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Title: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 13, 2021, 02:39:05 AM
I been unwell in bed feel awful as I was tested covid positive  :no: :no:
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: tubaman on November 13, 2021, 07:44:41 AM
Look after yourself and hope you get well soon Max.
 :)
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Weaver on November 13, 2021, 10:24:41 AM
All the best, do hope you feel better soon! Plenty of hot drinks, plenty of water and painkillers.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 13, 2021, 06:18:51 PM
Thank god I am fully vaccinated because without it I would be dead by now. I deleted photo because of covid test barcode ID is private as anyone could fake using mine
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: kitz on November 13, 2021, 10:38:34 PM
Take care of yourself - plenty of fluids & rest and no stressing about line stats.

I can sympathise, I got it last year before vaccines were available. 
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Weaver on November 14, 2021, 08:52:40 PM
Go Kitz, somehow I missed that - very scary. Did you feel very rough?
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on November 15, 2021, 02:30:24 AM
Had Pfizer booster on Friday, that alone made me feel like a truck ran over me and my heart rate was 120bpm yesterday.  So I REALLY don't fancy the actual virus that causes the same side effects (and more) but potentially for months on end.

I already have a lot of the long Covid symptoms anyway due to fibromyalgia, the vaccine just seems to magnify them.

Fingers crossed you just have mild symptoms.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Weaver on November 15, 2021, 02:58:19 AM
I felt rough after I had the Pfizer second vaccination, the most recent one. I had no problem with the first vaccinations last spring - they were (is it) AstraZeneca, but I don’t know whether or not the manufacturer was significant in my case; it could just have been that I was a bit more i’ll than usual when I had my recent injections and wasn’t in a good state to handle it. I had several bad nights afterwards that weekend, general discomfort, waking up in the night with pain and not being able to get back to sleep again. But then that’s the usual story for me anyway, so this was just a magnification of my usual symptoms I think it’s fair to say.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 15, 2021, 03:01:14 AM
Still in bed not very well at all. My taste and smell has gone! Very fragile at the moment. Sometimes temp up and down 35-41c been vomitted lots, coughing very bad indeed with painful back throat like a sharper knife edge. Test are positive from PCR lab.

Worry sign are my parents are tested positive as well especially my dad with bronchial pneumonia, type 1 diabetic and underlying health issues. I am scare very upsets and cry in bed as I don't want to see my dad end up in hospital as I knew he wouldn't survive it cos I love my dad so much. I don't know what to do. I feel numb and empty with saddest moment in my life.

I am very angry with the government should bring back local lockdown.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on November 15, 2021, 03:13:21 AM
Its certainly not helpful the government have been flip-flopping on their messaging.

They gave the impression that things were back to normal and unfortunately a lot of people are too keen to believe it.

My mums ex recently said due to bus driver shortages locally they have been crammed, and he is frequently the only person wearing a mask.  This is why I haven't left the house since July last year and am afraid to even visit him.  They shouldn't have eased the restrictions until a LOT more people were vaccinated.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Weaver on November 15, 2021, 06:24:53 AM
Are/were people getting onto buses without wearing masks down in England? Shouldn’t be allowed to board.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on November 15, 2021, 09:16:03 AM
Are/were people getting onto buses without wearing masks down in England? Shouldn’t be allowed to board.

To some extent they always were, as anyone can say they are exempt and drivers aren't allowed to enforce it.  But when the restrictions rolled back, masks became optional across the board.  I believe only Hospitals/GPs enforce them, and even there mum had her diabetic eye screening and she said they were failing to enforce social distancing which stopped her from eating as she felt people were way too close to her wheelchair.

Its a good job her diabetes isn't worse or she could have been seriously ill.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: meritez on November 15, 2021, 09:58:48 AM
Most of England has been avoiding masks and sanitising hands.
Too many times I have found a hand sanitiser station empty
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: jelv on November 15, 2021, 10:05:51 AM
But when the restrictions rolled back, masks became optional across the board.  I believe only Hospitals/GPs enforce them,

Apparently being the Prime Minister is a valid exemption.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-mask-hospital-visit-b1956696.html
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: j0hn on November 15, 2021, 02:38:53 PM
I drove to Leicester on Saturday to buy a car and I must say I was amazed how little people are wearing masks in shops south of the border.

It's still mandatory to wear masks in shops in Scotland and it's almost universally followed.
I certainly wear mine. I have no intentions of catching it again.

Myself, my pregnant partner and my 9 month old caught covid at the start of September.
My partner had zero symptoms. My 9 month old baby was very very restless, particularly at night.

I on the other hand felt like I was dying. I spent 3 days in bed projectile vomiting and sleeping 16+ hours a day.
After 3 days of being sick and sleeping I spend another 6 days in bed recovering, sleeping 12+ hours a day.
It absolutely hammered me, I've never been so ill.
I'm still weak and struggling to get my energy back.

I'm double vaccinated, my partner hasn't been vaccinated due to her pregnancy.
God knows how bad I would have been without the vaccine.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 15, 2021, 02:44:50 PM
I just wish the government has the power of the law to force all UK peoples to have fully vaccinated for all of us sakes. Covid-19 are nasty piece of work as the coronavirus are very clever love to kill more unvaccinated patients.

I am glad I am fully vaccinated. One of my family member sadly passed away with covid 19 unvaccinated 😥
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on November 15, 2021, 03:43:55 PM
I on the other hand felt like I was dying. I spent 3 days in bed projectile vomiting and sleeping 16+ hours a day.
After 3 days of being sick and sleeping I spend another 6 days in bed recovering, sleeping 12+ hours a day.
It absolutely hammered me, I've never been so ill.
I'm still weak and struggling to get my energy back.

I'm double vaccinated, my partner hasn't been vaccinated due to her pregnancy.
God knows how bad I would have been without the vaccine.

That's what gets me.  Even if you don't end up in hospital, or you do but recover, the anti-vaxxers don't seem to understand the concept of how it can leave people disabled long term, potentially for the rest of their lives.  Recovery does not mean back to the state you were before Covid!

As someone already with Asthma and Fibromyalgia, who had to stop working by the time I was 20 because some mornings I honestly didn't have the energy to get out of bed and would have to constantly go to the toilet to splash water on my face to try to stay awake at work (which they don't take kindly to in a call centre).  They are so oblivious to just how much those long-term effects could ruin their life.

I just wish the government has the power of the law to force all UK peoples to have fully vaccinated for all of us sakes. Covid-19 are nasty piece of work as the coronavirus are very clever love to kill more unvaccinated patients.

I am glad I am fully vaccinated. One of my family member sadly passed away with covid 19 unvaccinated 😥

There's talk of them doing just that in February I believe, expect chaos to ensue.

One of my family members works on a Covid ward, its scary.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: jelv on November 15, 2021, 05:44:49 PM
I'm double vaccinated, my partner hasn't been vaccinated due to her pregnancy.

Unless she has been specifically advised not to by her GP due to a specific concern...

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/pregnancy-breastfeeding-fertility-and-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination/

The risks to both mother and baby due to catching COVID while pregnant are higher than the risks from the vaccination.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Weaver on November 15, 2021, 09:21:43 PM
God, I had no idea. I didn’t know quite how horrible it is. I’m extremely isolated here, in every sense of the word.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: j0hn on November 15, 2021, 11:56:36 PM
Unless she has been specifically advised not to by her GP due to a specific concern...

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/pregnancy-breastfeeding-fertility-and-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination/

The risks to both mother and baby due to catching COVID while pregnant are higher than the risks from the vaccination.

I also have an 11 month old. We got pregnant the 1st week of lockdown.
The vaccine was available towards the end of that pregnancy. 3 months later pregnant again.
So we've followed the advice on vaccines for pregnant women very closely.
Initially it was advised against completely. Then it was advised women in their 3rd trimester could receive the vaccine. Now it's any time during pregnancy but only specific vaccines.
By the time she was offered a vaccine she was well in to the organdy and had taken the decision to continue it as she did last last and get vaccinated after giving birth.

I'm double vaccinated and my 14 year old has had his single dose. We've followed every lockdown rigourously with my health conditions and her being pregnant, and for the sake of everyone else.

Fortunately she had next to no symptoms when we caught covid. She lost her sense of smell for a couple weeks after (yes after) we had recovered and tested negative.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on November 16, 2021, 03:25:33 AM
No need to ask how you passed the time in lockdown I guess. ;)
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: kitz on November 16, 2021, 11:34:33 AM
Go Kitz, somehow I missed that - very scary. Did you feel very rough?

I got it last Nov when I was in hospital for a month.    I'm pretty sure I've mentioned somewhere that being on a covid ward was damn scary - especially back then when we had no vaccine and little idea how to fight it.   It certainly wasn't one of the most pleasant experiences to watch at least one person per day die.  You almost got a feeling who was doing to die next by the way they were breathing.  It was also weird how some of them could seem to 'come round' then go back downhill.   Don't ask me why some of them were on PAP machines and not ventilators. 
As I say, it was an utterly horrid place to be.   I was fortunate that my daughter helped get me moved to a private side ward where I spent the remainder of the 2 weeks.    I was originally admitted into hospital for something else and then caught covid from another patient. Even though I had covid, it was the other symptoms that were the maide me too ill to go home, and why I was moved to a side room.  I am not exaggerating when I say I was dying  - its why I wasn't around much for a few months - several spells actually - covering Sept 2020 to Jan 2021. 
I am still quite ill.... and only just got out after being in for another 3 weeks, which is why Roseway and Alan have been running the shop.

Incidentally although I have recovered from covid, a CT scan a couple of weeks ago and xrays a couple of weeks ago showed I had GGO on my lung - something the doctors  said is usually seen with pneumonia, but they are seeing an increasing amount of covid patients who have GGO.   I wouldn't have known if I hadnt been admitted for something else and it showed up on those x-rays.     That is something not being counted in statistics  and something the covid deniers dont recognise.... the number of covid patients being left with other conditions they didnt have before and have no idea they do now.   One of my friends has a heart condition caused by covid she got about the same time as me last year as me.  Shes someone who was never ill, got over covid lightly, then later found out its left her with heart damage.

Dont get me started on masks and people saying covid doesn't exist.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on November 16, 2021, 12:59:07 PM
I said it from the start, people who had Covid and thought it was "no big deal" are going to potentially be dying from the Flu due to the unknown long-term damage they suffered rfom Covid.  Its really really terrifying.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 16, 2021, 02:14:36 PM
I do honest back in 2018 I was very ill in bed for six weeks with the same very bad sore throat like a knife edge, dry coughing with nothing coming out of my chest, high temperature, shivering, vomitted, couldn't sleep at all due to ongoing coughing as I do remember I couldn't smell or taste but I am not sure if I did have covid in 2018. My dad took me to see my gp as he tested blood from my finger and put on the machine for the point. And after that I was much better until I am now back with covid positive.

I have read your story kitz very very sorry to hear your awful time at the hospital with covid.

I am very worried as my chest could be damaged in long term with covid. When I become very ill, I was prepared to do my own will paper just in case if I do died cos no ones know. It's just a, matter of time when.

I think all people's think covid is all rubbish and lying and refused to do any vaccines will be very sorry for themselves sooner or later end up in hospital on the dying bed
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: g3uiss on November 16, 2021, 02:36:51 PM
I don’t think we had covid in 2018.

Unfortunately at the moment there are many bronchitis type viruses that can be confused, and some are very aggressive. However the vaccine is the best hope for avoiding hospitalisation for confirmed cases. Like many I’ve had it, before vaccination and it wasn’t fun.

I believe we are going to have to understand we will get this probably annually, which won’t be a serious problem as long as it’s manageable. Hopefully the drugs will help this going forward. We still don’t have flu drugs, so the science has been incredible getting us to this point. 
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: meritez on November 19, 2021, 11:56:09 PM
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-19/austria-reimposes-full-lockdown-makes-vaccination-compulsory

Quote
Austria will become the first country in western Europe to reimpose a full coronavirus lockdown this autumn to tackle a new wave of infections, and will require its whole population to get vaccinated as of February, the government said on Friday.

Question is, will the United Kingdom get to this point?
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Weaver on November 20, 2021, 05:43:06 AM
I think Scotland is a different thing in this regard, but I’m not sure. Can anyone advise?

For example: my wife tells me that everyone has to wear masks in shops in Scotland.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 20, 2021, 05:53:25 AM
Just done my flow test showed one red line on C but no red line on T does this mean I am now negative as my self isolation end on monday
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: tubaman on November 20, 2021, 08:24:15 AM
Just done my flow test showed one red line on C but no red line on T does this mean I am now negative as my self isolation end on monday

The general guidance is that there is no need to perform Lateral Flow tests again until 90 days after infection unless new symptoms develop.
This link is a Govenrment care home document but is the best I could find right now - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-in-adult-care-homes/covid-19-testing-schedule-for-a-suspected-or-confirmed-outbreak-in-a-care-home#the-90-day-window-after-a-positive-test

"The 90-day window after a positive test
If someone has tested positive with a PCR test, they should not be tested using either PCR or rapid lateral flow tests for 90 days, unless they develop new symptoms during this time – in which case they should be retested immediately using PCR.
This 90-day period is from the initial onset of symptoms or, if asymptomatic when tested, their positive test result."
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: j0hn on November 20, 2021, 11:37:05 AM
I think Scotland is a different thing in this regard, but I’m not sure. Can anyone advise?

For example: my wife tells me that everyone has to wear masks in shops in Scotland.

Yes. See my post above...

I drove to Leicester on Saturday to buy a car and I must say I was amazed how little people are wearing masks in shops south of the border.

It's still mandatory to wear masks in shops in Scotland and it's almost universally followed.
I certainly wear mine. I have no intentions of catching it again.

We also have Covid passports to enter events like large football games or music gigs (anything over x number of people).
I think this is being extended to all hospitality on 6th December so will include pubs and restaurants etc.

I use a fantastic independent website to follow the stats and trends of each of the UK countries rather than watching the UK figures on the news.
Seems pointless lumping them all in to a UK figures as we all have different rules.

https://www.travellingtabby.com/uk-coronavirus-tracker/
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: g3uiss on November 20, 2021, 07:53:52 PM
@j0hn. That’s a useful source of somewhat more reliable info. I volunteer at a vaccination centre and have done since January. They get so frustrated by the poor info in the mainstream media.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Bowdon on November 21, 2021, 10:44:56 PM
I'm glad to hear max is now testing negative.

I've had a long cold recently, the 'super cold'. It's not covid though as I've been tested because I had an hospital appointment 2 weeks ago.

The public need to take covid more seriously. It's like russian roulette.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on November 22, 2021, 01:09:40 AM
Its absolute madness what is going on in Europe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O_1SXch3x0
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Weaver on November 22, 2021, 06:06:40 AM
What on earth? And I thought the Dutch were such nice friendly folk?
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 22, 2021, 06:12:17 AM
I am feeling much better today. I am much relieved that I am doubled vaccinated. Pleased to hear my mum dad also recovered well that put big smile on my face today. I dunno how to cope myself if I end up in hospital.

The world has gone mad with these selfish people's who still not believed in coronavirus. Hope one day they will realise how deadly coronavirus are if they all end up in hospital in ICU. More foolish them who think coronavirus isn't real.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on November 22, 2021, 08:54:09 AM
Someone who lives near to me posted his visit with the kids to Sheffield city centre last night:
(https://csdprojects.co.uk/forums/258233182_10159879912827292_5430156447961962231_n.jpg)
(https://csdprojects.co.uk/forums/258438078_10159879913012292_3705472491684765060_n.jpg)

This is why I'm in no hurry to leave the house.  People are acting like everything is normal.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: meritez on November 22, 2021, 11:01:24 AM
Saw this yesterday, if this is the "new" normal it's concerning:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/qywl53/oc_the_pandemic_in_60_seconds_updated_20211120/
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: jelv on November 22, 2021, 03:46:58 PM
If this doesn't prove to people (especially those over 40) that getting vaccinated is a good idea I don't know what would!

https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1462107342233903104?t=LQpk8V-QBZw70cs4ySFNDQ&s=09
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: banger on November 22, 2021, 04:12:29 PM
Getting my Flu and Booster tomorrow. :D :fingers:
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 22, 2021, 04:13:43 PM
Getting my Flu and Booster tomorrow. :D :fingers:

Hope u are keeping all well. I heard peoples become illness after taking both doses in one go
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: jelv on November 22, 2021, 04:17:51 PM
Had a Pfizer booster this morning. My flu jab was 23rd Oct. So far no significant side effects.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: banger on November 22, 2021, 10:38:17 PM
Good to know Jelv.  :fingers:
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Ronski on November 24, 2021, 07:43:16 PM
My wife had her booster yesterday, she feels a bit a rough today, and her arm aches. Her mother had her booster a few weeks ago and her arm still doesn't feel right, I think she has some sort a movement problem with it since her booster. My brother-in-law is an anti-vaxer, he tried talk his 85 year old mum who has asthma out of having the jabs, he wouldn't even listen to my wife who works at the local hospital and has seen the results of covid! Luckily he's many miles away and we don't have much to do with him.

I'll be getting my booster in a few weeks, as had my second dose early June.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on November 24, 2021, 09:35:49 PM
I felt like I was hit by a truck for a few days after the booster, I kinda felt worse but for a shorter period than the first two.  Though the first two were AstraZenica and the booster was Pfizer.  I also had Flu shot the same time as booster so possibly a factor.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 29, 2021, 09:38:03 AM
I lost my taste and smell since November 10th. How long it was suppose to be normal again?
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: broadstairs on November 29, 2021, 09:50:59 AM
Both myself and my wife have always had some discomfort or mild side effects from both flu jabs and covid jabs. The sore arm can easily be caused by the person administering the injection either because they hit a nerve or just badly inserted the needle. I had quite a noticeable swelling on the injection site for my first covid jab but it was administered by a doctor and doctors have a generally bad reputation for the ability to inject, my second covid shot was painless but that was a nurse who had probably given more injections than that doctor had hot dinners! None of this would put us off having vaccines.

Stuart
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: jelv on November 29, 2021, 11:04:11 AM
I lost my taste and smell since November 10th. How long it was suppose to be normal again?
My sister lost her senses of taste and smell when she had COVID shortly before Xmas last year. She still hasn't got them back.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: adslmax on November 29, 2021, 11:37:31 AM
Oh great. This mean I am lots worsen now. No taste, no smell, no hearing as I always deafness severely profoundly deafness since both. My right eye get worse with blurry for month now. I am fed up.
Title: Re: Covid Positive
Post by: grahamb on November 29, 2021, 01:16:46 PM
Never mind Max, look on the bright side.


Btw, that'll be to your left....




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