This covid is a bastard

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I hang my head in shame I was at the point of 'oh it's a cold' tested positive Wednesday due to a sore throat and BANG the bastard has knocked me off my feet , I have never felt so crap in all my life ... how long have others felt like crap?? My symptoms started with sore throat , then a headache from hell , dizzy , then a full on cold , my teeth even hurt, my body aches ...but no temp and no cough .. Tripled jabbed too .. it needs to go I only started my new job two weeks ago...

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@EachandEveryone my ear felt like I was under water , didn't matter how much I held my nose and blew to make them pop I was still underwater feeling , bloody horrible!!

Hoping your all feeling better I'm 2 weeks post , getting there but what a bastard !

[BooseysMom]

This is the first day I've had a strong positive line and I'm feeling horrendous with sweating, aching all over (even my eyeballs are aching ffs!) and coughing and sneezing. I thought it was a bad cold. After 2.5 years it eventually caught up with me!
How's everyone else feeling?

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@BooseysMom it's a wanker !! Pop the pills and sleep all you can do x

[BooseysMom]

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@BooseysMom Flowers it's a wanker !! Pop the pills and sleep all you can do x

Thanks.😊 I honestly thought I was gonna pass out earlier.. I could hardly walk! It reminded me of the swine flu. Whoever thinks this is a bad cold has obviously never had it!

I checked 111 and it said call 999 if you feel drowsy so I've been keeping myself awake!

[NatMoz]

Let me join this misery club.

All 3 of us in my home caught it including 7 month baby.

It's been hard to recover because of the baby's needs.

I think I'm on day 6 and i walked around the garden and felt exhausted

[BooseysMom]

NatMoz · Today 15:13

Let me join this misery club.

All 3 of us in my home caught it including 7 month baby.

It's been hard to recover because of the baby's needs.

I think I'm on day 6 and i walked around the garden and felt exhausted

Welcome to the world of pain! Have you had it before? We have managed to avoid it until now. Are you still getting positive tests?
How has your baby been thru it?
Hope you all recover soon

[MeenzAmRhoi]

Hoping you all feel better soon!

I was ill Thursday - Tuesday. Wednesday I felt much better but still had blocked ears and extreme exhaustion. I continued to sleep alongside toddler for his nap until Friday, by Saturday my ears had unblocked and I was testing negative! I was sure it would take longer since I'm pregnant but in the end, it went pretty quickly, considering how bad I still was Monday then Wednesday I was suddenly miles better.

[TheHateIsNotGood]

My first time for Covid - triple vaxxed (booster in Dec 2021) and it's taken nearly 2 weeks to be back to a pre-covid mind and body state. Tested positive from Day1 and the next 11 days and felt it too.

Not sure what variant it was but I've called it Wierd Covid, because it was wierd - some days it was like being off my head on painkillers - without any pain or taking any painkillers. Every day involved some sort of inability and fatigue.
Mostly feeling pretty crappy. Not nice.

[Scorpio8]

Anyone have clogged up throat and feel very congested. It's day 6 for me.

My partner day 4 and he quite bad he can't eat incase he be sick.

[BooseysMom]

Day 3 here and losing taste and smell. Barely any appetite and feel dizzy and out of breath when I move. Still have blocked nose and sore throat. I can't believe there could be weeks of this to go!

[TinaWeymouthsBass]

It's been 22 days since I tested positive, although I feel nearly normal I still have a cough and pain across the top of my back and still have bouts of total fatigue. I usually do at least 3 HIIT training sessions a week but can still only manage a short walk in the morning without feeling like I'm going to pass out.
Anyone who says this is just a cold is delusional.

[BooseysMom]

Anyone who says this is just a cold is delusional.

Absolutely. I have a covid-denier in the family and I almost wish she'd get it!!

[MsTSwift]

Such a weird germ. Most Illnesses you feel terrible feverish for few days then improve. This one I had all sorts of unpleasant odd symptoms that came and went then came back again over about 10 days (splitting headache/ no smell / shivery /hacking cough/ achy muscles /period went haywire / eyes felt disconnected. Felt vaguely human day 10 but didn’t get energy back to be able to exercise etc for about another month. Heavy cold my arse!

[MsTSwift]

Triple jabbed pretty fit and healthy last illness (flu) 2007 so dread to think how it would hit someone more vulnerable!

[smine1]

Dropping like flys at my work .. another two today .. it said on the news it's decreasing?!? Where! Just a question will you be having the 4th jab? My hubby said now he's had it he's not going to have it .. I'm on the fence with this one atm. He had horrible side effects after his where as I had none. I hope all you ladies that are in the crap stage a speedy recovery ❤️‍🩹

[Crikeyalmighty]

I had it in February and can only describe it as feeling like a chronic hangover mixed with food poisoning- Just putting washing in was exhausting. Banging constant headache, upset stomache, painful eyes and utter exhaustion- strangely I didn't have much of a cough or temperature. I felt really bad for 6 days and then gradually a bit better every day but didn't feel normal for 3 weeks

[rookiemere]

I'm Day 19/20 and although I'm a lot better than I was, I'm still in short walks feeling too fatigued for the gym or parkrun. Sadly my appetite has returned so I'm not sure I'll maintain the lovely half stone weight loss I achieved in week one.

[Madhairday]

I'm a month in and still barely able to stand, let alone walk. Still very foggy brained, exhausted and achy all over. It's maddening. I am CEV though but fully vaccinated.

[TinaWeymouthsBass]

@Madhairday
so sorry you’re still so poorly, did you manage to get antivirals? My dh is CEV and got a course of paxlovid which made a massive difference, he did the best out of the three of us he was back to normal within two days of starting the treatment and testing negative by day 6!

[Madhairday]

That's good Tina, so glad he recovered well. I didn't get the antivirals, I didn't make it to the narrowed down CEV though my health team were really cross that I didn't and tried to get me the 4th vaccine etc. My vulnerability isn't immunosuppression so that was that. I think it would have made a huge difference. I'm seeing my consultant tomorrow so am going to push to get the vaccine and antiviral next time etc if I can. Exhausted.

[LindaEllen]

@RandomMess

The latest variant is actually making most adult unwell.

Are you a virologist? Because you're talking bollocks.

Only people who have significant symptoms are even testing now. There could still be loads of people who have mild or no symptoms who don't test because they're not free anymore.

Show me the study for what you're saying and I will apologise for saying you're talking bollocks.

[Magic1231]

I'm 3 weeks on from testing positive, and my god it was way worse than I would have expected! Took a full two weeks, and I'm still feeling weak, brain fog to the point I'm getting frustrated with my memory and how slow it is. Post nasal drip too, which seems to be oddly playing up more today. I've spoke to somebody else who said he took 4 weeks after having it before he got rid of the fatigue and brain fog xxx

[BooseysMom]

@Magic1231... I feel your pain!! I tested positive on sat 30/7. It was horrible..fevers, all over aching, nausea, dizziness. Last week I had 2 negative tests then bang!! today its positive again!!! How can that happen? I'm coughing loads but put it down to long covid or hay fever!
Are you still suffering now? How long did you test positive for?

[withiceplease]

Tested positive on Saturday. Main problem is sore throat which woke me in night due to dryness and fatigue. No headache but wiped out. Im going away in 10 days so keeping fingers crossed.
No loss of appetite and no loss of sense of smell/taste.

[Buzzinwithbez]

@BooseysMom

Anyone who says this is just a cold is delusional.

Absolutely. I have a covid-denier in the family and I almost wish she'd get it!!

For some, it is just a cold. We are even less to believe that some get it asymptomatically.

That doesn't negate anyone elses experience. It's our body's individual response to the virus and each one of us is different.

Can I suggest having a look at the work of Dr Shankara Chetty who felt it was a biphasic illness - the respiratory infection part, followed by the body's sensitivity response to the spike proteins. He found using anti histamines promptly, only in the second part could halt the extreme inflammatory responses to the spike.