More negative evidence: I got a cold a week ago. Symptoms started on the friday, I took several lozenges a day for the next three days, then stopped when I still had symptoms on monday. Unlikely to be covid, I had a negative LFT on the sunday and a negative PCR on either the wednesday or thursday. (I assume PCR anyway, I’m in a study but I don’t know the details. They posted me a test kit, I completed it and posted it back, they said I was negative.)
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2023-08-21: Woke up with a sore throat. LFT was negative for covid. Had 4-5 lozenges throughout the day, next day had the kind of throat that felt like I was recovering from a cold. Had 1 or 2 that day, I think I felt completely fine on day 3.
2023-08-29: Woke up with a sore throat. Didn’t test for covid. Had 4-5 lozenges throughout the day. Day after I think I felt fine, had one or two, still felt fine day 3.
2023-09-03: Woke up feeling the start of a cold, but this one felt more in the nose than the throat than previously. Had 4-5 lozenges throughout the day. Was still feeling it the next day, don’t remember if it had changed much. Kept taking them, I think I stopped on day three when I still had a cold. I think it was pretty mild as colds went, didn’t take any time off work, and I think it remained more in the nose than throat compared to normal. Took an LFT on day 5, negative for covid.
It’s unusual to have three so close together. Could be something like “I never actually fully fought off the first or second one”? Idk. The “symptoms are more in nose than throat” feels like it could be a clue for why they sometimes fail, that’s a thing to pay attention to in future.
2023-09-18: Woke up with mild sore throat. Took three throughout the day. Next day still had mild sore throat, took another three. I don’t really remember what happened after that, but it didn’t ever become a full-blown cold.
More negative evidence: I got a cold a week ago. Symptoms started on the friday, I took several lozenges a day for the next three days, then stopped when I still had symptoms on monday. Unlikely to be covid, I had a negative LFT on the sunday and a negative PCR on either the wednesday or thursday. (I assume PCR anyway, I’m in a study but I don’t know the details. They posted me a test kit, I completed it and posted it back, they said I was negative.)
(Editing in more stuff when it comes up):
2023-08-21: Woke up with a sore throat. LFT was negative for covid. Had 4-5 lozenges throughout the day, next day had the kind of throat that felt like I was recovering from a cold. Had 1 or 2 that day, I think I felt completely fine on day 3.
2023-08-29: Woke up with a sore throat. Didn’t test for covid. Had 4-5 lozenges throughout the day. Day after I think I felt fine, had one or two, still felt fine day 3.
2023-09-03: Woke up feeling the start of a cold, but this one felt more in the nose than the throat than previously. Had 4-5 lozenges throughout the day. Was still feeling it the next day, don’t remember if it had changed much. Kept taking them, I think I stopped on day three when I still had a cold. I think it was pretty mild as colds went, didn’t take any time off work, and I think it remained more in the nose than throat compared to normal. Took an LFT on day 5, negative for covid.
It’s unusual to have three so close together. Could be something like “I never actually fully fought off the first or second one”? Idk. The “symptoms are more in nose than throat” feels like it could be a clue for why they sometimes fail, that’s a thing to pay attention to in future.
2023-09-18: Woke up with mild sore throat. Took three throughout the day. Next day still had mild sore throat, took another three. I don’t really remember what happened after that, but it didn’t ever become a full-blown cold.