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To think I'm in the clear...

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dumbledory · 21/01/2022 18:45

Single parent here.

DD unwell and tested positive on Monday.

No way of isolating from her at home, so I've been caring for/comforting her as normal.

I've tested negative everyday so far on a LFT...

Surely if I was going to get it, I would have got it by now?

What's been other people's experiences?

TIA

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TulipsGarden · 21/01/2022 18:50

Same here except son tested positive on Tuesday (was ill Monday night). Three adults with him on Sunday all tested negative on lateral flows all week. No symptoms. I think we're in the clear?

Allaboutthebooks · 21/01/2022 18:55

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withgraceinmyheart · 21/01/2022 18:56

Not in my experience, I tested positive 8 days after dd. Have heard lot of similar stories.

Oodlesofdoodlescockapoodles · 21/01/2022 18:56

I tested positive on day 6 after my son. I think you're supposed to test daily for 7 days after a close contact but not 100%!

Hope you've swerved it

frizzyandfrazzled · 21/01/2022 18:58

Close contact Saturday and Sunday. Friend tested positive Monday. I thought I was in the clear but tested positive today...

TulipsGarden · 21/01/2022 19:00

Oh noooo this doesn't bode well! Dammit.

Yes it's seven days testing after close contact.

GoldenFondue · 21/01/2022 19:05

I tested positive on the Monday (isolated properly from them once i got the result on the Tuesday) and husband and child didn't get a positive until the Saturday. Child 2 then tested positive on the following Monday. He probably caught it from his brother right enough.

Yellow85 · 21/01/2022 19:06

Day 8.

PlantWitch · 21/01/2022 19:19

DD tested positive last Saturday, me and DH both had it by Tuesday. Hope you have managed to avoid it!

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dumbledory · 21/01/2022 19:32

Oh no...perhaps I've been a little premature in thibking I'm in the clear then!

Shall keep up with the daily tests and hope for the best. Was just really hoping to avoid it, as I'm in a new job and whilst they've been so understanding, having anymore time off after being home with DD this week is far from ideal...

Hope everyone who currently has it are holding up ok - was very surprised at how hard it hit DD!

Sending get well wishes to you all.

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bluesky45 · 21/01/2022 19:52

We're on day 7 today, all been clear so far and D's now having negative tests so 🤞 for our last tests today. DS has been asymptomatic though the whole time, don't know if that makes a difference

Sexnotgender · 21/01/2022 19:53

Urgh. Not enjoying this thread. DH tested positive first thing Wednesday. Hoping I’ve dodged it. Probably not😞

Macaroni46 · 21/01/2022 21:55

Discovered lots of kids I'd been working closely with tested positive. 6 days later I tested positive.

changingstages · 22/01/2022 10:28

DD had it in early December and I didn't get it, despite sharing a bed with her for much of the time she was ill.

She's got it again now and I have just tested positive...

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dumbledory · 22/01/2022 18:05

Sorry to hear others have tested positive after thinking they'd escaped.

Negative lateral flow again today, so I live in hope...

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WellThatsATurnipForTheBooks · 22/01/2022 18:11

I'm another one who is wondering if they're going to escape it. I felt quite hopeful until I read some of these replies.

DP tested positive on Wednesday (pretty sure he caught it last Friday from someone who tested positive on Monday).

DC and I are still testing negative

RiskyCookie · 22/01/2022 18:13

I read somewhere the incubation period for covid is between 2-12 days and on average symtoms showed at around 5 and a half says after infected.

Hope you've managed to swerve it OP. I'm off with DD who didn't get it when we all did so I'm having to have further time off in a new job too. It's rubbish isn't it.

Fingers crossed for you!

Icequeen01 · 22/01/2022 18:21

The LFT may show negative but you can't always trust them. I have 15 work colleagues. 13 of us tested positive on LFTs and then PCRs between 17th/18th December. One person was negative throughout on their LFTs but on 22nd decided to do a PCR before they saw their elderly grandmother. They were positive! No symptoms at all and still showing negative on an LFT!

Having said that, I didn't isolate at all from my DH and DS and they didn't get it.

altmember · 22/01/2022 18:56

@Icequeen01

The LFT may show negative but you can't always trust them. I have 15 work colleagues. 13 of us tested positive on LFTs and then PCRs between 17th/18th December. One person was negative throughout on their LFTs but on 22nd decided to do a PCR before they saw their elderly grandmother. They were positive! No symptoms at all and still showing negative on an LFT!

Having said that, I didn't isolate at all from my DH and DS and they didn't get it.

Depending on how regularly they'd previously been testing, it's possible that person had already had asymptomatic covid within the last couple of months, without having any idea. A previous infection can show up a positive PCR result for several months, hence why they say not to take one within 90 days of a previous infection.

It's even possible they had it just a week or two before the rest of you and it was them that infected the rest of the office!

On the one hand the early research is suggesting Omicron has a shorter incubation period than earlier strains (some are saying 48 hours). On the other hand, I've heard of quite a few people coming down with it a week after their first exposure.

I caught it 8 days after my kids first tested positive (and they were pretty much over it by then). I could have been incubating it for 2 days or 10.

Icequeen01 · 22/01/2022 19:00

@altmember We test twice a week and we know which one of us infected the rest of us and it wasn't this member of staff😀

We all had Covid in January 2021 and that time 14 out of 17 of us caught it and that time only one of us tested positive on an LFT!

Aurorie11 · 22/01/2022 21:19

@Allaboutthebooks ditto on timescale. Thought I'd escaped it. How are you feeling? I wouldn't even say I had a cold. Coughed a fair bit this morning but wonder if that was psychosomatic

Nothingsfine · 22/01/2022 21:29

DD started with symptoms on Sun. Tested positive on Tues. I'm still negative. Immunosuppressed. Triple jabbed. Assuming not out of the woods yet.

KatharinaRosalie · 22/01/2022 21:30

DS positive on Wed but pretty sure he had it already Sunday or latest Monday. I've been testing daily, positive today.

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