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Tell me your weird covid symptoms

251 replies

Finallygotme · 28/01/2022 04:46

Mine is insomnia. I am so very tired (as expected) but I can't sleep.

What other delights have people had?

OP posts:
OliveTree75 · 28/01/2022 19:14

Weird shingles type rash on my back. And extreme hunger.

Invasionofthegutsnatchers · 28/01/2022 19:14

Face ache. Like, all my face bones hurt.

Sore gums.

Awful stomach issues.

Jenjen21 · 28/01/2022 19:55

I had this too.. My face and teeth hurt so much! Like pressure from sinus.. I felt like pulling my teeth out!!

HashtagSexy · 28/01/2022 20:14

My chest feeling tight and weird like there's not enough space and my lungs were irritated. And I kept smelling piss everywhere!

Roses1221 · 28/01/2022 20:18

Felt a bit spaced out. Had to stop the car and ask OH to take over the driving!

MooPointCowsOpinion · 28/01/2022 20:18

Insomnia too! And back ache, tight chest, exhaustion, my skin peeling off and hair falling out. 4 weeks of this!

BBCONEANDTWO · 28/01/2022 20:19

My feet - burning like sharp pains through them. Really weird they feel really really hot.

ShadowKitty · 28/01/2022 20:33

Insomnia but then vivid dreams when I fell asleep.

Very dry mouth.

Twitchy eye.

Face randomly going bright red and hot but no fever.

QueenOfHiraeth · 28/01/2022 20:36

I seem to have a roulette wheel of loads of these symptoms on and off.
Backache, tingling lower legs and hands, low oxygen readings, tight chest and off my food in a very weird way - I don't fancy real meals but could exist on hot buttered toast

JuniorMint · 28/01/2022 20:40

Huge zit on my chin!

Pleasegivemeyourwisdom · 28/01/2022 20:49

I keep smelling smoke - maybe I should lft Confused

RMS0209 · 28/01/2022 20:50

hi all - has anybody had AF while testing positive? Just wondering if anybody had anything different... I'm still quite heavy CD4 hope she isn't over staying welcome!

hayley013 · 28/01/2022 20:51

Lower back pain and intensely severe restless legs, so painful

Tippytaps · 28/01/2022 20:56

Insomnia for me too! I. Was. So. Tired. and yet sleep would not come. Insomnia is still lingering for me a month later, I’ve resorted to sleeping pills for the first time in my life.

Another one was problems with my heart, but that seems quite common now, everyone I know has a sister/friend/son with cardiac problems after covid.

Patbutchersarrow · 28/01/2022 21:17

No insomnia for me, I could have slept for a week!! Awful lower back pain was my first symptom followed by a bad headache and temp with chills. I had no appetite The thought of food made me feel sick. About a week after I kept tasting a funny chemical/ vinegar taste when I ate certain foods, dh and dd had the funny taste too.

2Sleeps2Go · 28/01/2022 21:25

Bad nausea yesterday evening, woke very warm in the night, couldn't get back to sleep, not like me at all. When I did get back to sleep very vivid dreams.

Someone mentioned the eye thing. A week ago I went to the drs as it felt like I had something in my eye constantly but they could only see a slightly inflamed eye lid with their special tool. Nothing at all I could see. Had antibiotic eye drops, it didn't make that much difference.

I have only tested positive today though. My DD tested positive Monday and I've had the general bit of cough, and really scratchy throat since then.

Also weird shooty/stabbing pains in wrists. So strange!

sleepraptor · 28/01/2022 21:27

@hayley013

Lower back pain and intensely severe restless legs, so painful
Exactly this!

Plus incredible itchy rash all over my scalp - raised tiny lumps everywhere that lasted weeks gradually reducing. Plus vertigo.

StampOnIt · 28/01/2022 21:35

Aching ankles

polkadotpixie · 28/01/2022 21:37

DS burped relentlessly....probably close to 100 times a day!

Sonata13 · 28/01/2022 21:38

Rash on hand that responded to steroid cream.
Insomnia. Heart palpitations. Constant hot legs and feet! Cough. Utter exhaustion.

greenboots1987 · 28/01/2022 21:48

I was really emotional, and I was getting extremely upset over the smallest, stupidest things e.g. there weren't any clean spoons in the drawer, so I had to wash one up. I cried for half an hourGrin

Wishihadanalgorithm · 28/01/2022 21:52

I’m on day 4 after doing a LFT. About a week before I felt incredibly depressed and could have cried at anything - though this may be menopause.
Since diagnosing I have lost my sense of taste and smell, had a bit of an upset stomach, have bouts of crushing tiredness come on me from nowhere, struggle to fall asleep at night and feel incredibly thirsty.

I’m done with this shit!

FoxBaseBeta · 28/01/2022 21:58

I had some absolutely bonkers dreams and my left eye won't stop twitching, though that's probably to do with the stress of WFH feeling a bit shit, while trying to get the kids to do school work...Hmm

Caramel181 · 28/01/2022 22:18

I've now got face pain that's also giving me toothache. Probably due to sinus pressure. Also a constant ringing in ears and eyes feel really hot and puffy.

Camdenish · 28/01/2022 22:31

Yes to the insomnia, so unexpected as I can usually fall asleep easily. I felt really tearful and almost hormonal too, then down and sad.