First day of holiday and have tested positive

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I am with my inlaws as well as my husband and child - what do I do??

Are you ill? What prompted you to take a test?

Depends where you are and if you are ill? Why did you test?

Where are you and are you ill? I don't even have tests now to be honest, why did you test?

Abroad and started to feel unwell so decided to test 🤷🏼‍♀️

How old are you in laws? Are you staying in the same accommodation?

Inlaws are 75 and yes all in the same villa. My husband and child currently negative and have moved to another room.

Assuming you're somewhere hot keep all windows and doors open. Try not to be in the same room as them, but if that's unavoidable sit as far away from them as possible. If you feel ok-ish, spend as much time outdoors as possible.

DD has had Covid. Neither DH nor I caught it - same house.

What a shame - hope your okay ?

Something similar happened to me last weekend. I was on a caravan holiday with older relatives . I tested positive on the Saturday but fell ill the day before. Had already been in there company in a small confined area . Luckily nobody got it from me. Aside from the first 2 days my symptoms were mild. I'm now negative !

I doubt there is much u can do other than try and stay away from everyone as much as possible . Could u have your own bathroom ? Technically you don't have to isolate anymore but I know I wouldn't feel right about that. That's rubbish luck though .

I am ok just feel really blocked up. Weirdly I have had other illness for over a week but not had respiratory symptoms until the last 48 hours and was testing negative. Over a week ago I had 2 days of feeling awful - headaches and shattered. Then I had diaorrhea. But only started to cough and feel blocked up in the last 48 hours. Wish I hadn’t come feel like I’m going to wreck the holiday for everyone else.

Interesting you say youd diarrhoea first. Ive jeard of two other people having the same - unpleasant "stomach bug" that turned out to be covid. Sounds like one of the current variants does this to people quite a bit. Poor you. 🙁

You have to isolate in your room until you're negative. Hope you're feeling ok. Enjoy the peace!

DD and myself had covid back in March when there were still requirements to test/isolate. She tested positive first with gastro symptoms/generally unwell and I tested positive two days later with a sore throat/generally unwell. She was testing negative by day 6 but I didn’t test negative till well after ten days (again this was when you could test to release early). We both developed coughs right at the tail end of our infections. DP didn’t test positive at all even though we weren’t really isolating from him and had accepted it was in the house and we were all likely to catch it.

basically I think there’s a good chance you’ve had the infection longer than you realise. I would follow the current guidelines, which I believe are five days isolated if unwell, and then just treat as a normal illness and do what you feel capable of. For everyone else you’re with be aware of the situation and get medical attention if they display illness beyond more than a mild bug. The older members of your party may wish to separate themselves from you all but truthfully it’s probably already spread amongst you all to a degree now anyway.

How ling are you booked for?

What are the rules for the country you are in?

Hope you feel better soon.

What are the rules for the country you are in?

Hope you feel better soon.

Booked for a week. In Spain so no requirement to isolate but I really don’t want to give it to my inlaws

@Cornettoninja that is really interesting you didn’t get a cough until the tail end.

Oh poor you, will it affect your flight home. Hope you feel better soon.

I’ve come across a few people who’ve said the same thing, not so much recently but then we’re all testing much less.

The test trigger symptoms in the UK was ridiculously short until they added a whole load of them once they withdrew free LFT’s. I was LFT’ing for anything illness related really at that point because we needed negative tests to access visiting rights for my df in a nursing home (still do but someone else’s illness doesn’t stop everyone else). I’m pretty certain it’s quite common for people to think they’ve had two separate illnesses rather than one with covid due to the wide scope of symptoms it can trigger.

I think you may all be OK as long as others haven't already caught it.
You are in a villa which is obviously big enough to have enabled your DH and DC to move to another room. Just avoid being in the same room as others indoors and let others do the cooking. You should be fine to be outside with your family - just sit a bit away from them - is your DC old enough to understand? If they are very young hopefully extra cuddles from daddy and grandparents if you are keeping your distance. The rest of the family can still get out and about and see things .

If it's the beginning of the week you should be OK for your flight home.

It is a shame to be unwell on your holiday though .

Thanks all - child is only 2 so it’s quite difficult to keep completely distant