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I have gone nuts and paid someone to come to my house and do an antibody test on us

992 replies

LaurieFairyCake · 05/05/2020 13:09

Can't take anymore not knowing so I've paid £260 to bike out a test from a lab and wait while we stab ourselves and return our blood to the lab

Dh thinks I've gone a bit batshit but I couldn't take anymore

Disclaimer : it won't affect my behaviour in line with current government guidelines

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Remmy123 · 21/05/2020 22:16

A doctors nesr nevyou can get antibody tests And lots coming back positive - just been speaking to a friend who is a doctor there

Willow4987 · 21/05/2020 22:31

God I can’t believe we’re (I mean obviously you Op Grin) are still waiting for the results

Can we have a new thread of this gets full before the results are in?

OneMoreWish · 21/05/2020 22:57

Just as an aside I had gestational diabetes for both pregnancies so I had to use the lancelets to test my blood sugar levels 4-6 times a day- for my first pregnancy for three months and for my second pregnancy for five months.

Got used to it but so glad when I was able to stop and I was always gutted when I didn't get enough blood from first or even second attempt. My fingers were covered with little punctures

I feel for anyone diabetic who has to do it regularly all the time.

Pokemontrainer · 22/05/2020 00:15

So I have got my treated.com and do not show any antibodies, so I have not had it .. I just can't believe it . I just can't.

I was so ill and had all the covid 19 type symptoms.

I was so sick but it was quick brief.

I had had flu.

Pokemontrainer · 22/05/2020 00:22

I am completely shocked. So no antibodies detected.

Could it have been the flu?

I was so sick and it didn't seem like a typical flu.

I kind of wish I hadn't done the test.

Burpalot · 22/05/2020 00:22

How long did your treated test take to come back? I posted mine late yesterday so they should have it tomorrow

LatinforTelly · 22/05/2020 00:23

Yes but for regular blood sugar testing, the lancet is much more gentle. A needle which you can dial up or down the severity. (My son has one.) These blue lancets are like little knives Shock. But probably needed to fill a little vial. Still undecided as ill in March. Too long ago probably.

LatinforTelly · 22/05/2020 00:25

Sorry that last post was to OneMoreWish.

When were you ill, Pokemontrainer?

Pokemontrainer · 22/05/2020 00:26

burpalot so for me 48 hours.

It was late March each April that I believe I got covid 19.

I now feel so shocked.

It appears I didn't have it so what did I have?

I had flu previously can you get flu twice in the season? But what I got wasn't just a flu. It floored me for 2 weeks.

Pokemontrainer · 22/05/2020 00:29

Now I am worried I know I shouldn't have but because I can get Sick really sick I kind had hoped I did get some immunity..

I had the dry cough

Raging fever unable to move

Followed by complete lethargy

Dry cough then wet cough and chest infection ..

I have had flu and although this has elements of the flu it seemed so different.

haget · 22/05/2020 00:32

@Pokemontrainer

Maybe something like this. Taken from an earlier post.

"A discussion on 5 live this morning suggested that around 20% of those infected don't produce antibodies.

If that's true, and the Abbots test is only 87% accurate after 40 days then together some people only have 63% chance of having an accurate positive test? "

LatinforTelly · 22/05/2020 00:34

I don't think you can definitely say you didn't have it. It's over 40 days, so accuracy down to 87.5 % and in the bumpf someone linked to, I think that was based on 8 patients, so 1 out of 8 was a false negative. (Interesting that those low numbers are allowed to be used but maybe I read it wrong.) Also some pps have said that some people don't create antibodies. Then there is the question mark over capillary blood v venous. So don't drive yourself mad wondering.

Pokemontrainer · 22/05/2020 00:44

Thanks haget it is because I am so so worried about getting covid-19 because of other conditions I have and had hoped I had had it and recovered.. now I am doubting myself..

For what it is worth my husband still believes I have had it.. honestly when I had it it floored me. There were a few days when I could not do anything and could not move. I was so sick at these times that I could not have been able to even call a doctor if that makes sense..

But then .. I recovered I had the dry cough then wet cough and raging temperature but compared to others it seems mild. I am not quite 100 percent..

But yes it must be close to 55 days now. I need to check when I first developed symptoms and count from there.

I am completely utterly shocked though as now I think there is a possibility that I could get this shitty thing.

I am so pissed off with the govt response I suppose I should have tested earlier but I wasn't going to get prioritised and I didn't want to profit a Mayfair doctor.

Shit shit shit.

But perhaps I am someone who got it but didn't produce antibodies ..

Egghead68 · 22/05/2020 05:58

@Pokemontrainer the tests are not very accurate (the accuracy figures given are for a clinical setting, not self blood-draw, I believe, and are benchmarked against the swab tests, which are themselves inaccurate). Also as a PP said, not everyone develops antibodies.

It might be worth doing a different test when the Roche ones become available on the NHS.

Inkpaperstars · 22/05/2020 07:05

Poor OP, at this rate the thread is going to fill up before any result arrives!

Saladmakesmesad · 22/05/2020 08:17

The antibody test gets MORE effective after 40 days not less. It takes your body that time to build up the antibodies.

Inkpaperstars · 22/05/2020 08:26

You need to wait long enough before taking it, but apparently one aspect of the abbot test is less accurate over time, while the Roche one is more accurate over time.

Table five p 13 has info re abbot

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/886158/PHE_Evaluation_of_Abbott_SARS_CoV_2_IgG.pdf

MarshaBradyo · 22/05/2020 08:27

Did you get a refund op?

How annoying

LatinforTelly · 22/05/2020 09:22

@saladmakesmesad not according to the data for the Abbot test. 87.5% accuracy after 40 days but only based on 8 patients Confused

Pokemontrainer · 22/05/2020 09:46

latinfortelly really ? How could they publish a percentage of it based on a sample of 8 patients.

According to my husband I need to watch the horizon documentary. 20 percent of people might or develop antibodies.

Also mass testing may not be that helpful at this late stage.

So let's say I have it then my body will have a memory of the disease and not have antibodies but my body would still know what to do about the disease but I could still be a carrier. Meaning I could infect others.

Pokemontrainer · 22/05/2020 09:47

Sorry and if the test Timing matters I would say that I was tested 1 month after the last symptoms went.

But perhaps you can get flu twice in a season.. maybe I had something else.

Pokemontrainer · 22/05/2020 09:48

Sorry and I am so annoyed at the tested because I couldn't do a covid 19 test at the time.

LatinforTelly · 22/05/2020 09:52

Yes page 13 as inkpaperstars says. n=8 for onset > 40 days ago. 1 tested neg and 7 positive. Hardly statistically robust but the medics must know what they're doing?!

Pokemontrainer · 22/05/2020 09:59

Sorry latinfortelly I don't understand your last post? Can you explain it to me ? Sorry I am sleep deprived..

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