People who tested positive, how are you feeling?

Away With The Fairies

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

I don't know. The recent case in New Zealand came back from the UK, I think, done their two week isolation in a quarantine facility, tested negative twice while in quarantine and two days later after leaving quarantine, they developed symptoms. So I reckon there's a longer incubation period in some.

Guardian article says it was highly likely she got infected in the hotel. Also it's the South African variant. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/new-zealand-covid-case-appears-to-be-south-african-variant-officials-say

TylerRyan28

TylerRyan28 wrote: »

Most stores you see or hear are healthy people with no underlying health problems but are dieing and then there are people who actually have health problems or underlying conditions who get Covid but make it through it .
They keep saying who are most at risk but seems the ones who are way down the list are the ones who end up in hospital.

It's like smoking - there are people who smoke 60 a day living to 95 and then young people who never smoked dying of lung cancer. These are outliers and you will always have them.

JimmyVik

TylerRyan28 wrote: »

Most stores you see or hear are healthy people with no underlying health problems but are dieing and then there are people who actually have health problems or underlying conditions who get Covid but make it through it .
They keep saying who are most at risk but seems the ones who are way down the list are the ones who end up in hospital.

I think young, healthy people dying from it are very rare.
You probably have more chance of dying in a car crash this year tbh.

Its just that they dont release the stats so that young healthy people will obey the guidelines.
If they released all of the stats, like what ages are in ICU, What ages recover from ICU, What ages die as well as if they had conditions and what conditions those are then the picture would be clearer about what anyones chances are should they get it.
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ShineOn7

I've noticed that this thread has gone very quiet. Which can only be a good thing, right?

I hope all who posted here are feeling much better

Geuze

JimmyVik wrote: »

I think young, healthy people dying from it are very rare.
You probably have more chance of dying in a car crash this year tbh.

Its just that they dont release the stats so that young healthy people will obey the guidelines.
If they released all of the stats, like what ages are in ICU, What ages recover from ICU, What ages die as well as if they had conditions and what conditions those are then the picture would be clearer about what anyones chances are should they get it.
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The ages of the people who die are released:

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/br/b-cdc/covid-19deathsandcasesseries20/

See table 2.

poisonated

I had it early last year. I was asymptomatic. I haven’t noticed any problems.

Atlantic Dawn

poisonated wrote: »

I had it early last year. I was asymptomatic. I haven’t noticed any problems.

Were there any differences at all in how you felt before or after you were tested as positive? Do you know what blood type you are, is it O Group?

poisonated

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Were there any differences at all in how you felt before or after you were tested as positive? Do you know what blood type you are, is it O Group?

I did not know I had until I got an antibody test done. If I’m thinking of the right time that I had it. I did have a bit of a cold but that’s about it. I’m not sure of my blood type. Part of me was a bit relieved I had it as I had some antibodies to it and a sort of immunity.

ShineOn7

poisonated wrote: »

I did not know I had until I got an antibody test done

Are they more reliable then they were in April? I was reading they were hit and miss

Also; can you say where you had it done and how much?

poisonated

I got it done in the travel health clinic on Dawson street. I’m not sure of the price. My parents had covid too(I think I gave it to them...oops lol) and their antibody tests came back as positive so I’m fairly certain. I can’t say they are 100 percent accurate though.

Timmyr

Deleted User wrote: »

Guardian article says it was highly likely she got infected in the hotel. Also it's the South African variant. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/new-zealand-covid-case-appears-to-be-south-african-variant-officials-say

Correct, and we now have 2 more cases from the same hotel. Hopefully it stays contained and we can keep enjoying summer

poisonated

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Were there any differences at all in how you felt before or after you were tested as positive? Do you know what blood type you are, is it O Group?

I just found out I’m o positive. Why do you ask?

Atlantic Dawn

poisonated wrote: »

I just found out I’m o positive. Why do you ask?

Apparently O is the best blood type to have against the virus. Not sure what I am, will need to get a kit to test it.

signostic

Tested positive on the 29th Dec, sick until 7th Jan and then began to feel better. Loss of smell, tight chest, tiredness, severe headache and severe sinuitis.
Didn`t affect my chest too much. As I was isolating in a bedroom for the duration I did't lie on the bed during the day and tried to keep moving.
I watched CNN's Chris Cuomo and that was the advice he gave, keep moving, sit upright and do breathing exercises.
Slight phlegm still in my throat which gives me a hoarse voice but thats about it.
I would not like to get it again.
My daughter was positive also with similar symptoms but she now has vertigo as an after effect of the virus.

Gruffalux

signostic wrote: »

My daughter was positive also with similar symptoms but she now has vertigo as an after effect of the virus.

She should use Brandt Daroff exercises or the Epley Manoeuvre. Very simple to do and quite quickly treat many cases of vertigo. Labyrinthitis can be a lingering post viral thing that can cause vertigo and the manouevres sort it.

Homelander

It's weird how people can experience so many different symptoms. I don't have a cough, sore throat or any of the other common markers, but really bad body aches which make it impossible to sleep. Day one it was in my legs, day two I felt much better, then last night it's suddnely in my back/neck, once again meaning I can't sleep.

ebayissues

If you have had covid a while ago and not anymore can you still pass it on?

Like a friend of had it over 6 months ago... Should I keep my distance, not go indoors...

happyday

My husband who is a health care worker got it. Started with a cough, sore chest, temperature tiredness and swollen lips. It was mild enough. Rang work after positive test. They said he could go back to work after 10 days and he did today.

My son and I have to restrict our movements for 14 days. So he's back at work, still coughing, and we aren't allowed out till Monday. That doesn't make any sense to me.

Whitters22

happyday wrote: »

My husband who is a health care worker got it. Started with a cough, sore chest, temperature tiredness and swollen lips. It was mild enough. Rang work after positive test. They said he could go back to work after 10 days and he did today.

My son and I have to restrict our movements for 14 days. So he's back at work, still coughing, and we aren't allowed out till Monday. That doesn't make any sense to me.

In order to go back after 10 days the last 5 must be symptom free so with a cough he should not have been asked back without another PCR test.

happyday

Whitters22 wrote: »

In order to go back after 10 days the last 5 must be symptom free so with a cough he should not have been asked back without another PCR test.

He's still coughing but Occupational Health said to go back.

Whitters22

Tested positive Monday as a close contact and have had relatively mild symptoms all week - a bit of a temperature and some aches. But have lost my smell this evening. I thought that was one of the first symptoms and to come so late is unusual?

signostic

Whitters22 wrote: »

Tested positive Monday as a close contact and have had relatively mild symptoms all week - a bit of a temperature and some aches. But have lost my smell this evening. I thought that was one of the first symptoms and to come so late is unusual?

I lost my sense of smell about 5 days in. My daughters smell and taste went just 1 day in.

Galadriel

Whitters22 wrote: »

In order to go back after 10 days the last 5 must be symptom free so with a cough he should not have been asked back without another PCR test.

On the text I got it just said you had to be 'fever-free' for the last 5 days, not symptom-free. I lost my taste/smell and they're still not fully back but didn't have to isolate past the 10 days.

Quackster

Galadriel wrote: »

On the text I got it just said you had to be 'fever-free' for the last 5 days, not symptom-free. I lost my taste/smell and they're still not fully back but didn't have to isolate past the 10 days.

Yeah, the HSE patient information leaflet says:

Symptomatic & test positive.

Only stop self-isolation when BOTH of these apply to you:
- You have had no fever for five days
- It has been ten days since you first developed symptoms

Asymptomatic & test positive.

You must self-isolate for ten days from the day of your test.

Quackster

happyday wrote: »

My husband who is a health care worker got it. Started with a cough, sore chest, temperature tiredness and swollen lips. It was mild enough. Rang work after positive test. They said he could go back to work after 10 days and he did today.

My son and I have to restrict our movements for 14 days. So he's back at work, still coughing, and we aren't allowed out till Monday. That doesn't make any sense to me.

Your husband is allowed out of self-isolation as he is no longer infectious.

You and your son could still be incubating the virus so that's why you need to restrict your movements for a further length of time.

jface187

happyday wrote: »

My husband who is a health care worker got it. Started with a cough, sore chest, temperature tiredness and swollen lips. It was mild enough. Rang work after a positive test. They said he could go back to work after 10 days and he did today.

My son and I have to restrict our movements for 14 days. So he's back at work, still coughing, and we aren't allowed out till Monday. That doesn't make any sense to me.

I work in a nursing home too. I felt unwell the weekend of the 17, got a test on the 18, and results back on the 19 were positive. Work has been on to be three times about coming back as soon as my ten days were over. I explain to them I'm still not well. I assume your husband is working in a place like mine and need the staff but rushing people back will only burn them out. I still don't feel 100 percent and my partner is still unwell despite being past her ten days too. She tested positive the day after I did. My next rostered day is Tuesday, I see how I feel Monday, honestly money be the only reason for going back. Were struggling money-wise with reduced payment and I was off the week before my test due to stress, but no money from work or the government to help cover that week.

I finding it very hard. Still not fully well and upset that I passed it on to my partner. She is still very tired and it's due to go back to work Wednesday. I hope there no long-term effect on her health from this, as it would be my fault.

Also had a bad experience today in Lidl. First time out really since my isolation period. Three teenagers on top of me while putting my items on the converter belt. I asked them to step back and they laughed and sneered. Their mask not on fully either.
My items were coming through after being scanned and packing them up and they were on top of me again. I ask them to step back again and started shouting at me, the security guard came over and one of them went on about "covid not being real". I live in a rough area and it was dark. I was worried about going to my car as lots of problems with youths and knife crime, or they would see my car and attack it later as payback.
I went out later in the evening in the hopes of not as many people around. But of course, everywhere packed and on top of each other. Maybe just in this area where I live in but people just seem to have no sense here about covid or most things.

Tim Robbins

roashter wrote: »

In my mid 40s and my symptoms started Wednesday -cold/flu with a bad headache and this persisted for a few days.
Had test on Friday 14:30. It was my 2nd time getting test and while the nose swab is uncomfortable it was not as bad as first time.
Text message Saturday night 21:00 to confirm positive result.

So at moment now I have cold/flu like symptoms, shortness of breath (just going up the stairs), and feel quite fatigued. I'm taking paracetamol.
I am going to take a few days off work (thankfully still working and able to work from home), as I don't think I'd be able to do a full days work and feel drained.
I'll need to get a sick note from GP but not sure how long to request for. I'm guessing just a few days, but I don't want to come back to work and then find I'm shattered and regret not taking longer off.
Anyone have anything similar to this scenario?

Take your two weeks off.

hurikane

Is the testing a 24 hour operation? What about the results is that 24 hour? Do they send out messages in the middle of the night?

happyday

hurikane wrote: »

Is the testing a 24 hour operation? What about the results is that 24 hour? Do they send out messages in the middle of the night?

I got a test the same day I requested it from my GP. The results were texted to me the following day. They said they would prioritise my test results because I work in education.

I didn't get any messages in the middle of the night. Why do you ask that?

I think it might be helpful if you state your age - and whether you have any underlying issues, including being overweight or obese.

That way, it puts your case in some context and perspective.

Necro

Deleted User wrote: »

I think it might be helpful if you state your age - and whether you have any underlying issues, including being overweight or obese.

That way, it puts your case in some context and perspective.

Mod:

Nobody needs to disclose any information they are not comfortable sharing.

kieran.

hurikane wrote: »

Is the testing a 24 hour operation? What about the results is that 24 hour? Do they send out messages in the middle of the night?

Messages are 7am to 9pm

Jim_Hodge

Deleted User wrote: »

I think it might be helpful if you state your age - and whether you have any underlying issues, including being overweight or obese.

That way, it puts your case in some context and perspective.

This from someone who considers anybody over 35 to be old. Pointless and private piece of data.

The One Doctor

Just tested positive now. Poxy feckin thing, this virus. Don't have any more money now, so at least I won't be spending.

Don't get me wrong, I'm fine, very few symptoms etc, just a bit scared. Wife has it too (I got it from her) and she has another baby on the way. She's asymptomatic.

Distractions are welcome. Tell me a favourite PC game you play or book you read or whatever to take your mind off things. I'm a bit scared as I mentioned. Pathetic, I know.

Mods please don't send this to the horrible Coronavirus forum, need a bit of a laugh.

weldoninhio

The One Doctor wrote: »

Just tested positive now. Poxy feckin thing, this virus. Don't have any more money now, so at least I won't be spending.

Don't get me wrong, I'm fine, very few symptoms etc, just a bit scared. Wife has it too (I got it from her) and she has another baby on the way. She's asymptomatic.

Distractions are welcome. Tell me a favourite PC game you play or book you read or whatever to take your mind off things. I'm a bit scared as I mentioned. Pathetic, I know.

Mods please don't send this to the horrible Coronavirus forum, need a bit of a laugh.

Get/Borrow a PS4 and The Last of Us. You’ll be beat into it until the virus is gone. It’s probably the best game I’ve ever played.

Personality tests!!

Necro

Mod:

Threads merged

ShineOn7

The One Doctor wrote: »

Distractions are welcome.

Pick your fav topic on YouTube and get sucked in

No other algorithm is better at suggesting more to watch after

Mods please don't send this to the horrible Coronavirus forum, need a bit of a laugh

Once you have some suggestions I would unfollow this thread and run away screaming from here tbh

Masala

The One Doctor wrote: »

Just tested positive now. Poxy feckin thing, this virus. Don't have any more money now, so at least I won't be spending.

Don't get me wrong, I'm fine, very few symptoms etc, just a bit scared. Wife has it too (I got it from her) and she has another baby on the way. She's asymptomatic.

Distractions are welcome. Tell me a favourite PC game you play or book you read or whatever to take your mind off things. I'm a bit scared as I mentioned. Pathetic, I know.

Mods please don't send this to the horrible Coronavirus forum, need a bit of a laugh.

Get Netflix an watch a few series. Can recommend .....
Breaking Bad
Better call Saul
Fauda
Money Heist

Should be enough there to keep you watching solid for 6 hrs a day and 14 straight days!!! Time will fly by!!

odyssey06

The One Doctor wrote: »

Just tested positive now. Poxy feckin thing, this virus. Don't have any more money now, so at least I won't be spending.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fine, very few symptoms etc, just a bit scared. Wife has it too (I got it from her) and she has another baby on the way. She's asymptomatic.
Distractions are welcome. Tell me a favourite PC game you play or book you read or whatever to take your mind off things. I'm a bit scared as I mentioned. Pathetic, I know.
Mods please don't send this to the horrible Coronavirus forum, need a bit of a laugh.

Dont go for anything contemporary.
An epic slow immersive miniseries like Roots, North and South or film like Gone with the Wind.
Documentary like Reeling in the Years, Cosmos or World at War or Ken Burns the Civil War.

Yyhhuuu

jface187 wrote: »

I work in a nursing home too. I felt unwell the weekend of the 17, got a test on the 18, and results back on the 19 were positive. Work has been on to be three times about coming back as soon as my ten days were over. I explain to them I'm still not well. I assume your husband is working in a place like mine and need the staff but rushing people back will only burn them out. I still don't feel 100 percent and my partner is still unwell despite being past her ten days too. She tested positive the day after I did. My next rostered day is Tuesday, I see how I feel Monday, honestly money be the only reason for going back. Were struggling money-wise with reduced payment and I was off the week before my test due to stress, but no money from work or the government to help cover that week.

I finding it very hard. Still not fully well and upset that I passed it on to my partner. She is still very tired and it's due to go back to work Wednesday. I hope there no long-term effect on her health from this, as it would be my fault.

Also had a bad experience today in Lidl. First time out really since my isolation period. Three teenagers on top of me while putting my items on the converter belt. I asked them to step back and they laughed and sneered. Their mask not on fully either.
My items were coming through after being scanned and packing them up and they were on top of me again. I ask them to step back again and started shouting at me, the security guard came over and one of them went on about "covid not being real". I live in a rough area and it was dark. I was worried about going to my car as lots of problems with youths and knife crime, or they would see my car and attack it later as payback.
I went out later in the evening in the hopes of not as many people around. But of course, everywhere packed and on top of each other. Maybe just in this area where I live in but people just seem to have no sense here about covid or most things.

Can completely understand. No social distancing in City I live. People ignore you or insult you if you politely ask to respect social distancing. I recently was accomanying a very elderly person walking and as people passed by they didnt social distance, despite me asking them to do so. It was a very wide open space with nobody else around. Re Lidl- they have very ignorant security guards.

darragh o meara

hurikane wrote: »

Is the testing a 24 hour operation? What about the results is that 24 hour? Do they send out messages in the middle of the night?

I’ve been tested a few times over the last few weeks and the messages all came around the same time 16:30 which makes me think they have slots where they batch send them.

pc7

Anyone in Dublin know current turn around times for tests?

dublin_paul

dublin_paul wrote: »

I tested positive on the 5th of January, I'm 28 and have no underlying conditions.

Most of my symptoms have gone, my sense of smell (therefore most of my sense of taste) has yet to return.

My sense of smell and taste have so disappeared that I've found it difficult to describe to other people the extent to which they're gone. I cannot taste bananas, tea, whiskey, cigarettes, smelly candles, gone-off milk, my (usually disgustingly smelly) bin.

I've had a fairly easy-going run of covid. My fever lasted only a day or two at most. In fact, I'd almost recommend to my friends & family that they should not worry about this virus (if they are not old and/or they don't have an underlying condition or are of unsound immune-system). However, I cannot understate how terrible it is to truly and fully be relieved of the sense of smell and taste, please for your sake do not willfully catch this virus.

I'm very optimistic that my senses will return (crossing my fingers, still!) but I can, wholeheartedly, recommend against doing so due to the well-known 80%(odd) symptom of COVID-19 being the loss of these senses.

It way only be a few weeks (if lucky) absence of these senses, but I seriously recommend against their absence.

After 2 weeks from my positive result (5th January) my sense of smell+taste came back. Now, 3 weeks on, I'm feeling perfectly fine again! I had some lingering nasal issues, like a runny nose in the morning... and a little sinus pain. I felt that this was due to damage caused by the virus. Feeling great now!

ms.crackerz

pc7 wrote: »

Anyone in Dublin know current turn around times for tests?

Father tested Wednesday 12.30. Test results through Thursday evening just before 10pm (negative thankfully)

Irish Stones

Tested positive early last April, was tested again the last day of April, negative, and repeated it a week later, last May, negative again.
Every time I waited at least 4 days for the response to come.

As a matter of fact, I was first tested because my wife, who is an HCW, tested positive during a periodic check of the staff, she tested positive one day, they tested me as well three days later.

Initially my symptoms went from nothing to a sore throat.
I lost the senses of smell and taste for about five days, and I think I never regained them completely 9 months later. I mean, it seems to me that I still can't smell certain scents, or I smell them as diminished. I also believe that certain foods and drinks taste different to me now.
I had a sore throat and headache from April till the end of August, every single day. I ate more headache pills than anything else, and sprayed my throat with litres of soothing med.

I also felt very weak and tired for months. On a couple of mornings in April I felt so weak that I couldn't get up from the bed, not even lift a hand. Scary!

The weakness has partly disappeared now, but it is still impossible for me to walk longer than a mile, when I was a very good walker before that. No more bike for me either.
When at home I spend most of my time on the couch because I am always tired...

I had nightmares all nights for nearly 6 months, I had hallucinations a few times, I would see things or persons or animals that weren't actually there. You can imagine what driving in these conditions looks like!

I felt dizzy nearly every day, and still feeling like this every now and then, like today. I am still forgetting things that I did, saw, heard.
Also, it happened twice that I forgot I had a cat at home. Then I adopted another cat (they were two cats in all), and a month later I woke up and couldn't remember their names. Embarassing...

I still can't focus on demanding tasks, can't follow long speeches. I'm feeling morally depressed and nothing at all gets my attention or interest.

My nose is still congested several hours a day, especially after a meal, and in order to at least sleep, I'm spraying my nostrils with Vicks Spray every night before turning in. Wearing a mask is a bit hard for me, because I can hardly breath even without it.

Other than the above, I hadn't any fever, no breathing issues, my blood saturation has always been above 97%.
The only scaring day was when I felt thousands of tiny burning spots within my chest, back in April, but it only lasted a day.

Probably I told you all...

Last bit of info, I'm Italian and live in Italy.

Gruffalux

Irish Stones wrote: »

Tested positive early last April, was tested again the last day of April, negative, and repeated it a week later, last May, negative again.
Every time I waited at least 4 days for the response to come.

As a matter of fact, I was first tested because my wife, who is an HCW, tested positive during a periodic check of the staff, she tested positive one day, they tested me as well three days later.

Initially my symptoms went from nothing to a sore throat.
I lost the senses of smell and taste for about five days, and I think I never regained them completely 9 months later. I mean, it seems to me that I still can't smell certain scents, or I smell them as diminished. I also believe that certain foods and drinks taste different to me now.
I had a sore throat and headache from April till the end of August, every single day. I ate more headache pills than anything else, and sprayed my throat with litres of soothing med.

I also felt very weak and tired for months. On a couple of mornings in April I felt so weak that I couldn't get up from the bed, not even lift a hand. Scary!

The weakness has partly disappeared now, but it is still impossible for me to walk longer than a mile, when I was a very good walker before that. No more bike for me either.
When at home I spend most of my time on the couch because I am always tired...

I had nightmares all nights for nearly 6 months, I had hallucinations a few times, I would see things or persons or animals that weren't actually there. You can imagine what driving in these conditions looks like!

I felt dizzy nearly every day, and still feeling like this every now and then, like today. I am still forgetting things that I did, saw, heard.
Also, it happened twice that I forgot I had a cat at home. Then I adopted another cat (they were two cats in all), and a month later I woke up and couldn't remember their names. Embarassing...

I still can't focus on demanding tasks, can't follow long speeches. I'm feeling morally depressed and nothing at all gets my attention or interest.

My nose is still congested several hours a day, especially after a meal, and in order to at least sleep, I'm spraying my nostrils with Vicks Spray every night before turning in. Wearing a mask is a bit hard for me, because I can hardly breath even without it.

Other than the above, I hadn't any fever, no breathing issues, my blood saturation has always been above 97%.
The only scaring day was when I felt thousands of tiny burning spots within my chest, back in April, but it only lasted a day.

Probably I told you all...

Last bit of info, I'm Italian and live in Italy.

Oh my goodness, you poor man. What a compelling and vivid account you give. I hope you are getting medical check ups and that you get better each day a bit more. All the very best of luck.

Irish Stones

Gruffalux wrote: »

Oh my goodness, you poor man. What a compelling and vivid account you give. I hope you are getting medical check ups and that you get better each day a bit more. All the very best of luck.

Thanks Gruffalux, I do appreciate your words and positive thoughts.
Actually I'm not getting any medical check mainly because the symptoms that bother me the most (the mental confusion and lack of memory) are the same that most medical reviews have described as "still to fully understand", and are called "brain fog".

I'm positive that I will gain back some of the strength I have lost, but I'm not so positive for the brain issues...

Thanks so much indeed!

pc7

pc7 wrote: »

Anyone in Dublin know current turn around times for tests?

Just for info, we’re back within 23 hours, which is excellent. Negative too.

AidoEirE

Have to say, as someone who made a living off my taste buds as a chef, taste buds have never been the same since I had covid, a lot more stuff taste bland or of nothing. Hard to explain.

It's very weird and something I hope i get back proper.

This is weird but, ever since I got it, I feel like there's something at the back of my throat near the tonsils, like a hair or something. Comes and goes.

Still energy levels are low but nothing to complain about. Just wondering anyone get the same.