Isolating soon after being positive

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Hi all!

I tried searching but couldn't find an answer to this..

DS tested positive 2 weeks ago, we've all been out of isolation since Thursday.

Today I've been for a test. I'm feeling it's unlikely to be Covid (more likely asthma) but we're all isolating until the results are back

Obviously if I'd tested on Wednesday or before then DS would have finished isolating on Thursday regardless (i believe?!), so I'm assuming DS needs to join us with isolating again this time? It's not the end of the world, he's not obviously attending college but he would walk the dog etc if he's allowed out!

Any ideas? Im feeling he'll be back isolating with us again!

If you tested positive two weeks ago, you may still show positive now even though you're past the period where you're infectious. Why did you have another test knowing you had Covid? These could still be further effects from Covid or asthma.

@sobsanta , I didn't test positive, DS did. I've had no problems (or anyone else in the house) until last night

As DS is better and two weeks past his positive test, he should be fine to go out.

Unfortunately yes, he would have to isolate with you, again; 10 days starting from your first day of symptoms. It is a very grey area but that is the current advice. Obviosuly the chances of him picking it up/passing it on again from you are very small/non existent but it is theorteically possible.

@Hashtag1

Unfortunately yes, he would have to isolate with you, again; 10 days starting from your first day of symptoms. It is a very grey area but that is the current advice. Obviosuly the chances of him picking it up/passing it on again from you are very small/non existent but it is theorteically possible.

Thanks @Hashtag1 , that's my feeling too. So flipping annoying! This'll be DS's third stint of self isolating in 7 weeks - first as a close contact, then with a positive case and now with me. He'll forget what it's like to actually be outside

Yes ds will need to isolate again.

Yes of there is a gap in isolation periods then you all have to isolate again. Part of the issue with reducing the isolation period for contact from 14 days to 10 as some people do take longer to show symptoms.

I am so sorry for you. At least it is only 10 days now not 14! Very tedious but at least you can feel happy you are doing the right thing?

I had to query this myself the other day whilst waiting for test results in the family. If it was within the 10 days of isolation period he wouldn't of had to but because no one is in isolation you all would. However I'm sure there's something somewhere saying you can still walk the dog/but to avoid other people??

@testingtesting321

Yes of there is a gap in isolation periods then you all have to isolate again. Part of the issue with reducing the isolation period for contact from 14 days to 10 as some people do take longer to show symptoms.

That's how I feel @testingtesting321 . I just don't know where else I got it from (assuming it's positive!) other than DS, so I'm guessing it's just a delayed case. Worrying that so many people could be finishing isolation at 10 days and thinking they're fine. Luckily we continued to self isolate (no where to go anyway!) so hopefully I won't have spread it

@Hashtag1

I am so sorry for you. At least it is only 10 days now not 14! Very tedious but at least you can feel happy you are doing the right thing?

Oh definitely! I'm hoping for negative obviously but pleased I didn't ignore it. I work in early years education and would have felt awful taking it into work with me on Monday. I am very hopeful it's asthma related - definitely feels like it, but I want to be sure

@gooseygander88

I had to query this myself the other day whilst waiting for test results in the family. If it was within the 10 days of isolation period he wouldn't of had to but because no one is in isolation you all would. However I'm sure there's something somewhere saying you can still walk the dog/but to avoid other people??

I'll look into that, thanks @gooseygander88 . It would be handy if DS could walk her but It's not the end of the world

Thanks all

Once your son is over COVID, he doesn't have to isolate even if you test positive. This is what I read and understood....

I can't find anything about it @Takeitonthechin ! Only that if it's within the 10 days isolation then once his time is up he's free to stop isolating. That time is over - albeit only a couple of days ago! If the rules were still 14 days he'd be exempt from isolating with us

Is that really the case!
Wow I've been totally transgressing that then. I really didn't think I did anything wrong.

I had COVID
DH started to get symptoms right at the end of our isolation (day 10). He tested negative but a week later he was still ill with typical symptoms so I sent him for another test which was positive.
Neither of us had actually been anywhere because we both felt so ill so it didn't really matter.

I think it's obvious the first test was wrong but track and trace and the silly app insisted on counting it from his 2nd test not when his symptoms actually started.

He has respected the full isolation period from the 2nd test but I really genuinely thought I didn't need to isolate again so I didn't. I've been food shopping and to work. I was really needed at work (NHS) and it would have been taking the mick to isolate again when I felt fine and surely can't get or transmit it.

I mean it makes no sense at all to think I could get it back from him when I've just given it to him. We'd be stuck in a never ending loop if that was true.

@CovoidOfAllHumanity

Is that really the case! Wow I've been totally transgressing that then. I really didn't think I did anything wrong.

I had COVID
DH started to get symptoms right at the end of our isolation (day 10). He tested negative but a week later he was still ill with typical symptoms so I sent him for another test which was positive.
Neither of us had actually been anywhere because we both felt so ill so it didn't really matter.

I think it's obvious the first test was wrong but track and trace and the silly app insisted on counting it from his 2nd test not when his symptoms actually started.

He has respected the full isolation period from the 2nd test but I really genuinely thought I didn't need to isolate again so I didn't. I've been food shopping and to work. I was really needed at work (NHS) and it would have been taking the mick to isolate again when I felt fine and surely can't get or transmit it.

I mean it makes no sense at all to think I could get it back from him when I've just given it to him. We'd be stuck in a never ending loop if that was true.

It possibly is right @CovoidOfAllHumanity ! I just can't find anything about it at all. Fortunately we're not in a position that DS has to leave the house - no work and online studying - but it surprises me there's no information about it as we can't be the only ones it's happened to? Unless we're just to know that it's irrelevant if someone has just had it, they have to isolate again

If you haven’t actually been out that may change things. Basically, if one of you had been out you could have picked up covid from somewhere else so it could be a different infection/strain and that’s why a further period of isolation is required. Has anybody left the house at all since official isolation ended?

@testingtesting321 , nope. My father in law hasn't been well so we were continuing isolating so DH could see his dad if he got the call to say he'd got worst . Just such terrible timing

I was positive then another family member and I didn't need to isolate again when I had finished my 10 days.test and trace and nhs occupational health said this.

So no-one went out between when my isolation ended and DH got the positive test because we actually both were still feeling really ill.

Once my isolation ended and I felt well enough I went back to work as work were desperate for me to come back. That was still in DH's 10 day isolation period but he'd already had symptoms for a week before his positive test so in reality should have only been 3 days more but was 10.

His ended yesterday in fact and I've been back at work for a week
I was totally transparent about the whole thing with my NHS employer and they were fine with it and said that obviously I am immune and can't get it from him. Plus they were absolutely crying out for staff as I had originally got it in a work outbreak and lots of people were still off sick or had come down with it later than me. I think I did more good than any possible harm by going in.

Actually that's a good point, I could ask track and trace if I get a positive result. It's not a big deal, I'm just intrigued to know as I've not thought about it before now!

I had covid, tested positive and got results on the Saturday. My toddler tested positive 5 days later, I didn't isolate again once my ten days were up. Track and trace tell you the date you can go back out.

The difference is with the op there is a gap after the first isolation period. If she tested positive within the 10 days then her ds wouldn't need to isolate again past his own 10 days but his 10 days starts again.