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

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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.

If Coronavirus was here in Jan, and particularly if there was already community spread in Jan, then we would already be peaking! The NHS would already be overwhelmed, the Excel centre would already be full of patients

This. I really felt as though I had it but I didn't because if it had been around in the uk since December our hospitals would have been overwhelmed.

The first confirmed case in the UK was reported on 31 January. Given that routine testing wasn't done before then it seems absolutely plausible that there may well have been cases before then. Given that London is several weeks ahead of the rest of the country in terms of contagion, people who live or travelled there in late January could well have contracted it, surely? Hospitals there are overwhelmed, that's why they're rushing through a 4000 bed field hospital.

Actually routine testing wasn't done before then and it's not done now, either. As I say, when DH went to the GP in mid/late Feb he was asked if he'd been to China and that was it.

Iceland have done wide scale testing. Half of the testers were positive with no symptoms.

The first confirmed case in the UK was reported on 31 January

Was it? I remember coughing my guts up in the second week of feb and listening to r4 talking about the wuhan epidemic and that it was only a matter of time before it arrived in England.

I meant to say above that we had been in contact with someone who had recently returned from Hong Kong and had symptoms similar to us.

Our school had a large proportion of children off school with the same as us, many, including us who had received the flu jab - although I appreciate that does not cover all strains. A few children that I know of with asthma were hospitalised.

So maybe it was around then and has been climbing slowly, escalating now that it has gained a foothold in London, where the population density is greater and people are crammed together on the tube, unlike in our rural, relatively remote area.

Obviously this is all speculation though, and I fully support and am complying with the current minimisation efforts, as it is too risky not to.

Late last year I kept having what I thought was a bad cold, bad dry cough, sore throat, going hot and cold, headache and occasionally I'd struggle to breathe. It would come, go again then come back again. This went on for weeks. At the time I thought it's just a cold. I never go anywhere so doubt it was from anyone else. I don't think it was but some of the symptoms were similar now we know the symptoms of this.

I have had dry cough, fatigue, abdominal pain & sore throat on & off. Today I have a headache & had an awful bitter metallic taste in my mouth which has gone now. I also have nausea & some dizziness, fatigue, aches. Really trying to convince myself it's just health anxiety or other health issues.

I had crazy vertigo out of nowhere in January which calmed down after a few days, except I'd get it at night turning over in bed so I am trying to put the dizziness down to this. Trying to tell myself the headaches & neck/shoulder aches is due to being sat on laptop for the past few days & the fatigue is my autoimmune condition (normally I'd walk to & from work so it's not often bad). The abdominal pain & metallic taste really freaked me out though.

Yes. Im onto day 6 of serious illness now though was feeling run down for a few days prior. I'm not feverish anymore but so tired and achy that moving from my bed to the en suite completely drains me and triggers a coughing fit. The coughing is giving me stress incontinence which is another unpleasant thing to deal with on top of feeling so ill. I've had zero sense of smell or taste since last Friday but trying to keep eating as I'm 13 weeks pregnant. I feel truly awful and would not wish this on my worst enemies!

There is a nasty flu going around as well. So it would be easy to confuse the two.

@Tonyaster

@Dzundza I've had the flu jab which I know isn't infallible, but since I started having it 15 years ago I've never had the flu. I've only had it twice beforehand. This wasn't like any flu I've had before - I'm usually snotty and it lasts for about two weeks. This was neither.

That's interesting! I didn't know that. So the uk cases were only linked to people who had travelled from wuhan. So perfectly possible that they spread it to the wider population immediately? Why were people only being tested if they had been to China or Italy if they knew how contagious it was?

I had weird dizziness for a few days before my fever started. Still have a cough tbh, 4 weeks later.

I keep swinging between telling myself I'm overreacting and that this is just my chronic sinus issues playing up, and the rest is all in my mind. To being convinced I do actually have it.

Last Weds - woman in a shop I was in coughing badly

Last Friday, Saturday, Sunday - aches and pains in lower arms and legs (could have been from garden digging I was doing), exhaustion (could have been psychological)

Tues and today - scratchy slightly sore throat (could be my sinusitis) and weird, weird chest pains. To be fair, I've had these chest pains before, since I had a bad virus (not corona) in January, but very very infrequently, the odd twinge when walking up a hill. It's now almost constant even when sitting doing nothing. Only coughed a few times.

Who knows. Could be brewing it, could not be.

I'm missing my Children (staying in my room in case) and fed up and scared

Why were people only being tested if they had been to China or Italy if they knew how contagious it was?

No clue. DH went to the GP then went back to work a few days later, despite not feeling much better (this was before the advice was to stay home, before it was even acknowledged it might be spreading in the community in the UK). If he'd been tested and known he had it of course we all could have self-isolated. As it is, loads of his colleagues have been off with similar symptoms in recent weeks, DD has been to work/uni, I've been all over the place.

The people who contracted it early have probably inadvertently spread it to so many people.

And of course anyone coming in from China or Italy who were infected will likely have spread it widely before testing began.

Dd had it first. Came home the weekend of the 31st from uni in Wales, lots of chinese students. She was ill with fever and bad chest.

I've just seen that the antibody test will be available to the public (either ordered or a finger-prick test you can do at Boots) in the coming days.

It'll be fascinating to see how many of us on this thread have or haven't had it!

I was very ill last month. I'm a uni student so in contact with a high amount of people from mixed areas.

I was absolutely exhausted, sleeping constantly, whole body ached, temperature, headache and a bit of a sore throat. Coughing a bit towards the end but not much. I'm convinced it's what I had!

Meant to add to my earlier post I ached all over as well. My dad lives in London and was here at Christmas. I didn't feel great the end of last year or early this year

Hi All,
Back in January 20, myself and several other colleagues went down with a bad cough, temperature, headache etc. I can remember saying that it was the worse flu I had ever experienced in my life.
My colleagues were advised that it was an infection chest area and were given antibiotics. This dry cough lasted at least three weeks.
My husband also experienced this.
At the time, I noticed coronavirus on a website and joked that maybe this is what we all had! Seriously though, we are all thinking this is what we must have had. However, I'm not sure it was in England back then.
Did anyone else experience this, just after Christmas?

Anyway, Stay safe everyone!

Well the news is that it has been around in the UK since mid January

St Patrick's Day: started coughing, flushed face, temperature up. Have been running temperature 38.1 - 38.4 ever since, exhausted all the time, soreness in lungs, tight chest. Cough is intermittent, more akin to throat-clearing at times. DH has same symptoms.

We work and commute in a hotspot, and at least half-a-dozen of my colleagues had already gone home complaining of aches/feeling unwell before me. DH and I are both healthy and haven't had a day off sick in 5 years prior to this, no anxiety or other MH issues.

I know what I think this is...

Oh yes, also headaches and sore throat earlier on.