AIBU to ask if you think you've had CV what were your symptoms

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I think I have had it but only mildly.
I had a dry cough, had to keep stopping when walking because I was out of breath often, sore throat. Sometimes I was cold when others at work were hot.

I didn't have a cough, but the tightest chest I've ever had. I couldn't sneeze as I couldn't inhale enough to do so and when I bent down it felt crushing. Other than that just fatigue and a mild temperature.

Not sure if it was COVD19 or just another virus

Marginal I definitely found it easier to be asleep. Normally I try not to sleep in the day as it messes up my evening - and I totally get you about bronchitis as anything like that I usually struggle to sleep at all. But with this I definitely couldn’t have fought sleep and welcomed it all day long especially when the throat/ear pain was at its worst

Sorry you've been unwell OP but.. you were at work with symptoms?

I also wondering if I have it. Sunday night I had awful night sweats, woke up feeling very faint and exhausted all day. No temp. Since then I have a very slight dry cough, tightness in my chest, a little breathless. I get this weird churning in my stomach every so often and have noticed a metallic taste in my mouth. All these symptoms are very unusual for me, and something about it feels like nothing I’ve ever had before. I was wondering if I had hay fever, developed asthma or if it was anxiety. My kids both have slight dry coughs, but youngest has also been snotty. I’m a little worried as we live with an older relative with high bp. I think it’s too late for them to isolate now but then they have also had a dry cough for weeks so might have had it too. Wish there was more testing available.

My brother had all the classic symptoms way back in october of last year...his breathing was shocking and was perscribed over a month 4 different anti biotics. He was in a right state with " a bad does of cold". We were so worried about him,this normally very fit and healthy 40 something.It was way beyond any flu I had ever seen.Took him 6 weeks to shift it.If only we had known back then what it could possibly have been...he is a home delivery driver and it is shocking to us as a family to think of how he could have spread this ...it was and is so upsetting for us ..

Feeling hot when others said they weren’t doesn’t mean you had a temperature. The Corona symptoms are very similar to very common viruses so without the test, your suspicions are going to remain just that, suspicions.

A colleague has been told that she probably has it but her symptoms (although not particularly mild) do not warrant immediate intervention. She and her family are of course self isolating as sicker patients are obvious being prioritised over her at this moment.

I too might have had it but that was probably the unfortunate combo of being peri menopausal and recently working on a children’s art festival, where it is guaranteed for me or my colleagues to catch whatever (non corona bug) was doing the rounds in the crèches.

Was ill in Feb with what I think was this: fever and night sweats then chills, dry cough that lasted for weeks (I never get a cough normally), pain in chest - which took me to urgent care - doc there said they weren’t sure if it was a virus or bacterial, more likely a virus. Chest was tight and was short of breath. Fatigue and exhaustion. Lasted a few weeks. I’m convinced that it was COVID-19 though guess we won’t know until can be tested.

I had a sudden cough that came out of nowhere, feeling cold and then hot, slight headache and sore throat, aches and pains and tiredness. Didnt really get chest pain but got a breathless walking about and I lost my taste and smell for a week. It's coming back but it's still not right. Still got a bit of a cough. No idea if I've had it or not but my dp and my daughter both had a slight cough and a really nasty headache for 2 days, both had temperatures but dp only at night and my dd has a tight chest, aches and pains and tiredness

Mine started with sore throat, then day two was the persistent cough. By day 4 I had flu like symptoms - temp, chills, aches and very lethargic. Spent a couple of days in and out of bed - the feeling wasn’t constant randomly, sometimes was worse than others. I had the headache and the slightly upset stomach too. Then by day 8 or 9 I was quite out of breath - not enough to feel uncomfortable but it was definitely on my lungs and I couldn’t breathe deeply. That lasted a couple of days and for that week I was still quite wiped out - went to bed early most nights.
This was first week in March and roughly 6 days after I travelled in to Birmingham on the train.

I’ve only had flu once before and that was worse.

get over these quickly in a few days and even feel you have turned the corner only to suddenly develop breathing difficulties and deteriorate again around day 6 onwards sometimes as late as day 10

Yes - this! This is exactly what happened to me! As well as the ‘waxes and wanes’ part! Was really weird - I felt completely over it by day 6 or so and then suddenly felt worse again.

@MarginalGain

I'm curious, I've read a lot about the extreme sleepiness/sleeping 20 hours.

Does this make it a more manageable illness on the main (in the absence of the scarier symptoms)?

If you had asked me at day 1 - 3 I'd have said it was more manageable than the flu or tonsillitis or even a bad cold because 1. I found you sleep (and for me with fibromyalgia I got the best sleep I have had in many months. Oh the irony!) and 2. You do not get the really snotty nose and horrible phlegm that causes upper respiratory distress, which is shit when you have asthma and makes sleeping hell. Plus the cough is not that horrible deep chesty one)

BUT it's a bastard later on when it hits the breathing, plus the other symtoms keep randomly reappearing. Woke up this morning and my throat is sore again and chest on fire.

Hot, flushed face and chest, slight cough on day 1. Sore throat next morning. Days 2-4 very tired, hot, intermittent headache. Day 5 onwards: respiratory symptoms - tight chest, breathing felt effortful at times, burning/glowing sensation across lungs. Very exhausted and struggling days 8-11. Day 12: got scared and summoned medical help when I had blood in my sputum. Didn't have to go to hospital. Days 13-26 (today): slowly improving, still get tired and can feel my lungs a bit. It's going to be ok, bastard of an illness though!

My DS Is a frontline worker and at higher risk. She was tested as she had several of the symptoms - cough, sore throat, found it hard to breathe, but it came back negative for CV-19. Other bugs have been doing the rounds for the last few months so don’t automatically assume you’ve had CV-19. I really, really, wish they’d brought in testing much more widely and much more quickly. I’m sure there are people walking around thinking they’ve already had it and are ‘safe’ to work etc. when in reality they may not have had it at all.

Terrible aches headache chest pains difficult to breathe sore throat dizziness sickness high temp no cough. Exhausted. That was back in February so doubt it was that.
Thought it was menopause flu. No one else in the family had it.Maybe it was.

I’m sure there are people walking around thinking they’ve already had it and are ‘safe’ to work etc. when in reality they may not have had it at all

I agree with this - I’m fairly certain I have had it but as I don’t know for sure I will behave as though I haven’t.

@LellyMcKelly & @Ethelfleda - of course, we will proceed likewise, no room for complacency. We live in Midlands, work in Birmingham and know lots of people who have come down with similar symptoms, so I would be amazed if it wasn't Covid-19 though. It's been quite different to any other illness DH or I have had.

@everythingisginandroses , there is a thread, if you're interested,for those on Day 30+ - it's called '30+'!

Had a little, dry cough about every hour or so on day 1, then headache and sore throat day 2 (when I got tested). No temperature. Test came back positive on day 3. I have to discuss things with doctors and scientists as part of my job so didn't want to pass it on to anyone/carry it - I was sent home for 7 days on day 2 and self isolated in one room at home to protect my family.

Days 4 and 5 (in isolation) had a slight temperature - up to about 38 degrees on and off, and got very tired. Around day 5 also lost my sense of taste and smell completely. This still hasn't come back and I'm on around day 14! That's the weirdest thing for me - airways are completely clear, mucus hasn't been an issue at all, just can't smell anything.

Went back to work and have been perfectly fine (apart from the lack of ability to smell) on around day 10 after symptoms started.

There are a lot of other respiratory viruses flying around at the moment btw, so it won't always be Covid-19.

A cough that lasted about 2 months, started off very dry for first few weeks, bad chest pains, breathlessness, extreme fatigue for a few days. Couldn't walk upstairs without being out of breath.

@Zenithbear It would have been very unlikely that it was Covid-19 if you got it 2 months ago - unless you were in China? It may well have been one of the 'flus (Flu A, Flu B, H1N1 etc) as they have similar symptoms if you were in the UK.

Next door neighbour came back from China a few days before. Definitely not the flu.

I had it last month. STBX living in same house (we have separate bedrooms and bathrooms) told me today he has symptoms. Most of his sports clubs friends (he tell me today -we don't speak often - have had symptoms in the last few weeks.
So almost everyone we know (London) has had, or has, symptoms. We know no-one she has died.

Well I think I mayhave had it. We came back on a ferry from France at the end of Feb half term.....it was chock full of high school kids returning from school skiing trips in Italy, the alps etc. About four days later I just couldn’t get warm, my feet were frozen and I had a dressing gown on in bed under the blankets. Then I felt a rush and flushed bright red and my temp went up to late 38s. Lasted a couple of days. Spoke to 111 who said as I hadn’t been to Italy or China I was ok. We know now that’s not the case but was early days then. I suffer from acid reflux, on daily meds, and it really played up for a week, lump in throat, had to prop up. Had a bit of a tickly cough (I have moderate asthma and the cough wasn’t so troublesome). Very sore throat lasting a couple of weeks off and on. Glands up. Also have IBS and thought i had had a flare up returning from hols but now think maybe the virus? I felt weirdly emotional the day it arrived and I did feel a bit out of breath but as I say I have asthma and it wasn’t alarmingly so.

The weirdest symptom for me was a feeling like i had burnt inside my nose, right at the top sort of under bridge. It felt singed and uncomfortable. Never had that before. This lasted a week. I was advised at time I didn’t need to self isolate, whole family have mild or moderate asthma, husband had a night of sweating profusely, kids all had sore throats but that was it really.

If i had all that that now I’d def say corona?