Corona symptoms that are NOT fever and dry cough?

[cornishdreams1]

I travelled to the Middle East in early February, when we came back both my dd and I came down with the same bug. We had the most god awful taste in our mouths, neither of could not taste anything at all, we both felt sick.
We had D&V for one day and one night, and stomach cramps for over a week. For two nights were not feverish, but sweating as you may do with normal D&V and my dh described us both as very rosy looking. I had a sore throat on and off and my glands are up for three weeks. My dd completely recovered and did so within the first week. My symptoms are persisting on and off but I feel better. The one thing I have had is very red eyes, not sore or infected but just really red raw. I used eye drops to alleviate it.

This morning I read in the Sunday papers that these are symptoms of Coronavirus in younger people. I am shocked. I had no idea at all, and have been carrying on as normal up until the lockdown. I could have infected numerous people, at no point until I read this article did I think this may be coronavirus, and if this is the case, there may be many many more people working and shopping/caring for the elderly/nursing as normal with some of these symptoms.

Have you heard anything about this?

This needs to be publicised as most people with stomach cramps or sore eyes would not consider CV.

[LaneBoy]

How do they know they were infected a month ago? As in symptoms started and they were tested a month ago? Or is it including the incubation period?

I’m on day 12 since symptoms started (untested obviously so I may be wrong) and feeling a lot better but still scared

[Daffie19]

I'm also pretty sure I've had it.
Few weeks ago,
Started on the monday, had bad cramps and diarrhoea. Thought nothing of it.
Felt very tied Tuesday but ok, slight cough which disappeared during the day.
Wednesday morning woke again with a cough, and temp said 38.8 but again felt OK ish.
Drove to work (nurse) and thought on way in, I probably. Shouldn't go to work!! So didn't get out car and rang my manager, go home as expected.

By tea time, had banging headache, temp 39+,only came down to 38 with paracetamol, proper fever shivers, cough worse, so tired.

Thursday again feeling awful, same as Wednesday evening, rang doctors.
Told to Self isolate, given antibiotics incase it was a chest infection, as he couldnt see me face to face with my symptoms, he couldn't properly assess.
As Thursday went on, felt like I was struggling to take a full breath in.

Got a little better day by day, but it did wipe me out and took a good 7-10 days to start feeling normal.again.

The only thing that makes me think it wasn't CV... Is surely my DH and DS would have caught it from me if it was?

I really hope i can get the anti body test, it would put my mind at ease!

[PicsInRed]

Very red eyes, horrendous sore throat, mild cold and cough symptoms. Mild fever, fatigue.

[PicsInRed]

Oh and we both had dizzy turns and odd sense of taste. I noticed my sense of smell was weakened, but not absent. It was like sinusitis.

[Daffie19]

Also before I got ill, DS had a terrible cold, he had just started nursery so presumed he had picked something up there.
Nose running and running, lasted about a week.
Then i got sick, and then he developed high temps up to 40, lethargic, noticed blood shot eyes, but put down to our rough night with him.
Intermittent cough.
Then he got an ear infection it seemed, antibiotics and was fine in a few days.


I do think many people have had it Already., in a mild form, which is reassuring.

[Marmite27]

Blurry eyes - swapped from exclusive contacts to glasses.
diarrhoea for a week, coupled with back pain and a tight chest, plus a mild cough. No where near as bad as the one I had before Christmas (had to leave a meeting and they called me a first aider as they thought I was having an asthma attack - not asthmatic). Doesn’t even bother me when I’m laid down.

The back pain felt very much like the trapped wind I had after my section.

A bit snotty and sneezy, for the past 2 weeks I’ve been falling asleep putting the kids to bed at 7pm and sleeping through. Today I feel much less lethargic.

No temperature, no persistent cough. When I do cough it’s hours apart about 3 times a day.

[Marmite27]

Oh and DH left the lid off the easy garlic in the fridge and I vommed one morning. Also once when doing my teeth, very reminiscent of morning sickness.

[Marmite27]

I keep remembering more symptoms. The chills for about a week I couldn’t get warm.

[Charlottejade89]

This thread has got me wondering now. My dd (20 months) started coughing last Sunday night so we have been self isolating since then. But she has also had conjunctivitis which I've now heard can be a symptom of covid? and while she has been eating fine and seemed fine in herself shes had a few dodgy nappies in those days as well. I've now got a sore throat and very slight cough. Neither of us have had a temp though. Does everyone get a fever with coronavirus?

[WotnoPasta]

DH is high risk. I would very much like to know if I (or DH) has had it by now. It would take a lot of stress off this whole issue. We are quite happy to keep isolating but would take some of the fear away.

[Needmoresleep]

I live in central London so every chance I have been exposed. After about three weeks I am feeling better, but still very tired. (Slept ten hours last night, had a shortish bike ride today, and needed a nap after.)

Symptoms were. Initial sweating/high temperature/lightheadedness which only lasted an hour.

Then, in no particular order: sore eyes (this persists), stomach pain (a couple of times at night, and lasting a couple of hours), nausea, temperature spikes, the shakes (only once), severe headaches in the morning (alleviated by paracetamol and fluids), lightheadedness, and fatigue, and more fatigue. No cough or sore throat or breathlessness, except I was completely exhausted climbing a flight of stairs. No loss of appetite. Broken sleep in the first week, since when I have slept very well.

In truth I have not been particularly ill. Except for the fatigue, which has stopped me from doing too much. And it comes and goes, so one day I thought I was better and the next day it all started again, and repeat three or four times.

And, weird one, despite daily showers, a noticeable body odour.

I would love an antibody test.

[Ble0n]

It’s weird about the mention of blurry/sore eyes, I also exclusively wear contacts but for a week my eyes were on fire, so scratchy/blurry I had to switch to glasses, could be hay fever though.

In between that iv has a stomach bug, weekends of extreme fatigue but then fine in the week except for the eyes, and this week Iv has a horrendous head cold, full of snot and coughing up mucus and feeling rubbish and a chesty cough. If assumed it wasn’t Covid though as they say you arnt snotty/coughing up mucus

All these all could be simple unrelated bugs and Iv just been really unlucky. I havnt had a fever throughout

[Shockers]

I had a really red face and bad diarrhoea last week. Also a headache, slight temperature and lower back pain. No cough at all. DH had the same; we thought it was just a stomach bug.

[Girliefriendlikespuppies]

I'm pretty sure dd and I have had it as well. Dd has it first over Feb half term, she had a temp, cough and generally felt rubbish.

About 10 days later I had a really high temp, shivers, cough, felt sick, could barely get out of bed. Was more ill than dd had been.

Then for at least a week afterwards I had the most disgusting taste in my mouth 🤢

The other thing both dd and I had was this weird popping noise in our throats when we breathed out, almost like popping candy. Anyone else have that?!

[Callimanco]

I had: tiredness climbing the stairs on first day
Day 2 sudden shakiness/ loss of appetite/ lightheaded
Pounding heart overnight
Day 3; 1 day of watery diarrhea, scratchy throat
Day 4 thick mucus and a tight dry throat, back ache in lower back (thought it was the unfamiliar bed),
Day 5 feeling like I had inhaled talcum powder or chilli
Half an hour of central chest pain
Bra so uncomfortable I had to take it off, felt constricted.
Day 6, chest pain better but back ache/ lightheadedness continued

The lightheadedness, scratchy throat and feeling if having inhaled powder lasted 3 or 4 more days.

I had a very slight, occasional cough and still do, 2 weeks later.

No idea if I have had it or not.

[Callimanco]

Also had itchy eyes and hot cheeks (but no fever).

[Stroller15]

Not sure if it's mentioned up thread - there is an app by researchers from Kings College London that need all this kind of information - as the symptoms are so wildly different.
covid.joinzoe.com/

[chillychicken]

I haven’t read the whole thread (sorry, I know that’s a cardinal sin) but sore eyes...is that an early symptom?
My ds (5) has been rubbing his eyes and saying they hurt since early afternoon. Appetite fine, but suddenly got very, very tired around 6pm, temp of 37.6 at 7pm. Said his eyes were really itchy and sore. Fell asleep by 7.15pm (unlike him to fall asleep so quickly).

DH also complained of itchy eyes today and I too have itchy eyes (but assumed it was my eyelash extensions bothering me). We’ve had windows open and all been outside for fresh air today, none of us suffer from hay fever so it’s really odd that we all have itchy eyes.

Apart from the eyes, I have really bad mouth ulcers but otherwise feel fine, as does my DH.

I didn’t know sore eyes were potentially a symptom

[Calledyoulastnightfromglasgow]

I have no idea... but a week after my daughter seemed to have it, I developed lethargy and a wheezy throat, and odd sharp pains in my head. Then freezing for 2 days - not feverish, just couldn’t get warm. Then a snotty nose and fatigue. Periods of feeling warm. Can’t be arsed doing anything. I’m mid40s, excellent health, rarely ill. I’m on day 4 and hoping it’s on it’s way out but have heard cough can start at day 5

[EvilPea]

Now I’m wondering


I had a couple of weeks in Feb / beginning of March utterly exhausted, like pregnancy, Kept having to have naps to get through the day. Really sore eyes, bit of a sore upset tummy. Hot flushes (but I am that age anyway!).
About the same time my eldest had a bad cold.

I hope that was it and we are done.

[ThrowingGoodAfterBad]

We shouldn't really be adding to a Covid app, should we, if we're not sure whether we've had covid rather than some other virus??

I gather it isn't particularly accurate for that reason fullfact.org/health/kings-app/

[Needmoresleep]

The app covid.joinzoe.com/ is pretty straight forward. What they are trying to do is get a picture of how many mild cases there might be out there. Well worth downloading and sharing. (Its also for people who are well.)

[Wilmalovescake]

They ask whether you’ve had a test for it in the app.

[itsgettingweird]

Girlie friend yes I've had the popping! Especially at night when laying down!

[cornishdreams1]

This week, on behalf of all of us I am going to try and get a definitive answer about the symptoms we are describing (and I have read each post and they are all the same) Question number one: Could it be CV that we are experiencing, or is there something else going around, the research emerging seems to imply CV?
Question number two: when are we able to take the antibody test to find out.

How can it be that so many people are describing something so similar, and seemingly so widespread.

Can anyone confirm how their children faired? As with other bugs, all of my family tend to catch it one after the other without fail. With this one I had the worst case of it, my 15dd also has it but a milder form, my youngest (11) nothing at all beyond an upset tummy. Dh fortunately spared so far.