Anyone else irritable with covid?

CherryAndAlmond · 2021-12-26T17:26:48+00:00

I tested positive on Christmas Eve. Am a lone parent, but I managed to get through yesterday no problem. I cooked the Christmas dinner, got fake excited for father Christmas coming, cheered up the DCs who were disappointed family couldn't come etc etc. I didn't feel too bad. But today I have turned into the grumpiest cow that ever lived. I've got aches and pains and am tired, but mainly I just feel so irritable. Friends are offering to drop things off etc but I'm hating every WhatsApp ping. Anyone else feel like this with covid?

SpringheelJack · 26/12/2021 17:27

Yes, but I think it's more situational than physiological - at least in my case!

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CherryAndAlmond · 26/12/2021 17:29

Not to drip feed, I should add I've been on anti depressants for the last couple of months and have been doing so well on them. This feels like going back.

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CovidForChristmas · 26/12/2021 17:29

Yes, I just want a decent night of sleep. Fed up of waking up through the night with a throat like sandpaper.

SpringheelJack · 26/12/2021 17:50

Not to drip feed, I should add I've been on anti depressants for the last couple of months and have been doing so well on them. This feels like going back.

Then I'm very sorry for being a sarcastic sod!

It could just be natural irritability that comes with having to isolate, with little kids, while feeling shitty and tired. It may pass once you're better. But I guess have a low threshold for seeking help if it seems like it's tipped your mental health recovery back significantly? Post-viral depression is a real thing - I don't know if you're any more prone to it if you've had problems already.

It's not very helpful but: let yourself off the hook, don't expect to be cheerful in a shitty situation and try as much as you can not to worry about it all - just, you know, "be kind" to yourself and if the feeling doesn't lift when you're on the mend and out of isolation - accept it's been a setback and you might need a bit more help to get back to where you had been.

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CherryAndAlmond · 26/12/2021 17:56

@SpringheelJack

Not to drip feed, I should add I've been on anti depressants for the last couple of months and have been doing so well on them. This feels like going back.

Then I'm very sorry for being a sarcastic sod!

It could just be natural irritability that comes with having to isolate, with little kids, while feeling shitty and tired. It may pass once you're better. But I guess have a low threshold for seeking help if it seems like it's tipped your mental health recovery back significantly? Post-viral depression is a real thing - I don't know if you're any more prone to it if you've had problems already.

It's not very helpful but: let yourself off the hook, don't expect to be cheerful in a shitty situation and try as much as you can not to worry about it all - just, you know, "be kind" to yourself and if the feeling doesn't lift when you're on the mend and out of isolation - accept it's been a setback and you might need a bit more help to get back to where you had been.

Thank you. I'm sure it is at least partly situational. I'd be fine if no one needed anything from me. I just want to go to bed and watch rubbish on TV.

Yes, it's post-viral depression that's worrying me, and whether I might be more prone to it. Exactly that. I guess I was hoping people would jump in and say it's totally normal on day 3 and passes quickly!

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Bizawit · 26/12/2021 17:59

I’m in the same boat. 7th day in isolation here and I am utterly miserable. Don’t know if it’s the virus or the situation, or both.
I have a new baby and a toddler. Worried that this is going to end in PND.

R0tational · 26/12/2021 18:05

I am so fucking bored of isolating. Single parent.

R0tational · 26/12/2021 18:07

Fed up of kids being glued to me constantly (and their screen). Been 10 days and another 9 to go cos of how tiings have worked out.

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CherryAndAlmond · 26/12/2021 18:50

I don't want anyone to touch me, talk to me or need to be fed! Argh. The guilt about not making Boxing Day fun doesn't help.

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Bizawit · 26/12/2021 19:34

@R0tational

Fed up of kids being glued to me constantly (and their screen). Been 10 days and another 9 to go cos of how tiings have worked out.

Omg you poor thing. That’s a really long haul. Also a single parent here. This is HARD.

YankeeDad · 26/12/2021 20:12

Being irritable does NOT say anything bad about you. From where I sit you sound like a superhero for doing everything Christmas related that you did.

I am also irritable because of COVID and I don’t even have it. I’m just irritable due to all of the restrictions.

I hope you can find a way to just be kind and forgiving towards yourself until the physical symptoms abate. You sound like you more than deserve it!

onemouseplace · 26/12/2021 20:18

Yes! Both DH and I currently have covid and have both been very self aware at how irritable we both are. We've not even been especially unwell with it.

I've been in a right arse today and biting my lip at one of my WhatsApp groups as well as everything anyone comes out with is pissing me off (I'm still testing positive on the Day 6/7 LFTs so any hope of early release has gone).

Mammma91 · 26/12/2021 20:26

I also tested positive on Christmas eve with LTF, done a PCR and got positive results Christmas day. Got through the day and it ended with getting my period. Very hormonal, irritable and sad. Can’t even put it down to my period because I’m this bad usually. My head is bouncing, DP pissing me right off with making high pitch noises and i wound up shouting at him after telling him 10+ times nicely to please stop. Just 10 minutes ago he done it again right in my ear and i shouted at him to shut the fuck up. Im with you on body aching too. I feel absolutely vile. And have a 2 year old to keep entertained in the house for a further 8 days 😭

R0tational · 26/12/2021 20:45

Poor @Mammma91 - why was your DP making noises? Video games?? Period sounds awful. Gonna gove you hope that the hormones might have made you worse and you will feel slightly better now.

I am also hopeful you aren't affected long-term @CherryAndAlmond and it's just a normal reaction to a very testing and abnormal situation. I hope you enjoy the small joys you do find in the week xx

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CherryAndAlmond · 26/12/2021 21:38

It helps to know it's not just me feeling like this but I hope everyone else recovers quickly. It's so tough to be looking after kids whilst ill, especially when no one can come and help or keep you company. I'm taking the advice from this thread to be kind to myself and have spent the evening on the sofa eating cheese and crackers! Hoping for a better day tomorrow.

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YankeeDad · 27/12/2021 00:57

Well done!

Take it a day at a time and it will pass.

It sounds as though you also need to make plans for some ‘me time’ at the first opportunity when the kids can be elsewhere for a bit. Could be as simple as nice a bath with some bath salts. You will have more than earned it just by doing what you’re doing.

SpringheelJack · 27/12/2021 08:41

It helps to know it's not just me feeling like this but I hope everyone else recovers quickly.
I cried in the pantry during our second bout of isolation in the middle of this year. I am not normally a crying-in--the-pantry sort of person, and I haven't done it since! I think you don't expect to find isolation anything but rubbish - it's a matter of days, it's a hard slog, and (hopefully) things get better when it's over. It's very normal to struggle through this bit and I think you can't worry about it. Just do whatever you can to get through the remaining days then reassess once you're free.

Itonlytakesonetree · 27/12/2021 08:51

I'm in a really shitty mood, only partly attributable to illness, though entirely attributable to covid generally. I got a positive PCR result Christmas day, although think I felt worse before it than after, I'm v achey and headachey but not terribly ill. I am, however, spectacularly fucked off that my entire Christmas holiday is spent either feeling ill or in isolation. I can do none of the things I had planned. And I get to come out of isolation at 11.59pm next Monday night, ready to go back on the Tuesday with no fucking break at all. I'm less than tolerant of all this today!