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I started with a head cold a week last Saturday and by Monday i had lost my sense of taste and smell.I went last Tuesday to one of those drive through tests and 24 hours later i got a positive result text.My wife and I now have to isolate until next Wednesday.
I generally feel ok with mainly weakness and a runny nose being the main symptoms. Luckily my breathing has been fine,with no cough.
I am 51 years old so maybe my age is in my favour.
I have been taking daily vitamin D tablets and multivitamins to try and help and honey in coffee along with paracetamol.
I think i got it from working 5 days before at a nurses house wiring downlights.I don't obviously know for sure but the timing lines up.So maybe she was carrying it without knowing or it was on one of the surfaces.Anyway stay safe guys and keep wearing the gloves and masks.
 
I'did someones washing ,very cautiously with a Covid +ve child , near teen.
(so much for kids not getting it ) , still all clear 18 days later.
-- In the end I quaranteened the incoming bag . then swapped back on their doorstep.
..before giving all my shopping bags away..

.. Each time my nose drips in the cold I still think here we go !..
Since seeing blood service website !
Stay fit , get well soon.
 
My wife had those headaches about a week ago. She still has them but are much better. We were unable to do the test as the gov site says you must get it done within 4 or 5 days of first symptoms.

im convinced she has had it, as+she has never had a head ache that/bad or for that long.

if she got it I definately got it, but I’ve had no symptoms at all. That is more worrying than having symptoms as how many people are passing it on without even knowing.

I decided to lock down for a month couple weeks ago so we are isolated anyway. I don’t plan on going anywhere for a couple more weeks.
 
A bit worried now,
I recently started with a "head cold" couple days back. Runny nose, sneezing, congested, little dizzy... but still have my sense of taste and smell, no high temperature and no cough. So I've just put it down to a normal head cold.
 
had a scare myself end of last week. got out of bed in the morning (as you do) and could not breathe, gasping for air for 20 minutes or so. felt weak as a kitten. next morning same thing, but sore and swolen tonsils. that swollen that they were restricting my airway. been on antibiotics all this week, slowly getting basck to normal.
 
telectrix said:
had a scare myself end of last week. got out of bed in the morning (as you do) and could not breathe, gasping for air for 20 minutes or so. felt weak as a kitten. next morning same thing, but sore and swolen tonsils. that swollen that they were restricting my airway. been on antibiotics all this week, slowly getting basck to normal.
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Hope you get better soon mate.
 
Intoelectrics said:
A bit worried now,
I recently started with a "head cold" couple days back. Runny nose, sneezing, congested, little dizzy... but still have my sense of taste and smell, no high temperature and no cough. So I've just put it down to a normal head cold.
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A couple of my colleagues had those symptoms but came to work as no high temperature or lose of taste so put it down to a cold. They were sent to get a test and both were positive. The head cold type symptoms appear more common with the newer variant. If they had carried on at work for a couple of days gods nows how many people they could of passed it to or at least had self isolating.
 
telectrix said:
had a scare myself end of last week. got out of bed in the morning (as you do) and could not breathe, gasping for air for 20 minutes or so. felt weak as a kitten. next morning same thing, but sore and swolen tonsils. that swollen that they were restricting my airway. been on antibiotics all this week, slowly getting basck to normal.
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OK who next to see the doctor. Lol.
 
Myself and everyone I know had the virus way back in February last year... but all this was before it was a well known thing. From what I have seen, I think a vast number of people have had or still have the virus... as far as I'm aware... the 'official' figures for 'cases' is only a measure of those with a positive test result ? As we do more tests... we'll find more 'cases'.

Every time I see that ridiculous graph of 'cases' showing the two humps... one in April/May and the other one now... that tries to show that there are far more cases now... is a pure deception. It needs to be factored somehow to reflect the testing level that's been done.
 
Both of us had a persistent cough over Christmas of 2019, but this was with running nose and chest fluid, no loss of taste or sense of smell, so think this was not the virus just a bad cold, but could easily be categorised as a Covid infected couple if you need to manipulate a few statistics, happy to oblige.
 
I have notice last couple of weeks I started to sneeze a lot and no cold I wonder if its to do with that tha facts of me not known I had covid, I have spoken to some customers and some are OAPs.
They said that they had the jab, me did you wake up in the morning with a extra leg in bed. Lol.
 
i look at it this way. if you're going to get it and your season ticket has expired, that means your time is up. it's all pot luck. Mrs.Tel's brother and his wife had it. he had mild effects and recovered in a week or so. she was more ill but recovered in 3 weeks.
 
Mike Johnson said:
Vaccination appointment for Sunday morning at the local GP's I am pro the vaccine so pleased about it.
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Brother-in-law had the vaccine recently. He works in the hospital.
He said that the vaccine had him in bed for the weekend. He's 43 years old & healthy.
Suppose it affects everyone differently.
 
I know 2 people very well who have had it, both recovered but felt like they had flu, both under 50 years old though
 
I'm almost half their age again, so have been in lockdown since March, only going out on Sunday to get my Jab, if the car starts that is. ?
 
Bob Geldoff1234 said:
Feeling a lot better and now back at work.I still cannot taste or smell anything but i believe this can take up to 6 weeks to return.I still feel that taking vitamin D tablets has helped me from getting it a lot worse.Its worth everyone taking them.
Thanks for all your kind replies??
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Glad to hear your on the mend pal. Both my wife and I had runny nosed, head colds, and woke up a bit achy earlier on in the year.. Couldn't get a test then as I didn't have two of the main symptoms. Makes you wonder.
 
My 42 year old Neice has had it.
She was coughing for a couple of days getting worse as time passed, went for a test on day 3 and showed positive.
Her husband same age showed positive no symptoms.
My nephew, a couple of years older who lives in the same house as them and has some health issues and is not exactly slim tested negative.

Neice was told to rest and call if things got worse.
End of Day 4 she's in hospital on full time oxygen for 3 or 4 days then was weaned off it over a few days.
Discharged after 2 weeks and only able to walk about 20 mtrs or stand long enough to make a cup of tea.

She's improving but it could be a while before she's anywhere near back to normal.

The average age of admission seems to have taken a sudden nose dive.
Watch out you 40's and under it's heading your way.
 
My father was the middle of three children, who my grandmother bred over a period of about 25 years. As a result I have 1st cousins both much younger an much older than myself.
My eldest cousin is in her mid 80's, and was taken into hospital before Christmas for some minor, but urgent, procedure. Discharged a couple of days later, and then taken back in again about four or five days later with symptoms of Covid.
Didn't get seriously sick, and was transferred to a local cottage hospital after about a week.
Last I heard she was ready for discharge from there, so, on the principal that no news is good news, I assume she's recovering well.
 
Hope all of you are getting better and making a good recovery !
It's a strange old thing this covid how it seems to knock some people completely off their feet and others get mild or no symptoms. Fitness and age doesn't always appear to have any bearing on it.

I agree with Tel in respect that it all does seem to be a "pot luck" thing
Life is too short to worry about it, But by the same token we need to try and look out for ourselves and family as best as we can.
 
Its an often miss understood fact that fitter people can not fight off a virus better than someone that is not as fit, the problem is that Athlete's abuse their bodies when training to the point that most of their immune system is busy re-building tears in the muscle after exercise which does not leave sufficient anti-bodies to fight an infection, I am thankful I'm not that fit anymore. ?
 
Paignton pete said:
Not every one has all the symptoms if any. You may have had it.
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I was ill last Feb, really ill with flu like symptoms which I'm sure was this virus, but at the time I just put it down to a bad cold. I'm rarely ill in general not been the doctors in over 20years. I know of quite a few people who have tested positive with hardly to no symptoms. Then on the flip I have a couple of family friends who ended up in ICU.
 
Mike Johnson said:
Its an often miss understood fact that fitter people can not fight off a virus better than someone that is not as fit, the problem is that Athlete's abuse their bodies when training to the point that most of their immune system is busy re-building tears in the muscle after exercise which does not leave sufficient anti-bodies to fight an infection, I am thankful I'm not that fit anymore. ?
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This is so true.
My partner is a fitness fanatic and she suffers with loads of issues related to over training. Over exercising is just as bad and in some cases worse than no exercise.

Really if you think about it, this makes sense. Take a well oiled machine that is maintained regular looked after but not put under more stress than it was design to do and it will run a long time with not too many issues. Thrash it to death or let it stand still and it will inevitable fail.

Moral in the story, it's all about balance.
 
It is strange that my daughter caught it. She is one of those people who is literally hysterical about it. Gloves, mask, disinfectant and distancing. Even getting voluble where people break the rules. Like a car parked next to ours and she would not go near our car and it got a bit hot with the other people nearly developing into a punch up! She used so much bleach at home she nearly fainted due to the fumes in a confined space. You know where this is going don't you. Despite all of her precautions she still got it. It makes you wonder.
 
I've reduced my shopping at bargain .. stores rammed with people.
Vortigern said:
Despite all of her precautions she still got it. It makes you wonder.
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(I too know of a similar - all un-innocultated in family got it.)
Wife was very food prep -preoccupied ..this is a greasy virus...
..At home I treat worktops as iffy. Eat from clean plates , and wash my hands before food prep -- and during if handling tools.
..I'm assuming on food as main route I can do something about it..

( A bit like dog poo on carpets .. soon puts off 5 sec rule )

.... Tested Negative for active threat ..but still waiting for a historic ....
Have I had it ... am I the 1/3 who has no symptoms.
Test that tells all.

Stay safe everyone -


Lives better on plastic than metal.... (that's all my kitchen worktops)
 
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