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W/c 16 March went into Central London for birthday lunch with mate. Two days later, confined to bed with flu-like sweats and shivers for three days, no appetite and, weirdly, entered very depressive state (never experienced before). Lingering fatigue since then. Had an antibody test in August which was negative.

Waterhouse | 15.10.20 - 7:28 a.m. | #

I'm anticipating many interesting comments.

Great Aunt Annie | 15.10.20 - 7:49 a.m. | #

It was May for me. I felt drowsy and I lost my sense of smell for a couple of weeks.

Sprout Eater | 15.10.20 - 7:51 a.m. | #

Had a persistent cough in December. Ended up in hospital unable to breathe and with irregular heart rate - eventually diagnosed as cardiomyopathy in mid-January but these are the exact symtoms of chronic C-19 infection. Paid for an antibody test in August, I was so sure I'd had it. Nothing.

Steve | 15.10.20 - 7:58 a.m. | #

Along with most of my choir I had a dreadful cough for all of December. This was preceded by four days of diarrhoea which was five days after a show at the local theatre where the choir at the end of November had all mingled and shared make up and hugs. Everyone said I've had flu before but this was something else. I assumed they were two separate things and that recovering from the diarrhoea had allowed me to catch a cough but now I think it was the virus. It was in France at the beginning of December.

Debster | 15.10.20 - 8:12 a.m. | #

Early March (week of the 2nd), same symptoms as you.

Had a couple of early nights and was fine...

Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 15.10.20 - 8:20 a.m. | #

It was early March when I had an occasional cough (enough to make me wonder) for three days, with a slight onset-of-flu feeling. Then I felt better. I noticed I'd lost my sense of smell a couple of weeks later, and it took about six weeks to come back.

Suse | 15.10.20 - 8:20 a.m. | #

On March 14th I visited central London. Then about a week later I suddenly felt very tired. This lasted for a few hours with no other symptoms other than needing to make a sudden visit to the toilet.

Then for two nights running I woke up feeling feverish but I was fine in the morning. However on both days in the afternoon I felt shivery for a couple of hours.

Finally, for 2 or 3 days after that I had sinus pain. It wasn't listed in symptoms then but it is now.

David | 15.10.20 - 8:48 a.m. | #

We helped a nurse move from White City to Kingston on the Sunday before full lockdown in March. It required 3 return trips and so all 3 of us were in the car (without masks) for a few hours.
Following week the nurse goes down with cough and fever and is told by the hospital where she works to stay away! But no test was offered.
Then in June she gets the NHS staff ant-body test and it comes back positive. So there is a good chance that she had the virus when we moved her.

We both had a variety of mild symptoms in March/April, more like an annoying cold, but it never stopped us from doing anything.

So did we catch it?

Nigel | 15.10.20 - 9:16 a.m. | #

Spent a night in hospital three weeks ago with most of these, but doctors swear I didn't have it, nor the antibodies.

M | 15.10.20 - 9:43 a.m. | #

Had a bad cough for several weeks in January, but despite religiously taking my temperature several times a day never registered anything abnormal so assumed at the time it was something else. Been fine since before the lockdown started. So I may have had it.

timbo | 15.10.20 - 9:47 a.m. | #

Had fever and sweats and a cough that lasted a month, but given this was end of November into January, it was probably another coronavirus - found that out from a commenter here when this was last discussed.

I don't actually know of many people who've had it, apart from 1 or 2 work colleagues who thankfully had been off in March using up leave before the new leave year in April. If they'd been in, the whole office floor would have been exposed. Our organisation moving to fully flexi working at the start of the year (amazing timing!) meant that staff levels were much lower during that period than what we're used to and I think that helped too.

E1W-er | 15.10.20 - 11:17 a.m. | #

In late March I had a temperature (briefly) along with nausea, diarrhoea, nausea and dizziness (fainted). Following day I felt OK other than being v tired and I pretty much felt back to normal within 72 hours.

At the time I thought I had food poisoning. However, over the coming weeks I randomly had strange symptoms I'd never experienced before - chest feeling slightly tight, heart racing and feeling chills running down my leg. These symptoms are only v brief and I can go weeks without having any of them, but they still affect me from time to time.

Interestingly just received a letter today saying I have been selected at random to take part in anti-body study being carried out by Imperial College/Ipsos Mori. I will be sent antibody testing kit (consisting of finger-prick) which apparently will give me result within 10-15 minutes so I should find out one way or another.

Bill | 15.10.20 - 11:51 a.m. | #

I suspect your symptoms were not CV. I had a nasty cold and persistent cough over Christmas but then developed persistent nettlerash which lingered for several months. Rashes are now one of the symptoms but when I mentioned it to my doctor in March he didn't seem interested. So maybe I had it, maybe not.

davews | 15.10.20 - 12:17 p.m. | #

If you had symptoms in November or December, you didn't have it. End of.

Mike | 15.10.20 - 12:38 p.m. | #

Late-February my parents returned from a month in Australia and New Zealand. Their journey home involved a change of planes in Hong Kong.

We saw them days after they got back. Within a week I had a horrible cough, my mum had one, my children had one. Some friends of my parents had one.

At the time they were saying there was no Covid-19 at that point in Hong Kong. That it was still isolated to parts of the Chinese mainland. We know that's now highly unlikely to actually have been the case.

I remember Boris Johnson on TV telling anyone with a new continuous cough in the previous seven days to self-isolate. By that point I'd had the cough for eight days. I remember dropping my children off at school, coughing, wondering if people thought I shouldn't be there.

I obviously don't know if it was Covid-19. I never had a fever and I didn't lose my sense of taste or smell (that I remember.) Just the cough. At the time it seemed unlikely. But I've always wondered. And the more we learn about this disease, the more likely it seems.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 15.10.20 - 7:56 p.m. | #

Early February - what I described at the time as a 'stinking cold' with nagging cough for a few days, going home early from work (most unusual for me), developing a very hot sweaty fever and spending a day in bed. It also included a 10-hour sleep with incredibly lucid and magnificent dreaming, some of which I can still recall. It may not have been covid, but 3 weeks later it would have been a definite trigger for 2-week self isolation.

NickW | 15.10.20 - 11:38 p.m. | #

Can recall a few days in what must have been March or April where I was running noticeably warmer (but not feeling unwell with it), feeling more tired than usual and had a slight but tangible tightening in my chest, which is not something I've felt before. Working from home by then anyway, and socially introverted enough that distancing is almost default behaviour anyway. Suspect it was just general fatigue from being very busy with work and not seeing much daylight, but has got me wondering...

Phil | 16.10.20 - 1:06 a.m. | #

Yeah it wouldn't surprise me to learn that I caught it early on and now have some antibodies. I distinctly recall feeling more unwell with flu symptoms than is usual for me in January (fever, tiredness, aches and pains), and for much longer than usual too (over a week, compared with a few days).

Sam | 16.10.20 - 12:02 p.m. | #

I had it in December 2019 through to end Jan 2020. I'm sure it was The Virus... it couldn't have been anything else. It started with a rash on my lower back, which itched and felt like a cluster of insect bites. Then the cough came on around the new year. If I came down with the same symptoms now I'd immediately take precautions but back then, like you, I knew no better. I'm pretty sure I passed it onto four or five other people, at least. It was rampant in Kent and Sussex around that time. I have strong connections with Chatham, where it's now been proven that The Virus was circulating back then. The stable door was locked many weeks after the horses had bolted.

Danny1962 | 19.10.20 - 6:53 a.m. | #











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