Have I really dodged a house full of covid or is there still time??

[Gettingonabitnow]

Hi

DH and I are both doubles jabbed. He test positive five days after my DC but I’m still negative via pcr and lft 🎉. Have I managed to dodge it, or is there still time?!

I’d be keen to hear your experiences.

I might add they are both largely fine.

Be careful. I had symptoms of COViD started last Monday night/ tuesday so a week ago, but thought was probably just a cold as mostly snot with a bit of sore throat and tiredness . Tested negative on lateral flows and then PCR just to make sure last week was negative too. Went back to work thinking still just a cold. Then suddenly DH tested positive last night on a lateral flow after he started with a runny nose too. We all 4 of us got PCRs today. Kids negative (one has started with symptoms yesterday though). DH tested positive on PCR as expected . I fully expected mine to be another negative. It wasn’t, I got the shock of my life.

I now have no idea if I’ve had an actual cold last week and just caught Covid off DH in the past few days. Or if I was the first one with COVId in the house at the start of last week and it’s taken all this time to give a positive result on a PCR. I’m still testing negative on lateral flow whereas DH was strong positive on lateral flow so the odds are he’s the one who’s brought it into the house a few days ago.

I think the timings are not cut and dried with whatever the latest variant is though. I think they might be doing surge testing here as there was a mobile lab at the testing site today and we got our results back in 4-5 hrs which is a record for round here. I wonder if they suspect a cold/deffo not COVID/oh shit it IS COVID type of variant is doing the rounds with delayed positives for some people.

Well I’ve woken up feeling terrible, despite taking paracetamol last night. The bug that keeps on giving whatever it is!

Negative LFT. Paracetomal just kicking in enough so that I can get up and sort the kids, what is wrong with me?!

@CurlyhairedAssassin You have described our experience! Ten days ago our 8 month old became sick with ear infection, conjunctivitis and upper respiratory infection and on antibiotics - put down to a virus after starting nursery. I came down with mega sore throat/ cold a few days later. All our lateral flows negative but felt grim with a cold and fatigue. DH fine.
Went back to work mid week and sent DS went to nursery after negative LFT every day and no typical covid symptoms. Last friday we were informed of a case at nursery so all went for PCRs. Baby and I positive, DH inconclusive, then he subsequently tested positive on Sunday.
Obviously we are all now at home isolating. Not sure if my and DS’s symptoms were a separate cold or covid. Also yesterday, five days after positive PCR, was the first day i showed positive on a lateral flow. I’ve had 9 days of negative results. DS and DH been positive on LFT since Sunday,
I now feel fine despite a residual
head cold and slight wheeze, DS is snotty and waking up every hour needing comfort but husband is very fluey with one bloodshot red covid eye. But not sure if my terrible sore throat and son’s ear infection/ conjunctivitis was covid or not.
This strain is very odd. With the symptoms I have experienced it would be impossible to know you had covid and the standard ‘rules’ to warrant a PCR do not encompass any of the symptoms.

Nixnox, I'm interested in this covid red eye. DH also has one red eye but I've not heard of this symptom before. Does he need meds for conjunctivitis?

Gettingonabitnow - sounds rough whatever it is, hope you're better soon. Id get a PCR if I were you just to be sure.

@vindaloopy it’s a symptom in 1-3 per cent of cases - covid droplets go in through the eyes, nose and mouth so it can irritate the membranes of the eye. In covid unlike other conjunctivitis it typically only affects one eye. You can get conjunctivitis meds from pharmacy but our GP told him (on a video consult) to bathe it in cooled boiled water and leave it 48 hours before getting someone to get us meds. It’s pretty much gone down now three days after it arrived. Still bloodshot but not cyclops!

@Gettingonabitnow get a PCR.
My LFT was a total squinter.

DH got a positive PCR on a Thursday evening. Rest of us negative. We did try to isolate within the household and were as careful as we could be.

I started feeling awful on Sunday night, did a PCR Monday morning- positive.

Kids both still testing negative at this point. DD then rapidly got symptoms and started feeling rotten on Wednesday- positive.

And the little one had symptoms since Sunday but 1st test unreadable, 2nd one got lost so we just assume he's also positive.

Take care of yourself..both adults here double jabbed. I'm now over a week in and still feeling grim. DH has done his 10 days but been signed off another week as he's still tired and dizzy. It was day 14 yesterday for him and he said it was the first day he'd felt more or less ok.

That's really useful, thanks nixnox!

We were -

Children clearly positive on a Weds/Thursday, adults negative on pcr.

Following Tuesday - dh very faint LTF confirmed by pcr.

Saturday after that -me very faint LTF confirmed by pcr.

LTFs miss many positive cases so if you're ill you need a pcr.

@Bumpsadaisie Totally totally agree but the government’s own website tells you to do a LFT unless you have ‘any of these symptoms, even if mild:
a high temperature
a new, continuous cough
a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste’…
Which is rubbish as this variant doesn’t seem to give many people those symptoms. The messaging around this really needs to be changed as, as you say, LFTs aren’t reliable especially with symptoms.

[quote Nixnox]@CurlyhairedAssassin You have described our experience! Ten days ago our 8 month old became sick with ear infection, conjunctivitis and upper respiratory infection and on antibiotics - put down to a virus after starting nursery. I came down with mega sore throat/ cold a few days later. All our lateral flows negative but felt grim with a cold and fatigue. DH fine.
Went back to work mid week and sent DS went to nursery after negative LFT every day and no typical covid symptoms. Last friday we were informed of a case at nursery so all went for PCRs. Baby and I positive, DH inconclusive, then he subsequently tested positive on Sunday.
Obviously we are all now at home isolating. Not sure if my and DS’s symptoms were a separate cold or covid. Also yesterday, five days after positive PCR, was the first day i showed positive on a lateral flow. I’ve had 9 days of negative results. DS and DH been positive on LFT since Sunday,
I now feel fine despite a residual
head cold and slight wheeze, DS is snotty and waking up every hour needing comfort but husband is very fluey with one bloodshot red covid eye. But not sure if my terrible sore throat and son’s ear infection/ conjunctivitis was covid or not.
This strain is very odd. With the symptoms I have experienced it would be impossible to know you had covid and the standard ‘rules’ to warrant a PCR do not encompass any of the symptoms.[/quote]
It’s nuts, isn’t it? DS1 has gone to school today, says he’s just following the latest guidelines - negative lateral flow this morning, negative PCR yesterday. He no longer had symptoms of the cold he has a couple of weeks ago. I’ve left a message with school so half expecting him to be sent home as they have an uncontained outbreak in another year and have had intervention from the local authority. It’s no bloody wonder if the government are allowing this….

I never got it and neither did ds, everyone else in the house was positive.

I can't believe that our health professionals eg whitty and valance are working stupid as to not know the symptoms are not matching the new varient so what is the purpose and reason behind it?
. There must be some because symptoms are actually massive fatigue, headache, possibly fever or chills, possibly cough.. Most likely a sore throat.

Wow really interesting to hear all the different stories.

I feel a bit of a fraud going for another pcr as I’ve done two and they’ve both been negative. When my DH and DC did lateral flows before their pcrs, they were clear positives. It’s a tough one isn’t it.

@Gettingonabitnow

Wow really interesting to hear all the different stories.

I feel a bit of a fraud going for another pcr as I’ve done two and they’ve both been negative. When my DH and DC did lateral flows before their pcrs, they were clear positives. It’s a tough one isn’t it.

I didn't have a continuous cough nor a temp nor loss of smell taste nor sore throat.

I had a whacking headache my sinus were totally stuffed up so my head felt very heavy. The most noticeable things was two days of repeated sneezing! Never sneezed so much in my life 🤣

@Autumngoldleaf

I can't believe that our health professionals eg whitty and valance are working stupid as to not know the symptoms are not matching the new varient so what is the purpose and reason behind it? . There must be some because symptoms are actually massive fatigue, headache, possibly fever or chills, possibly cough.. Most likely a sore throat.

It makes you wonder if the symptoms are so varied now that testing capacity would be overwhelmed if they added more?

Or alternatively, they just want it to spread around as much as possible now before winter? (But in that case why bother testing at all)

@Bumpsadaisie

We were -

Children clearly positive on a Weds/Thursday, adults negative on pcr.

Following Tuesday - dh very faint LTF confirmed by pcr.

Saturday after that -me very faint LTF confirmed by pcr.

I am dreading this if this happens to us! So your dc could potentially go back to school but no one would be able to take them?

Well DD2 tested positive this morning, 9 days after DD1. Nightmare

Dd had it, finished isolation today.

The rest of us have done 2 pcrs and daily lateral flows. Nothing so far... I am fascinated by it.

She was very good about staying separate and as the weather was good we had all windows open 24/7.

I had a tiny bit of breakthrough bleeding. I have the coil and in the last 7 years the only other times I have had this is after each dose of the AZ vaccine. I was also wondering if it was the vaccine kicking in for me.

@CandleWick4 9 days, wow! Hope she is ok

I am now 10 days in from dc first symptoms and still negative.

Does this mean I could still get it, if for example I caught it from him yesterday and then am incubating it for up to ten days or it it more likely to catch it right at the beginning and be incubating it from then?

And then if dh tested positive 3 days ago (presumably from dc) does that mean I could catch it from him if I didn’t catch it from dc? So I need to be careful for 10 days from dh catching it? Or is that not likely?

@Lollipop444 I'd say all bets are off.
My DD has been a close contact several times and never caught it previously.
If your DH tested positive 3 days ago you could still catch it from.him, you may have it already and be incubating or you might get lucky and avoid it altogether. Transmission seems quite unpredictable

We are on day 10 of DDs bout.

No one in the house is showing they have it other than her. All negative on PCRs and LFTs. I have had 2 x PCRs, the second as I had flukey symptoms - daily headache, night sweats, loss of appetite, aching eyes, like a cold was starting but it never came to anything. I do wonder if my immune system was just ‘doing its thing’ - I am double vaxxed.

I need to clear and clean out DDs room tomorrow when she’s back at school. I will still be using antibacterial spray, wearing a mask and gloves and ventilating that room ALL DAY.

We will continue to LFT (minus her) daily for several days. Incubation is around 5 days so if we are still neg 5 days from now I’ll believe we are clear (for now)