Has anyone had covid recently that started with a really sore throat?

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I’ve been on antibiotics for bacterial tonsilitis and they seem to have worked yet I’ve know got a really bad sore throat that won’t go away, with headache on and off and body aches, feeling tired. I was thinking it’s tonsilitis again but maybe viral and it’s suddenly crossed my mind would it be covid? Hadn’t even thought of it, but because difflam etc isn’t working on the throat it must be some kind of virus?

Currently lying on bed with COVID, resting after working online all day so sick but not too bad. Yes mine started with sore throat. And due to headache read Sambucol as Sambuca😂

I have it at the moment. Sudden sore throat on Wednesday, fatigued, snotty, with a temperature and feeling hot and cold. Tested positive today. Thankfully nothing like as bad as when I had it first time.

I now have Covid, I had the jab last autumn so am hoping it won’t be too bad. I started with sore throat for a couple of days, then headaches, nausea and fatigue.
Hoping everyone upthread is now fully recovered? Also interested to know if the rest of your household also tested positive. I have a dc doing a levels so trying to keep my distance.

@IOnlyComeOutAtNight I recovered really quick and no one else got it in household as isolated myself when kids were with me. Same boat as you , DD currently studying for Alevels. I disinfected everything like crazy and also wore a mask.

I was a bit floored for about five days. Still very tired my two house mates (sons) didn't get it so fingers crossed. It wasn't too bad just badly fatigued.

I have just had it. First time.

Sore throat, really snotty, headaches, sore back, worse anxiety, not really any cough, stomach pains etc, nausea. Wiped me out a bit for a week. Feeling better daily but still not 100% after two weeks

DS has come down with something, started with sore throat and feeling a bit rough then developed cough overnight, very productive and has vomited a couple of times after a coughing fit. Also causing mild reflux.
He spent yesterday with a friend ( he’s working as a labourer for friends dad) they were supposed to work today but his friend had been vomiting all night.

They have been nightclubbing most of the weekend, they are on a gap year but all their friends are returning from uni so no doubt bringing various infections back with them.

DS has pretty much recovered but he said it felt like “festival fever”, better known as Covid.

The last time I had Covid it lasted about 24hrs, and I just had a cough for a couple of weeks. I suspect that my job, dentist, means that I’m constantly being exposed and my immune system reacts quickly. I rarely suffer from colds or chest infections, well probably I do but my immune system reacts rapidly and the infection doesn’t fully develop.

So glad I've found. This thread. I've been wondering If ive had a variant or a mixture of illnesses. I started getting sick mid April 18/19th I think thought because I was on holiday it was air conditioning. It felt like I couldn't breathe when I had my mouth closed but no sore throat.

That progressed to a rough cold and cough producing constantly for the rest of April and a lot of May. When I returned. If I spoke I'd cough for hours. It was so bad. Worst I've felt for years. Felt so sick too. Sadly I had no covid tests at home and too weak to get any. So isolated anyway took everything I could covonia cough cold honey lemon etc.

Anyway mid May went to my GP still producing but cough and cold symptoms worn off. Told go home probably a viral infection but I still never felt 100%. I've got a weakened immune system and long term health condition but they just said it'll get better. Still would cough a little but not as dry / hacking. Wondering if the cough was whopping tbh. Or that 100 day cough people
Are talking about.

A week later had a hospital appointment still producing they did a sputum test turns out I had a Staphylococcus A bug in it. Goodness knows how long I've had it could have been Covid mixed with goodness what. I had to be given antibiotics because it's resistant to whatever I'd taken previously. I've finished the one week dose but still producing a little.

I really think even though there's no Covid advice people should be more aware and doing what they can. General cleanliness I've noticed has reduced in society massively and I'm just so scared of getting unwell. I've been so poorly on and off including several stints in hospital before.

I'm glad most of you up thread are feeling better though. I am worried for the winter.

So glad I found this - currently lying awake feeling like I'm about to die, throat killing, coughing like mad, and wheezing/crackling chest. Shivers, cracking headache, mouth full of ulcers.

I've called in sick to work tomorrow but I genuinely feel like I can't breathe - blue puffers helping somewhat. Was trying to calm down slight panic by reading MN in the night and came across this thread.

I do get boosters but haven't had one since last October.

Is there any point in calling the GP in the morning? I feel so utterly rough, never felt this sick before except when I had pneumonia and pleurisy (pre-covid). It sounds like this is covid, can they do anything to help these days?

@Xiaoxiong do take your brown puffer too and yes call the Gp for peace of mind and some tips to ease symptoms. I hope you feel better!

Well, South Wales here. I am on the third week of this nasty virus. Started with a bit of a sore throat around Monday and a bit tired. By thursday I had huge tonsils with white spots on them. GP's nu gave me a hell of a lot of antibiotics. I do not remember the name, but it included penicillin in the composition. Another week of very sore throat, post nasal drip and very very tired. But no fever, not even a day or night of it.
Then a backache, around the kidney area or above the kidney area. And a burning like feeling on chest. Now I am on coughing up mucus very very painfully.
On my commute to work I have already spotted two people with the same cough.
Also, neighbours had the same stupid tonsils with white spots.
Still, no idea of what it is. The nurse did not test me for anything.

They kept asking me f I had any wheezing om my breathing, which I did not and do not. But I am short of breath.

I had covid about a month ago. I did have a sore throat but it was more scratchy and irritated than sore. That was also how covid started for me a couple of years ago as well. The only difference this time was I didn't get the full body aches, but whereas last time apart from one day of feeling like I'd been hit by a bus. I had tons of energy and was itching to get back to work, but had to take 10 days off. This time I could barely get out of bed for a good 5 days.

The 100 day whooping cough is on the biggest outbreak for 100 days in the last ten years, so it is rather likely that is what many of us have.
It is very painful as an adult, but the ones at jigh risk are babies and children. You need to go to the GP to get the antibiotics so you stop being contagious.

I am on the mend but was exhausted for about three days. I also had headaches, nausea, mild scratchy throat and a bit of a runny nose. By far the worst symptom was tiredness.

I went to the doctor after I’d had the cough 2 weeks. They won’t give antibiotics even at that stage for 100 day cough. For context the 2 week mark is pre the whoop and the whoop is not like the distinctive sound you might imagine. I’m asthmatic

They gave me the strongest and longest course of antibiotics of my whole life. That was after the enlarged tonsils with the white spots.
If you do look online, they say the infection is bacterial and you are contagious during the "cold" like symptoms and the starting of the cough ( if you had no antibiotics) and that they will prescribe antibiotics if you go in within the first 3 weeks of it.
I suppose you were passed that point when you went in.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/whooping-cough/
Just look ot up in the NHS website.

I do hope that all of you get it into check on time.
It hurts, a lot! And it seems to last forever!
Sending ❤❤❤❤❤

I developed a cough the day before a week away. I wasn’t really sneezing much at all. Sore throat, congestion, cough. Went to gp two weeks after the cough started when main symptoms were cough and congestion.

I should add that I was told something like its viral variant. DH is a week or two behind me, he has had more sneezing but same cough.

Yes, whichever variant I had in December 2022. Before that I had Omicron which started with a headache.

I don’t test - never have never will, but the two times I am sure I had it sore throat was horrendous. Not even co-codamol touched it.
Coincided with two very busy separate weeks at work too!

Maybe both covid and whooping cough are doing the runs, which is rather concerning!
But, I never thought I had any other than severe tonsilitis till this cough from hell started. I am lucky I had the treatment. Just do not leave it without checking with the OOH or GP. Because you may have a bacterial infection.

It’s weird so many are ill with this type of virus at this time of year. If it were November I would be less surprised.

Well I called the GP this morning and they had me do a Covid test which was surprisingly negative - I had absolutely convinced myself it was Covid. So instead I'm on a week of antibiotics with regular puffers. The descriptions of whooping cough sound like the cough I have - I was vaccinated while pregnant but that was 10 years ago now.

Just goes to show there are other nasty illnesses out there that are not Covid I guess!