Know the symptoms!

[GinJeanie]

I don't really understand why the Government have only supplied two symptoms for people to look out for with Covid19. Please pass onto others that there are other symptoms (albeit less common). If we're going to protect vulnerable people and the NHS, surely we need comprehensive information.

www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert

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They have diarrhoea down as rare in coronavirus, but apparently it's not and people are experiencing abdominal pain and some diarrhoea. I'm following medical channels on youtube and trying to keep up to date. It's a new virus and the symptoms are still being identified.

Plus loss of sense of smell is now added to that list.
So it’s not really clear is it? And given the severity and longevity of symptoms is sooooo variable it’s a really difficult thing to advise on in a wider way.

Also anecdotal evidence of sore eyes/conjunctivitis in some confirmed cases. The public don't all know about these less common symptoms -it wouldn't be hard to publish them!!

...even if they point out they're rare!! 🙄

Also a foul metallic taste in the mouth has been reported in confirmed cases and plenty of suspected cases

Ds2 had eye irritation and said his eyes felt 'weird'.

I hope they can start selling a home test for antibodies so people can find out if they have indeed had it.

I think they’ve given the main ones to highlight how it is different from the normal colds so that they are not inundated with patients or at least they weren’t before we got told not to report. I guess there are so many symptoms for different people they’ve just given the key overarching ones

I’ve had a headache and sore throat on and off for days. On Thursday I developed a cough so have been isolated since then. I have a tight chest and burning sensation if I am too active, but okay if I am resting. The headache is constant, as well as tiredness and aching muscles. I now also have sore/red eyes. I wish we could get tested to see if this is it. I have had no temperature at all.

I hope they can start selling a home test for antibodies so people can find out if they have indeed had it.
Never going to happen. There’s not enough tests for those in hospitals and the staff treating them.

I've had no temperature (already from a very brief spike up to 37.6) but have had a week of feeling like I have bricks in my lungs. I'm breathless and lethargic. I have had a very slight cough (more a feeling of a hair in my throat).

Fairly certain I've got it, wish I could be tested to see for definite.

There's no symptom differentiation between this and several other things.

Also, when a lot of people are affected, some of them will also have sore eyes, upset stomachs etc as well.

I don't think I ever feel 100% well- my nose is often stuffy, I get a tight lumpy throat. It's like living on the edge of a drama but it never quite happening.

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I guess that could be a reason but people cant through to get information as it is. IMO it's still dangerous if people are going to work with a sore throat/tight chest thinking it's just asthma/allergies... it means more infected people may going about their business unaware. Lots of kids are getting different symptoms to adults too. Obviously no way of knowing. The official Australian site is more comprehensive- not sure why they're taking the risk in this country and not at least updating information as more is learnt.

have had a week of feeling like I have bricks in my lungs. I'm breathless and lethargic. I have had a very slight cough

Yep. Me too. I also had sore eyes and headache and occasional chills. I've been diagnosed with Covid by my GP, but not tested. There's a thread on MN full of us who have similar symptoms.

I posted this on another thread yesterday but I am also wondering if I've got it now

3 weeks ago DC2 had a cough then a fever, vomited and had diarrhoea. He was wiped out more than I have ever seen him and only got back to school after a week. Tho the cough is still there.

3 days later DC1 came down with the same symptoms & again had a week off school but hasn't had the cough.

5 days after DC2 was first sick I had one case of sickness but diarrhoea for 3 days. In those days when I wasn't on the loo I was asleep. I haven't felt that tired for years and I am still, 10 days later feeling shattered. After I was sick I had a tightness in my chest develop which I put down to retching but is still there now. And I am still achey in limbs now.

DP also had a fever and aches at the end of the first week.

Today, I have had a sore throat for 3 days and runny nose and this evening I have started coughing. DP is also stuffy headed.

I had thought we had had a case of Noro and then a cold but reading advice from USA, Aus and India it seems lots of people are getting gastro symptoms first.

So three of you have been ill for three weeks, and presumably all going about normal business except when you were too unwell. It's probably everywhere!

Not blaming you, Clara. It's not been easy to know when to self isolate.

Pickle I feel so angry at the govt for telling people it's only the temperature and cough that are needed to isolate.

If I hadn't ended up reading on here about other people's symptoms I wouldn't have started googling and then reading papers from the US, Oz and India all of which highlight the d&v.

We are now in lockdown at home so can only hope I have overthought this and have just had 2 bugs one after the other neither of which are covid19.

This is precisely why accurate tests administered routinely to all showing symptoms should have been a priority from the moment the Chinese sounded the alarm, and I truly believe at that stage it could have been done with minimal fuss. Now the whole world is clamouring for tests of course demand is out stripping production, the ability to distribute and manpower.

There are probably people self isolating for a cold, and people with CV19 but whose symptoms are not typical out and about- it's ludicrous.

The drip drip drip of "suggestions" to take this seriously, but ignored by many, either through genuine lack of understanding or willful opposition, will probably culminate in lockdown - my cynocal theory is that this is how they have tested their stupid "herd immunity" theory while appearing to back track and bow to professional and public opinion. And it has massively back fired.

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There are probably people self isolating for a cold,

That’ll be me . I had one day last week with a sore throat, headache and earache and I stayed in bed all day with fatigue, followed by one day with a headache and fatigue and then another day just lethargic and tired. This was nothing really though the first day warranted being in bed as I definitely wasn’t well, but in terms of Covid I am pretty sure it wasn’t that! But the not knowing and the fear of infecting others has meant we are isolating. Will probably go back into the world and then get the actual thing .

Though we think ds might have had it weeks ago, as back in January or February he had a couple of days of a fever and a heavy unusual feeling in his lungs. He is 18.

It’s not knowing that’s doing my head in.
My son registered a temperature 2 weeks ago and a sore throat. The very next day his body temperature was normal. 3 says after that he wasn’t quite right, pale and then a few days after that at day 10 he had another temperature spike and complained his ears hurt. I think he’s suffering from an ear infection.
Now DD and her dad have similar symptoms and really we are out of isolation now.
I wish the symptoms list is clearer and testing is available as otherwise isolation is a rolling process. The idea of household isolation is to pretty much get the whole household infected but some can be asymptomatic of course. I don’t know if my son has had it and consequently don’t know whether I’m at risk and I’m a keyworker.

If your whole family had to go into two week isolation with a symptom that wasnt one of the main two you might be less keen