Never had a positive covid test

Morph22010 · 2023-03-03T07:21:13+00:00

I’ve been feeling really ill last few days, typical covid symptoms aching joints, sore throat, tiredness etc. we’ve also had abit of a covid outbreak at work which I didn’t know about until after I’d taken ill. I’ve done a couple of tests and both been negative, ok could be another virus but just seems really coincidental as I’m never ill normally and now I just happen to have another virus same time everyone else at work has covid. We’ve also had covid 3 times within our household over the past 18 months and I never got. Does this seem odd?

stepstepstep · 03/03/2023 07:24

I was the same until last October, everyone in the house had had it more than once & I hadn’t had it at all. I was beginning to think I was doing the tests wrong! But then I did get a positive. On the other hand the tests aren’t 100% and if you are feeling poorly it’s best to keep out of everyone’s way anyway.

MissingGrandstand · 03/03/2023 07:50

My DH is like this, still can't be sure he is testing right...

I've had it 3 times, twice we weren't able to distance (first time between houses waiting for new house to be ready, living with parents and no extra beds available, second we had a tiny baby who also had it so needed him in the room with us since I was feeling shit), he's had all the same symptoms as me but never tested positive.

He is in retail so at one point was testing daily! I think he's either not doing it properly or the LFTs don't work for some people (there's a certain brand I know doesn't work for me as I've tested negative on it but used another brand 5mins later and tested positive)

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Morph22010 · 03/03/2023 07:58

MissingGrandstand · 03/03/2023 07:50

My DH is like this, still can't be sure he is testing right...

I've had it 3 times, twice we weren't able to distance (first time between houses waiting for new house to be ready, living with parents and no extra beds available, second we had a tiny baby who also had it so needed him in the room with us since I was feeling shit), he's had all the same symptoms as me but never tested positive.

He is in retail so at one point was testing daily! I think he's either not doing it properly or the LFTs don't work for some people (there's a certain brand I know doesn't work for me as I've tested negative on it but used another brand 5mins later and tested positive)

I’m pretty sure I am testing right as I’ve been really careful re reading instructions. I used to think ds wasn’t testing right as he made a fuss about putting the stick up his nose but when he got a positive it came up straight away.

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MissingGrandstand · 03/03/2023 08:10

This is fair as I managed to get a positive test from a newborn on the same brand DH was using at the time, and I know I didn't do that test properly!

Either something in the test or some people are just super immune I guess.

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Morph22010 · 03/03/2023 08:13

MissingGrandstand · 03/03/2023 08:10

This is fair as I managed to get a positive test from a newborn on the same brand DH was using at the time, and I know I didn't do that test properly!

Either something in the test or some people are just super immune I guess.

I can understand the being immune point when we’ve had it in the house and I’ve not been ill but I feel like absolute shite at the minute, and it just seems odd that I’ve been round so many people that tested positive yet just happen to have picked up a different virus

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Twonkyboo · 03/03/2023 08:15

I felt ill on Saturday and Sunday but did not test positive until Monday. The positive came up much quicker on one brand of test. On the other brand it took 10 mins to come up very faintly.

RedToothBrush · 03/03/2023 08:31

Same here. Have tried everything to try and get a positive. I'm sure I've had it as have been ill around when DH and DS have had. Just can't test positive.

Lcb123 · 03/03/2023 08:36

Same here - never had positive test. Although def had it back in March 2020. Haven’t tested since you had to pay for it tho

Hoppinggreen · 03/03/2023 08:38

Me neither and I have been very poorly in a house full of people who WERE testing positive.

Roussette · 03/03/2023 08:45

Do you do throat and nasal?

RedToothBrush · 03/03/2023 14:23

Roussette · 03/03/2023 08:45

Do you do throat and nasal?

I've tried multiple tests doing exactly as per instructions AND doing throat and nasal to see if it could trigger positive. On more than one occasion. When DS had it and then when DH had it.

It was massively awkward having symptoms but not testing positive at one point because if the expectation both ways with it. Testing positive would have made life much easier rather than having to second guess what the social expectation / socially acceptable / what's allowed thing to do.

I think some people do think I was doing it wrong - yet it was me testing DS so I can't have been doing it THAT wrong. And to do it wrong on so many occasions seems implausible.

I DO think I've had COVID. I just don't think I trigger tests for some reason and I have seen some research into this which does suggest that some people are having this weird unexplained phenomenon.

tempusername1234 · 03/03/2023 14:26

stepstepstep · 03/03/2023 07:24

I was the same until last October, everyone in the house had had it more than once & I hadn’t had it at all. I was beginning to think I was doing the tests wrong! But then I did get a positive. On the other hand the tests aren’t 100% and if you are feeling poorly it’s best to keep out of everyone’s way anyway.

This was me exactly. I had the symptoms and never tested positive while the rest of the family did. Then in October I tested positive and the rest of the family all had symptoms and none of them tested positive.
I was part of the Zoe trial, so I've probably done over 50 tests over the last couple of years.

Jules912 · 03/03/2023 15:00

When I had it recently, started feeling ill on the Wednesday but test negative, Thursday a very faint positive, Friday negative and strong positive on the Saturday so took a while.
DD also had the same symptoms but didn't test positive ( although I left the test on the side and there was a faint line after 2 hours).

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Morph22010 · 03/03/2023 15:50

Jules912 · 03/03/2023 15:00

When I had it recently, started feeling ill on the Wednesday but test negative, Thursday a very faint positive, Friday negative and strong positive on the Saturday so took a while.
DD also had the same symptoms but didn't test positive ( although I left the test on the side and there was a faint line after 2 hours).

I’ve been ill since Wednesday night so I’m guessing it should have showed up by now if it were going to

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Roussette · 03/03/2023 19:36

Morph22010 · 03/03/2023 15:50

I’ve been ill since Wednesday night so I’m guessing it should have showed up by now if it were going to

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When I had it (when I eventually found out), I also had a tooth abscess so put it down to that. I had tested twice when my DH was quite poorly with covid, and I was negative. A couple of day later I tested and had a faint line, I think the weary feeling (and not the tooth abscess) was covid and I was just getting over it. I tested a few days later and faint line was barely discernible.