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Has anyone else never had covid?

268 replies

Morph22010 · 16/03/2022 07:48

Just about everyone I know has now had covid at some point over last few years. It’s been in our household twice and we didn’t isolate from each other but I never tested positive. I have had times when I’ve felt ill and then found close contacts have tested positive so I’ve been sure I must have but always tested negative. Not complaining at all, if anything I consider myself lucky, just think it’s odd and I seem to be a minority.

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Mrsjayy · 23/03/2022 18:53

I had been testing because we were away for a few days I was feeling grotty but didn't get a line till yesterday!

Mrsjayy · 23/03/2022 18:54

Monday not yesterday!

EIisheva · 23/03/2022 21:17

Would love to know if any covid divers have autoimmune diseases ?

I have several and am the only person I know who hasn’t had it YET

Hairbrush123 · 23/03/2022 21:22

I haven’t. Followed guidelines when it was mandatory but haven’t worn a mask/social distanced since it wasn’t law. I avoid busy areas but did that pre covid anyway. Pretty much everyone I know has caught covid so not sure how I’ve been avoiding it! watch now, I’ll test positive tomorrow.

Hairbrush123 · 23/03/2022 21:24

@EIisheva

Would love to know if any covid divers have autoimmune diseases ?

I have several and am the only person I know who hasn’t had it YET

I have hypothyroidism. My immune is quite weak for someone my age but still perplexed how I haven’t caught it despite catching countless colds throughout 2021
racquel86 · 23/03/2022 22:18

Officially I haven't - as in I have never tested positive for it. However, I'm convinced I had it very early on, around end of December 2019 before testing came in and before the full panic started when we were not really aware of COVID. I'm a nurse and a high number of staff who had been regularly working together went down poorly around the same time with a strange ?flu/chesty/just generally feeling crap type illness, that took us a long time to get over. I was off work 2 weeks - on the 7th day I went to gp for a sicknote as I just didn't feel well enough to go back to work - I said to GP 'I wonder if it's flu? I just feel awful' GP said to me 'no I think it's something viral, I've had a lot of people ringing complaining of similar symptoms'. I also had a blood test around that time (unrelated to that episode of illness) and I had a raised white cell count - indicating my body was fighting some sort of illness. The nurse role I was in at that time meant I was required to see many patients on a variety of different wards every day - I worked throughout the pandemic mixing with patients and staff all day 5 days a week on the High Risk and Covid wards and I never became unwell, nor have I since..... (starts 'touching wood' left, right and centre 🙈🤣🙏🏻)

racquel86 · 23/03/2022 22:21

Also to add.... although I do not claim to be the 'fittest' person in the world, far from it in fact... I generally am for enough to do a lot of walking without getting breathless but for a while after my 'mystery viral illness ??undiagnosed COVID' I was breathless on exertion climbing stairs and walking from my car in the cold....

MrsAmber · 23/03/2022 23:42

Hadn’t had it until Sunday just gone!

DrDinosaur · 24/03/2022 01:33

Have been seeing patients and testing twice weekly all through lockdown. Not a hint of illness, had antibody test in mid 2020, and no sign I’d had it previously.
Was feeling very smug about my superior immune system... until two days ago. Bastard new variant has got me. Feel very tired and achy, definitely worse than a cold, despite two vaccines plus booster.

DinosaursEatMan · 24/03/2022 02:03

Three of us in the family have autoimmune diseases and have all avoided it so far, despite being close contacts several times.

DarkAndDreary · 24/03/2022 02:20

Nothing for me, and apart from when first lockdown came in I had worked in a public facing role, dealing with all ages, but been careful with masks etc.

However like a poster previous in Feb 2020 I was at a large gathering (outside the UK) and came back feeling under the weather, cold like symptoms and feeling pretty washed out, Doc took bloods and came back that I had had a virus, but at that time Covid was not tested, I do think I had it back then.

Hollyhobbi · 24/03/2022 03:19

I haven't caught it yet🤞. Both my daughters have, one of them two weeks ago. I have primary hyperparathyroidism, hypothyroidism, have had two DVTs, one while on blood thinners, and I have Psoriasis and high blood pressure and I'm prediabetic too. But because I have primary hyperparathyroidism I take VitD and magnesium supplements as it helps with my bone pain. The weird thing is since I started the supplements about 5 years ago, I haven't had one sore throat, sinus infection (used to get a couple of these every winter) or even a cold.

emmathedilemma · 24/03/2022 10:41

Spoke too soon! Tested positive yesterday although if I hadn't been a close contact of someone and been doing LFTs I don't think I would have suspected I had it. Had a bit of a fuzzy head and a little bit sneezy but to be honest, no worse than normal allergy symptoms. Hey ho.

AnastasiaRomanov · 24/03/2022 11:03

I am hypothyroid. I haven’t had the booster and haven’t had it yet. Generally I have a strong immune system.

Fridafever · 24/03/2022 11:06

I was beginning to feel invincible - child at primary school and I’m on a packed train and tube three times a week all the way through. Then caught it this week and have it really badly.

martyr · 24/03/2022 16:17

No covid here. I am quite happy after reading that covid shrinks your brain.
It just is everywhere. Ds class was full of it and now DD's friends have it. I feel like the walls around me are slowly nearing me.

Katie517 · 25/03/2022 11:03

Someone who was positive (didn’t know at the time) literally coughed and sneezed while sitting right next to me in an all day meeting at work last week as of today it’s been 9 days and still nothing I have no symptoms and have done several tests. I really thought that would be the time that it got me but apparently not, I think I am just one of those people who don’t get it.

WhiteChocTwix · 06/04/2022 20:59

2 and a bit years on and I've never had it. I have dodgy DNA, I'm beginning to believe the virus doesn't stick.

ShinyPikachu · 07/04/2022 00:58

Another cursed one after posting on this thread, DH tested positive just a few days after I posted here and I caught it from him. Typical.

MarmiteCoriander · 07/04/2022 01:19

To my knowledge, neither DH or I have had it- nor his parents, mine or any of our siblings.

DDivaStar · 07/04/2022 08:43

I haven't.

DD tested positive on Sunday, DH on Monday but I've tested negative everyday. No isolating from each other. I can only think DH had his jab earlier than me so maybe my protection is higher than his now.

CouldBeOuting · 07/04/2022 22:48

@DDivaStar

I haven't.

DD tested positive on Sunday, DH on Monday but I've tested negative everyday. No isolating from each other. I can only think DH had his jab earlier than me so maybe my protection is higher than his now.

DS repeatedly tested negative on LFT despite the fact that DH and I both had it. His college asked for a PCR test which he went off and did - result was positive! We all had our jabs around the same time (DS a few days ahead of us on all three as he is “vulnerable”).
Tumbleweed101 · 07/04/2022 23:01

Not yet that I'm aware of. Have worked in childcare throughout and my daughter works with covid patients! My daughter had it Xmas 2020 a couple weeks after starting at the hospital and gave it to her sister. She isn't vaccinated and hasn't caught it again so far.

Got a nasty cold at the moment but still testing negative. My theory - my daughter and my work place have given me low level exposure to it, enough to help with immunity but too low to catch it. Of course this is probably wrong and I will be really poorly with it at some point lol.

essexgirl58 · 08/04/2022 03:27

i have never had covid either. I was in close company wit someone for an evening who tested positive and told me so that I could get a PCR test and it came back negative.

I just do not understand it.

Valencebalance · 08/04/2022 03:58

I haven’t had it and no one I know has either. The closest person to me I know has had it is my husband colleagues girlfriends dad who had it and was mildly ill for nearly 2 weeks, the colleague and girlfriend were dropping shopping off for her mum and dad during that time, leaving it at the end of the drive for her mum to collect so they didn’t catch it and her mum didn’t catch it either. It made me wonder if some people are naturally immune because her mum slept in the same bed as her dad, looked after him etc but didn’t catch it.

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