Severe back pain, nausea - any ideas?

[moggerhanger]

I've been having nasty back pain on and off for around a fortnight, plus nausea and dry mouth. Mainly left side just below ribcage, but can extend right across lower back and sort of wraps around onto the area above my hip bones. I've been keeping mobile and not resting like you're supposed to, but it makes it worse. Tonight it woke me up it was that bad. NSAIDs don't touch it, only Co-codamol. No problems weeing or anything like that though.

I've got a telephone appointment with my GP practice physio Wednesday (that's how they triage back pain) but should I try 111?

I’ve had this recently. Tired and fuzzy. Back pain which spread into my arms and legs, and round to my abs. It got so bad that I couldn’t walk or type. I got worse for maybe three weeks then slowly started getting better. Still no explanation, GP shrugged and said it must be a virus because there’s nothing else wrong.

COVID causes all sorts of random symptoms, if you read any of the current covid threads on here there's full body pains, back aches, nausea...

Yes I’ve heard that new strains of Covid are less focused on respiratory symptoms. Lots of people are getting debilitating aches and pains with no respiratory issues, and going to the doctor because they don’t realise it’s Covid.

Kidney infection?

Thanks everyone. I hadn't thought of Covid!