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Seems to be coming back in waves every few days… headache, sore limbs (particularly legs / hips), extreme tiredness and brain fog

Yep, since October been feeling as you describe. But never had any symptoms that made me think of covid until I went to the Dr and they suggested post-covid symptoms could present in this way. Blood test confirmed high level of covid antibodies suggesting a recent infection.

The Dr also said there was no correlation between severity of covid illness and post-infection symptoms. So you can get the latter without really ever actually being ill with covid, which appears to have been what's happened to me :(

Worth going to the Dr if only to rule out other things, I think.

That's shit - sorry you're still suffering.

I'm definitely occasionally feeling a bit wiped but it's now maybe once every couple of weeks rather than every other day; the last being Sunday. Hoping it continues to 'thin out'.

My timeframe was Saturday generally tired (didn't think much about it)

Sunday, felt awful, coming down with a cold.
Monday, proper shite, did a test and double lined, didn't work and sat around all day
Tuesday, delirious, achy, tired, headache, bad cold.
Wednesday, now just feels like i have a moderate cold, still a bit achy all round, but have logged into work.

I'm 3 days in and seem to be following a similar pattern to you. Isolated from the family just for safety's sake, been in bed since yesterday lunchtime. Cancelled a doctor's appt today, and the secretary said she's just had cancellations all day due to Covid.

My sense of smell only came back about 30% after getting it in the very first lockdown and smell/taste have totally disappeared again now. Really hoping not to lose either of them totally this time round.

Next week on ITV

https://youtu.be/nJjMy71v7ZQ?feature=shared

Four days in to my second bout,a lot better than last time thankfully. Last time it wrecked me for a good five months afterwards, really hoping that is not the case this time around.

The ONS Winter Covid Study ending early.

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Annnnddddddd positive ffs

Bummer. I hope it isn't grim for you.

Finally succumbed to the virus. Got it for the 1st time couple of weeks ago. Such an odd illness aches, runny nose sore throat that seamed to ease in the day to get worse at night, taste smell effected all v odd. Was happy when I finally went away.

Everyone at work has it.

One colleague has been under the weather and tested positive, everyone else has "a cold". I am WFH until the Tour de France finishes - weekend away end of July and parents visiting early August.

My new starter - who is a bit of a conspiracy theorist and I bet they think Covid is a scam - has called in sick this morning with fever. So they have it as well.

Get well soon everyone!

There always seems to be a flare up before you go on holiday!

There does!

Chicken pox knocked three days off my holiday end May, and I’m not keen for a repeat!

There’s definitely a wave of it going around of late. My wife came down sick on Saturday morning, felt a bit unwell but slept it off and made it to the pub for the game on Saturday afternoon. Today she’s been in bed all day. I went and got a test kit and lo and behold, positive.

There’s definitely a wave of it going around of late

felt a bit unwell but made it to the pub for the game on Saturday

positive

Yep, this all checks out.

No shade, just pointing out how it will keep circulating. It's the new cold / flu innit?

Positive result on a well out of date test last night. Feeling dreadful but so far not as bad as first time round. 10 mile ride home from work yesterday was hell and getting soaked through to the skin walking home from school has 100% helped I’m sure.

I'm having to get off my bike and walk lately , can't be bothered to test but I've had a cough and some other symptoms, I recon I've caught it multiple times so far this year , a close relative tested positive.

Boom. Round 3 for me. Started off as a bit of a tickly throat and the odd sneeze on Saturday, thought it was a spike in hayfever and by the evening it had progressed into a nasty cold and I did a test on Sunday am. Have felt like absolute shit since Sunday (so 48hrs now).

My calf muscles are really sore, which I remember from last time.

Hope you get well soon man. I’m still fucked. Went to have a gentle ride into work this morning to get a bit of fresh air and blow the bugs out the system, was quite looking forward to it, but my legs were actually shaking coming down the stairs this morning and it took all my strength to pull my bike out the shed. Decided it wasn’t going to happen (10 miles) and drove instead. Spent the whole day at work basically feeling brain damaged. I’m not well yet and definitely not ready for any physical exertion.

Bloody thing has got me now, my wife went down with it just over a week ago, I’m surprised it took so long to get to me tbh. Nasty cough and thick head and feeling knackered. My wife has a compromised immune system so always gets it worse, she was off all last week and had to call in sick after a couple of hours work today.

Combined with the football and the fucking weather it’s been a great weekend…

Same. Currently waiting on a test to confirm. Colleague at work most likely given she tested positive over the weekend.

Proper thick fuzzy head and whilst out for a walk around the cemetery behind my house today was struggling to walk and talk. Very short of breath.

Sorry to hear you’re all having a shit time with it. The brain damage feeling is NO BUENO.
@Jonny69 that sounds awful. Take it slow and don’t rush into smashing the miles.

Been coughing up “stuff” this morning and have started feeling better throughout the day - still positive and a bit warm. Also interesting seeing the heart rate data from the watch over the past few days. HRV is rock bottom even with loads of sleep and breathing rate is higher (to be expected). Will be interesting to see the data through recovery - also keeping an eye on this stuff because of running and don’t want to miss any dodgy anomalies.

I may have covid or a cold. If it’s Covid how long can I expect to be out of the game? I do realise this is a bit of a how long is a piece of string question.

My anecdata from when I had it "properly" (I've been asymptomatic twice separately):

• tested positive with no symptoms (tested because of contact with someone who had tested positive)
  
• a day or so of a mild sniffle and cold feelings
  
• quickly went from mild sniffle to "ugh" and feeling like I couldn't even get out of bed
  
• 36h in bed without getting up (except to go to the toilet a few times)
  
• 12h of feeling mildly shitty (aches, cough, etc) but could at least get out of bed
  
• a day or so of mild sniffles
  
• still felt tired/lethargic about a week later
  

I think I have it at last. Hardly any coughing, so at first I thought it was a cold. But I seem to have all the other symptoms. Fuck. If it makes my ME any worse in the long term I'll be properly fucked. I should have worn a mask when I encountered humans recently. I'd pretty much forgotten all about Covid. Haven't seen anyone wearing a mask for ages, not even in hospital. I suppose I just wait to see if I get long Covid? Scared and pissed off.

I managed to find a test today and tested positive. Feeling a bit better after a few days of being mostly in bed. A bit like a bad cold but not much of a runny nose.

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