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?

I wonder if people testing positive for more unusual symptoms are actually ill with something else, and just happen to also have covid. If so many are asymptomatic surely you could have a cold that is causing runny nose, sneezing etc, whilst covid isn't causing any symptoms?

Surely I would know if he had covid?

Doctors at a walk in centre, A and E, two doctors at my GP clinic plus a consultant and another doctor all missed my symptoms a fortnight ago.

I had breathlessness, tight chest, fast heart rate and dangerously high blood pressure. All this resulted in A and E and the next day hospital admission. I was being investigated for blood clots on my lung mainly. The Covid test was routine due to hospital admission, along with the mrsa swab.

I was in the green a and e zone and on an open ward with other patients overnight.

My positive result came back the next day where I was quickly whisked away to a side isolation room. I had spent the best part of 2.5 days in medical and hospital environments surrounded by other people by then.

My symptoms made sense for Covid after the result was known, but no one suspected it beforehand. I developed a cough several hours later. I had a higher temperature (37.8) for about an hour that afternoon. A few days later I had a day where my taste was a bit odd but that reverted to normal quickly.

So no, you might not know. I didn't and the medical professionals didn't either.

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

I think it's probably how I got it too.
In the last 3 weeks 9 staff have got it and a number of parents from the affected classes.
It's the only place I have close contact with anyone, bar Dh. I have prolonged close contact with 270 children every week in a room where the windows only open a small amount so restricted ventilation.
No children have tested positive but also very few children have been tested at our school.
It seems too big a coincident now.

I wonder if people testing positive for more unusual symptoms are actually ill with something else, and just happen to also have covid.

Guess we will never know.
Though all my bloods etc were normal, as was my ecg and chest x ray.
I'd never had high blood pressure before, let alone the levels it was at.
I have had issues with a fast heart rate previously and had ablation for svt a year ago, though that seemed to have worked. My heart rate this time wasn't in the same category as when I had svt.

A male relative tested positive but had no symptoms, work related test. He subsequently developed a mild cough which lasted about a week. He's early 60s, morbidly obese (based on the BMI chart) and has a heart condition. Absolutely fine now, no long lasting effects.

Yes, 3 out of 5 of us positive in this house without the 'classic' symptoms. We do feel rough though and all is us 3-4 days after positive result completely lost our taste and smell.
In our personal experience teens are not displaying the classic symptoms of Covid so best to test.