Can three pcr tests be wrong.

[Coronachristmas21]

Have had a cough all week, not severe but annoying. Goes from feeling dry to then phlegmy. Usually I would have done one test and accepted the result but Dp currently has covid too. So I've done three pcr tests - Sunday, Tuesday and yesterday (Friday). All come back negative. Multiple lft's negative too.

Is it just a huge coincidence that I've got a cough the week Dp has covid? He caught it off a close contact at work. My cough started about the same sort of time as he tested positive.

There is a lot going around. Both dc have had coughs in the last week or two and negative pcrs. Most of their friends are coughing with non covid coughs too.

Dp who actually had covid, doesn't have a cough. In fact he feels better than I do 😅 he's been pretty much asymptomatic!

I personally would just accept the result and carry on to be honest.

Coughs are still around, not everything is covid.

Yip. We still have the bog standard flu, colds and viral infections kicking around. My wee one was awful a couple of weeks ago with a cough and temperature. We lft every other day due to having close elderly relatives and they were consistently negative. As soon as the cough started PCR negative. She was off school for a week. Still occasionally coughs though even now.

Thank you. Usually wouldn't think much of it after a negative pcr. It's just that Dp has covid currently and isolating until Wednesday. My anxiety is in overdrive!

@Coronachristmas21

Have had a cough all week, not severe but annoying. Goes from feeling dry to then phlegmy. Usually I would have done one test and accepted the result but Dp currently has covid too. So I've done three pcr tests - Sunday, Tuesday and yesterday (Friday). All come back negative. Multiple lft's negative too.

Is it just a huge coincidence that I've got a cough the week Dp has covid? He caught it off a close contact at work. My cough started about the same sort of time as he tested positive.

There is a lot going around. Both dc have had coughs in the last week or two and negative pcrs. Most of their friends are coughing with non covid coughs too.

Dp who actually had covid, doesn't have a cough. In fact he feels better than I do 😅 he's been pretty much asymptomatic!

My DP has had a nasty "cold", done multiple LFTs and two PCRs, all negative. There are many other "non-Covid" colds around.

@Coronachristmas21

Thank you. Usually wouldn't think much of it after a negative pcr. It's just that Dp has covid currently and isolating until Wednesday. My anxiety is in overdrive!

Quite possibly your cold is protecting you from getting Covid by providing some kind of cross immunity.

I've had an awful cough and other cold symptoms plus horrible tiredness for nearly 2 weeks, as has DD. I've had 2 negative PCRs and multiple negative LFTs. DD just tested positive...

I can totally get why you're anxious about it. But I'm hearing all sorts . One family I know had three weeks between their two children's bouts of covid which was a nightmare for them because they did the responsible thing and made the whole family isolate during both illnesses. I also know a family where one adult had a positive test and no one else ever had any symptoms or had a positive PCR. There really is just no guessing with this bloody virus. Which is what makes it so anxiety inducing I suppose. For me it's definitely the uncertainty...especially leading up to big events like birthdays and Christmas. I really hope you feel better soon OP and that you continue to test negative.

Thanks all! Just my anxiety on over drive having a covid positive person in the house. I've been pretty much isolating but had to go out and get diesel today as on the red from all the trips to the test centre 10-15 miles away! Plus taking home tests to the post box 4 miles away! And chemist for something my cough! 🤯

I'm in exactly the same boat. DH has covid and due to the shape of the house, we are in the same a space a bit.
I've had a snotty nose and felt a bit rough but multiple lfts and a PCR say I'm negative. I'm guessing it's just bad luck that we are both ill with different bugs but it does seem bizarre.

@Orangesarenottheonlyfruit

I'm in exactly the same boat. DH has covid and due to the shape of the house, we are in the same a space a bit. I've had a snotty nose and felt a bit rough but multiple lfts and a PCR say I'm negative. I'm guessing it's just bad luck that we are both ill with different bugs but it does seem bizarre.

Annoying isn't. I know there's a lot going around but I haven't been ill in months and I decide to get ill this week - typical! We've struggled to isolate from each other fully too!

When Dd had COVID myself and DS had coughs and colds multiple negative PCR. I did read something at the time saying there is likely some protection from COVID if you are already infected with a standard cold virus as once cold virus enters body it almost shuts the door behind it and other viruses don’t get the opportunity to infect.

@Angel2702

When Dd had COVID myself and DS had coughs and colds multiple negative PCR. I did read something at the time saying there is likely some protection from COVID if you are already infected with a standard cold virus as once cold virus enters body it almost shuts the door behind it and other viruses don’t get the opportunity to infect.

Interesting, thank you. I've never had any cold symptoms as in snotty nose, sneezing but definitely scratchy throat and coughing. Dc have had coughs and colds recently too with negative pcrs and haven't caught it off Dp yet! Maybe it's good timing after all then!

You can’t say the definite who he got covid from! Could have been in coffee shop!

@RodneyIsDave sometimes you can be that accurate about where you got it from. It depends on your life and contacts. Friend works from home no kids went for lunch with two friends one of which had been in a school as an LSA - teacher she worked with tested positive 2 days before but instead of calling off the coffee and waiting 2-3 days then PCRing did a LFT and when that was negative went out the next day for lunch. She had covid which developed between the 6pm LFT and the noon day lunch. Our mutual friend is on O2 in hospital she has RA and on meds so her vaccine wasn’t terribly affective as her immune system was damped down by her steroid meds for her RA.

I’ve had a cough for weeks. Not covid. My brother who is laid up with a fever, cough, headaches etc and swore he “definitely” had covid also doesn’t have covid. DP started with sneezing and fatigue this week and it’s not covid for him either.

It seems vanishingly unlikely that 3 PCRs would all be wrong so yes, it’s a coincidence that you have a cough while he has covid.

I think the key word is that it seems bizarre but it probably isn’t really.

Throughout your pre pandemic life you probably assumed that when people in your household were simultaneously ill they had the same bug. But this was (presumably) never tested- I would imagine this kind of thing is more common than we realised.

@RodneyIsDave

You can’t say the definite who he got covid from! Could have been in coffee shop!

He'd only been to work, he literally doesn't go anywhere else 😅 Someone he spent a whole day with at work on a course tested positive the next morning. Turns the bloke was actually feeling ill at the course but had got a negative lft so thought it was okay. It was positive the next morning... seems likely it was. Not that it matters now, can't change it but a few others with contact with him have tested positive too!!

I could have written your post OP! My husband tested positive on Monday, I've had a couple of negative PCR's and LFT's too. I've just been for another test to determine whether I should go back to work on Monday. I have a cold and have spent the last week on edge waiting for a positive result, it's really stressing me out that it hasn't happened yet. Im worried I'll test positive as he finishes his isolation period and it will scupper all our Christmas plans.