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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Got Covid for the first time, tested positive yesterday in an antigen test. Feeling tired and congested in my nose. Did not think it was Covid but as I was going to the doctor I just on a whim decided to test myself and yes it was positive.
The four of us had it a month ago and mild symptoms, got over it quickly. But now myself and one of the children are struggling to sleep at night when go to bed and awake till 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning and then fall asleep since we tested clear, and still getting aches and pains in the joints and the other girl has still no taste, wife is fully recovered, one of the children picked it up in hospital first.
Thanks rang go who sent me to the HSE I registered positive and got text back I then forwarded that back to my GP who gave me a medical cert for work.
Feel a good bit better today compared to yesterday so hoping I have a better night then last night
Still plenty of employers granting Covid leave with a HSE confirmation text.
@Snake Plisken you can report positive antigen tests here:
https://antigentesting.hse.ie/
It will of course depend on your employer's policy whether they will replace your holiday leave with covid leave. HSE won't issue a cert though
Ring your GP.Or ring work and say you'd like to change your leave days to 2 uncertified sick days.You'll need a cert anyway if you go over that.HSE won't give you anything.
I have never had Covid but went to bed on Tuesday night with a headache behind my eyes and aches and pains plus a bit of a cough. Tested yesterday with some HSE tests I had and T line came up strong and C line a bit more faded, did a second test to be sure and same positive result. Had a rough enough night last night with aches and pains high temperature and cough, ended up vomiting my dinner up so that wasn't good. I'm taking paracetamol and resting hoping it doesn't last long. Covid app doesn't seem to give option to say you tested positive do we just ring GP or is there a HSE hotline? Could do with a cert as I'm on two days holidays but obviously want to keep them.
Never thought I'd catch it but there you go.
I am negative again today and feeling fine, covid was not bad at all for me this my second time
My husband and two friends all came down with symptoms on Tuesday. One friend tested positive same day, his brother and my husband tested positive two days later. I had no symptoms to speak of but was testing daily because my husband has it. Tested positive Christmas day morning and felt fine until the afternoon. I have a cold but that's it.
1 day.
...... wrong thread ;-(
Was almost 4 days for me but only tested on 2nd and 4th days, didn't leave house in between
People who tested positive recently, how quickly after first symptoms developed did you test positive? Thanks in advance!
I had it at the start of 2020 when it was just arriving. In fact, I think I had it a few weeks before the first case but I fobbed it off as a very bad flu and everyone was convincing me it was flu.
Symptoms I had then were basically headaches, aches, very tired, horrendous cough which turned into pneumonia and I needed antibiotics and steroids.
Got 3x Pfizer jabs in the meantime, last one was back in December 2021 though.
This recent bout of COVID was mostly in my nose/sinuses and upper throat. It didn't really turn into even a runny nose, just ached and hurt a lot.
That was coupled with body aches, especially in my joints and then I started getting like tingly / burning sensations just down the left side of my chest and into my arm and down my leg, but weirdly only on my left side.
I was really hot, but I wasn't sweating. Kinda like dry heat - felt like a radiator for a few days.
Then it just went away and faded out but I'd positive antigen tests coming up until about 16 days after the first one.
Tested positive for the first time on Tuesday. 48 YO with 3 jabs. Had head cold symptoms since Saturday but tested negative on Saturday, Monday & Tuesday morning. Did a test on Tuesday afternoon but took a swab from my throat rather than my nose and it flagged positive almost immediately.
Main symptoms so far have been chills, aches/pains, tiredness (like, never been as drained) and coughing. When I'm lying down doing nothing I sometimes think I'm ok, but then get up and realise "...ooooh, no I'm not...."
The chills have been the worst, like someone mentioned above, have been shivering with the apparent cold at times.
All 4 of us in the household got it, and my 78 year old father had barely a symptom and is already testing negative. Granted he had his 5th shot in October so probably was reasonably well protected.
Just tested positive on an antigen, that's christmas ruined.
Feeling pretty grand, haven't left the house all week (WFH) but had a very mild sore throat at the start of the week. Runny nose today tested as was going to go into town with the OH who just finished up work,
Bar mild sympotms, I am feeling fine energy wise etc, much easier than the first time I had it.
Glad to hear you're on the mend. Hopefully this lifts in the next few days. I'm just finding the lack of energy is starting to annoy me.
Got it bad a month back. Heavy head and chest cold with fever. Couldn’t breathe. Had all the vacx’s. Bit of tiredness continues but otherwise fine now.
I’m about 3 weeks after my initial positive swab and the first mild symptoms but it’s ridiculous. I’m still tired. How do you shift this fatigue?
I definitely no longer have it. Tested negative after about 16 days, but I’m just exhausted.
I keep falling asleep and think I’m going to cancel Christmas. I can’t even seem to get Xmas tree properly decorated and did all my food shopping online.
I’m supposed to drive halfway across the country on Xmas eve, I was planning all sorts of stuff and none of it’s working. I haven’t even managed to get a haircut.
I tried walking a bit yesterday and I got out of quite badly out of breath after one street. I’m going to try walking on the beach today to see if I can shake this off.
Does anyone else have mild pins and needles ?
I’m finding I’ve a tingling sensation in my feet / legs and my hands and arms a bit. It’s like pins and needles, but it’s not quite. Hard to explain but it’s sort of more ‘electrical’. It’s like that sensation you’d get off some piece of electronics that is building up static - often got it from metal bodied laptops on charge.
Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how to get rid of it…
It really hit my sinuses hard to. Didn't have any lung/coughing effects though at all.
I tested positive on Thursday evening. Had a temperature which seems to have gone now but my sinuses have been killing me and I’m sneezing a bit. Very little appetite and I’m quite tired. I hope it’ll pass soon. Very bad timing.
Round 2, 10 days in here.I'm negative on antigens now though.I was sicker at the start of this than last time, but so far the later stages of it are milder.Was fearing today a bit after my last experience (it all went wrong on day 10 last time!) But so far while today has been tougher than the last few days, I haven't been as bad as last time round.Definitely tireder tha I should be, had headaches this morning, and the muscles get achey quite quickly.My chest is wheezy this evening but this time round I have the inhalers and am more used to being aware of my chest!!So here's hoping I am climbing from a higher base than last time and it will get lost a bit quicker.I've no major plans over Christmas and I fully intend to take it as easy as I can manage with the kids at home, and give myself time to get over it.It's a nasty little sh1t of a virus.
I’m too tired. I got COVID around the end of November and was sick for about 10 days without a cough - mostly very bad aches, fever and chest burning sensations down my left side and my back.
I tested negative after about 16 days and only have a headache occasionally but I’m so, so tired and I can’t seem shift the tiredness no matter what I do.
I’d a day off today I woke early but then I just dozed off and slept solidly until 5:30pm through multiple alarm clocks and people ringing me, and woke up with a banging headache and I’m still tired. My joints also all hurt, especially my lower back and hips and knees. I can’t walk very far without being really sore. And I have really bad tinnitus all the time. I always had that to some degree but it’s about 10x worse now.
Hopefully this shifts by Christmas. I haven’t even put up the tree yet.
How long does this take to go away?’
As I was all last week (but without the blood)! I found this when I had COVID in Match. It was my sinuses that took the pounding after I had it. Seems like its before it this time!
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Tested positive today.
Last week (Sunday 9 days ago) felt very rough. Light headed, nauseous, very bad headache. Was testing negative. All week. Feeling fine over the weekend. Slight scratchy throat yesterday and today. Decided to test again, positive. Such a weird virus.
I’m taking the total rest approach. I’ve just stayed in bed pretty much and when I’m tired I sleep.
Luckily I seem to have avoided the cough so far. Seems to just be tons of mucous from my sinuses. My nose actually felt like it was burning inside for a while but that’s now passed entirely.
It mostly seems to be severe aches and joint pain.
The other odd symptom is my scalp hurts ?!
Best of luck @GlottalStop , I just got over it and finally tested clear last weekend though have a cough still which may take a while to clear by all accounts. I found total rest was the best medicine, any kind of activity made me feel worse the next day.
Respiratory side of it seems to be going away rapidly but wow the body aches are something else when the panadol wears off. Everything’s aching this morning, even my fingers.
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