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Omnicrom - very emotional??

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Westmeathtip · 07/01/2022 01:24

I’m just recovering and am starting to feel like real but in the few days before I first tested, which were probably a couple of days post exposure, I was a weeping wreck and also threw up. Is this usual?

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Beenheresincethebook · 08/01/2022 01:11

Yes both the crying and the sickness

Pickledlipstick · 08/01/2022 01:13

Yes!! I was googling if covid could cause depression . Was in a very dark place especially towards the end of the 10 days where I couldn’t see the point of life and just felt tearful. I was very mildly ill too so it wasn’t feeling physically crappy effecting my mood. Also used to stopping in a lot so it wasn’t the isolation. Very strange indeed.

Itsnotover · 08/01/2022 03:49

Covid definitely causes mental health difficulties in some people - this has been mentioned a lot.

SilverPolarBear · 08/01/2022 04:38

I had it just over a month ago and felt extremely emotional for a few weeks after. Could have burst into tears at any moment.

I assumed it was all the hype of nearly two years fearing this illness, then finally having it. I also wondered if I was pregnant at one point. This thread has got me wondering now.

Nenanena · 08/01/2022 07:00

Those people reporting weepiness PRIOR to the classic symtoms starting and presumably prior to knowing they have it suggest that it is some effect of the virus rather than a response to the psychological impact of the experience of being ill or knowing you have Covid. So interesting!

Also interesting that Test and Trace said that should be counted as the start of one posters symtoms!

Original poster
Westmeathtip · 08/01/2022 08:59

Yep - I was nauseous and tearful a full 3 days before I tested positive. And by tearful, like, couldn’t get my shit together At All. Crying ugly.

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LaVidaJoker · 08/01/2022 09:05

I am on Day 5 and I’m really anxious and crying randomly. I don’t think for me it’s linked to fear or stress around covid. I had it 6 months ago and although I was exhausted and felt a bit low, it felt different.

I’ve burst into tears when I am trying to get to sleep three nights in a row now. And I wake up feeling sick with anxiety. It’s really unpleasant and I can’t wait for it to pass.

User2638483 · 08/01/2022 09:08

I felt quite low and emotional with delta, sort of 6-10 days but was party just because of feeling so rotten

ILookAtTheFloor · 08/01/2022 09:34

This is an interesting thread for me. My DH tested positive on Tuesday, my tests remain stubbornly negative but I just keep crying for some reason. Not like me. And not PMT as I'm mid cycle.

greenweepingwillow · 08/01/2022 09:39

yes me! I was very weepy for around 24 hours beofre I tested positive or had any "typical" symptoms.
and tbh emotionally I still dont feel quite right. I am now on day 15 , so out of isoltion back at work, mostly feeling ok (although tired still) etc.... but my sleep pattern is def changed, and I am having odd dreams, and still feel quite weepy at times. This morning I woke up at 5.30 am having had a very upsetting dream and I just couldnt stop crying...it was very odd. Hmm

SantasExitStratgey · 08/01/2022 09:46

@ILookAtTheFloor

This is an interesting thread for me. My DH tested positive on Tuesday, my tests remain stubbornly negative but I just keep crying for some reason. Not like me. And not PMT as I'm mid cycle.
My dc had Covid over Christmas and it was rampant around us. I tested negative on one PCR and negative on daily LFTs, I assume I didn't have it despite not distancing from dc. But I was SO emotional, I told my husband I felt like crying almost every day and I normally don't ever cry for no particular reason. I also lost the plot once and yelled at my family in a way that I have never done before and hope to never do again Hmm. I though it was the stress of it all, felt like shit about why I had become an emotional wreck and definitely thought it was peri, but who knows?
Bluntness100 · 08/01/2022 09:48

Could this be fear, anxiety, stress? As in a mental health issue in relation to it?

astoundedgoat · 08/01/2022 10:11

This is really interesting! I had terrible, very uncharacteristic nightmares the night before my symptoms & positive test, and when I woke up from one at 2am I fell into a doom spiral & for the only time in my life, suicidal thoughts flitted though my mind - and it’s almost like I knew then it was a “trick” or something invasive, because I’ve had 2am doom spirals before, but not THAT.

Then the next day I was just a heap of despair. Even my husband was like “Astounded, WTF??” because it was so almost theatrical and definitely excessive for me!

Symptoms came on that evening & positive test, and I slept brilliantly that night with wild dreams (but fun, not terrifying or distressing). Wild dreams last night too.

astoundedgoat · 08/01/2022 10:14

@Bluntness100

Could this be fear, anxiety, stress? As in a mental health issue in relation to it?
Not for me, no, because I have no Covid anxiety, was in great form earlier in the week, and had no idea I had been exposed.

I NEVER have nightmares & the sort of sorrow I felt all day Thursday was very uncharacteristic.

Covidtrap · 08/01/2022 10:48

Did anyone loose sense of taste and/or smell with omicron? Ive lost both from yesterday (day 4 today) im almost sure it is omicron as had the backache, fatigue, cold symptoms. Just wondering when it will come back 🤔

BigotSpigot · 08/01/2022 10:54

I had a terrible sense of crushing depression and anxiety the day I tested positive. In fact I had no other symptoms that day but this prompted me to test as it was so out of character and felt very 'physical' somehow. I had also just supported two friends who were both crying on multiple days with it and in such a dark place. This went after about 72 hours but then I had other issues. Still have very disordered sleep and weird dreams nearly 4 weeks later along with cognitive issues and tiredness. It's a very nasty virus.

SilverRingahBells · 08/01/2022 10:59

With bad colds / mild flu in the past I've often found myself over-emotional, not with a sense of doom, but going into floods of tears at slightly sad books or manipulative adverts. Is it just me?

Pickledlipstick · 08/01/2022 11:00

@Covidtrap I did only for about 2 days though if that, all other symptoms pointed yo omicron though and the bad back was unreal especially at night but again only for about 4 days.

nannybeach · 08/01/2022 11:02

Post viral even after flu can leave you like this

blueberrytea · 08/01/2022 11:22

Yes, I have/had mental health issues before (anxiety, depression) but I've had an unshakeable 'doom' feeling since testing positive 8 days ago and I was perfectly fine/cheerful over Christmas. First few days I was convinced I was going crazy and would need to be carted off to A&E at any moment. It's settled a bit but still feeling fairly anxious/low. Hopefully it passes soon!

Nenanena · 08/01/2022 14:20

@SilverRingahBells
I have this in the past with other illness

Nenanena · 08/01/2022 14:21

The weepiness for me felt very hormonal - the way I've felt before periods on those odd awful PMT months

CherryAndAlmond · 08/01/2022 14:27

I started a thread about this over Christmas because Omicron made me really depressed. It lasted a few days and then was fine. Very strange!

CherryAndAlmond · 08/01/2022 14:30

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4436099-Anyone-else-irritable-with-covid

I called it irritable but that's how I get when I'm down.

HairyScaryMonster · 12/01/2022 13:34

I was weepy, but I reckon it's because I've spent 2 years avoiding this and even though it's much milder now, it's a shock and a worry.