rona moved in: ilx0rs with the bug report on their progress

Last night I was thinking how strange it was that I'd received very little information about what to do next after my PCR: Just a message saying my test was positive and to register my self on their Covid app which I don't have. No guidance about self-isolating at all. If I didn't know better, I could well have been walking around as normal infecting people.
This morning, at 8am, three days after my positive test result, I was woken by a text from Track and Trace telling me I had to self-isolate and asking me to fill out a questionnaire.
I was feeling tired and groggy and not really in the frame of mind, so I went back to sleep. At 11.30am I received a follow up text asking why I hadn't filled out the survey yet. Pretty demanding of them considering how long the first message took and also considering in supposed to be suffering from a killer virus FFS.

I'm really missing my family today, and tomorrow will be harder. Just gotta keep telling myself others are in the same boat and many have it a lot lot worse.

Also feeling pessimistic about being able to get out of quarantine earlier than 10 days. My friends who also caught it a bit earlier than me are still producing positive LFTs well after their 7 days of isolating

Ah sorry mate it sucks

In fact,, sorry to all the mates itt — it sucks

There with ya dog Latin.

Just got a surprise deliveroo from my sister of a bottle of rum, a multipack of coke cans, some quality street and neurofen though, so my evening of watching that comet movie alone seems much more exciting.

Sympathies to all UK (and other) ilxors experiencing a visit from KRAMPUS-19, and wishing a very merry ball & arse cancer to Boris, Sunak, Javid, Hancock and Mogg.

Cheers all. Also sorry to hear you're in the same boat ahoy hoy. Actually being on a boat right now might be kinda fun?

I never even heard from T&Trace when my son's best mate was positive and the mum told me she'd given my number to T&T. What's the point of it if it doesn't do its job?

Hope you manage a decent one tomorrow everyone.

Somehow managed to avoid the ‘Rona so far feel like our luck might be up soon.

My wife and I had a 28 week scan today that we expected to be 30 mins but ended up being 5+ hours of waiting around. Everyone waiting was masked but there was some pretty bleak coughing going on and no real option to escape if we wanted our scan to go ahead. Either way, have had negative LFTs for now so Xmas is still on, even if it’s just me and my heavily pregnant wife :)

@ DL - we’re still just round the corner, if you need anything delivered just shout

Eech Willl that waiting room experience sounds stressful. Hope you are both okay. And thank you, I've got everything I need right now but I'll let you know if anything changes

I dunno where you are at but I know you are vaguely London based. I’m in bow e3 if you can meet, if you wanna meet on my dog walk tomorrow morn, maybe we can hang dog latin

Even if that’s still nowhere in this big ass city, still we are kin in shitty fucking covid christmas

I know the good empty cemetery to walk around in, only infecting the dead. The dog can’t catch it afaik

Sorry to hear so many ilx0rs are stuck indoors and/or away from friends + family this xmas. Hope you've all managed to have a passable day despite everything, and that you recover swiftly & completely and get to see your loved ones soon

a hoy hoy, i'm in Bristol, although maybe one day we can!

My wife had cold symptoms a week ago (sore throat, congestion) and tested negative for COVID on Sunday. Then on Christmas Eve, she started experiencing pain in her left eye that she thought was a scratched cornea. It got so bad on Christmas Day that we left my mom's house (40 mins away from ours, in the suburbs) after brunch and went to an urgent care clinic, where they couldn't find anything visibly wrong with her eye but gave her a COVID test while she was there...and she tested positive.

After dropping her off at home, I went to get tested myself, and I tested negative. So now we are quarantining in separate rooms. She is feeling somewhat worse (flu-like symptoms) and still has the eye pain, which she thinks might be conjunctivitis and related to COVID. But we are both triple-vaccinated and hopefully will be fine.

I'm just feeling kind of gobsmacked by all of it. I spent Christmas Eve afternoon feeling anxious about the fact that we would be seeing relatives the next day (in addition to my mom, we were originally planning to see my wife's extended family, about 8 people, for dinner). Apart from dining indoors a handful of times, we have both been very cautious. We both work from home and spend the vast majority of our time here. So it's not clear where my wife would have caught it, except maybe while running errands (but even then, she would have been wearing a mask).

And I'm also just feeling lonely and disoriented. I almost wish I'd tested positive so we wouldn't have to be apart. (I found some at-home tests, so I'll test myself again in a day or two.) I slept on the couch last night, but couldn't really sleep. Our condo feels quiet, even though we're both here. I dunno, living through a pandemic for the past two years was depressing on its own, and now experiencing it first-hand is even more so.

Ugh. Sorry, jaymc and everybody else dealing with this right now.

yeah that sucks dude, hoping for a quick recovery

I'm so sorry for everyone.

jaymc that sucks. scary situation with the eye just to confound things!

fwiw when i tested positive recently my wife tested negative but we didn’t bother trying to isolate in our (small) house. we figured A) she’d already been plenty exposed to me B) she was triple vaxed so any repercussions would be mild. in the event she just kept testing negative anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

fwiw when i tested positive recently my wife tested negative but we didn’t bother trying to isolate in our (small) house. we figured A) she’d already been plenty exposed to me B) she was triple vaxed so any repercussions would be mild. in the event she just kept testing negative anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This is what we've been doing. Wife so far hasn't felt a thing (she just did a 10+ mile trail run).

I've been battling though fatigue and cold symptoms. Will be leaving the house tomorrow for a PCR test to confirm the rapid test.

One thing I find difficult is the feelings now that I've tested positive. Watching friends on facebook seemingly get away with far riskier behavior for months on end (flying all over for fun, eating out inside, seeing people) than what I've done. Now maybe they have gotten the virus at some point and just not mentioned it, but it honestly pisses me off that I barely did anything and got this stupid virus. Whatever, I'm going to be fine.

Empathy to everyone dealing with illness. I myself spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with a stomach bug shitting out my brains.

that doesn’t sound pleasant, sorry.

seem to recall we once had a sub board devoted to scary eye infections but probably shouldn’t go there

best wishes to all and hopes for a less shitty year ahead

maybe we can just do away with the concept of years altogether until this shitshow is over

thinking of all you itt, get well soon youse guys <3

Thank u VegemiteGrrl. I hope y'all ITT are doing alright. I've now joined the Rona Roommates Club, too: I got sick the day after receiving my booster, a week ago today. At first I thought it must've been a bad reaction to the shot, but my partner Jasmine got sick as well, two days later, and she tested positive once we finally acquired a (now difficult to come by) home kit for ourselves.

Missing Christmas celebrations sucked. I still feel exhausted and nauseous, today. I guess getting a vaccine and the bug at the same time makes the symptoms especially bad? My spirits have been good but today's been depressing. I guess the shittiness of this situation is finally wearing on my and I hope we'll start feeling better, soon.

Testing negative! Hopefully I can be out of jail soon

Sorry to hear that Davey, and everyone else who's come down with it. It's quite the pain

It hadn't occurred to me that *gasp* you could test to figure out when it's actually safe to stop isolating. I figured I'd be free 10 days after first symptoms, per the prescribed wisdom.

I'm reading hints that on one of the morning shows Fauci will recommend lowering the isolation time if you're vaccinated.

I'm starting to feel better on my sixth day after symptoms. Good luck to everyone going through this.

The UK guidance is that you can stop isolating after 7 days if you can produce two negative LFTs within 24 hours of each other on the last two consecutive days.

(but that was only introduced last week)

I think that might just be for England for the moment, not yet applicable in Scotland at least.

Yeah, Scotland it’s still 10 days.

Ah my bad.

Got a positive Day 2 PCR yesterday after coming back from visiting family I hadn't seen in two years. Daily negative LFTs before and during the trip, and I'm still getting a negative now. No symptoms. Since PCRs can detect the virus weeks after infection, it could be I had it a while back without realising. Or maybe I just got it and haven't become infectious yet. Fuck knows. Gotta isolate now anyway, missing more family stuff and all that, but it's weird knowing that if I hadn't gone abroad I wouldn't have a clue that I'd ever been infected.

Welcome to the club! Sorry you're in the club. May you remain ever asymptomatic <3

I'm almost a week in and still feeling pretty rotten. Would love to be done soon - not sleeping well isn't helping.

So after two days of feeling fine and a negative LFT yesterday morning, I was starting to believe I'd be sprung from prison early according to the English rules. Sadly this morning my LFT came out with an immediate bold red T line, which means no early finish for me. I've also started feeling slightly lousy again - nothing serious but a slightly tight chest, the odd feeling of my heart racing and the occasional brainfog. Just hoping it's not Covid coming back or some sort of chest infection.
But yes, if all goes well tomorrow should be my last day of isolation

nothing serious but a slightly tight chest, the odd feeling of my heart racing and the occasional brainfog.

This is me the last 24 hrs exactly.

Hmmm... It's nothing too concerning, just don't want it to become a chest infection or anything like that. Today should officially be my last day of isolation.

So apparently LFTs are pretty unreliable for some time after having caught Covid and can show up as positive for up to 90 days. Is there any guidance on this, e.g. how soon after you recover one might catch it again

So we invited our spaced-out, unvaxxed friend for Xmas. What could go wrong, we thought? Even she wouldn't turn up ill.
Reader, she turned up ill - which we didn't realise until Xmas day, by which point we didn't feel we could boot her out, even though we should've.
She thought she'd "caught a cold from her flatmate", but it couldn't be Covid because her sense of smell was unaffected. Clearly she hadn't got the message from her social media (i.e. how she interacts with the world) that Omicron showed different symptoms - in fact, the very ones she had. Now of course we've all tested positive.
On about day 3 or 4 now, I've spent the morning slumped on the sofa unable to move because I'm so exhausted, but at least the chesty cough's largely moved on. Partner seems to be less affected than me but time will tell.
Grr.
Very, very poor pandemic management on our part, we really should have known. The biggest issue is that partner was supposed to be starting a new job in Edinburgh next week (we're currently in London), which we're going to have to delay as we're isolating. Should be okay though.
Anyway just venting, I guess if you'd told me 18 months ago that I would eventually get infected with Covid but I'd be triple-vaxxed and it's a mild strain anyway I'd have taken that.

oh no, sorry Matt, how annoying. hope you both feel better soon and all goes well with the move & the new job

(who thinks "I seem to have caught a cold but I definitely don't need to test for the virus with very cold-like symptoms which has been in the news for 2 years before I go to stay with some people?" I mean as my nom d'ILX suggests I'm as spacey a friend as any, but, oof)

xp am glad you’re recovering, but honestly, I’d never let this person in the door again after all this

Theyd do well to leave walking by my front door after that, what the actual fuck

Yeah she's not coming back that's for sure, what a fuckwit. That's the end of the friendship once and for all, although she'll be trying to say she didn't do anything wrong. She's a liability!

Glad to hear, and hope you both get over it quickly, what an absolute dose.

There will have been a lot of fucking around and finding out this winter across the UK

Sadly there will also have been a lot of self-justifying denial. I did nothing wrong it's just a cold now

I've got a bad cold and turned out 3 negative LFT's but still wouldn't turn at up family/friends house - just in case and wouldn't particularly want to share this cold with anyone either.

That's the point isn't it, if the pandemic's taught us anything it's that you shouldn't be infecting people with your diseases, whatever they are! All that "come into the office anyway, it's just a cold" bullshit needs to go.