This isn't like a mild cold !

[MrsPelligrinoPetrichor]

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I ache all over and the covid sweats/ chills are something else! No cough at all but the mad covid nightmares are doing me in!

Feel free to add your own covid woes...

I felt better ish around 2 week mark. Now at 4 weeks and feel markedly better and back to feeling like myself. Been a bit of a slog. First time ever with covid. Husband same kind of timings. Hang in there and take your time to recover

I am testing negative for covid but have full body aches worse in legs and bum which is excruciating. I am very fit and healthy but just walking to loo is exhausting and so painful I feel like my legs will buckle under me. So far it’s been this, headache, fatigue and dizziness. But no cough/throat issues at all? Able to eat as normal but not up to making food and no gastro problems. Just seems weird and like I’m missing some symptoms for it be covid! Anyone similar?

I'm feeling more myself brain wise but the weakness and exhaustion is still kicking my arse.

I've been trying to do a little more every day.

I've GOT to go back to work next week.

But yesterday for a while even sitting up was too much for me. I had to lie down. This is bloody terrifying.

It's hard. The push to go back before your body is ready. Please be careful though. In a not trying to scare you way, there is a bigger risk of long covid if you go back before you're ready. Many of the symptoms on these threads I have on a daily basis - sometimes they switch around a bit in terms of prevalence. Please try to be careful - rock and hard place I know.

How is your throat? Mine has been bad for days now..really bad..like cut glass in my throat

@Booksbooksbooksandmorebooks mines the same! Getting worse not better. I'm on day 6 and still testing positive.

I'm on day 5. Its awful

Day 9 here and only a faint line now,still coughing with no taste or smell x

@FSGirl me too. Terrible aches, can hardly walk, feeling wobbly and tired, dizzy and my ears and nose feel funny. But no cough or runny nose or anything. Doc says it must be caused by anxiety 🙄 because I don’t have anything else wrong with me, no respiratory symptoms and testing negative for Covid.

I'm on day 3 and already heaps better.
Headache gone
Temps gone
Chest pain mostly better
But after morning of activity..shower, hair wash, email and some laundry I'm absolutely knackered

I thought I was better around day 5 then day 7 hit and I felt utterly exhausted. I no longer had other symptoms but the exhaustion took a couple of weeks to pass.

Thank you @NotReadyForAutumnYet I'm trying to take it one step at a time but it's a bit one step forward two steps back at the moment. It's just taking sooooo long.

2 others in my house exact same symptoms as me, tested negative the whole time but it was def Covid

It's now a week later for me and I'm still stuffy but no aches and pains and the exhaustion has lifted. I feel like I'm coming out the other side now.

I hope everyone is feeling better soon.

9 days still testing positive. Mainly tiredness.

Started this evening with a really tickly dry cough, hopefully it won't last

Many of the symptoms on these threads I have on a daily basis - sometimes they switch around a bit in terms of prevalence. Please try to be careful - rock and hard place I know.

Thank you @NotReadyForAutumnYet , you have put into words what I've been struggling to articulate for ages. Since at least mid-2021 my life has been a never ending series of viral symptoms and infections, and that's even including two covid jabs. I can't tell you how depressing (and aging) it has been all this time, living with barely any proper good days and losing hope that I'll ever feel healthy again 😔 My local health authority basically doesn't recognise long covid if you previously had underlying health conditions (eg. fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis and migraine like me) but my life has been much worse since the days when that was all I had to contend with 🙄 I'm on this thread because I tested positive again yesterday, thick immediate dark red line after at least 3 days of a big uptick in symptoms. I'm sorry you've been living with long covid (sounds like you have?) and I hope you feel better very soon, although if you're anything like me that seems like a distant hope 🙏

Husband tested positive yesterday after I made him go do a test. My daughter had a slight cold a few days before and I wanted her to test but I was shot down as being over dramatic (my parents have health conditions). Anyhow he has it.

I’m expecting to still have to see to my three horses at home and do outdoorsy stuff but woke up feeling awful. Sore throat, bad head and sniffy nose. Ridiculous nightmares in the night too.

Had to cancel my riding lesson that I’ve waited four weeks for so I’m feeling particularly sorry for myself, but decided I’m going to try to positive think my way through this and keep going. I’m not sure how that will work!! I’m trying to convince myself it will.

Will test later today as I’ve just had expresso / cappuccino coffee to give me va va voom and go feed ponies outside.

My daughter is a teen and great at helping, but I’m a control freak with poo picking the fields and my daughter seems to walk round with her eyes closed after doing one barrow! Luckily the horses are still living outside until the end of the month which is less work (no mucking out or hay to stuff or let them in and out etc).

Last Covid we had I was ok ish after 24 hours, but decided not to ride my young horse in case I came off and had to go to A and E so I decorated the bootroom as I couldn’t smell the paint. It was brilliant. Husband was affected then way more than me at the time. He is diabetic though. Fingers crossed it’s the same this time 🤞🏻and I’m OK.

Slept in a separate bed but he was coughing all over me in the night prior to this so assuming it’s just a matter of time.

Sorry, no idea why I’ve written so much. If you got to the end of the post without falling asleep well done!

Also hope you’re all on the mend soon.

Still have a bloody headache this morning

My adult children (all not living at home) refuse to test any more. One currently has a 'terrible cold'. I'm staying away from her as I don't want to catch it in case it's Covid. I've got Long Covid and don't want to make it worse than it is. Also, it would impact my visiting my Dad who lives in a care home....

Those of you who had it before but without developing long Covid how long were you positive (even if otherwise fine)?

I've just been for my first walk!! Still have ear pain and head is woozy but not quite as bad as yesterday. I slept well last night and no nightmares. I am STARVING hungry even though I can't taste anything 😭

@verdantverdure - I know what you mean. It's not linear.

@baroqueandblue - I'm sorry - I can't imagine having long covid on top of another health condition. Good luck. I hope you recover soon.

the covid infection itself that kicked off long covid was a lot milder than many posters on here. It came off the back of another covid infection a few months earlier, that was horrid (not hospitalised or anything) and that I was just feeling back to me from.

Today's symptoms are brain fog, physical exhaustion, mild breathlessness, nausea, horrendous nasal pain like I've been punched, headache, cough, sore throat, deafness in one ear. A walk or even just going up the stairs is not manageable today - I have a young family. Whilst I'm glad the kids have been spared so far, the impact on their lives from my illness has been huge.
I sometimes look at these boards to see if there's a tip that I haven't tried yet.

The giving yourself time to recover seems so hard, especially when you're used to pushing through. It's been a consistent message from many of those with long covid though. We also try to pace, but essentially still have to 'push through' every day. Research shows most people with LC never get back to baseline and that's something I'm trying to get my head around as I really don't want it to be true and desperately want to be in the minority!

So message is, hope you all recover, trying to push through seems to increase risk of long covid, do what you (feasibly) can to not put others in this situation.

Had it for the first time a few weeks ago. Worst symptoms constant high temperature and the dreaded COVID nightmares; was anxious about going to sleep because of them. It affected my brain and ability to think more than anything and I still don’t feel right. Getting there though; hope others bounce back soon…

Snap! I’m so hungry but everything is just sweet it savoury 😣