Have you had covid?

How long does it usually take to test negative?

Oopsadaisy1

2nd negative test today

I can go out, out. Yaaay

Me too. Second negative today, it will be nice to walk to town again as I do when the weather is fine.

Ashcombe isn’t it!

I must think of somewhere to go………..

Me, too, Oopsadaisy1! Isn’t it a great feeling?! ???

2nd negative test today

I can go out, out. Yaaay

MerylStreep

I had something very nasty in Dec 19 from which I still have no sense of taste and smell and developed some odd flavours in food.
But it couldn’t have been covid, could it because the WHO hadn’t been given the nod by China to release that information.

I too had that mysterious cough/loss of smell and taste/ knocked for six thing in December 2019. DH caught it too and then after Christmas family dinner, it spread to DD2 and SiL. We'd caught it from our DS and DiL and they got it from her BiL who worked with Chinese students. DH then went on to have all the symptoms of long Covid. It took him well over a year before he felt reasonably ok again and for me to recover a sense of smell.

Since then none of us have caught it again.

Maggiemaybe

MayBee70

I told my son to rest as much as possible but he said that’s impossible with the children (who thankfully seem to be symptom less ) to keep amused and having to work. It made me realise that one of the down sides of more people working from home is that now people are expected to carry on working even if they’re ill.

They often are, MayBee, though our DS chose to carry on working at home instead of taking sick leave in the same circumstances because he “wasn’t ill”. He was a bit tired but thought that would be because he was short of sleep as he’d broken his arm a few days before the family tested positive…..

I was concerned that he’d end up with long Covid if he didn’t take it easy, but he seems to have got away with it.

I’ve just remembered that he’s quite proud of the fact that he’s never had a day off work with sickness. When he was still living at home I wanted him to take a few days off and he insisted on going to work (it wasn’t anything contagious). Just goes to show how covid has changed our lives.

Managed to avoid so far but been pretty much shielding I know 5 folk who have died from it lots of folk who have had it and 12 folk who have it or have had it in last 2 weeks

MayBee70

I told my son to rest as much as possible but he said that’s impossible with the children (who thankfully seem to be symptom less ) to keep amused and having to work. It made me realise that one of the down sides of more people working from home is that now people are expected to carry on working even if they’re ill.

They often are, MayBee, though our DS chose to carry on working at home instead of taking sick leave in the same circumstances because he “wasn’t ill”. He was a bit tired but thought that would be because he was short of sleep as he’d broken his arm a few days before the family tested positive…..

I was concerned that he’d end up with long Covid if he didn’t take it easy, but he seems to have got away with it.

My DS has just tested positive for the fourth time. He's not got any symptoms and only did an LFT as a friend phoned to say he had it so my son had better do a test. The two red lines duly showed up - again!
We're desperate not to catch it before our holiday in less than a couple of weeks. Fingers firmly crossed

I told my son to rest as much as possible but he said that’s impossible with the children (who thankfully seem to be symptom less ) to keep amused and having to work. It made me realise that one of the down sides of more people working from home is that now people are expected to carry on working even if they’re ill.

Yes, all 12 of us had it right after Christmas.
Very mild for all except one, though - I just felt very cold, followed by feeling more tired than usual, with mild cold symptoms. Same for most, though one or two had no symptoms to speak of.

Just one felt as if she had a really rotten cold and took to her bed for a few days, but she gets really bad colds (same family of viruses) anyway.

Just sending get well wishes to all who are suffering at the moment. After my horrible experience with Covid (hospitalised) I’m relieved to hear most of you are not seriously ill and are suffering mainly cold like or flu like symptoms. Get well soon.

I tested positive last Friday. I have had nothing more serious than a dry cough and sore throat which developed into a head cold. My test yesterday still had two lines but the second line was very faint so I am hoping today’s test will be negative. DH hasn’t had it but I have kept away from him because he has had chest problems in the past. DH managed to get more tests from Boots two days ago.

Not yet but they (who are they?) say that we'll all get it in the end. I'm careful with mask-wearing and washing hands and so are quite a few people if my local area is anything to go by.

I’ve just tested negative after 11 days, I was still positive yesterday.
I’ve just entered my results on the NHS website and it asked me if I needed another test kit, I said yes and I’ve placed an order which went through.
I tried to place an order yesterday and was unsuccessful, so it might be worth a try today.

snowberryZ Thank you for the first link (the second one definitely doesn't apply to me!). I've contacted the trial people to see whether they're interested in experimenting on me!

I tested positive on Saturday after developing a slightly sore throat. I had been on alert since Thursday when I was at the dentist waiting in a packed waiting room with no space between the chairs. Picked one at the end of a row but chap came in and sat to the other side of me - coughing, sniffing and not wearing a mask (in Scotland), I did mention it to the dentist but he was not concerned. It is rife up here in the north of Scotland but I have had my three jabs (just waiting to hear about the next booster as I am over 75) and have been covid-free up until now despite being in hospital for a week last November (foot/leg operation) and meeting up with friends and family as and when allowed. My only other symptom is feeling very nauseas most of the time. Testing every day as family rely on me for school runs and various other granny duties.

The whole of my sons family have just tested positive. His wife works for the NHS so the children have been going to school and nursery throughout the pandemic. Unlike the rest of the family they’ve continued to go shopping, go to the cinema etc etc. They’re coming to stay with us in 12 days time so I’m hoping they’ll be feeling better by then. I was really worried about sharing a house with them given that they aren’t as covid conscious as the rest of us so at least, fingers crossed, I can enjoy having them here.

Husband and I had it in early November. AC who lives with us didn’t catch it. He’s had a weeks leave this week and has only been out to view three flats. He tested positive tonight. He is the 13th person that I know who have tested positive in the last three days. None of the thirteen know each other. I suspect that I may have it again but will wait until Tuesday, when I’m supposed to be going out, to test. Quite a few people that I know tested negative initially, as husband and I did first time around so I wonder if people just go by the first test they do and if it’s negative don’t do second tests?

I had it in October, so probably the Delta variant - I was very tired and generally unwell for a few days and before Covid would have said I had “a bit of a bug”. I did lose my sense of smell, which still isn’t back to what it was. I think I may also have had it way back in March 2020, when I isolated as I had a weird cough for 24 hours. No other symptoms apart from the purple chilblain-like spots that were later identified as Covid toe.

My asthmatic DH had it when I did in October and again a month ago - apart from a sniffle he was asymptomatic both times.

Of our extended family of 14 people only DD1 and DGS6 have dodged it, but luckily everyone has been asymptomatic or just had minor symptoms. All the adults are fully vaccinated.

My daughter and her family all had it. One of the boys brought it home from school. My son, his ex and his son all live with me and none of us have had it. My son delivers for Tesco so meets lots of people (some with Covid) his ex is a supermarket worker and also mixes with a great many people (her manager died of Covid) and the boy is at the same school as his cousin and has had colds but not Covid. Possibly we've just had the asymptomatic version?

Apart from brother's girlfriend no one in my family has had it (that we know about). BiL's stepmother died of it at start of first lock down and his father survived it, but no one else in Mr A's family has had it either. Mr A's niece is a teacher of special needs children and worked with them all through lock down and she still didn't get it, with no masks and no special facilities. Fingers crossed it will continue.

Of course this must be the reason I havent caught it yet.
www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/health/still-havent-caught-covid-the-answer-may-be-linked-to-your-looks-according-to-scientists-440a904e-2dfc-4e97-90ef-0034cc06e12b

Before the perpetually offended turn up.
I AM Joking.

This is very interesting

www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/scientists-seek-to-solve-mystery-of-why-some-people-do-not-catch-covid