If you think you might have already had Covid19...

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Apologies if this type of thread has been done before / done before multiple times.

If you think you have already had C19, was one of your symptoms nausea / vomiting / diarrhea and lack of appetite?
Its not the kind of thing listed as a symptom on most of the websites but I have had this on and off (plus on and off what feels like the chills - although I cannot tell whether that is just because it is cold in the UK today).

Has anyone else experienced the above since around January time and now in retrospect thinks they might have had it?
thank you

The cough is dry and not relieving. It's hard to stop and makes me breathless and slightly faint.

Yes sore itchy eyes here (not too red but I do look like death warmed up).
Having said that the eyes thing gets much worse if I go outside (not now post lockdown) and was also Iisted as a side effect of my chemo so I was assuming it was that - maybe not.

To be honest Bubble all of your symptoms sounds very much like the side effects I got from chemo last year. It took a long time to get over it and I still have a few lingering things now. Good luck with your treatment.

For three days I had:
Constant mild headache, not usually prone to headache
Daytime sleepiness
Chills and a raised temp but no fever

One day of diarrhea, some heartburn for the other days.

I'm not sure it was covid19, usually I get a cough every time I'm ill so the lack of cough or breathlessness makes me doubt it.

I dearly wish wide-spread, accurate, testing was available. Not knowing what's really happening (community-wide) is the most difficult part of this so far.

Oh yes, and the feeling of hot heavy eyeballs! It was quite different to any other feeling of illness I've had before but that could just be from over-thinking everything

My mum has almost certainly had it last week, along with my husband and I plus my stepdad. She had stomach pains in the beginning which turned to temp and sore throat then cough. The rest of us didn’t but followed the same pattern of sore throat and temp and cough. We all had tightness of chest and breathing difficulties, although we all had it to varying degrees. I would treat any unusual symptom as COVID now because I believe it’s manifesting itself in different symptoms x

Menora
'Upset stomach
Lack of appetite

Chills but No fever
Sudden onset of a Chest infection. It clearly was - rattles and crackles,

Now I have a cough which is sometimes wet, sometimes dry*'
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Oh yes, me too, though I don't have asthma. But I have a very bad cough that, 3 weeks on, has left me with a pulled muscle in my chest area, which has made coughing very hard now. I also produce vast amounts of sputum, which led to me choking on it and hardly able to breathe, and my DH calling paramedics. That's not been constant until now when I'm struggling to cough.

I have had a spiking temperature but not high, but also chills and sweats without a temperature like you describe.

I saw a doctor at the hospital yesterday when I was referred there for blood tests and a chest X-ray because of the chest pain, which turned out to be a pulled muscle. He said it was a virus that was on the wane finally ant that it might be COVID-19 of might not, so I'm still none the wiser.

thanks Marmite that is kind. my last round of chemo was on 11 Feb so I thought I would be feeling a bit better by now but no.

Ironically on prompting to eat I have just made myself marmite on toast and the very act of carrying it back upstairs to my bed (the smell of it) has made me now vomit (not much in my stomach in the first place etc)

And the other thing is I seem to have had episodes like today on and off for months - some days I feel not too bad and then wham, another day like today - shaking like I have the chills, take my temperature and it is fine but then the nausea and vomiting and literally want to lie down the entire day long.

Who knows whether it is C19 or what but (just the same as everyone else) it is the last thing I need/want.

2 weeks ago my teen son who is never ill.had fever, chills and dizzyness.

We have SI for two weeks.

Last night I developed a sore throat that is now feeling like razor blades. I have a headache, chills, lethargy, brain fog and a temp just under 38.
I have a cough but have had this for 2 weeks after stupidly breathing in too many cleaning chemicals.

It could be anything.

My main concern is my other young teen who is asthmatic.

I have not had any chest congestion - just an occasional not too bad dry cough.

And when I was in hospital on two occasions end Feb beginning of March I had to have chest xrays and they both came back clear - so confusing.

Agreed about wishing there was some accurate widespread testing. The other thing I would like to see is some more accurate knowledge on the average length of time of how long you can go on with C19 if you have it before you either recover or.... dare I say it....

Generally on average you contract it with no or little symptoms for about a week/average 5 days before symptoms come out

You then have week 1 of feeling ill and I think the second week you can have a dip into feeling worse from feeling better. This did happen to me. Then around day 10 it either gets better completely or it gets worse. I am on day 10 from the first day it was really obvious I was ill and I feel a lot better but obviously still not 100%

Two weeks ago I had strange pain in side, yellow dioreha, slight shivers, felt v weird.
Scared enough to stop alcohol.
Following week I lost sense of smell and taste, became very fatigued, one day I had to suddenly sleep.
Nose felt weird. Burning feeling but not bad in nose.. Eyes itchy..

Never had this before.

Now its week after that and my smell is mostly back... Touch wood I feel OK

Same with me, OP, about the chest X-rays, it is confusing. I think it might be connected with it being viral rather than bacterial? Maybe the infection doesn't show unless it's very severe? Obviously I don't know, but it feels a lot worse than when I had pneumonia last year following from very bad flu, yet there was a bubble on my lungs so I was diagnosed with a chest infection.

Sorry I meant to add loss of appetite for about two weeks.
I've been having lots of bone broth soup. Lashings of vitamin c and zinc, and every other day to eek it out a fresh carrot, celery and orange juice

Interesting Menora.
I guess my problem is I have been having these symptoms on and off for literally months now. I chalked it down to chemotherapy but now I am wondering if it is that and/or C19. It does seem to have gone on for ages an ages. And I had 2 rounds of antibiotics which seemed to help a bit for a while and then I regressed again.
There were other weird things (mouth ulcers and at one point a sore throat and variously a dry and then an expectorant cough but not now etc) but those seem to be much more firmly to do with the chemo.

And ive kind of being isolating more or less for a long time before lock down although my two primary school children probably bought some bugs back home for me at the start of the year.

However I sometimes feel like ive been feeling like this forever and will I ever feel normal again like I did back in Sept 2019.

Thing is there are other viruses. It could be just a general virus and feeling worn down

I was much more ill last year with pneumonia unfortunately

I was really poorly back in January. Awful headache, temperature, cough, and absolutely no sense of taste. I was tested for pneumonia and they ruled that out and told me I had a virus. I was ill enough at work one day that colleagues wouldn’t let me drive home from work, brought me back, brought my kids home and then fed them for me while I lay in bed. I didn’t have a stomach upset but I had no appetite and I lost my sense of taste for about a fortnight. I lost weight, but that was a lot because I couldn't even taste chocolate so there was no point in eating it! They are now saying a lack of taste is a symptom. The cough took over a month to get rid of, but by the end I felt fine, I was just coughing. A lot. The worst point was early on - dizziness, high temp, especially at night, headache.

Fresh
I wish I could eat more. My sister kindly got me a whole load of fresh food as part of panic buying just less than 2 weeks ago and I fear much of it might end up going from the fridge to the bin because I cannot face eating it. Sounds pathetic but the mere act of standing in the kitchen making a slice of toast feels like a real big challenge. And there are other bits of housework which I have left for days.

The only other thing I seem to have achieved today is have a shower and put on fresh PJs.

babyby - yes what you describe sounds right.
And I had a night a week or 2 ago when I remember lying in bed just thinking "something is really really not right" - cannot put my finger on it but it was quite scary.

Are you all filling in symptoms on the COVID app? I think it's worthwhile doing so as it will help gather useful data.

My friend is an infectious diseases researcher. She says there is new research suggesting that some people with CV have had stomach pain and/or diarrhoea

My dad tested positive for CV19 with diarrhoea, nausea and fatigue and a temperature being his main symptoms.

I spent time with him and came down with a temp, nausea, fatigue but the most persistent symptom has been body aches.