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How long until you felt fully better?

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CorsicaDreaming · 09/05/2022 04:28

Just that really - how long until you felt fully better and what symptoms lasted the longest for you?

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WarriorNewAgain · 13/05/2022 07:15

The vax was designed for the other variants.

I had omicron which was significantly different. I was 6 weeks post booster. However as I say, I'm peri menopausal and there are known links to ongoing fatigue/ long covid for women of this age.,

At no point did I need hospital. Who knows if having the vax would have been different. I had what seemed to be like a mini version of long covid after the first vax that lasted about 5-6 weeks so I am glad I had it. I know too many who have long covid to varying degrees.

I know a few hpcs and one is looking into the research around long covid; he says vax is showing clear protection against that.

The majority of my relatives and colleagues who've had the omicron have found it lingered for a good few months, including the young fit ones. Others didn't even notice they had it.

Babdoc · 13/05/2022 07:18

Two years and counting! Bloody Long Covid.

Campervangirl · 13/05/2022 08:03

I tested positive 10 weeks ago and I'm still not right.
I've got blocked ears, like being under water, can't hear properly, a cough, insomnia and Im just exhausted.
A friend who had covid twice was recommended by her gp to take folic acid, vitamin D and vitamin B12 so I've just started taking them, no change yet.
I've not bothered calling the gp as my dn 14yrs old has long covid and they have not been given much help.

Pennox · 13/05/2022 08:07

I had it for first time in Feb - good 8 weeks to feel better. Then got is again couple of weeks ago. Less than a week back to normal.

I'd say my sleep is still very disturbed tho but, again, am peri menopause and it wasn't great to start with. My cycle has also been weird since and I'm a bit down, but again could be menopause or perhaps it is affecting menopausal women more?

woodhill · 13/05/2022 09:58

I felt slightly better yesterday and managed to work full day feeling more like myself but today I have a headache and woke up early

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CorsicaDreaming · 13/05/2022 15:59

@Movingonup22 - answering your question about whether posters have been vaccinated, yes I had had all three vaccinations and the booster was in early December so should still be fully kicking in when I got it in early April...

To some extent I am glad I got it now (assuming I fully recover as I'm still getting exhausted /coughing) as it is a natural booster on top of my three vaccines. I am really worried that the government is not planning a further rollout of vaccinations for everybody as I really think we are going to regret not doing that once this protection from the third vax booster wears off, and they should be planning it for all again as Omicron is still very much out there and seems to potentially be throwing out other variants. So we really need to protect everyone still.

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BringBackCoffeeCreams · 13/05/2022 16:12

I'm fully vaccinated and am now into week 4. The 'cold' symptoms were just irritating. More like when the pollen count is high than a cold. But the fatigue is awful. The effort of just standing is crazy. Even hanging up the washing, I have to keep stopping to sit down.

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CorsicaDreaming · 13/05/2022 16:25

@BringBackCoffeeCreams - that is interesting you liken it to the effect of high pollen count because today I've started taking antihistamine just in case it is in fact hayfever related as I agree that the omicron kind of weird cough is exactly that same kind of thing. And yes just wanting to sit down all the time is still very familiar.

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CorsicaDreaming · 13/05/2022 16:27

My DH said he read the fatigue is because it affects your mitochondria- which impacts energy. Keep meaning to look it up and see if it can be boosted somehow - but keep forgetting!

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WarriorNewAgain · 13/05/2022 17:06

Ubiquinol (co q 10) does that.

I have been taking some but later on.

I've been using pharma nord's as I took it when conceiving my youngest as I was over 40. Only because it's the brand they prescribe (I think if you're on statins...?)

WarriorNewAgain · 13/05/2022 17:09

Both me, my eldest and my inlaws came out in itchy spots/ hives about 6 weeks after infection, which anti histamines helped with. I noticed they possibly helped the brain fog too (?) - there's been a lot of research into anti histamines for long covid actually.

wildthingsinthenight · 13/05/2022 17:11

Babdoc · 13/05/2022 07:18

Two years and counting! Bloody Long Covid.

Same! Well 2yrs 2 months. March 2020.
❤

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 13/05/2022 17:14

Tested positive on 19 March and was really poorly. Still have cough and no taste/smell. 40s, otherwise healthy, normal weight, and 3 x jabs.

waddayaknow · 13/05/2022 17:20

Movingonup22 · 13/05/2022 07:01

Did people who still feel have the vaccine??

Im not asking to make a point about should have had it etc! Just curious to know how far the vaccine protection goes. It’s clear it helps massively stop death etc but I’ve found it hard to get info on impact on extent of symptoms

im triple vaxed abs getting back to normal life but finding it so hard to make risk assessments!

Triple vaxxed here. Still no improvement - "just" fatigue, spending the day lying around and maybe doing one thing which them wears me out. Headaches quite frequently but they go away on their own really quite quickly. I'm also peri and on HRT.

Beenthere123 · 13/05/2022 17:23

2 weeks

lost my sense of smell for about 3/4 months but it’s back now

Harpydragon · 13/05/2022 17:29

I tested positive on bank holiday Monday, just really bad cold symptoms. Had a week feeling rough but tested negative on the Thursday, then a week feeling OK, today I feel shocking. I am exhausted and my throat and chest feel absolutely raw. I was thinking of testing again to see if I could possibly be positive again as I feel that bad. I'm also triple vaxed.

SnortingWhiskeyDrinkingCoke · 13/05/2022 17:31

The sore throat, body aches and temperature had gone in about 5 days. I didn’t have a bad cough, but the mild cough I had, stayed for a few weeks, as did the brain fog. I’m not vaccinated.

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CorsicaDreaming · 13/05/2022 19:51

@Judystilldreamsofhorses - I am beginning to feel there has been some very dodgy PR about how good the vaccines are to fight off omicron.

The numbers in hospital might be lower but many people who are getting it seem to be having really quite long-term issues that are quite significant for health and the functioning of the country as a whole - and yet no mitigation is in place at all. It seems we could at least keep wearing masks and testing and isolating when ill. No one would want to go back to lockdown but to do literally nothing when so many people seem to be getting long-term ill is wrong

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CorsicaDreaming · 13/05/2022 19:53

@WarriorNewAgain - thanks for the info. I will look into that.

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WarriorNewAgain · 13/05/2022 20:08

Long covid isn't diagnosed till after 3 months.

Three months feels like a long time. Then you're unfit from the fatigue.

There's a theory that covid affects oestrogen receptors - hrt seems to be affected, and it can take up to 6 months to settle.

We don't yet know longer term outcomes for omicron. We do for unvaxxed previous strains. Sadly 2 years and counting. We do for vaxxed previous strains; significantly fewer deaths and (from what I've been told) it does protect against long covid.

WarriorNewAgain · 13/05/2022 20:10

They couldn't make any claims about the vax and omicron. It popped up so quickly. It takes time to analyse. The safest pr was to say it did protect. Hpcs I know working the covid wards told me it was mostly unvaccinated in hospital during the omicron wave.

tiredanddangerous · 13/05/2022 20:16

It's about 5 weeks now since I tested positive. The exhaustion is really getting to me now and it seems to be getting worse rather than better. I'm barely holding it together at work and am fit for nothing by the time I get home. I'm fully vaccinated.

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CorsicaDreaming · 13/05/2022 20:36

@WarriorNewAgain - I just feel quite frustrated about it really - I was exceptionally careful before as I did feel it was likely it would affect me more badly than most. And the PR after Xmas was v much that omicron if vaxxed and boosted was "a mild cold for most". So I let my guard down and chose to go and eat indoors in a pub with friends at Easter - and got it. Had the level of long term illness been shared by Whitty et al (rather than them basically being disbanded by the govt) I would have chosen a careful route and chosen not to eat indoors in that pub. Clearly you still need to take some risks (work etc) but I really feel through a lack of honest info I made a decision to do something that I could easily have avoided. And that really frustrates me.

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WarriorNewAgain · 13/05/2022 21:32

I know I'm really sorry.

I've been on high alert for such a long time working in a send school and it was my own choice who brought it home.

But for many I know it's been a mild cold. Bad flu can linger but we tend not to talk about it, glandular fever. But unfortunately they just didn't have the time data. In terms for hospitals it was a mild virus. I was quite unwell but I think I've had worse flu. However the brain fog and fatigue were something else. And came later so may not have been as well reported. When I spoke to my Gp a month ago she said it was still covid - so in April they were still only building a picture of how long it can take.

All the gov care about really is the nhs /hospital ability to cope.

WarriorNewAgain · 13/05/2022 21:34

Sorry, effing paragraphs not working.

You will feel better - I am slowly, need to get fit, and I generally live with mild fatigue all the time.