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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Varche on 11 May 2020, 11:20:14
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I have polled might have. My brother had a dry cough for weeks in Feb/March. When I arrived early March my dad had dry cough for three weeks. I picked it up presumably from him and mine also ran three weeks. Worse at night. Midway through we got thick catarrh and pounding head and temperature. Felt rubbish for ages. How do you know without testing.
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Does it matter ??
1. Testing won't stop you catching it if you don't already have it.
2. Testing won't cure it if it shows you are infected
The ONLY time testing is of use (other than for number crunching purposes) is for those who think they might have it and are in a position to pass it on ... for the rest of us .. simply staying at home is more than sufficient.
3. Anti-body testing doesn't stop you catching it a second time .. even if immunity works .. the test doesn't stop it, the immunity does.
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I've gone for the same choice, with the same prolonged symptoms (as you) back in February, same with Mrs TT after a long weekend in Glasgow if that's useful information.
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Does it matter? In the grand scheme of things, no.
But it's always interesting to compare things, sizes, durations, colours, thoughts. That's what forums are for. :y
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Probably had it. Did three aircraft in four nights that had all returned from Northern Italy in early March. One of the hangar lads had it and returned to work a week before we got furloughed.
Minor symptoms, but inconclusive. Not tested, as Nige sagely observes, no point if you're at home.
A bit like possibly having previously had a cold or once drank a bottle of Advocaat ::)
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As far as I know I've never had it, but for about 2 weeks in February I completely lost my sense of taste. :-\
I was starting to think about seeing the quack when it started to return and I've since read that it could be a mild symptom, but who knows....
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Entwood - you are right in that it is academic. However it will give an insight into how widespread it was or not.
What is interesting is how many people I have encountered who claimed to have had the symptoms much earlier than March. Of course it now transpires that it was around well before March - we just weren't aware.
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Newsflash, some people had nasty flu in the winter... ::)
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Newsflash, some people had nasty flu in the winter... ::)
Yes. I've had a really bad chest since early March. No temperature and a cough morning and evening. Windpipe felt like sandpaper. Just feeling better the last couple of days, but doubt it was covid. Other viruses are available.
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At the moment I feel like shit. Have felt this way for the last 3 days.
Don't think it is the dreaded lurgy though. Probably man flu which we all know has a kill rate of 100% rather than 1%.
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Newsflash, some people had nasty flu in the winter... ::)
Yes. I've had a really bad chest since early March. No temperature and a cough morning and evening. Windpipe felt like sandpaper. Just feeling better the last couple of days, but doubt it was covid. Other viruses are available.
Woodbines?
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I have polled might have. My brother had a dry cough for weeks in Feb/March. When I arrived early March my dad had dry cough for three weeks. I picked it up presumably from him and mine also ran three weeks. Worse at night. Midway through we got thick catarrh and pounding head and temperature. Felt rubbish for ages. How do you know without testing.
Similar experience here around the same time. A work colleague had "a nasty bug" which he caught from his partner who is in the Met police. I spent 10 minutes in his company and I also had it and then passed it on to swmbo.
We both said it was a very nasty experience and not quite like any other kind of bug we had previously. Definitely remember loss of taste as well as cough and other symptoms. The worst of it seemed to lift to a degree after about 5 days, but then it hung around in a milder form for weeks on end.
Covid 19 ? Don't know and probably never will know.
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Had a very dry cough early in January didn't bother me much though.
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Newsflash, some people had nasty flu in the winter... ::)
Yes. I've had a really bad chest since early March. No temperature and a cough morning and evening. Windpipe felt like sandpaper. Just feeling better the last couple of days, but doubt it was covid. Other viruses are available.
Your son is young and strong. If he contracts the virus he will probably be able to shrug it off. At your age you need to be careful. Plenty of doddery old men like you have ended up in a pine box. :)
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Rough as toast for 3 weeks in March but the episodes of a very weird dry cough unlike I've ever had before were not frequent enough to warrant isolating/not working, tested negative 2 weeks ago as NHS and working with vulnerable/high risk patients.
Would be interested in having an antibody test !
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I actually may have had it, come to think of it. They say one of the symptoms is a lack of taste, and I watched Mrs Browns Boys all the way through on Saturday.
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I actually may have had it, come to think of it. They say one of the symptoms is a lack of taste, and I watched Mrs Browns Boys all the way through on Saturday.
I found myself watching Father Ted again. :-X
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I actually may have had it, come to think of it. They say one of the symptoms is a lack of taste, and I watched Mrs Browns Boys all the way through on Saturday.
I found myself watching Father Ted again. :-X
;D "They tell me you're a racist now father" ;D one of the best lines ever !
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I actually may have had it, come to think of it. They say one of the symptoms is a lack of taste, and I watched Mrs Browns Boys all the way through on Saturday.
I found myself watching Father Ted again. :-X
;D "They tell me you're a racist now father" ;D one of the best lines ever !
Aw......go on go on go on..... ;)
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I actually may have had it, come to think of it. They say one of the symptoms is a lack of taste, and I watched Mrs Browns Boys all the way through on Saturday.
I found myself watching Father Ted again. :-X
;D "They tell me you're a racist now father" ;D one of the best lines ever !
"Down with this sort of thing "
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Using that well known, but sadly lacking, thing call Common Sense, I think I can say I aint had it.
As soon as they allowed those mongrel idiots off that boat back into Blighty, our fate was sealed, so I was what you might call an early social distancer.
Granted, I have to go out for work, but you just take extra steps to ensure a) you dont get it, b) have no chance of passing on if you do - based on best guess common sense views of how you may contract or pass it on.
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I actually may have had it, come to think of it. They say one of the symptoms is a lack of taste, and I watched Mrs Browns Boys all the way through on Saturday.
I found myself watching Father Ted again. :-X
;D "They tell me you're a racist now father" ;D one of the best lines ever !
That would be an ecumenical matter !
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DRINK !
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F E C K !
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GIRLS !
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Nuns :-X
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Father Jack.... :y ;D
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ARSE!
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New word Association thread. ;D
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New word Association thread. ;D
no ???
the money was just "resting in my account" :-X
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Mrs Browns Boys = shit. Father Ted = genius. :y
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Never seen Father Ted nor Mrs Browns Boys,neither interested me enough to bother judging by the trailers I used to see.As for the virus I don't know but doubt it.Had a strange feeling in my stomach,up the centre of my chest and into my throat for a two or three weeks in early March,no temperature rise as far as I could tell.A cough yes-but not a dry one-but I've had that for a lot longer than the virus has been known about and is par for the course for a long time smoker like me.
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Newsflash, some people had nasty flu in the winter... ::)
Therein lies the problem, way back in November, I had a cough that lasted for 2-3 weeks, to the point where it was difficult to breathe and or made me sick, I felt like hell and could barely string a sentence together without hacking when it was at its worst. It also gave me a temperature for a few days in the middle of it. Clearly this had sod all to do with Covid-19, despite matching a number of the symptoms.
I don't believe I've had it at all (yet).
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Newsflash, some people had nasty flu in the winter... ::)
Therein lies the problem, way back in November, I had a cough that lasted for 2-3 weeks, to the point where it was difficult to breathe and or made me sick, I felt like hell and could barely string a sentence together without hacking when it was at its worst. It also gave me a temperature for a few days in the middle of it. Clearly this had sod all to do with Covid-19, despite matching a number of the symptoms.
I don't believe I've had it at all (yet).
Was that straight after your Wuhan trip?!
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Newsflash, some people had nasty flu in the winter... ::)
Therein lies the problem, way back in November, I had a cough that lasted for 2-3 weeks, to the point where it was difficult to breathe and or made me sick, I felt like hell and could barely string a sentence together without hacking when it was at its worst. It also gave me a temperature for a few days in the middle of it. Clearly this had sod all to do with Covid-19, despite matching a number of the symptoms.
I don't believe I've had it at all (yet).
Was that your Emirates flight?
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Apparently, young people are relatively unaffected by Covid, so now we know why Donald doesn't have to wear a mask
(https://i.ibb.co/tC5zWQF/0964-A379-75-DF-4-F88-BC60-D92-D9-CE74778.jpg) (https://ibb.co/dKytzjx)
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;D
plus , he was recently embalmed with Dettol ;)
which kills the Chinese virus in a minute :y
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Was that your Emirates flight?
No, about 5 weeks before my Emirates jaunt to Shanghai, so unconnected... I didn't bring anything back with me apart from a mild case of jetlag. Unless of course I was completely asymptomatic, in which case I'll probably never know.
But as I said before, it's very clear with hindsight that the Chinese were worried when I went out there, several thermal scanner 'gates' at PVG to look for fever in passengers and those collecting them. At the time (jet lagged and tbh half cut) I didn't think much about it, just the Chinese doing their big brother thing. :-\
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Newsflash, some people had nasty flu in the winter... ::)
Yes. I've had a really bad chest since early March. No temperature and a cough morning and evening. Windpipe felt like sandpaper. Just feeling better the last couple of days, but doubt it was covid. Other viruses are available.
Cough has come back, so....do I die slowly of this cough, or go to hospital and die more quickly from a proper cough?
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Newsflash, some people had nasty flu in the winter... ::)
Yes. I've had a really bad chest since early March. No temperature and a cough morning and evening. Windpipe felt like sandpaper. Just feeling better the last couple of days, but doubt it was covid. Other viruses are available.
Cough has come back, so....do I die slowly of this cough, or go to hospital and die more quickly from a proper cough?
Die slowly at home and then you can blog it all on here for us! :)
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Joking aside, Dad ignored a 'chesty cough' lingering from Easter. By September he was in hospital for a month and by mid November he couldn't breathe, and two days later was dead, lungs riddled with tumours.
Your choice, I guess... Not getting checked because of Batflu, would be a bit like not getting your prostrate checked because you think you might have piles :-\
For want of a much better analogy ::)
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I actually may have had it, come to think of it. They say one of the symptoms is a lack of taste, and I watched Mrs Browns Boys all the way through on Saturday.
Certainly lack of taste. Get yourself tested. ::)
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Joking aside, Dad ignored a 'chesty cough' lingering from Easter. By September he was in hospital for a month and by mid November he couldn't breathe, and two days later was dead, lungs riddled with tumours.
Your choice, I guess... Not getting checked because of Batflu, would be a bit like not getting your prostrate checked because you think you might have piles :-\
For want of a much better analogy ::)
Similar thing happened to my Mum a few years ago. She developed a chesty cough in the February which was dismissed as a seasonal viral infection. The cough got worse and in a few weeks she started to have breathing difficulties. They insisted it was nothing to worry about and sent her home with an inhaler, but by the beginning of April her neck had swollen up. I took her to hospital mid April for a scan and an appointment with a specialist and she never came home. :(
It turned out that she had a small but very aggressive tumour in one of her lungs and the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes in her neck, by which time there wasn't much they could do other than make her comfortable. She passed away on 30th April. :'( I wonder if it had happened now, would she get written off as a Covid-19 victim. :-\
Go get yourself checked out Uncle STEMO. ;)
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Thank you both, you've cheered me up no end.
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It's the least we can do ;)
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Thank you both, you've cheered me up no end.
That's what friends are for! :y