I'm so worried the symptoms will get worse, those of you who are positive currently/have had it could you share your symptom timeline please? they seem to come in waves for Sam and I've noticed the same, so far his worst symptom was the headache which keeps coming back but was most severe Monday evening (and appeared before the cough) through Tuesday, apparently it was like no headache he's ever experienced like intense pressure in his temples, Tuesday morning and once today he's had periods where he's felt a tightness/pressure in his chest, his cough is mild so far and that alone probably wouldn't have triggered concern if it hadn't coexisted with the symptoms his dad had when he had covid. He also has some back pain and cramps in muscles/achy everywhere today. He had pretty bad diahhrea yesterday too.
The rest of us are awaiting home tests and could have a standard cold however Sam does share a bed with me and most nights the kids get in with us at some point or another so chances are we have been exposed.
I was walking the girls home from school Monday and started feeling very achy and almost like I had cramp permenantly in my arms/legs and felt exhausted. Started with a headache that night but nowhere near what Sam looked like, he got in from work and honestly I looked at him and just knew he had covid
started with a cough last night and when I woke up my chest felt tight, it's been on and off through the day but again I'd say cough is mild it's more brain fog I think that ive got and the tightness could easily be anxiety. I've got a mildly sore throat but it's more dry, I'm constantly drinking because my throat feels dry. I feel a bit spaced out and dizzy and tired but no severe symptoms I'm much more worried about Sam. Oh and I had a slightly higher than normal temp last night which is probably when I felt the worst but it certainly wasn't a high fever. I get headache from the light, noise or looking at my phone too long
one minute I feel fine and dancing around with the kids, the next i feel like I need to lay down
may just have a cold but these are my symptoms so far.
Lexie has a mild cough, recurring headaches and on and off tummy ache. Thinking back she had a headache and diahhrea (no vomiting) a couple of days before Christmas, no cough temp or change in taste then though so we never got her tested or even considered she could have covid but I am now very much wondering if this started with her since sams first symptoms were headache and diahhrea.
Lillie literally just has a new continuous cough.
Luna has a rather bad cough but this is where it gets tricky as she's had a cough since her birthday in November but she had a covid test on her birthday on doctors advice which was negative. The cough has stayed the same hacking cough since until yesterday when it seemed to get worse. Today she's coughed more than usual and has bright green snot and sounds chesty. If she tests negative this time I will be contacting the gp I think since her cough is worse and she's had it for so long.
If we are all or most of us are positive I have no clue where its from as the only place we went as a family of 5 over Christmas was a walk in the woods andd didn't come into contact with anyone there
other than mcdonalds drive through new years eve for lillies birthday (only time we risked mcdonalds in 2020 watch it be from there!) or we did have a brief pop into tesco boxing day but we socially distanced inside and alll including the children wore masks!
I'm happy we seem to have caught Sam's symptoms early so we could isolate and not spread it but I'm so so scared it'll get worse. I've been more worried that he or the kids would get it than anything else. Even more disheartenly we all felt fine monday morning and the girls went to school as normal. If they test positive they were within the 48hours asymptomatic transmission and since the government insisted on opening the schools that day we could've unknowingly put 60+ families at risk. The headteacher is shielded and was in lexies classroom on Monday, the guilt would be unimaginable
we now all have symptoms except lexie xx
sending love to all of your family x
xx
obviously can't have visitors in hospital so it must have come from another patient or member of staff
I think she'll be fine to come back in after she's had a wee lol 