Anyone surprised at a positive result?

[AvoidingRealHumans]

My son woke up with a sore throat on Wednesday, dosed him up and sent him to school, he then came home that day saying he felt out of breath.
Thursday I kept him off school "just in case" and yesterday was an inset day.
He developed a cough yesterday afternoon so I got him tested today.
He does have a sore throat and a cough, says he feels a bit rough too but I just can't help but think there's no way this is covid.
Surely I would know if he had covid? If covid wasn't a thing he would have had some cough medicine, paracetamol and we'd be getting on with it.
If his result is positive i will be so shocked.
Has anyone got a positive result and been surprised as they were convinced whatever they had was something else?

Following as I too think "surely I would know" but the more I hear about mild symptoms the more I wonder

Exactly the same symptoms as my sisters DD, who has tested positive. If you google the longer list of symptoms in children, sore throat is listed. You can't turn back time but you shouldn't send a child with a sore throat to school at the moment.

I tested positive and had literally no idea, I was totally asymptomatic. I was only tested as the company I work for was testing everyone on the production team that im on before we all started to work together in the same location. I had not temp, no cough no loss of smell at any point before or after the test and yes it was definitley a positive and not a false positive as I was retested by work to rule out a false positive.

My bosses’ son had a heavy cold that kept him in bed for a couple days. His employers asked him to be tested, he was positive.

He was full of snot and sneezing, really didn’t think he would have it.

My DH, DS, DS girlfriend & I all got COVID & all had different symptoms. DH was infected by work colleague & passed to the rest of us.
He thought he had a cold, I got wheezy but thought an allergy had kicked in ( had good reason to believe this). My DS was the only one who (at first) got a high temp. 4 days after becoming wheezy I ended up feeling pretty yuk with quite a few symptoms. We are all ok now but I don’t think they still know enough about it!
I do hope your son is ok & it’s just normal winter stuff.

My DS aged 19 only had mild cold symptoms and tested positive a couple of weeks ago. Makes me cross that you can't only get a test if you have a fever, cough or loss of taste/smell. My DS has none of these. He had to lie to get a test. No wonder it's rife in universities and schools.

@Brownbananabandana Are you under 30? I always think the asymptomatic must be super young.

I got tested because DH had it and I had the very faintest tickly cough. You wouldn't have batted an eyelid if you'd heard it, sounded like a throat clear. Positive. My chest is a bit sore now but otherwise I'm feeling very well in myself.

My DD15 started with a headache then next day sore throat and a bit of a temperature and she tested positive

In that one day of the headache she infected her boyfriend and his brother, I thought I was being a bit over cautious getting her tested but I'm so glad I did

Brownbananabandana are you on the production team for 'I'm a celeb'

2 of my relatives tested positive despite being asymptomatic! Linked to a care home case so advised to test. Both in their 60s, various underlying issues and have antibodies months later 🤷‍♀️

Interesting, thanks for all of the replies.
I hope I'm right and it isn't a positive but there is clearly a chance it could be.

jano69 no I’m not under 30, I wish! I’m 46

A friend of mine tested positive unexpectedly. They're 50 and had been extremely cautious, limiting contacts, only seeing people outside etc. and was surprised when the positive test came back as they'd been sure it was the usual chesty cough they have most autumns.

My only symptom was feeling really tired. Tested positive. I’m a week in and I've started feeling a bit rough with a constant headache and a tight chest but still wouldn’t have had a clue it was coronavirus if it wasn’t for work routinely testing staff.

I just don't think you can be sure it is or isn't Covid. This is not easy to distinguish from flu or cold and it's manifesting itself in many ways. Surely any symptom should make you think Covid at the moment, unless proven otherwise?

Why would you think you'd know?! This is the whole thing about this virus, it can be anything from asymptomatic to mild to extreme. What you've described is exactly what we've been told to look out for. Hope he's OK.

2 people tested positive where my son works. One just had funny taste, the other no symptoms at all. One had the NHS test, everyone else was sent a private test by the firm. All others have been negative, despite one person spending a whole day with one of them 2 days beforehand.

@Disillusionedsusan

Why would you think you'd know?! This is the whole thing about this virus, it can be anything from asymptomatic to mild to extreme. What you've described is exactly what we've been told to look out for. Hope he's OK.

This

I don't understand these “I've got ( any symptom) could I have covid?”

How does anyone not know after all this time that of course could have. I really don't get it

Even if I have no symptoms and ask the question it's obvious that I still could have it

@Brownbananabandana 46 and asymptomatic! That gives me hope.

@SE13Mummy You could be describing me in terms of ultra cautiousness- they must've been so surprised, and possibly relieved, to test positive.

The issue is as most experts have said, is that for the vast majority of people it will be a very mild illness much like any illness they would normally get.

I have lots of friends with Uni aged children and most of them have tested positive recently, very few with anything more than cold symptoms (or nothing).

Hopefully it isn’t but if there are a lot of cases in your area it could well be. In our kids school there have been no positive cases of covid among the kids but several parents are positive(obs their kids are staying at home). Which has led us to believe that it could well be silently spreading in the school. Only a matter of time until there is a positive child. But we are in GM!
If you’re somewhere where you haven’t got High numbers at the moment and you haven’t heard of anyone ill at school I would have thought unlikely to be covid.
Hope he feels better soon and you get a result today.

Dd has a slight productive cough, mild sore throat and after a few days was a bit warm for 20 minutes (before the Calpol kicked in, only had one dose).
She was positive.

When I say surely I'd know if it was covid - I obviously know its a possibility.
In our area there are 80 cases per 100,000, my son has only been to school and there are no known cases in children in the school but in his year group there were 8 parents (4 couples) that we know of, diagnosed in the last few weeks so as a pp said, we are thinking that it could be spreading silently in the school.

Dd, uni student, positive but completely asymptomatic. She only went for a test to get out of the flat whilst they were all isolating after 2 other flatmates had positive tests.

I was surprised because I had it in April and was thinking she'd all ready had it then, (as she had no symptoms at Uni).

In DDs school about 6 parents have tested positive including her best friend's mum (who also had no symptoms and got tested due to her job in a care facility.). None of their children had any symptoms which meant that they didn't get tested but they did self isolate with the parents. DD then had a bad cold and then got a slight cough (she always gets one after a cold though.) Still I kept her home trying for 3 days to get a test. It's her GCSE year and I didn't want her missing any more F2F teaching so paid privately for a test.

Bloody negative.

Having said that the chances of one of her best friends siblings (5 in all!) NOT having caught it from the mum must be minuscule. I really think it's circulating through secondary schools and we only find out when they infect an older person who then gets symptoms.