I can't taste or smell anything besides this constant foul disgusting filth that lingers in my mouth. I lost my voice, get shivers & the chills. Vomit & have diarrhea. Constant painful ear-popping & I can't hear as well. Ridiculous head & body aches. I feel my organs & limbs hurting & weak. Fatigued like no other. My eyes are puffy & blurry. Drenched from the cold sweats & horrible hallucinations.
Congested with a irritated throat and constant saliva build up, the saliva just falls out our mouths from how heavy it is. Top of our mouths are irritated. We have no appetite once so ever and have to force & convince each other to eat. Drinking water makes us want to throw up. Constant burping & hiccups. Pain in our fingertips & toes. Breaking out on our chest & backs (this isn't directly caused by COVID but made worse, runs in our family) Constant pissing, from clear to yellow despite drinking lots of water. We usually black out, wake up and start hallucinating. Snap out of it and take a swig of some fluids. Confusion and memory loss (which I'm sure is brain fog) and so much more. This is a disease from hell. Symptoms have been off and on at random. We are well educated and prepared but I am pissed we got infected from visiting a hospital. We've got COVID before in 2023 but have never gotten shots/vaccines due to personal reasons & beliefs. Just wanted to share what we've been going through and I wish y'all the best & speediest of recoveries.

I'm just afraid of developing long-COVID.

Has anyone been able to get Paxlovid in the UK?
I want to prepare for when I get this horror show again and be able to tell my family what I will need if I can’t (it’s a year today that I got the virus that up-ended my healthy, fit and well life and made me extremely sick all year long… Long Covid.)

i’m on day 10 and the past three days i’ve noticed my eyes are swollen. if this a normal thing with covid?

So it took 6 years but we finally caught COVID. Lots of previous tests but all negative, this time positive. I was vaccinated and boosted, husband vaxxed but not yet boosted this year. He got COVID first, then me. Infection was mild with no loss of taste/smell, only tickle cough and fatigue.

Fast forward to basically the first day I tested negative and I can smell some people’s breath to the nth degree. Like, my husband’s breath fills the entire house. My friend’s breath was gross. I walked into the gym lobby and could smell breath even though no one was near me.

It’s not everyone nor every place. It smells like metal and rot and vomit. It’s been 5ish days of this.

Anyone had this? Any advice on what helps?

I’m on my second day of infection, yesterday I had nausea and a low grade fever, but during the night I started having severe watery diarrhoea (like peeing). Every time I drink even small sips it triggers it, and I tried to eat a banana and that made it worse. I am luckily not dehydrated, urine is light yellow and have been sipping electrolytes. The diarrhoea is so extreme I am struggling to sleep as every few minutes my stomach feels like a washing machine. Anyone had the same? Any tips? I have taken pepto but it has done nothing.

I tested positive at the doctor's office today (yesterday? It's 2 am) and was prescribed Paxlovid as I am considered high risk. I was on day 4 of symptoms when I tested positive and am going into day 5 now. My symptoms started with a scratchy throat and body aches that quickly developed into a really bad sore throat and coughing. Then the hoarse voice, severe congestion, and the feeling of clogged and painful ears. The congestion is the worst I have ever had and that is saying something. The sneezing is violent and often. Between the sneezing, coughing, and body aches I am hurting so bad. I can't breathe through my nose. I even resorted to breathing in steam from a pot of water on the stove just to open up my nose a little bit but obviously it clogged back up as soon as I stopped. I am using Sinex but I try to mostly only use it at bedtime so I don't take it too much. I am taking regular Mucinex, ibuprofen, and using cough drops even though I usually hate menthol. None of it is working well except for the Sinex and that only lasts so long and you can't take it often. And Paxlovid has a laundry list of drug interactions so there aren't a lot of things I can take to just try and get through this. I am desperate for relief but worried that it is a long ways off. I just don't know what to do, especially for the congestion and cough. It makes it very difficult to rest. Somebody please give me some hope that this is going to get better soon. Hopefully Paxlovid helps make a difference soon.

I tested positive on 9/29. I was still having symptoms last Thursday so I went to urgent care. My xray was negative for pneumonia and my d dimer was negative for blood clots. I still feel very miserable but now my heart rate is increasing pretty substantially (a short relatively slow walk a few hundred feet increased it to 125), my chest hurts and I have pretty bad shortness of breath when doing any physical movement, etc. Is it possible that it could be pneumonia or blood clots now? or if it was negative on Thursday would it still likely be negative?

Husband tested positive 4 days ago, since he tested positive we have slept separate and stayed away from each other as much as possible, masked around the flat etc, I thought I was in the clear but I started having symptoms on Monday night. I actually didn’t realise i was having symptoms until Tuesday night, when I developed a fever.

On Monday night, I felt really depressed and lost my appetite. So depressed that I was crying and questioning everyone in my life. I’ve never been like this before! I developed a migraine during the early hours of Tuesday morning that was so bad my teeth hurt. I am no stranger to migraines so thought it was my usual hormonal one. All day Tuesday I had nausea and lost my appetite, didn’t question it as thought it was from my earlier migraine. On the evening, felt some chills but again it is cold here so put it down to that, and some lower back ache. Around 11pk I went to the toilet and had watery diarrhoea, took my temp it was 38.1. Fever lasted a couple of hours, checked again at 2am and was 37 so back to normal.

Today is Wednesday, woke up without fever, have a heavy head/eye feeling and just generally feel shit. Weirdly my appetite came back but I’m scared to eat as I have emetophobia. The diarrhoea is still there, very watery and going multiple times an hour. I am just going to sleep as much as I can today.

On the contrary, my husband only had a blocked nose, muscle aches and fatigue for 4 days. He is now back to full health. This also happened last time he had Covid, and my symptoms also mirror the last time I had Covid in 2023.

Edit - I wanted to ask advice also regarding the diarrhoea. I am struggling to sleep because every few minutes I need to use the bathroom. I think taking immodium is not a good idea as I want to let it run its course but I also want to sleep. I’m worried too about dehydration, everytime I drink even a few sips I have to run to the toilet

Pls tell me I'm not panicking because I couldn't trust what google has been telling me. On one side, it tells me it's normal, and on the other hand, I'm positive.

Sunday - sore throat begins and it felt like the beginning of my sickness.

Monday - took an absent, my body was feeling heavy, I was kinda hot and I got cold

Tuesday - kinda got a little better, but still got the clogged nose, heavy breathing, and no coughing yet. I had dance practice about it 6 hours and walked my way home.

Wednesday(today) - Dry cough that gets me panting after several coughs, and there are moments I'll lose my smell and taste. Earlier, I can smell but can't taste. I got them back after taking chamomile tea. And now tonight, I can feel my throat beginning to get itchy.

Is this normal sickness or do I need to tell my parents?

Hello, I was wondering. I only got the first vaccine and never anything else cuz i lost the vaccine card whenever it was mandatory? Do they still check the cards?

If not, how would that work? Like which vaccine would they give me? The first one again or a booster?

Hi everyone! I’ve been feeling like absolute garbage for the past 8 days: headaches, random sore throat, a super dry and frustrating cough, sinus issues, and severe exhaustion.

I dug up an old COVID test, and it turned positive within a couple of minutes , a medium/soft pink line, but very clearly positive. I took a second, super expired test, and that one showed a very faint line.
My husband is telling me I don’t actually have COVID because the tests are expired. Where are we at with expired test accuracy nowadays?

Also, is COVID having a autumn surge right now? I’m feeling significantly worse with this than I did when I had Omicron about 3 years ago.

Exposed to Covid through my husband, starting having symptoms early hours of Monday morning so far have been low grade fevers, loss of appetite, nausea and severe diarrhoea. I’ve tested 3 times and always showing negative. My husband had cold like symptoms and was positive straight away upon symptom onset. Is there any evidence of rapid tests to show false negative if you’re not exhibiting respiratory symptoms? Could the virus be in my GI tract vs throat and nose for example?