Covid Symptoms

[Bronx]

I’ve been feeling a bit dodgy for a few days but I didn’t realise half of the symptoms you guys have described are linked to COVID!

I’ve had on and off headaches. aches in my joints, specifically my right elbow actually but also in my legs. An on and off cough. A absolutely rotten stomach yesterday. I’m falling apart.

Can’t tell if I’m going into a panic or not.

 

[Hendrix]

I’ve had a headache and generally feeling tired all day and I’m panicking a bit. Probably just a cold or regular aches and pains but just can’t help think it’s covid can you not lose my sense of taste so probably not covid

I’d get a test, my mum gets tested weekly as she works in a care home and she said she had a headache and what felt like a bit of a cold and tested positive.

 

[ChampagneBox]

I don’t suppose anyone who had it a few months ago now has white lines across your nails? I found a case study online when looking for causes of these white horizontal lines that mees lines appeared in a COVID patient

 

[Coffeefirst19]

hope you all feel better soon!
It’s absolutely horrible!!
I’m on day 7 now and feel better! Still exhausted, headaches, no smell or taste but feel so much better than what I did!
My partner started getting ill 3 days ago after testing positive and he was awful last night. Constant cough, high fever, being sick as he was so lot! But today he’s loads better it’s so weird

 

[ItsEmmie]

did anyone have a painful neck on one side, with a lymph node swelling? i have no other symptoms except pain in my lymph node, idk whether to book a test or not

I had this about 2 weeks ago and got penicillin prescribed over the phone. It’s gone now but still feel a bit ill tbh . Any niggle I think it’s covid!

 

[BlueRose]

Any tips on how to get my smell and taste back please

Their say do small test on smelling each food try smell chocolate, coffee, orange and something salty try these to get the brain use to the smells again. Even trying to smell flowers, shampoo, soap smell can be tried out. This is what i read online.

 

[Hendrix]

Day 8 and I finally feel more human. Still can’t eat very much, I’ve had 3 chicken nuggets and a fudge today so far. I find what helps is taking paracetamol bang on every 4 hours and drinking lots of water.

 

[ChampagneBox]

Thank you, looks like you're both through the worst of it now. Did you isolate from your boyfriend or just be together? xx

We live together and by the time he’d come home I had no reason to think he had the virus so was all over him! He came home for Christmas on the Thursday and His virus symptoms didn’t become apparent till the Sunday/Monday

 

[Giggling Squid]

Over the last couple of days I've been decidedly off, with symptoms not too far removed from what has been characteristics of Covid-19. But then again it could be something completely different such as a cold or even flu (which I've never had)

Not wishing to make a drama out of a potential crisis, but I recently returned from South Africa via Paris and London last weekend. And despite having to take a PCR test (negative) prior to departure, and wearing masks and gloves for the entire trip, as well as having to spend 10 days self-isolating at home (which I am into my 4th day of), I am fretting that perhaps I have caught Covid!

I think I will give it another couple of days before ordering a home kit, even if it means paying for one. But at least this particular thread has made me aware of some of the symptoms, and that the chances of recovery (am 27) are almost 100% positive.

I’d suggest ordering a test now, takes a day or so to arrive and then they advise not to take them until the Monday but which time you’d have had symptoms for more than 5 days so a test would be ineffective

 

[Dipdab]

11 weeks later and I’ve never felt worse. Haven’t eaten a bite all weekend because everything smells/tastes so bad. When my taste and smell came back it was so badly distorted that now everything even toothpaste tastes like burnt animal carcass mixed with mould. I am so exhausted.

Sorry to hear you are still feeling unwell. I have just passed the 2 week mark from test and my smell is slowly coming back. I have been using sudofed nasal spray and nelimed saline sinus rinse. Might be worth a try if you haven’t already? I brought both off Amazon

 

[ItsEmmie]

Day 6. It’s been tough and I can see how it would wipe out the elderly.
Temp, chills, sore throat, cough, the aches are severe, it feels like every muscle and joint hurts. I could even feel the muscles in my eyes, it hurt to move them Sleep sweats been drenched, and crazy dreams
Paracetamol on the dot every 4 hrs. Plenty water, berocca and vit d ( amazon prime)
Will say it does come over in waves, felt better yesterday had shower but then it knocks you a few hours later and was really aching again this morning

Hope you feel better soon

 

[Moolo]

So my boyfriend tested positive last Monday and we live together, shortly after I developed symptoms... both of us had a cough, fever, and sinus pain when we moved our head and eyes, within a few days the cough cleared up, my boyfriend is fine now, for a few extra days he had the sinus pain. I never had a test but we assume I’ve also had it, after the cough and fever cleared up after a few days my gland have popped up but are on the way back down now, and a few days ago my nose became blocked like a cold and I lost my sense of taste and smell although it’s slowly coming back and we’re on day 10 now. Hope this helps!

Thank you, looks like you're both through the worst of it now. Did you isolate from your boyfriend or just be together? xx

 

[ChampagneBox]

Did Anyone else feel hot in their hands and feet with the fever? I’ve been without symptoms since just after Christmas but can’t help noticing now my hands and feet feel really really cold all the time?

 

[Dipdab]

I tried the orange yesterday out of desperation. What’s a sinus rinse please?

It is a nasal irrigation with saline water, it flushes out mucus etc. Here is the link to the one I use:

 

[Doc]

Sorry to resurrect a thread but just wondered if anyone has had a negative lateral flow test but then a positive PCR?

 

[ChampagneBox]

did anyone have a painful neck on one side, with a lymph node swelling? i have no other symptoms except pain in my lymph node, idk whether to book a test or not

My lymph nodes swelled up in my neck, tender and larger than I think I’ve ever had them before! Went down after a few weeks

 

[Moolo]

We live together and by the time he’d come home I had no reason to think he had the virus so was all over him! He came home for Christmas on the Thursday and His virus symptoms didn’t become apparent till the Sunday/Monday

Yeah im the same - think we got exposed on Xmas day (seriously still unsure how when we were so far away) - found out on Monday that my husbands mum was positive, so I made him get a test as was panicking and it was positive then distanced ourselves away straight away

Hope you're feeling better

 

[Twinks10]

If you believe it isn't a tummy bug (because they haven't been anywhere to catch a bug), then how can it be covid?! Did you feed them something a bit funky?

Haha! Good point - I’m clearly paranoid. A year ago I would’ve just put it down to a tummy bug but now I can’t help but think it’s something else be glad when this bloody pandemic is over!
No I thought about that too, they’ve eaten stuff they’ve had before so who knows

 

[BlueRose]

My next door neighbour got covid whilst at work he had to stay in hospital 2 weeks and now back home hiding in his house. I haven't seen him since December. But he rang telling me whats happened i when talking he was out of breath. His symptoms was hot chest, breathless lost of taste n smell. He still gets breathless n very tried. Can't do simple things. N now he doesn't like to drink coffee as his taste buds have changed. Couldn't believe it when he told me and he got the jab but cause of his job he could of already caught it.

 

[theghosttown]

I have been in two minds whether to go an get a rapid test this week. I have been having on and off mild headaches and just generally feeling a bit run down but the main this is I’m sleeping for about 10hours a night. I still feel extremely exhausted after that too. Don’t know whether I’m just a bit run down or whether there is (or will be) more to it!