Covid finally caught me after successfully dodging it all this time, I Tested positive Tuesday last week and the first few days we’re pretty rough. Now its just like an annoying cold but I’m still confined to the house for now while the tests are still positive so It’s given me a good chance to catch up on my neglect of Forums and general admin! How is everyone and what have you all been up to?

Caught it 3 weeks ago. Like you, a few rough days. Still low energy. Take it easy sir. Recent studies indicate that one common characteristic of long-term covid sufferers was an early return to work. No idea if it’s true but it certainly motivated me to take it slow.

tompoland I feel like the low energy element is the most common after effect for people now. I know someone same age as me (29) who caught about 6 months ago, and is fine now but still gets out of breath going up the stairs. It is worrying the long term effects! Appreciate the advice! - I’m definitely eager to get back to work but I know rest is key to getting over this last dregs of Covid Im feeling, I’m catching up on some emails and accounts but nothing too wild, running out of things to watch on Netflix too!

Here’s a question about the commercial over the counter test. There’s the ‘C’ and ‘T’ line. Both lines need to be there for a positive reading. What if the ‘T’ line is faint? Does that mean you’re less infected? Yesterday both my lines were very distinct but today the ‘T’ line is faint.

thusband I do wonder this too, my parents had it the same time and one of them had the faint line the day before testing clear, so I assume it must have some effect!

thusband CrownandCanvas I have a medical background, and I hope you recover fully and quickly. I had COVID myself earlier this summer. The COVID test you took and those type of tests in general are not designed to be quantitative. If the “T” line appears, then you have COVID, but the appearance of the line doesn’t tell you anything about how much COVID you have. COVID has two factors that determine how you might be affected by a COVID infection. The first is the viral load. The more virus you have, the worse your symptoms might be. The second is what COVID does to your immune system. This part is still not well understood, but to me it’s pretty clear that the reaction one’s immune system has to COVID also determines how you might be affected by a COVID infection. How your immune system is triggered by COVID can be somewhat independent of how much COVID virus you initially had. Think of how a single bee sting can make you allergic for life. There are other infectious diseases where it’s more the immune response that’s the problem, and not the bug that infected you. Lyme disease is an example of an infection that can have long lasting effects that go beyond whether the Lyme bacteria is still in you. Meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis is a form of meningitis that is often lethal, and is another example of where it’s the immune system, not the bug, that’s the issue. It’s actually really easy to kill the bug with antibiotics. It’s how the immune system then responds that tries to kill you. Finally, for COVID I’ve found that ibuprofen and naproxen are your friends.

wilburpan Ahh that’s all interesting! It’s fascinating how it effects everyone so differently, but you’ve completely reaffirmed my faith that people far more intelligent than me are to thank for making this illness much more tollerable. I’ve been vaccinated 3 times and it still put me on my ass for 3 days so who know’s what could happen without them!

Does anyone know what it means if when you do a test you get four strong lines and a U and an N appear between the C and the T?

dutchy101 dutchy101 Funny you mention that as all the tests Ive done have had that result on for me regardless of covid! 😂

CrownandCanvas Very happy that you got vaccinated, and you’re absolutely right in your thinking — it’s not great that you got vaccinated and still got COVID, but it’s still way better than getting COVID without being vaccinated. The other thing to remember is that folks sometimes complain about the side effects from the COVID (and flu) vaccines. Whatever the side effects are, it’s still going to be better than getting the actual infection!

wilburpan Thanks for the clarification. I’ve had all the COVID jabs and boosters and still caught it twice although it really hasn’t been too bad. It certainly hasn’t stopped me from having my Americano in the morning.

Covid Finally caught me, How is everyone?

tompoland

Hope you both get better soon. Take it slow and don’t rush back to busyness.

Pompeyexile

Strange how symptoms do vary. For some they have flue like symptoms with runny noses headaches etc but me, no runny nose or headaches just chest infection, really bad aching hips, tiredness and eventual loss of taste and smell. What I’m most miffed about is that it has come at a time when we have the builders in. Because of this we have been confined to our bedroom using it as a bedsit, which means I couldn’t escape my other half who came down with Covid first. Secondly, I now have a shed load of decorating to do with lots of filling and rubbing down and am just feeling too knackered to do it. We should have been done and dusted by mid-November when the new suite arrives, but I think that’s now being a bit optomistic.

dutchy101

Pompeyexile

Take your time and make sure you don’t take on too much too soon. I only took 2 days off work when I had it and I had no energy / felt unwell for about 3 months afterwards. It just lingered on and on for ages.

Fairly sure if I’d rested up properly even for just a few more days I’d have recovered properly much quicker

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