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This is my second time, the first was in December 2021. This is milder, thought it was a bad cough and cold, tested negative twice, carried on going to work, getting school refusing youngest into school, found work even harder than usual (MH services ) which I thought was stress, then felt worse - tired, headache, a bit breathless - so tested again with a strong positive line on Tuesday. I'm less bunged up and coughing less now but have had a migraine since Thursday after being really tired Wednesday, don't know if that was covid tiredness or migraine prodrome.

Triple jabbed. 51. No underlying health conditions but very stressed currently.
 
Mrs RD tested positive a few hours ago. Me negative. Anybody know anyone who has managed to stay free of it while living in same small-ish house as someone with symptoms?

Neither of us had it before to our knowledge.
 
RD2003 said:
Mrs RD tested positive a few hours ago. Me negative. Anybody know anyone who has managed to stay free of it while living in same small-ish house as someone with symptoms?

Neither of us had it before to our knowledge.
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Not with omicron. When I got it though my wife only had a thin line on the lateral flow for a couple of days and felt a bit crap whereas the rest of us were knocked down for a week.
 
RD2003 said:
Mrs RD tested positive a few hours ago. Me negative. Anybody know anyone who has managed to stay free of it while living in same small-ish house as someone with symptoms?

Neither of us had it before to our knowledge.
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Yeh, my eldest didn't get it in December when the rest of us did, and she hasn't this time. I'm sleeping on my own as my partner is supposed to be seeing his dad next week, canceled from this weekend due to me having covid, he's got no symptoms and so far testing negative. I had symptoms the week before when my youngest was off school with what we assumed was a bad cold as I was testing negative with the same thing, but didn't get a positive until days later, I was probably more contagious then.
 
RD2003 said:
Mrs RD tested positive a few hours ago. Me negative. Anybody know anyone who has managed to stay free of it while living in same small-ish house as someone with symptoms?

Neither of us had it before to our knowledge.
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I tested positive first week of April ( apart from being a little tired, no symptoms) and Mrs.Griff got nothing despite being in a one bedroom flat and sharing the same bed.

Aged 55 (me) and 65, neither have any jabs.
 
Red Cat said:
Yeh, my eldest didn't get it in December when the rest of us did, and she hasn't this time. I'm sleeping on my own as my partner is supposed to be seeing his dad next week, canceled from this weekend due to me having covid, he's got no symptoms and so far testing negative. I had symptoms the week before when my youngest was off school with what we assumed was a bad cold as I was testing negative with the same thing, but didn't get a positive until days later, I was probably more contagious then.
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Thanks. I'll keep testing.
 
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I've currently got it for the first time, age 43, triple jabbed. Daughter had it in December and I didn't get it then. I got it this week off Santino, who caught it at a funeral.

I feel pretty grotty, snotty and tired but not dead.
 
Griff said:
I tested positive first week of April ( apart from being a little tired, no symptoms) and Mrs.Griff got nothing despite being in a one bedroom flat and sharing the same bed.

Aged 55 (me) and 65, neither have any jabs.
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I'm playing it safe by decamping to the spare bedroom. I've dreaded catching it ever since it began, and now it's finally upon us. And I'm somebody who hates life when I have just a mild cold. I'm what's known where I come from as a right mard-arse.

Anyway, when it rains it pours. Wife tested positive around 6pm, and around 8 o' clock, just as CL final was due to start (ha), we got a call saying her dad had just died.
 
RD2003 said:
Anywway, when it rains it pours. Wife tested positive around 6pm, and around 8 o' clock, just as CL final was due to start (ha), we got a call saying her dad had just died.
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Oh God I'm so sorry, sincere condolences. Awful.
 
RD2003 said:
I'm playing it safe by decamping to the spare bedroom. I've dreaded catching it ever since it began, and now it's finally upon us. And I'm somebody who hates life when I have just a mild cold. I'm what's known where I come from as a right mard-arse.

Anyway, when it rains it pours. Wife tested positive around 6pm, and around 8 o' clock, just as CL final was due to start (ha), we got a call saying her dad had just died.
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Condolences to you and wife
 
RD2003 said:
Mrs RD tested positive a few hours ago. Me negative. Anybody know anyone who has managed to stay free of it while living in same small-ish house as someone with symptoms?

Neither of us had it before to our knowledge.
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Yup, friend of mine, wife and both small children had it, testing strongly positive for a combined total overlap time of (more than) 3 weeks, he nursed them all, small house, slept in the same bed as his wife was in every night, tested himself every day, nary the faintest of faint positive lines at any time. This was in February in London, so almost certainly Omicron family.
 
RD2003 said:
Mrs RD tested positive a few hours ago. Me negative. Anybody know anyone who has managed to stay free of it while living in same small-ish house as someone with symptoms?

Neither of us had it before to our knowledge.
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Yes it's possible. Mr Sparkybird had it pretty bad over Christmas and New Year when we were in Spain in a small flat. Kept windows open as much as possible, I slept on the sofa and wore an FFP3 mask inside when in same room.
I think it's just luck/unluck if you get it.
Fingers crossed for you and hope the Mrs recovers soon
 
elbows said:
Its a shame they dont seem to talk on that page about what sort of antibody waning timescales may cause the result to be negative if you were infected quite a while back.
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In part likely due to heterogeneity in immunoresponses and pathogenesis. I was still clearly testing positive to nucleocapsid over 1.5 years after the infection episode.
 
Miss-Shelf said:
And again for the lay person, please?
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The way the virus infects and affects each person, and each person’s immune system responses to the infection, can both be widely and independently different between different people, so it’s difficult to say with any useful certainly on what timescale the detectable antibody response will decline for any individual person. 2hats still had detectable virus coat proteins in their body after 18 months :)
 
prunus said:
Yup, friend of mine, wife and both small children had it, testing strongly positive for a combined total overlap time of (more than) 3 weeks, he nursed them all, small house, slept in the same bed as his wife was in every night, tested himself every day, nary the faintest of faint positive lines at any time. This was in February in London, so almost certainly Omicron family.
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Sounds positive. Thanks.
 
sparkybird said:
Yes it's possible. Mr Sparkybird had it pretty bad over Christmas and New Year when we were in Spain in a small flat. Kept windows open as much as possible, I slept on the sofa and wore an FFP3 mask inside when in same room.
I think it's just luck/unluck if you get it.
Fingers crossed for you and hope the Mrs recovers soon
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Thanks.
 
RD2003 said:
Mrs RD tested positive a few hours ago. Me negative. Anybody know anyone who has managed to stay free of it while living in same small-ish house as someone with symptoms?

Neither of us had it before to our knowledge.
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Yes. One of my children had it over Christmas and her sister, staying in the same house, didn't. They had been mixing freely before the test and so continued to do so afterwards.
 
RD2003 said:
I'm playing it safe by decamping to the spare bedroom. I've dreaded catching it ever since it began, and now it's finally upon us. And I'm somebody who hates life when I have just a mild cold. I'm what's known where I come from as a right mard-arse.

Anyway, when it rains it pours. Wife tested positive around 6pm, and around 8 o' clock, just as CL final was due to start (ha), we got a call saying her dad had just died.
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So sorry to hear that.
 
I'm working on a ship....so far 12 people have been sent ashore in the medical helicopter...another 4 going today. There are 3 more suspected cases on bard that have so far tested negative...so far only symptomatic cases are being tested...Monday brings full-crew testing. It will be interesting to see if I dodge the bullet this time. One of the positive cases was at the guy I was sharing a cabin with (fortunately on opposite shifts). So far, I feel fine.
 
pseudonarcissus said:
I'm working on a ship....so far 12 people have been sent ashore in the medical helicopter...another 4 going today. There are 3 more suspected cases on bard that have so far tested negative...so far only symptomatic cases are being tested...Monday brings full-crew testing. It will be interesting to see if I dodge the bullet this time. One of the positive cases was at the guy I was sharing a cabin with (fortunately on opposite shifts). So far, I feel fine.
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6 positive cases last night...and only 2 places available on today's medical evacuation helicopter. We have nurses coming out today to PCR test everyone(so far we've only been LFT testing symptomatic people). I suspect it's going to be chaos when we get the results.
 
2hats said:
In part likely due to heterogeneity in immunoresponses and pathogenesis. I was still clearly testing positive to nucleocapsid over 1.5 years after the infection episode.
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You may of course have had one or more subsequent asymptomatic infections.
 
I've tested positive for the first time today. I avoided it when the rest of my family had it earlier in the year (OH & 2 kids). I was at the same festival as sojourner, and tested negative Tuesday, and just thought my tiredness and aches were par for the course. Feel a bit rougher today though, shivery and achey. OH has symptoms too, worse than me, but he was still testing negative on Wednesday, but most likely he has it.
 
pseudonarcissus said:
my PCR test came back positive...and about 20 others. I guess I get to go home.
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After 30 hours locked in a cabin with no window…fortunately by myself…the plague victims were put on a bus back to Rio. I feel fine…no real symptoms..I did nip out this morning for an antigen test (positive) then I spent the afternoon in bed listening to desert island disks, pretending to be I’ll.

I’m wondering if it’s morally acceptable to go rowing in the morning. I have my own single scull so I wouldn’t have to get close to anyone

sojourner I hope you start feeling better soon. I know I’ve been very lucky
 
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