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People who tested positive, how are you feeling?

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

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Away With The Fairies

Inquitus wrote: »

Aye I bought one last March, came in very handy when 4 out of the 5 of us here got Covid just after xmas, very good for making sure your breathing and blood oxygenation is up where it should be, would recommend everyone buy one just in case you happen to get infected, I paid 20 euro for mine back then, but there is a fair bit of price gouging now and you can pay multiples of that in a Chemist.

I have a pulse oximeter. Is there anything else worth having?

I've been thinking of getting and wearing compression socks. They can help with blood circulation, so I'm hoping it might help with the nasty side of blood clots.

Inquitus

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Is anyone using an Oximeter?

Or ordering one to have just in case? Apparently they're essential for home monitoring

Reasonable prices on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=pulse-oximeter&adgrpid=104288618074&gclid=CjwKCAiAuoqABhAsEiwAdSkVVKu-tTEvP9Wu-4fH3_0jPhX2kzO8ZfdvctHoP-57EEtqfqnk0AidYRoChmYQAvD_BwE&hvadid=435634737493&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1007850&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=10882154277432643185&hvtargid=kwd-304006405598&hydadcr=12348_1818764&tag=googiehydra-21&ref=pd_sl_8ekezvtjnz_e

Not so much on the first Irish company that came up

https://www.themobilityshop.ie/medical-pulse-oximeter-device.html

Aye I bought one last March, came in very handy when 4 out of the 5 of us here got Covid just after xmas, very good for making sure your breathing and blood oxygenation is up where it should be, would recommend everyone buy one just in case you happen to get infected, I paid 20 euro for mine back then, but there is a fair bit of price gouging now and you can pay multiples of that in a Chemist.

ShineOn7

Is anyone using an Oximeter?

Or ordering one to have just in case? Apparently they're essential for home monitoring

Reasonable prices on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=pulse-oximeter&adgrpid=104288618074&gclid=CjwKCAiAuoqABhAsEiwAdSkVVKu-tTEvP9Wu-4fH3_0jPhX2kzO8ZfdvctHoP-57EEtqfqnk0AidYRoChmYQAvD_BwE&hvadid=435634737493&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1007850&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=10882154277432643185&hvtargid=kwd-304006405598&hydadcr=12348_1818764&tag=googiehydra-21&ref=pd_sl_8ekezvtjnz_e

Not so much on the first Irish company that came up

https://www.themobilityshop.ie/medical-pulse-oximeter-device.html

fits

If it had been around last December the hospitals would have been overrun. We all saw what happened this year in a matter of weeks *with* restrictions and precautions in place.

Motivator

Ms.Sunshine wrote: »

I’m not sure why I haven’t gotten it , the only thing is I was very ill with the flu and a desperate sinus infection in December 2019.... wondering if i had it back then

I had the same thing in December ‘19. My wife was working in Asia for November and December and came home two weeks before Christmas. It’s possibly just coincidence but I do think otherwise now. I felt rotten Christmas week and just got worse and worse. I got so bad I was taken to hospital with suspected meningitis and was kept in for a day while they ran all the necessary tests. The rules out meningitis early enough but couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. They eventually put it down to a bad strain of influenza. My cousin is a GP and reckons there’s a good chance I had it. My wife wasn’t sick at all and neither were any family members.

It’s possible the virus was around Europe and Ireland well before Christmas and the first wave was mild and not as contagious but then what we saw in March and constantly since is the mutation and more serious and deadly strain or strains.

I wasn’t fully back to myself until probably February of last year. Whatever I had, Covid or no Covid, absolutely floored me to the point where I couldn’t walk 50 yards without totally gassing out. It took a good 5/6 weeks for me to get back to myself. Thankfully I haven’t tested positive for Covid yet and I’ve had probably 5 tests since March all negative thank god.

Goldengirl

Ms.Sunshine wrote: »

My husband and young daughter had it. Myself and our baby son never got it
Daughter completely asymptotic and husband had a rash and upset stomach . Now since three months on , he’s beginning to feel like rubbish...with aura migraines and extreme fatigue .
I’m not sure why I haven’t gotten it , the only thing is I was very ill with the flu and a desperate sinus infection in December 2019.... wondering if i had it back then

I wonder about this as have heard so many people who have tested negative when their partners conversely test positive .
Maybe asymptomatic infection beforehand and now immune?

Mardyke

signostic wrote: »

I tested positive on the 29th Dec, was feeling unwell for about 9 days, no symptoms now. Back to exercising since Thursday last,
I have a dental appointment on Monday next (filling), should i go ahead with it or cancel?
Edit* appt rescheduled.

Did you lose taste?

signostic

I tested positive on the 29th Dec, was feeling unwell for about 9 days, no symptoms now. Back to exercising since Thursday last,
I have a dental appointment on Monday next (filling), should i go ahead with it or cancel?
Edit* appt rescheduled.

[Deleted User]

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Its now two weeks since I was able to leave the house. Going stir crazy.
I was fairly sick last week and made some improvement on friday last. But since then I have remained the same. Still really tired and have cough and runny nose etc. I find it really hard to concentrate but am back at work 50% of the time.
I will try and get more exercise over the next few days and see if that helps me start improving again.

Advice on covid about returning to exercise is to take it very slowly for various reasons. You might want to Google it a bit.

Trigger Happy

Its now two weeks since I was able to leave the house. Going stir crazy.
I was fairly sick last week and made some improvement on friday last. But since then I have remained the same. Still really tired and have cough and runny nose etc. I find it really hard to concentrate but am back at work 50% of the time.
I will try and get more exercise over the next few days and see if that helps me start improving again.

gozunda

deise18 wrote: »

Myself , my husband and son are all positive along with my adult daughters boyfriend and his whole family. Somehow my daughter is negative. Myself and dh both feel like we have been hit by a bus, no energy burning in chest and short of breath. Cough sore throat and headache comes and goes. Teenage son feels fine despite his temperature not falling below 39 at any point since friday even with medication. I have been very ill before , was hospitalized for 3 weeks after a spider bite years ago and can honestly say this is worse- being so sob just going to the toilet that you have to stop halfway to the en suite is scary. Have just woke from a sleep again, trying to answer texts while I can and will be asleep again shortly. It's like nothing I have ever experienced.

Hope all are oK. I think I remember you posting that you tested positive for Covid previously?

Are the symptoms worse now than previous?

Glenbhoy

audman13 wrote: »

Partner had test same day as me. I'm positive and he tested negative

Could that not be that partner was asymptomatic and gave it to you?
S/he was infected, no symptoms, passed on virus, you start developing symptoms 5/6 days later as would be expected, you test positive, partner no longer positive, tests negative.

ger664

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is it 7 days or 14 days quarantine when positive?

10 days from test date if you show no symptoms.

If you show symptoms 5 days after fever breaks.

Whichever is the longest.

JP Liz V1

Is it 7 days or 14 days quarantine when positive?

mattcullen

ebayissues wrote: »

A friend of mine got covid 19 in March. She lost her sense of smell and taste and hasn't gotten it back.

Very worrying.

My mother got that years ago. She had a bad sinus infection and took a flight. She reckons the air pressure from the flight was a factor. Amnosia she kept calling it!

Anyway, long story short, it took a few years for it to come back but it did eventually so fingers crossed it's the same for your friend.

audman13

Taylor365 wrote: »

When people are saying they or their partners/kids/etc. "didn't have it", is that after a test or that they just didn't show any symptoms at all?

Partner had test same day as me. I'm positive and he tested negative

ebayissues

A friend of mine got covid 19 in March. She lost her sense of smell and taste and hasn't gotten it back.

Very worrying.

Ms.Sunshine

Taylor365 wrote: »

When people are saying they or their partners/kids/etc. "didn't have it", is that after a test or that they just didn't show any symptoms at all?

For us we were all tested . Two positive , two negative

Taylor365

When people are saying they or their partners/kids/etc. "didn't have it", is that after a test or that they just didn't show any symptoms at all?

ShineOn7

It might well have been the early pages of this very thread I saw it in (I can't remember), but worth a re-post

Some here will find this excellent video useful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTvd7oAEyhs

Ms.Sunshine

My husband and young daughter had it. Myself and our baby son never got it
Daughter completely asymptotic and husband had a rash and upset stomach . Now since three months on , he’s beginning to feel like rubbish...with aura migraines and extreme fatigue .
I’m not sure why I haven’t gotten it , the only thing is I was very ill with the flu and a desperate sinus infection in December 2019.... wondering if i had it back then

[Deleted User]

Hector Savage wrote: »

Morbid !!!

Joe Duffy would love it in here !

The HorsesMouth

This is it wrote: »

There you are folks, you heard it from The Horses Mouth.

Sorry, couldn't help it.

If I had a euro for everytime I've read that comment on boards.......

I'd have about €6:pac:

The HorsesMouth

Just to update our situation. We have 5 all tested positive in our house. Symptoms have ranged from runny noses, slight headaches, chills, very mild aches and pains and skin sore to touch. We reckon we are all on Day 8-11..But can't stress how mild these symptoms have been..the kids particularly..you would never know they were even sick apart from the runny noses. We've had no loss of energy, no loss of appetite or anything like that. We are lucky i guess.

alexonhisown

deise18 wrote: »

Myself , my husband and son are all positive along with my adult daughters boyfriend and his whole family. Somehow my daughter is negative. Myself and dh both feel like we have been hit by a bus, no energy burning in chest and short of breath. Cough sore throat and headache comes and goes. Teenage son feels fine despite his temperature not falling below 39 at any point since friday even with medication. I have been very ill before , was hospitalized for 3 weeks after a spider bite years ago and can honestly say this is worse- being so sob just going to the toilet that you have to stop halfway to the en suite is scary. Have just woke from a sleep again, trying to answer texts while I can and will be asleep again shortly. It's like nothing I have ever experienced.

Sounds awful. Hope you are feeling better soon. Its really helpful that people are sharing their symptoms. Looks like headaches and bad pains in back are becoming 2 of the common symptoms

deise18

Myself , my husband and son are all positive along with my adult daughters boyfriend and his whole family. Somehow my daughter is negative. Myself and dh both feel like we have been hit by a bus, no energy burning in chest and short of breath. Cough sore throat and headache comes and goes. Teenage son feels fine despite his temperature not falling below 39 at any point since friday even with medication. I have been very ill before , was hospitalized for 3 weeks after a spider bite years ago and can honestly say this is worse- being so sob just going to the toilet that you have to stop halfway to the en suite is scary. Have just woke from a sleep again, trying to answer texts while I can and will be asleep again shortly. It's like nothing I have ever experienced.

crazy_kenny

Tested positive today. A small few body aches and strange muscle piercing pain along with a sore back and sore eyes were my initial symptoms that prompted test. Still have sore eyes but nothing else.

Away With The Fairies

This is it wrote: »

Tested positive back in October. It was from a known contact so I've an idea of timelines. About 3 days after contact I felt similar to that of a cold, a bit under the weather but otherwise fine. That lasted for about 48 hours and then I was fine. Unfortunately a few days later it hit again. It wasn't anything serious and I wasn't worried but I was completely drained. No pain or any other issues but I remember putting the kettle on to boil the kettle and I couldn't stand long enough to wait for it, I was really weak and had to sit or risk collapsing.

That passed after about 5-7 days, most of which I was confined to bed. Since then I've had no issues I'm aware of, I'd say I'm completely back to normal.

I contracted it from a Grandparent who was admitted to A&E by ambulance after becoming too weak to even go for a test but thankfully she's also back to her normal self.

I just thanked your post because it gives people hope. I didn't thank it because someone thinks I enjoy people getting this virus as it was made out yesterday by another poster.

Galadriel

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.

I was tested on the 4th and am pleased to say I can smell and taste certain things again, so it's definitely on it's way back. Hopefully, yours will too!

dublin_paul

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.