I think I/we might have Coronavirus thread (release your isolation-frustration here)

I've noticed my hands & wrists felt a little numb over the last couple of days

Is this a recognised symptom?

Sorry if this has already been addressed. There is a hypothesis doing the rounds that it has an effect on the nervous system and that is the cause of some of the loss of taste/smell (that I and Mrs c00ps both experienced - I must stress here that neither of us was tested). So it's probably not beyond the realms of possibility that this is also part of the same?

There is a hypothesis doing the rounds

Any links please.. to Science :)

Google Dataset incoming from CEBM of S+S (soon):
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19-signs-and-symptoms-tracker/

Anyone else finding this thing very up and down? I have generally been feeling better but as soon as I have a good day it seems to be immediately followed by a bad one!

Sore throat and the super tiredness hit me again this lunchtime and I started WFH again yesterday.

Will try to find proper citation for nervous system hypothesis.

But anosmia cited by ENT UK:
https://www.entuk.org/categories/covid-19
https://www.encephalitis.info/blog/coronavirus

and patient confirmed with virus in cerebrospinal fluid cited by encephalitis soc:
https://www.encephalitis.info/blog/coronavirus

My wife and our youngest (2yo) both have what might possibly be it. 2yo has been up and down, yeah. Had a good day, then a massive slump yesterday and now she’s looking a bit better today and no temp. So far eldest and I have got away with just being run down but we shall see.

I’ve been trying to get my head round the guidance. We’ve been isolating for over a week now. I’m assuming while we have someone with symptoms in the house, none of us should go out at all (exercise or whatever). Is this correct?

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If your temperature is back to normal, and other symptoms have gone (leftover cough is OK), you can go back out after 7 days, even if others are still symptomatic.

It'll be interesting to see where anosmia sits on the timeline though.

The first link even specifically mentions it in the post-infectious phase for other viruses like the common cold. I think it will be quite different to the precursor symptoms like the dry cough or shortness of breath, but obviously still worth isolating if only because it's unknown whether someone with anosmia could infect others and for how long.

Is the "going out after 7days" if you've had it and recovered just, "you can do the same as everyone else" or is it that you are less likely to catch it again and/or are less likely to transmit it?

There's been no confirmation of anyone getting it a second time. Unless you're unfortunate enough to be hospitalised, no one's getting definite confirmation they've even had it a first time.

I guess there's also the (slim?) chance that even if you're not going to be infected again, it would still be possible to carry the virus around on your skin. Suitable precautions would seem like a smart move.

Brilliant thanks!

It would be extremely annoying to have had something else, and then catch actual C19 after going back out into the (limited) world. Guess that's always a risk with no testing and self-diagnosing.
Because there sure is a mad wide set of 'symptoms' being reported.

Anecdotal 'evidence' alert...

I definitely noticed the change in taste after I turned the corner with my fever on Weds/Thurs, after initially going down with fever on Sunday night (not having read anything about these effects or theories yet). I still noted the taste differences up to Sunday night - when what I hoped would be a cold post-viral beer tasted nasty and sour.

(Disclaimer as previous - I have no confirmation I actually had the disease, as I wasn't tested)

Mrs c00ps had a brief loss of taste/smell sensation for a day or so, with no other signs or symptoms.

Additional anecdotal evidence but my parents are still in quarantine following symptoms such as fever, dry persistent cough, aches etc.

My dad seems to be fully recovered but my mum hasn't had any sense of taste or smell for nearly a week now.

I've not actually been ill (yet). So I guess I have to now wait until all household symptoms have gone + 7 days?

More anecdotal data from me - have had changed sense of taste & smell until today. I could still taste stuff, but not as much as normal

Sort of. 14 days after the first symptoms in the household. (eg don't have to wait for a later starter to fully finish - if you've survived 14 days in a plague house, they reckon you are good to go!)

Ah ok gotcha. So on Thursday it’ll be 7 days. If everyone has recovered by then, we wait 7 days and then I can get out.

I’m trying to work out what my best bet re. Exercise is where I am. A run seems better ‘value’ in terms of exercise per 1 hour slot, but then around me I wonder if cycling puts me at a better distance from other individuals out and about.

Thought I was feeling like I'd recovered enough that I should get on with stuff. Spent the day up a ladder painting and I feel absolutely buckled. Good excuse for a day off tomorrow I reckon, and perhaps a word of warning to others to take their time recovering.

Interesting ta.

Felt much better all day then hit by wooziness and mild wheeze about 4pm eased off again a bit now.

Alot matches anxiety symptoms still... https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/generalised-anxiety-disorder/symptoms/

Tell me about it. I wake up feeling pretty normal but slowly deteriorate throughout the day. Always fall asleep with kids at 8.30-9...

That's just middle age.

Woke up feeling absolutely battered again. Hopefully I'm not about to relapse!