Could it be COVID again so soon?

[1willgetthere]

7 weeks ago, I tested positive for COVID. I had an antibody test at week 3 which showed anti bodies.
I now have similar symptoms, blocked nose, no smell, starting with a headache at the front and watery/achey eyes. But its only come on in the last few hours.
When I tested positive last time I isolated in my room for 10 days (or if I came down stairs I wore a mask and sanitised everything) as my DH is high risk (not CEV). I can't test as could still be positive as its less than 90 days.

Please tell me it cant be covid again and I don't need to isolate.

Very unlikely to be covid again so soon. Are you double vaccinated too?

Yes double jabbed, but back in Jan and April.

I came on to start a similar thread, OP. Tested positive just over 5 weeks ago after dd caught covid. Did my 10 days of isolation and then went back to normal.

I now have very similar symptoms again, though I don't feel as ill. I have been going out and about as normal because I assumed it couldn't possibly be covid again so soon. Haven't bothered testing despite symptoms as the advice was not to test again for 90 days after the initial positive test because it might still show as a positive.

To date, I have been absolutely that it is just a cold and I still think it probably is, but I'm a bit freaked out by the fact that someone I know has just tested positive after being in my car a few times since I developed this "cold". He doesn't seem to have any idea where he could have caught it from, and it just made me wonder..is there any chance that the virus could flair up again and that I could have passed it on to him just a few weeks after my isolation finished? Or might I have caught a different strain so soon after my previous infection?

I'm sure this is all nonsense but would hate to spread it around unwittingly. Please tell me that it's impossible for me to do this!

Just to add, I am also double jabbed, not currently eligible for a booster.

I thought you shouldn't test using a LFT for 90 days but you can do a PCR and should do?

It is not common to be reinfected within 60 days but it is possible and if you are reinfected, yes, you will be able to infect other people.

BTW 7 weeks after covid infection almost no-one tests positive (as in a false positive from their old infection). So it might still be worth testing again if you can.

Zoe app is saying 1 in 5 people don't get antibodies from infection.

Did the antibody test show those from your vaccination or from having the virus ? There should be two antibody tests, one soon after getting COVID (vaccine antibodies) and one several weeks later (from natural infection) . My texts from test and trace with results told me what each test was for.

If April was the date of your last vaccine it’s likely to have diminished in effectiveness by now. Some people do not get antibodies from infection as @MargaretThursday said so it’s not out of the realms of possibility that you could have it again. The rules around PCR testing need to change because 90 days is a long time if you’re out and about in

Covidworld public with so many cases around.

Hopefully it’s just a cold and you are feeling better soon.

OP, maybe do a LF out of curiosity? I tested very positive on a LF when I had covid and I tested again every other day out of sheer interest. I tested positive until day 9 and after that I was negative on day 9, day 11 & day 13. So in some cases, you won’t continue to test positive!

I’ve got a stinking cold at the moment (4 weeks post covid) & I have checked on a LF. It was negative. My fam all have the same cold & they’ve had PCR’s (they didn’t catch covid from me). All negative as well.

To be honest, if your OH is high risk, I’d still be cautious even with a nasty cold? My mum is CEV & we haven’t seen her this week cos it’s not a very nice cold! We always stay away when one of the kids are really under the weather to hopefully prevent her catching it. She was in hospital for weeks in 2019 after I passed on a nasty cold and I never forgave myself 😭

I would do a LFT. A pcr may still show positive from last time but a lft wouldn't. My ds was testing negative on LFT's again by day of infection (he still isolated for the full ten days)

This is really interesting. My friend had covid a few months ago and has had exactly the same symptoms this week. She had been at a group event & apparently about 10 of them went down with the same thing. She did lat flows everyday and all negative. It lasted about 4 days. It’s very odd.

I kept getting recurrent bouts of symptoms as if starting with covid for months after initial infection (long covid) although this was last year before vaccinations. I also had repeated PCRs as in ONS survey and they never tested positive.

I was told by test and trace that I can do LFTs again it’s just PCRs that should not be done in 90 days.
I am convinced I caught it from work from people who have ‘only got a cold’ and did not test but will never be able to know for sure.
I have done LFTs since isolation ended and they are now negative again having had positive LFT and PCR.

Do an LFT

It seems unlikely it would be covid. What kind of antibody test did you have? Do you know if you had IgM or IgG?

I currently have a awful cold - headache watery eyes etc LFT all negative and PCR also negative.

There is other bugs going around. I feel absolutely awful as well!!! This is the second cold I have had in the last month :(

There’s a terrible cold going round. We had it first then Covid straight after. Now I still feel crappy.

@Daisy829

This is really interesting. My friend had covid a few months ago and has had exactly the same symptoms this week. She had been at a group event & apparently about 10 of them went down with the same thing. She did lat flows everyday and all negative. It lasted about 4 days. It’s very odd.

Maybe they all caught a cold

@Daisy829 - probably all just got the same cold. Everyone seems to have forgotten how infectious they are.. there was always a couple occasions every winter almost my entire team in our office would have the same cold! Not all to the same degree of illness but we’d all have it. We work in a small, poorly ventilated room.