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Is a headache a sign of coronavirus/covid?

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MerinoFroggie · 23/01/2021 18:02

My partner came down with a headache last night. Woke up this morning and no headache. No other symptoms.

Did anyone else's positive covid start like this

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BasiliskEgg · 23/01/2021 18:04

Yes it can be but I should imagine it depends on the individual. I get headaches all the time so that would be normal for me. If DH got one that would be v unusual for him.

You will just have to wait and see what other symptoms develop.

CortisolandCaffeine · 23/01/2021 18:04

Yes - all three of us in the household had headaches as a first symptom. Then developed other symptoms, but no classic symptoms until much further down the line.

FabbyMagic · 23/01/2021 18:05

Yes it can be

borntohula · 23/01/2021 18:05

I've heard it is. I get paranoid every time I get a headache now.

longtimelurkerfirsttimeposter · 23/01/2021 18:06

It was for me, my only symptom a really bad headache. I don't usually get headaches. Husband tested positive the next day with temperature and bad cold like symptoms.

Sorehandsandfeet · 23/01/2021 18:07

Yes, headache was one symptom all my family shared

Doyoumind · 23/01/2021 18:08

It can be but you can also get a headache for hundreds of other reasons. If he has no other symptoms could it not just have been a headache?

newlabelwriter · 23/01/2021 18:12

Yes, it was for DH. He thought he was hungover (he got it over Christmas) and so stopped festive drinking and still had them. We got tested as someone in our bubble had it. All positive. DH still getting headaches. Symptoms are so varied.

harknesswitch · 23/01/2021 18:13

My dh had a headache, shivers and a temp (he never gets ill, especially never gets headaches), he went for a test and it was negative

Watsername · 23/01/2021 18:33

It can be but it might just be a normal headache. I woke up with a migraine last weekend and was asked to test by the Zoe app - negative.

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MerinoFroggie · 23/01/2021 18:38

Partner doesnt usually experience headaches so it would be unusual for him.

He goes to the shops everyday and he helps his elderly parents with appointments and he helps his other family members too. So his outings out and contacts are not very low and would be risky. He had to bring a parent for a hospital appointment last week and now I'm nervous if he became exposed during his outing. The hospital was very strict with texting before attending, temperature checks, surgical masks on entrance. It was a private hospital and the canteen was open there so there would have been some mixing there.

There's no other symptoms especially the typical covid symptoms so he's not isolating.

I'm nervous in case it grows into something more.

I swear 2020 and covid is fcuking me up so much with nerves. Any hint of any slight off-ness makes me nervous.

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MerinoFroggie · 23/01/2021 18:43

I'm disappointed in my partner really. If this was me experiencing any symptoms, I would be self isolating at home or restricting my movements and reducing contacts for a few days. We don't live together and he never told me he had a headache until I met up with him for a walk.

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MerinoFroggie · 23/01/2021 18:47

The most scariest thing about this virus is that it can start off so mind it would be easy for people to dismiss anything small and niggling that falls outside of the typical covid symptoms. Then there's a 14 day incubation spell. Then it's a Russian roulette what what it goes from there.

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rhowton · 23/01/2021 18:50

My first symptom was a headache BUT it was a headache like I had never felt! I almost couldn't see, my head felt like it was going to explode and if I didn't go in to a cold dark room I was going to faint! Lasted about 12 hours with the worst aches of my life that I couldn't move, and then next day I woke up absolutely fine!! Heading out to the shops and went about my business! On day 4, I completely lost my sense of smell, but felt fine and normal! This was mid March and it was a few weeks later than loss of smell was classed as a symptom.

TheGreatWave · 23/01/2021 18:53

I have regular headaches, I would have no way of distinguishing a standard run of the mill one from a covid one.

Short of being tested every few days I am going to presume my headache is just that.

Jetatyeovilaerodrome · 23/01/2021 18:56

It does seem like headache is an extremely common symptom for Covid (it was my main symptom really and every adult I know who has had it has had a headache at some point) but I guess they can't put it on the official list of symptoms because you can't get a Covid test every time you get a headache!

Jetatyeovilaerodrome · 23/01/2021 18:58

Yes, my Covid headache was probably the worst headache I have ever had, but then again I don't suffer from migraines or anything like that. I literally just had to lie in bed and close my eyes and will it away!!!

sosotired1 · 23/01/2021 19:00

I had a headache in December which was just shocking, like nothing I had ever experienced. Lasted a few days and went. I didn't test as didn't have any other symptoms. No-one around me had it or any other symptoms so who knows.

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MerinoFroggie · 23/01/2021 19:19

It was very cold last night and there's no heat in his room. Hopefully it's not covid and hopefully it was just the cold. We will find out soon.

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Ozzie9523 · 23/01/2021 19:34

Yes it was my only symptom (tested positive as part of community testing).

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MerinoFroggie · 23/01/2021 23:30

Headache for him is unusual. I don't know how bad his headache was last night. He was able to chat on the phone to me for a while and he watched TV for a while before going to sleep, so I presume it wasn't too bad of a headache.

I really think he should have told me that he had a headache before he made plans to meet up with me today. Just to be on the safe side, I would have asked him to isolate and if he didn't feel like it, I would have avoided meeting with him.

Not long of the phone from him and he was sniffling down the phone. Hopefully it's not the virus and hopefully he will be ok but I'm fuming and raging all the same.

I worked so hard all of last year and I never even got a week off. I also behaved with a civil duty to follow the guidelines. All of last year. I finally got a little bit of a break and a relief this week and I received first dose of covid vaccine. I consider myself so lucky to receive vaccine and I feel sick thinking that he has potentially put my vaccine in jeopardy.

ot long of the phone from him and he was sniffling away down the phone. I'm fuming to be honest how he couldn't use a little bit of common sense and stay away from me for a day or 2 or even 3 just for things to settle down and establish if there's anything else brewing or not. If I wasn't feeling well, I would tell him and do the decent thing and stay away from him in case I passed on a possible infection.

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needadvice54321 · 23/01/2021 23:53

My son's first Covid symptom was headache closely followed a few hours later with a high temperature

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MerinoFroggie · 24/01/2021 00:07

Thank you for all of the replies and for your reply needadvice54321,

I don't think he had a fever. He never said anything about feeling feverish. My understanding is that fever doesn't come about all the time with covid. He was sniffling down the phone tonight.

I'm absolutely livid with the man because he should have told me he had a headache last night and I would have made the decision not to see him today.

I know headache doesn't occur all the time with covid and if everyone isolated with a headache, the world would probably stop.
I think he should have reduced his contacts, just for a day or two to see if any other developments were to occur with symptoms.

Im pissed off with him in case it turns out to be covid and he's just after putting me at risk when he could have just reduced his close contacts after experiencing the headache.

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borntohula · 24/01/2021 00:18

But headache and 'sniffling' are both symptoms of common cold too...

Shaniac · 24/01/2021 00:29

Headaches can also be stress, dehydration, especially when stuck indoors constantly with central heating on. He has done nothing wrong. A headache on its own isnt a know indicator of covid (even if headache is one symptom.) for example if you have a headache and nothing else you can still attend work and the nhs postal tests ask for symptoms a headache alone isnt considered a risk factor. Now he has sniffles, again he got them after he met you so stop trying to blame him. He sounds lovely helping his vulnerable family and you are acting as if he is a monster who has set out to harm you.