People who tested positive, how are you feeling?

They seem to do so, based on the number of people I've heard saying they have covid, suggests testing with antigen and infected with new variant in circulation.

The thing with antigens, if you test positive you have it… if you test negative, you might still have it / have had it, with those symptoms. Sometimes can come down to sampling technique, what stage the virus is at.

Good question, I would have thought there would be scenarios where that would be useful, to clear up ambiguity about persistent symptoms. Possibly it is still done in hospitals, I'm not sure.

I picked up COVID last week, felt miserable for 2 days but coming out of it now, bit of a headache and congestion but didn't get into my chest, hardly any cough. Tested positive yesterday with of the home test kits my wife picked up from her workplace. I've had my vaccines, last booster was about 9 months ago so hopefully I'll be good until the end of the year. I've had COVID before, this time was similar, maybe less symptoms. No brain fog thankfully.

Had it two weeks ago. Sore throat, two days of utter exhaustion and a few more of being sub-par. Two of us in the house tested positive, two negative but we all had it. Milder than the previous two times I had it but I’ve taken all vaccines and possibly my body has adjusted. Bearable if this is what I’ll have to deal with every 18 months. Could do without it but weaker than flu from this last dose.

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Sick since Sunday night ( day 3 now ) and only now is temperature settling .

Coughing , very ..sore throat and dry bark , aches pains congested sneezy and generally feeling very miserable .

Don't remember the last dose (Omicron 2021 ) as bad but haven't had a booster for a year .

Yep I keep hearing the same but anyone who is sick at the moment seems to have a cold or a vomiting bug. I wonder if a lot of people are even testing themselves and we've now moved from people saying they have the flu if they get a bad cold to saying they have COVID.

Just to state, I'm not doubting how sick Bridget was but I can't really say it's rampant in the community.

It has hit in the Tour de France with several drop outs today.

Tested positive this morning. First time I've ever tested positive but probably had it in the past. The headache is just unreal since yesterday and paracetamol or neurofen don't seem to do anything! Also have fever with aches and pains and generally just feel so tired and horrible.

My daughter was sneezing a bit on Saturday afternoon and then felt unwell on Sunday before she perked up a bit and was back to normal on Monday. Turns out the other 5 girls on her table in school are struck down with COVID so either she had it and had very minor symptoms and shook it off after a day or whatever virus she had meant her immune system stopped her getting COVID like the other kids did. It certainly seems to be rampant in her class at the moment

I got it this summer (end of July) third time catching I think (plus multiple vaccines, I've lost count but TBF the last was about a year ago now)

TBH I wasn't terribly unwell, I only did the test because I have a bunch of unused covid tests in the house - well, no, also first off, it was because I did feel worse than with a normal cold, and had lost my sense of smell, so I did the test because it seemed like I might have covid. I don't do it every time I get a cold.

I felt quite unwell for three or four days, but wasn't stuck in bed. The odd thing is that nobody around me got it, not even my husband with whom I was sharing a bed. I moved into the spare room for a week when I got the positive test, but I'd been having symptoms for about three days before I tested, so ample time for him to be infected. Last time I got it he didn't get it either. He took the test that time (end of 2022) and was negative. This time he didn't even test, so I don't know if he was negative again or if he got it but was asymptomatic. So he's had it once, that we know of, and never since.