got the variant week last sunday,a really bad cold i would describe it.Shakes shivers sweats,sore throat,runny nose bad sleep off food stomach ache,now today feeling much much better .Coughing up crap off chest,having a test tomorrow along with Mrs P who also caught it.
Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?
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lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
It didn't get much fanfare in the media, but in the last few days an autumn covid booster has been announced. Includes anyone in the original groups 1-9.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
So far so good. Whilst everyone is getting reinfected, I’m yet to see it first time round yet. No doubt it’ll happen at some point.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Day 23: still slowly getting better. Not so much coughing and my chest is less tight, with the extra dose of steroids helpful. Still feeling worn out though.
It's horrible this virus.
It's horrible this virus.
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
Family wedding (niece) last Thursday (first significantly risky gathering attended since March 2020).
Unwell Sunday evening and to bed no supper. Poor night with headache (I don't get headaches) and a Monday morning test took about 10 seconds to give a solid T line. The odd paracetamol quaffed.
Continued poor appetite but a better Monday night and last night was fine. Appetite still low.
On the plus side it's a full 14 days before I'm heading for Loughton to help set up the London-Edinburgh-London registration and start, so I'll be well clear of being infectious by then, and with luck high level of albeit temporary immunity which should stand me in good stead given there are 1900 entries.
Unwell Sunday evening and to bed no supper. Poor night with headache (I don't get headaches) and a Monday morning test took about 10 seconds to give a solid T line. The odd paracetamol quaffed.
Continued poor appetite but a better Monday night and last night was fine. Appetite still low.
On the plus side it's a full 14 days before I'm heading for Loughton to help set up the London-Edinburgh-London registration and start, so I'll be well clear of being infectious by then, and with luck high level of albeit temporary immunity which should stand me in good stead given there are 1900 entries.
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Adam4868
Legendary Member
I had it when it first came around,well just before pretty sure I caught it in Bergamo at a bike race.Ive worked right through the pandemic and so has my partner and two kids we thought we dodged it...until a week ago ! Lasted roughly a week,was rough a couple of days but pretty mild compared to the first time.
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
Yes, and I understand that they're trying to coordinate a COVID-19 booster with the annual flu jab. This is a late change of policy on eligibility for flu jabs to include 50-64s which is causing logistic and supply 'challenges'.
Covid-19-booster-and-flu-jab-this-autumn
"those eligible for a further dose will be:
- all adults aged 50 years and over
- those aged 5 to 49 years in a clinical risk group, including pregnant women
- those aged 5 to 49 years who are household contacts of people with immuno-suppression
- those aged 16 to 49 years who are carers
- residents in a care home for older adults and staff working in care homes for older adults
- front line health and social care workers"
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KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
I'm part of a clinical trial of boosters comparing the 'original' Moderna spikevax with a tweaked 'omicron variant' spikevax, so need to phone my clinical trial people and ask for their advice, given that I'll be fairly early in line for my autumn vaccinations due to my age. Maybe the clinical trial'll offer us second doses of what we had before?
I have to confess though, as I was saying to the research nurse when I went for my most recent blood draw a week ago, that I'm disappointed I don't have built-in free 5G now ... the nurse said her mum was disappointed that she still needed to use a magnet to pick up the pins after she'd finished sewing a set of curtains, after all she'd read about becoming magnetised from it.
I have to confess though, as I was saying to the research nurse when I went for my most recent blood draw a week ago, that I'm disappointed I don't have built-in free 5G now ... the nurse said her mum was disappointed that she still needed to use a magnet to pick up the pins after she'd finished sewing a set of curtains, after all she'd read about becoming magnetised from it.
classic33
Leg End Member
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DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
Have amended the link. Thank you for spotting 'fail' @classic33
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Tested negative after about a week of it, but I'm still absolutely wiped out, runny nose, itchy eyes... I put that down to hay fever as the council cut the grass outside my flat, of which there is a lot, but no amount of anti-histamines shift the symptoms so I'm assuming it's COVID related.
cougie uk
Guru
I'd be wearing a mask dealing with all those people. Who knows what variants they will have from all over the place.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
My parents went to a fundraising BBQ on Saturday, 200 people there. They both tested positive on Tuesday even though it was outside, but I guess they saw lots of people they knew and were talking at close range. They are both 70 and never had it before, but up until now just have bad cold symptoms so fingers crossed it won't get any worse.
Though the mask mostly protects other people from the wearer, rather than the other way around.
