New LFT not really working

[StrongLegs]

Hi,

Is anybody else finding that these new lateral flow tests are not really working that well?

Half the time when I our family do them, the liquid doesn't ever make it to the control line, and then if it does we always get a big smudge at the T line, which makes it really hard to tell if it is possive or not.

With the old tests it was always either definitely negative or clearly positive.

I use them twice a week and the rest of the family too, no issues at all

I don't use them anymore, when we had covid they never showed positive - pcr did

Never had an issue with them with either getting the foil off or having enough liquid.

I did my first ever LFT today as I feel as though I've got a cold. I've got nothing to compare against but surprisingly it seemed to work ok! That was the Flow Flex ones.

I've got a couple of boxes of the old style throat ones so I'll try those and do nose only to use them up.