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« Reply #18 on: Sunday 29 March 20 14:54 BST (UK) »


 As an asthmatic I often have a slight cough, usually not continuous but occasionally it is. I haven't been near anyone, when I take my walk on the nearby field I stay more than the required distance from anyone else but would be afraid to have even a little cough or clearing the throat in case they think I'm infectious!

My asthma also presents as a cough - spasmodic, eye-watering, gasping for breath and generally very disturbing for anyone who happens to be spectating when an attack kicks in! I am so accustomed to it that I shrug it off with an "oh, that's just my cough, I'm not infectious" sort of an explanation. I think I'd have a problem with that if it happened in public at the moment!! ;D
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« Reply #19 on: Sunday 29 March 20 16:31 BST (UK) »
That's the problem.. The symptoms are so vague. At least testing is being rolled out for nhs staff now so hopefully I'll be in line to get tested myself. The antibody test will be better as it will tell you if you have had the virus at any point. That's the one I'll be most keen to have.

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« Reply #20 on: Sunday 29 March 20 17:02 BST (UK) »


 As an asthmatic I often have a slight cough, usually not continuous but occasionally it is. I haven't been near anyone, when I take my walk on the nearby field I stay more than the required distance from anyone else but would be afraid to have even a little cough or clearing the throat in case they think I'm infectious!

My asthma also presents as a cough - spasmodic, eye-watering, gasping for breath and generally very disturbing for anyone who happens to be spectating when an attack kicks in! I am so accustomed to it that I shrug it off with an "oh, that's just my cough, I'm not infectious" sort of an explanation. I think I'd have a problem with that if it happened in public at the moment!! ;D

Poor you Jen, I do sympathise, mine gets like that if I catch a cold, it's absolutely awful.

At the start of this when the virus had hardly reached this area I was in my local convenience store and felt a small cough coming on so I turned away and coughed into a tissue. The assistant then did the same and when she turned back she said 'Tickly cough'. I just said that mine was the same, I didn't want to go into detail. I haven't been to any shops for a couple of weeks now but I have friends who have said they hardly dare cough as everyone glares at them!

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« Reply #21 on: Sunday 29 March 20 18:21 BST (UK) »
So many people are confused and worried wondering if what they are feeling is connected to Covid-19 or not. For many, symptoms are not serious enough to make a diagnosis clear. I have been scrambling around the net searching for further details on reported symptoms given the range my husband is experiencing.

The most helpful for me, in terms of key summary of points I found in the Sun.

See www.thesun.co.uk/news/10890814/coronavirus-symptoms-day-by-day-sore-throat-cough-fever/

On a connected link www.thesun.co.uk/news/11240984/4-mild-symptoms-coronavirus-not-ignore/ they also discuss four other minor symptoms. These include:

Stomach ache
Eye infections and loss of taste/smell
Brain fog
Fatigue

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« Reply #22 on: Sunday 29 March 20 20:38 BST (UK) »
The only symptoms I've had is a dry cough and on and off nausea. My husband and friend have had similar symptoms plus diarrhoea. Have felt a bit hot and feverish at times but temperature is normal.

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« Reply #23 on: Sunday 29 March 20 22:17 BST (UK) »
Personally I have seen what is definitely community spread i.e. people who are housebound contracting it even though none of their visitors have been abroad.

I have seen people (confirmed positive) who have all the symptoms, come with cough and SOB but no temp, just the nausea and vomiting, temp and aches but no respiritory symptoms.
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« Reply #24 on: Monday 30 March 20 12:58 BST (UK) »
I suppose like everything it affects everyone differently. I don't feel right but I feel like I'm not ill enough for it to be coronavirus.. But then there are some who are being confirmed as positive who have no symptoms at all!