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

...Although still gonna wear mask in shops, cafes, cinemas etc

As long as you come to an ILB FAP.

yes definitely

Despite being triple jabbed and a very fit & healthy person, one of my colleagues is sadly really suffering with longer term effects having caught it just under a month ago. He's not been able to return to work yet. I feel really sorry for him as it seems like such a huge mental/emotional strain as much as the physical side of things. It brings into sharp relief that there's still so much variability in how it can affect people, of course, and that's there really seems to be no predicting it.

*and that there really seems...

For myself, it's the first day of my first time off from work for months and of course I've developed a sore throat just last night to set me worrying and put a wee dampener on things. Tested negative this morning, so fingers crossed, though I'm terrible at self-administering the LFT throat swabs.

I always try to remember that "other illnesses are available".

Tested negative this morning, so fingers crossed, though I'm terrible at self-administering the LFT throat swabs.

I can't bear the throat swabbing so only ever did the nose, often wondered if that might lead to false negatives but when I finally tested positive the line appeared almost instantly and was thick and dark.

Yeah, I guess that if I ever really do have COVID it'll become apparent soon enough, either through symptoms, or via LFT results, regardless of my throat swabbing ineptitude. I still have a sore throat, but nothing else, so I'm gradually hoping that I can blame a particularly crusty piece of bread that I ate in an inopportune manner last night.

So I finally got around to getting this covid thing everybody keeps talking about. This is actually pretty shitty.

Sorry. Welcome to the club.

Had a bit of a sore throat starting on Friday evening, did a rapid test on Saturday that came out positive. I was not too alarmed, because I have my three doses and most of my family got covid around Christmas and weren't very sick. Saturday evening I started getting a bit of a headache, that headache would increase in intensity and last 3 days (various pain relievers I had in the house did basically nothing for this headache as far as I can tell). Took Monday off from work. Woke up Tuesday with a really much worse sore throat (the kind that hurts when you breathe), decided to work anyway since at least my headache was gone. Today I woke up feeling really weak, my sore throat is still really bad and painful. Took another sick day. This sucks.

My trajectory (and that of others I've heard with Omicron) was that the cold-like symptoms of headache and sore throat will resolve shortly and be replaced with severe fatigue, so you may be on your way. Hope you feel better soon.

just got over it; was very ill with severe cold symptoms for two full days, then moderate to mild symptoms since. but still testing positive 8 days later. all told, it was hardly the sickest I've ever been, so I think I got off easy.

Finefinemusic - I guess you managed to dine unscathed. Im curious what restaurant it was that you felt was worth it?(despite my paranoia, I’m very tempted to go to the wren)

I did dodge it, thankfully! I quite like the Wren, I wish it had been that. Birthday girl’s choice: Soulas. It was fine.

ah right by me!

Not far from me! I’m just north of there. See you at Food Basics sometime maybe ;)

feeling pretty good today, but now having an episode of tinnitus. Don't remember ringing in my ears like this since going to loud concerts without ear plugs in my 20s.

i still have moderate tinnitus some two years on from my first bout with the vid. :( hope yours resolves soon.

it finally got me

Oh man, feel better soon Brad!

Ah man, sorry to hear it!

felt like the vaccine side fx for the first day and since then it's been just an average cold, thank u vaccines

One kid has it, I’ve got something, about to test now.

Also: get well soon, Brad!

My son's been sick with a nasty cold, but has tested negative three times over the last six days.

Feel better Brad!

feel better, Brad!

All the best, Brad.

I've had intense fatigue, headache, dry eyes and a scritchy throat last 48 hours but my RAT test came up negative. I'm not feeling any *worse*, I just want to sleep. I kind of wish it was posi because if its not spicy cough WTF is wrong with me?!

tbf i always want to sleep

Get well soon, man

tested negative for covid this morning :)

yay!

That was quick!

noice

i actually uh spoke too soon but on the bright side my symptoms stopped two days ago

goddamn faint line

I had it this past week, courtesy of my youngest child. Thankfully, it was no worse than a mild cold. I got a couple days' isolation, which didn't suck but I started going stir crazy. Very grateful it wasn't worse.

ok NOW i'm covid-free

How many days b/w first positive and this recent negative?

my symptoms started last monday—thought they were just really bad allergies, but i tested and got a negative result (one of the many delightful features of the covid merry-go-round). my girlfriend, whose worst symptoms were sniffles, tested herself out of curiosity on wednesday, and was positive; i tested again, and so was i (i feel like i would've tested positive on tuesday as well)

so nearly a full week

Heh, something very similar happened in my household except my daughter tested positive but I never did. So bad allergies plus “regular” cold superinfection for me, I think.

Welp, I finally caught it. Had a little earache on the flight home from Seattle which turned into tinnitus by bedtime. Didn’t think that was a symptom, didn’t even cross my mind - thought it was just an elevation thing. Woke up yesterday AM with chills and snot, and I was like, “uh-oh.” RAT was instantly positive.

The timing was good - it would have been a difficult and expensive proposition to stay if I had become symptomatic while I was there - but I wish I’d tested on my return so I didn’t sleep with Mrs HD that night. I think I caught it at home on the weekend and it gestated.

Symptoms are intermittently awful. On the up side I’m salaried and with some WFH options, so that’s ok. Once the brain fog and achybones lift. Blech.

shit. sorry to hear this hd. hang in there!

Blech.
You rang?

Sorry. And sorry you got the rona as well.

After a good 36-hour sleep punctuated by intermittent brief waking moments, I’m doing a lot better today! Was able to put my isolation to good use & play-test a bunch of singles I’d been sitting on for a while. I don’t feel good, by any stretch, but I no longer feel as though every minute is a year.

I finally got it a week or so ago (vaxxed and 1 boost in Dec). Like a mild cold - two days of sore throat, muscle aches, and runny nose (runny nose for 3), but less bad for each compared to my typical cold. Feel fine now and will test again Monday to see if I should return to work.

symptoms started appearing on Tuesday night: sore throat, small cough, tested negative

tested again on Friday, tested positive

Sunday now and I'm mostly symptom-free except for a small on-off fever, throat still a BIT itchy and phlegmy, and most annoyingly, a reduced sense of smell and taste

for those of you who had similar symptoms/timeline to mine, how long did it take you to regain your smell/taste? I know everyone's different and it's a bit soon to get impatient but still, just curious

Anyone else experiencing fatigue and aching legs after covid? I had it around 21 April, with sore throat, hoarse voice and feeling drained. Most symptoms are now gone - but the fatigue is persisting.