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Anyone never tested positive but convinced they have had it ?

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rookiemere · 08/04/2022 11:00

We've all been unwell since Monday.DH and DS have bad coughing and headaches, I'm feeling generally shattered and headachey. A nephew that visited with friends last weekend is exactly the same, as are his pals.

But we're all still testing negative on LFTs.DH and I both went for PCRs yesterday- also negative. Pretty sure it is covid as symptoms are identical to neighbours who tested positive.

So is it not covid or we may test positive soon ?

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SedentaryCat · 08/04/2022 12:13

Yes. Been unwell for the past 10 days. Have tested negative daily even though I have all the symptoms (including the ones recently added to the list).

DH was pinged on the app two weeks ago as a close contact of someone with Covid. He has also had the same symptoms as me, along with DCs who have been off school with it. All negative for Covid and been testing for the past 10 days.

Hope you feel better soon.

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rookiemere · 08/04/2022 12:48

Thanks @SedentaryCat hope you feel better soon too.
It's just annoying as I've been forcing myself to work ( had to stop at lunchtime yesterday as brain fog too much and today is NWD) because without a covid diagnosis, it feels a bit weak to be taking time off.
Keep thinking surely one of us must test positive at some point.

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jupitermars1345 · 08/04/2022 12:49

If the PCR is negative then it's not covid surely?

Plenty of other viruses cause the same symptoms as covid

Peaness · 08/04/2022 12:59

Yes, me. People around me were catching it all off each other (work) but despite having the same symptoms at the same time I tested negative throughout, including a PCR. One friend said her husband had the same.

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rookiemere · 08/04/2022 13:02

@jupitermars1345 just seems a bit too coincidental not to be covid, with lots of local folks I know having it and our symptoms across the family being textbook for it.

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jupitermars1345 · 08/04/2022 13:04

I can't really understand that tbh as all viruses cause symptoms which covid does to
If the PCR is negative it's not covid

Tara336 · 08/04/2022 13:09

One of my friends is convinced she’s had it twice but never actually tested let alone tested positive but she is a bit of a hypochondriac so it’s possible it was a. Old

TheFeistyFeminist · 08/04/2022 13:19

When I had it at the beginning of the year, I agreed to participate in the antibody trial. Did the first blood draw within a week of the PCR and the results said "antibodies detected consistent with vaccination and those consistent with previous infection. Any recent infection (21 days or less) will not show as antibodies".

That suggests to me that I've had it asymptomatically at some point AND anyone I passed it to was also asymptomatic as no-one around me regularly got ill.

What I had was like a bit of a head cold and hideous fatigue, getting out of bed to go the loo wore me out.

mawbroon · 08/04/2022 13:20

I had covid a few weeks ago. Definitely covid. Positive on LFT and PCR.

8 days later, both my kids got ill on the same day. Their illness was a carbon copy of mine in every way. Symptoms, duration etc.

There were dozens of kids off school with confirmed covid, I had it, a couple of other family members had it, it was everywhere. Yet neither of my kids tested positive at any point while they were ill.

Thursday37 · 08/04/2022 13:24

I had 7 positive lateral flows and 7 negative PCR’s with symptoms, for 2 of those I was living with family members inc toddler DD who were positive on PCR. I am sure at least 1 of the PCR tests must have been wrong.

I am currently in bed with a fever and cough, not got any tests so no idea if this time it is real or not. It feels exactly like the previous symptoms.

I don’t think the tests are as good as we are led to believe.

Jules912 · 08/04/2022 13:34

You can definitely get a false negative on a PCR, I did on my first day of symptoms but by next day the LFT was positive. I'd say that many tests were unlikely to be wrong.

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rookiemere · 08/04/2022 13:39

Oh well we'll just keep testing I suppose.
I guess also because I've got tickets to the theatre tomorrow. If I knew for sure it wasn't covid I might try to drag myself along, but I don't want to be infecting everyone around me.

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BogRollBOGOF · 08/04/2022 13:44

DS had a heavy-hitting virus in Dec '19 that with hindsight behaved in a very Covid way, including the mid-illness rally and turn for the worse. It took him 3 months to return to normal levels of energy.

He's been exposed umpteen times at school. He did not have it when I did at Christmas. Last month DS2 and DH tag teamed with it. DS1 did not test positive on LFTs but did have routine cold symptoms. With ASD, I had a few reasons for not taking him for a PCR.

Thursday37 · 08/04/2022 14:03

@Jules912

You can definitely get a false negative on a PCR, I did on my first day of symptoms but by next day the LFT was positive. I'd say that many tests were unlikely to be wrong.
These were over 9 months though, not all at the same time. I can’t have had Covid for 9 months….but I don’t believe none of them were positive either.
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rookiemere · 08/04/2022 14:34

Ah interesting @mawbroon . Just convinced the youngling to do a LFT as thought his germs might be more lusty than ours, but he's showing negative as well.

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WTF475878237NC · 08/04/2022 14:40

Just tested positive after 11 days of symptoms and numerous negative tests.

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rookiemere · 08/04/2022 14:49

@WTF475878237NC goodness how odd, and then what happens with being contagious as presumably you're not after 11 days, but then if testing positive maybe you are.

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Mindymomo · 08/04/2022 14:56

It took myself 4 days to test positive after symptoms. I did feel ill so just presumed I had covid and I would eventually test positive.

WTF475878237NC · 08/04/2022 14:58

I assume I am contagious but wasn't before. I knew it was a matter of time so haven't gone out even before I felt really rough.

Hobbitfeet32 · 08/04/2022 15:01

Yep. Had awful flu like illness December 2019 with low sats and possible pneumonia. Gasping for breath (am generally never ill) but antibody tests 6 months later negative. Then December 2021 got flu like illness with awful chest infection needing antibiotics. 2 days after symptoms started child 1 ill and tested positive for covid, 2 days after that 2nd child positive for covid. All my pcrs and lfts negative yet I was the one with classic covid symptoms.

Jules912 · 08/04/2022 17:38

@WTF475878237NC

Just tested positive after 11 days of symptoms and numerous negative tests.
Is it possible you had a cold then Covid. I had cold symptoms for 9 days before my positive and assumed this is what happened.
Perihelion · 08/04/2022 17:48

Rookiemere yep same with me at the moment. Hit with Covid symptoms on Tuesday. Extreme fatigue, needing a sleep after being awake for an hour or 2. Negative on several LFTs and a PCR. I did read a thread on twitter which said you can get symptoms sooner if vaccinated, as immune system is primed and may test positive later, even when symptoms are resolving.
DH now has a cough and DD who had Covid at the start of Feb is fine Hmm
Or there's an identical non Covid lurgy going around...think from Scotnet, you're in Edinburgh too.

Phyllis321 · 08/04/2022 17:55

I paid for an antibody test recently and tested as ' very high' despite never having a conclusively positive result.

mawbroon · 08/04/2022 18:04

@rookiemere

One of the high heidyin health people (maybe Jason Leitch?) said recently that if you are ill with covid type symptoms then assume it's covid.

minniep · 08/04/2022 18:06

I was at my gp today and when I was chatting to him he was saying neither himself nor his wife tested positive but he is very sure they had covid

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