Tested Positive.. so what next?

Away With The Fairies

odyssey06 wrote: »

Thats a common reported symptom... have read weeks for some ppl.

Apparently taking zinc can help with this symptom.

TonyM.

Duke of Url wrote: »

The first thing that came to your head was flu?

OK I was in denial I was not expecting a positive test .

Larbre34

Masala wrote: »

Anyone lose their sense of taste???? Mine and the wife seem to have lost ours overnight. What the timeframe on that returning?..

My brother and sister law both lost their sense of taste, one worse than the other, after contracting Covid from their teenage daughter via a school transmission.

This was in October, by sister in law has more or less recovered her two senses, my brother has not hardly at all 3 months on. Interestingly, their other symptoms (cough, fever) were slight and relatively short lived.

RioM

RioM wrote: »

Sounds very similar to us. Husband has the splitting headache here. Still waiting on results but as back pain had eased and only a little congested today I was hoping it wasn't it or I was on the mend myself. Hope you both are doing OK.

Both positive

Masala

Masala wrote: »

Anyone lose their sense of taste???? Mine and the wife seem to have lost ours overnight. What the timeframe on that returning?..

both my daughter and my niece had Covid in the last 3 months, both lost their sense of taste and smell and it was very slow to return, really only in the last week or so - it will come back but it takes a long time.

ax530

Wishing you all a speedy recovery.
Gosh it really is rampant worrying to hear people who have not been socialising are still getting virus.
I had started to believe it was mostly airborne but with this recent increase and people not being able to identity where it came from I leaning back to thinking touching is more dangerous.

Dunfyy

You need to isolate use separate bathroom for next 10- 15 days
All in family should wear masks they should also isolate and not go out
Usually you get much sicker on 7th day if you find it hard to breathe get to hospital fast by ambulance. Use paper plates when person washes your clothes they should be in biohazard suit and gloves use bleach cleaner in toilet and bathroom sick person should spray bleach and clean they say gargle with mouthwash and take vitiman d tablets help

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/how-to-self-isolate-in-a-shared-house

pconn062

Dunfyy wrote: »

You need to isolate use separate bathroom for next 10- 15 days
All in family should wear masks they should also isolate and not go out
Usually you get much sicker on 7th day if you find it hard to breathe get to hospital fast by ambulance. Use paper plates when person washes your clothes they should be in biohazard suit and gloves use bleach cleaner in toilet and bathroom sick person should spray bleach and clean they say gargle with mouthwash and take vitiman d tablets help

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/how-to-self-isolate-in-a-shared-house

Jesus Christ....

Biohazard suits.

Skuxx

I first had symptoms on Stephens day and at that it was mild, little bit of coughing and a headache. Could easily put it down to the few drinks on Christmas day.
Rang the doctors and told them my symptoms but they didn't seem to concerned as no temperature, no loss of smell/ taste and the cough wasn't consistent. They offered to send me for a test anyway for piece of mind which I got yesterday and came back as positive today!

There's 4 of us in the house and another in our bubble who were all here over Christmas.
Its been almost a week since my first symptoms and bar being a bit tired I feel fine.
None of the others in the house are reporting feeling any symptoms but will obviously have to restrict movements.

Trying to figure where I might have picked it up. My sons (hes 1)childminder tested positive on Christmas Eve so the small lad was tested on the 27th, that came back negative. He hadn't been with her since the 21st. It could be that or maybe not. Just hoping now no-one else in the house starts to show anything.

odyssey06

Just to be aware when it comes to little uns in the household testing positive\negative, there was an interview with Professor Luke O'Neill where he said children can test negative even though they were recently infected.

Their immune system responds so aggressively to expel the virus that there is only a narrow window of time in which they would test positive.

Dunfyy

Dunfyy wrote: »

You need to isolate use separate bathroom for next 10- 15 days
All in family should wear masks they should also isolate and not go out
Usually you get much sicker on 7th day if you find it hard to breathe get to hospital fast by ambulance. Use paper plates when person washes your clothes they should be in biohazard suit and gloves use bleach cleaner in toilet and bathroom sick person should spray bleach and clean they say gargle with mouthwash and take vitiman d tablets help

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/how-to-self-isolate-in-a-shared-house

That's rather dramatic!
My daughter who was 8 months pregnant got Covid in October, so did her husband and her 18 month old toddler. As they were living with his parents then (before moving to a new house) the parents also got it , they are both 60. Also her sister in law got it. There is very little point trying to isolate completely in a house with 6 people, its virtually impossible to avoid getting it.
Plus if one gets it after someone else has isolated for 14 days then the isolation starts for everyone all over again. This can happen a few times within a large household. Its actually far easier if everyone just gets it.


All of them got mild symptoms, all of them continued to work remotely, none of them even saw a doctor. All made complete recoveries, no long Covid apart from taste taking a while to return. There is an awful lot of hysteria among people who don't know anyone who has had Covid. A friend of mine also had it over Christmas , he is 62. The biggest hassle he said was isolating alone for Christmas, apart from that he said he's had worse colds.

noodler

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Eh it's a pandemic. What rock you living under .

I'm making you the head of contact tracing.

RIALTO1

RioM wrote: »

Both positive

Hope ye are ok

odyssey06

Deleted User wrote: »

All made complete recoveries, no long Covid apart from taste taking a while to return. There is an awful lot of hysteria among people who don't know anyone who has had Covid. A friend of mine also had it over Christmas , he is 62. The biggest hassle he said was isolating alone for Christmas, apart from that he said he's had worse colds.

You just don't know how covid will hit you in that age bracket.

Colds don't put hundreds of 55-64 year olds into ICU, as covid has done this year.

Or even more tragically a 60 year old healthcare assistant at a Dublin Hospital died from Covid-19 on Christmas Eve, a week after contracting the virus:
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2021/0101/1187231-healthcare-worker-death/

DyldeBrill

Got my 2nd test yesterday and still waiting on a result. Girlfriend got hers there and came back negative. Hoping my result is the same. We were both in close contact with a family member who had it.

Could be that she had it previously unknown to her but the whole thing absolutely boggles me. I’ve developed a bit of a cough now too and was achy the last few days. If my result is taking longer to come back then is that a good sign? As in I would assume positive cases are made aware ASAP?

RioM

RIALTO1 wrote: »

Hope ye are ok

I've been fine, he has a bit of chest tightening. Yourselves?

shoppergal

My 3 year old tested positive on 28th. Literally no idea where he got it other than preschool but they haven't had any cases. He was vomiting on 26th with a bit of a sniffle and a slight temperature. My parents were here Xmas day and my dad has since tested positive. No symptoms. Mam still waiting for her test. Have two other small kids, impossible to isolate the 3 year old away from them so am presuming that we'll all be positive as well(tests tomorrow) .

RIALTO1

RioM wrote: »

I've been fine, he has a bit of chest tightening. Yourselves?

Yeah same, tight chest, and chesty cough occasionally. Nothing major. Wife is expecting so that's the main concern, still mainly headaches for her. Our one year old has a high temperature this evening as well so keeping a close eye on him.

faceman

Not in anyway being disrespectful to anyone who is sick, reading this thread from one perspective is bonkers. If I was a time traveller from the past reading the thread where people talk dramatically about having a virus that hasn’t done much to make them sick, I’d think you were all looneys!

It’s interesting how the virus isn’t consistent. My friends here in Spain run a family business. (Husband and wife team). He got the virus. Very mild symptoms. Isolated at home (very strict here). Neither his wife nor daughter tested positive. They were tested 3 times until he finally tested negative.

He posted a photo of Facebook of himself watching Telly on the sofa with the caption “this is what covid looks like”.

Contrast that with the small percentage of people who end up in icu or worse.

It’s such a weird virus

Lashes28

faceman wrote: »

Not in anyway being disrespectful to anyone who is sick, reading this thread from one perspective is bonkers. If I was a time traveller from the past reading the thread where people talk dramatically about having a virus that hasn’t done much to make them sick, I’d think you were all looneys!

It’s interesting how the virus isn’t consistent. My friends here in Spain run a family business. (Husband and wife team). He got the virus. Very mild symptoms. Isolated at home (very strict here). Neither his wife nor daughter tested positive. They were tested 3 times until he finally tested negative.

He posted a photo of Facebook of himself watching Telly on the sofa with the caption “this is what covid looks like”.

Contrast that with the small percentage of people who end up in icu or worse.

It’s such a weird virus

Hasn't there been a link found between how the virus was contracted and worse symptoms? I think I read it in a thread here

fits

odyssey06 wrote: »

Just to be aware when it comes to little uns in the household testing positive\negative, there was an interview with Professor Luke O'Neill where he said children can test negative even though they were recently infected.

Their immune system responds so aggressively to expel the virus that there is only a narrow window of time in which they would test positive.

That’s frightening.

My 3 yo was tested just before Xmas and came back not detected. He had a cough but no one else in the house developed one although we had minor cold symptoms. ( sore throat and headaches). We didn’t go into any houses or have anyone here but I’d have been even more careful if I’d seen that a couple of weeks ago.

Scuid Mhór

Lashes28 wrote: »

Hasn't there been a link found between how the virus was contracted and worse symptoms? I think I read it in a thread here

There’s lots of different theories - obviously age bracket, then viral load exposure, vitamin D deficiency, insidious hypoxia (presenting with pneumonia by the time it’s already quite advanced), whether or not you’ve also been administered a certain variant of tuberculosis vaccine, the list goes on.

speckle

Someone mentioned zinc which is meant to help re regaining smell and taste... just be cateful if you are on heart/hypertension medications as it can affect them... talk to your doctor in that case.

RioM

RIALTO1 wrote: »

Yeah same, tight chest, and chesty cough occasionally. Nothing major. Wife is expecting so that's the main concern, still mainly headaches for her. Our one year old has a high temperature this evening as well so keeping a close eye on him.

Our kids seem ok. Just 7 yr old a but off but could be late nights. Hopefully we won't get much worse. Take care.

ax530

RIALTO1 wrote: »

Yeah same, tight chest, and chesty cough occasionally. Nothing major. Wife is expecting so that's the main concern, still mainly headaches for her. Our one year old has a high temperature this evening as well so keeping a close eye on him.

If it any help I knew a pregnant person who has covid summer, no issues with pregnancy or baby and she has not had continued covid issues they all good.

ax530

ax530 wrote: »

If it any help I knew a pregnant person who has covid summer, no issues with pregnancy or baby and she has not had continued covid issues they all good.

My daughter got Covid at 8 months pregnant in October , along with her husband and toddler . They were all ok , v mild symptoms, full recovery , new baby born in November happy and healthy .

shaddupayaface

Masala wrote: »

Anyone lose their sense of taste???? Mine and the wife seem to have lost ours overnight. What the timeframe on that returning?..

My neighbour tested positive in September. Her only symptoms were loss of taste and smell. She’s still waiting on them to return!:(

picturehangup

I was feeling icky Christmas Eve, and suffered a pain right across the bottom of my abdomen. Had been feeling exhausted the entire previous week. On Christmas day, had to take to the bed, after noticing my temp was slightly up more than usual at 37.5 degrees.

Had the slightest hint of a headache, and a bit of a cough, plus got the most horrific cold sore on my lip! Feel fine now, but tired, and panicking in case I have a relapse, though hoping I'll be fine, given that I have mild asthma.

I have my 82 yr old mum staying with me at the moment and she is isolating, having tested negative along with the rest of the family.

Wishing everyone who gets this virus a safe experience, and hopefully the last.

Bigbooty

Have an emergency test this morning as I'm frontline healthcare worker. Very fatigued yesterday, shortness of breath/tightness in my chest, had a slight fever, normally 36.6 but was at 37.9, chills and aches all over even though my kitchen was 25°C and had base layers plus four layers on top and last night I developed a dry cough in bed.

I always get the same symptoms when it's a cold or flu this is very different so I really think I caught it in work. Haven't been anywhere or seen anyone else apart from being at home with my wife who is also showing symptoms. Good job I cancelled going home to my parents for Xmas. Feeling better after a night in bed.

Irishphotodesk

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

What we did in a similar situation was - as soon as the doc told my wife she needed to get tested... was she isolated in a bedroom with ensuite...Myself and the kids were tested 2 days after wife's result and one of the kids tested positive, so she went into the room with my wife... The following week... I returned a positive result so I went into the bedroom

I genuinely thought you were on a wind-up! I was fully sure you were gonna post that the other child then tested positive and you all stayed in the room for 2 weeks. :D