How did you feel after Covid….emotionally / physically / about Covid in general?

[Rainydays55]

For those of you who have been through Covid how did you feel afterwards? Today is my first day out of isolation and I’m not sure how I feel 🤨. I’ve been lucky to have it ‘mildly’ but it’s still wiped me out , still feel tired, a bit heady / floaty and not back to normal yet and I guess I feel a bit emotional that I’ve had Covid as stupid as that sounds.
Did your thoughts about it all change after you’d had it? How long should immunity last?

I could have written your post @Rainydays55.
I feel exactly the same way. I’ve really struggled over the covid positive isolation with my mental health, not something I’ve ever really experienced before.
I had very mild illness, none of the classic symptoms. However it doesn’t seem to have got much better over the length of my isolation. I was stuck at home alone with 2 rudely well children causing absolute chaos. I felt trapped, and frustrated. There is research that should be getting done that isn’t, and instead of being treated as an individual with rights, testing positive for covid reduced me to nothing more than a public health case.

My opinions on it haven’t changed though, I still believe that the policies surrounding covid are in some instances more harming than the illness. If we are so useless at preventing people getting it by poor track and trace practices, then maybe we just need to let it all go.

Completely fine 🤷🏼‍♀️ Not really given it a second thought. It’s just another illness like the plateau my young kids bring home every winter. I’m mostly relieved to have had it really. Hopefully got it over & done with before Christmas!

I didn’t isolate from anyone to be fair, I’ve got young kids and I had no choice to look after them & carry on as normal. My kids & OH avoided it somehow! My kids still went to school/nursery .. I was very grateful the rules mean they didn’t have to isolate when not ill! I had covid last December when they did have to isolate with me & they was HARD. They weren’t poorly then either and bored stupid.

Took me about 3 weeks to feel fully recovered. I expected it might do so I just took it easy. Luckily I can WFH.

I feel alright today - as in, I'm glad I can go out again and have a slight invincibility feeling too. I'm glad I'll be able to see my parents more often over the next 6 weeks or so knowing that there is an even tinier chance I'll give it to them. They are boosted, I'm 'boosted'. I sort of feel happy that it's 'done' now (even if only for awhile).

My partner was SO worried about getting it - he's now had it, it was 'ill but fine' and was out with his mates in the pub last night for the first time in 18 months. His face when he came downstairs to tell me that his dad had tested positive was terrified, but they've all come out of it OK.

We've all definitely been ill, and I expect to take it easy for a few weeks, but I'm going swimming today even if I just drift about and then am knocked out later.