I’ve just tested positive and I’m very anxious :(

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DD (10) had a positive LF a week ago today and we all had a PCR at the same time on Tuesday morning which was negative for everyone except DD. I’ve been doing regular LFs on everyone and they’ve all stayed negative so far until today. I woke up with a runny/blocked nose so decided to take an LF and it was a strong positive as DD’s was a week ago (result came up straight away). Everyone else is still negative with no symptoms and my only ‘symptom’ (if you can really call it one!) is a slightly blocked nose. I feel tired but that’s honestly because DD has been keeping me up all week waking in the night with ear ache (doc thinks she has an ear infection too so she’s on antibiotics) and various other things annoying her through the night.

She’s on the mend and is definitely miles better than she was at the start of the week but now I’m terrified I’m going to get seriously sick. I do have health anxiety anyway which I have weekly counselling sessions for but this has seriously set me off. I’m double vaccinated and I’m in my early 30s with no health conditions so I’m fairly sure I’ll be ok but still struggling not to feel anxious.

Just looking for some support I guess and wondering whether people who do end up seriously sick are sick from the off? I don’t feel sick right now at all, definitely none of the main 3 symptoms so far.

@Badgerstmary oh, that's shit I'm sorry. Happy birthday from me, anyway My DS is in a similar position - he's 10 on Monday and with both me and DH currently plague ridden, I have a horrible feeling he's going to be poorly for his birthday (plus we've had to cancel the party anyway).

Currently on day 3 and felt wretched earlier, but now on the mend I think. Cough isn't as,bad as I feared and no loss of smell/taste, thank god.

Hi 👋 I just wanted to say I know how you feel. I’ve had GAD and health anxiety since I was a teen (I’m almost 40 now) and this pandemic has definitely triggered me on and off for months. In October DS13 got it and I was anxious he’d get worse and he didn’t thankfully. Then I was anxious we’d all get it (family of 6 here). Nobody else got it. Then last night DD10 and DS16 tested positive on lft, just waiting for PCR to confirm. DD seems okay but DS has a fever and a cough which makes me anxious and I’m again waiting for us all to get it, lots of psychosomatic symptoms that come and go.

I’m worried about myself because although I’m rarely ill, when I am it usually goes to my chest and I have a cough I can’t shift. Last time I was ill was almost 2 years ago and I had a cough for weeks that made me lose my voice. So obviously I’m worried about that. And DH is older (45) and mostly fit although overweight (fit as in exercises regularly, doesn’t drink or smoke etc) and I keep getting intrusive thoughts of him being in ICU and not being able to see him and I start spiralling.

Sorry I just wanted to say I’d like to join the thread and keep you company through this because it’s so hard sometimes to think clearly with all that’s going on.

Hope you're all OK @GypsyWanderer. If it helps, I always get terrible coughs but this one hasn't been bad at all ☺

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

Hope you're all OK *@GypsyWanderer*. If it helps, I always get terrible coughs but this one hasn't been bad at all ☺

Thank you logically I know that we all should have mild symptoms. Me and DH are double jabbed and none of us are vulnerable but when I get anxious I tend not to think straight.

It’s the waiting to get it that drives me nuts!

I got covid over Christmas last year as did my sister (we were bubbled).
I missed my first vaccine appt (I'm a HCP) as I was feeling really tired and couldn't face going out in the cold.

In retrospect I had the early stages of covid.

I was worried about myself but so so anxious about my sister. I sent her a pulse ox and made her send me and our SIL (a GP)her Sats readings twice a day. It was horrible. So sympathies.

However - you are young, double vaccinated and would be really bloody unlucky to get seriously unwell. Try to cling to that.

It’s the waiting to get it that drives me nuts!

Yes to that! Currently going through it with DS. I was always adamant we wouldn't make him isolate if/when he got it, and would carry on hugging etc as normal. I just assumed we would be the ones to catch it from him! It's hard - wanting to hug him but also knowing that could end up passing it on (in the end we're letting him decide and he is pro-hugging).

How is,everyone doing today? I'm definitely on the mend now but still feeling quite foggy. Cough mostly gone.

I’m on day 9 here, 1 more day left. I’m in my 40s, obese and tested positive after my children got it at school. I’m double jabbed and have had very mild symptoms, snotty nose and coughing a couple of times a day only. Looking at the stats, I wasn’t worried.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

you shouldn't worry that chesty coughing in the past is a relevant issue. At least, I have a dreadful chest generally, and when I had covid it was mild and dry. Probably one slightly cough every half hour.

I barely even had cold symptoms when I had it, the only thing that made me feel groggy was staying in for 10 days straight. Also early 30s, no health conditions that I'm aware of.