Anyone else shocked about how ill they felt with covid?

[Justwingingit2005]

Hey all

I tested postive last weekend.
I have been shocked how poorly covid made.
Being sick.
Stomach pains.
Nausea.
Whole body aches.
Fever.
Tiredness oh so tired.....
Runny nose
Headache
Cough
Lost of taste
Sore eyes

OK, so I'm no marathon runner but I'm mid 40s and no other medical conditions.
Healthy weight. Fairly active.

I suppose I was stupid to think I'd just bat this off like a mild cold.

@itsallgoingpearshaped

Day 8.

Hope you're ok.

@Jouleigh

I had covid in November and it was like a cold with added headaches & no smell/taste. Got it again 2 weeks ago and it was more like a flu. Headaches worse, smell/taste went again. This time though I've was so tired, still am, really achey and felt a lot worse. I was double vaccinated between the 2 bouts. I'm assuming that it would have been much worse this time if I hadn't been.

Also last time all 4 of us got it, this time the 2 children didn't.

Oh god, this is worrying. So it seems it's not even a case of having it and getting it over with. We're going to keep getting reinfected and each time might be worse than the time before?😵

Can anyone give an idea of what day they started to feel really poorly after they tested positive?
I wasn't too bad days 1 to 5 and thought it was unpleasant but the vaccine had made it milder than it might have been. It was day 7 when I started to get really ill and day 10 it got serious. A doctor told me days 7 to 10 were often the worst.

Mild for me, one day of feeling really rough. Didn't take any days off sick, just made sure I get in bed early as feel wiped out. Loss of taste and smell is massively annoying, day 9 and there's no sign of it returning. Eating is a chore.

#GreenLunchBox
I don't know if it was just a different but I don't think you need to worry.
At no point did I need to call a dr or 111.
We already had day and night nurse just in case we got it again. That and regular painkillers were fine to manage.

The tired and aches have lasted but not enough to stop doing things. We are having a lot of early nights though!

My PCR test came back positive on the Friday, I'd had it since Tuesday!

I took 5 days off work as my work needs to be meticulous and I wasn't able to do that. Have been back since and it's ok

@Iwannabelikeyouohh

Threads like this really frighten me. On one hand I want to believe I will have it mild but if mild is only a way of saying you didn’t go to hospital then it’s not really “mild” at all.

But some people do have genuinely mild cases. I know someone who just had a tickle in his throat, less than a normal cold.

I got a positive PCR this morning and it is the second time I have caught it, this time is after vaccination (double, done May and June as I'm a teacher and up here they allowed us to do it 3 weeks apart)

I have left bed to pee, once. The rest of the time I am sleeping to try to get rid of the headache. Last time I spent roughly a week completely knocked out, 3 weeks off work and probably 11 or 12 weeks until I didn't fall asleep at my desk or on the sofa.

I think I feel worse this time, but last time I was LFT daily as DP had been hospitalised with it. I'm now avoiding the family to stop them catching it again, and as I genuinely can't get out of bed. No coughing yet but my throat is like sandpaper and no drink quenches it.

I've messaged my head to tell him I can't set cover for my GCSE classes as my single A level class took me 2 hours and a nap

It varies so much - I only lost taste and smell, dd didn't know she had it but got long covid, 29 year old friend was hospitalised.

I'm in day six. The first 3 days were a bit rubbish with temps and aches, sore eyes Ect. I didn't get the cough (Dh did) but my chest is tight.

As I'm asthmatic the gp has put me in a course of steroids but I won't lie I'm worried about the 7 to 10 day thing too as my gp mentioned this to me as well and warned me that things could go downhill.

Yesterday I lost my taste and smell, this morning I woke up with a really sore throat for the first time ( it's nearly gone again now ) and I do worry what the next 4 days or so will bring.

Not too exhausted but can't do loads as feel a bit dizzy. It's all so random as to who gets what. I want to think I'm getting better but as I only got sick on Tuesday it's early days

For balance's sake, I tested simply because I had painful sinuses and sneezing at the end of August. This was confirmed by a PCR test. I felt like I had a cold for four or five days, with a short lived loss of taste and smell.

I stopped feeling actually poorly after about five days though then had about four weeks or really bad fatigue and a UTI I had antibiotics for. That suddenly got better too. Now I'm feeling normal, though a bit tireder than usual, so I'm having early nights and laying off the wine.

It's not a given you will feel dreadful for ages.

@itsallgoingpearshaped

I'm doubly vaccinated and tested positive yesterday morning. Expected it, though, as we've had it in the house all week (husband and teenager; teenager brought it home from school) and the rest of us had been testing every morning and trying to stay away from them.

Really, really hoping it doesn't take me out; I'm over 50 and was looking forward to getting a booster in about 6 weeks.

Can anyone give an idea of what day they started to feel really poorly after they tested positive?

teen came home on Friday and said there were positive cases in her class. She started feeling bad Friday/Saturday. Negative LFT on Friday, positive on Monday. I started feeling bad on Monday night, positve pcr done on Tuesday morning. So we all had symptoms first before positive test.

@Damnyoureyes

Is it because of the press description that caused your surprise do you think?

It’s an absolute fucker of an illness, it’s a killer, it’s severe and it has long term consequences which are life changing.

I’m doing my utmost to avoid getting it.
Masks, SD, avoiding large groups, ventilating rooms at work with open windows. I do not want it.

I think you can probably see my point.

I do think the media in this country has a lot to answer for. Basic mitigations have been scrapped when the NHS is close to collapse (partly, but not entirely, due to covid, but masks and social distancing would help bring down the admissions due to flu and other respiratory viruses too).

They have a clear agenda to minimise covid.

No-other country is doing as we're doing. 10 kids died of covid in Sept, probably more will in October given it's been allowed to run rampant in schools with no risk mitigations at all.

I'm amazed people are ok with this.

I know lots of double jabbed adults who've been really seriously ill with it recently. I definitely know the most people with covid now than ever in the pandemic.

It's seems odd and illogical to act like this is inevitable when in mask wearing countries they have far lower rates.

It's weird how people are feeling worse since vaccination. Those who had it last year didn't find it so bad but this year after the vax they feel worse. Is it because it's the delta variant or the vaccine makes you more ill? How can anyone prove they would have been worse without it?!

I was very ill for two weeks with Covid before being hospitalised for 4 days. Have now had long Covid for 19 months- fatigued, breathless, bouts of coughing and diarrhoea during relapses.
The two Pfizer shots improved my exercise tolerance from 100 yards to a mile, and I can now do my own gardening, but I am only back to about 30% of my previous fitness.
Can’t wait for my booster- hoping for a bit more improvement!

I know more people than ever who've had Covid now too.

I find it strange that the local supermarket has stopped wrapping up bread and baked items which are now open to be sneezed on and touched by people who have Covid. The situation is worse now, not better yet people are acting like everything can go back to normal.

What stands out to me about when I had covid was THE BLOODY HEADACHES. oh my god I have never known anything like it.
I suffer with quite bad colds a few times a year so that type of thing I was expecting but honestly these headaches left me unable to close or open my left eye, all down the left side of my head and face. I was convinced I was having some sort of medical episode and there wasn't much I could do except take some old co-codamol that I had left in the cupboard.

@InexperiencedDogOwner

It's weird how people are feeling worse since vaccination. Those who had it last year didn't find it so bad but this year after the vax they feel worse. Is it because it's the delta variant or the vaccine makes you more ill? How can anyone prove they would have been worse without it?!

How exactly could the vaccine 'make you more ill?' What a stupid comment.

I beg to differ that people didn't find it bad before vaccination was available. Anyone else remember the 'My lungs feel like they're on fire' threads?

To add, I looked quite strange with my eye just sort of squinting, unable to do much else.

Because last year people were not as ill with mild cold like symptoms and now since the vaccine people are feeling worse

It's clearly not stopped the spread either. I know more people than ever who have it

@InexperiencedDogOwner

It's clearly not stopped the spread either. I know more people than ever who have it

That's because we've abandoned all the mitigations that were in place before (up to July) like masks, social distancing, isolation of close contacts and bubbles in schools.

The vaccines are working hard against total abandonment of any attempt to stop covid ripping through this country.

Also, we have Delta now that is, in unvaccinated people, more severe than the original variant (or Alpha). So covid has mutated to be worse. It's entirely down to the vaccines that hospitals aren't overwhelmed right now (though they're getting close anyway).

Both me & DH have had it recently (both double jabbed).
DH was wiped out for a week - fatigue, achy, cough, brain fog. He's much better now (3 weeks after testing postive) but still more tired than usual and still a bit of a cough.
I'm now in week 3 since testing positive and still not right. The first few days were fine, just a sore throat and a bit of a cold. Now it's the sheer exhaustion and brain fog. I can't think straight, focus or concentrate. All other symptoms have gone and I never had the cough or loss of smell / taste. I just feel spaced out and bit quite with it. Apparently it's a common symptom but I had no idea.

Given how many people feel not right after covid for a long time, even when vaccinated, it's a strange thing to do if you want to improve productivity (Tory party). But then again, that's assuming they're capable of logical reasoning. Which they're clearly not.