Is there a strange virus going around?

[Getagoodfeeling]

This is a really odd one!
started on Friday with a very sudden sore throat. Low grade fever overnight, woke to awful muscle pains, neck ache and a general feeling of low level unwell.
Saturday felt off with a running nose and aches and pains. Kept feeling warm and waves of nausea. Overnight into Sunday stomach pains started with diarrhoea and nausea, snotty nose, shivery, headache.
Symptoms are coming and going, feel a bit better one minute then headachey and off the next. Every time I eat I get stomach cramps and loose stool. Not positive for Covid (old tests tho).

It’s the stomach issues that are unusual, it’s like a low level flu bug but with a bad stomach too.

Anyone else have this?

Is anyone still struggling with digestive issues from this virus ? Its been 5 weeks now and the indigestion is still really bad.

I’m so fed up of this now. A week into my ‘cold’ / sore throat virus had an intense diarrhoea episode, then was fine after and thought better. A week after that had a really intense vomiting and diarrhoea and thought had noro or something. That ended but still felt nauseated for days. Assumed must be so it’s better finally overall, but now diarrhoea again. It’s never bloody ending. So fed up. Want to get on with life again have meetings planned it’s all so frustrating 😩 three weeks here and counting

So I’m only on day 3 of whatever this is and it’s awful 😫
started with a scratchy sore throat on Friday, then back ache and leg aches by the evening. Woke up yesterday and everything hurt, sore throat still there but less. More heady, fatigue then by the evening nausea and horrible belly pains like I’ve never felt before. This morning much of the same, belly pains, snot, heady feeling and just feeling really bloody poo!
covid and flu a/b negative but this is really something. Fed up 😢

I've got this and so does DH. I've had my flu and COVID vaccinations. I'm not as ill as DH but still have the sore throat, sneezes and headache.

Mine lasted a whole 14 days to wake up and feel normal the nausea lingered the last week and it was awful! 😭🤮 I was worried how much it lingered on for :(

Have you tried probiotics?

Yes no luck though, I do suffer with acid reflux so whatever this virus is it’s definitely set it off again and my PPI’s are struggling to deal with it,

l have been ill for 3 weeks now, not Covid, hacking cough, complete exhaustion and the most awful nausea. I keep feeling l’m getting a little bit better and then l regress and feel terrible again.l’m worried it’s taking so long to go away!

The nausea is the pits. Although I'm much better, still tired and weak and finding it hard to eat quite often. Week 3 or 4.

I’ve been ill for a month. Started off as just feeling a bit off for a week or so. Had days where I felt fine then ill/fatigue again. After 2 weeks of this my chest started hurting. Fatigue hit worse.
Chest is a bit better but I’m still wiped out after any activity. My job unfortunately is as a fitness teacher so I’m sure that is what is setting me back.

Problem is that I take a few days off, I rest, feel better, go back to work and within half an hour I’m feeling nauseous and exhausted and that lasts for the rest of the day. I don’t know what to do. Rest only seems to work until I have to do something again.

I have never been ill for this long in my life. Even when I had severe flu. Starting to worry about post- viral fatigue or long Covid now.

Haven’t actually tested for Covid - it just feels like that to me as fatigue was my main symptom with Covid. Could be something else though.

Day 5. Feeling much worse, heady and dizzy. Muscle aches and sore throat is back and I’m fed up. No nausea today and have a huge appetite but nothing tastes right at all.
still Covid and flu negative. This is horrendous

oh and the sneezing fits are so powerful!!

i hated the taste!! I felt like I was pregnant as i don’t handle pregnancy well I get hyperemsis (sickness) to point I have to go in to hospital every other day for the drip.. but i usually love orange and pinapple juice and Omg I made my toddler one and it evens smelt weird and nothing tasted right I was worrying it was lasting longer then your usual cold .. but then some people’s last a month and still nausea and fatigue can last a tad longer then that :( I’m feeling all better now apart from if I’m out in the cold my sinisus start to hurt and I get head ache (never suffered with it before I got this weird virus lol )

@Donetrying1 keep resting as much as you can, I was dehydrated and I had awful nausea too :( keep drinking plenty towards the end I was forcing water down and I stopped worrying about it and took it easy and just suddenly woke up feeling myself and feeling hungry I had no apetite and it’s not like me I’m usually starving lol

I have had this since last Thursday, started headache, then cough, tight chest omg that was horrible, oxometer reading 90 hr 59, b.p low 111 called said go to a e , antibiotics but sore throat comes goes, slight crackle on right lung they said , but omg feeling like I have run marathon just no energy , tired fuzzy head, sinus problems, this is some nasty virus , hope all on here make a speedy recovery xxxx

I can’t believe I’m posting on this thread again. Just to summarise, my first cold symptoms were 29 sept, mild sniffles, okay for a week then a bad cold, then bad sinusitis, a/bs, eventually recovered. Now have flu confirmed by lateral flow. Has been the worst ever and I’m sure it’s been so bad as I’ve pretty much had some kind of infection all through October.

So glad I found this thread, I think I had this virus for the whole of October. I had about a week of feeling slightly better and then caught another cold. I actually broke down and cried when I started coughing again. Thankfully the second cold wasn't anywhere near whatever I had the first time and it got better after a few days.

I am still nowhere near back to my normal energy levels but I have a serious heart condition and it always takes me ages to get back to my 'normal'.

I tested for COVID too and it was negative.

I don’t know whether to go to a private GP (already been to normal GP
and chest was clear). I just wake up feeling the same every day with zero improvement- worried about post viral fatigue/long Covid.

Or do I just need to accept this virus takes over a month to clear? I’d feel better if there was linear improvement. It’s very one step forward, 2 steps back. I’m also sick of trying to rest. I used to run 25 miles a week!

@Delatron how long have you had it for now? It’s an awful virus I thought it was flu I no you can have a bad case of flu and it knock you off your feet for a while .. also the GP told me when I asked how long I’ll have zero energy for .. he said do you want the bad news ? It can take a while to recover luckily on day 14 I woke up and felt right as rain again! Xx

@Cookie2204 It’s been on and off for a month now. First week felt like I was fighting it - so fine on some days and not ln others. Then 2 weeks in I went downhill with chest pain. That has improved but I’m left with lingering fatigue and I don’t know how to make it better. Rest doesn’t seem to have an impact!

@Delatron you Probly got the virus and then maybe a chest infection on top off the virus so then it’s like added more weeks onto your illness :( I had the virus for a week felt better 1 night then woke up with nausea and fatigue then got sinusitis and had to have antibiotics ! 🙏🏻🙏🏻 hopefully you’ll be feeling better very soon!! Xx

Thanks @Cookie2204 that’s probably it. And makes it slightly easier to deal with rather than think I’ve been ill with one thing for a month!

Hope everyone is feeling better soon and we have super immunity going on to Christmas!

Todays diary update 🤣
woke up feeling ropey but felt so much more energy as the morning went on. By 1pm I crashed on the sofa and had a nap. Woke up feeling ok ish but still a bit out of it. Did the school run and when I got home I was ok… by 5pm I felt awful again, body aches back, fatigue and as I write this the nausea is back with vengeance. My 12 year old is man down and off school too 🙄. Worse bit for me is my mum moves to Spain on the 8th of December and I haven’t been able to join in on any of the last spending time together events as I’m so unwell and I’m now worried I won’t get to see her before she goes as it just seems never ending.

been unwell on and off for about 2 months but this last 6 days have knocked me off my feet! Just wish it would show up as covid or flu so I could cross that off my wish list for the festive season 🤣

Found my people.

I’ve had a low level cold for 3 weeks until last Friday when I felt run over by a truck. Vomiting, blinding headache, aches coughing, falling asleep at random. I had taken Friday & Monday off to get ready for Christmas but spent 4 days on the couch.

i managed to do a tiny bit of work yesterday &’Tuesday but will admit defeat today & phone in sick.

i havent eaten in a week as i cant keep anything down. Please tell me i might feel like a human soon or is this my life now?

Oh poor you. I had the same feeling this morning ‘is this my life now?’

I would just like to see some improvement. The only good thing is I haven’t had a cry this morning (yet!).

It sounds like you may have had 2 things back to back?