Day 11 - VERY dark line

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I tested very faintly positive for covid on an LFT on the 18th Jan. I've been asymptomatic throughout.

The line gradually got darker over 2-3 days and has remained a dark line since. I'm now on day 11, release day, and my test remains very dark (see photo).

1. Is the darkness of the line an indicator of how contagious I am (although asymptomatic)?

1. What are other people peoples experience of day 10/11 tests, when you've assumedly test faintly positive very early on?

@Thiswayorthatway

OP legally you have to self isolate if you’re testing positive, whether you’re 10 days + or not, you’re still infectious and it could be long Covid. Can someone else take your negative kids out?

No you don’t.

@Thiswayorthatway

OP legally you have to self isolate if you’re testing positive, whether you’re 10 days + or not, you’re still infectious and it could be long Covid. Can someone else take your negative kids out?

I didn't think ANYONE did a LFT to release themselves after 10 days +. Everyone just goes back to work and school, don't they?

Interestingly, we have a member of staff in school who was very poorly with COVID. She's only young but it's the second time she's had it and she had to have a couple of weeks off as felt so bad. She returned to work too early really as she wasn't up to it but it's teaching so......She still has awful coughing fits.

We have had a definite increase in cases. Probably just a coincidence that she still has the coughing fits, I guess, but it does make you wonder, seeing OP's post.

I don't get this whole "test to release" thing because they tell you you can still test positive on PCR even though you're not contagious. ARe we supposed to think the same about LFT?

Who knows anymore? It's like they're making the rules up now....

@Sloughsabigplace

I tested today as I was hoping to see my parent in a care home, I am day …. lost count really but maybe 26? Still a line like that.

I have lost hope of ever testing negative on a LFT.

Which is shit because my father is getting more and more distressed that he’s seen no one, there is only me to visit, can use the phone.

Just glad I tested at home before I drove an hour, took a LFT there, waited up to two hours for them to come and tell me it was positive and that I couldn’t come in.

(I have discussed it with them, they don’t care how long ago my positive PCR was, they just care that the LFT is positive).

I lost hope of ever testing POSITIVE on a LFT. Only ever tested positive on a PCR.

It's all just too random.....

@CurlyhairedAssassin
She returned to work too early really as she wasn't up to it but it's teaching so......She still has awful coughing fits. We have had a definite increase in cases. Probably just a coincidence that she still has the coughing fits, I guess, but it does make you wonder, seeing OP's post
I’m also a teacher. I’m on day 21 and testing positive still. We’ve had a huge increase in cases in my class since I’ve returned and I keep wondering if it could be be, even though I’ve been told I’m ok to be in work.