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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,719
    First.Aspect said:

    kingstongraham said:

    First.Aspect said:

    kingstongraham said:

    I didn't have it particularly badly either, just in bed for a week. But its after effects have lasted quite a long time.

    How about now? (Aside from a brain that has shrunk 50% and damage to every internal organ, I mean).
    Internal organs all AOK.

    Tired a lot still, back to working 4 days a week. Having a go at riding the bike and it's OK, have got up to being a mid range C on zwift. Still trying to work out how much of that is just loss of fitness.
    Glad you are more or less getting back to it. Still, frightening.

    Yup - seems that with long covid, the initial infection gives no clue about the impact of the LC. I've had two friends with it, and one was put on 24h suicide watch for a while, and another has recently had quite a severe breakdown, both more than a year after the infection. It seems unlikely that it's a coincidence (though, of course, it might be).
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited March 2022
    Day 9 and I’m up to about 2 hours of sitting upright or 10 mins of standing before I am struggling and need to lie down.

    My right nostril tests negative, left very faintly positive.
    _
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,719
    rick_chasey said:

    Day 9 and I’m up to about 2 hours of sitting upright or 10 mins of standing before I am struggling and need to lie down.

    My right nostril tests negative, left very faintly positive.


    Courage, that man. Doesn't sound like fun at all.

    The day after I played in Thursday's concert, had an email from the organiser saying that one of the trombones had tested positive... quite glad that the cathedral is gert big and I'm still trying to do the social distancing thing. Your experience doesn't encourage me to catch it.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Well I'm back in the Zone of definitely having had contact, had symptoms around then that have now faded and still not testing positive???

    I think my nostrils are immune...
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,660
    ddraver said:

    Well I'm back in the Zone of definitely having had contact, had symptoms around then that have now faded and still not testing positive???

    I think my nostrils are immune...

    I had that this week too. Could be other viruses I guess.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    I had a minor op last week so had to have a PCR test. That was negative too?!?!? Guessing I'm going to go positive next week some time, just as I get the stitches out and could get back to normal :/
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Day 9 and I’m up to about 2 hours of sitting upright or 10 mins of standing before I am struggling and need to lie down.

    My right nostril tests negative, left very faintly positive.


    Courage, that man. Doesn't sound like fun at all.

    The day after I played in Thursday's concert, had an email from the organiser saying that one of the trombones had tested positive... quite glad that the cathedral is gert big and I'm still trying to do the social distancing thing. Your experience doesn't encourage me to catch it.
    Yeah the last 3 days have easily been the worst.

    No other symptoms
    _
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rick_chasey said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Day 9 and I’m up to about 2 hours of sitting upright or 10 mins of standing before I am struggling and need to lie down.

    My right nostril tests negative, left very faintly positive.


    Courage, that man. Doesn't sound like fun at all.

    The day after I played in Thursday's concert, had an email from the organiser saying that one of the trombones had tested positive... quite glad that the cathedral is gert big and I'm still trying to do the social distancing thing. Your experience doesn't encourage me to catch it.
    Yeah the last 3 days have easily been the worst.

    No other symptoms
    Do you tend to suffer badly with colds and flu?

    Would be really interesting to know what variant people are getting
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited March 2022
    No, shrug them off.

    Did another test and it’s bright red again
    _
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,719
    rick_chasey said:

    No, shrug them off.

    Did another test and it’s bright red again


    C'mon, just pull yourself together, and go into the office tomorrow. Make sure to tell everyone else to wash their hands.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    No, shrug them off.

    Did another test and it’s bright red again


    C'mon, just pull yourself together, and go into the office tomorrow. Make sure to tell everyone else to wash their hands.
    Honestly I wouldn’t even make it in, nor would I be able to sit at my desk without lying down in this state
    _
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,719
    rick_chasey said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    No, shrug them off.

    Did another test and it’s bright red again


    C'mon, just pull yourself together, and go into the office tomorrow. Make sure to tell everyone else to wash their hands.
    Honestly I wouldn’t even make it in, nor would I be able to sit at my desk without lying down in this state

    I kind of assume that people who say "It's just like the flu" haven't even had flu properly... you really wouldn't get out of bed to pick up a £50 note.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,490
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    No, shrug them off.

    Did another test and it’s bright red again


    C'mon, just pull yourself together, and go into the office tomorrow. Make sure to tell everyone else to wash their hands.
    Honestly I wouldn’t even make it in, nor would I be able to sit at my desk without lying down in this state

    I kind of assume that people who say "It's just like the flu" haven't even had flu properly... you really wouldn't get out of bed to pick up a £50 note.
    This.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,025
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    No, shrug them off.

    Did another test and it’s bright red again


    C'mon, just pull yourself together, and go into the office tomorrow. Make sure to tell everyone else to wash their hands.
    Honestly I wouldn’t even make it in, nor would I be able to sit at my desk without lying down in this state

    I kind of assume that people who say "It's just like the flu" haven't even had flu properly... you really wouldn't get out of bed to pick up a £50 note.
    If the £50 note was a time limited deal, I'd be picking it up with flu.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    No, shrug them off.

    Did another test and it’s bright red again


    C'mon, just pull yourself together, and go into the office tomorrow. Make sure to tell everyone else to wash their hands.
    Honestly I wouldn’t even make it in, nor would I be able to sit at my desk without lying down in this state

    I kind of assume that people who say "It's just like the flu" haven't even had flu properly... you really wouldn't get out of bed to pick up a £50 note.
    It amazes me the amount of people who get "flu" at least once a year. They must be really unlucky as I've gone nearly 50 years now without catching it once. I do get a lot of colds though, prior to Covid being invented I would probably get 3 or 4 a year. Normally they would leave me feeling uncomfortable for a few days, sometimes they'd be a bit worse.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,269
    I had flu once. Got it while attending a Robert Plant RAH gig early December 2017. Went to shxx a few days later, bed bound for days, no idea what time of day or night it was, at one point thought 'is this what dying feels like?'. Was xxxxed for weeks. Christmas and New Year partees? Hardly.

    So viruses have, do and will keep xxxxing us over.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    TheBigBean said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    No, shrug them off.

    Did another test and it’s bright red again


    C'mon, just pull yourself together, and go into the office tomorrow. Make sure to tell everyone else to wash their hands.
    Honestly I wouldn’t even make it in, nor would I be able to sit at my desk without lying down in this state

    I kind of assume that people who say "It's just like the flu" haven't even had flu properly... you really wouldn't get out of bed to pick up a £50 note.
    If the £50 note was a time limited deal, I'd be picking it up with flu.
    True, but I'd stay on the floor. Only had flu a couple of times.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited March 2022
    Other than the exhaustion I feel fine. In fact, when lying in bed I feel normal.

    It’s just as soon as I sit up it all goes wrong.
    _
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    I had flu for several weeks over Xmas 2010.
    Up until that point, I thought I’d had a flu a few times.
    I recalibrated my understanding that year.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,719
    orraloon said:

    I had flu once. [...] at one point thought 'is this what dying feels like?'. .


    I had *exactly* the same thought. That was 32 years ago now, and thankfully I've not had it since.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,719
    rick_chasey said:

    Other than the exhaustion I feel fine. In fact, when lying in bed I feel normal.

    It’s just as soon as I sit up it all goes wrong.


    Have you checked your blood pressure? One of the people I know ended up with ridiculously low BP, so she ended up feeling faint every time she got out of bed.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    rick_chasey said:

    Other than the exhaustion I feel fine. In fact, when lying in bed I feel normal.

    It’s just as soon as I sit up it all goes wrong.

    I was like that in December 2019, got what I thought was a fairly standard cold at the start of the month and it seemed to clear after about a week but I was feeling tired and ready to sleep at any time. One lunch time I walked a mile each way to the local post office and had to sleep for an hour when I got back. After 3 weeks I tried a run, did 5k at what was a slow pace even by my standards and just about made it home where I curled up on the sofa and slept for hours mid afternoon.

    I've wondered since then if Covid was already here and I picked up an early version of it but probably just some weird strain of cold virus.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Pross said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Other than the exhaustion I feel fine. In fact, when lying in bed I feel normal.

    It’s just as soon as I sit up it all goes wrong.

    I was like that in December 2019, got what I thought was a fairly standard cold at the start of the month and it seemed to clear after about a week but I was feeling tired and ready to sleep at any time. One lunch time I walked a mile each way to the local post office and had to sleep for an hour when I got back. After 3 weeks I tried a run, did 5k at what was a slow pace even by my standards and just about made it home where I curled up on the sofa and slept for hours mid afternoon.

    I've wondered since then if Covid was already here and I picked up an early version of it but probably just some weird strain of cold virus.
    My entire 2020 was like that.
    October 2019 I had a very bad cough for a month but otherwise quite mild cold like symptoms with breathing difficulties. The mrs ended up in hospital for several days with respiratory problems that were never diagnosed.

    I am certain covid was here in 2019.

    The thing that previously made me doubt that was how did it not spread earlier?

    Seeing as each subsequent variant has become far more contagious. If you back calculate, earlier variants would quite possibly/probably be far less contagious.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    There are plenty of other coronaviruses that aren't SARS-CoV-2. As someone else said: what doesn't kill you mutates and has another go.
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  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,969
    briantrumpet said:




    I kind of assume that people who say "It's just like the flu" haven't even had flu properly... you really wouldn't get out of bed to pick up a £50 note.

    Back in my day it was a £20 note. Inflation eh?

    Seriously though, chap in our office went off to that chavvy horse race event last week for a couple of days. Mixed with 10,000's of people. Came back to office on Friday and now we're all pinged cos he has covid. Fecking ejit! Really? What was he thinking?


    Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.

  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,719
    photonic69 said:

    briantrumpet said:




    I kind of assume that people who say "It's just like the flu" haven't even had flu properly... you really wouldn't get out of bed to pick up a £50 note.

    Back in my day it was a £20 note. Inflation eh?

    Seriously though, chap in our office went off to that chavvy horse race event last week for a couple of days. Mixed with 10,000's of people. Came back to office on Friday and now we're all pinged cos he has covid. Fecking ejit! Really? What was he thinking?


    Is pinging really still a thing? Does anyone have the app on these days?

    The most I've had is emails from event organisers when one of the participants has tested positive the next day, and I've had an email saying that I might want to test.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Day 10. Still testing bright red positive. Back at home.

    Feel OK as other than a short car journey I have been in bed all day.

    Still feel quite jelly-legged when I am on my feet.
    _
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rick_chasey said:

    Day 10. Still testing bright red positive. Back at home.

    Feel OK as other than a short car journey I have been in bed all day.

    Still feel quite jelly-legged when I am on my feet.

    when you say "back at home" where have you been?
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Day 10. Still testing bright red positive. Back at home.

    Feel OK as other than a short car journey I have been in bed all day.

    Still feel quite jelly-legged when I am on my feet.

    when you say "back at home" where have you been?
    Cheltenham races, obvs
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    So while I live in a shoebox my parents across town have an array of bedrooms to chose from, so when I tested positive I headed there to isolate.

    First half they were away on holiday so it was quite easy, second half not so fun.

    wife and child have dodged getting it so that's something.
    _

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