[Closed] Can you have a cold at the same time as covid?

Probably just COVID. The symptoms list is pretty big and affects people differently. It has changed a lot with different variants and loss of taste and smell is much less common now than with earlier variants.

I think the first strains of covid were notable for not being very cold-like and symptoms more focused on chest / coughing - but that was the most common symptoms experienced and people could suffer quite a broad range of other symptoms. Symptoms distinct from a cold is how we identified covid when we didn’t have testing in place but that of course means we would have overlooked cases of covid that were a lot like a cold, It seems the current strains are a bit more varied but of course an edge is taken off them by vaccination.

YOu can have a cold without having covid too.... trust me.... man-flu is ravaging our house lol.

I’ve just had COVID / got COVID (tested positive for 13 days).

COVID symptoms were - sneezing lots, coughing, trembling, brain fog, incredible headaches/head and neck pain, insomnia, burning up without a temp, rapid onset acute tiredness ie ok one minute, next had to go and lye down. Upset stomach/feeling sick

Never once had a temp.

I’m over the worst of it now but feel like I have the mother of all colds that just isn’t shifting.

Family had all the above symptoms to a lesser extent

I remember a respiratory consultant at work saying about 10 months ago that sneezing was the new cough with COVID.

Apparently this latest strain is also effecting men more and lasting longer in men too

I have it just now, it is very much like a cold, albeit a bit longer lasting -over a week now - but with a cough/headache initially.

BUT I’ve also got shit loads of snot, sneezing like hell etc.
No loss of taste

The amount of sneezing and runny nose I had with Covid was comparable to mild hayfever. I didn't have much more in the way of symptoms other than I did have a loss of taste/smell, but that is apparently less common with omicron.

There is of course no reason why you can't be infected with more than one virus at a time.

@weeksey after 5 days my man flu tested positive as covid

Of course these days you might never know

indeed ampthill, dunno... i am hoping i'm coming out the other side either way... but, who knows.

Of course ‘a cold’ isnt any specific disease.  It’s a set of symptoms that are your body’s response to any of 200 or so different infections - including a range of different corona viruses.

No temp
No head ache
No loss of taste

Achy joints
Very heavy legs
Cough but not persistent really
Bloody tired
Lots of snot!
Foggy head

All like my hayfever at this time of the year 🤷🏻‍♂️ but + lft

Dr on radio 4 was saying that Covid is so prevalent at the moment that if you have cold symptoms the likelihood is that you have Covid 19.

I think you can simultaneously have pretty much anything alongside Covid. It doesn’t seem too fussed about exclusivity

My mum had it a few weeks ago and was still feeling terrible with difficult breathing a couple of weeks after testing negative. A chest x-Ray last week has shown up that she’s also got pneumonia.

Good job she’s indestructible! She’s just annoyed that she hasn’t got the energy to go out on her bike

No temp
Noslight head ache
No loss of taste

Achy joints
Very heavy legs
Cough but not persistent really
Bloody tired
Lots of snot!
Very Foggy head

Plus a raging sore throat...positive LFT, but none of the other 3 in the household has tested positive (yet)

Covid has visited our household twice and first time round struck down the missus and both kids. I had a cold at the time so never tested positive, either lft or pcr, or noticed any change in my usual symptoms (I get so many colds it's unreal).

2nd time round the Mrs and little one got it but myself and the boy stayed negative as we both had colds at the time.

Imagine having Covid, a cold and hayfever all at the same time. 😮

I'm just coming out of it (I hope) after about a week of feeling essentially like I had a really bad cold.

Lost taste and smell but I think they're coming back a bit now.

In my experience it's been very much like having a bad cold. Similar to what Funkydunc describes up there plus quite a bit of fever at night, waking up soaking and freezing me butt off.

COVID symptoms were – sneezing lots, coughing, trembling, brain fog, incredible headaches/head and neck pain, insomnia, burning up without a temp, rapid onset acute tiredness ie ok one minute, next had to go and lye down. Upset stomach/feeling sick

I'm on day 9 today. I had 2 days of sore throat and body aches (afternoon naps required). Then 2 days of heavy blocked nose. Then a wet cough for a few days which has now turned dry and damn annoying. The blocked nose remains to a lesser degree. I feel much better sat outside breathing fresh air, strangely.

My other half has been covid positive with minor symptoms for the last 10 days. I've tested negative throughout but had a full on head cold, my nose has been dripping like a leaking fridge. Maybe a different cold stopped me getting covid because I'm full of antibodies?

Have it now.  I was away for the weekend but my wife tested pos late on Sunday night. I tested neg on Monday then Tuesday AM. But started to develop a cough so did a PCR test on Tuesday PM. It came back positive followed by an +LFT yesterday.

I have had a cough, mild sore throat and occasional  headaches.  I've been feeling generally lethargic and tired.  No aches and pains, no sneezing, no loss of taste or smell. It peaked yesterday and feels slightly better today, my cough is a bit 'looser' and more phlegmy.

TBH if I'd never heard of Covid I'd have thought it was a bog standard cold. My wife has the same symptoms but with a few muscle aches and pains.

57 triple jabbed.

I think we should all have our own individual threads to describe our Covid symptoms. I'm gonna start mine now

A bad cold and covid have been ravaging my household for the past 3-4 weeks now. We had symptoms but tested negative for almost 2 weeks, then tested positive for almost as long, now We're all testing negative again. I've no idea which bug our lingering symptoms are down to, but..eeuk.

As above, had it a couple of weeks ago and it went from feeling like flu to a heavy cold, sore throat, snot, sneezing, fatigue, and a sore body.

Wife and daughter had it a few weeks before and even though I kept testing negative at the time I felt rough as guts with low energy in the period between then and testing positive.

bikerevivesheffield
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No temp
No head ache
No loss of taste

Achy joints
Very heavy legs
Cough but not persistent really
Bloody tired
Lots of snot!
Foggy head

me to a tee, tested negative on LFT's for past week - have been testing as shared meeting rooms with others who all then went +ve.

Went out for 25 miles from home on road bike last night, was a bit underdressed for the cold wind and snow showers, and it was a 12mph plod vs my usual 13.5 - 14mph. Felt terrible, home, bath, bed, shivers. Better today but legs still like lead

I think we should all have our own individual threads to describe our Covid symptoms

The symptoms now that people are getting are different to what was originally described as COVID so understandable that people are querying

A common one now is people ending up in hospital because insomnia has taken hold and their body hasn’t been able to fight the infection. Part of the treatment is sleeping tablets !

I wouldn’t have known that if people hadn’t shared their experience

A common one now is people ending up in hospital because insomnia has taken hold and their body hasn’t been able to fight the infection. Part of the treatment is sleeping tablets !

I wouldn’t have known that if people hadn’t shared their experience

Have you got any links to more info on this? Had Covid at the start of March (cold like symptoms but with nasty hacking dry cough, +ve PCR). Was never very ill but since then really, really struggled with sleep. Not yet back to being able to exercise - work / family / basic life admin is taking up all available energy.

My sleep patterns are haywire, but had put that down to 3 young kids and assume difficult nights. It doesn't help with 'getting over' it though.

Same boat with the young kids but weirdly they've all been sleeping like logs since January

I had a couple of days with something that felt like flu, tested negative and then I felt fine for a day. then it came back for a couple of days, tested negative again and I perked up. Then I tested positive last Wednesday. I took it easy for a few days because I didn't felt quite 100% but I've been back to normal since yesterday but I'm getting the faintest of faint lines on my lateral flows and my PCR from Tuesday came back positive.
Probably coincidence but for the last 2 weeks I've had a pain in my left foot that might be cramp, might be a sprain, I can't recall a specific thing that's caused it but it's playing havoc with my sleep.
So, short version: When I feel bad I get a negative test, when I feel fine it's positive.

I wouldn’t have known that if people hadn’t shared their experience

Surely if you were interested you could read it in the thread called "The Coronavirus discussion thread" where such things are discussed?

Have you got any links to more info on this?

Nope from front line colleagues at work

There was some evidence that being exposed to infected with a cold at the start of a Covid-19 infection actually displaced the C-19 infection.

Didn’t stop you having a stinker of a cold (about half of which are various coronaviruses as I recall) but the cold out competed the C-19.

Whether that evidence a) actually stands up to proper review and b) is still true with the more virulent strains, I don’t know.

Yep, I'm on day 10 of being Covid-19 positive now, started with flu like symptoms with high temp, that cleared in a couple of days, now can't shift the horrible cough, phlegm and blocked nose - just like a cold TBH. The 3 rides I did in the last week, weirdly didn't seem to help either 🙂

Humans are susceptible to six coronavirus, as far as I’m aware, something I read at the beginning of the outbreak: four are variations of the ‘common cold’, one is MERS - Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and the other is SARS, South Asian Respiratory Syndrome, which is what’s ravaging the world now - SARS-Cov2. Ultimately humans will become used to it as it continues to mutate into less dangerous forms, which seems to be happening as predicted some time back.
I’ve had colds that have lasted three months in the past, made me feel utterly miserable, constantly bunged-up sinuses, head producing what seemed like oceans of green goo, I’d go through a bog-roll a day, just blowing my nose, before it settled onto my chest. 😫
I had another, which may possibly have been flu, although I had that in the past, and was almost unconscious in bed for a week, I can’t remember it clearly, but the more recent dose, had me wrapping myself in bath towels in bed because I was feeling cold and shivering but sweating heavily. 🥵

No temp
No head ache
No loss of taste

Achy joints
Very heavy legs
Cough but not persistent really
Bloody tired
Lots of snot!
Foggy head

This plus insomnia and shivers last night.Felt a bit off going bed and tested positive this morning ☹️.