Calling in sick with covid

[gumpybin]

I tested positive yesterday after feeling a bit off for a few days, headaches, some mild nausea and runny nose. Now full on body aches, dizziness, flu like symptoms and no sense of smell.
I wfh but in complicated financial management and I can barely make a cup of tea yet I feel so ridiculous calling in sick with covid tomorrow.
Last time I worked through but didn't feel quite as bad and no dizziness or nausea.
Think I'm totally overthinking this!

You’re clearly too ill to work so don’t treat it any differently. I get anxious about calling in sick too but we’re only human.

Hope you feel better soon.

In your position I would state flu rather than Covid.

Why?! Just tell the truth OP

I would too but it makes me very angry how covid is now seen as a cold when it can knock some people sideways. Hope you feel better soon .

I don’t think it makes any difference to sickness policies any more but as you know it’s covid you may as well tell work that’s the reason that you’re feeling so unwell.

All of our tests are out of date now and I won’t be paying for any more!

Oh yes I would def say covid and not flu. My manager actually caught it on holiday and was off for a while.
How long can I expect to feel ill for?

Just say you have picked up a bug and are too ill to work. It's the truth.

I was properly ill for 3 weeks back in September and then a week just pottering around at home ,it absolutely floored me,hope it isn't that long for you. .

If you are feeling unwelll you call in sick - whatever you have.

I had Covid a few months ago and was off work for a week.
Get well soon!

Hope you feel better soon OP. I don't understand why some seem nervous to say it's covid though?

My husband has covid right now. DD and I were really sick two weeks ago (I ended up with pneumonia and had antibiotics and steroids - I have asthma and the smallest viral cough makes my asthma very unstable, to the point of hospitalisation.

I tested DD and I with the cheapest tests I could get and they were negative, but DH didn't succumb to it.

Then he started getting ill on Monday night, went to work on Tuesday, but felt ill, found out he was being made redundant, but still went in yesterday. Today was his rest day, but he's been up the past two nights coughing and moaning, I bought the Flowflex tests and his went positive immediately.

I don't know whether DD and I had it (though I doubt the incubation is three weeks - as DD had it a week before me), so we may end up with it too.

DH never gets ill and the only time he ever had off was when he had it before and couldn't get out of bed. He's informed his work that he feels too ill to go in tomorrow (he's a bus driver, so driving whilst hacking or having a headache from hell is not ideal, maybe even dangerous) but the timing couldn't be worse.