COVID symptoms- nausea, sore throat. ? If you’ve had it

Did you have a PCR or just the rapid test? My colleague who had a breakthrough case had that run-down feeling, though I don't know whether nausea was a part of it.

I hope you both feel better very soon.

someone we know had all the symptoms and tested negative. They retested several days later and were positive. I'm not sure but I think their inital was a rapid and the later one wasn't

Feeling rundown, absolutely exhausted was the 1st symptom I felt when I got Covid back in December 2020. All 5 of us got it and each one of us had a different mix of symptoms. DH and oldest DS where the only 2 to have a fever.

My DD had severe nausea, diarrhea, headache, cough, muscle/bone pain, and overall weakness. Middle son had a headache, little sniffles and that's about it. Oldest son lost his sense of taste and smell, fever, headache, muscle pain, & cough. DH also lost his sense of smell and taste, fever, cough& back/muscle pain. I had a cough, muscle/bone pain, nausea, diarrhea & headache.

When my symptoms started, after exhaustion followed a scratchy throat and the sniffles. But this is back before the vaccine and the OG strain of Covid, so I'm assuming the symptoms and severity would be less severe.

Oh yeah, the kids symptoms lasted 2 weeks, DH's about a month, and as for me, I'm currently still dealing with long-covid.

Edited to add: just wanted to show you how different the symptoms could be from person to person. So evern if you only have a few symptoms, it could still be Covid.

Can you go get a PCR test instead of the rapid one?

When I had Covid both times it was headache, nausea, horrible cough/burning lungs, extreme fatigue, fever, chills, loss of taste/smell.

This past week ds and I were both quite ill with nausea, sore throat, headache, sinus, fever. We both tested negative rapid and then a few days later also negative PCR.

Regardless what it is, I sincerely hope you can hydrate, rest, and feel better ASAP!

My brother had COVID and only had gastric symptoms.

Me and my DH just got released. We both had mild cold symptoms, low grade fever and lost smell. That was pretty much it for him. My last three days were the worst. I got diarrhea BAD. Also coughed so hard my chest is so sore. Woke up at 3 am with my shirt, sheets and two pillows soaking wet with sweat.

I've heard that rapid tests are more reliable if you test positive with them. There are apparently a lot of false negatives with them. People I know who tested negative with a rapid test were also given a PCR test to double check. Many of their tests came back positive with the PCR test. Maybe see if you can get a PCR test to double check your results?

Go get a PCR test.

Same thing happened with a friend of mine. Initially negative, then positive.

I am fully vaccinated, but have what I think is a cold ( it started with a sore throat). I had to get a COVID test today because I work at a school. I’m waiting on the results.

Just like pregnancy tests only register a positive once hCG is above a certain threshold, rapid tests only register a positive once viral load is above a certain level. Test too early in either case and you will get a false negative result. PCR tests "amplify" the levels each cycle, so are more accurate with lower viral load samples. The higher the number of cycles required before the level is detected, the lower the viral load.