Day 7 - when is it normal to start turning a corner?

[5831bob123]

I'm fed up of this now and want to start feeling some improvement. I'm on day 7 of symptoms and getting no better or worse. I'm mostly lay in bed, no energy to do anything and no appetite. I know it's so different for everyone but if you have had covid before at what point did you turn a corner? Or a what point enoughs enough and you needed medical help?

I'm sorry so many of you are suffering for so long. I started to feel better on day 10 and returned to work on day 16. I still feel a bit fuzzy and tired, my cough has subsided but now I get an annoying tickle. On the whole I feel ok.

I hope everyone starts to feel better soon.

Thanks Bob Glad to hear you feel better.

I’m on day 4, double vaxxed since June and early 40s. Feel terrible, not much in the way of coughing but just constantly bunged up in my nose and sinuses and have a runny nose at the same time it’s so awful. No energy, body aches and tiredness. Can’t stand this anymore. Can’t smell anything and taste is very very weak. I haven’t lost my appetite though I feel starving all the time. So weird

Day 20 here and in general feeling a lot better, but very very tired. However I am also anaemic, which doesn’t help!
Did my first dog walk today, other than that I’ve been pottering around the house. Luckily not back to work until next Monday so just taking it slow.
I’m Not jabbed. I found I just woke up one day and was able to eat and then gradually got better. I’ve just realised the awful post nasal drip has gone, but I’ve no idea when it went! It’s like some symptoms just disappeared like magic without me noticing
My other half is double jabbed, was ill for 7 days and then just tired these last week or two. It hit us both very differently. The worst for me was awful nausea, like having a permanent whitey!
My youngest is still having stomach issues and sleeping till 2pm every day (12).
The eldest has been fine, hardly any symptoms at all. Such a weird virus!

Day 5 and dare I say it, feeling a tiny bit better. Not as bunged up. Other symptoms still the same but at least one thing has improved. Praying this is the start of feeling better..

I'm on day 4 and feel dreadful. Cold like symptoms on Saturday, progressed into flu like symptoms by Monday. I'm so achey. It hurts to blink. I'm sweating and cold, goose pimply but my temperature isn't actually raised. Paracetamol seems to help.

Half term at home alone with 4 kids, one of whom is 11 weeks old is not ideal. I can't just stay in bed and I can't isolate from them. Terrified the baby is going to get it.

Oh god how awful. Hope you start feeling better tomorrow as I have. Yesterday I felt so bad I couldn’t breathe through my nose atall and spent the evening in tears but there is definitely a slight improvement today. Good luck and take it as easy as you can, easier said than done though I know.

Tested positive last night after feeling rubbish, headache, sore chest, coughing.

Feel a bit better today, waiting on PCR a results. I am double vaccinated.

Did you all feel awful this early on or did it come later? I am so frightened of being really poorly due to living alone

I felt awful early on but don’t worry definitely not the case for everyone. Two people I know who caught it after being double jabbed were not bad atall. They described it as being like a mild cold.

You might want to speak to your doctor @eightytwenty as that seems low? How are you now? I’m only just feeling normal - 4.5 weeks in! Mostly energy sapped and still coughing on exertion.

I had covid in 2020 before vaccine was available. I had most symptoms for 2 weeks (temp, cough, dizzy, some breathlessness days 5-12) then fatigue (chronic to begin with then less so) and headaches on and off for a further 4 weeks. It was very very frustrating. DH had it much later this Autumn after being double jabbed. He was fine by day 11 xx

I’m day 3 of feeling Ill, 2 days after positive, just a very stuffed up nose and slight temp, lost smell today but so bunged up, taste off a bit, no aches or cough, though paranoid about breathing, keep thinking I’m not breathing properly, I am a bit bored so I’m not Ill enough to be in bed all day, this is going to be a tough 10 days

I am day 16 and feel better but still getting very tired after doing about 40% of a pre covid normal day. Really inpatient to feel better but know it takes its own sweet time. When i have done too much i feel exhausted, dizzy, headaches and heart goes too fast

Day 12 here - the initial symptom - just a cold - has gone and the main problem is fatigue. Yesterday I felt well enough to stand and cook a meal for a couple of hours - less energy today!

Anybody else had very slight diarhea, I’m on day 6, very slightly feeling better apart from the diarhea, am taking rather a lot of day nurse so it could be that. I’m probably popping more pills than I ever have, plus to s of vitamins etc.

How’s everyone on this thread now? What day did you feel you started to turn a corner?