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People who tested positive, how are you feeling?

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  • Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My daughter got it in October when she was 8 months pregnant, along with her husband, her 18 month old toddler and both her mother and father in law (who are both 60 and very overweight).
    Absolutely all of them were fine , a few aches and pains and tiredness but that was it, nobody needed a doctor or any medication.......all fully recovered and no lasting side effects although the taste was the last thing to return .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭TheBeach


    Can I ask if anyone had mouth ulcers or blisters as a symptom? Thanks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭arccosh


    TheBeach wrote: »
    Can I ask if anyone had mouth ulcers or blisters as a symptom? Thanks

    I don't think it's a widely regarded one.... but a lot of people get them before they come down with something....

    If I get one, and feel my neck glands hardening up, I know somethings on the way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,686 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    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?

    A friend of mine is positive he got Covid last Feb/March. The GP wanted to get him tested but he was recovered before he could get an appointment (Testing system was brutal slow for first 2/3 months). Anyway he said he got severe lower back pain along with all the other symptoms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭Ish66


    Just constant sneezing and a bit sweaty, not cold sweaty, using the toilet x3 more than normal.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,686 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Ish66 wrote: »
    Just constant sneezing and a bit sweaty, not cold sweaty, using the toilet x3 more than normal.

    That explains the toilet paper craze in 2020 :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    That explains the toilet paper craze in 2020 :D

    The whole country must have had covid in the early days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭Ish66


    Its the immune system kicking in, flushing you out. So the doc said...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭CRI0ST0IR


    Like people are talking about having it early last year (before March) and stuff, but reading some of the stuff here now what people have been going through and the symptoms and everything, I don't think people had it then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Ish66 wrote: »
    Its the immune system kicking in, flushing you out. So the doc said...


    I'd be trying to drink 4 litres of water a day

    Not easy to do and you'll be peeing loads and loads, but better to flush your system

    It's a good idea to "front load" this much water drinking too, with the bulk of it drank before 2pm


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Ray Donovan


    Galadriel wrote: »
    I can't taste or smell anything.

    Exact same myself. Tested positive Monday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭CRI0ST0IR


    Exact same myself. Tested positive Monday.

    Like is it just not as strong smelling or tasting things? or is it completely gone? Like do you taste anything at all?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Galadriel


    CRI0ST0IR wrote: »
    Like is it just not as strong smelling or tasting things? or is it completely gone? Like do you taste anything at all?

    Nothing at all. It's really strange.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭CRI0ST0IR


    Galadriel wrote: »
    Nothing at all. It's really strange.

    Like to me, I just can't imagine to think how weird that must be like, like obviously you can feel the textures just no taste.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,107 ✭✭✭...Ghost...


    My OHs Grandmother got it in nursing home a few weeks ago and died. Limited funeral numbers with most attending not able to go inside the church.

    Stay Free



  • Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CRI0ST0IR wrote: »
    Like people are talking about having it early last year (before March) and stuff, but reading some of the stuff here now what people have been going through and the symptoms and everything, I don't think people had it then.
    I thought I had it in February of last year.

    Yesterday our household tested positive and we have the exact same symptoms now as February of last year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Galadriel


    CRI0ST0IR wrote: »
    Like to me, I just can't imagine to think how weird that must be like, like obviously you can feel the textures just no taste.

    Yeah, even really strong flavours, nothing. I have been really lucky with my symptoms but I hope that one doesn't hang around for too long.

    Although without it I would never have guessed I had Covid so I suppose it's a good thing in a way.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31 Dafterss


    People I know still look sick even after 4 weeks
    They look weak and walk around slow men get it worse than women


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Ray Donovan


    CRI0ST0IR wrote: »
    Like is it just not as strong smelling or tasting things? or is it completely gone? Like do you taste anything at all?

    Totally gone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭CRI0ST0IR


    My OHs Grandmother got it in nursing home a few weeks ago and died. Limited funeral numbers with most attending not able to go inside the church.

    Sorry to hear that. May she RIP.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    I thought I had it in February of last year.

    Yesterday our household tested positive and we have the exact same symptoms now as February of last year.

    Do you have milder symptoms now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭CRI0ST0IR


    I thought I had it in February of last year.

    Yesterday our household tested positive and we have the exact same symptoms now as February of last year.

    Like me and my family had a really bad dose last year, I actually went away on a Holiday to somewhere close to Italy's epicentre at the time, I came back and was waking up in the middle of the night choking and coughing every night, sleeping 3 hours a night for around two weeks, mam and dad also were massively sick, both were giving nebulizers, I thought I had it back then but now I'm still not sure.


  • Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Do you have milder symptoms now?

    We have sore muscles, fatigue, headache etc but it's not that bad, it was worse last year. Hopefully our symptoms don't get any worse :)


  • Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CRI0ST0IR wrote: »
    Like me and my family had a really bad dose last year, I actually went away on a Holiday to somewhere close to Italy's epicentre at the time, I came back and was waking up in the middle of the night choking and coughing every night, sleeping 3 hours a night for around two weeks, mam and dad also were massively sick, both were giving nebulizers, I thought I had it back then but now I'm still not sure.

    Are ye positive now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭CRI0ST0IR


    Are ye positive now?

    Haven't been tested since wasn't a thing back then, I went to the doctors about it too back then as I was in bits worse I've felt before and all he said to me was give up smoking even though mam and dad were bad too, have a cough now but it's a wet cough so not classed as it and showing no other symptoms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,559 ✭✭✭Masala


    Hit me on the tiredness...... knocked me fir 6 on energy levels. Couldn’t do the smallest tasks without having to lie down. Sleep patterns all over the place- awake all night and sleepy during the day.

    On day 10 now after first symptom and starting to come around.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭CRI0ST0IR


    Masala wrote: »
    Hit me on the tiredness...... knocked me fir 6 on energy levels. Couldn’t do the smallest tasks without having to lie down. Sleep patterns all over the place- awake all night and sleepy during the day.

    On day 10 now after first symptom and starting to come around.

    Hope you have a speedy recovery now.


  • Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I thought I had it in February of last year.

    Yesterday our household tested positive and we have the exact same symptoms now as February of last year.



    It’s interesting. I was very sick in February too , really sore red eyes , raw scratchy throat and a very dry cough that sounded like a whooping cough.
    I rarely get coughs and this was weird as it was in my upper chest only , not deep down. I got fits of coughing I couldn’t control, I had to pull the car off the road I was coughing so much once. I’ve never completely got rid of the cough which is annoying .
    I was sick for 2 weeks ......apart from the lasting cough.

    Never got tested, doctor said it probably wasn’t Covid as I had no temperature, but that was over a phone call. I suspect it might have been, i wish I knew :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭agoodpunt


    TheBeach wrote: »
    Can I ask if anyone had mouth ulcers or blisters as a symptom? Thanks


    got a blister just below lower lip it lingered for 8 r 9 days no other syptoms out of iso last fri


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 525 ✭✭✭The HorsesMouth


    All our house have it. OH has it the worst, headache, skin feeling sore to touch and chills. But even at that they are up and about and doing a bit of exercise. Myself and our 3 kids have no symptoms but our guess is we had it before new year because we had runny noses (nothing you would even think that relates to covid).


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