Muscle aches, pains now among top COVID symptoms - KXAN.com

by: Dustin Lattimer

Posted: Jan 10, 2023 / 03:54 PM CST

Updated: Jan 10, 2023 / 03:54 PM CST

Editor’s note: This communicative has been updated to close the study’s conclusions astir COVID symptoms. We regret the error.

KSNF/KODE — According to ZOE Health Study (a wellness subject institution staking assertion to moving the “world’s largest COVID subject task with implicit 4 cardinal participants”), their latest information finds that the apical symptoms reported by contributors with affirmative COVID tests are:

• A sore throat
• A runny nose
• A blocked nose
• Sneezing
• A cough without phlegm

ZOE Health Study reportedly listed lone the apical 5 symptoms. But implicit time, the wellness subject institution said their COVID probe showed these symptoms alteration frequently. Some reasons see the instauration of vaccines and the emergence of caller variants.

Now, ZOE Health Study decided to study the apical 10 symptoms, which they assertion stay much stable. Those symptoms include:

• A sore throat
• A runny nose
• A blocked nose
• Sneezing
• A cough without phlegm
• A headache
• A cough with phlegm
• A hoarse voice
• Muscle aches and pains
• An altered consciousness of smell

A work successful the National Journal of Medicine reports that musculus aches and pains (also known arsenic myalgia) tin beryllium the onset grounds of 36% of patients with COVID-19.

Loss of odor and taste, precocious fever and breathlessness were regarded arsenic the ‘classic’ symptoms erstwhile COVID was archetypal discovered. But with Omicron emerging and vaccination sum increasing, the symptoms related to the corruption changed. The symptoms that were wide reported see sore throat, runny nose, headache and fatigue. 

Now, it seems, COVID-related symptoms and becoming much numerous, with much than 1/4 of patients reporting their onset symptoms arsenic crisp symptom successful shoulders and legs, wide known arsenic myalgia. 

Myalgia is fundamentally a information successful which your body’s muscles commencement to ache. You acquisition symptom successful your muscles, particularly joints. This symptom could beryllium excruciating oregon mild depending connected however good your body’s immunity tin combat the infection. People often acquisition myalgia successful their shoulders and legs.

This is besides known arsenic ‘COVID-related musculus pain’ and it simply attacks your question and provides discomfort. Myalgia could travel with some semipermanent and short-term soreness. You whitethorn not needfully acquisition this symptom lone upon question of your body. It could besides hap portion you are resting. If you are experiencing immoderate of the symptoms listed above, it’s ever champion to consult your doc for due diagnosis and treatment.