Have you been sick during this Covid-19 Pandemic?

[JerseyWins]

So I had a bit of a sore throat a few weeks back and then today I feel really sick... exactly as I would if I had the flu. Bad headache, bad cough, very weak and I haven't been able to check but I'm very sure I have a fever. It's hit me very quick too, like last night to today, feeling awful. :worry: Medicine (Tylenol (extra strength)) is helping me feel better temporarily until it wears off, idk if that would be the case or not if I had coronavirus?

It does seem like a lot of people are getting sick now though whether it's corona or not.

Have you gotten sick at all during this outbreak?

[Tony Montana]

A bit, yeah. I’ve been coughing and sneezing quite a lot.

[bots]

yeah, i've had an unexplained cough and feeling pretty crappy intermittently. No fever for me though

[LaLaLand]

About two weeks ago I felt not 100% for a week or so, not “sick” just a bit rough.

Like a stress type headache in my sinuses/behind my eyes, a very dry throat (never sore), hot/cold flashes and even woke up one night at the start a bit sweaty - all things that can happen when I’m having a bad anxiety/panic episode (which I put down to all of this Coronavirus stuff going on and I was genuinely anxious).

It’s only NOW that I’ve read that loss of taste/smell, which I had at this time on/off for about 2/3 days, has been a common symptom of this, it was such an odd sensation. Like as if food was just “texture”. I thought the basic/fundamental symptoms were raging fever and a dry cough and I had neither, just other things that now I know seem to be common in people infected. Who knows... but if it was, and that’s how mild it can get, no wonder it’s spreading like wildfire because as I say, I didn’t once feel “ILL”, just a bit dodgy.

Luckily I didn’t do anything or go anywhere the whole of this time so I’m happy about that. My sister also complained of eye ache and feeling tired for a few days too.

[caprimint]

Just had a sore throat a couple of times but nothing more than that

Felt reaaally tired too over the last couple of days but I’m pretty sure that’s just lack of sleep anyway :skull:

[Nicky91]

no

just have muscle pain on my leg now (after i fell yesterday evening after losing balance in a embarrassing hilarious way, i tripped over someone else's shoes :joker: )

[AnnieK]

So I had a bit of a sore throat a few weeks back and then today I feel really sick... exactly as I would if I had the flu. Bad headache, bad cough, very weak and I haven't been able to check but I'm very sure I have a fever. It's hit me very quick too, like last night to today, feeling awful. :worry: Medicine (Tylenol (extra strength)) is helping me feel better temporarily until it wears off, idk if that would be the case or not if I had coronavirus?

It does seem like a lot of people are getting sick now though whether it's corona or not.

Have you gotten sick at all during this outbreak?

Ah Jersey, hope you feel better soon. I think pain meds do help if you have mild corona so you may have it but as you are young am sure you will ride.it out and feel better in a week.or so.

Of course, it could be a regular cold /flu bug but you would be best to isolate yourself from others in your house for the next 7 days if its possible.

Take care and look after yourself, lots of fluids, tylenol and rest. Xx

[AnnieK]

yeah, i've had an unexplained cough and feeling pretty crappy intermittently. No fever for me though

Ive spoken to lots of people recently who have felt like this....been feeling crap for a few days then have a good day and then bad again.

Any other time you'd just think its a cold / flu but with all this going on your mind races doesn't it?

Take care x

[Cherie]

I have had a scratchy throat on and off but I thinks its pollen rather than anything more sinister :worry:

[Cherie]

So I had a bit of a sore throat a few weeks back and then today I feel really sick... exactly as I would if I had the flu. Bad headache, bad cough, very weak and I haven't been able to check but I'm very sure I have a fever. It's hit me very quick too, like last night to today, feeling awful. :worry: Medicine (Tylenol (extra strength)) is helping me feel better temporarily until it wears off, idk if that would be the case or not if I had coronavirus?

It does seem like a lot of people are getting sick now though whether it's corona or not.

Have you gotten sick at all during this outbreak?

feel better soon :love:

[Crimson Dynamo]

The TL and I had a cold first week in March. Just a bog standard cold that you cough a bit due to catarrh and blow your nose for the next 2 weeks but dont actually feel ill.

[Babayaro.]

I never get sick.

[Lewismacfarlane]

Im so ill feeling sick and got the cold

[Crimson Dynamo]

Im so ill feeling sick and got the cold

its unlikely you will have a cold at this time of the year, its is more likely its covid 19. WHat are your symptoms?

[Denver]

No but I always have a random cough come on when out shopping or something and get the dirtiest looks

[Jigs]

Coughing and sneezing but I'm burying my head in the sand and putting it down to smoking and hayfever :lol

[Lewismacfarlane]

its unlikely you will have a cold at this time of the year, its is more likely its covid 19. WHat are your symptoms?

Its just a cold i doubt its covid 19

[Smithy]

That sounds exactly like Corona Jersey

[Smithy]

The TL and I had a cold first week in March. Just a bog standard cold that you cough a bit due to catarrh and blow your nose for the next 2 weeks but dont actually feel ill.

its unlikely you will have a cold at this time of the year, its is more likely its covid 19. WHat are your symptoms?

Beginning of March = ok
3 weeks later = very unlikely

[Nicky91]

Its just a cold i doubt its covid 19

still even though it isn't covid-19, try not to cough in public too much, i mean most people already live in anxiety, being scared these times

[Dogeatdog]

I’ve had a very mild cold over the last 4 or 5 days like I’ll have a teeny bit of a sore throat and it seems to just come and go throughout the days. I have been feeling very tired and run down lately but I think that’s mainly to do with lack of sleep and then heading out to work tbh.

I do hope you begin to feel a bit better soon tho Jersey and everyone else whose feeling poorly. :love:

[user104658]

its unlikely you will have a cold at this time of the year, its is more likely its covid 19. WHat are your symptoms?

Nonsense Dr LT you can get a cold at any time of year; I had the worst chest infection of my life (secondary infection after a cold) from August - December (...yes, 4 bloody months... rehhh) 2007. The initial cold was at the end of July. "Cold and flu season" is winter but they're still around at all year.

At the moment any cough, cold, sore throat .. pretty much any mild Covid-like symptom ... is still more likely to be another random infection. You should still ACT LIKE it's Covid "just in case", obviously, but realistically, unless you've been out and about in a larger population center it probably isn't.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I’ve had a very mild cold over the last 4 or 5 days like I’ll have a teeny bit of a sore throat and it seems to just come and go throughout the days. I have been feeling very tired and run down lately but I think that’s mainly to do with lack of sleep and then heading out to work tbh.

I do hope you begin to feel a bit better soon tho Jersey and everyone else whose feeling poorly. :love:

again, its much more likely you have a mild covid as these are the symptoms,. you should not be out the house

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

[user104658]

again, its much more likely you have a mild covid as these are the symptoms,. you should not be out the house

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

I get that you're trying to encourage people to stay in but this is misguided advice LT; mild symptoms are more likely to not be Covid, you should isolate anyway because they MIGHT be Covid, but if people start assuming they've had it... they will assume after recovery that they have immunity... and will be less careful - when they probably just had a bog standard cold.

[user104658]

In as basic terms as possible;

Symptoms but no test = act like you currently have Covid, whilst remembering that you probably DON'T have Covid.

[Livia]

Has anyone assumed having Covid-19 means you'll be immune afterwards? All I've heard, over and over, is they don't know whether you're immune once you've had it.

[user104658]

Has anyone assumed having Covid-19 means you'll be immune afterwards? All I've heard, over and over, is they don't know whether you're immune once you've had it.

There is very strong evidence that recovered infected have immunity, has been for the last few weeks (now that there are are a large number of recovered). Some total immunity, some partial (reinfection is milder). They're even talking about the possibility of using the blood plasma of recovered patients to treat active cases.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I get that you're trying to encourage people to stay in but this is misguided advice LT; mild symptoms are more likely to not be Covid, you should isolate anyway because they MIGHT be Covid, but if people start assuming they've had it... they will assume after recovery that they have immunity... and will be less careful - when they probably just had a bog standard cold.

A doctor was on LBC the other day saying

At this time of year colds and flu virus have gone. If you have any symptoms of these it is likely to be covid. self isolate and go to the government website. She was clear and adamant of the science behind this.

[Crimson Dynamo]

This is an interesting watch. Worth it.

"become a hand-nazi"

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[Crimson Dynamo]

for those with any "cold symptoms"

so 2 in this thread please watch from 21:28 when the doctor talks about this, he is talking to you

WxyH1rkuLaw

[user104658]

A doctor was on LBC the other day saying



At this time of year colds and flu virus have gone. If you have any symptoms of these it is likely to be covid. self isolate and go to the government website. She was clear and adamant of the science behind this.

If at any time of year all colds and flu were gone then colds and flu wouldn't exist. Far fewer people gets colds and flu in summer but stating that they are "gone" is just flat out false. And that's not to mention the number of people who will be starting up with cough/sniffles/sore throat in April and May due to grass pollen allergy.

https://www.healthline.com/health/summer-cold

https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2012/06/catching-cold-when-its-warm

https://patient.info/news-and-features/can-you-catch-a-cold-in-summer

https://www.livescience.com/amp/14598-avoid-catching-summer-cold.html

https://www.verywellhealth.com/why-do-i-have-a-summer-cold-770444

https://healthtalk.unchealthcare.org/yes-you-can-get-a-cold-in-the-summer/amp/



I'm bored of copy and pasting but this could literally go on all day.

[Crimson Dynamo]

If at any time of year all colds and flu were gone then colds and flu wouldn't exist. Far fewer people gets colds and flu in summer but stating that they are "gone" is just flat out false. And that's not to mention the number of people who will be starting up with cough/sniffles/sore throat in April and May due to grass pollen allergy.

https://www.healthline.com/health/summer-cold

https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2012/06/catching-cold-when-its-warm

https://patient.info/news-and-features/can-you-catch-a-cold-in-summer

https://www.livescience.com/amp/14598-avoid-catching-summer-cold.html

https://www.verywellhealth.com/why-do-i-have-a-summer-cold-770444

https://healthtalk.unchealthcare.org/yes-you-can-get-a-cold-in-the-summer/amp/



I'm bored of copy and pasting but this could literally go on all day.

she did not mean gone but highly unlikely to be a cold and much much more likely to be covid, so treat as covid. See what the doc above says.

Essentially she was saying "you are not a doctor, dont risk your family and others on thinking its a cold, you have never had covid before, err on the side of caution"

save lives

[Shaun]

Not yet, thankfully. Scratchy throat yesterday but I was shovelling garden waste and think some grass dust got into my mouth.

[user104658]

she did not mean gone but highly unlikely to be a cold and much much more likely to be covid, so treat as covid. See what the doc above says.



Essentially she was saying "you are not a doctor, dont risk your family and others on thinking its a cold, you have never had covid before, err on the side of caution"



save livesYes she's trying to encourage people to stay home with any symptoms which is absolutely the right call, I just question whether or not it's right to tell people it's "probably" Covid since it's probably a small bug they'll be over in three days and then baffled when they actually get Covid next month, believing they've already had it. It's probably where the rumours of "people being reinfected easily" came from in the first place - people thinking they'd had it once (but it was a normal cold) then it later "came back worse" (when they actually caught Covid).

So like I said - ANY symptom, act like you have it. Stay home, isolate, etc. Pretend you do have it whether it's likely or not.

But unless it's verified by a test, AFTER you recover, go back to assuming it was NOT Covid unless you have access to antibody testing that shows differently.

I guess the problem and their fear is that they don't trust the public to act like they have Covid on presenting any symptom, unless they can convince them that any symptom really = Covid.

I get that. I have a friend who has a sore throat and was pestering me about whether or not he "really" has to isolate and I had to explain that he absolutely DOES have to isolate, even though he probably doesn't have it. He was all for still going in to work. Given the area he lives in its highly unlikely he has it so its not easy trying to explain why he needs to isolate.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Not yet, thankfully. Scratchy throat yesterday but I was shovelling garden waste and think some grass dust got into my mouth.

:suspect:

[Nicky91]

Yes she's trying to encourage people to stay home with any symptoms which is absolutely the right call, I just question whether or not it's right to tell people it's "probably" Covid since it's probably a small bug they'll be over in three days and then baffled when they actually get Covid next month, believing they've already had it. It's probably where the rumours of "people being reinfected easily" came from in the first place - people thinking they'd had it once (but it was a normal cold) then it later "came back worse" (when they actually caught Covid).

So like I said - ANY symptom, act like you have it. Stay home, isolate, etc. Pretend you do have it whether it's likely or not.

But unless it's verified by a test, AFTER you recover, go back to assuming it was NOT Covid unless you have access to antibody testing that shows differently.

I guess the problem and their fear is that they don't trust the public to act like they have Covid on presenting any symptom, unless they can convince them that any symptom really = Covid.

I get that. I have a friend who has a sore throat and was pestering me about whether or not he "really" has to isolate and I had to explain that he absolutely DOES have to isolate, even though he probably doesn't have it. He was all for still going in to work. Given the area he lives in its highly unlikely he has it so its not easy trying to explain why he needs to isolate.

you can also have covid, but only mild symptoms

i mean i think there are people out there who didn't/do not even know about having/had the virus

my parents are quite cautious i guess, so am i also not visiting my nan these times who lives next door but more keeping the correct distance while outside and still bit of a conversation but mostly over the Phone

and i still find it good just to go outside in garden for bit of fresh air even though now couple of days bit colder, which is better than remaining inside 24/7

[JerseyWins]

Still not feeling all that good but probably like 50% better than I have the past few days (which was AWFUL). Staying away from my family as much as I can just in case.

Ty for the get well wishes & hope others feeling sick during this time get better too! :love:

[JerseyWins]

Still not feeling all that good but probably like 50% better than I have the past few days (which was AWFUL). Staying away from my family as much as I can just in case.

Ty for the get well wishes & hope others feeling sick during this time get better too! :love:

[bots]

Still not feeling all that good but probably like 50% better than I have the past few days (which was AWFUL). Staying away from my family as much as I can just in case.

Ty for the get well wishes & hope others feeling sick during this time get better too! :love:

glad you are starting to feel better

[JerseyWins]

Btw I didn't even mention in the OP that my aunt & uncle have been sick for like a week but they went to get tested & my uncle got the call back today that he does have COVID-19. Not hospitalized tho and hopefully won't need to be.

Feel like that probably means I do indeed have it as well but I'm actually starting to feel a lot better today aside from cough remaining & having back aches (which I heard can be a corona symptom but idk)

Also, my dad has a really high fever today so I doubt it's coincidence. Says he feels fine though aside from a cough and isn't sure about going to the doctor/hospital. Bit worrying though, hope nothing gets serious for anyone. :fc:

[michael21]

No I been lucky

I am fit so should be fine anyway

[JerseyWins]

No I been lucky

I am fit so should be fine anyway
:joker: Safe in big manshun lockdown as well :clap1:

[michael21]

:joker: Safe in big manshun lockdown as well :clap1:

Yes :cheer2:

[Cherie]

Btw I didn't even mention in the OP that my aunt & uncle have been sick for like a week but they went to get tested & my uncle got the call back today that he does have COVID-19. Not hospitalized tho and hopefully won't need to be.

Feel like that probably means I do indeed have it as well but I'm actually starting to feel a lot better today aside from cough remaining & having back aches (which I heard can be a corona symptom but idk)

Also, my dad has a really high fever today so I doubt it's coincidence. Says he feels fine though aside from a cough and isn't sure about going to the doctor/hospital. Bit worrying though, hope nothing gets serious for anyone. :fc:

Get well soon x

[GoldHeart]

Just headaches , but i get those at other times anyway.