Double vaccinated, otherwise healthy, but properly unwell with Covid? Come and sulk with me

[PersonaNonGarter]

I am so pissed off at coronavirus. I did all the things I was supposed to - masks, jabs - and now I am still sick as a dog with a positive test.

Gah. Anyone else want to complain too?

Me! Day 8 now and I still feel so ill. And the damn cough. Feel like I’m coughing up my lungs.

Oh no Day 8! That is annoying. Sympathies.

I am on Day 4 of this and really hoping to be done inside a week.

Me too. Double Pfizer. Day 4. I’m awake as I can’t get my temp down enough to sleep, I’ve slept about 14 hours in 3 nights.

Hope you all feel better soon, a temp during a heat wave must doubly suck!

I was also so shocked at how ill I felt!
Hate Corona.

The cough means I can’t lie down. It’s beyond hideous. Other symptoms pretty much gone now though.

Yes me too! Had my second AZ jab in July, have always complied totally with all restrictions (in Scotland so generally stricter). DS brought covid home from school. The rest of the household have had it very mild or been asymptomatic, but I am on my fifth day of feeling awful. It's so miserable and I can't even cheer myself up with chocolate as I have complete loss of taste! Exhausted but can't sleep. Surprised at how unwell I feel with all the talk of vaccinations being the way out of the pandemic. It's absolutely shit and even more so as I thought I would be fine after having the vaccine - actually cried with relief after getting it.

Yes yes to being surprised at how hard this has hit even after vaccines.

Imagining what it would be like without a vaccine is scary. I feel very breathless as it is. I guess the vaccine is what’s keeping me out of ICU…

I don't have covid but came to offer some love and sympathy. I was so happy in spring, we were doing so well with vaccinations and I honestly believed they would stop transmission and be the answer we needed

I'm grateful still that they are keeping so many people from needing ICU but it's gutting that Delta took hold and they have not been the answer to everything. Maybe I'm naïve and expected too much

Anyway, get well soon. So sorry to see you all feeling so rubbish, really hope it buggers off asap!

Exactly careful for so long and schools in Scotland are awash with it. The way the public health letters are flying out of school the whole school (and hence all the parents) will have had it by Christmas.

@PersonaNonGarter Same here only I’m on week three since the very first symptoms, it does get better but takes time, only just beginning to feel normal now. I too was expecting to be well within a week. The cough is a pain till it eases off.

"Imagining what it would be like without a vaccine is scary."

I caught it last October after returning to work but not being allowed masks SD etc. It was very unpleasant and very worrying when I had a constant hot feeling in my chest.

It took 6 months for the fatigue and palpitations to stop and instill hae insomnia but in the grand scheme of things it could have been worse. I got both vaccines as soon as I could group 6 and hope I get away easier when I eventually get reinfected

Oh god could insomnia be a long term symptom???

Yes, on day 7 feeling awful. Could hardly sleep for coughing last night, exhausted and lost smell completely. So glad it was post vax as this is worse than flu and going on so long even now.

A long recovery is what I am dreading. At my work there is an unwritten rule that all illness needs to be done with in a week.

I am in Scotland and - while I have zero knowledge of virology or public health expertise - my suspicion is that the problem is schools relying on LFTs. There are so many false negatives. So people are walking around believing they have the start of a cold rather than c-19 and everyone is going down like flies.

@walksen pretty much the same symptoms here too ! 8 months in and still not 100% (am in my 50s though but previously fairly healthy)

@PersonaNonGarter

A long recovery is what I am dreading. At my work there is an unwritten rule that all illness needs to be done with in a week.

I am in Scotland and - while I have zero knowledge of virology or public health expertise - my suspicion is that the problem is schools relying on LFTs. There are so many false negatives. So people are walking around believing they have the start of a cold rather than c-19 and everyone is going down like flies.

With Covid I think normal recovery times go out the window. If someone is ill with Covid then it can't be expected they are back within a week. You're off work for at least 10 days anyway in isolation.

Back in January when it swept through DH's workplace a return after 3 weeks off was generally regarded as pretty good going. Most even then went on to light duties for a while when they went back.

Please take the time you need to recover otherwise you risk putting back your recovery and taking even longer to feel ok again. I hope you feel better soon.

Yes a relative works in a care home. 6 members of staff ( all double vaccinated) got covid. Unwell, positive pcrs but negative lateral flows.

So discouraging. Maybe immunity doesn't last long.

Day 5 here. Double jabbed. Been careful as we look after mil (98). Finished chemo March 2020, had 2nd mastectomy March 2021. Taking Vit D and B Vitamins. Have been back a gym for 3 months. Went down like a tree!
It’s not fair !
Sleeping lots. No children at home and retired so I can stay in bed and sleep and knit and watch rubbish tv

get well soon.

What is putting me in a particular sulk this morning is the number of breezy cheerful emails from people trying to sell me stuff along the lines of ‘now we can all get back together again…’ etc.

FFS. I shouldn’t have listened to that crap. I should have stayed at home a bit longer

Day 4 for me (well, sort of day 3 as only started symptoms Sunday night).

Stupidly, I thought I’d breeze through, double vaccinated and late 30s. Although I do feel a bit better this afternoon, the last few days have been awful. The simplest tasks like walking into the bathroom are leaving me light headed and my temperature is still a bit up and down. Everything aches and I just feel so fuzzy. Also can’t sleep despite being so tired. Think I got about 3 hours last night if that.

Sinus pain and blocked nose and ears was awful, but I hope is slowly getting better.

So I wouldn’t say I was ‘properly’ ill, but pretty ill and couldn’t get temperature down at first.

What’s even more annoying as on Monday morning I woke up feeling actually not horrendous and then within an hour was absolutely terrible. It’s really up and down, feel ok ish for an hour or two and then temperature goes back up or I end up coughing (did not have this at start) which leaves me feeling horrible. Ughhh.

However, feeling grateful to have had the jabs and touch wood not be THAT unwell.

Get well soon all!

As I said before it’s good to have threads like this one so you realise you are not the only one with weird/long lasting symptoms and not just you that caught Covid despite jabs and following guidelines. I would have panicked many times had I not read similar on here.

Day 8 here and just feeling a bit vague and washed out. Fed up as isolated after DS caught it so feel like I've been stuck inside forever. Lovely and hot here and want to go for a long beach walk. Seems to be rattling through the schools...

Persona

I kind of don’t feel like I should have hid away in longer. We followed the rules, declined invites, were very careful to only attend out door events. And I’ve been saying for months, why bother, may as well catch it. (Although thought covid would be mild - not this).

And I kind of feel I’ve been proven right. I said no to so many things. Today, I’ve been booking the kids into indoor classes I previously said no to, booked theme park tickets. At the moment (until a new variant wrecks it) me and family are as immune as will ever be. I’m going to enjoy it.