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Covid test - worried I didn’t manage

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Peculiartimes · 20/01/2021 15:04

I woke up with a crushing migraine today and suddenly realised I had no sense of smell whatsoever. I can taste, albeit not everything but I can’t smell even strongest of scents.
I booked a test straight away in a walk center nearby. I had to self administer and am anxious that I’ve done it wrong. The ones who self administered, did you feel you did it right?
Swabbing tonsils caused me to to gag and when I inserted the swab deep inside one of my nostrils, it was really painful and I had a tiny bit of blood left on the swab. I really hope I managed 10 seconds!
I feel so anxious about everything. Is it easy to ruin the test? I’d hate to waste time waiting for the test that’s inconclusive.
Also I feel really silly not to take myself seriously during the last week. I felt significantly more tired than usual dosing off in the sofa in the evening, but I thought it was a stress from a new job or hormonal. I now feel like I had to test sooner! I work in a high risk environment.

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Passthebubbly · 20/01/2021 15:20

I read if you gag you have done it right. If it helps we managed to get up my sons nose for about 3 seconds and we still got a result. Hope you get a negative

Peculiartimes · 20/01/2021 15:25

@Passthebubbly
Thanks! I hope they designed a test that is hard to ruin during self administration

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virucidalrage · 20/01/2021 15:30

yeah, I made sure to kind of breathe out onto the swab as I did the throat and nasal one to make sure my breath went on it

I also lost my smell and taste and banging headaches, it was positive. I am on day 22. Bit better, not as dizzy but still got the headache. I have about 30% of my smell and taste back , yeahGrin

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