Why have I never tested positive?

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Been around many people with covid including my own household twice and never tested positive or became ill with it. I even had my daughter cough directly in my face because I wanted to get it over and done with.
We have just been away to America and were all poorly over there. I am 99% sure it was covid but again didn't test positive. When we had returned and were feeling much better, I checked I was still negative & we went to see my parents. Within 3 days they had both tested positive for covid and are now poorly with it. Seems very coincidental as they don't really go anywhere. If they had caught it from elsewhere I was around them for that day when they would have been contagious. I've tested every day since seeing them, it's now 10 days later and nothing . I'm triple vaxed. Anyone else never tested positive but think that they have had it?

I've never tested positive, but 99.99% sure I've just had it. Wouldn't have thought anything of it if it wasn't for my youngest testing positive around 5 days before I got symptoms though. Bunged up nose and tiring a little easier than normal were mu only symptoms until yesterday, when I got a really yucky taste in my mouth. My breathing was actually better than it is usually at this time of year and my hayfever (which I was actually blaming how I felt on) seemed to have receded. Back with a vengeance today though lol, almost missed the sneezing and the blocked nose feels totally different today.

Careful y’all! I was wondering the same thing, only member of staff out of 50 never to have tested positive, only household member not to have had it when the rest have had it more than once.
Now I’ll in bed testing strongly positive 6 days in.

Another here who never had a positive test, despite some horrendous URTIs over the last 2 years.

I'd genuinely started to believe I must somehow have been testing incorrectly. Until this time!

Negative LFTs on day 1 and 2 of symptoms, didn't bother testing days 3 and 4, and wasn't going to test again but felt so poorly on day 5 that I couldn't work. Was very surprised to see a strong positive. Had spent a couple of hours with mum and sister on day 'zero', both also never tested positive previously. Mum had symptoms so suggested she test. Her positive test prompted test for sister who was also positive.

LFT are not anywhere near 100% reliable. My DSIS works in a hospital and has said that LFT and even the proper tests are only considered to be around 70% accurate.

I’m probably going to jinx myself now, but same here.

I had an absolute stinker of a cold January time, but constant negative LFTs and 2 negative PCRs - I genuinely thought the first one was incorrect so did it again and it was still negative.

DD1 had it last summer but she was away at uni, the rest of us (DH, DD2 and I) have never tested positive.

Half of DD2’s college class were off with it a little while ago - she wasn’t unwell and tested negative the whole way through.

I’ve been exposed to it numerous times and not been unwell or tested positive.

DD2’s boyfriend had it earlier this year, DD2 had been around him, he’d been in our house, our car, etc and none of us seemed to get it (none of us unwell and negative tests)

My parents stayed with us for a week, 3 weeks ago. On the way home they started feeling a bit shit, both got positive LFTs the next day. None of us had been unwell before they came to stay or since and negative LFTs for all us.

Weird!

I worked in a massive secondary throughout covid, was in during all lockdowns, frequently had to supervise collapsed bubbles/classes due to one positive case, and sometimes that ill student themselves. Dd had it and was too ill to be left on her own. Still negative.

This week, wfh since Easter, boom, strongest positive I've ever seen on a LFT.

I’ve been around covid sufferers (hugging etc) never got ill.

If you are vaccinated perhaps your vaccinations meant you have caught it but it was eradicated before reaching levels the tests can detect.

I've never had it despite commuting by bus and having a toddler in nursery. DP currently has it (first in family to get it) but I'm still testing negative and toddler is showing no symptoms. We're sleeping in separate rooms and avoiding sharing glasses, cutlery but that's about it.

I think it's very common. DS2 and I had Covid, but DH and DS1 tested negative, despite DH having mild symptoms himself. My DSis has been working FT throughout the pandemic, been around many colleagues who tested positive, yet she never has, including when she had symptoms that were classic Covid.

Whatever it is, I would say it's extremely foolish to get your daughter to cough at you to 'get it over and done with'

I know this was aimed at OP, but I wanted to confirm that I didn’t have a child cough in my face on purpose. I was putting my sick child to bed and they coughed all over me before I could stop them.

Same here. I was convinced I had it last October, all of the symptoms and needed steroids for my chest - negative LFTs and PCR.

Then picked up a really bad sore throat in early May that took four weeks to go away - again convinced it was Covid. ABs didn't touch it. DP got that as well, both negative throughout.

I've been exposed multiple times, including my child sleeping in bed with me for 8 hours the night before his positive test.

I've been coughed on in the face by someone who then tested positive.

There is one occasion where I think it's possible I had it, it was a cough, mild temperature, but negative PCR so it's unlikely.

I've had to test multiple times a week as I go into different clinical settings for work and lots made me do a LFT to enter.

Im sure my time will come!

Me neither and I work in schools and my kids have had it.

I was in the car with my positive daughter for two hours and didn't catch it, my toddler caught it, coughed in my face many times and I still didn't catch it. Husband has been traveling abroad nearly the whole time and I didn't get it from him. I just had a flu bug, tested negative but thought that might be it... until two days ago when a fever triggered me to test (for the thousandth time) and it came straight up as positive! Sat in bed with covid for the first time now. :(

Op my DC have had it,one had it without us knowing i'e when she displayed any symptoms for us to test, it went negative a few days later!
Have you been properly testing?
Some people do a test eg like me two days ago, negative.
That's it they assume they didn't have it?
For work I have been testing every day.
Yesterday I tested twice am and pm. Negative although I felt strange and tired.
This am an extremely faint positive.
Later today ,very strong positive

I must have tempted fate the other day after I posted that I've never tested positive - yesterday Covid finally got me!

Hope you’re ok @user3199
I posted upthread about feeling invincible. Today’s the first day of feeling normal after 7 days of strong positives.

Thanks @Etinoxaurus, just feeling exceptionally exhausted today. But thankfully the headache/shivers I had yesterday have gone. No cough - maybe that's still to come. Glad to hear you're starting to feel better.

I didn’t have a cough, headache, loss of taste and smell or fever. I was just just really congested and knackered.

I’ve never tested positive either but me and dh are convinced I’ve had it

I was seriously ill and I’m still suffering months later

Ditto

Me too. I worked on the Covid ward at the very beginning of the pandemic when PPE was scarce. DH has had it. I've been tracked and traced several times. Never tested positive!

I work in a hospital with contact with covid but not a full ward or all the time, I’ve never had it or isolated. Been on holidays few times, gigs, shows, a meal with people who then tested positive.

i don’t think I’m immune though, a bit of luck and a good immune system maybe.

Yes I am sure I had it three months ago but despite taking several PCRs and a LFT every day for ten days, I never got a positive.

A week after day one of my bad covid symptoms I did an antibody test which showed I had recently had an infection.

So I believe I had it but for whatever reason, didn't show positive on the tests.

Weirdly I've just tested positive today so think I have it for a second time. This time it came up on the LFT