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

Antivirals are amazing, back at work tomorrow. There's just a barely visible line on this morning's RAT.

OH tested positive yesterday but I got her antivirals straight away, she's doing okay today. Mum and dad are fine too so everything turned out better than I'd feared.

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Pretty sure I have had it, sore throat started over a week ago then seemed to improve and then I went downhill and was really rough for a few days. Improving now.
Didn't bother trying to get a test.

Which antiviral, out of interest?

Paxvolid

edit: see you've answered. interesting - great to hear it worked well for you :-)

Do you mean:
https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/paxlovid/

yes he will do

It has got me again. I've felt lousy all week, tested earlier in week negative but feeling worse today & test was instant positive.

Justifies how crappie I'm feeling, but no consolation.

I wonder if the horrendous cough I've had for the past nearly four weeks was Covid, as I have been smelling cigarette smoke where there is none for a good while now and to say it's slightly disconcerting and depressing is an understatement 🙁

I am sure i had it a while ago but did not test. I had a chesty cough afterwards for about 4 weeks

Yeah, same. Had a chesty cough that's been going on the 4-5 weeks. Got worse, then got a bit better, than worse again over and over. I did one test that was negative at the start, but that doesn't mean much as the first time I got COVID, i tested negative 3 days running and only positive on the 4th.

A long-lasting cough has been doing the rounds for a couple of months. I don’t think it was covid, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/05/warning-of-nhs-quad-demic-as-flu-and-covid-cases-rise-in-england

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv/

Mrs M had this recently then norovirius, debilitating..

I'd never heard of RSV until I saw it on those covid/flu/RSV RATs. My OH had it while I was in Europe then I immediately gave her covid when I got back, she still isn't 100%.

Exactly the same. Over it now. Phantosmia remains though 😑

Phantosmia

I didn't get this, bad had acute Anosmia (at least three months) which was followed by Parosmia (at least 6 months). Still feel as though my sense of smell hasn't really returned to normal even now.

Feel for you.

Phantosmia

My exercise/ training has been fucked over since covid 3 weeks back. I thought I was going to pass out after climbing a set of stairs in a shopping centre on Monday.

I've got a race tomorrow and if I do start, a dnf is quite likely. race cancelled due to forecast weather

My sense of smell never came back properly after getting Cov in the early days of 2020. It's probably about 25% of what was normal before, but there aren't too many occasions when it has a negative impact, and there are positives, like not being bothered by the dog farting. Of all the senses you could lose, it's the one you'd choose.

Same with me. I can't really smell flowers now. Oh well.

Luckily it hasn't noticeably impacted my sense of taste.

I'd get rid of my sense of impending doom.

Ditto.. Mrs M is four weeks unwell now, doesn’t feel like going out.. the Xmas madness in London is also not very pleasant

I thought I was going to pass out after climbing a set of stairs in a shopping centre on Monday

I went to visit friends and they asked me to grab something from their basement. Had to have a breather on the way back up. Worst bout of covid I've had since the first.

Yeah, not fun. Hope it doesn't linger for you.