Does anyone else think they actually might have/had Coronavirus?

[mommathatwearspink]

I’ve been ill for a week now and currently self-isolating along with the rest of my household. I don’t feel too bad now, just a tad lousy and able to work from home. My symptoms have been:-

• Achy all over
• Exhaustion & sleeping as much as possible
• Headaches
• Chesty / mucus cough that is getting worse but not so much that it’s really causing me a major concern
• Sore throat
• Snotty nose and feeling bunged up
• Woke up this morning with bloodshot and crusty eyes

It’s very strange and the more I read, the more I think I may actually have a mild case of Corona.

Also had an upset tummy, awful taste in my mouth & all around my ribs ached so badly.

We had a virus a couple weeks ago that we caught off someone who came to stay with us from abroad with symptoms showing up two weeks after they landed. It started with a sore throat then
-fever
-fatigue (lasted three weeks)
-binged up nose/sinus infection (just me)
-nausea and vomiting (only one person)
-headaches
-muscle aches
-extreme sleepiness
-complete loss of smell
-significant loss of taste
Our children got over it quicker than we did, DH barely symptomatic. I do wonder whether it was CV but equally it could have been any number of things.

I really wish people could be tested there seems so much confusion over the symptoms. Those that are showing very mild symptoms could easily be effecting others especially if they don't present with a cough or fever. We should really be following koreas advice of testing and retracing people who tbye have come into contact with.

Dh was ill about 3 weeks ago, seemed like a chest infection but was told flu on the basis he'd had no known contact. I've only seen him that bad once and he ended up in hospital the previous time (not flu related). A week later I got the same, despite having had the flu jab. I've had flu and obviously colds before, this was nothing like it. About a week in and after having felt better my chest tightened quite badly - not enough to want to call 999 but enough to know I wasn't well. After a steroid course I seem better though not 100%. We will never know unless they do antibodies tests but if it was another virus there are some real nasty ones about.

We all had the same symptoms as this virus over Christmas and New Year.

I have had flu and know the difference between a bad cold and flu.

This was worse than flu.
The coughing was so bad I thought my lungs would explode or I was going to have a heart attack

Waking up gasping for breath and being unable to sleep because of coughing and trying to breathe

I would be interested to see whether we actually had Corona

We really need testing to be sorted!

Think teen DD has had it. Been ill for longest ever. Usually 24/48 hours ill max we always joke she has a fantastic immnue system thanks to the germ filled private nursery she went to.
Mild Cough started Tuesday. Ill enough to be off school from the Thursday. In bed, extremely fatigued, dry cough for 6 days. No temp. Deteriorated rapidly had to call 111. Given antiobiotics. Still ill 10 days later and devopled a viral rash, sign her immune system had been fighting someting off. 2 week mark now and still coughing dry cough. Had contact at dancing with a child who had been on ski trip to Italy.

Just googled flu statistics & there are way more deaths from flu or flu related problems - one expert described coronavirus as “ a blip”. The anxiety comes from the newness & of course the speed of the spread.

Yeah. Bad bad cough early feb, couldn't catch my breath with it. Lasted much longer than a normal cough would, still lingering now. Didn't check temp or really take note of any other symptoms but I didn't feel great. Very tight and sore chest during, feeling like I couldn't breath properly or get enough air in my lungs. Tight and sore chest has only gone in the last couple of days.

One dc has had a cough. Started a couple of weeks ago. No noticeable temp. Still has a slight cough now.

Another dc has just started with a temp. Had a temp for an hour a couple of weeks ago, cough since. New temp started today. Not sure if it's related.

No signs of anything in DH or eldest DC I hope it stays that way!

None of us had it!

We've had it.

99% sure my husband got it at CHELTENHAM races!!

No one can be sure without testing.
As I say, I had a flu with symptoms identical to cv. But it was too early for cv, which means there is something identical but not actually it going around.

I think DS may have, equally may not have so of course treating it like he hasn't, and we don't know about immunity anyway! But he started with conjunctivitis in both eyes, and a few days later was hospitalised with trouble breathing, a temp, and a hacking cough. No phlegm which was weird and he usually gets when he has a cold, they didn't test oddly enough but we self isolated in case.

I'm fairly certain I have it right now. Nobody else in my life, colleagues, family or Dh, seem to think it is, but I know my body... I have never had a virus like this, ever.

EVERYTIME I get sick I get a head cold, its my weak point. Blocked sinuses, headaches, tonsillitis. This time, nothing. I never get chest infections.

I started with a sore throat and an exceptionally heavy chest. Had some diarrhoea in the early days too. Just felt really unusually weird, like I'd ran a marathon in the cold and made my lungs raw. Day 7 I felt unwell and started coughing and wheezing. More diarrhoea. Called in sick to work. Day 8 I couldn't even lift my arms, couldn't even hold my phone. The cough is unlike any cough I've ever had, so dry and unproductive, like a bark. During one particularly nasty patch on day 9, one of my lungs kept 'popping' when I coughed. Any physical activity was too much and I'd wheeze and pant for hours afterwards. Yesterday I was fine all day, then came over so tired I had to crawl up the stairs in the afternoon. Today I've woken up fine.

I was reading the latest stats this morning and less than 8% of those tested had Coronavirus. That means the rest just had a cold or flu and were freaking out about their symptoms, probably wasting nhs time too.

I'd wager that a good proportion of those replying here also just had a cold or maybe flu. Every year I have a dry cough I can't shift for weeks, generally feel like shit and can't smell/taste for days, but it's just a bad cold and it most likely will be when I catch it this year too.

I had temp 40+, rash, sick, couldn't handle light or noise, constant cough and hurt all over. I struggled to get to bathroom, couldn't keep anything down, the most insane dreams ever too! . I lost 5 days I cant remember anything. Know from call log etc I was texting and talking on phone to my boyfriend and my parents who were looking after my daughter, but have no recollection of days, it's scary!!

Whilst there might have been something identical to corona going around earlier I was on another thread and a poster questioned a friend who is a doctor about her symptoms which were identical to corona. But were earlier than was being reported.

The doctor friend said it was only possible if she had been in contact with someone from China.

I don’t think it is that far fetched in today’s society. I know we were around the West End just before Christmas and that is a minutes walk from China Town.
Just going into a supermarket in our neighbourhood and you can meet people from all over the world including China so I really don’t think it is as far fetched as the doctor seems to thinks

How many of you who've had symptoms also had a flu jab? I have mine every year, religiously (I have rheumatoid arthritis so it's advised). In all the years I've been doing so I've not had flu once. In fact I've only had flu twice in my life.

I'm not sure why people are pooh-poohing the idea that people may have had it. Yesterday it was reported that up to half the population may have already contracted it and recovered. The original estimate was that 80% of us would catch it at some point. Given we're not testing the general population it seems fairly likely that at least some of the posters on this thread will have and gone undiagnosed. Particularly if they live near a hotspot.

When we were ill in mid-February we didn't even give much thought to the idea that's what it might be. Even the GP was only concerned with whether DH had recently returned from China. A couple of weeks later and we would have given the idea more credence.

DD stayed in London for 4 days. Her girlfriend is Malaysian and has lots of friends from that part of the world, many of whom had recently returned to the UK after the uni Christmas holidays. We also live in a big city and DD goes to a university here which is famed for its international student cohort.

Like I said, can't wait for the antibody test. The relief of we find out for sure we've had it would be tremendous. And of course then we can make ourselves useful!

I feel really odd at the moment like nothing I’ve had before, but it isn’t Classic Covid symptoms. I’m achy, only slight cough, I am freezing cold one minute (last night I was shivering so much and all my fingertips went numb I was so cold) to boiling hot and sweating ten mins later. I can feel my skin. It doesn’t exactly hurt to touch it but a light touch feels like a prod. I ache everywhere even fingers and toes.
I’ve had a headache for 3 days worse than anything I’ve known before. It hurts to move my eyes.
I don’t have a bad cough or breathing struggles so maybe not corona but man I feel rough!

A week ago, I developed a cough and fever. The fever lasted a couple of days. Now I’m exhausted, and struggling with breathlessness and chest tightness as well as a complete loss of taste and smell. Who knows if I’ve had it? But I work in central London, commute on the tube and haven’t been ill since 2010. And when I was, I was back up and running a couple of days later. So while it may not be COVID 19, it would seem an enormous coincidence, as four other people in the office have the same symptoms.

@quimjongun - is your university city on the south coast and in a hotspot county (although not the city yet)? I had something that is an excellent match for the symptoms in jan/feb, the only sticking point being the timescale. But I work in a large university with a big international cohort, have an office that students queue outside for one of the busiest lecture theatres on campus (at least 1000 people a day congregating outside my door/using the same toilet block as me). I think some of those students are likely to have been to China over the Christmas break (the lecture theatre is used for courses with an 80% international intake), and possibly the youth of the student population means that it could have been circulating at an undetected level for some time before covid testing became a thing. As for the high levels of negative tests - the early testing criteria centred on travel and exposure to known cases, it was assumed there wasn’t covid already here, so plenty of symptomatic people could have been missed for testing because they didn’t fit the expected pattern. Like previous posters, the symptoms were a near identical match, and it felt like nothing I’ve experienced before (I’ve had some nasty viruses in my time, but the closest in terms of duration and post viral malaise would be glandular fever).

Timing would suggest you may have had it hamster. But who knows? I would think the only way to be sure is to have the symptoms in the summer when no other bugs tend to be around.

I’m certain too I had it in mid January after being in hospital for a minor operation.
I had temperature, hot, cold & shaking. Aching terribly all over, headaches and complete exhaustion. I was so worried that I went to A&E in the night and they did a chest X-ray which showed lung infection. It took me 2 weeks to get over it. It was just Pre-Covid so was only tested for flu, which was negative).

We all have to remember that if you had these symptoms last year you would have thought you had some kind of virus but wouldn’t think it was corona.

I had a fever 2 weeks ago that left me with a cough & the worst breathlessness I’ve had in my life. And achey sore legs like I’d walked 20 miles. I couldn’t even shower without panting for breath & im previously fit and well. I had no reason to suspect corona but I was admitted because I was so unwell and tested for it because the symptoms fitted the pattern. As suspected it was negative - it’s just a random viral illness.