Is this a positive covid test?

[elm26]

Is this positive or has it somehow smudged? Took 10 minutes ago and left laying flat.

Think I clicked wrong one 🙈🙈 response meant for 1 above me

The GP and the hospital nurse both told me any line, even if very faint, was ti be classed as positive.

Mine was that faint on the first test. By the evening it was a lot darker. The next day very very dark red.

Me for example it tests posite some of the time due to my acid reflux

Plus it picked up positive on a cold in me and 3 friends. All negative pcrs.

If this was a picture of a pregnancy test everyone would be saying it's positive, a line's a line etc. Those if you saying it's negative need your eyes testing, it's a very obvious positive!

Yup.

I'd take another tomorrow. It'll probably be much darker.

Thanks everyone I came home from work sick so thought I better test.

I'll test again tomorrow.

That's a positive.

Positive

Make sure you're following the instructions to the letter

We're just moving this over to our covid topic.

Most likely, but my DS does get false positives that look like that on one brand of tests (annoyingly the most common).

Hi @elm26 what was the outcome? Did you test again the next day?

Wow, can you please come back over the coming days with more tests? I wouldn't have thought it was positive so I may have a thing to learn here but I'd really like to see a stronger line, if you don't mind OP?

Mine was faint like yours the day before I got a screaming positive line, so I’d say treat it like you’ve got covid, and keep testing. Hope you feel ok OP

Thanks everyone

Was strong the following day.

Wow, thanks for the update OP, it's a lesson learned for me, and I hope you don't have too rough a time with it.

What’s your source for this?

It doesn’t pick up other illnesses. The antibodies in the test are covid specific.
The antibodies can, however, be denatured by acid which would cause a line (eg citrus juice on the test, or acid reflux as upthread).

Thanks for updating. Hope you are doing ok.