Was it a cold or the start of Omicron?!

[MissCrowley]

Last Monday/ Tuesday and Wednesday I felt like shite, I did an LFT and it came back negative.

Ears bunged up
Nausea
Headaches on/off
A sore throat so bad I was nearly crying at night because it burned!
Burning nostrils
Constant nasal drip.
If my nose wasn't dripping then my eyes started
General tiredness
Lots of sneezing- I was wandering around with bits of tissue shoved up my nose.

I started feeling a better last Thursday. However I've still got the bunged up nose from time to time and the fatigue.
Today I've got a very faint positive for covid.
I'm feeling a bit disoriented, nauseous and dizzy. So what's the craic?
I mean if this is covid then it's been going on like 10 days before testing positive? Surely that can't be right!

I had an awful sore throat last Thursday and Friday. Cold symptoms and cough started on Saturday. Negative lateral flow tests through until yesterday, but got the positive PCR on Monday! Still feeling completely shite.

I'm just finding it odd how it could have taken so long or if I've had a bad cold and about to get another one

I had a horrible head cold/cough for 2 weeks. Coughing up green stuff and really badly congested. Took 4 lft spread out in that time and all were negative.

Felt better for about 3 days and then got a persistent tickly cough....faint but obvious positive! I was less sick than when I had the cold before but it took me 10 full days to test negative again.

I think in my case it was a cold followed by Covid!

I had streaming nose and general cold symptoms the starting Friday 4th which then turned into sinus pain. Finally felt better the following Friday, started coughing on the Saturday and tested positive on the Sunday. I assume I had a cold then Covid, especially as I had a negative PCR in that week.