People who tested positive, how are you feeling?

flipper2009

This one took me by surprise. Woke during 2 nights shivering and vomiting. I had what I thought was a sinus infection and headache during the day. I never even thought of COVID until I googled the chills. I had a positive antigen test. It's been going on for 4 or 5 days now and I'm very slowly feeling better, taking paracetamol. The symptoms are not THAT mild, probably not as bad as the first time I got it but still it's definitely worse than a cold….

FishOnABike

It's definitely circulating though it does seem to hit different people differently. I caught it about a month ago. I felt a bit flushed for a day or so and a runny nose for about three days. Someone else I know was out of action for two weeks.

jaffa20

Tested positive this morning. First time I've ever tested positive but probably had it in the past. The headache is just unreal since yesterday and paracetamol or neurofen don't seem to do anything! Also have fever with aches and pains and generally just feel so tired and horrible.

Mam1996

2nd that @jaffa20 I tested positive with no symptoms on Thurs (tested before work because of family having it). Symptoms took off yesterday with high temperature, headache and joint pain, Neurofen and Paracetamol don't seem to make any difference. Going by the rest of the family they were sick for about 2 days, so I'm hoping today will spell the end of the worst of it.

Heroditas

My daughter was sneezing a bit on Saturday afternoon and then felt unwell on Sunday before she perked up a bit and was back to normal on Monday. Turns out the other 5 girls on her table in school are struck down with COVID so either she had it and had very minor symptoms and shook it off after a day or whatever virus she had meant her immune system stopped her getting COVID like the other kids did. It certainly seems to be rampant in her class at the moment

I am me123

I tested negative, but still have a cough, feeling quite tired and a bit of a cold too. Anyone else with this?

volchitsa

I got it this summer (end of July) third time catching I think (plus multiple vaccines, I've lost count but TBF the last was about a year ago now)

TBH I wasn't terribly unwell, I only did the test because I have a bunch of unused covid tests in the house - well, no, also first off, it was because I did feel worse than with a normal cold, and had lost my sense of smell, so I did the test because it seemed like I might have covid. I don't do it every time I get a cold.

I felt quite unwell for three or four days, but wasn't stuck in bed. The odd thing is that nobody around me got it, not even my husband with whom I was sharing a bed. I moved into the spare room for a week when I got the positive test, but I'd been having symptoms for about three days before I tested, so ample time for him to be infected. Last time I got it he didn't get it either. He took the test that time (end of 2022) and was negative. This time he didn't even test, so I don't know if he was negative again or if he got it but was asymptomatic. So he's had it once, that we know of, and never since.

volchitsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122591747#Comment_122591747

Maybe test again? First time I got it, I tested negative even after symptoms. Then I tested again about 3 days later (because I felt SO bad I thought "that has to be covid" - and it was) - that time the test was clearly positive, and another test a week later (this was when you needed to be negative before going back to work) was still positive.

Apparently with all the variants, some of the tests are no longer very sensitive to some variants, so you can get a negative test especially when the viral load isn't very high.