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Post by Dougs on Sept 25, 2021 14:22:41 GMT
That too! But I am, perhaps misguidedly, thinking most people will do the right thing if they get a positive.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 25, 2021 14:28:05 GMT
It's better than nothing, certainly, but they could've easily required you to upload a photo.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Sept 25, 2021 14:55:39 GMT
There's a version which uses your camera and AI to read the sample strip and automatically reports the result downstream. Proven to be more accurate that humans, but only in use in a handful of settings like adult social care.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 27, 2021 23:02:38 GMT
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Post by Dougs on Sept 28, 2021 7:16:05 GMT
Yeah, good thread here:
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Post by Dougs on Sept 28, 2021 7:19:02 GMT
My daughter's positive PCR finally came back yesterday. Hopefully they'll take the 10 days from the positive LFT last week, so should be able to go back to school on Monday next week. She's had it v mildly, temperature and snotty nose for a day or two and that's it.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 28, 2021 7:40:56 GMT
How you feeling Dougs
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Sept 28, 2021 7:55:52 GMT
One of the kids at a Birthday event we went to on Saturday has tested positive. Literally the first fucking event with more than 10 people We've been to in 2 years.
You can't test a 4 month old so It's just going to have to be me and his mum testing everyday for 10 days and hoping we don't have it now.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 28, 2021 8:00:59 GMT
Not too bad cheers. Eldest is back at school today. Wife and I still a bit wiped out, any kind of exertion makes both of us breathless. Not for long, but noticeable. I've also got a banging headache today. The other weird thing about the virus is how some symptoms just disappear overnight. Streaming nose, going through 10 ton of tissues? Gone overnight. Thankfully only my wife has been hit with loss of taste etc - she's well miffed. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 8:13:50 GMT
I think the loss of taste would probably be the worst thing. Especially reports of it coming back and you not liking the taste of things you used to.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 8:14:13 GMT
Well dying would probably be the worst thing actually.
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Post by jeepers on Sept 28, 2021 8:16:17 GMT
Dougs Glad you and family are on the mend.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Sept 28, 2021 8:18:35 GMT
Not too bad cheers. Eldest is back at school today. Wife and I still a bit wiped out, any kind of exertion makes both of us breathless. Not for long, but noticeable. I've also got a banging headache today. The other weird thing about the virus is how some symptoms just disappear overnight. Streaming nose, going through 10 ton of tissues? Gone overnight. Thankfully only my wife has been hit with loss of taste etc - she's well miffed. Hope you guys feel better soon! How long has it been since symptoms started? |
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Post by elstoof on Sept 28, 2021 8:28:48 GMT
I think the loss of taste would probably be the worst thing. Especially reports of it coming back and you not liking the taste of things you used to. My wife’s colleague went deaf in one ear, been that way since catching it March 2020 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 8:30:21 GMT
Ok so dying and going deaf is worse. Still though coffee and red wine are the only things that keep the demons at bay so if I went off those I'm not sure what would happen.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 28, 2021 8:34:19 GMT
I’d be devastated about the taste thing tbf. I’ve been having tinnitus where I can hear my pulse for the last few months, I hope that goes away at some point. Drinking makes the heart palpitations and tinnitus much worse, laying in bed after a few drinks I can’t sleep listening to and feeling the pounding of a drum, Google suggests alcohol intolerance is a sign of post viral syndrome though
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Post by Dougs on Sept 28, 2021 8:35:04 GMT
mcmonkeyplc My symptoms started 9 days ago with a mild cough. Was fine with just a cough until last Thurs when it then hit me like a train. My wife felt a bit off colour last Monday and then she was hit quickly overnight on Tues and was really rough for a few days. Fri/Sat were the worst. It's an unpleasant illness and not one I want to catch again in a hurry. But probably will.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 28, 2021 8:38:29 GMT
I’d be devastated about the taste thing tbf. I’ve been having tinnitus where I can hear my pulse for the last few months, I hope that goes away at some point. Drinking makes the heart palpitations and tinnitus much worse, laying in bed after a few drinks I can’t sleep listening to and feeling the pounding of a drum, Google suggests alcohol intolerance is a sign of post viral syndrome though I get palpitations all the time (dicky ticker and all means I feel any slight flutters or whatever all the time). The general awareness of the HR comes and goes - drinking def makes it worse but it's usually exacerbated by anxiety IME. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 8:39:27 GMT
My daughter's positive PCR finally came back yesterday. Hopefully they'll take the 10 days from the positive LFT last week, so should be able to go back to school on Monday next week. She's had it v mildly, temperature and snotty nose for a day or two and that's it. Think they will as when track and trace phoned me they were doing all their dates, including when my boy could come out of self isolation, based on the LFT and not his PCR result. |
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Post by elstoof on Sept 28, 2021 8:44:24 GMT
Oh yeah, it’s like a domino effect. Notice your your heartbeat, get anxious about it, feel it beating faster, rinse and repeat. I’ve had random anxiety attacks since I was a kid, I’m used to dealing with them now, but never experienced anything like the ones over the last few months
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Post by Dougs on Sept 28, 2021 8:49:45 GMT
Yup. It's definitely a vicious cycle. Probably a bit of post-viral lumped in as well for good measure.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 8:53:10 GMT
Our family got hit by what we assumed was COVID last December. It left me knackered for months, has left me with what seems to be permanent asthma (as opposed to asthma which flared up after a chest infection) and for a while it affected my heart. The heart thing was weird, I found that when I was relaxed (like lying in bed about to go to sleep), my heart would start missing a beat and would skip the eighth one. Lasted for a few weeks I was all set to get it looked at by the docs and then had a bad migraine (maybe a coincidence, I don't know) and it was back to normal.
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Post by Youthist on Sept 28, 2021 12:54:25 GMT
My daughter's positive PCR finally came back yesterday. Hopefully they'll take the 10 days from the positive LFT last week, so should be able to go back to school on Monday next week. She's had it v mildly, temperature and snotty nose for a day or two and that's it. Think they will as when track and trace phoned me they were doing all their dates, including when my boy could come out of self isolation, based on the LFT and not his PCR result. It is from your positive LFT or when symptoms started which ever was earlier, and you are in change of saying then that is when they call / fill in the form and it drives the isolation end date. |
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Post by Dougs on Sept 28, 2021 13:07:23 GMT
Aye, all sorted. Annoying, got family visiting this weekend (not staying) but means my daughter won't get to see them.
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Post by 😎 on Sept 28, 2021 13:46:57 GMT
I wouldn’t mind the taste thing if it helped me to swap crisps for an occasional salad.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 13:58:19 GMT
I think the loss of taste would probably be the worst thing. Especially reports of it coming back and you not liking the taste of things you used to. I can't have raw onions in anything anymore as they taste like how a musty tent smells. Certain cuts of pork taste like rotting meat too. I had covid early on and my taste still isn't right. Musty tent should be the replacement for cunt now. |
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 28, 2021 14:16:08 GMT
Honestly it's my biggest fear of getting it. It's a pathetic priority to have but I'd end up genuinely depressed if I suddenly stopped liking certain things, or got no taste at all back.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 14:28:23 GMT
I know it could have been worse but a whole month of no taste and smell was really miserable.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 28, 2021 14:37:37 GMT
I used to work with a girl who had bumped her head and lost all sense of taste and smell from it. It always baffled me when she was putting away junk food for fun in the office and would always grab a kebab on the way home from a night out. I was always there thinking like, surely you'd get some good out of it and just eat the most clean, boring shit imaginable?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 14:40:04 GMT
You notice the texture a lot more when you can't taste it. Fish and salad are horrendous without taste.
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