People who tested positive, how are you feeling?

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….

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.

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 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.

Went into hospital for a small procedure, in and out in a couple of hours, testing positive for covid today and feeling like shite.

It's out there again.

It never went away, you know.

Well my wife and I both got a bad headcold dose back in Feb, had me in bed for a couple of days but tested negative for Covid. This time I've tested positive and on day five of bedridden crap but herself got a covid booster last October and she's all clear.

She's front line healthcare and they were free in work.

I certainly won't pass on the next booster.

It's capitalism. Let people pretend it doesn't exist anymore.

I can’t believe there’s still people like you out there who seemingly have not/cannot move on from Covid. This thread is literally the only place I ever see anything about it now.

Mod Edit: Warning issued

I don't see an issue posting about it. I'm nearly six days of feeling buckled by the lastest strain so if seeing my post inspires someone to get their booster then all good.

Pretty much everyone has antibodies now, there’s nothing the mask is reliably going to do unless everyone else puts on one and uses it correctly which most people didn’t in the first place. You're most likely dodging it as you have immunity.

That would very much depend on what mask they are wearing, how long they are there for, size and ventilation of the indoor space - so such general claims are dubious.

Similarly for immunity, what level, against what. Antibodies dont stick around forever. The immune system has other layers but they dont respond as quickly. Pretty much everybody has some form of immunity to some influenza strains and yet flu still floors people and puts them into hospital or grave.

I have several family members who lived in fear since day 1 due to underlying conditions. They had every booster going. They've never gotten Covid due to rarely going out or wearing a mask on the handful of occasions a year that they do. Never gotten it till today, presumably after a hospital appointment 2 days ago.

As I've never had it either, what can we expect? I see we are supposed to self isolate for 5 days. Is that all that's required?