Same, woke up 1st Jan to a text from NHS confirming I had it as had my missus.

Fever, sweats and fatigue for the first few days, thought I’d got away with not loosing smell/taste but that went on the 4th. Started feeling a bit normal on Wednesday so logged back on to work, but was difficult to concentrate.

Today first day out of quarantine, glad it was decent weather so I could get out for a walk (and get the kids out who’ve been bouncing off the walls for 10 days).

Taste and smell not back, but the cough has subsided and not feeling tired anymore.

Gonna try for a run tomorrow, see how that goes

everyone's experience will be a bit different and I can only talk of my own, but f*ck me my first bike ride back after having it was a strange one. the ride itself wasn't too bad - lungs actually felt pretty decent - it was the immediate hours and days after… could barely walk up the stairs that evening and the following couple of days (i ride 150-250km a week in the spring summer and very rarely feel it after riding). the fatigue and aches set in super hard. i guess that's my way of saying don't push it too hard.

had very similar symptoms to everyone else here but managed to swerve the cough somehow (i'm asthmatic so was surprised about that) and my recovery was anything but linear. took about 4 weeks from initially feeling sick to properly feeling better, with 24-48 hour periods during which i'd feel totally fine and then feel sick again (which i appreciate is a minor inconvenience compared to those who get it badly).

it never got that bad. it was just weird. not in a hurry to get it again.

Yeah my taste and smell was fucked for about 4-6 weeks. That was the shittest part. You know the fever and sweats is guna go but felt like that was never coming back. Girlfriends is still fucked from March.

Yep. Has a strange taste in her mouth constantly, she describes it as sort of when you eat garlic and you know that taste is there, but it doesn’t taste of garlic just strange taste. Food tastes different to her now. She’s gone off nearly every perfume as they all smell different to her now. Feel well sorry for her cos I’d be gutted.

Was the same story for me and my missus when we both got it. After some digging it seems like men are about twice as likely to go into critical condition or die from rona if you look at the stats.

Jeez, that's shite

Totally get this. It's the same with spices and hot food. You can feel the heat just not the taste. Weirdest sensation to have.

First run back after "recovering" was interesting, too. Felt like the lungs were burning up after a couple of miles and had to cut it short.

Wouldn't wish it on anyone

I've not long come out the other side so not sure. I'm no athlete but try to get at least 4 runs in each week, minimum of 5k.

Not been able to get past 3k without having to catch a breather and then usually end up walking last stretch home.

Few mates had it in Lockdown 1 and said it took them a couple of months to get back to normal so I'm hoping sooner rather than later

Your running routine sounds similar to mine, although had upped distance to 7.5k in December to help bring down my 5k pb.

Reckon I’m gonna give it another week before going out again. Proper sucks as I was planning to get on it in Jan with my running, fingers crossed it doesn’t take too long to get back to normal.

Wow, and I was starting to wonder why we were in another Lockdown.