Retest still positive!

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Anyone retested after having covid then still been positive and been told by t&t to isolate again?
Done a restest as my elderly mum is in our bubble but is very anxious and will not see me until I tested negative anyway long story short I'm still positive 4 weeks later. Mum won't see me and t&t have said isolate again!
This is never ending!

It's well publicised not to retest 90days after initial positive result tbf. For exactly this reason.

In the absence of symptoms you shouldn't retest within 90 days of a positive test as it can pick up fragments of the previous infection and give a positive test even if you aren't contagious

Yes I understand this but I'm sort of stuck between a rock an hard place as my mum would not see us and is on her own 😓 I already explained to her that it could return positive.
T&t have said to isolate again so now I can't even drop shopping off for her this is so s**t!

Well to be fair you shouldn't have done the test again knowing this was the likely outcome

If you have tested positive and it’s been 4 weeks since then, it’s extremely unlikely you would still be contagious. If your mum won’t have that then she will have to wait months to see you because that’s how long the fragments can remain

To her surprise, DD tested positive before she came home in early December. She obviously isolated, but she told T & T (who were wonderful) that she would test again before coming home, to be sure she was clear.

They advised her not to, and said that the viral shed would show up as a positive test, although she no longer had the virus, nor was she contagious.

Op I had all this way back in Oct, work was testing everyone with the private tests and I can’t up positive, no symptoms, they insisted on a negative test... We had a whole big thing with the insurance company that we’re covering us and ended up they agreed to let me back after the two weeks isolation because you’re only infectious for the first ten days of the infection but can Return a positive result for up to 90 days with the test detecting dead rna from the virus. You’re not infectious, you’ve done your time,

The Singapore government seem to be against anyone having a PCR test within 180 days of being tested positive. So they appear to have reason to believe that fragments may be detected nearly 6 months later.

Well it's your own fault.

You got another test when you shouldn't have.

Yes. Bloody work NHS made me have a test before I could go into a care home and it was positive again. So I had to isolate again.

A friend of mine had Covid in October. She cannot return to work (nursing home) without a negative test. Three tests later she is still registering as positive and the NHS are refusing to allow further testing and have told her over and over that she is fine to go back to work but her work still says no.

The NHS are very clear that testing within 90 days may show positives when you are perfectly fine to get back to normal (Covid) life but the nursing home refuse.