Covid and stomach pain

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I tested positive last Sunday (mild symptoms having started on Saturday) and, apart from a couple of achy/shivery days at the beginning, have had it pretty mildly. I felt totally better by Thursday (my day 5... so was really shocked to get a resoundingly positive LFT!) but on Friday afternoon I started to feel a stomach ache (and, oddly, a really sore throat, although this has not gone) come on. This got worse on Saturday and is still pretty bad. It feels like sharp cramping in my gut at times and a dull, unpleasant ache around my whole stomach, lower back and tops of legs at other times. I've gone for lots of poos today - none that I'd describe as diarrhea (sorry).

Has anyone experienced symptoms like these as a result of covid? I can't think of anything else that might have caused it.
Thanks.

I had it about four days before I tested positive, I was really worried it was something else. That’s how covid started for me. However my neighbour 5 days into covid had horrendous stomach pain for about a week and I think I saw a post on this topic yesterday. Hope you feel better soon.💐

Thanks @Katya213. Reassuring to know it isn't just me, and probably is covid.

I know this is an old thread, but I'm getting this too. It's really horrible. Did you find anything to treat it, or did it just go in the end.
Thanks in advance

The range of symptoms of covid seem to be anything from an itchy arse to your leg dropping off.

It's a respiratory virus. That will affect your respiratory system.

You seem to have picked up a gastrointestinal bug.

You are quite out of date. It is no longer referred to as only a respiratory illness. Gastric issues are well documented as are neurological issues

You have a curious turn of phrase for a medical specialist

Indeed, but the only way to be sure is to take a test.

Whilst many people seem happy to poke a stick far enough up their nose to touch their brain, few seem to want to poke around their own excrement.

@saddowizca Where have I said I was a medical specialist?

Gastric symptoms have been added to the list of Covid symptoms.

I had it at the very beginning of the first lockdown and had severe stomach pain and diahorrea. I lost 1.5 stone in 10 days.

@IanOsenfrote well seeing that you are now saying that you are well aware that it is more than just a respiratory illness, why did you assert that it was just a respiratory illness?

@IanOsenfrote - no point poking around your own excrement, even though covid can be detected from excrement, given that the tests people are given are designed to go up the nose…. Are you not aware they test sewage to get an idea of where covid rates are highest?

An upset stomach and stomach pains are very common symptoms of covid - also common symptoms of influenza and other viruses, but if you have already tested positive for covid in the last 10 days and have been isolating ever since, it is pretty pointless to try and blame it on another virus you must have picked up in the last day or two, on top of the virus you already have that commonly causes those symptoms.

@deedledeedledum Because I wasn't aware of that until I read your post and looked it up.

As you might guess, I have not bought into the whole covid hysteria so I haven't spent the last two years poring over every detail.

It still remains that the only way to be sure is to take a sample and make sure. It's more likely to be a gastrointestinal issue.

@Walkaround Yes, I do know about the sewage testing.

As I said previously, I haven't bought into the hysteria and I have never taken a covid test. Saying that, I have never shoved a swab up my nose every time I have sneezed a few times and feel a little under the weather and, I'll wager, few others have done either. Whats the difference with this particular virus?

@IanOsenfrote - fairly obviously, the differences are that tests are actually available for covid and people are naturally curious about possible causes, likely trajectories of illness and known complications, so they know if and when to be concerned; and when it was first detected, covid 19 was a novel virus and it would have been idiotic to leave an unknown virus to circulate uncontrollably when nobody knew enough about it to understand the long term consequences, it was overwhelming healthcare systems in various parts of the world, and there were no particularly effective treatments for people who were getting seriously ill. Now there is a vaccine and pretty effective treatments for people who do get very ill, it’s a different scenario.

@IanOsenfrote - there is a difference also between not buying into hysteria and posting complete and unhelpful rubbish about covid being a respiratory virus and poking around in your poo. Why do you feel the need to post inaccurate nonsense?

@Walkaround The NHS trust I work for would be very interested if your dose of squirts or vomiting is norovirus, for instance.

@IanOsenfrote Yes, but not interested enough to test your poo while you were isolating at home in February 2022 with covid.

@Walkaround Yes, I know all that. I was there in hospital in March 2020. Yes, I was a little concerned, seeing as I was very close to it but by the end of April 2020, when it was clear that it was only very dangerous to very old and those who were otherwise unwell, all the restrictions should have ended and measures geared to said vulnerable people should have been enacted instead. From that point onwards, I have been very vocal with all the stupid decisions made that cost a fortune and achieved nothing.

@Walkaround I have never had covid. Where are you getting this from?

In fact, not interested enough to test you at all unless you actually went into hospital or got ill enough to be told it was time to find out what was causing it, now, even if you were still at home.

@IanOsenfrote - have you not even read the opening post?

@Walkaround Erm, OK

You are obviously still suffering from Covidsteria so yes, any symptom you name can be attributed to covid.

In other news, most people have now moved on from covid and gone back to normal. Come on in, the water's lovely.

@IanOsenfrote - I am not remotely personally bothered by covid. I am bothered by people who post a load of bollocks for no good reason. If you are uninterested in covid, then don’t go on a thread started by someone who had tested positive for covid and was asking if their gastrointestinal symptoms were linked to their positive diagnosis, to tell anyone with covid who had gastrointestinal symptoms should also be testing their poo, and that legs dropping off were a symptom of covid.

@IanOsenfrote if by your own admission you haven't been particularly bothered with regards to keeping up to date on Covid symptoms or much else about Covid, WHY ARE YOU COMMENTING ON A COVID SYMPTOM THREAD?

@saddowizca I didn't treat it with anything other than pain killers. It didn't feel like period pain but, oddly, by the Sunday night it felt like early labour - real, griping pain in my lower abdomen and back and tops of legs. And then, even more oddly, I came on my period 2 weeks early on the Monday morning. And this period lasted for over two weeks. And then I didn't have another period for over two months. This was all incredibly unusual for me and I'm pretty sure it was all covid related. All back to normal now thankfully.

Hope you feel better soon.