Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Simple regular parcel doze has made my ability to function massively improve. Certainly worth having a few packets around.

Went to a drinks party the other night with school parent friends. Hadn't seen some of them for a while and one of the guys had lost a lot of weight. Was chit-chatting about it and turns out he lost it during after first lockdown after reading about covid being worse for those overweight. Since then he has obviously fallen down the anti-vax rabbit-hole and started going on about it not being a real vaccine, gene mutation, masks were a scam etc, etc. Properly batshit.
What made it extra excruciating was that the other person we were talking with works for the European Medicines Agency (which he knows).
Had to do the whole 'oh look, there's so-and-so, I must go and catch up' escape.
First time I've come across someone so deeply changed by the last couple of years.

I've felt like shit the last two weeks; no energy, asleep on the couch by 8pm. Could be seasonal but anecdotally, half my company seems to have had covid so it might be the tests I have don't detect covid.

@villa-ru one of the guys at work was already conspiracy-adjacent in some views but went off the deep end calling us all "sheeple" and saying masks would kill us not covid as covid didn't exist. Stopped short of racist rants about China in public as that would have led to his immediate exit. Odd thing was, his uncle died from chest issues caused by covid but that was just "he's old". Nobody really talks to him at work so he's gone from "likeable nutter" to pariah.

My colleague from Chengdu is back in Beijing for work and yesterday he said "everybody is sick with COVID".

He also said everybody is scared of catching COVID because they've been hiding from it (in his opinion).

I finally got it. Hadn't had COVID at any point and have been testing weekly for a couple of years. But yesterday I thought I had the start of a flu, I test today and it's a really strong positive.

All the usual symptoms, pressure in the eyes and face, muscle aches, runny nose, and an aggressive dry cough.

Am bed bound until the 26th now 🥺 the timing sucks.

Wishing you a swift recovery.

I'm testing-ve but woke today with worse symptoms than when I did have it. Flu I guess.

Merry Xmas one and all, hope you're not feeling too rough Velocio.

hope you're not feeling too rough Velocio

Pretty rough. I cannot believe how much I've slept today, barely been awake 3 hours. The aches are wild too.

Feels like my battery is almost empty and just doing anything immediately exhausts.

I thought when I finally got it that it would be a nothing, just a cold, and then done. But this is more like speedrunning a flu.

I'm in the same situation. Finally got it this week. Luckily not as bad as flu so far, i.e. can still pretty much do normal things. Started with sore throat and headache (similar to vaccine side effect) but then slightly concerning chest pain, feeling slightly spaced out, and suddenly feeling tired and wanting to sleep despite being fine just moments before.

Hope you both recover ok Velocio and chris0, bad timing and sounds like it's hitting hard.

The aches are wild too.

I feel this, pain is like someone is trying to hollow out my legs & hips with a chisel.

Feels like my battery is almost empty and just doing anything immediately exhausts.

My watch measures "body battery" I don't pay much attention usually but when I had covid it showed definite struggle to recover.

Interestingly it has gone funny again with whatever this is...

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Still not recovering via sleep. Contact Urticaria a symptom now too.

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What is it measuring for 'body battery'?

I have it again, last run in April. Not too bad, a nasty cold infection feeling. The first run I also felt brain fog afor several days and very bad cold shivers.

https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/garmin-technology/health-science/body-battery/

There's a bit of anecdata too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Garmin/comments/wbwkzr/is_body_battery_at_all_accurate_useful/

I don't pay attention to mine unless I feel shitty, it is interesting how it has shifted.

Third time for us. Since March.

First time was the sickest we'd been in 20 years. Second time was like a moderate cold. This time is the second sickest we've been in 20 years.

Really don't think this is a good thing for the global population!

Sorry to all the sickos, first time since 2019 I've managed to avoid some sort of flu or covid over Xmas, I'm just regular knackered from lack of sleep this time.

Santa brung me a positive test. Mini_com has been weirdly under the weather for a day or so and I started to feel like I had a cold yesterday. Were supposed to have ms_com's mother and brother over today and we were supposed to go to NI on Wednesday, which I'm guessing is not happening now. Ms_com tested negative. Haven't tested mini_com but we're confident that's why she's fucked at the minute. Neither of us have temperatures, both just snuffly and wrecked. And I feel a bit "weird". This is my first experience of it btw.

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Aw, that's bad timing :(

I got it ATM, feels like a cold and already lifting, so hopefully you got that strain and not a nastier one.

Bad luck.

I feel largely recovered. 3 days of near constant sleep and aches and I'm up and about again and feeling relatively fine.

Still testing positive of course.

Day 18 and now down to a cough and feeling exhausted, went for 1/2 mile v. slow walk yesterday and promptly fell asleep as soon as got home. Just plodding around the house gets heart rate up and out of breath, happy to have the week off to hibernate

Temp went up to 38.5 last night and the dizzies set in. Woke up this morning largely symptom free, weirdly. If I think really hard about it the dizzies are still there. Hard to tell if I have covid tiredness as we have a three year old anyway. She's still whacked out.

Tested this morning and finally I have a faint line on the test. Which reflects how I feel - recovered. There's a mild lingering of headache, and a very mild shortness of breathe.

Of course, now Fi has it and she still has a very bold line on her test.

Re-infection quickly isn't a thing is it? I don't have to worry about immediately catching it again do I?

Re-infection quickly isn't a thing is it? I don't have to worry about immediately catching it again do I?

Probably not. I seem to recall one variant or another might in some circumstances reinfect in 28 days for some people but you are likely to be 'safe'.

You will have so many antibodies you’re very unlikely to re-catch it immediately, I think