Covid again <4wks after having it?!

[delightly]

Eldest son likely has it, waiting for his PCR results. It's rife in his primary school and I have started to feel so ill.

I tested +ve on 23rd Dec and had it mild, I also had it in March 2020...

Surely to God I cannot have covid again!! Absolutely no one will believe me. I hardly leave the house as now wfh!! My husband barely believed my last bout as was neg on all LFTs but positive on PCR.

According to the rulez you shouldn't have another PCR for 90 days after testing positive as it could still show +ve from residual virus, unless you have symptoms then you should go for one?? Wtf is the point in that???

I presume this would likely be a diff variant? i.e. the Omifuckingcron?

Son is fine BTW and it's his first bout, they've all managed to avoid it from me in the past. Wtf is wrong with me that gets everything that's fucking going and everyone else's??

Yes, I had Covid without symptoms but confirmed by PCR as part of a study at the start of the year. Negative lateral flows, finished isolation etc and now I've just tested positive again and am pretty unwell with it.
Pretty sure I've had 2 variants almost back to back as no way symptoms from first infection only started 3 weeks later, especially when I've had plenty of negatives inbetween.

Other household members have just tested positive too, seems unlikely they got it from an infection I had 3 weeks ago. I think one of them brought it home from school or work.

Yes, I'm waiting for my other child and then my husband to get this one...

I am soooo over this.

Dd tested + 15th December with no symptoms whatsoever, we all had it and she was the last of us to get it! She caught it off myself or dp.

Fast forward to now, outbreak in her class. At least 20 of them have it. She's tested positive again with new symptoms albeit mild. She's got a sore throat, sneezing, but not an actual runny nose and she says her nose and eyes hurt. Faint line on lft at the weekend which has got stronger, now done a pcr. Still pretty mild but crazy considering she had it last month with no symptoms.

You can pcr within 90 days if you have new symptoms. I rang 119 to ask for advice as wasn't sure myself. They said that reinfection has become very common and it's almost definitely a new infection for Dd.

Also, I can totally sympathise. It absolutely sucks. We all had it last month. Hoping it won't hit the whole house this time. It took over a week for us all to test positive last month. So it took nearly 3 weeks for us all to be fully out of isolation from first week of December - 25th December for Dd! I went stir crazy!

I've just posted about this on another thread.

When DH and I had covid in Feb/March 2020 we recovered initially then about ten days later became ill again. A little while later it was confirmed that this was a feature of covid, the initial strain anyway. I've heard of so many people testing positive/getting symptoms within a couple of weeks of previously testing positive - I wonder if it could be a feature of Omicron, too, rather than a whole new infection?

I can't believe how ill I'm feeling with this. It reminds me of March 2020 when I got it the first time. The painkillers must be kicking in as I can actually lift up my phone now. I ordered a home PCR because I can't face going for one.

@SmashingBIouse Tbh I personally think it's reinfection with a different strain.

@CA0932017 It's unreal how many children have it at my kids school - it's swept through them all at an unbelievable rate.