Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[gbb]

Several folk at work, wife and myself have been struggling a bit, slightly lethargic, headache, just not on song...but as confirmed by LFTs this morning and on several other occasions...negative for Covid.
We forget, sometimes there's just a bug doing the rounds. Feel much more with it today.

And then i look around work, you'd never know there was a pandemic, staff, some senior but many many agency staff walking round, no masks, poorly fitted masks, not observing the one way system, no social distancing, herding off and on packed coaches, arriving in packed cars.....its little wonder infection rates are rocketing if our workplace staff are typical. How on earth it isnt ripping through the place i don't know...or maybe it is ?

 

[Stephenite]

How on earth it isnt ripping through the place i don't know...or maybe it is ?

It’s the vaccine doing its job, I would have thought.

There were three in the house with COVID for a week before I caught it. I think if I’d been more disciplined with regards to distancing and the like I could have gotten away with it. But how does a father distance from his six year old daughter?

 

[classic33]

Question for those still self testing, and taking any medication on a daily basis.

How do you decide when to test?
Do you work it around the medication or work the medication around the testing?

 

[Julia9054]

Question for those still self testing, and taking any medication on a daily basis.

How do you decide when to test?
Do you work it around the medication or work the medication around the testing?

Since none of my meds go up my nose, I actually hadn't considered they might interfere with the test.

 

[PaulSB]

Question for those still self testing, and taking any medication on a daily basis.

How do you decide when to test?
Do you work it around the medication or work the medication around the testing?

Interesting thought and one which hadn't occurred to me. I take meds at 08.00, 20.00 and 22.00.

This may sound a little silly but I test after I've I've washed or showered and then dressed. I'm scrupulous about cleaning the test area, hands, make I'm ready with a timer etc. Sounds a bit anal but I want to know I've done my best to get the right result.

I was positive December 20th to 31st, my son has been home and positive for seven days now. My wife remains negative. Weird.

 

[Bazzer]

As with Julia, never given it a consideration for oral medication. But the meds I take are at bed time.

 

[Julia9054]

a bit anal

You may be doing it wrong

 

[Dogtrousers]

Since none of my meds go up my nose, I actually hadn't considered they might interfere with the test.

Same here. Morning and evening tablets. Tests done on random days at random times, depending whether I've been out/am planning to go out.

 

[ColinJ]

I'm scrupulous about cleaning the test area, hands, make I'm ready with a timer etc. Sounds a bit anal but I want to know I've done my best to get the right result.

I was the same for the tests that I did. Which reminds me - I'll do another one later.

I had the opposite with my regular INR blood test. That involves a small fingerprick blood sample being taken and put on a test slide. The staff at the health centre ask everybody to sanitise their hands when they enter the building but I was told by the staff taking the sample not to do it because the gel might mess up the blood sample.

 

[youngoldbloke]

I use a nasal spray every morning for chronic rhinitis, so if i need a test I do it before the spray, and other daily medication, and before eating or drinking anything.

 

[gbb]

Far more infections with omicron round here, seems people are getting it everywhere.
Grandson (21) has it at the moment, several volleagues talk of themselves, friends and family catching it, low impact generally and passes quite quickly.
We were literally driving into a street this morning to pick up two other grandkids for the rest of the weekend, discussing whether to take them to a play faciliyy, i thought too dodgy considering how prevelent it is in schools...and as we were nearing the house, kids mum rang and said ' I'd turn around, grandson (8) has tested positive. Kids are gutted, 5yo grandaughter cried her eyes out ...i wanna go to grandads .
Thank heavens mum n dad were sensible and tested before we got there.

LFT fir me this morning, negative despite a headache which did make me a but nervous tbh.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Mod Note:
Some off topic posts (better on the main Corona Virus thread) have been deleted.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

So far so good. A colleague at my wife’s work has tested positive. So we’re doing the LFTs and watching out if anything doesn't feel normal. I find regular exercise helpful as it also gives a sign if things aren’t quite right.

 

[classic33]

Still negative, despite having been a close contact of someone who tested positive.
No symptoms either.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Vaccine must be giving you a bit of protection, maybe. Edit to add: I realise you had had just the one dose, with adverse consequences as you'd feared. But maybe just that one dose has helped.