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i have like 6/8 covid symptoms :)
4 years ago
But it's fine. Mostly feels like a cold - which is what the omicron symptom list is, if you don't go to hospital with it.
More annoying than the sleepless nights and headache is the absolute lack of lateral flow test kits. They do not exist. I can't get them in a pharmacy, nor can I get one mailed to me - been trying since xmas because this was bound to happen eventually. The drive through sites are also only admitting people for delta symptoms - which don't even overlap with omicron.
So I've had to order a PCR test kit, which arrives today, but I probably won't have results from until next week. Until then I'll have to do the responsible adult thing and stae at haem, because I can't say what I've caught, only that I have caught something.
I'm sure I can have a productive day on 30 mins sleep, right? Right???
More annoying than the sleepless nights and headache is the absolute lack of lateral flow test kits. They do not exist. I can't get them in a pharmacy, nor can I get one mailed to me - been trying since xmas because this was bound to happen eventually. The drive through sites are also only admitting people for delta symptoms - which don't even overlap with omicron.
So I've had to order a PCR test kit, which arrives today, but I probably won't have results from until next week. Until then I'll have to do the responsible adult thing and stae at haem, because I can't say what I've caught, only that I have caught something.
I'm sure I can have a productive day on 30 mins sleep, right? Right???
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My father's still in the hospital due to massive complications from the infection, which he contracted last April. And both my mother and I suffered from the Long Covid symptoms, including non-existing stamina and partial loss of smell (in case of my mother). -_-
In any case: get better soon. This thing sucks - A LOT!
All of which are now associated with long covid :/ What I didn't have was a cough, and long covid wasn't a term at the time, so the doctor's wanted to blame anxiety or vagal nerve stimulation... neither of which seems likely to go away on its own. But it mostly did. I still get the odd chesty thunk, but it beats spending 3 months unable to not feel my own heartbeat.
One day I need to sit a doctor down and make them look through my notes again and see if the agree with my conclusions...
Got my PCR test off in the post before lunch, looks like royal mail are doing some kind of turbo priority on them so might be lucky and get a text with my results tomorrow or monday. Maybe. I did have to take a 20 minute walk to the priority postbox though, not wanting to go to the one on main street while actually symptomatic!
Hope I've sent a useful sample; that throat swab makes me gag hard, not sure how much contact I got :/
Take care of yourself Eddie. Lots of lemonade and chicken soup.
So I gotta act like a responsible adult and hide at home :/
The second most annoying thing is the inability to get an at-home test in my town. Been checking since xmas, nowhere has had any, so I've had to send off by mail for a test who's results I probably won't get until Monday or later... and which I can't repeat to make sure. If I came up negative on a lateral flow test, I'd do it again to be sure I'd actually got a decent sample first time!