Can you explain this please?

[DeedIDo]

Four of us who were in the same place last Tuesday have since tested positive for COVID.

Fair enough you might say, but we all have completely different symptoms and I actually have exactly the same symptoms as a friend I spent some time with last Wednesday, but who had tested negative.

I developed a sore throat overnight on a Thursday, that passed on Friday, I then had sinus pain and headache on Saturday, was knackered yesterday and am back to normal today. Others have flu-like symptoms, dry cough, chesty cough etc etc.

DH thinks I had a false positive on my LFT. Is that even possible?

I’m the same. 4 of us were together 10 days ago. Another friend also with us must have been asymptomatic & tested positive a day later. We’ve all come down with it at different times & with different symptoms. My Dh is the last one to test positive today. I tested positive on Tuesday. It’s a weird virus.

Everyone is different. I could catch the cold and feel a bit rubbish but get o with it, I could give my cold to you and you feel like death, have a terrible headache, a cough which keeps you up at night etc.
Everyone's body reacts differently. If u don't believe your positive....take another lft or get a PCR to confirm.

Different symptoms is normal - our bodies respond differently to the virus. My friends and I (probably) caught it at the same event, I've mainly had a sore throat, one of them has felt achey, another lost their sense of taste, etc.

I'm surprised you are thinking that it could be a false positive, given that you've spent time with other people who have tested positive and you've had symptoms. A false positive seems really unlikely.

@LoganberryJam, I just don't know. I hadn't thought about it until DH mentioned it, but if this is usual, as people suggest, then he's probably wrong (and a bit of a conspiracy theorist.

DS, DM, DH and I all had different symptoms. I'm reasonably sure DS and DM caught it from the same place and the rest of us got it off them.

One thing we've all learned over the past two years is surely that there is little predictibility about covid.There are all kinds of different combinations of symptoms, I think you're actually quite unusual to only know people who have had the same experience. Everyone I know has had a pretty unique time of it even within families

When me and my kids had covid we were all different. DD had no symptoms and negative LFTs, only sign she had it was the PCR.
I had a slight sore throat and a really blocked nose which caused a sinus headache.
DS had a dry cough and a slight temperature...

Have you ever all had a sickness bug in your home? One person is sick once, another vomits continually for hours. My dtds have Covid and both have coughs but dtd2 had a high temp of 39.9 for 24 hours whereas dtd1 was only 38 for about 2 hours. Bodies fight differently.

@DeedIDo

Four of us who were in the same place last Tuesday have since tested positive for COVID.

Fair enough you might say, but we all have completely different symptoms and I actually have exactly the same symptoms as a friend I spent some time with last Wednesday, but who had tested negative.

I developed a sore throat overnight on a Thursday, that passed on Friday, I then had sinus pain and headache on Saturday, was knackered yesterday and am back to normal today. Others have flu-like symptoms, dry cough, chesty cough etc etc.

DH thinks I had a false positive on my LFT. Is that even possible?

Is it possible you have asymptomatic Covid and whatever your friend has too?