People who tested positive, how are you feeling?

Setup a call with GP to checkin on your condition and you'd need the cert anyway.

This is latest HSE advice.

You can leave home after 5 days if:

• your symptoms have fully or mostly gone for the last 48 hours

https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/covid19/if-you-have-covid-19/adults/

Wife and son just tested positive - so the old tests still work (people keep telling me they don't with the new strains).

Both report really bad sore throats, coughs, tight chest, poor breathing, runny/blocked nose, headache and flu like aches and pains.

My, grown up, son just got the Ivermectin out - I'm not saying anything this time :-(

Of course with wife and son getting it I got it. I had it once before and tbh it wasn't as bad this time but slightly different symptoms. Last time throat was very painful for about 10 days but that was the main symptom this time I have headache that feels like my heads been hit every time I cough.

Husband finally caught it - after 3 and half years avoiding it (including when I had it right at the start and didn't isolate for ages because I'd travelled but not to Italy so advice was I couldn't have had it, and both kids having it and him helping look after them). He reckons it feels like a really nasty head cold with the addition of night sweats and a thumping headache. He had just been planning to get the next booster.

I have a thumping headache and blocked nose but am testing negative. I've banished myself to the spare room just in case I coincidentally have a cold that kicked in at the same time as his covid.

Yes but with reduced sensitivity so maybe less likely to detect in early stages - but if you have full blown symptoms should pick it up.

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests

Husband's test went positive almost instantly. I'm still negative with almost identical symptoms (maybe not quite as severe) that kicked in within an hour or two of his. Same batch of tests. So who knows. Is there an accuracy issue or maybe I've just got a cold.

(I'm only concerned because we look after my elderly mother, and she minds our kids sometimes. With a cold, just I stay away for the first few days, if it's covid we'll be a lot more strict on who sees her and when)

2 days testing negative now .nose is blocked as are my sinus . Headaches and sore throat and small amount of sweats . Like a cold really but it happened around my family funeral and several family members have it now . Phlegm from my chest is not great . If it wasn’t for covid I’d sware it’s a winter chest infection .

Ive gotten it 3 times. Very inconsistent symptoms.

1st time i was vaccinated, but didnt get any boosters since then.

1st time - Wife got it and i tested positive but was only a little tired.

2nd time - knocked me out and was off work for 5 days.

3rd time - almost didnt notice, just tested because i felt a bit weird and had some tests laying around.

1st time: Wild version at start of pandemic - really bad, was making plans to go to hospital, but it never got that bad.

2nd time: Just very bad sinus like symptoms, and that burning sensation in outer chest, burning sensation in legs etc but no cough

3rd time: Similar but a bit milder

4th time: Seems to be the same. It's just the sinuses, but seem to be getting that mild hot sensation in chest again too.

I've kept the vaccines up-to-date and had a recent booster, so I donno... seems like I just keep getting it anyway. I haven't been taking any big risks.

Worst aspect is I'm tired - I'm making little sense and keep falling asleep, yet I've loads of work to get on with remotely and I'm making tons of errors.

Is this normal for COVID?

Started out as a “head cold” and I thought I was feeling way better yesterday and that was it but now I feel like my sinuses are burning, the inside of my mouth at the back is kinda like wrinkly, rough which is bizarre and I’ve a cough as well and a bit of chest tightness beginning.

Previous runs in with it, it just followed a pattern of getting a bit worse peaking and getting better. I didn’t have this getting better and then worse thing…

I’ll have to crack out the Neurofen again.

Tested positive 9 days ago - still positive today first time to get it. Is there any advice on when to return to exercise. Headache and temp for a few days but not too back since - intermittent phglem since.

I reckon I had it last weekend. Sore throat Friday that gave way to spluttering, sneezing and a nose drip that was constant for 24 hrs and then over a couple of days it cleared up. Lots of phlegm in the clearout. No headaches like I had with covid last year.

This dose seemed just contained to my sinus area, no cough.

I managed to dodge the covid bullet until a little over a month ago. I was feverish, fatigued, some breathing difficulty. But it felt manageable and symptoms started to ease. That was until 8 days after my initial positive test. I woke up with a deep ache in my lower back, a stinging/scalding sensation on the surface of the skin in the same site, but a numbness to the site with touch. I was very confused, I even wondered if I had falling down the stairs while sleep walking. Later that evening I became feverish and lethargic again and with other symptoms such as running nose of covid came back but multiplied.

It turned out that I had developed shingles during covid. I was prescribed anti-inflammatories, decongestants, and anti-virals. I became very lethargic. I was even experiencing shortness of breath while resting, but it never got to the stage were I couldn't breath and needed an ambulance (but the thought worried me). I found it very difficult to wash and even feed myself during that first week. The pain and shortness of breath eased over time. But it is, and continues to be, a gradual process. I am still feeling fatigued, shortness of breath on exertion, a dry cough and runny nose, and left with lingering pain from the shingles site with a condition called postherpetic neuralgia.

I remain positive. Things seem to be gradually improving with some days of set back, but overall heading in the right direction

What I’m seeing here is a lot of Covid newbies, I’m sure the virus has changed its face, but overall doesn’t seem very serious. I’m slightly concerned re MS as that gets much worse during an inflammatory load, and I could end up being hardly able to move, as my disease is well into a progressive phase, and I’ve had an episode of weak respiratory muscles before, but without apparent active infection, although scans showed resolving lung lesions at the time.