People who tested positive, how are you feeling?

CRI0ST0IR

People or people you know who tested positive before or are positive now, how are you feeling? Both physically and mentally

SteelyDanJalapeno

My fiancée's sister tested positive 6 days ago, she's been tired but no other real symptoms, she has not infected any of her 3 kinds or spouse even thou they share the same bed.

CRI0ST0IR

SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »

My fiancée's sister tested positive 6 days ago, she's been tired but no other real symptoms, she has not infected any of her 3 kinds or spouse even thou they share the same bed.

Oh, yeah I've heard who some people just don't get infected by their spouses and just confuses me how it works that way.

Ryano87

Tested positive on Wednesday. Genuinely feel like death.. throbbing head and ear ache. Blood shot eye and an acute shortness of breath.. awful stomach pains and energy is totally zapped. I haven't been able to get out of bed for three days.

Strange thing is my partner has no Symptoms at all. This is such a horrible thing.

cjyid

4 family members & work colleague all positive over the holidays.

All fatigued/smell & taste gone and headaches. Nothing more apart form that thankfully.

I know an entire family that is positive. Nobody has anything major. Slight cough and some loss of taste in some cases.

CRI0ST0IR

Ryano87 wrote: »

Tested positive on Wednesday. Genuinely feel like death.. throbbing head and ear ache. Blood shot eye and an acute shortness of breath.. awful stomach pains and energy is totally zapped. I haven't been able to get out of bed for three days.

Strange thing is my partner has no Symptoms at all. This is such a horrible thing.

Sorry to hear that, how long have you being positive for?

Trigger Happy

I tested positive on Tuesday. Have had flu like symptoms for a week now. Lots of fatigue. But no fever or chills this last 5 days. No concentration at all, brain fog. Am optimistic that I will turn the corner this weekend.

polesheep

Neighbours had it. Three out of five tested positive, the other two negative despite repeated tests. Two children no symptoms and one adult felt flat for a day. It really is strange how some members of a family don't catch it when it's in the household.

bodhrandude

My niece (HCW) who tested positive 2 months ago had a few of the symptoms, fatigue, loss of smell and taste. Still during Xmas she had no sense of smell and taste, heard her on the phone during the family Xmas zoom call that it was strange eating chocolate truffles and After Mints and not been able to smell or taste them at all. My family in Dundee got infected too and they got the same symptoms but have their smell and taste senses back.

Sheddie2

Very mild sympthoms, a bit of tiredness and a very mild head cold. Wouldn't have known only got a tested as a close contact.

Finished isolation period and all good. Feels a bit weird going back out to the shop!

Other members of the household with whom I would have mixed tested negative (one had symptoms).

I know a few people now who have had it and generally they all all mild, one older person finding it hard to shake completely - seems to have affected their stomach and left them dehydrated (may not be looking after themselves too well).

manonboard

Close friend of mine (25,F) got it. Herself and her partner both completely loss sense of smell and taste. Headaches for days. Nothing too bad.
She got her smell back within a month. His smell and taste have barely returned 4 months later.

He just says its fine, its just that food is a bit boring.

audman13

Tested positive Thursday. Cough and tight chest and tired. Get out of breath easily enough.

Inquitus

Tested positive on the 2nd Jan, fevers, chills, aches, pains, loss of smell and taste. Like a proper dose of the Flu for me, with the added anosmia. Not at all pleasant, hopefully I should be clear by the weekend, Wife and 3 kids got it as well.

harr

Neighbour Got it before the Christmas, got it in work EMT , for a fit man he said he was never as sick . Literally had to crawl to bathroom.. I was shocked when I spoke to him yesterday he must have lost a couple of stone and taste only coming back now. He admitted he was scared with the breathing aspects of it.
His wife and 3 kids never caught it....

tayto lover

Hope you all get better very soon.
Have any of you any underlying conditions?

audman13

tayto lover wrote: »

Hope you all get better very soon.
Have any of you any underlying conditions?

No underlying condition

Realtine

I tested positive yesterday, I only went for a test because I had a very mild cough and as i work in healthcare it wouldn't have been great to be coughing in work.
Was shocked to get a positive result, it's a really strange virus.
I had mild headaches last weekend, that I just could not get rid of, right behind my eyes but I didn't put it down to covid.
I had the first dose of the vaccine on Monday afternoon - though I felt absolutely terrible after it, chills, absolutely freezing, feet were like blocks of ice - had to go to bed with paracetamol.
no underlying conditions
So Im all over the place - however, I don't feel particularly unwell now, a bit moany and not sleeping great.
My husband seems much worse than me he's due a test on Tuesday and he's definitely going to be positive.

emeldc

tayto lover wrote: »

Hope you all get better very soon.
Have any of you any underlying conditions?

I got it last March. I've a kidney transplant (14 years). Heavy head cold like symptoms. Cough. Loss of taste, smell. Fatigue. Shortness of breath. Relentless high temp. Two weeks in hospital. 3 days on oxygen. Liver deterioration, pneumonia, UTI, blood ecoli infection, lost a stone in weight. Never really thought I was going to die but really wanted to. Other than that it was grand and I've made a good recovery with no lasting effects.

Ryano87

CRI0ST0IR wrote: »

Sorry to hear that, how long have you being positive for?

Tested positive on Wednesday, symptoms started on Saturday. I thought it was flu. Partner got the all clear today (she was concerned that she may have spread to her elderly parents when dropping their food shopping last weekend to them).

She's fine though no symptoms and got the official negative test today even though we shared same bed until this Wednesday.

SpacialNeeds

Realtine wrote: »

I tested positive yesterday, I only went for a test because I had a very mild cough and as i work in healthcare it wouldn't have been great to be coughing in work.
Was shocked to get a positive result, it's a really strange virus.
I had mild headaches last weekend, that I just could not get rid of, right behind my eyes but I didn't put it down to covid.
I had the first dose of the vaccine on Monday afternoon - though I felt absolutely terrible after it, chills, absolutely freezing, feet were like blocks of ice - had to go to bed with paracetamol.
no underlying conditions
So Im all over the place - however, I don't feel particularly unwell now, a bit moany and not sleeping great.
My husband seems much worse than me he's due a test on Tuesday and he's definitely going to be positive.

Jesus that's mad that you got the vaccine while positive. Were the people who did the vaccination notified?? That will possibly lead to an absolutely awful outbreak if their infection prevention was even a tiny bit careless. I hope you're doing ok, you really have to be in top physical form when you get vaccinated or you feel like shjt. I got the flu jab and got a bad dose just after it back in Nov 2019. No craic. Hope you feel better soon.

polesheep

emeldc wrote: »

I got it last March. I've a kidney transplant (14 years). Heavy head cold like symptoms. Cough. Loss of taste, smell. Fatigue. Shortness of breath. Relentless high temp. Two weeks in hospital. 3 days on oxygen. Liver deterioration, pneumonia, UTI, blood ecoli infection, lost a stone in weight. Never really thought I was going to die but really wanted to. Other than that it was grand and I've made a good recovery with no lasting effects.

Wow, that was rough. Delighted you have recovered.

dublin_paul

I wish I could taste something! Eating a banana here and getting 0 taste, mad.

koolis02

Tested positive on Monday, have had symptoms since last week. At the start I was really tired, joint pain, headache, cough etc. Now I have mild shortness of breath and absolutely no taste/smell whatsoever, which is the worst part. Really takes the enjoyment out of food.
Weirdest part is my partner has had two tests now and has came back negative twice, even though we share the same bed... its very stange.

Whatsisname

My girlfriend (mid 20's) got it back around the start of November. Started as what she thought was a head cold, then she had a temperature for a night. Cough came and so did loss of taste/smell. She was tired a lot too but by day 10 she was pretty much 90% back to normal. Cough remained for a few weeks, and her taste/smell came back around the same time. I've definitely seen her way sicker.

And weirdly enough I never got it, despite us sharing a small 1 bed apartment and staying in the same bed.

Ironically the same happened to my brother, his girlfriend had it, he never got it either. Maybe our family blood is the vaccine. :pac:

Ave Sodalis

I developed nasal symptoms on Monday and with chronic sinus problems, I didn't pass any mind on coughing up nasal drip stuff. On Tuesday night, the cough got a bit dry so I rang my GP on Wednesday just in case. I had put it down to my throat getting irritated from coughing stuff up so wasn't worried. Got a test Wednesday. Wednesday evening I felt like I got a bit of a cold with a stuffy nose and swollen lymph glands (which isn't meant to be a symptom). Got the results this morning to say it was positive. It really just feels like a mild cold that you'd barely pass any heed to at any other time. Other than 2 or 3 dry coughs a day, I don't have any other symptoms and even my GP wasn't sure a test was entirely necessary. Fatigue and joint pain I have on a daily basis anyway due to other illnesses, but they haven't been notable.

I've had no contact with a confirmed case. I haven't been anywhere other than food shopping where I've wore my mask and sanitised my hands. I barely socialised during normal times, nevermind now. It just shows how easy it is to spread.

CRI0ST0IR

Ryano87 wrote: »

Tested positive on Wednesday. Genuinely feel like death.. throbbing head and ear ache. Blood shot eye and an acute shortness of breath.. awful stomach pains and energy is totally zapped. I haven't been able to get out of bed for three days.

Strange thing is my partner has no Symptoms at all. This is such a horrible thing.

emeldc wrote: »

I got it last March. I've a kidney transplant (14 years). Heavy head cold like symptoms. Cough. Loss of taste, smell. Fatigue. Shortness of breath. Relentless high temp. Two weeks in hospital. 3 days on oxygen. Liver deterioration, pneumonia, UTI, blood ecoli infection, lost a stone in weight. Never really thought I was going to die but really wanted to. Other than that it was grand and I've made a good recovery with no lasting effects.

That sounds absolutely horrible. Glad you had no lasting effects.

emeldc

polesheep wrote: »

Wow, that was rough. Delighted you have recovered.

Thank you. From the start we were told that in most cases we would be fine if we contracted Covid, and that is absolutely true. But alot of us that got a heavy dose of it either suffered badly or died. My stay in hospital was horrific. I had one particular day where if they had told me there was nothing more they could for me I would have accepted it gladly, I felt so bad. I’ve had a couple of life changing operations and Covid was far worse. My 88 y/o mother died from Covid the day after I was admitted to hospital. To the skeptics on the ‘relaxation’ thread, she was perfectly fine before she got it. She died of it, not with it. In all honesty I probably gave it to her as I didn’t know I was positive and back then they didn’t know all the symptoms. My best friend who was 58 tested positive on the 8th of October and was dead by the 10th. His lungs bled out while he slept. His wife found him the next morning. You can imagine what that was like. And yet there’s loads of posters on the ‘relaxation’ thread that think it’s not as serious as they say, that we don’t need lockdowns and that it’s ok to infect a nation because the death rate is miniscule. Anyway, let them off with it. My family and I and anyone that knows what I’ve been through are staying home for the moment. Over and out!

ShineOn7

dublin_paul wrote: »

I wish I could taste something! Eating a banana here and getting 0 taste, mad.

Bit of this all over it. Be grand


But seriously, hope you and all here recover fully. It's such a strange, strange b@stard of a virus in the way it affects/doesn't affect people



PS: can people add their ages and if they've any underlying symptoms? It might help us realise that this just isn't something affecting the over 50s

emeldc

emeldc wrote: »

Thank you. From the start we were told that in most cases we would be fine if we contracted Covid, and that is absolutely true. But alot of us that got a heavy dose of it either suffered badly or died. My stay in hospital was horrific. I had one particular day where if they had told me there was nothing more they could for me I would have accepted it gladly, I felt so bad. I’ve had a couple of life changing operations and Covid was far worse. My 88 y/o mother died from Covid the day after I was admitted to hospital. To the skeptics on the ‘relaxation’ thread, she was perfectly fine before she got it. She died of it, not with it. In all honesty I probably gave it to her as I didn’t know I was positive and back then they didn’t know all the symptoms. My best friend who was 58 tested positive on the 8th of October and was dead by the 10th. His lungs bled out while he slept. His wife found him the next morning. You can imagine what that was like. And yet there’s loads of posters on the ‘relaxation’ thread that think it’s not as serious as they say, that we don’t need lockdowns and that it’s ok to infect a nation because the death rate is miniscule. Anyway, let them off with it. My family and I and anyone that knows what I’ve been through are staying home for the moment. Over and out!

I am so sorry for your losses.

Away With The Fairies

Whatsisname wrote: »

My girlfriend (mid 20's) got it back around the start of November. Started as what she thought was a head cold, then she had a temperature for a night. Cough came and so did loss of taste/smell. She was tired a lot too but by day 10 she was pretty much 90% back to normal. Cough remained for a few weeks, and her taste/smell came back around the same time. I've definitely seen her way sicker.

And weirdly enough I never got it, despite us sharing a small 1 bed apartment and staying in the same bed.

Ironically the same happened to my brother, his girlfriend had it, he never got it either. Maybe our family blood is the vaccine. :pac:

I wonder is there any truth in blood type?

Queried

emeldc wrote: »

Thank you. From the start we were told that in most cases we would be fine if we contracted Covid, and that is absolutely true. But alot of us that got a heavy dose of it either suffered badly or died. My stay in hospital was horrific. I had one particular day where if they had told me there was nothing more they could for me I would have accepted it gladly, I felt so bad. I’ve had a couple of life changing operations and Covid was far worse. My 88 y/o mother died from Covid the day after I was admitted to hospital. To the skeptics on the ‘relaxation’ thread, she was perfectly fine before she got it. She died of it, not with it. In all honesty I probably gave it to her as I didn’t know I was positive and back then they didn’t know all the symptoms. My best friend who was 58 tested positive on the 8th of October and was dead by the 10th. His lungs bled out while he slept. His wife found him the next morning. You can imagine what that was like. And yet there’s loads of posters on the ‘relaxation’ thread that think it’s not as serious as they say, that we don’t need lockdowns and that it’s ok to infect a nation because the death rate is miniscule. Anyway, let them off with it. My family and I and anyone that knows what I’ve been through are staying home for the moment. Over and out!

I am so sorry to read this. My condolences to you for your mother and your friend, absolutely heartbreaking.

hesaidshesaid

Queried wrote: »

I am so sorry to read this. My condolences to you for your mother and your friend, absolutely heartbreaking.

Just wanted to echo these sentiments. You have really been through the mill. Hope you are doing ok.

ger664

Got it over the xmas again luckly wife and kids didnt pick it up.

Symptoms where mild fever cough loss of smell for a few days. However once the fever broke I felt very off and tired. Herself has a decent BPM at home so took my BP. It was 170-180/120-115 for 4 or 5 days very scary. Never suffered from high BP before.

Currently the BP has stabilized but I am constantly tired and every 4-5 hours have to get a nap

I am 55 but am quite fit ran 7 marathons last year

You dont want to get this its nasty

Valresnick

I was in France back in January 2020. Started feeling sick on the last day of the trip. Back in Ireland I was absolutely floored. Horrendous cough that kept me up all night, huge hot temperature surges through my body when I stood up, endless tiredness but couldn’t sleep then boom it stopped. After 1 day of feeling fine I was floored again for another 4 days. A really awful dose of something so went to the local doc. Virus had only been reported in Leon and as I was in Paris doc said it must have been flu. No testing back then but he now reckons I definitely had it as apparently it had been in Paris in Nov 2019.

Randy Anders

Received a positive result on the 4th. So far it's been pretty rough going, a lot more difficult than I'd originally expected, especially considering that I'm only 29 with no underlying health issues.

I have all the main symptoms (cough, fever, aches etc) but I'll list a few extras that haven't really seen mentioned on the off chance others are experiencing these:

-An extremely sore lower back. I originally thought my kidneys were about to blow up the pain was so intense. Also getting muscle spasms ripple from the area as well. Not nice

-My fever is manifesting itself as extreme cold shakes, teeth chattering etc.. Feet and hands regularly going numb and tingling. Was nearly going to call the Doc about this but I find paracetamol and Nurofen mixed bring me back to relative normality

-Bad diarrhea despite eating very little. (Drinking loads of water)

-Constant headache no matter how many painkillers I take

-Attention span of a gold fish due to sore eyes so can't really read or watch much TV

In short, you don't want this thing! I'm just blessed I didn't pass it on to my folks over xmas. Really would not like them to go through this

corsav6

Randy Anders wrote: »

-An extremely sore lower back. I originally thought my kidneys were about to blow up the pain was so intense. Also getting muscle spasms ripple from the area as well. Not nice

I have this, lower center back, locks up sometimes with extreme pain. Went to the doctor before Xmas and he said muscle strain. Got a head cold since but very mild. Rang for a test but told no temperature no test.
No tiredness, no chest symptoms, no temperature and no loss of taste or smell.
So basically sore back started a week or 2 before Xmas for no apparent reason and shortly after Xmas got a head cold, but wondering if it really was now.

zerosugarbuzz

My neighbour told me yesterday she tested positive just before Christmas. No symptoms whatsoever, tested as she’s a health care worker. She’s had cancer twice in the past twenty years and is 58.

zerosugarbuzz

Randy Anders wrote: »

Received a positive result on the 4th. So far it's been pretty rough going, a lot more difficult than I'd originally expected, especially considering that I'm only 29 with no underlying health issues.

I have all the main symptoms (cough, fever, aches etc) but I'll list a few extras that haven't really seen mentioned on the off chance others are experiencing these:

-An extremely sore lower back. I originally thought my kidneys were about to blow up the pain was so intense. Also getting muscle spasms ripple from the area as well. Not nice

-My fever is manifesting itself as extreme cold shakes, teeth chattering etc.. Feet and hands regularly going numb and tingling. Was nearly going to call the Doc about this but I find paracetamol and Nurofen mixed bring me back to relative normality

-Bad diarrhea despite eating very little. (Drinking loads of water)

-Constant headache no matter how many painkillers I take

-Attention span of a gold fish due to sore eyes so can't really read or watch much TV

In short, you don't want this thing! I'm just blessed I didn't pass it on to my folks over xmas. Really would not like them to go through this

A lot of those symptoms are probably not COVID related as never mentioned before as being symptoms. Hope you feel better soon.

zerosugarbuzz

corsav6 wrote: »

I have this, lower center back, locks up sometimes with extreme pain. Went to the doctor before Xmas and he said muscle strain. Got a head cold since but very mild. Rang for a test but told no temperature no test.
No tiredness, no chest symptoms, no temperature and no loss of taste or smell.
So basically sore back started a week or 2 before Xmas for no apparent reason and shortly after Xmas got a head cold, but wondering if it really was now.

8 out of 10 people experience back pain:problems at some point in their life. Hope you’re better soon.

dodzy

Me and wife positive last Monday.

Me: initially elevated temp (only slight - 37C). Elevated heart rate but Put that down to all the house beer over the period, pain behind left eye socket (not bad), one bout of the trots. Persistent but not uncomfortable cough. Within 5 days, all good except for tiddly cough that I just can’t shake.

Wife: back pain, no temp, generally unwell feeling but not debilitating, trots, no cough, no increased temp or heart rate. She’s a little behind me but thankfully it appears both were on the mild scale compared to some others.

corsav6

zerosugarbuzz wrote: »

8 out of 10 people experience back pain:problems at some point in their life. Hope you’re better soon.

A lot better thankfully now, still some pain in certain positions but not locking up. Thanks for your reply

lawred2

Neighbour's child tested positive

Bit of what would be considered a mild head cold for a few days

No one else in the house tested positive during isolation

Another neighbour's elderly Dad got it. By all accounts he's on the mend but had a chesty cough. Neither his wife nor daughter tested positive.

I don't understand how isolated cases in houses like that happen. Yet you'll hear about one funeral causing a chain reaction of hundreds.

iamwhoiam

zerosugarbuzz wrote: »

A lot of those symptoms are probably not COVID related as never mentioned before as being symptoms. Hope you feel better soon.

Which symptoms are never mentioned before ? All of that posters symptoms have been mentioned by various people ?

Captain Crunch

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

I wonder is there any truth in blood type?

Way back near the start of the pandemic, I was convinced there was a blood type/genetic aspect that determined how severe the symptoms are. I'm not a medical professional in any way but the wide range of symptoms from none to very severe seems to suggest it to me.

Touch wood, so far I seem to have avoided it (unless I'm asymptomatic). I wish all who've contracted it a speedy recovery.

Princess Calla

Captain Crunch wrote: »

Way back near the start of the pandemic, I was convinced there was a blood type/genetic aspect that determined how severe the symptoms are. I'm not a medical professional in any way but the wide range of symptoms from none to very severe seems to suggest it to me.

Touch wood, so far I seem to have avoided it (unless I'm asymptomatic). I wish all who've contracted it a speedy recovery.

Yeah I agree, I think genetics plays a role. I think viral load will also play a part..... people who are sick with mild symptoms may not have enough of the virus shedding to infect others . (They may also only have mild symptoms as the viral load that infected them was just enough to cause the infection)

Then I think dumb luck also plays a role.

emeldc

emeldc wrote: »

Thank you. From the start we were told that in most cases we would be fine if we contracted Covid, and that is absolutely true. But alot of us that got a heavy dose of it either suffered badly or died. My stay in hospital was horrific. I had one particular day where if they had told me there was nothing more they could for me I would have accepted it gladly, I felt so bad. I’ve had a couple of life changing operations and Covid was far worse. My 88 y/o mother died from Covid the day after I was admitted to hospital. To the skeptics on the ‘relaxation’ thread, she was perfectly fine before she got it. She died of it, not with it. In all honesty I probably gave it to her as I didn’t know I was positive and back then they didn’t know all the symptoms. My best friend who was 58 tested positive on the 8th of October and was dead by the 10th. His lungs bled out while he slept. His wife found him the next morning. You can imagine what that was like. And yet there’s loads of posters on the ‘relaxation’ thread that think it’s not as serious as they say, that we don’t need lockdowns and that it’s ok to infect a nation because the death rate is miniscule. Anyway, let them off with it. My family and I and anyone that knows what I’ve been through are staying home for the moment. Over and out!

Thank you for sharing that.
I’m sorry for your loss.

audman13

zerosugarbuzz wrote: »

A lot of those symptoms are probably not COVID related as never mentioned before as being symptoms. Hope you feel better soon.

Alot of those symptoms are common..

corsav6

corsav6 wrote: »

I have this, lower center back, locks up sometimes with extreme pain. Went to the doctor before Xmas and he said muscle strain. Got a head cold since but very mild. Rang for a test but told no temperature no test.
No tiredness, no chest symptoms, no temperature and no loss of taste or smell.
So basically sore back started a week or 2 before Xmas for no apparent reason and shortly after Xmas got a head cold, but wondering if it really was now.

A work colleague of mine who spent three weeks in hospital reported her first symptom as a shooting pain in her back. So its possible.

Regarding the loss of taste, to anyone here who had that symptom, was it a complete loss of taste, or did you just struggle to taste things?

dublin_paul

zerosugarbuzz wrote: »

A lot of those symptoms are probably not COVID related as never mentioned before as being symptoms. Hope you feel better soon.

I completely disagree.

SpacialNeeds

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A work colleague of mine who spent three weeks in hospital reported her first symptom as a shooting pain in her back. So its possible.

Regarding the loss of taste, to anyone here who had that symptom, was it a complete loss of taste, or did you just struggle to taste things?

My friend and his girlfriend lost their sense of smell and taste back in the summer. He said first it was like the taste of metal in his mouth, then he couldn't taste anything. Her sense of smell is still very poor but her taste mostly came back, it's diminished but she can taste things. He reckons he's lost his sense of smell permanently and his taste has barely returned.