paigepea
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Post by paigepea on May 14, 2022 12:43:24 GMT
I had a positive antigen test last month. i was positive 10 days. I had symptoms for 3 days and was negative before it finally turned positive.
Our gov’t only has faith in a positive antigen test, not a negative one.
Last week dh’s friend tested negative for 6 days when she was sick. All negative. On the 7th day it finally turned positive. Of course she was in all of these days so it’s not like she was out and contracted it in this time. My friend and her husband were negative for 5 days, positive finally on the 6th day. Their 13 year old daughter was negative for 4 days and finally positive on the 5th day.
We have learned that one negative test doesn’t mean anything, that the 5 days to isolate and then you can go out if your symptoms are gone doesn’t mean anything as it takes that long for some to turn positive, and that swabbing the throat can get a positive test quicker with omicron over swabbing the nose.
The belief is that you are most contagious when you are still testing positive so these people who go out after five days but are still positive can still be contagious. There are also a lot of people here who just don’t want to know so don’t test past that first negative result.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2022 12:43:38 GMT
There wasn't a no option.
I'm confident that I haven't had it. Neither has DH & DD's. I haven't had as much as a sniffle over the last two years.
I do know more people that have had it more recently than I knew over the last 2 years. They had all been careful and most had no idea how they were exposed .They were all pretty annoyed about it having been so careful and avoiding it for so long only to catch it when things were getting back to normal.
All of them had " mild" cases more like cold/flu type symptoms and most of them recovered from their symptoms within 3 to 4 days but didn't test negative for a further 3 to 4 days. One of them didn't test negative for 12 days after their first symptoms. It has no rhyme or reason why some catch it and not others.
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paigepea
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Post by paigepea on May 14, 2022 12:52:56 GMT
Double vaxed and boosted by October of last year. Covid positive in January. Still have a cough and sinus issues from it. I am also immune compromised. I hear you. It’s been less time for me, I was positive end of March and negative in April. I still have sinus and ear issues. I’m not immunocompromised but I have post viral asthma that hasn’t bothered me in 20 years. |
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Post by peaname on May 14, 2022 14:44:12 GMT
There wasn't a no option. I'm confident that I haven't had it. Neither has DH & DD's. I haven't had as much as a sniffle over the last two years. I do know more people that have had it more recently than I knew over the last 2 years. They had all been careful and most had no idea how they were exposed .They were all pretty annoyed about it having been so careful and avoiding it for so long only to catch it when things were getting back to normal. All of them had " mild" cases more like cold/flu type symptoms and most of them recovered from their symptoms within 3 to 4 days but didn't test negative for a further 3 to 4 days. One of them didn't test negative for 12 days after their first symptoms. It has no rhyme or reason why some catch it and not others. I probably should have included a no option but I was not expecting anyone to be sure. My son was pretty sick in Feb 2020 and we took him for a flu swab which was negative and I will always wonder if he had covid but we were just unaware it was circulating here yet. |
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Post by SockMonkey on May 14, 2022 15:17:44 GMT
Ran for 2 years, vaxxed and boosted. One month after mask mandate lifted, my husband and I came down with COVID. He was mildly symptomatic for a couple of days, I got taken out pretty hard. I am now over 2 weeks out, have some remaining fatigue and brain fog, am mildly congested and will still cough a bit now and then. Even though my husband had mild symptoms, he was still testing positive (PCR) on Day 8. I only got one PCR test, but still tested positive on a home test (very faintly) after 8 days. Required to return to work (at a school) on Day 10 (chose to wear a mask for the week).
Cases are raging through our faculty right now. Only a handful of students are officially out, but I think many are passing off mild symptoms as "allergies" and are coming to school/not testing, thus spreading it.
We have 5 days of school left and I can't wait for this year to be over.
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Post by milocat on May 14, 2022 15:39:55 GMT
Yes, wasn't tested. DD and I had the same symptoms. She had a positive PCR test. I work from home and saw no need to also get a qtip shoved into my brain so I didn't get tested. There were no rapid tests then.
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Post by Skellinton on May 14, 2022 15:56:40 GMT
There wasn't a no option. I'm confident that I haven't had it. Neither has DH & DD's. I haven't had as much as a sniffle over the last two years. I do know more people that have had it more recently than I knew over the last 2 years. They had all been careful and most had no idea how they were exposed .They were all pretty annoyed about it having been so careful and avoiding it for so long only to catch it when things were getting back to normal. All of them had " mild" cases more like cold/flu type symptoms and most of them recovered from their symptoms within 3 to 4 days but didn't test negative for a further 3 to 4 days. One of them didn't test negative for 12 days after their first symptoms. It has no rhyme or reason why some catch it and not others. I probably should have included a no option but I was not expecting anyone to be sure. My son was pretty sick in Feb 2020 and we took him for a flu swab which was negative and I will always wonder if he had covid but we were just unaware it was circulating here yet. Considering less then 3% of the US population had been tested in May 2020, 5 months after the first case was detected, I don't think anyone can say with any certainty they didn't have ever have it. Not having any symptoms doesn't mean they didn't have it as we know. |
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Post by breetheflea on May 14, 2022 16:05:32 GMT
Vaxxed, boosted, and 4/6 or 5/6 people in my house currently have it, but I don't have any symptoms except a runny nose which I always have.
DD tested postive, DS tested negative twice (and has the worst symptoms), I didn't bother testing the rest of us.
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Post by alsomsknit on May 14, 2022 16:30:00 GMT
In February of 2020, I was horribly sick. Missed 2 weeks of work. No tests at the time. And, I had not been out of the country. So, who knows?
Otherwise, no. Vax’d. Boosted. Masked. And, social distanced.
Was fortunate the people DH & I worked with were careful with keeping their circles small. Plus, those who came down with COVID were isolating due to being exposed by a spouse or child.
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Post by lisae on May 14, 2022 17:38:20 GMT
Never been tested. Never had any symptoms. To the best of my knowledge I have never had it. DH has been tested a few times because of exposure and medical procedures but never had it either.
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Post by wasil on May 14, 2022 17:48:42 GMT
My husband and I got it in October of 2020, before the vaccine. Since then we have been vaccinated and boosted twice.
Earlier this week we spent time with a cousin at the family cabin. He tested positive the afternoon after we left.
We had direct and prolonged contact with him for about 24 hours. My DH and I were each boosted about 3 weeks ago and I am hoping we have enough immunity that we don’t get it.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 14, 2022 19:51:31 GMT
Tested positive in February 2021. I'm not ruling out the possibility that I also had it in January 2020, but I'm not claiming I had it either (sickest I've ever been in my life, thankfully was only for a couple of days...but still not fun.)
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Post by brandy327 on May 15, 2022 1:07:28 GMT
Double vaxxed, boosted, and had the Evusheld shots. Immunocompromised. Tested 3 times - once for my girls being exposed in 2020...and twice before 2 separate surgeries in 2021.
No one in our family of 5 has had it. The girls don't mask at our school and transmission has been very low recently. Dh and I still mask whenever we go inside most stores. And I try to stay away from large packed venues. We did go to an NHL game in January but we all Double masked and came through unscathed.
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Post by Neisey on May 15, 2022 2:55:54 GMT
Double vaxed and one booster. DD brought it home in March of ‘22. I tested positive on the 4th day of symptoms.
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