To think I DID have covid

[Seaglass87]

I'm wondering if anyone has ever had this before.
On Tuesday I had an awful headache and felt achey. On Wednesday I started to feel unwell with a runny nose and sore throat and took a covid test. I got a very faint positive. I used a different pack to do another test and got another faint but slightly darker positive.
I've felt slightly poorly until today but tested negative since.
My symptoms were the same as last time I had covid - except much much milder.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Do you think I had covid? I know nobody can be sure but I'm looking for consensus as it's driving me mad not knowing haha.

I tested positive with mild symptoms in late January. Felt perfectly fine within a day or two.
(this was second time with Covid, fully vaccinated/boosted).

Started to feel rubbish on Friday, tested on Saturday morning (still have a bunch of RATs and there are still some restrictions here - non UK) and came up positive. This is a much worse bout. I’ve been in bed ever since, raging fever, headaches and a cough like a chimney sweep.

It’s not 2021. Who cares if you had Covid or not? Pretty much everyone has had it at some stage.

But if you tested positive (twice!) You had Covid.

I had COVID a few weeks ago, took test as I was going to hospital, I only tested positive for 4 days.
This time symptoms really mild like yours. I just had a cold and some dizziness. Last time I had it (last march) it was 12 days of positives and I was very poorly.

Just for the people asking why I care so much and why I've tested. My reasoning for this is that I work in the NHS and I work with clinically very vulnerable people. Policy states we should test/ I worry about passing it on to them.

In that case I would just take the results as positive and act accordingly.

So, what does the policy say if you test positive?

Even without your job, people never know who is clinically vulnerable that you might encounter- or who cares for someone who is vulnerable etc. Not that you need to justify testing - but it is the right thing to do. If people can't isolate completely when positive at least they should take steps to minimise contact exposing others where they can.

Even without your job, people never know who is clinically vulnerable that you might encounter- or who cares for someone who is vulnerable etc. Not that you need to justify testing - but it is the right thing to do. If people can't isolate completely when positive at least they should take steps to minimise contact exposing others where they can.**

You should do this regardless of the cause of your symptoms- vulnerable people are at risk from more than just covid so minimise contact anyway while symptomatic - no need to test if it does not affect your work. Obviously in OP's case it does, but as it's something she is likely very familiar with 3 years on from the start of the pandemic I'm surprised she's still having to ask

I work in a hospital and have indirect responsibility for thousands of tests (PCR & LFT) plus had literally 100’s of staff reporting illness to me.
A false positive test is incredibly rare, two is near impossible.
I’d actually say respiratory type symptoms and positive test is pretty much 99.9% likely you’ve got COVID.

No. That still doesn't make sense. Your explanation only works if you were taking things the other way around. If you were saying you had decided you didn't have covid and that you were consequently going to take no precautions around vulnerable people, that'd be something to worry about, but working on the supposition that you had it presumably put nobody at risk.

At all. I agree.

IKR. Apart from anything else the waste from the tests is so bad for environment. I can't imagine how much plastic has been used over the last three years on them.

I still don’t understand why you’re so keen to establish if it was covid or not? I assume you stayed off work while you had a positive test? And now it’s negative you can go back.