I've been dodging it for two years!!!

[Sapphireskies]

I've now got Covid. Currently got a cough been hot, been cold, tired, sore, achy, bunged up in the nose, and toilet issues.

This thread prompted me to take a Covid test earlier this evening but it said negative. Tomorrow I’ll take the LFT using my throatI instead of my nose and see what happens. I have all the symptoms others on this thread and I’m shivering in bed right now.

We're fairly careful anyway, but were being very careful as due to go on a weekend break, somewhere we've wanted to return to for a few years. DH tested positive and I followed on three days later. We're both OK now. Work wouldn't take me back until I was negative, day 14. Glad as I was officially allowed out from day 10 and could build myself up a bit by going for short walks in quiet streets.

Hope you all feel better soon. DH and myself started to feel a bit better around day 6 and it improved from there.

Also had avoided it but got it this week. Dd bought it back from school where 5 peers were off the week before. Day 6 here and she seems much better (assume she had it a day or two before me) but i'm getting different symptoms - started with a day of sore throat, then painful spine and mild cough, then deeper cough with snotty nose, dizziness and headache starting this eve. Need to be well by Friday as I am meant to be out for the first time in AGES!!!

I've not knowingly had it yet and thinking that I'm naturally immune lol.

My colleagues have had it, some more than once (work in a nursery so no distancing, lots of contact etc), I've had it in the household and my daughter works in a hospital (she had it in Dec 2020) but still not had it myself. It is very weird how it does/doesn't spread. A close colleague has had it this week but I still didn't catch it.

Be typical to catch it when there is no obligation to have a week off and no financial help. Miss having a break from work and money!

I also thought I was super immune to covid- worked in schools, been in hospitals throughout pandemic- then bam! I have still been wearing masks/handwashing etc too. Not surprised- my school is full of ill children.

Tested positive today although lateral flows are negative. I’m in Scotland so masks are still mandatory, but cases are rife. I teach so have done well to avoid it this long!

Same here, it's been in our house 4 times and I've managed to avoid it. Tested positive on sat so 4 days in now. Mostly been head cold symptoms and snotty. Had to have a sleep yesterday afternoon as my head was pounding but other than that not too bad so far

If you have it are you isolating within your household. I'm not sure what we should do quite frankly, we are very cramped here in that we don't have spare bedrooms or anything, worrying about ds coming home form university as he has exams when he goes back and really does not need Covid at this stage, but I don't think he is allowed to stay in his halls. Honestly fed up with all of this and everyone I know now with it is quite ill .

I got it on my holiday and isolated in the attic. Neither Dh nor either teen has caught it touch wood. I have felt flipping awful with it.

I've just tested positive and feeling a bit fluey. I was also starting to think I was immune! DP had it last month and we didn't isolate from each other but I didn't catch it then. Hopefully it was recent enough that he won't get it again but currently debating if I should decamp to the spare room.

I wasn't isolating particularly, but since I have started to feel really rough with it on day 2 I am. I spend the days in the living room noone uses and I am sleeping in my cabin in the garden. I do not want my husband or sons to get this, they will require a shit ton more nursing than I do/am getting.

Not surprising, few SD, wears masks or uses hand sanitiser down here, isn't the new strain 1.4 x more transmissible than Omicron?

DD says hospital had 2 CV ward in January, now has 6 ! big knock on effect on staff sickness and canceled ops.

Well looks like the whole house has got it now and I was careful. Been wholed up in my room for days. Getting cabin fever now. Doesn't help I won't get sick pay (if I get any at all, it will be next fortnight) and only get paid for two shifts. I get paid every fortnight in my job. But it will be alright. More concerned about everyone else. I'm a lot better, rarely coughing or sneezing now and not that sore. Still get tired easily and still positive. Hope everyone else is feeling better. Let's hope we are all negative soon. I just want to get outside and go back to work as well.

@Badbadbunny

Can't believe so many people shocked they've caught covid. Perhaps they should have continued to wear masks and social distance etc., and maybe avoided busy/crowded places if they didn't want to catch it. It's inevitable that more people will catch it when very few are taking any precautions.

I did all of these things, and I still caught it.

@Iamblossom

Still very heavy cold symptoms here, nose running like a tap, headache, brain fog, sneezing. Is this day 2 if I tested positive for the first time yesterday?

No, day 1.

@Badbadbunny you can be all kinds of careful and still get it. I work in hospitality and plenty of people come in on a daily basis, you only need one to spread it. And even if people wear masks, it can still spread through the air and go into the eyes, this virus will try to get in no matter what. This current variant is so transmissible as well. We were all going to get it at some point. My work recently got rid of masks. I'm not going to wear a mask forever. I make sure to stay away from people what I naturally do and I always wash and sanitise my hands. We are all only human and even the best protection can falter, not be enough.