How to handle the next few days

[telebelly]

after 3 years of being badly affected by Covid in a extreme health anxiety way ( I've had councelling etc) I finally feel I am managing much better however I am really wobbled by what has developed for me and looking for ways to help me .guide or coach me on how to handle this so I don't fall down a slippery slope again ( not going out , avoiding family just in case..etc)

I have tested postive. yesterday as had an odd feeling that the extreme fatigue I was feeling was not normal...sweating doing house work and bad ear ache ..due to attend a large gathering today and my mind wanted to rule it out ...

I work for a very small company and as it happens one staff has gone away for a week leaving me and one other ...I do not plan on going on Monday for many reasons but also because I feel unwell....super worried and anxious my boss is not going to be impressed and ask why I even tested

How can I be strong and forthright with out feeling guilty of leaving him an work short staffed..My brain says its bad timing and will have to just deal with it but my old extreme anxiety is brewing I can feel it .havent slept which isn't going to help how I feel.

Just say you're unwell. Don't mention covid

If you're not well enough to work it doesn't actually matter what the illness is.

Hope you feel better soon

Yeah the fact that it happens to be covid is a red herring. You feel too unwell to come into work, and there's no reason to mention that you did a test. The situation would be no different if you had the same symptoms with a negative test. It is sods law that you're ill at the same time as the other person is on leave, but can't be helped.

Just say you’re too ill to work. But do bin the tests

Hope you're not too unwell with it OP. Just thinking what a totally crazy situation it is that the messaging around covid now has pressured some people not to say they have covid. On the plus side, by testing and not going in, you won't pass it on to your colleague and their friends/family.

Approach it as you would have done if you'd have been ill pre-covid, ie call in sick because you're too unwell to work. If you'd have tested negative you still wouldn't have been well enough to go in after all.

It doesn't matter what you're ill with, if you can't work then you can't work. Defo stop testing though, all you've done is test positive for a cold.

For some people a cold could kill them so I don't know why you are trying to minimise that.

OP you can't go to work with Covid. Not fair for you or anyone else. Just tell your boss you are ill...or tell him you've tested positive for Covid.

Why are you so against testing?
What sort of moronic, minimising pratt says covid is a cold?

Every single thread re covid lately seems to be full of STOP TESTING!!! bollocks.

I fully appreciate that some people still have to go to work when they're ill with covid. I've always said that it's totally unfair to call people selfish if they have no choice but to go about their business with covid. I'm CEV but would never expect anyone to go without wages on my account.

However, some people still need to test for a variety of reasons. I test weekly for example, sometimes more often. Those who live with CEV people may also test.

And no, it's very much not a cold, particularly for those who need to test regularly.