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Exhausted after heavy cold/virus

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Bigpinkslippers · 28/04/2025 13:12

I started with heavy cold/ wierd virus last Sunday.
Initial symptoms were horrendous stomach pain for 24 hours and then the cold symptoms of sore throat, streaming eyes and nose plus cough started.
I WFH and carried on working until Fiday which probably wasn't the best idea.
I was getting very little sleep and by Friday the exhaustion was too much and I rang in sick.
I've not been out of bed since Friday, although I'm sleeping normally now at night I'm also so exhausted still that I'm also sleeping for several hours during the day too.
Still have a cold plus all joints hurt. I only eat if someone brings me food as the effort to go downstairs is too much.
Is this flu although I don't have a temp?
Should I contact the GP or is it just a virus which needs to run its course?
Anyone else had this?

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Worm28 · 28/04/2025 17:13

Covid is going around our area. Could it be that?

Bigpinkslippers · 28/04/2025 17:37

@Worm28it's a possibility, I've not had covid before to compare, but it's lasting far longer than the usual colds

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