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.

Guess what I was hospitalised with last summer? Covid gastroenteritis! No poo prodding occurred. It's definitely A Thing.

Glad you're all better OP. I had v weird cycles for a while too.

Although obviously on my discharge papers it said I had Covidsteria.

Oh we are such silly gooses! 😁

Covid negative today, and stomach fine today, (no sticks in poo required 😂). Thanks so much for your help and support yesterday.
One of the things that I love about [the majority of] mumsnetters, is that you are well-informed, supportive and very helpful. 👏

I had terrible stomach pains on day 3 of Covid worst pains ever and found this old thread which reassured me it's one of the symptoms thankfully it eased by day 4 x

Can I ask how you know you’ve never had covid if you’ve never tested for it?

If you are referring to me, I would ask you why you think I would test for something that I have never had any symptoms of?

Hi no I’m not saying you SHOULD have ever tested, I’m just saying that you can’t confidently say you’ve never had covid, because you’ve never tested, and as we know by now you can have it without any symptoms.

So just saying that you may well have had it and not even known.

Yes, thats true but you could say the same for Yellow Fever, Rabies or Ebola.

If an infection causes me no symptoms, I am not going to fret whether I have had it or not. Lifes too short.

Other people may think differently.

I don’t think you should fret over anything!! I didn’t mean anything by the original comment, except that you can’t know for sure if you’ve had covid because of the fact that so many people get it asymptomatically.

I’m not sure about those other illnesses you mentioned, I don’t know 100% but I think you’d probably know for certain if you had any of them.