BristolEcho
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Got a test yesterday and it was positive. Third or fourth time for me I think. Feeling pretty rubbish and will hopefully speak to work next week to get some of my annual leave back.
Who *hasn't* had covid?
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LeytonCatLady
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Still not had Covid yet. I did have a cold last week and wondered if my sense of smell might be affected, but then Lilith kindly farted in my face as if to reassure me. Normally she only does that as a punishment for staying out late or making her see the vet when she doesn't want to.I did lose my sense of smell and taste for a few days, but realised it had come back when Paddy the Cat had an exceptionally smelly session in his litter tray. Never thought I'd be relieved to smell that. (You did say no such thing as TMI with coronavirus, right?
LeytonCatLady
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Get well soon BristolEcho.
LeytonCatLady
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Wishing your wife, daughter and mum better very soon!
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
Get well soon A380 & household
We've avoided it all this time but yesterday OH got a very big positive line. With all the fluey symptoms too.
Is it normal now to wait until a negative test until you start going out again? I thought tests just detected antibodies which don't always correlate with contagiousness. I only bought her one test as I thought there was no way it was covid!
We've avoided it all this time but yesterday OH got a very big positive line. With all the fluey symptoms too.
Is it normal now to wait until a negative test until you start going out again? I thought tests just detected antibodies which don't always correlate with contagiousness. I only bought her one test as I thought there was no way it was covid!
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I don't think there is a normal now tbh. AFAIK you can continue to get a red line for quite a long time - even when it was regulated it was ten days even with a line iirc. So you could do that, or wait until the line has gone. Or something else.
LeytonCatLady
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This. Personally, I'd rest up until I felt better and wear a mask if I absolutely had to go out. That's what my housemate did recently when he tested positive. He also only used a specific plate, mug and cutlery to avoid the risk of giving it to us, stayed in his room as much as possible and wore his mask in communal areas. He did find he got horrible migraines from staying in for more than two days though, so he did need to go for a walk and get some fresh air.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
So far, we have dodged it.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Urgh I feel that pain viscerally. Bloody nightmare. I remember going to one line very quick if it's any comfort i.e it was two strong lines and then all of a sudden went to one. Where as my first time had to wait for that bloody gradual fade. Hopefully you'll get a nice one liner soon.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
2hats
Dust.
Most of the current LFTs (Rapid Antigen Tests, RAT) look for antigens - fragments of the virus (from nasopharyngeal swabs). Fragments of the virus will continue to circulate in your system for days, even up to a few weeks after infection. Some of the earlier LFTs identified antibodies to various virus structural proteins (from drops of blood). Neither necessarily correlates with infectiousness, though can be used as proxies to varying and limited degrees (the antibody ones less so).
If you are immunocompetent AND have had the full set of vaccinations (the original three jabs, aka two-dose primary series plus one 'booster', where at least one interval in that series was a good six months) then once you are at least 5 days past the first positive RAT LFT you are probably not infectious to other, fully vaccinated, immunocompetents (though give it 7 or even 10 days to be thoroughly sure).
However if you care for, work, live with, or otherwise associate with clinically vulnerable/immunodysfunctional persons, then you should consider allowing for at least 10 days to pass and/or wear a proper, fitted face mask (FFP2/N95, or better) around them. Better: 14 days.
Current CDC guidance provides more details.
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BristolEcho
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My basic Covid symptoms have gone now but my sleeping pattern is fucked. It's not the best at normal times.
It's not been helped by the fact that I was on holiday. I had some nights where I was up until 5am then following night I would sleep for 12 hours. I had to get up early on Monday after 4 hours sleep to get home which was fine, but then last night I was hanging and couldn't sleep still by midnight so took 50mg promethazine which knocked me out, but unfortunately to well and I didn't wake up into 14:30. Now I can't sleep again.
I've told work I'm off until at least today. Trying to weigh up my options on sleeping now or having a quick power nap later and then pushing through to tonight.
I know Covid messes with your sleep pattern anyway. I'm nocturnal as it is, but Covid and lack of routine due to annual leave hasn't helped. Just posting to vent really.
It's not been helped by the fact that I was on holiday. I had some nights where I was up until 5am then following night I would sleep for 12 hours. I had to get up early on Monday after 4 hours sleep to get home which was fine, but then last night I was hanging and couldn't sleep still by midnight so took 50mg promethazine which knocked me out, but unfortunately to well and I didn't wake up into 14:30. Now I can't sleep again.
I've told work I'm off until at least today. Trying to weigh up my options on sleeping now or having a quick power nap later and then pushing through to tonight.
I know Covid messes with your sleep pattern anyway. I'm nocturnal as it is, but Covid and lack of routine due to annual leave hasn't helped. Just posting to vent really.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Every time I see 'LFT', my brain autofills it as 'Liver Function Tests'. The number of times I've filled in FBC, U+Es and LFT.
LeytonCatLady
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There's a U and a N missing between the C and the T. Hang in there.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
I tested positive for ten days straight when I had it. A colleague came back to work after ten days but was testing positive for twice as long as that.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
UK almost ‘flying blind’ on Covid this autumn, experts say
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pieandmashfirm
backwardly forward .I worked it out with a pencil
Updated to ...had covid once ... fell foul to the lurgy all over the christmas period after dodging for so long .tested positive for 10 days. I also managed to pass it on to miss mash ,we had to cancel all our xmas plans ....deep joy...
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