• If you aren't a good bleeder (I'm not) stick your arm (not just hand) into warm water that will help.

    I got a good bleed, that was a pretty vicious lancet!

    "Just me being shit" awk no joy with gp I take it?

    Can be so many things unfortunately...

    Literally no idea. Quite a lot is probably circumstantial because I’ve got my hands full with a toddler and now we have a break from shielding I’m trying to move house to get away from shithead new neighbours who have been a nightmare since they moved in at the beginning of lockdown 1. That and sleeping in the spare room so they don’t keep me up every night. Trying to work full time and do childcare. Not always getting to eat properly because the food deliveries regularly substitute critical stuff off or we just forgot to order certain things.

    But I did get a little ill at the beginning of January and I wonder in hindsight if it might have been a mild dose of Covid and (again hindsight) I probably should have just gone and got a test despite not really having ‘proper’ Covid symptoms. The tiredness and exhaustion predates all of that though, so I mostly just put it down to that.

    I was also really, really ill with full flu at the end of December 2019. I’ve started to wonder if it was actually flu and not an early Covid case. I did have a bad cough with it and lung irritation, which I haven’t had before when I’ve had full flu.

  • Oh wow bad sleep / food so so / moving home / social stress / small child yeah that's a cluster of less than ideal circumstances...

    I had a "living dead" phase before my son slept through the night and all new parents at work always look exhausted.

    Huel makes me burpy so not for me but it's a powdered vegan protein rich meal shake maybe a quick food fix?

    Even so will definitely be good to know if you've had Covid or not.

  • Huel makes me burpy so not for me but it's a powdered vegan protein rich meal shake maybe a quick food fix?

    That’s actually a pretty good shout. I hadn’t considered boosting things up with supplements like protein shakes.

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