Real/other COVID Symptoms

There's a few being tested at the wrong times too. Sometimes it takes a few days before you would test positive in spite of having symptoms.

 

We all had our flu vaccinations in this last week so have been feeling a bit crap which we put down to that.

Wife started with a cough on Monday and I started on Tuesday, had to come home from work yesterday as my wife called me and told me she had suddenly lost sense of taste. Explained to the boss and he said get straight off and get some tests booked ASAP better to be safe than sorry.

Came home straight online and booked 3 tests for 6pm last night at the walk in test site on County way.

Very simple, with clear instructions by the staff/volunteers there and should receive results within 24 hours but can take up to 72.

 

I started with a horrific headache for 24 hours. I was at work for 13 hours of this and despite it being apparent that I had an intense headache that was not easing not one person suggested I need to go home. I work on a nhs ward.
I tested positive 3 days later (after being tested at home by nhs staff as I was too ill to travel). I was off work for 5 weeks but at no point did I have cough.

 

No wonder NHS staff are spreading the disease. I've had suspected Covid twice and haven't been tested at the right time or at all the first time. I then had my anibody test 6 weeks after I returned to work.

 

I know 3 people who had it and all had Smell, taste and cough symptoms.

 

I had a high temperature for best part of a week. The nights fevers were terrible and I woke up for several days running with a bed that was like it had had 5 pints of water chucked at it. I kept my taste and smell, but the headache and shortness of breath (chest pain) were the worst.

 

I think reading this thread I definitely had it back in April/May time even though my delayed antibody test came back negative.

 

My youngest daughter had all of these symptoms at differing times over a 3 week period just before her 18th birthday back in December last year and was completely out of it. That was before anyone had mentioned covid 19, so makes you wonder how long the virus was in the country before anyone realised

 

For me I had no high temperature. I initially had a slight cough, sore throat and a bad headache for 3 or 4 days Then I was fine for 3 days then I totally lost my sense of smell and taste. Which convinced me to get tested. I then went on to sleep a lot and was lethargic and felt crap for well over 2 weeks. My sense of smell and taste still haven't returned fully after over a month. I think timing for testing is really about hitting a certain window in its development. My daughter was just the same as me and tested negative. The symptoms are many and not everyone seems to get them all or even in the same order or to the same degree. My feeling is that the symptoms and degree of illness is down to how prepared and equipped your body is to fight it. My wife didn't get it but she was very ill in January with what we thought was a very bad lingering cold (a form of coronavirus). I wasn't ill then, but we think this may have given her some protection against the virus and possibly that's why she didn't catch it despite us being together 24/7 for 14 days.

 

Seriously mate I would be really careful with this. The positive Covid test really doesn’t mean a carrot in relation to the headache symptoms, and that’s aside from the well documented unreliability of the PCR test. Don’t be too willing to accept Covid as an explanation if you get that again - with headache symptoms that severe if it comes back I really think you should be making sure you rule out other more serious issues.

 

out of the 5 of us in my house only I had a cough, but had previously had a cold and not shifted it and seemed to make it worse.

 

I think people are being tested at the wrong time and testing negative and returning to work and that's one way it's spreading so easily at Hospitals amongst staff.

 

Thanks but during the night whilst in bed I started with the fever, sweats, aches and pains. My breathing also started to become laboured. The pain became excruciating and eventually this spread to my lungs leading to me being unable to lay down because of the pressure. I didn't even notice I'd lost my sense of smell and taste until about 2 weeks in: it was the least of my worries. The pain did not recede fully until about 6 weeks later. The only sympton I didn't have was a cough. My wife and son then tested positive after having a test the day after mine.
With all this in mind I'm pretty certain we all had covid.

 

Every student we’ve had that has tested positive themselves has had at least 1 day off within the week leading up to it with a ‘stomach bug’ so if you have kids that’s something to bear in mind.

 

My main symptom was a headache. Very severe that lasted a week. I also had a fever, aches in the rest of my body and literally no energy. No breathing difficulties, no cough. The few people my age who I've spoken to who have also had Covid reported very similar symptoms. My niece has just had it, similar symptoms but much less severe. I've had influenza once before in my life and it felt very much like that, but the headache this time was markedly worse.

I used to suffer migraines when I would lose my vision, vomit and lose the ability to recall words so I couldn't speak. It wasn't on that level but it was very painful.

 

Yeah I can understand that- I work in a school; teaching hundreds of kids in a week let alone coming into contact with plenty of staff. I’ve never had any kind of test and can’t even get a flu vaccination. Was told by my local health centre that there’s no funding. I can’t even pay for one now as I’m not over 65 ( albeit in my late 50s).

 

Boots are doing flu injections for £13.99. Not sure if you’ve tried there?

 

Hi JamDrop. Cheers but tried there as well as other chemists etc but not available owing to ‘high demand’. Im going to have another look this morning to see if things have changed. On every website yesterday it said they were only catering for over 65s at present- I’m guessing (Hopeful) that this might change over the coming weeks.