolutely shattered too. But that is about that.

Oh @Piggywaspushed I do hope it passes quickly for you and you feel better soon

Had my presumably last call from T&T today, I'm officially free from midnight tonight if only this bloody congestion would do one. I have a chronic condition that causes fatigue but my God, the tiredness right now is ridiculous. Currently sitting in the garden needing the loo but struggling to find the energy to get up.

Been spraying perfume randomly and got the slightest whiff of it earlier so that cheered me up slightly. No taste yet though. Doing an online food shop earlier and just ordered myself a load of chicken, rice and veg. No point wasting calories on yummy food I can't taste. Genuinely think this might be the most depressing part of it.

Day 6 for me today, head cold feeling seems to have eased still have a cracking headache just demolished some pickled onion monster munch and couldn't taste a thing so my toddler enjoyed them more then me 🤦‍♀️ breathing has been hard this morning but is easing now, still waiting for main tests results to come back 🙄 everyone else in the house lft is still negative