A question for those who have tested positive for Covid-19- re. order of symptoms

[Lovely1a2b3c]

Hi,

I'm concerned that I might be coming down with Covid. I babysat a baby who I only discovered had a temperature whilst babysitting.

I am mostly housebound so won't be spreading it around.

I have a very itchy feeling in my chest/throat but my temperature is 36.5.

I was just wondering whether anyone who has tested positive for Covid-19 could share the order of their symptoms? Did it start with a fever/shivers/cough etc.?

Mine started with a sore throat, pounding headache and extreme lethargy, developed into a high fever 39/40 , loss of taste and smell, the God awful cough and the feeling a large elephant had taken to sitting on my chest, simple things like going up stairs at home were difficult and would render me breathless, I ached all over

That sounds awful @KarlyKennedysDurianFruit ! Hope you're okay and recovered now.

Thank you for the helpful reply. I think mine is now developing into a cold; I wasn't sure when I had a sore throat and cough and because high fevers are unusual with colds (I don't have one but the baby I babysat did). Dreading actually catching it though!

DD has it.

She had a headache and then sore throat, sinus pain, earache, catarrh, sneezing, low grade fever which passed quickly.

Stayed as cold symptoms until day 4 when she started vomiting and became extremely lethargic, couldn't keep even water down, headache got much worse and couldn't cope with noise, light or moving.

No cough, no loss of smell or taste.

@GunsAndShips

DD has it.

She had a headache and then sore throat, sinus pain, earache, catarrh, sneezing, low grade fever which passed quickly.

Stayed as cold symptoms until day 4 when she started vomiting and became extremely lethargic, couldn't keep even water down, headache got much worse and couldn't cope with noise, light or moving.

No cough, no loss of smell or taste.

Aw poor thing! I hope she gets better soon.

Thanks for the reply.

Skull crushing headache that literally came out of no where, too painful to move my eyeballs behind my eye lids sore throat, Extreme fatigue (this lasted 6weeks), cough (not continuous) loss of taste and smell, a bit confused.

I’ve heard lots of stories of this awful headache but it doesn’t seem to be a symptom that’s officially mentioned regularly.

Headache, loose cough, gastric symptoms, fatigue.

Husband had chills and a hoarse voice. Slight cough.

Sore throat. Then nothing for a couple of days. Then sinus cold that lasted a few days. Never a temperature. Bit of a cough at the end

My husband has it at the moment. Had a sore throat and felt a bit tired. Had none of the standard symptoms.
I’ve had an awful sinus headache for about a week and am waiting on test results

5 day sinus headache that hurt aaaalot,
Very tired/lethargic, brief high temp for maybe 12-16 hours.

DP- blinding heache for 2 days, slept 16 hours straight then was right as rain

Hope you feel better soon

Only person I know who tested positive had no symptoms at all - got picked up when they tested routinely at work - had to isolate.

Mine was a very mild sore throat, shivery for a day, then a mild cough for 2 days. DH had no symptoms but tested positive. We’re both 52.

A few of my colleagues had it (tested positive) this was back in April.

Most of them spoke about the bad headache!
One of them didn't know what to do with herself the headache was so bad
We had all had the antibody test (offered through work)

A good few of them came back positive and they didn't have any symptoms at all

Hope all ok with you op 💐

Day 1 I started with a sore throat followed on day 3 by a cracking bloody headache that nothing would shift along with a bit of a snotty nose and occasional sneezing. I am not aware of having had a temperature but never tested myself with a thermometer. Sore throat subsided about day 4. On day 6 I lost my sense of taste but put this down to the fact that I was really congested that day. I took a test on day 7 (only went because my son developed a cough and school insisted so did us both, I was convinced I just had a cold), got my positive result the following day (day 8) by which point my congestion / snottiness was significantly improved at which point it was becoming apparent that my taste was definitely off, day 10 I realised I couldn’t smell.

I’m 4 weeks on and I still have a bloody lingering headache that won’t f-off although its nowhere near as bad as it was and I still don’t think my taste is 100%.

I had it end of March (healthcare worker so got test next day and confirmed positive)
Started very suddenly with shivering, high temp 39 and headache.
Next few days continued high temp, shivers, headache and general muscle aches. Fatigue, slept loads. Very mild cough, no breathlessness.
Loss sense taste and smell a few days in - still not fully back to normal.
Felt better after about 6 days then recurrence original symptoms days 8-11. Then got better but took a couple of months for fatigue to properly go.
Hope you are ok.

I had mild fatigue initially and the feeling that I wanted to keep my eyes closed constantly, a little wheezy and a very mild cough.

More a ball ache than anything for me personally. Paracetamol managed my symptoms well enough.

Thanks so much for the replies.

I hope everyone is okay now or getting better.

It's interesting that Covid can sometimes present as a mild cough with sneezing/sinus headache as the NHS advice seems to be to only get a test if you have a high temperature or persistent dry cough and/or loss of smell/taste. I wonder if there are a lot more cases in circulation in the population!

I'm going to be extra cautious for a few days but not sure whether I need a test.

My only symptoms so far are a very mild cough, slightly sore throat, tiredness but no fever. The main reason I'm wondering about Covid is that the little one I looked after (over a week ago now) had a temperature for five days after I babysat and I started with symptoms five days after potential exposure to the virus (which is average incubation for Covid).

Hmm will just wait and see!