Butterfield wrote:As I appear to be getting through it now, I can reveal that I've finally had the virus within me for the last few days. Like with many, many others, it has thankfully only really been like a cold, with the most notable thing being a hurts-to-swallow throat for consecutive days which is finally easing, and what all started as a fever with confusement on the hottest nights leading me to think that's all it was - me being too hot. When the weather cooled down and I was still feeling the same and with sore throat was when I started to think something a bit more was going on.

I've been stranded away from home (wherever that is these days) so as not to infect a whole host of other people in a different region.

Coincidentally, I read just yesterday a report suggesting that lots of people who haven't had the virus yet are currently getting it for the first time.

That said, right at the beginning of the pandemic in February 2020 I had something very similar which I've often wondered was related, which I either caught off my friend who had just travelled back from London and went down with it, or a girl in a charity shop standing next to me who was coughing her guts up.

Fangirl Three wrote:Yesterday I felt awful all day, but had to drive to Dumbarton. When I got into the hotel I started to shiver and feel feverish, so I went straight to bed.

When I woke up about 1 am the fever had gone, fortunately. But I've still got a nasty sore throat and cough.

I reckon it might be that covid?

Butterfield wrote:As I appear to be getting through it now, I can reveal that I've finally had the virus within me for the last few days. Like with many, many others, it has thankfully only really been like a cold, with the most notable thing being a hurts-to-swallow throat for consecutive days which is finally easing, and what all started as a fever with confusement on the hottest nights leading me to think that's all it was - me being too hot. When the weather cooled down and I was still feeling the same and with sore throat was when I started to think something a bit more was going on.

I've been stranded away from home (wherever that is these days) so as not to infect a whole host of other people in a different region.

Coincidentally, I read just yesterday a report suggesting that lots of people who haven't had the virus yet are currently getting it for the first time.

That said, right at the beginning of the pandemic in February 2020 I had something very similar which I've often wondered was related, which I either caught off my friend who had just travelled back from London and went down with it, or a girl in a charity shop standing next to me who was coughing her guts up.

cosmictanya wrote:A headache that won't shift, generally feeling a little run down, etc. Earlier when a slight cough developed I matched it to my feeling that the vinaigrette on my lunchtime salad hadn't been as piquant as expected, I thought I must've finally developed the virus. A test was done. Negative. I'm now reaching despair that I'll ever get Covid-19 over with.

Fangirl Three wrote:I feel a bit better today though. Luckily I bought a quantity of fresh fruit before falling ill, that has been sustaining me when I feel hungry.

cosmictanya wrote:It might be time to cut it to 0 until you're feeling better. You might find you feel so great you won't want to go back to four glasses every night.