People vaccinated against Covid share common symptom after testing positive

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While it may be widely known that common symptoms of Covid include fatigue, a sore throat, and headaches, there is another widespread symptom being cited among sufferers.

According to data gathered by the ZOE Health Study app, diarrhea is a common symptom of Covid for vaccinated Britons.

Data shows that there was a rise in people reporting this symptom in January 2022, and that some of this was related to the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

However, the ZOE team pointed out that there seemed to be a “wave of other non-Covid tummy bugs going around too”.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/people-vaccinated-against-covid-share-common-symptom-after-testing-positive/ar-AA11qejx

[yardwork]

1. I didn't experience that.

The water and sewer system in Britain is not great, probably worse than ever now, and it's been a very hot summer. It's possible the gastric upset is due to other causes.

[Grasswire2]

2. just sitting here wondering why we don't have a Covid forum on DU.

Or maybe I missed it?

My adult daughter is very ill with it and hundreds of miles away.

[StarryNite]

12. I would like to have a COVID forum here on DU.

[Hugin]

14. I'm terribly sorry to hear about your daughter.

I hope she’s doing better very very soon.

I’ve been asking about a COVID forum or maybe a public health group for two and a half years.

Is there a global warming forum?

[Grasswire2]

15. my daughter, ill with Covid, was fully vaccinated and boosted, and careful.

Her twin daughters brought it home from summer camp. They, too, vaccinated. But ten-year-old girls at summer camp are not careful.

And so she tended them when they came home sick. What else is a mother to do?

And now she's sick and scared, too, of it being Long Covid.

I don't say this to her, but summer camp was a mistake.

And just think of all the children, all the children who are missing life experiences due to Donald J. Trump's desire to destroy America by demonizing masks.

[XanaDUer2]

3. I've lost taste and smell

I'm devastated. Didn't have diarrhea

[Pinback]

4. "The data found this symptom has become less prevalent with each variant,

…as nearly a third of adults aged over 35 reported having diarrhoea during the Alpha wave, while just one in five said they experienced it during the Omicron and Delta waves.”

Yet the headline sensationalizes the information to make it sound like this is a new thing to worry about. The real takeaway is still “vaccinations save lives.” A couple of days of extra bathroom visits vs. going to the hospital? I’m happy to be vaccinated.

[Ms. Toad]

6. Some GI symptoms require hospitalization - I got pancreatitis as a gift from COVID.

No idea whether the risk of that increased with vaccination.

[Pinback]

10. Ugh -- good point.

Sorry to hear of your complications. I know from your previous posts you’re careful, so that must have been a shock as well as unpleasant.

I haven’t relaxed masking, distancing, and avoiding risky situations. Sick of it all like everybody else, but I don’t want no BA5 or any of the other flavors. Vaccination alone is not enough to avoid Long COVID and the other gifts this virus continues to bestow.

[Ms. Toad]

11. I caught it from my spouse, who is not so careful.

I always knew if I got it, she would be the source. Ordinarily, when she has been in risky situations (or has an allergy attack) I move to the living room in my recliner and crank up the air purifier. Since we were on vacation, with a single sleeping room, it was impossible for me to move to a different room once she started having symptoms. (And, she initially tested negative - so we thought it was likely just another allergy attack (she has severe allergies)). So catching COVID was not such a shock.

I contracted COVID 3 weeks after my last booster - so vaccination doesn't always keep COVID away, although I'm sure it was responsible for my very mild symptoms during COVID, itself. But both long COVID and pancreatitis can apparently be associated with even asymptomatic COVID. Vaccination lessens the risk of long COVID, but doesn't eliminate it. I don't know about pancreatitis.

The pancreatitis was definitely a shock, since the initial testing showed I don't have the main risk factors for it (gall stones or daily consumption of alcohol of around 4-8 drinks a day for 6-12 years). The second (chronic acalculous cholecystitis) was even more of a shock, since I'm not on death's doorstep (the criteria for that diagnosis). The doctor just assumed I was lying about alcohol consumption because of the absence of objective risk factors, and told me to stop drinking so much. Fortunately I know to keep pushing - they ran a battery of tests to rule out less obvious causes, and I followed up last week with a pancreatic specialist who confirmed my suspicion that it was induced by COVID.

As a public health matter - it is alarming that pancreatitis is associated with COVID for three reasons (1) it is a life-threatening condition which needs to be managed in the hospital, (2) most people don't know the symptoms - and mine were mild enough that most people would not have gone to the ER, and (3) it is not a well-known complication of COVID.

Personally, once I got past the acute phase, it is a relief to know COVID caused it. It will make my life easier going forward - since I'm struggling to eat enough calories within the diabetes/pancreas/gall bladder approved foods. I'll give it another month (just to make sure nothing else weird crops up), but at my next check-in with the doctor I expect to return to normal eating.

[Ms. Toad]

5. I caught COVID in a group which was 100% vaccinated.

There were roughly 100 of us in the group, 20 caught COVID. About 1/3 of those started wtih diarrhea. Since we were in Mexico, they believed it to have been caused by accidentally drinking the water. None of them tested positive until later when they started showing more classic symptoms.

I did not have any (overt) GI symptoms during COVID, but about 4 weeks after I recovered I was diagnosed with two GI conditions: acute pancreatitis and chronic acalculous cholecystitis (mad gall bladder). That was a month ago, and I was finally able to see a specialist who says the first is COVID-induced pancreatitis (he's seeing a fair amount of it - usually 2-3 weeks after recovery). He says the latter is a mis-diagnosis, but the symptoms which led to the diagnosis were COVID-induced.

I didn't ask him if he's seeing it in vaccinated or unvaccinated people - but I did later confirm that pancreatitis is a reasonably well documented post-COVID event.

[gldstwmn]

7. Diarrhea or death? The choice seems clear to me.

[Ex Lurker]

8. In early July I had what I assumed was a 24 hour bug

Several hours of severe diarrhea and vomiting, followed by a headache and weak feeling for a couple of days. However, a few days later my father, whom I work with, developed COVID. So I wonder if I had it and gave it to him. We're both vaxxed and boosted, BTW.

[LeftInTX]

9. I did not have GI symptoms. I had Covid on Dec 28th.

My worst symptom was burning eyes.

[cyclonefence]

13. I was hospitalized

because of debilitating fatigue. I couldn't stand, much less walk, but what made my husband call 911 was that I couldn't even sit in a chair without slumping down.

I did not lose my sense of taste or smell, did not have a sore throat. Headache, yes. No diarrhea. What was worst of all was the accompanying encephalopathy. I was in and out of consciousness and when I was conscious I didn't know what year it was. This resolved after a few days, but for weeks afterward I had mental and emotional disturbances. I could not read a magazine article and understand what I had read, or if I did understand it, I became upset and couldn't tolerate whatever the information in the article was--even if it was a New Yorker article about making steel drums. Movies on tv were especially difficult for me, even if it was a movie I'd seen before and knew had a happy ending, I could not watch scenes with any conflict and had to change the channel.

My memory was horrible. In the hospital, a doctor would say something about my having been seen by a physical therapist, and I argued with him that no physical therapist had been to see me.

I was unable to order food, so I pretty much starved for the first few days--the nurses apparently didn't notice no meal trays had been delivered, and my weight plummeted.

Overall, a horrendous experience. I was vacc'ed and double boostered (Moderna). I truly wanted to die.