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How can I be testing negative!

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ThisMustBeMyDream · 17/01/2022 08:22

Covid in the house. DS positive thurs evening (he was neg in the morning!!), DP pos yesterday morning. Me and DP have exactly the same symptoms, I feel dreadful. Yet I'm negative. Pcr and lfts. Makes no sense!
This happened the last (first) time we got covid too. DP tested pos, I started with symptoms the next day, virtually identical again. I was negative until 20 days after his pos test (back when we isolated for 14 days). I was then asymptomatic when I did get a positive! I only tested on that day because I'd just received my first box of lft's (nhs staff).
I find it so strange. Why the bloody hell am I negative when me and DP have identical symptoms. It means I now have to take younger DS who is negative, but well, to school, which feels wrong!

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ThisMustBeMyDream · 18/01/2022 20:52

I was following the advice, regardless of what you thought. I wasn't doing anything wrong. The lft and pcr tests are the issue... I didn't have any of the 3 symptoms required for PCR anyway.
Work and schools do not accept "I think I've got covid but the tests are negative", so isolating just incase wouldn't be accepted. We live in the real world where we have to follow rules. I can't isolate "just incase".

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