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Is this how Covid is presenting now?

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Kaill · 29/09/2023 07:26

Trying to figure out what the heck has bowled me over! Testing negative for Covid on old tests (still in date) but I’ve heard that maybe old tests don’t detect new Covid?

Upset tummy, severe aches all over, hands so stiff I couldn’t use my phone, legs so painful I struggled to walk from the car park to Asda (thankfully improving now). Sinus pressure, brain fog, tired, fuzzy, can’t focus (still struggling with this). No fever, no respiratory symptoms other than a couple of sneezes! I got worse for 3 weeks before starting to recover.

GP ruled out other causes with blood tests. Basically told me to bugger off because it’s a “functional illness” ie nothing wrong. Is this how Covid is presenting now?

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NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 07:55

I've seen that @Oakbeam - thank you. I'd like to see the source @Lastchancechica references.

Stopsnowing · 01/10/2023 07:58

I had OP symptoms in August. I could not think straight at all and felt too week to stand up. In retrospect I felt so bad and weird I think it must have been covid.

topnoddy · 01/10/2023 08:15

Lastchancechica · 29/09/2023 14:23

Except most viruses don’t kill millions.

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Spanish flu killed more people than WW1 did , so some of then are pretty deadly

Namddf · 01/10/2023 08:37

NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 07:55

I've seen that @Oakbeam - thank you. I'd like to see the source @Lastchancechica references.

You’re being a bit of a bully.

Lastchancechica · 01/10/2023 08:52

Namddf · 01/10/2023 08:37

You’re being a bit of a bully.

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Thank you for noticing that.

NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 08:55

That's an unfair accusation, I am not bullying - I am calling out assertions for which no proof has been provided. It is irresponsible to spread fake news in this way.

NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 08:58

Scaremongering and causing panic is not on. Challenging untruths is not bullying.

topnoddy · 01/10/2023 09:00

NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 08:55

That's an unfair accusation, I am not bullying - I am calling out assertions for which no proof has been provided. It is irresponsible to spread fake news in this way.

Too right !

Poster is making some very odd posts she states are fact yet fails to provide links to back this up , also for someone so sick that she's struggling to post she's posting a hell of a lot of replies !!!

TheStarlingShimmers · 01/10/2023 09:03

I tested positive for the first time yesterday, I have what feels like a very heavy head cold/flu. Sneezing a lot, felt like very sinew of my body was aching and sore and sensitive to touch. Brain fog, runny nose, sore throat, tonne of rubbish on my chest now - coughing a lot. No sense of smell loss - weirdly if anything I feel like I have had a heightened sense of smell (not in a good way). Taste is the same - slight loss of appetite but still eating. Feeling alternately too hot or too cold but no temperature. Awful, awful and definitely for me not 'mild' at all.

HolidayBurden · 01/10/2023 09:21

@healthadvice123 i started Thursday afternoon too but with a headache, fever and fatigue. Just out of curiosity do you know when you may have picked it up? My options are fairly limited, and it's either taken 5 days to show up or 24 hours, the latter seems too
swift and 5 days is a long time.

Lastchancechica · 01/10/2023 09:24

topnoddy · 01/10/2023 09:00

Too right !

Poster is making some very odd posts she states are fact yet fails to provide links to back this up , also for someone so sick that she's struggling to post she's posting a hell of a lot of replies !!!

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I have had covid 4 times so far but this is by a very long way the worst I have ever had, I have also had flu twice. At least three times I have considered going to the hospital I am so desperately ill. So yes in this area there is huge concern for the elderly this winter.

chatenoire · 01/10/2023 09:31

I've got COVID! Am I supposed to tell people?

NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 09:37

chatenoire · 01/10/2023 09:31

I've got COVID! Am I supposed to tell people?

No - you can carry on as normal. No need to report or isolate. People I know with covid have chosen to stay away from work, etc. I can work from home so would do that if I get it again, assuming I was actually well enough to work.

chatenoire · 01/10/2023 09:55

NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 09:37

No - you can carry on as normal. No need to report or isolate. People I know with covid have chosen to stay away from work, etc. I can work from home so would do that if I get it again, assuming I was actually well enough to work.

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Oh good, I'm.just wondering because I was with a colleague all week. He flies back home tomorrow, but feel that telling him would be counterproductive

NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 09:56

I'll caveat that with now there's no requirement to test or report test results, people who have covid won't necessarily know they have it no matter how they are feeling - whether asymptomatic or not.

NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 10:02

@chatenoire you have to weigh up whether it would be better to tell your colleague who can then make his own judgement and informed decisions. The flip side is that anyone getting on a plane, or using any form of public transport, should have carried out their own risk assessment before travelling and knows the risks now we are no longer mandated negative tests in order to travel to the vast majority of countries. I believe some countries do still have covid restrictions on place - the info will be available on the FCDO website.

chatenoire · 01/10/2023 10:03

NigelHarmansNewWife · 01/10/2023 09:56

I'll caveat that with now there's no requirement to test or report test results, people who have covid won't necessarily know they have it no matter how they are feeling - whether asymptomatic or not.

Yes, and in his case, probably ignorance is bliss. Especially as he has to travel again on Wednesday.

PatchworkSilver · 01/10/2023 10:16

I have covid for the 4th time.. feel as ill as 1st time I had it in 2020, which took me weeks to get over. Each time I've had covid I've known before positive test confirms I have a disconcerting feeling of something moving around my body. Must be some strange viral effect.. it seems to impact everyone differently but, in my own experience, effects way more systems in my body than flu/colds do. I tested because I'm due to see someone who is very clinically vulnerable, and because I wanted to confirm that my instincts were right in it being covid. It's a horrible illness in my experience and I very much hope that it doesn't do the rounds in any huge way....

Lastchancechica · 01/10/2023 10:34

I can say by day 10 I have turned a corner and it does improve slowly. There is light at the end of the tunnel. I am looking forward to going out in the fresh air.

I hope everyone gets well soon 💪🏻💐🙏🏻

baroqueandblue · 04/10/2023 00:10

I'm on at least day 7. Does anyone else feel itchy or have little random spots come up anywhere? Also (sorry if TMI) my left buttock (the right as well, but not nearly as much) feels like it has this weird deep ache.

Or am I just some medical anomaly? 😳😁

User174085934 · 04/10/2023 05:52

baroqueandblue · 04/10/2023 00:10

I'm on at least day 7. Does anyone else feel itchy or have little random spots come up anywhere? Also (sorry if TMI) my left buttock (the right as well, but not nearly as much) feels like it has this weird deep ache.

Or am I just some medical anomaly? 😳😁

I have had itchy spots before with other viruses, usually if I had a temperature and I get them on my chest and stomach, though Covid did used to sometimes give a rash, DS had it a couple of years ago when people were testing for Christmas visiting and his only symptom was a rash.

Milkmaninthemist · 04/10/2023 06:02

I had high temp and then just aching everything. At one point I had chest pains, ear ache and headache at the same time. Was no fun but was a lot quicker to shift than previously and I tested positive on the Monday and negative by the Sunday. Feel fine now.

DH has some kind of lingering virus, hot, fatigue, nausea & headache but tested and negative so on obviously something else going around too.

openallday · 04/10/2023 07:20

I think this is Covid although not tested

Day 1 muscle aches. Tired. Headache

Day 2 similar. Chesty cough, runny nose

Day 3 tired, heavy limbs. Hot and cold flushing

Day 4 feeling better. Cold symptos gone Muscle aches lifting.

In the evening sense of smell totally disappeared

Dwappy · 04/10/2023 08:02

Every few months there's people saying they've caught the latest strain and it's the WORST EVER. People need to realise that how they react to a virus can be totally different to how another person reacts to the exactly the same virus. Just because you've had covid 50 times before and you barely noticed and this time you feel like death doesn't mean this strain is the WORST EVER and its about to kill off all the elderly.
A friend of mine caught covid in 2021. She was only 39 and was really really unwell for a good few weeks. She'd never been that ill in her life. I remember her crying down the phone to me that if her older parents caught it they'd definitely die (she lived with them). Well, they caught it. They barely had a sniffle.
I had a virus (what we call a cold) last year. Maybe it was covid but all tests were negative. My partner also had it. I ended up in hospital with a severe chest infection and took weeks to recover. He had a runny nose for a week. We both got ill on the same day so most likely caught together at a party. But we both reacted to it very differently.
I had flu in 2004. I was only in my 20s. I have never felt so ill. I was in bed for over a week. Off work for 4 weeks. But I wasn't thinking all elderly people in 2004 were about to die!

Lastchancechica · 04/10/2023 08:05

Dwappy · 04/10/2023 08:02

Every few months there's people saying they've caught the latest strain and it's the WORST EVER. People need to realise that how they react to a virus can be totally different to how another person reacts to the exactly the same virus. Just because you've had covid 50 times before and you barely noticed and this time you feel like death doesn't mean this strain is the WORST EVER and its about to kill off all the elderly.
A friend of mine caught covid in 2021. She was only 39 and was really really unwell for a good few weeks. She'd never been that ill in her life. I remember her crying down the phone to me that if her older parents caught it they'd definitely die (she lived with them). Well, they caught it. They barely had a sniffle.
I had a virus (what we call a cold) last year. Maybe it was covid but all tests were negative. My partner also had it. I ended up in hospital with a severe chest infection and took weeks to recover. He had a runny nose for a week. We both got ill on the same day so most likely caught together at a party. But we both reacted to it very differently.
I had flu in 2004. I was only in my 20s. I have never felt so ill. I was in bed for over a week. Off work for 4 weeks. But I wasn't thinking all elderly people in 2004 were about to die!

Empathy is not your strong suit is it, Jesus.