I wonder if I have covid?

[Palmsun]

Two weeks ago I went into work and there was someone who was sick with a nasty headcold - she was full of snot and she was coughing and her throat sounded awful and she was so fucking cranky. Claimed it was nothing and claimed she did a covid test and it was nothing.

Then by Saturday the 17th of Feb, I started to experience something. My only exposure was her. I wasn't any where else and I wasn't around anyone else sick. It started off as a sort throat for me and as first it wasnt bad. Then it was a mild cough. As the days went on, more phelgm and mucus. I was taking cold remedies at home.

Then this weekend just gone, I came into day number 8 and 9 of what I think is a cold. I wasn't getting any better. If anything I was getting worse. My ears were sore. My throat was sore. My chest was sore. By body was aching. I added more over the counter medicines to my cold remedies. By Monday I was still not getting better.

I did two covid tests over the past week and they both turned out negative but then I don't know if got a proper swab either.

I had a wheeze yesterday and last night I felt like there was an elephant sitting on my chest and just pissing into my nose with the amount of mucus. Just rivers of the stuff flowing down my nose and back my throat.

Basically I am too ill for this to me just a headcold.

A headcold should be improving by now.

It feels like a cross between a cold and a flu. I had no GI symptoms so I wouldn't really say a flu as such.

There is a truly awful virus doing the rounds, exactly as you have described

I'm on day 10 , DS has had it 2 weeks and DH a week

I had covid 2 years ago and it was a walk in the park compared to what I am going through now. The first week or so if this wasn't too bad and it was mild-ish. Then it morphed last weekend into something much more.

Last night was my first night going into my bed because I was sleeping upright since last weekend and it was a big mistake because I woke up hardly able to breath last night. It had pressure on my chest and it felt like I was being drowned by mucus. So it will be back to sleeping on the couch until this clears.

It just won't go away.

I was at the doctor this morning. There was a wheeze coming from my right side. She prescribed antibiotics. It's strange because the pain in my chest was coming from my left side.

It's not a red flag, it's because garlic ginger and honey are not a magic cure 🙄

@Palmsun so you went into work on Monday?

I’ve never heard of this before- any further details? So, it could be the ‘warm’ weather instead of sustained, high, Covid transmission causing health issues?

There have been lots of viruses doing the rounds this winter which are awful, but are also not Covid. Mine wasn’t Covid, and I thought I was dying several times due to lack of oxygen, but it completely floored me. I’m now having lots of investigations as this started in the last week of November, and I’m not fully recovered. GP says post viral syndrome. I’m not over the moon about it, but viruses do the rounds all the time and just because someone comes to work unwell with cold symptoms doesn’t mean they’re actively trying to infect and harm you. Hope you feel better soon.

Two weeks into this and I still haven't turned a corner. Even though I have a bag of medicines and antibiotics from my doctor and I am still not getting better. Another bad night last night and another bad morning here.

Antibiotics won't help if it's a virus, but it will be preventative in you developing pneumonia.

I find ACTIFED the most helpful in dealing with congestion. Also night nurse if I've got a bad cough, and it's also a decongestant.

This makes no sense at all that you want to know if it’s covid in order to protect your relative, as if you won’t be contagious if it’s one of the many other viruses around which can be deadly for the elderly and vulnerable