My experience seems to be pretty run of the mill. I'm sorry I haven't really followed this thread very closely so I feel like a bit of a fraud using it now to tell my story, but just in case anyone is interested in how it effects people. Being a disability support worker I had all three shots pretty early on. I had started to think I was never going to get it. I have been out in the public (with clients) all through lockdown and as soon as allowed back to concerts and shows. Only wearing masks at work and where necessary elsewhere. I.e following the rules, not the suggestions. Only wearing masks where compulsory.
So Friday I woke up feeling totally fine, no even
hint of being unwell. I arrived at work at 8am (I'm very thankful that my client had cancelled support) so I had no clients and was attending to online training modules and assisting my coordinator with admin tasks. At 9am I realised that all of a sudden my throat started to feel a little scratchy and my nose blocked up followed almost immediately by a bit of a headache. I've had plenty of throat infections in the past so I'm always pretty wary of a sore throat, but this actually felt different in a way that's hard to describe in words. I just had a feeling it was not my normal cold/flu/throat infection. So I went and asked my boss for a RAT. I did it and the first line (test line) showed up very bright red immediately. I went home and spent the rest of day just feeling like I had a mild head cold. Did a few loads of washing, cleaned and vacuumed my room and cleaned any ensuite since I was going to be spending a lot of time here for the next week. Felt OK. I went to sleep feeling much the same, just a slight headache, bit of a scratchy throat and some congestion.
I woke up at 4am Saturday with full body chills, sweats and aches and a headache. This went on until around 9am. I was then super lethargic and fatigued throughout the day. I came good a bit in the afternoon. Saturday night sleeping was rough, kept waking up, no sweats but chills and aches stuff. Yesterday (Sunday) was similar to Saturday. In the morning I felt like I had been hit by a bus, it literally took me 3 hours to work up the energy and make myself breakfast which I ate at midday (Gotta say I'm pretty happy that this strain doesn't have the loss of taste
) In the afternoon I came good again and was more alert to watch TV and stuff.
Last night I couldn't get to sleep until midnight, probably due to the many naps throughout the last couple of days, but I slept solidly from midnight until 9am this morning. Woke up feeling much better. Back to mostly how I felt on Friday, just like I've got a mild head cold. Don't feel anywhere as fatigued this morning.
So hopefully that's the worst of it done, and truly, if that was the worst, it wasn't
that bad.
I'll probably go back to only wearing the mask where mandatory tbh. I go back to work on Friday and I will be careful with mask wearing and hand hygiene there.
