If you get a cold, what is your first symptom?

[narniaisreal]

Mine is ALWAYS a sore throat. Mum's is always a headache. What's yours?

Inflamed gums

Sneezing

An overwhelming feeling of tiredness and then I have to nap (which I never do, I find it hard enough to sleep at night) so I know I'm coming down with a cold, then the sore throat and then the rest.

That scratchy/itchy feeling in the back of my nose and throat.

Mine's always a sore throat first too. Followed by blocked nose, then sneezing and finally a cough that seems to last for ages.

Sore throat and a feeling that I want to rest.

That scratchy/itchy feeling in the back of my nose and throat.

Same here.

I usually get a strange taste in my mouth. I always know I'm getting a cold if I get that taste.

Nearly always a sore throat. Sometimes I get a sniffley nose for a day or two but it doesn't develop into any. I can't remember the last time I had a proper cold with a cough.

Sore throat.

Sore throat

A really strange metallic taste in my mouth, like I've just been to the dentist and had a filling without the numbing if that makes sense?

Itchy under my chin. Surely i can't be the only one?!

Weird sort of scratchy throat. Not sore but like I need to clear it.

Feeling tired

Sore throat and tightening of the chest. I'm asthmatic so always suffer with that when I've a cold.

A temperature. I have an odd thing where whenever I'm about to get ill my temperature rockets so 40.2 and stays there for a couple of days.

Working with children means I rarely get coughs, colds or illnesses in general, though, so when I do it tends to wipe the floor with me for weeks.

Dry back of nose plus sneeze.

My hair hurts when I brush it a day or so before I get ill

The bones in my hands ache(!), then a day or two later I get a tickling throat.

An odd feeling of spaciness and general weirdness, followed by a strange lethargy. I can now recognize that that's the virus settling in so I usually go and give myself a few blasts of First Defence to try to send it on its way.

Exhaustion and a really dry throat.

Swollen neck glands and the feeling that the connection between my nose and throat is broken

Sore throat only on one side normally. Tired eyes.