Has anyone had Covid?

JaneJudge My brother has been reluctant to get carers in, as he says his wife wouldn't be accepting of strangers visiting

pinkcakes you have my sympathy but if you had been vaccinated ( unless you are under 30 in which case it just bad luck) then you might have fewer symptoms.
If you are under the age for having a vaccination and a carer, as I said then it’s rotten luck, but you can’t blame someone for giving it to you when they have done their best to help prevent spreading the infection by having the jab.

PinkCakes the track and trace person is not a medical practitioner. So they had no right to blame someone who has been vaccinated for you getting Covid.

There is no rthymn or reason who catches it . My brother and sister in law have no idea where they got it from as they went into lockdown and didn't go out. Just had groceries delivered safely.

Saying you got it from a vaccinated person is just yet another scare story which gives people an excuse not to be vaccinated.

Just read about a 45 year old woman in America who wouldn't get the vaccine because of side effects. Her own mother pleaded with her to get it. She caught it and died. Now the family are encouraging people to get vaccinated.

When will people learn all tablets ,vaccines ,cough medicines etc come with side effects. It's not saying you will get any or all of them. And yet the same people willingly smoke and drink. Look at the side effects from those.

Just makes me so mad that people believe any old rubbish and make up stupid reasons for not having something or not taking the basic precautions.

People forget that diseases like TB and flu killed hundreds of thousands before there where vaccines available.

I hope you feel better soon but please don't blame us who willingly get vaccinated. I couldn't wait to have mine and will have the booster when available plus my flu jab.

Hi Pinkcakes how are you doing today?
I had covid in April last year. It was hell and i swear the only thing that saved me going into hospital one night was cups of peppermint tea and not going to bed. The coughing was relentless for weeks.
Then the long covid. This time last year i was struggling to walk. By the end of tge day my husband was shoving me upstairs. We thought we were going to need a bungalow. No energy, brain fog and muscle stiffness. This started to ease toward the end of the year but in January i had my first Pfizer vaccine and boom it knocked me right back until i had my second vaccine in April. There is a possibility that the 2nd vaccine eases the symtoms of long covid. I still have brain fog and lack energy. Good luck .
I'm not judging you for not having the vaccine but it's not too late because if you are left with long covid there is a possibility that it can help.
I have also used my inhaler more often since having covid which i had only previously ever used in hayfever season.

Get well soon.

Moral of the story?

GET VACCINATED

Whiff What a condescending rant. It wasn't me who said I'd cot it from a vaccinated person.

It seems very probable that in view of your limited contacts you did catch COVID from a vaccinated person, but people can have COVID and be asymptomatic, and again, it seems likely the vaccination has prevented the carrier from becoming ill themselves.

I hope you feel better soon and that, if you are able to have it, you get the vaccination yourself.

I didn't say YOU said YOU caught it from a vaccinated person but you said the track and trace person who phoned you said you probably did.

Read the first paragraph.

Whiff "but please don't blame us who willingly get vaccinated"

The test and trace person was probably just trying to explain that vaccinated people can still catch covid and pass it on to others. I think the country needs to be better educated in all things covid. I don’t think symptoms have been updated for a while even though they’ve changed since the pandemic began.

I thought most people understood that being vaccinated doesn't stop us from potentially passing covid19 on to others? It is however, mean to reduce symptom severity if vaccinated people catch it, thus reducing hospitalisations. I am sorry you are poorly Pinkstuff but why on earth did you not have double vaccinations when you are carer for your family?

I honestly think there’s still a lot of covid ignorance around but that people in Scotland are probably better informed because Nicola Sturgeon explains things in a very lucid way. Even Harry Rednapp, who I’d warmed to over the past couple of years said on breakfast tv today that he couldn’t wait to ditch the masks. Well done Harry

My sister has been double vaccinated but picked up Covid from her 23 Yr old son who reckons he got it on a Train? Who knows?
She said it was just like a bad cold interestingly she didn't pass it onto her husband who had been in Hospital for other reasons, he was discharged the day she found out she was positive. (Hospital aware).
She is in her early 60's,.
Good luck, hope you will be okay.

I hope you feel better soon PinkCakes and that you make a full and speedy recovery.
I how several people who have had it mildly and one severely though not hospitalised luckily .

My youngest son son knows many youngsters ( twenties) who have had it and he has had to isolate as he was pinged a while ago.

Will have have the vaccination when you have recovered? Do you regret not having it now ?

Clearly lots of misinformation and misconceptions going on. 1. test and trace will have no idea who you caught it from unless there is an obvious link. 2. You can still get covid if vaccinated. 3. You can still pass it on if vaccinated. 4. Being vaccinated can (not always) make you less ill.
Hope you feel better soon PinkCakes and your DB and SiL don't catch it and cope ok. Look after yourself x

Some people who have had covid don't develop antibodies.
It's all a bit of a mystery who or where it comes from, but the main thing is that you get well soon, PinkCakes, and look after yourself now.
Please "keep an eye on yourself".

You can catch and spread COVID if you have been vaccinated but the symptoms are much milder if any at all if you are infected. The Delta variant is very spreadable and it’s affecting a lot of people at the moment.

You say at the beginning that you have only seen your brothers family, but later on you say you live with your husband who goes to work and probably meets other people there. You have been mixing with quite a lot of people really and so it was quite likely for you to catch it eventually. Unfortunately you can’t rely on other people’s vaccinations to protect you if you haven’t had one Vaccination only protects the person who has been vaccinated.

PinkCakes it's amazing others have asked why your didn't get vaccinated. One even said moral of the story get vaccinated. And yet you single me out.

Hope you are feeling better. But if you are going to comment be fair.

Thanks for the good wishes. I have my own reasons for not having had the vaccine - I might well have it after this. My husband works but has been off since the Friday before last, on holiday (No holiday for him). He hasn't been vaccinated, but he hasn't caught it

Take care PinkCakes

PinkCakes It is possible you were infected by your husband. If he did pick up an infection, he didn't necessarily have symptoms himself, but he could have remained capable of passing on infection for 10 days.

If he then unknowingly passed the infection to you, you wouldn't have had symptoms for a couple of days, so the timing is right.

I guess nobody will know for sure, but this is why people are being urged to be vaccinated.

As you say you haven’t been vaccinated PinkCakes and then make a point of saying you were told (how could anyone possibly know?) that you probably caught it from a vaccinated person, is this thread just another opportunity to push your anti-vaccine views?

I first showed symptoms of Covid on the very last day of term before Christmas. I work in a secondary school - but am office based. I was quite ill over Christmas and New Year and, as my Grandma used to say, ' I've not been right since'. Cough lasted for weeks - treated with steroids. Antibiotics in case it was a chest infection (couldn't see GP face to face)
Permanently exhausted - have had to reduce hours at work. By March I was still breathless and starting to get pain on exertion. Actually saw GP face to face who did ecg, blood tests, etc. Given GTN spray for suspected angina. Referred to Chest Pain Clinic; had CT scan of heart; diagnosed with severe narrowing of artery to heart. Signed off until end of term. Angiogram/angioplasty booked for next week. Was it caused by Covid? Cannot know for sure - but would recommend all who can to be vaccinated!

Also the fact that you may have caught it from a vaccinated person is completely irrelevant, it's like saying I caught it from a person with blond hair and thinking it was their hair colour that caused them to pass it on to you.

JenniferEccles Not at all. I don't care who has had the vaccinations and who hasn't