Welp, it's finally happened. I'm positive

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I tested positive, by LFT, on Sunday for the very first time. Ever.

I've been shambling round the house like the walking dead since then. 💀

My boss WhatsApped me and told me to enjoy the rest. 😂

When's the earliest someone has tested negative?

I tested positive for about 16 days and felt awful for close to 3 weeks. Not what you may want to hear though!

Aw, fuck

I've just tested negative after 6 days. I have to test as work with very vulnerable people. It's been fluey this time, and I've felt very tired and down.
Had it almost exactly a year ago and have never felt so depressed and awful in my life ( and I have a long history of poor mental health!) 10 days that time and never want it to happen again!

You're not giving me hope here. 🙄

Aaaaaaaaand I'm still positive.

That's 12 days in a row. FFS

Still positive.

One more day and it'll be a fortnight

I still feel like crap and have been shambling around in my very own Dressing Gown of Doom all day

Fingers crossed your nearly there OP. Last time I had covid I was positive day 13 but neg on 14. Hopefully same for you

Tested very faint positive today on 2 tests. Woke up with scratchy throat and headache. Just returned from a holiday Monday.

I was last positive in September (after a holiday) and tested positive for 14 days.

my work requires 2 days negative to be able to return

I'm open to being corrected, but I thought it was PCR tests, not rapid lateral flow tests, that could give misleading results even if they were only picking up dead virus?

This story talks about how even though a lateral flow test can pick up dead virus, for one to turn positive there would most likely be a lot of live virus there too:

www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/s-day-6-covid-rapid-test-come-backs-positive-rcna13995

I don't think I'd ignore a positive lateral flow test after only ten days if I had good reason to care about potentially still being infectious.

I'm FREE!!

Just tested negative twice in two days.

Was positive from 26th Feb to 9th of March (12 days in total)

PCR tests are far more sensitive, but can't tell the difference between active infection and fragments of dead virus

A positive is LFT far more likely to indicate active infection/infectious-ness

I'm FREE

I can leave the house later. Woo hoo!

Still got a bit of a cough, though

Forgot I was waiting in for a grocery delivery.

I'll be on a short walk to freedom soon....

Can't believe it after 3 years of being the covid police not getting it when I worked with patients with it or when my family had it. Finally secumbed feel awful very shivery dizzy and everything hurts. Bit of a scratchy throat and cough.
Wont test again until friday as wont be able to go to work. Have just returned after 4 weeks off having fractured my shoulder

Aw, that sounds shit, @glitterwobbles

Hope you're feeling better soon 💐

Strange that not a single person in your school is testing if they show symptoms! At my school, last week, we had 5 teachers (out of 14) really unwell and they all tested positive (it was like a Daily Covid Domino effect!) Then, myself and my year group colleague tested positive yesterday (Saturday) along with the head, deputy and caretaker! LOTS of unwell children are coming into school with what is very possibly Covid...sneezing, snotty (can't even begin to tell you how much snot I've had sneezed all over me!)

If parents DID test...or at least do the right thing and keep their unwell child at home, then staff wouldn't be so ill right now 🤷‍♀️ I'm lying here in the middle of the night shivering and coughing, with the mother of all headaches. It's really not pleasant.

This

Pre-Covid, when it was "just a cold", people would 'soldier on' regardless of whether they worked with the clinically vulnerable and would then dismiss the troubles of the asthmatic or immune compromised with "Well, I came in when I was sick, what's stopping her/him?"

Now, with a potentially lethal, if not long term debilitating virus going round, which can affect relatively normal people in similar ways, to not take any precautions is incredibly irresponsible.

@frothytoffee you are absolutely correct. LFTs pick up live virus, thus any positives no matter how faint mean you're shedding and infectious.

Tested negative on Friday and yesterday

Went out in the rain to get a few bits and pick up some bras from M&S C&C

Stayed home today, as still feeling horrible

Weather forecast says 50mph winds and rain next week

I was hoping to gently work in the garden during my fortnight's annual leave which starts tomorrow, but I am the most wimpy of fair weather gardeners

I'm negative since last Saturday, but still floored.

I can't put into words how exhausted I feel

Covid is such a strange beast, I tested negative after 7 days and quickly felt ok again just to get completely clobbered with awful illness just shy of two weeks later, I'm now another two weeks on SVD it's been awful with infections repeatedly cycling around my throat and sinuses. I am feeling a little better thanks to starting a course of antibiotics yesterday but I feel weakened by the experience and very tired. I just want to hopefully continue to heal now and put this horrible episode behind me.

People should definitely not be treating this as just a little cold or even a fake virus because it's seriously not pleasant for even those of us that don't have underlying health issues.

Are school kids still entitled to free LFTs? As if not there'll be no chance of getting parents to test them at nearly £2 a time.

Tested positive for the first time 11 days ago and now I’m just getting a very very faint line, blink and you’ll miss it. It’s been mostly like a bad cold/mild flu: achey, tired, sore throat, cough, lost my voice for two days.

However, I keep having episodes of light headedness and mild palpitations. Not awful, but not pleasant. Worse in the morning and evening. I can only describe them as how I felt in the last trimester of my pregnancies, or like a cross between having low iron and low blood pressure.

Anyone had that and improved? I know it’s very very early days, but I’m terrified of long Covid.

I swear I was delirious when I hit ebay

I forgot I bought a couple of items and bought them again

Two identical vintage tea towels, 10 vintage glasses and 2 pairs of purple trousers from Sainsbo's

Someone sent a tea towel by Evri (???)

It is faaaar too easy to spend money shopping online

I can't settle down to watch anything - I'll pick something to watch, get to 5 minutes, lose patience and switch to something else

Netflix, itv hub, My5 and 4OD - nothing keeps my attention

Meanwhile, a stupid online game called Sweet Shuffle is annoying me

Before Covid, I was getting scores of 60,000 to 64,000

Now I can't get into 5 figure scores

I can't recognise patterns any more

I'm exhausted beyond measure

I thought it was a zombie too 😂😂😂

Not being able to focus - couldn’t that just be because you’ve spent a couple of weeks not having to? I know if I spend a fortnight’s leave scrolling nonsense and watching rubbish I then have trouble getting my concentration and focus back up to par when back to work.

Sorry you are still so exhausted.

I have ADHD-I and I am medicated

I am capable of hyperfocus (super concentrating on a single subject) and binge watching entire series isa a hobby.

Right now, I can't stand to sit and watch favourites such as Endeavour, Vera, Arrow, Van Der Valk etc

Switching the radio on is torture - someone noodling repetitively on a guitar is too irritating, I can't listen to commercial radio (ads), music mixes on BBC iPlayer (too repetitive) and I'm only listening to the news on the hour.

I'm 'foggy' for want of a better description.