Anyone have covid right now?

[SunshineMoon100]

Hi everyone,
Just wondered if there was anyone else currently with Covid, I suffer from anxiety and sitting alone in my room isolating really isn't helping. Im only on day 2.
So far I've had a very sore throat and my nose feels slightly congested.
I would love to have a covid pal to get through these difficult and lonely few days.

@garlictwist

OH tested positive yesterday and has been coughing all over the house. I have woken up with a sore throat. Really don't want to catch it. I wish the vaccines worked.

I'm feeling very meh about the vaccines at the moment. I'm jabbed & boosted and had a couple of really poorly days but despite the fact that my BF hasn't had any vaccines and I spent the weekend at his, he's fine! What's that all about?!

I’m not sure which day it is for me. I was feeling quite cold and tired on Wednesday and Thursday evening last week, but still felt fine and was testing negative. Started slight sore throat on Monday, tested positive on Tuesday evening this week. Yesterday was horrendous, the most ill I’ve ever been. I’m guessing today counts as day 3 if I tested positive on Tuesday evening?

Jabbed and boosted….

Hadn’t noticed any changes to smell or taste until I had some coffee this morning! It tastes very weird.

Of course the vaccines work! Because of vaccines, this variant isn't causing anything like the devastation earlier ones did.

Think of it like the flu jab - flu is also caused by a virus that frequently mutates. Each year the jab is tweaked, based on the scientists' best 'predictions' (for want of a better word) as to what will be most effective against the latest mutation. So it protects against flu but can't always prevent you from getting it.

The vaccines work. It's why admissions to hospital (and deaths) are so much lower than they were at the beginning of the pandemic.

... and some people have natural immunity @Myturnatlast - or it's also always possible that your BF has had Covid before, but was asymptomatic.

I felt rough on Tuesday, temp etc. Tested negative.
Felt better but still had temp yesterday. Tested positive (😳 first time ever!). Triple vaxxed but never had it before to my knowledge.
Feel fine today, temp normal, only have symptoms of end of a very mild cold. Can’t test as run out of LFTs.

So am staying in but wouldn’t be if I hadn’t had that positive (very positive) test yesterday.
Maybe it’s having a day off before an onslaught 😂

Tested positive last night. Horrible cough, sniffy nose, headaches on and off.
Horrible night sweats last night but I get those alot anyway. Slept pretty well.

Today I just feel like I've got a cold. Am up and about.
Feel like I should be feeling worse to be honest.

No early release from quarantine for me (Scottish rules). Day 6 and I'm positive on LFT. 😷

DH has it. He’s very ill after double vaccination. I’m negative and triple jabbed. I’m guessing that’s why I got away with it.

Day 5 for me, and I suddenly feel so much better. Runny nose has dried up, sore throat has all but disappeared - unless/until I have to cough, which is very infrequent.

I hope, very much, it doesn't come back again (as some PP have experienced). It was horrible, but at least it was over quickly.

LFT is still positive, but to be expected this early I suppose.

What is everyone eating? The hunger is driving me mad but I can't taste anything. It's really miserable.

@ArmWrestlingWithChasNDave that’s so odd that you mention hunger, I didn’t have any appetite yesterday but today I am so hungry!!!!

I can still taste most things, coffee is the only thing that tastes funny

StuckInARug Yes! I had no appetite at all for days. Yesterday it came back and today I'm ravenous, but food is so unappealing. I don't know what to do.

I felt a bit off yesterday, like starting with a cold but LFT was negative when I tested before going to bed.
Restless night, I felt freezing cold but was sweating like mad and aching bones and muscles . Tested again at lunchtime and it is a positive. Both teens had it in the Summer and I managed to swerve it and have been in work right through the pandemic as a key worker so my luck must have just run out

Mine’s taken a bit of a weird course, be interested to see if this has happened to anyone else!

Day 1 symptoms started - feeling a bit snuffly and cold
Day 2 tested positive, felt ok
Day 3 -4 feeling rough, bad headache, sore throat, aching all over, sinus pain, eye pain, tooth pain, in bed all day, mad shivers at night.
Day 5 still rough, pain moved to ears, sore throat, sneezing, coughing a bit
Day 6 and 7 back to normal ish, up and dressed and doing stuff
Day 8 cough worsened, coughing up yellow phlegm
Day 9 cough, headache, high heart rate (for me), a bit breathless walking up stairs

It’s odd as I felt quite normal day 6, then seem to have slipped backwards. Anyone else?

I think it does lull you into a false sense of security @BillStickersIsInnocent so you think you're better but you're not. I've had a sore throat since Sunday, then Dh tested positive on LFT on Monday. I was negative but went for a PCR which came back positive on Tuesday. I worked Mon & Tues (long hours, super busy) while DH was in bed but by Wednesday, I'd crashed. He was feeling better this morning and did a few hours work, but is really sneezy and coughing this evening. It's the lack of energy I find hard to cope with, even cooking pasta for the kids took it out of me.

Thank you that’s reassuring! Hope you both feel better soon.

Day 12 and still testing positive. Still have a nasty cough and can’t taste properly. I can sort of taste at the back of my tongue but the front of my mouth feels weird. The first week I felt so ill I barely got up. My ears and throat were so painful, but the chills, all over body aches and overwhelming fatigue were miserable too. Weirdly, I had constant hunger and a rumbling belly, but then eating made my stomach hurt.

Son tested positive the day before me and was negative and symptom free again by day 4. He just had a painful ear for a couple of days.

Daughter has just tested negative on day 10 after feeling unwell on and off the whole time - sore throat, headache, nauseated and with numbness or pain in joints. She slept a lot and cried (‘I hate covid’) when she was awake. She’s back to school tomorrow and very happy about it.

I tested positive yesterday and I feel so ill. Sore throat, banging headache, aching, freezing but sweating at the same time, coughing, feel sick. Anyone got sore gums and achy jaw? It's driving me mad. Hope everyone feels better soon.

Day 5 for me and feeling sick, exhausted, nose is drying up and sore throat gone but still have NO energy.

Yes @Miracle29 my gums felt really sore. The inflammation for me started in my throat, then moved to my sinuses, nose, gums and jaw, then out to my ears. All so painful. Hope you feel better soon.

Still feeling awful here - day 4 for me.

Keep having staff members message me saying hope you feel better, see you Monday (when I'm due back in) but I don't see it happening. I'm still feeling rotten.

Terrible earache - causing awful vertigo - had such a awful turn with that yesterday, genuinely scared me.
Nausea on and off.
Now become very congested and stuffy in my upper nose.
Sore throat still, sound odd when I talk.
Coke but sweating (and the sweat smells weird!)
Still can taste and smell.
Aches on and off now - thank god because day 1 and 2 that was unbearable.
Headache and eye socket pain (although has eased over the last couple days)
Very weak but low appetite.
Occasional cough which is very phlemy* sorry TMI.

Temperate peaked at 38.2 on Wednesday. Currently 35.9? At 7.30am.

I work in hospitality and the thought of being back on my feet, running around after people, talking to people all day just seems crippling right now.

I feel like because some people have caught it and it's been nothing more than a bad cold, that they're expecting everyone's experience of it to now be that but I've had plenty of bad colds and this hasn't felt like one.

I cried to my hubby last night, saying this virus is kicking me ass.
He's had to keep working (money) leaving me home alone everyday, which I've hated. I haven't really left my bed since Tuesday midday as just don't have the energy.

Been taking paracetamol and ibuprofen every 4 hours (unless asleep). Was taking codine too the first two days due to the horrendous body aches especially in my hips and neck.
Having hot showers or baths, drinking plenty and trying to sleep as much as I can when it'll allow. But, don't seem to be making me feel much better. I've asked hubby to pick up some night nurse today for me in hopes that'll help a little more.

Anyone found anything they've found and helped them feel much better?

@billstickersisinnocent I haven't heard anyone say they've had a achy jaw and sore gums so good to know it's not just me with the weird symptom but the achy jaw is so irritating. Hope you feel better soon.
@dogmumma everyone who I've spoken to have said its just like a cold but I'd say it ten times worse. I'm shocked at how ill I feel. My chest feels heavy today aswell. Had nightsweats last night but I'm freezing at the same time. Managed get my tempreture down this morning.

I've lost smell and taste now. Thought I was going to be ok.

Honestly never been so knocked out by a virus.