I had covid 4 weeks ago.Felt very bad on a friday so done a test which came back negative as did the next 2 over the next couple of days.Felt ok on the monday but tested positive at that point.First negative was the following monday/tuesday.
Since then my joints(and surrounding area) ache,elbows and shoulders the worse.
This is a good reminder that this is now the expected time course. Because the virus is no longer novel (due to vaccinations and infections) we now generate symptoms to it much quicker than we did 2 years ago (remember, most of the symptoms come from the immune response, not the infection per se) and so now you should expect to not be able to test positive until 2-3 days after first symptoms. You’re probably not contagious during that first day or two while not yet testing positive, but you have to be conscious that if you’re not isolating during that period there will be a point where you’ve turned positive/contagious and are not yet isolating.
I tested positive for covid yesterday.
I received a phone call from a relative on Monday night, that I’d spent time with over the weekend - he was calling to let me know he had tested positive and just wanted to give me a heads up. When I got the call, I was feeling fine.
Yesterday around lunch time, I felt a little tired and sniffly - not something I’d usually do a covid test for following a weekend of eating and drinking - but decided to test given the call I’d received - and low and behold, a very feint line appeared on the LFT.
By 7pm last night, I had a temp of 38 Deg, and had to wrap up in a blanket to keep warm. Spent the night tossing and turning, waking up drenched in sweat. This morning the fever was gone, but now I’m lumbered up with body ache - my back and hips particularly - but all my joints ache (@RedSeven I note you’ve had this). Feeling a bit sniffly again too - did another test, and a much darker line appeared, so I assume I’m still early on this ride.
Loading up on liquids/OJ and paracetamol - hoping I can just work at home all week and get this to fuck ASAP.
As of right now, this feels no different to a seasonal cold/flu - hope it stays this way
Bad misrepresentation from Noah there. Long Covid is a syndrome made up of a constellation of symptoms. This paper looks at the incidence of the symptoms not of the syndrome.
With whom? Why the hurry? 
Take care!
Thought i’d do an update;
Tues - postive test (feint line), fever in the night, sniffly throat/nose…felt 4/10
Weds - body ache, headache, sniffly, LFT blackpool illuminations, felt 4/10
Thurs - sniffly but was feeling say 7/10
This morn id say i feel 8.5/10. Another LFT showing a dark line.
I assume i am past the worst of it (touch wood), and thus far (for me) its been like a common cold/flu. My symptoms havent all been at the same time which has helped i assume.
As a matter of interest, does anybody care about / take any precautions for COVID anymore? Unless the lethal ZZpluralZalpha variant comes out, I just don’t care.
We came back from Spain on Wednesday and the Mrs tested positive today. She has a bad dose.
Sorry to hear that - get well soon Mrs RO!
I still wear a mask everywhere except when I am dining. I am triple vax and I had covid just a month ago. And even if we are allowed to go maskless in open spaces, I choose not to simply because I have a mum staying with me who is elderly and has a kidney issue. So I rather take precautions. Other things like keeping to sanitation routines like washing your hands regularly I still do. And I think people generally should still do it although people are free to do whatever they are allowed to.
Personally, beyond not being stupid (maintaining hygiene), my life is pretty much back to normal. But that’s what it’s become here in England too.
I still wash hands regularly, use hand sanitizer quiet often at work.
In regards to wearing a mask, I generally will play it by ear. If I am somewhere in public, like train, bus or supermarket and it is quiet, then I don’t bother but will stick one on if it is fairly busy - it is all about how much personal space I have.
I caught this thing. I’ve been out for three weeks though I’ve been getting better incrementally each day. The symptoms are still lingering even though I tested negative twice this week. My wife’s symptoms were worse than mine and she tested negative four times before testing positive. Nutty stuff. I’d describe it as a cold that won’t go away.
Here, nobody takes notice anymore. We are back at hugs and hand-shaking again, masks are nowhere to be seen, apart from in hospitals. Music festivals have been in full swing, with ten-thousands of people gathering together as if nothing had ever happened.
Meanwhile, we have thousands of new official cases every day, but nobody cares anymore (most don’t even test themselves when they have the symptoms). The occupation percentage of hospital beds is low though, and there are a few dead people among the elderly and fragile every day (between two and four last time I checked), but nothing to really take notice or to be afraid of.
I wonder how it will go when we will reach december again.
I have different habits now - and with the current wave, I am a little more diligent than I was six weeks ago. Masks indoors in crowded environments where I don’t know people (and would not be able to alert them were I to test positive).
On the other hand, as far as I know I have not caught it. Don’t particularly want to if I can avoid it, even if the odds are pretty good it won’t be serious. However, there is a decent amount of evidence pointing to the possibility of cumulative effects. It just isn’t a common cold or even a mild flu, even if it feels like one. It is no longer ‘novel’, but we are still a long way from benign endemicity.
What is jarring to me that my area has had more covid deaths in 2022 than in 2021. That is stunning when you consider that in 2021, we didn’t have broad access to vaccines for most of the first six months, while 2022 is only just past 6 months into the books.
I have given up on the excessive surface sterilization, etc. Omicron is overwhelmingly airborne, may as well cross yourself and wear garlic for the meaningful protection you get from it.
That relates to the fact that Limiescouse raised earlier about it no longer being ‘novel’. Your immune response now starts long before you have significant viral load, and we mostly feel the immune response. So you can feel like crap, have loads of symptoms, and still not have enough for most tests to pick up.
It is what makes me wonder if I had it earlier this month in a mild form. But I have seasonal allergies too, so it could have been covid, or some stupid plant that I am particularly sensitive to - it disappeared about when I left the city for the lake. Tested negative four times.
The summer wave is for us at least a new and vaguely unsettling phenomenon - not a massive problem unless you happen to be one of the poor souls working in the overwhelmed emergency rooms.
How are they being recorded in your area? Are they deaths with covid, or of covid? It’s so much more prevalent right now, that from my understanding, most people in hospital who have covid, are not in there due to the covid (without going into the we can’t know type discussion), but just happened to have it.
I’m not suggesting the data is wrong - just interested, if you know.
Deaths are increasing in many places. I was reading that for NZ, a big majority of deaths occurred in the last 5 months or so…even in Singapore, where while death counts are low but in recent months, we are seeing more frequent news of covid related deaths and more importantly, we are seeing child deaths due to Covid for the first instances this year. Of course I think we cannot reverse the opening but I do think its still prudent to take precautions whenever you can. Every bit of protection you give yourself goes a long way in the overall protection for everyone. Like you said, if you can don’t contract it, don’t.