Coronavirus patients describe terrifying new ‘fizzing’ symptom like ‘being dunked in icy lake and struck by lightning’
CORONAVIRUS patients have described a bizarre new symptom - a 'fizzing' sensation under the skin.
One woman from North Tyneside said she felt like she had been "dunked in an ice lake" after feeling the strange tingling feeling.
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Tracy Clark, 49, from North Tyneside, said she also felt a fizzing sensation while experiencing symptoms of the coronavirus.
She said: "I describe it differently in three ways: like being dunked in an icy lake, like being struck by lightning, like pins and needles all over my body. No pain though, just terrifying."
Liam Gardner, 40, from Surrey told the Sun Online said after four weeks of experiencing coronavirus symptoms he recently started feeling a "tingling pains" in his hands and arms.
He said: "My index finger and ring finger have gone completely numb and I feel this tingling sensation all over my hands and arms.
"On Thursday I had a video call with a private doctor and they had no idea what could be affecting my nervous system."
Liam has yet to be tested for Covid-19 but paramedics have visited him at home twice, when he experienced a stabbing pain in his chest and ran a high temperature.
Nigel Davies, 60, from Chester first started experiencing symptoms after he came back from a skiing trip in Austria on March 14.
"I had a cough and sore throat, and the following week I was so ill aching all over, fever, headache and sleeping all the time," he said.
"But the weirdest thing was my skin, it felt like my whole body was sunburned and even putting on a t-shirt was painful. It was so strange.
"I have asthma and three years ago I had a clot on my lung."
Nigel was admitted to hospital and blood tests showed he had an infection and pneumonia in his left lung, but the test for Covid-19 came back negative.
He added that he was now feeling much better but is still coughing and feeling tired and breathless if he exerts himself too much.
I describe it differently in three ways: like being dunked in an icy lake, like being struck by lightning, like pins and needles all over my body.
In a discussion on Twitter, one person wrote: "Still there are lingering ‘Covid’ feelings. Do you get that? Hard to describe the alien, dissociated buzz in some parts of my body. I’m fine, but there’s an element of exhaustion and physical weariness."
“Within 24 hours I had never felt so ill, I was freezing but had four quilts and I couldn’t stay awake for long intervals."
Tarana Burke took to Twitter to share her experience of the virus: " thinks its defo coronavirus.. the whole thing has moved round to my chest this evening, like bubbles fizzing inside my ribcage, taking air.
"Still breathing ok, but a tad frustrating, won't lie."
She wrote: "I went back and forth about talking about this but my partner has Covid and the last two weeks of my life have been some of the scariest.
"The reason why I’m sharing is because I’ve read so much information but the most informative has been first person accounts of folks with it.
"We were both exposed in mid-March.
"He was deemed an 'essential worker' because he works with the homeless and was exposed again at work.
"It took about three days to figure out that we were probably dealing with Covid.
"In 3 days he went from feeling a little weak to 101.5 fever.
"Along with the fever he had something we had not read about: sensitive skin.
"His skin felt like it was burning - even when he barely had a fever of 99+.
"We literally used aloe gel for sunburn to soothe it. The NP later told us she had heard others say that too.."
Tarana went on to say explain her other symptoms.
She added: "The same things you’ve read other places also happened: *extreme* fatigue, escalating fever, terrible headaches, but no cough early on."
She wrote how she and her partner were both admitted to intensive care and were put on an IV.
The pair were given x-rays and a Covid test - which she described as "brutal" but fairly quick.
She was positive but her boyfriend was negative.
Doctors sent the pair home, Tarana was given instructions on how to look after her sick boyfriend.
"The doctor said I needed to get his fever down. I put him in the shower (a whole other story) and gave him Tylenol cold & flu extra strength (he took that at night) and it started to come down in about two hours," she said.
"Just have to say this was the scariest night because the pressure of making the wrong decision was overwhelming."