How long to get a negative LFT after being Covid positive?

[Curlybrunette]

Hi, bit of a random question.

My dad (double jabbed) has just had a positive LFT. He's been ok-ish, felt 'a bit off' since last weekend, very slightly breathless, very slight cough, a bit more tired than usual.

He has done LFTs every day since last Saturday, negative until last night. He is retired so has just isolated at home rather than going for a PCR.

So as I said last night he got a positive LFT. He's in the frame of mind where as he's at home isolating anyway, he doesn't see the need for a PCR, he wouldn't go out and risk anyone (he's been really careful from the start of the pandemic) , and he's said he just won't go out again until he gets a negative LFT again.

This is where it's tricky, his symptoms started 8 days ago, so I thought 10 days isolation means he could go out on Wednesday. Is that correct, isolation is from day 1 of symptoms. Does not getting a positive LFT until much later change the timescale?

He's a quiet guy and has been so isolated in the last 18 months, he was just building the confidence to go out again and meet with his pals, I worry that the positive LFT could last for ages and he'll go back into his lonely self.

I do know the sensible thing is for him to just get a PCR but he's determined he doesn't want one (thinks it's a waste as he's staying in anyway and there's people that need the test more than him).

So, if anyone you have been positive, how long was it before you got a negative LFT.

Thank you

Of course that is against guidance as they want you to have a PCR too and then they can confirm the case and monitor you more effectively for public safety. But technically his behaviour would be the same whether he got the PCR or not.

Hi - I was wondering if you received any explanation for your situation. Did you have symptoms when you first tested positive? I am currently asymptomatic and on day 13 of positive LFTs

@FuckingFabulousmy question above is for you - tia

@FuckingFabulous

Have you received any explanation? And were you symptomatic at the time you began to test positive? I am on day 13 of positive LFT and getting worried about it.

Apologies if I have somehow posted my question twice - I thought Inasked or but can’t find it now in the thread.

When track and trace called me it was 10 days after the first positive test so it ended up being 11 days.

[quote PITA5000]@FuckingFabulous

Have you received any explanation? And were you symptomatic at the time you began to test positive? I am on day 13 of positive LFT and getting worried about it.

Apologies if I have somehow posted my question twice - I thought Inasked or but can’t find it now in the thread.[/quote]
No, no explanation! I was not symptomatic of anything I thought was Covid. About a week before I tested positive on LFT, I had a dizzy spell in a supermarket, spent about three hours feeling weird, then I was alright. But about four weeks after I started getting positive LFTs I started feeling exhausted all the time and that's where I am now. Drs have no explanation at all, I never tested positive on PCR. My fingernails are still coming away from the nail bed, full of splinter haemorrhages.... the best explanation was that I have something weird going on with my immune system- and I'm currently scheduled to have blood tests to check that out.

@FuckingFabulous I am really sorry to hear this. Very worrying - I have had 2 negative PCRs and 12 positive LFTs.
I hope you find out what’s going on and things improve.