People who tested positive, how are you feeling?

gosh the SOB symptom sounds scary - any pre existing medical conditions? hope you feel better asap

I'm putting it down to the body fighting it too, it's crazy I just cannot feel full. I'm putting it down to the body fighting it too, it's crazy I just cannot feel full.

Thank you. The shortness isn't as bad today thankfully, but maybe the antibiotics are helping, I needed two rounds of antibiotics the last time I'd Covid. I have no pre existing conditions, I cycle and run regularly and would consider myself very fit.

How long for? I had it last November and my taste/smell went for 10 weeks! Not enjoyable one bit. I had no other symptoms. Only for taste/smell going I would never have known I had it.

Became positive 2 days ago for the first time. Kinda hoped I was a modern-day Matt Damon. Just tired and a cough every once and a while. Nothing serious. I was worried about getting it for a while but it's nothing to be worried about from my point of view.

It's such a strange disease that people can end up in hospital but I just need to go to bed early.

I had it 2-3 weeks ago and it was pretty bad. 2 days in particular were a nightmare with a high fever, chills, headaches, nausea - you name it.

Coughing wasn't an issue until I was coming to the end of it. I've coughed more since testing negative than I did while positive.

What's really bothering me is the tiredness. It just won't go away. And it's a horrible tiredness where it's difficult to sleep. Hard to explain, but it's like a different type of tiredness. Anyone else still have this? It's a very frustrating feeling, was so tired earlier this afternoon that I lay down on the landing carpet and just felt like having a cry.

i really just had back pain.. odd eh?!

Seven days but you can start the count from when you first get symptoms rather than the actual test and then take extra care for another 3 days. A lot of people still keep doing antigen tests which may show as being positive for a little longer.

When you can stop self-isolating

You should start to self-isolate as soon as you get symptoms of COVID-19 or get a positive antigen test result.

How long you need to self-isolate depends on the results of your test.

Find out what to do if you get a:

• positive, negative or invalid antigen test result
• positive PCR test result
• negative PCR test result

When you stop self-isolating after 7 days, you need to take extra care for another 3 days to reduce the risk of passing COVID-19 on.

There is separate advice for children who are isolating

After your 7 days of self-isolation

After your 7 days of self-isolation, you can go back to your normal activities.

When you stop self-isolating, take extra care for another 3 days.

You should:

• limit close contact with other people outside your household
• wear a face covering
• avoid contact with anyone who is at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19
• work from home unless it is essential to go to work in person

Be especially careful in places that are:

• crowded
• enclosed
• poorly ventilated
• hard to avoid close contact with people

I seem to be suffering from something similar. Its hard for me to say as I often lack energy anyway but certainly I can feel really tired now and not be able to get to sleep like I used to.

I also still occasionally have a weird smell related symptom. Its like any really strong smell comes with the smell of burning coffee, thats been going on since I first posted about 7 weeks ago. The smell thing is getting less and less

That is rough.

You don't talk about vaccination.

Generally speaking maternal antibodies protect newborns for a while after birth .

Hope you're all ok .

Nose is switching between blocked to the hilt to then running like Usain Bolt.

Every so often get a bout of coughing then stretches of none at all.

Must have sneezed about 200 times alone in the last 2 hours.

Registered a positive antigen on the HSE site and today 5 new antigens arrived by post.

No idea if my taste or smell are gone, haven't had taste or smell in nearly a year.

For anyone who can remember back about 10-11 weeks I finally lost the weird smoky burning smell I was getting.

After four vaccines, got Covid. Asthma flared up, got two doses of steroids and was on the neb every day for about two weeks

Other than that:

• temperature for about a day
• diariah about a week
• cough three - four weeks
• Fatigue for 4 and half weeks
• Nauseous 4 weeks
• Sinuses 1 week
• Shivers - two days
• Bed bound - two days
• Coughing up coloured phlegm one week
• Coughing up uncoloured phlegm three weeks
• Needed one week off work.
• Metal taste in mouth three weeks
• Tested positive for about a week

So worst was first three days, than the next four.

Then the next three was like my body just trying to recover.

Would depend on the severity I think Tim Robins was just trying to be as honest as possible. Half those symptoms I can get any day just with some form of hayfever/allergy. Woke this morning with thick head, blocked noise, cough, puffy eyes, sinus pain and fatigue after a great nights sleep and thats got nothing to do with covid.