Anyone have + test with fatigue, sore throat, aches, temp?

[Echobelly]

I know it makes no odds, as it was 9 months ago so I'm not going to imagine I have any immunity now but it is really bugging me whether I had Covid just a few weeks before lockdown in early March.

At the time I was told it wasn't a match for symptoms (I checked with 111 as I had some places to go so wanted to know if it was likely to be Covid), but of course they didn't recognise as many at the time and testing wasn't available anyway. I had a temp but it never got much above 37C, I had viral fatigue, achey head and neck and persistent sore throat. It lasted just over 2 weeks, and oddly it came and went, with 3-4 days of feeling ill, then 2-3 days of feeling basically OK, ove the fortnight before coming back for one final day and then vanishing. I was never bedridden or anything but I had to work from home and was too washed out to go to social events. I'd have thought nothing of it if it were just a cold, which I get all the time, but this was definitely something else.

Has anyone who had a positive test had symptoms like this? I was commmuting 1.5 hours a day on the underground 4 days a week in London before this, so could easily have caught it if in circulation

Yeup. I didn’t actually have a positive test (as they were only testing hospital cases in March and I didn’t need hospital), but my DH did, and DD1 later had a positive antibody test. We were all ill at the same time so I’m sure I had it.

Yes I did. My initial symptoms were a severely aching body and that "before the flu" feeling of general malaise and fatigue. Then eye headaches, blocked nose, cough.

My symptoms were exactly like that when I tested positive, the only difference being I lost my smell/taste in the second week.

CovidCarol when did your sense of smell return please? Mine has only just gone and I'm hating it 😩

Thanks, that's all interesting. My mum and my brother's wife also had similar symptoms and my brother and family did isolate as he and daughter had more classic symptoms (eg cough) albeit mildly. Again, before test availability.

@mistletoeandsigh yes, 'before flu' is definitely a good description of how it felt, that woozy, overtired feeling.

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CovidCarol when did your sense of smell return please? Mine has only just gone and I'm hating it 😩

It gradually came back after about 10ish days I think. I had it just before Christmas and all the nice food I couldn't eat because it just didn't taste of anything, it was horrible 😫

The smell was a bit sooner I think, maybe a week.