Covid - just a cold! Help!

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Sorry, bit of a rant because I’m feeling miserable 😥

I understood it was bad and I never thought it was just a cold, but I never thought it would be this awful for me.

I just tested positive for it. I feel like I’ve been run down 10 times by a train. My throat is like razors and my chest feels completely clogged with mucus and other gunk. It hurts to cough but I need to because of the amount of stuff in my chest. Everytime I get up I feel exhausted and it feels like everything is a struggle. I have awful earache in both of my ears and worst of all, a tooth that I am halfway through treatment for a root infection had suddenly flared up again. It wasn’t sore anymore after getting the initial root treatment but since testing positive for covid it’s horrifically painful. Maybe a coincidence as I don’t know if covid can affect teeth but it’s excruciating.

i have no health conditions, my BMI is 21 and I take part in an intense sport so train every single day and have good fitness. I also have all my vaccines. I knew covid would be bad but I had no idea it would be like this and I guess I presumed I would be fine! I’ve previously had flu and have never felt as bad as this.

please tell me it gets better?!

It's does but I was like this for two weeks and still have an altered/minimised sense of taste and smell (it did go completely for over a week) 3 weeks on. Still feeling incredibly fatigued as well. Just so sleepy.

I feel very misold on how awful it is. I think there's been a lot of massaging by the government, and media and the general public who are (rightly) scared that if we start talking like this they'll bring restrictions back in. I would never want that but I do not believe this is a mild illness by any stretch. My eldest's temp was spiking to 39.9 for a full 12 hours. 10 months ago he'd have been under 3 and that would have been an A&E visit - you don't get that from 'just a cold'. We've had a cold every few weeks since last Oct, this has been horrible in comparison.

I’m nearly 2 weeks in and still not well enough to work, even though I WFH. My organisation moved to hybrid working, so people have been WFH with Covid up to now, but for the first time in the whole of the pandemic we actually have large numbers off work with it, because, anecdotally, it’s making people more ill for longer than any variant since vaccines came in.

DFIL has just had his appt with his oncologist and surgeon cancelled because both are off sick with it. I do worry that it’s going to start having a bigger effect because even though people don’t have to isolate now, they are just too ill to work.

It differs from person to person.
For me, dd and ds it was like a head cold with a sore throat, runny/blocked nose. I did lose my sense of smell but its coming back now. Dd has a phlegmy cough now though.

It's such an odd bug in how it differs. We have all had it (twice in the case of my daughter) and been affected differently.

DH: No symptoms bar a bit of brain fog (the brain fog creeps me out as much as anything, how can a run of the mill bug do that?) Tested neg on day 5.
DD (11): felt sick, had eye ache for a couple of days with bout #1, no symptoms with bout #2.
DS (9): temperature on day 1, then nothing. Tested neg on day 5
Me: Worst of all of us, felt twitchy and achy, exhausted, major brain fog, lethargic, headache, mild cough, just felt horrible but without anything major to pin that on. Still testing positive past day 10.

I hope you feel better soon

I think it's relatively easy for many people. I had a migraine and vomiting for the first day and after that just mild cold symptoms. Everyone I know who has Covid has been the same. Unfortunately, that's not the case for everyone .

I spent 3 days lying on the couch feeling like my ribs were in a vice. It then took a month for me to be back to fully able to breathe normally again though I was back at work after 2 weeks off (10 days isolating at that point). I am also fully vaccinated and generally healthy.

It's a really shitty virus.

I had covid for the first time in June and my god I was bad. I slept for 3 days and had a raging temperature. I collapsed a few times as well and the back pain and headache were horrendous. I went back to work on day 11 but it took about 3 weeks to recover properly. You have my sympathies op!

Covid and a tooth infection doesn't sound fun, have you got antibiotics and painkillers for your tooth? If you can get that under control, Covid will be easier to cope with.

Doing intensive sport can lower your immunity. Maybe that's the reason.

It’s grim isn’t it?
im on day 6 of symptoms and sore throat has gone and I’m more snotty than anything (also dried up a bit now), but still feel so drained. That’s the worst of it for me as I can’t even summon energy to make myself any proper food - just taken fruit and toast (didn’t much fancy that!). Temperature isn’t that stable but it comes down easily w paracetamol so I can feel a bit more ‘normal’.
The house has gone to pot as well, oh well at least no-one is coming round.

I've had covidy symptoms in January, April and now ( first time testing positive). Each time I've been knocked out for at least a couple of days.
Actually grateful we're on holiday at the minute as I wouldn't have been able to work with the horrendous headache I had for 24 hrs.

I've gone from a pretty much flawless attendance record - been with my employers for 20 years - to just about hitting the threshold of an official chat because of number of absences.

I was saying to DH that I don't know how sustainable this is long term, if people are catching it every 2-3 months and are ill to the point of being unable to function.

I hear you op. I’m pretty healthy and no comorbidities that might spell issues but jeez it knocked me down. Day 2 of it I could not move. The best tip I can give you is paracetamol every 4 hours and sleep, if you can’t sleep at least rest as much as you can. Vitamin c and plenty of water.

Yes covid made my tooth infection to flare up too, 3 times i had covid and 3 times the absence on my tooth flare up and i needed antibiotics, not fun especially when when you are waiting months for an appointment at dental hospital 😢

I really feel for you all. But I have to say people who have had Covid in the first wave (pre vaccines) and the million and a half who have Long Covid have been trying to warn everyone about this for 2 years!! Yes it's awful, you feel dreadful, I was like you are describing OP for 8 weeks solid (pre vaccines), bed bound. Very fit and healthy, no conditions, 36 and BMI 20. Second time thankfully less bad but still 10 days feeling pretty awful, unable to work. But truthfully anyone who has had Long Covid feels the public don't care / don't want to know, want to get back to normal etc etc. Now many people are beginning to realise just how much Covid messes you up and thinking differently. Perhaps being this sick every 2-3 months isn't good for us after all??

So many of my friends have now had it and are messaging me to say 'oh it's worse than i thought, I am not recovering, I am so tired, I can't work, I have it again' etc etc. I have been warning them for over 2 years but stopped because I didn't want to be a broken record. We are sadly heading for huge numbers on long term sick because government have overlooked the impact Covid will / is having on the 'young ish and healthy masses' who form the greatest proportion of the work force. Yes it won't be everyone but if it's 10-20% of people suffering long term this is major.

So I live my life carefully, I socialise and I do stuff but I avoid crowded spaces, I wear a mask when i think it might help etc. It's just common sense. Our bodies can't deal with this level of illness repeatedly through a year so avoid it where you can! I also have a cupboard full of medicine for when I get it again. I am prepared.

Yes it’s awful. I actually just slithered down the stairs after having liquid diarrhoea (sorry) I had a tight chest and nearly called an ambulance it’s fucking horrendous my nerves feel like they are all in fire

I hear you. I'm on day 5 and can't remember ever feeling this bad. I don't have a cough but my brain feels like it is being squeezed, and I've got a high temp. I'm wasn't expecting it to be this bad, I'm triple vaxxed and was thinking it would be like a mild cold - how naïve was I?
I've message friends and they know people right now who are saying it's the worst they've ever had - including one who's had it 2 times already. Maybe it's this new BA5 strain?
OP I hope you feel better soon and get your tooth sorted. My teeth/gums felt achey too and put this down to a sinus thing.
At least it gave my friends and family a laugh. I sent them a photo of me looking shit and they said I look like Miss Piggy....thanks.