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Original poster

To think I haven't caught it from DH?

85 replies

nixso29 · 02/01/2022 11:08

So DH tested positive NYE after developing symptoms on Thursday. Prior to that we both had our boosters on Monday 27th and just assumed we were feeling a bit rotten due to the side effects of that. I obviously had been sharing a bed etc with him up to that point as no reason to assume either of us had Covid.

I have now developed symptoms since Saturday and just been for PCR this morning. AIBU to think I just have a totally unrelated cough/headache/sneezing thats not the dreaded C?! I haven't been anywhere since Xmas eve barring the local shop for some milk but DH has been back to work

OP posts:
MolkosTeenageAngst · 02/01/2022 11:34

You’ve caught something from somewhere. If you haven’t been anywhere or seen anybody but DH since Xmas Eve then most likely you’ve caught it from him. If he currently has covid it seems likely that's what you’ve caught from him but I suppose it is possible he also has another virus on top of Covid which you’ve caught. I have just had a cold with headache/ sore throat etc which wasn’t covid so there are other things out there at the moment but you’d have to get them from somewhere or someone.

To be honest I’m not really sure why you ask though, you’ve been for a pcr which is the only way to get a definitive answer regarding whether you have covid.

Ovenaffray · 02/01/2022 11:39

What difference does it make where you caught it from?

HaveringWavering · 02/01/2022 11:40

[quote girlmom21]@Bagamoyo1 because he's gone to work with covid[/quote]
I don’t think that is what she meant. She meant that he was at work between the 24th and testing positive.
By contrast, the only place she has been since the 24th is for her booster (though have you not been into a shop at all OP?)

Seems a bit odd to assume what you have is a standard cold when you are living with a Covid positive person and have symptoms. I don’t see the logic in that. Anyway the PCR will soon tell you.

LindaEllen · 02/01/2022 11:45

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KCee30 · 02/01/2022 11:47

I'm confused what you mean?

It's a strong possibility that you've caught it from your dp.

It is possible you have another virus too but you say you haven't been out, so unlikely to have picked up a non covid virus?

I had a non covid virus one week (bad cough, negative pcr). Cough cleared up then I tested positive for covid with new symptoms the next week. My covid symptoms were very cold like. So I had two viruses back to back. Caught the first from dc and covid from Dp, kids then got covid too. Nightmare.

godmum56 · 02/01/2022 11:48

yabu...there is a good chance that its covid and you know this.

Smartiepants79 · 02/01/2022 11:51

Well if you’ve not been anywhere then the most likely scenario (by a long chalk) is that you’ve caught the plague from your husband.
Not quite sure why you’d assume otherwise.

Seeline · 02/01/2022 11:54

If you haven't been anywhere, where would you have picked up a random cold/other virus?

If your DH is positive, and you are living with him, it seems highly probable that you have caught covid from him. He is likely to have been infectious even before he was showing symptoms so you would not have been keeping your distance 😁

Elphame · 02/01/2022 11:54

May be you haven’t.

DP and I came down with a cold. I tested positive 3 days into it but he never did. We didn’t isolate from each other; it seemed pointless.

LittleBearPad · 02/01/2022 11:57

I’m bewildered as to why you think you haven’t caught covid from your covid positive husband. The simplest explanation is often the right one!

BoodleBug51 · 02/01/2022 11:59

I think I caught Covid at the mass vaccination clinic I attended for my booster and flu jab....... thought it was side effects but within 3 days tested positive for Covid. Hadn't been anywhere else..... and DH caught it as well as our 2 DD's living at home.

I want to poke all these "get yourself boosted" evangelicals in the eye frankly, several other people I know have had the same. Get their boosters then test positive within days..... whoever thought mass clinics were a sensible idea wants a lecture on how Covid spreads.

eagerlywaitingfor · 02/01/2022 12:00

[quote girlmom21]@Bagamoyo1 because he's gone to work with covid[/quote]
No he didn't - he went to work in between Christmas and NYE, which is before he tested positive. The OP mentioned him having been to work during that time as a possibility of where he caught it from.

girlmom21 · 02/01/2022 12:05

I'll completely accept if I misunderstood - OP can you clarify? More than happy to apologise if I'm wrong.

But @LindaEllen don't tell someone to fuck off then call them rude. Kind of hypocritical.

Misinterpreting based on the OP not being written in chronological order is not the same as being unwilling to read the OP properly. Others have been confused too.

RandomLondoner · 02/01/2022 12:18

I don't think OP needs to clarify, it is clear enough.

elelel · 02/01/2022 12:19

He has been at work, has covid, you have symptoms, have been nowhere but think it's not covid and not from him?

GrumpyTerrier · 02/01/2022 12:20

Well you either have it or you don't, PCR will tell. If you do have it, seems likely you got it from your DH. But I didn't catch it off mine when he had delta, and he didnt catch it off me when I did.

RandomLondoner · 02/01/2022 12:22

But yes, more than one person has been confused. But personally I put the blame more on their reading skills than her writing ones.

It's not a huge problem in itself to read things wrong, it's when you launch an attack based on wrong information that you aren't being nice.

JorisBonson · 02/01/2022 12:23

OP, DH tested positive on a lft on the 28th, confirmed by PCR a couple of days later. He has very mild symptoms and I've felt the same but negative on everything - we haven't exactly been isolating from each other either!

LuluBlakey1 · 02/01/2022 12:28

@girlmom21

Everyone he works with is likely to catch it from him. He's a selfish prick.

It's also likely you've caught it and you'll know when your PCR comes back.

You are so rude. You have also called someone's son a 'twat' on another thread.

You've totally misunderstood what the OP said on this thread and called her DH a 'selfish prick'.

You don't sound very nice at all. Don't you know it's possible to disagree with someone without being abusive or rude.

Original poster
nixso29 · 02/01/2022 12:29

Sorry for any confusion and just to clarify- DH has not been back to work/been anywhere (apart from to get a PCR) since symptoms began and then positive result was received

OP posts:
girlmom21 · 02/01/2022 12:30

@nixso29 I sincerely apologise for my misunderstanding and the unnecessary insult.

I hope your result comes back negative.

girlmom21 · 02/01/2022 12:31

@LuluBlakey1 you don't need to derail this thread with the other one. Completely happy to acknowledge my comment here was unfair and unnecessary.

The other one, I stand by.

Original poster
nixso29 · 02/01/2022 12:32

[quote girlmom21]@nixso29 I sincerely apologise for my misunderstanding and the unnecessary insult.

I hope your result comes back negative. [/quote]
Apology accepted i can see how my OP could have been misunderstood

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LuluBlakey1 · 02/01/2022 12:36

If you are lucky, OP, you might not have caught Covid from DH and it might just be a cold but I think the chances are it is Covid.
On the news (BBC News Channel) yesterday a researcher was saying Omicron is so infectious that one molecule is all it takes whereas you needed a bigger viral load from older forms of the virus.

BoredZelda · 02/01/2022 12:37

Why would you think you haven’t caught it from him?

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