I thought they said omicron was mild?

[Jestal]

Everyone i know said it was just like a cold.

So far i've had : dizzy spells, horrendous migrance, sinus pain, burning eyes, body aches, on/off nausea, bad stomach, tickly cough, pressure in nose, insomnia and general feeling like utter crap/anxious.

This isnt what everyone described where its just sniffles or a cough. People I have know have had it for a couple days with no symptons at all!

Have i got a different variant, has anyone else experienced these symptons with omricon?

Hubbi and myself had covid he was super poorly I wasn’t I’ve had worse colds but he had exact symptoms u describe ! And I’m also immunise suppressed its very strange virus but we both ok now x

I’m triple vaccinated but early due to CEV family member so I’m wondering if that’s played a part in me having it less mildly - I had booster end of October so probably largely useless now against omicron.

I’m convinced I’ve had the omicron variant now.

It's always been like this. A bloody lottery. I was so severely ill in the first wave yet my brother-in-law got it at the same time as me was one of the first people tested to see as he is a doctor had no symptoms.

I think it’s ‘mild’ meaning fewer people get seriously ill and need hospital treatment. I had it at the beginning of January. I’m triple jabbed and it was far worse than when I caught presumably Delta last summer (after two jabs). I had a fierce temperature and flu symptoms for two weeks, was completely delirious and couldn’t get out of bed. It’s been 7 weeks now and I am still shattered and weak.

“ I think you hit the nail on the head about how people are downplaying it for their own narrative. This is not a cold and should not be generalised like one for false comfort! It only makes people like me freak out more when they dont experience cold like symptons.”

I’m not downplaying anything. I’m being as honest about my experience as you are. People haven’t been lying to you when talking about their own experiences. You’ve clearly been lucky enough to only know people who had mild symptoms - I know a much wider range.

Come on OP, you would be pretty annoyed if people started telling you you were exaggerating your symptoms for your own “narrative”. So don’t do it to other people. You get plenty of sympathy from me about feeling rotten, no need to make accusations about other people’s experiences of covid.

Why is the op not telling us whether they're vaccinated and boosted?

I'm wondering whether this is a wind up thread?

I'm on day 9 today, I've been knocked off my feet by it, today is first day back at work. I have had hacking cough, major fatigue, sinusitis, laryngitis, headaches, snot central, stomach cramps, nausea etc and generally feeling super crappy! A few of my colleagues had it too and managed to work through it, there's no way I could have worked. As my friend reminded me, it's incredibly variable the impact it can have on people and yes mild absolutely means no hospitalisation - I haven't once felt worried for my safety with this just really unwell and fed up. Definitely the most ill I've been in the last decade I think.

Btw triple jabbed.

More than half of the teachers I know who have had it had symptoms similar to yours for a few days, and many of them still have shortness of breath etc a month or so later. I don’t know if it’s a viral load thing having caught it in a classroom with several positive cases for a long period of time. That is still ‘mild’ as in no hospitalisation needed, but not unusual for you to feel a lot rougher than you would with a cold, hope you feel better soon.

How do you know it is Omicron?
It also depends how healthy an individual is as a person to how bad it can be.

@Peachy7 they said omricon is 99 percent of cases now where i live. As i live in a rural area i think the chance of me picking up that 1 percent delta variant is very slim, although not impossible.

Im not super fit but i am gnerally healthy, i eat well take daily vitamins try to go for daily walks. Im also only in my early twenties.

We don’t know is it’s omicron we’ve just been told that omicron has out competed delta and is now almost 100pc dominant. I don’t think there’s much chance of it not being omicron but it could be the nastier Omicron variant or a new emerging variant I suppose.

I’m not sure how healthy you were is a deciding factor. I’m very healthy with no underlying conditions or medications and I’ve had it fairly bad it seems. I suspect type of immune system might have something to do with it. Mine is reactive and I had quite noticeable side effects from the first vaccine, had an allergic reaction to the first, get hay fever etc. I think maybe some immune systems ‘over react’ to covid - most of the symptoms like sneezing, aches etc are cause by your immune response remember, not by the virus itself.

In medical terms mild means doesn’t need hospital treatment. For many people covid is similar to real flu.

I think people are taking my thread abit too peronsally. I was never spefically attacking people on this thread. I was just saying as a collective and a whole all I ever hear of people is that omricon is a cold and nothing worse. Generally in person and all over the news/social media. So i was not expecting to feel hit like a bus and as I said it was only when i got this ill that people I knew that had started to reveal they felt the same. I just found it peculiar that they failed to mention it before and tried to pass it off as a common cold.

If i knew omricon was this bad honestly I would be alot less carefree and more selective in where I am going. This is horrible and I live with elderly parents

Try some antihistamines which work for travel sickness as they might help with the dizziness.

@Jestal

Everyone i know said it was just like a cold.

So far i've had : dizzy spells, horrendous migrance, sinus pain, burning eyes, body aches, on/off nausea, bad stomach, tickly cough, pressure in nose, insomnia and general feeling like utter crap/anxious.

This isnt what everyone described where its just sniffles or a cough. People I have know have had it for a couple days with no symptons at all!

Have i got a different variant, has anyone else experienced these symptons with omricon?

Yes. I am getting over Covid now. Free from isolation on Sunday. My mother caught it first and gave it to me. She is 82 and had it very lightly. I am 56 and was much more poorly. My husband didn't catch it at all. It hits everyone differently.

It's possible you have covid AND something else OP.

DH and I have had a lot of the symptoms you describe over the past couple of weeks but tested negative.

dizzy spells, horrendous migrance, sinus pain, burning eyes, body aches, on/off nausea, bad stomach, tickly cough, pressure in nose, insomnia and general feeling like utter crap/anxious

I've not had the aches or bad stomach but can tick everything else off!

Well firstly, when medics say mild they mean not requiring hospital.

Secondly, there's always been a lot of variation in how people experience covid and omicron is no different. Lots of people have had very mild doses of omicron, like a cold. I did for example. If I'd felt like that in 2019, I wouldn't have taken a day off work. That doesn't mean others have t had it a lot worse.

I've had similar symptoms and have been wondering it it's delta.

Started Monday. Have been resting and taking fluids religiously since. Feel somewhat better today. Glands down, no headache so far and sore throat noticeably better.

It is more like a cold now - coughing up yellowy greeny phlegm.

“ I just found it peculiar that they failed to mention it before and tried to pass it off as a common cold.”

So you think the people you know in RL were lying, downplaying it for their own “narrative”? Why?

Mild just means not hospitalised or dead.
I’m guessing you are not vaccinated.
I know quite a few healthy people who ended up in hospital with delta and alpha. It’s a rotten disease and, like others have said, affects people differently. The idea that, if you’re young and healthy, you’re untouchable is a fallacy. Also long covid is a real thing too and I know young healthy people who’ve been badly affected by it.

I had most of your symptoms too but they weren't terrible. I was in bed with a fever 2 nights but not too bad during the day. First night I hadn't even tested positive yet. Lf was still negative and pcr was booked for the next morning. I've no idea what variant we all had. They don't tell you 🤷‍♀️

I've had most of those symptoms with a cold aswell though.

I don't know who you know, but I'm not at all surprised that there's huge variation in what people are experiencing. It's been the same with vaccination side-effects, I had none whatsoever, one of my younger fitter friends was in bed for a week after his second vaccine!

What we know about covid is that it doesn't present the same in everyone. A friend of mine's family had it recently, the adults had like a flu/week in bed/hard to walk version, the kids had a mild cold and one had no symptoms at all.

I had flu during the covid pandemic (2020) or was poorly tested for covid, not clear which and I was in bed for 5 days, but fully recovered.

It isn't nice, OP, but even a bad cold isn't 'nice', I've got a sore throat, aches, shivers, so tired, stuffy nose just off an ordinary cold right now.

If it's really worse than anything you've ever experienced, which early accounts of Alpha, Delta and the 2020/21 were, then I think you'd have a point. It sounds to me like my experience of flu and it really isn't nice, but I wouldn't personally wear a mask for ever and social distance/not go out to avoid having flu again, it's just not that bad (my choice obviously).