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

Since we’re not on a lock down here we took the kids to the local playground. They’ve been angry and sad that they can’t play with their mates after school like everyone else does.

Totally understandable so we thought the playground would be a good compromise as everyone’s outside and we can keep an eye on them. About 2 minutes in one of the neighbours kids (you know the kind, everyone has a neighbour with shouty kids that hasn’t seen a shower or toothbrush in weeks) comes running over and gives our daughter a big hug.

What the actual fuck. In schools the kids now eat apart and are told to keep distance. This has been going on for weeks now, everyone should fucking know it. Fingers crossed we actually had it so we’re immune by now.

Did I kill the thread?

Nope 😁

That’s dumb but kids are gonna be kids. Mine are in förskola so obviously no social distancing there! Town was dead, a couple of restaurants shut down (hopefully not permanently) but espresso house was rammed! Old people all over the place

Spoke to the manager of our förskola last week and she said it’s more or less pointless for them to do stuff apart from sending home kids with symptoms straight away and keeping parents with symptoms away.

She told me about a few parents rocking up with “just a cold” trying to drop off their kid with “just a sniffle” 🙄

Anyone else feel like they have a sore throat that doesn't get really sore or worse, and a dry feeling chest with a slight cough that doesn't move into coughing fits or anything? Had a headache all day yesterday with slightly warm forehead too, but not really today.

I don't know if just psychosomatic or just mild symptoms or even just a common cold...

Fever seems to be one of the main warning as colds normally don't cause a fever.

6 weeks ago we got his by a sore throat with mild headache / weird guts / some coughing / feeling rundown for 2 weeks, but only my partner had a fever. All the other viral bugs are still happily mutating away I suppose :)

My girlfriend has had this for the last couple of weeks, doesn't seem like she can shake it

Yeah I seem to have felt this way for a good while. Feel better then feel worse, but never really 'ill' just constant 'meh'

Allergies? It's been a bit wild on that front this year.

Had a very weird sore throat for ages which didn’t feel like a regular sore throat and the same dry, slightly tight chest with no persistent cough. I decided the sore throat was due to having to do so much more talking working from home and decided the chest was cos I’m not cycling 70-100 miles per week commute.

No fever though.

It could just be anxiety, one common symptom is acid reflux which can make you feel like you've got a scratchy throat and tight chest, it'll also make you cough to try and clear it from time to time and tbh conditions are pretty anxiety inducing at the moment.

Allergies? It's been a bit wild on that front this year.

It could be for sure, I guess allergies can just start eh?

It could just be anxiety, one common symptom is acid reflux which can make you feel like you've got a scratchy throat and tight chest, it'll also make you cough to try and clear it from time to time and tbh conditions are pretty anxiety inducing at the moment.

I do suffer from GERD but its not been too bad just recently, but worth keeping in mind - thanks

Had a very weird sore throat for ages which didn’t feel like a regular sore throat

I had this and I'm now as sure as I can be (without being tested) that I had Covid-19*, plus from your description of your chest it sounds like it could be the virus.

However, if you're still cycling 70-100 miles a week I doubt it. I went from riding 85 miles one weekend to barely able to walk down the road the next. How are you feeling now?

*I work closely with our international and global engagement offices at work (who normally do LOTS of flying around the world) and, unsurprisingly, it turns out the virus has been rampant in those teams.

There was a weekend workshop on the weekend I first started getting symptoms other than fatigue (14/15th March) and six of the nine people who went got it, despite precautions being taken. The person who I thought had it and I think gave it to me has had persistent lung problems since and had to go onto steroids. She's been told by the doctors that they're pretty certain she had it, and if she was presenting with the symptoms she had now she'd be tested.

How is everyone else feeling? Hopefully the lack of posts is a good sign?

I had some meetings with some senior people from Barts and the London this week who told me that they think the virus is already past peak in East London, so I reckon the former fixie skidder cohort have mostly had it now from the first wave if you're going to. But they are worried about the second wave and possibly a third.

Just reading through the thread. I've had a slightly sore throat and a splitting headache for 3 days now. Slightly raised temperature but no cough. But I feel completely wiped out and doing anything leaves me out of breath, although I don't feel I have trouble breathing. Also strange, low but consistent, bowel pain.

am in day 7/10 - I had the headaches, gastric problems for five days, then 48hrs of feeling ‘okay’, now I wake up feeling sedated but with my heart pounding. Newer development is pins and needles in my fingers and toes. Covid’s vascular effects?

No fever, no cough (yet).

Generally, I wake with a feeling of lungs hurting, and they’re crispy anyway, so that’s just added to the pile.
I can’t tell if it’s a change or just common-or-garden anxiety surfacing in new and exciting ways.

Hope you heal up fast.

Am now completely over it, fever free since Wednesday. Still feeling easily tired after any manual work but not sure how much of that is lack of exercise and being cooped up at home. It never moved on to the lungs thank goodness. Of course there's no way of knowing if 'it' really was Covid-19.

Don’t want to intrude or give medical advice, but there’s was an NY Times article a week or two ago by a respiratory doctor saying that household finger oximeters (like diabetics use on their index finger) could help detect low blood oxygen levels caused by Covid pneumonia before it gets worse. Might be worth checking if you’ve got access to one.

Just had a look at that, sounds like a good shout thanks

👍 cheers ears

Sorry, I missed this earlier. I’m working from home so not getting the usual commute in. I went out on a few short 20-25 mile ‘exercise’ rides without feeling much strain on the lungs. Next day my lungs felt better than they did before the ride, so I assumed it was them not getting the workout they usually do. If I’ve had it, it must have been a very, very mild dose. I’m mildly asthmatic so would have expected to feel it fairly obviously. Symptoms were rather weird though, not like the usual cough I get post-sniffle. Just very low level chest issues and the strange sore throat. No fever, no tiredness (though I have young kids so that’s my permanent state). Glad you’re getting better.