What counts as symptoms? Trying to work out my Day 0

[sunnysideny]

I had a gradual start to symptoms- felt just a bit under the weather and shivery (but normal temperature) for a couple of days (Mon/Tue) then a bit of a sore throat (Weds) before feeling full-on poorly Thursday and testing positive on PCR on Sat. Lateral flow tests were all negative till Sat. I'm unsure what to count as my Day 0 for the purposes of isolation. I'm still testing positive today but not sure if I'm on day 8 (if count from Weds, say), day 9/10 if I count the shivery/not quite right feelings from earlier in the week, or maybe day 7 if I count from when I started feeling really bad. Any thoughts?

I think it's officially the big 3 - fever, cough change to smell/taste. So, unless you had any of these prior to testing positive, then the day you took your positive test will be day 0. I think that makes you day 5 today. Sorry.

I disagree, I’d take it from the sore throat on Wednesday.

Don't know officially but I'd take it from the day you felt poorly. Clearly lots of people aren't having the official 3 symptoms, but a sore throat is clearly linked to covid and not another illness, so I would be counting it from then.

Track and trace took mine from my sore throat last Thursday, and my DD's as her snotty nose (but she had other weird symptoms for 2 days prior to the cold symptoms starting such as being extremely itchy), oddly we didn't get positive LFT/PCR until almost a week after symptoms started.

Yeah from your sore throat.
The most common omricon symptom.