To ask what on earth my symptoms point to?

[TheSpottedDog]

Yes I’ve seen the GP, they don’t know what it is.
Sore throat started 3 weeks ago but wasn’t actually a sore throat as swallowing didn’t effect it - it was just a persistent pain in the right side.
Saw GP after it didn’t go away and it transpired that I had inflammation in the right ear which was where the pain was really coming from. I got ear spray.

Since then, pains in arms and legs, headache, pain in face and eyebrows!!!??? And a bloody awful pain in my left elbow. Pains in rib cage and back, ear pain continues. I spoke to the gp again today who don’t have a bloody clue as the pains are so widespread! I’ve been told to get a Covid test and rest. Right now my left arm, around the elbow feels like someone has stamped on it numerous times.

Any ideas???!!

Trapped nerve? If it's in your shoulder it can affect up your neck/ear and down your arm. I'd probably do the covid test and book a session with a good chiropractor if/when it is negative.

The ear and the elbow are on different sides though! It’s my right ear and left elbow 🤯

My friend had similar and she was bitten by a tick and had lyme disease?

@Littleideasbigbook

My friend had similar and she was bitten by a tick and had lyme disease?

Oh shit! I do walk in fields with my dog a lot ... did she have an obvious bite mark though?

@TheSpottedDog

No, no bite mark. The only reason your symptoms stood out was because she had a pain in her ear, that travelled down her neck and it moved to pain in her face and I have never heard someone complain of that apart from her! They thought it might be glandular fever, then sinusitis, then viral. Eventually, when she started getting joint pain they did a test and said it was Lyme disease.

[quote Littleideasbigbook]@TheSpottedDog

No, no bite mark. The only reason your symptoms stood out was because she had a pain in her ear, that travelled down her neck and it moved to pain in her face and I have never heard someone complain of that apart from her! They thought it might be glandular fever, then sinusitis, then viral. Eventually, when she started getting joint pain they did a test and said it was Lyme disease.[/quote]
Ah that’s interesting, thank you! You have just reminded me that about 3 weeks ago, before all this started I had a patch of skin on my left leg that felt like it was heavily sunburnt. No rash, just hot and very very sore. It went away leaving no mark but I wonder if that was the start of it?

I would probably get a COVID test, but then also book a GP appointment (assuming COVID test comes back negative). These do sound like symptoms that very possibly could be Lyme's. My friends daughter had it (mainly headaches and joint pains). She had a very obvious rash so they knew what it was. Other friend had similar symptoms, with fatigue, but hadn't had a rash so didn't know she'd been bitten. It's treatable if you catch it now.

Oh sorry OP I didn't pick up on the opposite sides in your post! Good luck solving the mystery..

Lyme disease normally starts with a raised red circular rash that’s quite sore and swollen, so hard to miss. I had it on the back of my thigh and it covered the back of my thigh (single red ring) after sitting in long grass bare legged. I ignored it thinking it was an inflamed midge bite. Then a few weeks later got lots of little red circles appearing on my arms and chest, thought it was ringworm and my GP said Lyme disease. I felt a bit feverish and achey but hadn’t linked them.

They treated it with strong antibiotics. They don’t normally bother with blood tests as test so unreliable they go straight to treatment!

Do you walk in shorts or cropped trousers through long grass a lot?

Sounds more like a virus or infection tbh