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Super headcold (not Covid) 13:38 - Feb 9 with 964 viewsRobTheMonk

Has anyone else been struck down by this lingering headcold?

Madge and I are both into the third week of it. We've tested for Covid and it was negative. Just enough to be a pain but not so much to require time off work.
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Super headcold (not Covid) on 13:42 - Feb 9 with 921 viewsBasingstokeBlue

Yep - exactly the same, here.

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Super headcold (not Covid) on 13:48 - Feb 9 with 900 viewsleitrimblue

I've taken the day off with life threatening man flu/the sniffles
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Super headcold (not Covid) on 13:52 - Feb 9 with 898 viewshomer_123

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It's not showing up on tests but the main symptoms of the new Covid variant are headaches, runny nose, sneezing.

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Super headcold (not Covid) on 14:00 - Feb 9 with 874 viewsFreddies_Ears

MIne lasted 3 weeks of vicious cough with loads of greeny stuff coming out of nost & throat. Even after 3 weeks, still getting intermittent sore throat. Tested negative for Covid, every few days.
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Super headcold (not Covid) on 14:01 - Feb 9 with 868 viewsRobTheMonk

Super headcold (not Covid) on 14:00 - Feb 9 by Freddies_Ears

MIne lasted 3 weeks of vicious cough with loads of greeny stuff coming out of nost & throat. Even after 3 weeks, still getting intermittent sore throat. Tested negative for Covid, every few days.


Pretty much what we have at the moment. Cough is on the way out, not as snotty as we were, but the lingering headache is there more often than not.
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Super headcold (not Covid) on 14:13 - Feb 9 with 825 viewsStokieBlue

Super headcold (not Covid) on 13:52 - Feb 9 by homer_123

Kraken (XBB 1.5)

It's not showing up on tests but the main symptoms of the new Covid variant are headaches, runny nose, sneezing.


Where did you see that the tests weren't picking up Kraken?

SB
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Super headcold (not Covid) on 15:14 - Feb 9 with 738 viewsBlueBadger

A lot of these are turning into a particularly nasty pneumonia if they hang around. Get yourself checked out of you start feeling breathless.

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Super headcold (not Covid) on 15:22 - Feb 9 with 716 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

Lady Dollers has been struck down with flu and bed-ridden the last 3 days, although up and on the mend today.

Probably not the same thing as you're describing, but just wanted to say how important it is to get a flu jab if you can. I've had it due to just being old enough, and despite sleeping in the same bed I'm absolutely fine. Amazing really. She's gutted she's not old enough to get the jab.

Had my 4th Covid jab today as well.

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Super headcold (not Covid) on 20:43 - Feb 9 with 543 viewsCoastalblue

Super headcold (not Covid) on 14:13 - Feb 9 by StokieBlue

Where did you see that the tests weren't picking up Kraken?

SB


Good article here that suggests in some cases the infection rate is so fast that you can miss it with testing

"As Rossman explains: “It's not necessarily that the test can’t pick up the virus, but that sometimes if the virus replicates really fast — like this variant might — sometimes that means the whole infection process goes so quickly in you that you only have that peak of virus that's high enough to detect for maybe six hours.”

Unfortunately, a shorter infection time doesn’t necessarily mean the time you’re ill is any shorter. And while the infection time with highly transmissible variants is lower on average, this is only an average. It may take a week or longer before you exhibit symptoms and spread the virus, or it could take a day."

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/covid-variant-xbb15-kraken/

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Super headcold (not Covid) on 20:48 - Feb 9 with 520 viewsCBBlue

Super headcold (not Covid) on 15:22 - Feb 9 by The_Flashing_Smile

Lady Dollers has been struck down with flu and bed-ridden the last 3 days, although up and on the mend today.

Probably not the same thing as you're describing, but just wanted to say how important it is to get a flu jab if you can. I've had it due to just being old enough, and despite sleeping in the same bed I'm absolutely fine. Amazing really. She's gutted she's not old enough to get the jab.

Had my 4th Covid jab today as well.


She does know she could've still had the jab. Costs about a tenner from any pharmacy, got mine at Tesco like I do most years - had flu in the past and £10 is an absolute bargain not to feel like complete death for a week.

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