Sex after testing positive

[Cinderellashoes]

Sorry for the tmi question but currently ttc, dh tested positive last weekend although we suspect he had other symptoms as early as Wednesday (headache, feeling sick) how soon after he tested positive are we able to ttc again? So far I have remained negative, I’m a health care worker and do lateral flow. I’ve also had my first vaccine.

It's not sexually transmitted. The problem is breathing. He would have to hold his breath for the entire sex session which seems tricky. Otherwise he needs to wait 10 days from when the symptoms started.

Is he isolating from you? If so I’m sure you can give nookie a rest for a bit surely. If he’s not isolating from you the odds are if you’re going to get it, you’re not going to make it much worse anyway as the virus isn’t in his Willy or sexually transmitted so fill your crocs

No, he’s not isolating from me. We have children who were both isolating from
School as their teachers tested positive at the same time! We assume the children passed it onto him, I believe if I was going to get it, I would’ve done by now.

and as a household we are officially out of isolation tomorrow night - although I think his symptoms may have started sooner (bad headache, feeling rough, sick etc) we went with ten days from when he lost his sense of
Smell as directed by track and trace. So I think we’re probably ten days post already - but officially we are tomorrow

Does he still have any symptoms?

Get on with it then I reckon. Tone down the snogging if you’re feeling a bit paranoid and the focus is TTC. There’s always doggy as well.

Didn't a French minister recommend sex from behind as safer?

The start of a pregnancy is one of the most risky bits (says me having had a late stillbirth but also an early miscarriage due to a flare of one of my autoimmune diseases). Personally I would wait until you're both very definately in the clear. I wouldn't trust lateral flow as they have an appallingly high rate of inaccuracy. You can't get covid from having sex but I would assume you know that, but I wouldn't want to ttc, succeed that month and fall pregnant with the possibility that you could have covid. I just think for the sake of a few months, even if you have had the vaccine first dose, a pregnancy is so precious and so complex in what needs to be just right for it to happen, I just wouldn't consider being pregnant knowing you could also have a new and very unknown still disease.
The positive news is that if you've both been through this now then it's highly unlikely you'd get it again whilst TTC , and I assume you'll get the second vaccine, so for the sake for a few months at most, probably not even that, I would wait. I think it's safest.

I know you're out of isolation tomorrow sorry I think I missed that but I've seen now, but I still feel my gut feeling, having experienced the heartbreak that I have, I would wait out this month just to make sure you're all clear. It's so new and so unknown. I'm very very chill about covid - I'm CEV but I've not bothered to shield and worked in a very risky job the whole time, but I do think pregnancy is just too precious to take any risks with.

No he has no symptoms now apart from feeling tired which I understand can go on for weeks!
I have been tested with both pcr and lateral flow and remain negative. I wasn’t able to get my antibody test done but there’s some question over whether I had it last year as I had all symptoms and was really poorly!

@Cinderellashoes

No he has no symptoms now apart from feeling tired which I understand can go on for weeks! I have been tested with both pcr and lateral flow and remain negative. I wasn’t able to get my antibody test done but there’s some question over whether I had it last year as I had all symptoms and was really poorly!

If you've had the PCR as well I'd be more inclined to believe that.

Me personally I would wait a month but I'm sure you can tell from my experiences I will always err on the side of caution. I would imagine though in all honesty you'd probably be fine based on what you've said.

Thank you for replying and I’m really sorry about your losses @Fizzybottle

I think the advice is to wait a couple of months after you have finished your course of vaccines to try and ttc

@notevenat20 that made me laugh ,but logically it probably would be safer.

The advice has changed now. Pregnancy isn’t a contra indication with the pfizer vaccine as long as you discuss with a dr. I’m 33 and aware of time passing - it took me a year to conceive previous children. It just feels like a balancing act really