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March 19th, felt fine in morning and then fell fast asleep on sofa in afternoon and I can NEVER sleep during day. Totally whacked. High temperature, bit of a cough but sooo tired. DH took my temperature three times a day,which was up above average for about 10 days. Being an ex teacher, he plotted it on a graph. Worst symptom was not so much loss of taste but really foul taste in my mouth. Felt like the bottom of a bird cage. Everything tasted awful. Hardly ate for a week, but lots of water. Sip of wine tasted like vinegar. Towards end of 10 days I had spots/ blemishes on my chest and I've since read that can happen. Never felt ill enough to phone 111 for advice. Well those were all my symptoms that convinced me that I'd had virus. Perfectly fine now. 68 years old, formally known as "an old boot" for lack of medical issues. Lost that status.

I think I may have had it back in late Nov/early Dec. Lasted +6 weeks. DH also but he needed antibiotics to shift it as he has a weak immune system and damaged lungs. Eventually well +8 weeks later. His GP videod his consultation which seemed a bit odd at the time but in retrospect perhaps wasn't. Did they know or suspect that COVID19 was already in the UK?

Sorry not entirely in answer to the post. Our eldest grandson and one third of his primary school including staff were very ill in November with a very high temperature and bad cough. Jack is ten and was often delirious with fever. No-one else in the family caught it which was very strange as it ran riot in school. Many of us have since wondered if it was covid.

A friend of ours aged 69/70 was on a ventilator and has recovered.

I work in a dialysis unit so vulnerable patients mostly over 60 come to us for treatment 3 times a week. We have had 2 staff and 4 patients with covid. All survived and back to us, thankfully.

I think I might have had it, and one son had symptoms that mirrored mine quite closely.

We kept thinking we were over whatever it was, then a week later we would be unwell again. At the time, this virus was supposedly not yet spreading in the community, so we really didn't consider it, but looking back, a lot fits.

The one symptom I remember which I had never ever experienced before was the sensation of water in my lungs! I remember thinking, "this can't be right", but it wasn"'t bad enough to make me seek help.

Trouble is, even now, months on, both I and several other family members still get worrying sensations in our lungs from time to time, so whatever caused this, I don't think it is as simple as 'ill' or 'recovered'!

Fighting fit!

My husband is convinced he had it in January with similar symptoms to Gabriella he was admitted to hospital with suspected pneumonia but the test results confirmed he didn't. He was exhausted for about 5 weeks. The first time he went to the gym, he got as far as reception and turned back because he thought he would collapse. I, on the other hand had no symptoms at all so not sure if it was covid or not. Only a test will tell. He's fighting for again now, running and walking and feeling well.

You echoed my thoughts Molly10

I might add well done Calendar37, and all those that have fought whatever and everything that has tried to bring them down. Go Ladies!

There are two tests currently available:

Antigen test - to see if you currently have it

Antibody test - to see if you have previously had it

To all those who think they have had it then an antibody test would seem to me to be an absolute necessity.

Check the government website for updates and details.

The more information and details they can collate then the less risk there is for all in the future.

Dowsabella
It's coming back but very slowly ?

Emarald888
And what did they have in china in October: the world military games. 10,000 athletes attended.

My husband and I came down with the worst ever cough cold just before xmas. Never ever had one so bad. Made worse as I had just been in hospital for a week.
A friend in another county had similar and we all feel it was the Covid virus. It was in Paris then . Had broken out in China in October.

I don't think you can have a test that will detect if you have had it can you?

I think I had same, plus ex hubby, nephew’s wife and a friend.
I flew to daughters 1 Jan, on 2nd DD frogmarched me to GP who said I had flu. I eventually got rid of cough also in March. Ex hubby had until late Feb. Friend and niece in law coughed way into March.
Just heard that Covid19 was in country well before Xmas 2019

I'm 72 this year. I had the virus in mid-March, and came out of self-isolation just in time for lockdown! I only had a mild attack, and my GP confirmed (via video consultation) from my symptoms I'd had it. He said loss of taste was the clinching factor!

MerylStreep, it took nearly 6 weeks before my sense of taste and smell started to come back, and nearly 8 weeks before I suddenly realised that I'd actually enjoyed the flavour of a cup of coffee! Hang on in there: it doesn't seem to be permanent.

At the moment it's debilitating tiredness and lethargy which I'm struggling with. Normally, at this time of year, I would be spending a week in the sun near the equator. I'm in real need of some sunshine therapy!!

I think we both had it, or something similar early in October, lasted a few weeks, and OH still has a recurring cough and we have never felt so tired as we do now.

BBC had an article about two choirs in Bradford where most of the members had something that sounds remarkably like Covid back in January. There was a Wuhan link too. Everyone survived and got better, including those in the pub where the choirs socialised:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52589449

In our village Betty broke her hip in February was taken to hospital and caught Covid. She recovered and is back home - she is in her mid 90s.

Yes - DDIL's 94 year old grandmother. She had a fall in her care home & was admitted to hospital where she caught Covid but has made an amazing recovery and is now back in the care home & doing incredibly well. She reckons she's been ready to die for about 5 years but I doubt that - she's obviously got a lot of fight in her!!

I am reading a non-fiction book about a family in London during the early 1600s. Apparently they had not only the plague, which nobody knew what had caused it and suspected dogs which were killed, but also smallpox....Viruses etc . are always around to plague us.
I am glad some Grans have survived it.

I meant to add that I've been left with no sense of smell or taste. The powers that be put this down as one of the symptoms.

I am in my eighth decade with multiple co-morbidities and everyone including my GP are amazed I have survived and I am now out of hospital, at home and coming to terms with the effects. I would not wish this illness on my worst enemy and I have never felt so ill. However, I am alive and I said when I came home it was ‘the first day of the rest of my Life’.
I have always valued Life but at least I have the opportunity to continue contributing to the lives of my gt grandchildren.
But in quieter moments I think of those for whom there will be an empty chair at the table from now on. Bless us all - young and old alike.

Not a recovery success but my 100 year old aunt who is in a care home where 4 residents had the virus managed to avoid it. The recovery success is that those who tested positive recovered without hospitalisation. My aunt said the isolation was like being a fever nurse again.

I'm certain that not only me and my 2 friends/ neighbours and another friend had this late last year. I didn't go to the doctors as i'd heard of so many people with the same symptoms who had seen a doctor and there was nothing to be done.
Don't forget there were confirmed cases in France last December.

I should think that all of you who suspect you had it have a test to see if you have had the covid 19 virus, especially GabriellaG54. That sounds like a real bad bout of something but early December before they had officially declared it in China sounds a bit suspect.

I'm not doubting you but I'm of the belief, for various reasons, that it was around much longer.