So who has covid? Nov 2021

SouthWesterly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118575259#Comment_118575259

My son came back positive as well and he's in the sitting room looking at TV with his brother.

Had it twice,first Delta then Omnikron.

Price for having a job that involves alot of travelling

revelman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118575252#Comment_118575252

Do you mean is it worth isolating from the rest of your family or from society? If it is the former, this is a question for your family. If it is the latter, I think you have a legal and moral duty to do so.

SouthWesterly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118575310#Comment_118575310

Family isolation was in my mind. Junior slept with his brother last night and they're in watching TV.

Though the peace and quiet is nice😁

Jafin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118575357#Comment_118575357

Family isolation is your own family's choice really, but definitely isolate from the rest of society. To be quite honest I know a few households where half the family got it and the other half didn't, and they didn't isolate from each other inside the house.

revelman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118575357#Comment_118575357

Currently have Covid myself but nobody else in the house does. We’ve decided that I won’t isolate from them.

barneyrub

So day of symptom or test is day 0 (Sunday). Is that person free to go about business (providing well) the following Monday? They think it's sunday?

Thanks

revelman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118580743#Comment_118580743

It should be the Monday (at least this is what the HSE told me). Though when you are out and about, you should take extra care for 3 days e.g. by wearing an FP95 mask.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118575296#Comment_118575296

sorry I thought you meant isolating at home I didn’t realise you were isolating in a room.

In general I reckon there’s no need as long as that suits everyone. that’s more of a question for your household than it is for boards but of course regardless stay at home! 😅

barneyrub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118580844#Comment_118580844

That's what I thought. Extra care m/t/w but def still in on Sunday

Thanks

eviltimeban

If symptoms started on Monday, with antigen test positive the same day, but PCR test results not til today (Thursday), what day is the 7 day point? The following Monday?

Jafin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118609808#Comment_118609808

Yeah, the day you get symptoms/positive antigen is effectively day 0, so Monday is the last day you need to self isolate. You're free to move about from Tuesday onwards. Do take it based on how you're feeling though. If you're still feeling symptomatic and/or still have a positive antigen on Tuesday then you should continue to self isolate. I know for myself my symptoms didn't go away until day 10, back when 10 days was the self isolation period.

Mr rebel

Was showing symptoms at the start of last week and the antigen showed a very positive on the Tuesday. I wasn’t surprised as I had been out clubbing over that weekend and obviously picked it up there

I didn’t have headaches, fever or weakness of any kind, but what I did have was the worst sore throat I had ever experienced. It was so sore just to try and speak. As that cleared up after a few days I had a nervy moment when I thought I was starting to develop a chesty cough but thankfully that quickly passed. Now it’s around 11 days or so since my first symptoms and I just have the remnants of a dry cough left that mostly just hits me in bed. I tested negative on Tuesday so basically I was positive for a week.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118574685#Comment_118574685

No.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118575309#Comment_118575309

You make Omicron sound like a Transformer 😂

How did they compare for you?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118615813#Comment_118615813

same ****,different day

dorito92

Hi all, sore throat since tuesday but only got a positive antigen today, we were isolating anyway as other family members were positive, do i count from tuesday or today as day 1?

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118616451#Comment_118616451

Day 1 is when symptoms appeared. So Tuesday.

stevek93

Positive or faulty?

fits

Positive.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118618644#Comment_118618644

Positively faulty.

Ah no, even if you see a faint red line, you are positive. It should get redder as you develop more virus/symptoms.

Panrich

Well I developed a sore throat last night and had mad dreams. I’ve moved to the spare room and slept most of the evening. Mild headache too. Can’t for the life of me figure out where I got it as I’ve been very careful and don’t go out except shopping and walking the dogs.

antigens last night and this morning both negative but expect it to show positive in the morning as I don’t feel great.

Mam1996

Hi all, just looking for some advice. My 13yr old tested positive on antigen with symptoms last Wednesday so should have been OK to leave isolation on Thursday just gone. His symptoms have resolved and he's fully vaccinated with 2 Pfizer but no booster due to age. However his antigen is still positive. He's so good staying put and we're dropping his food up etc, thank God for xbox, Netflix etc. I guess we need him to stay put until antigen is negative? The rest of us have escaped it so don't want to ruin it now, there's no clear guidance on doing an antigen at the end of isolation but we're just being cautious.

eviltimeban

^ That's my question too, about ending isolating. So if you do your 7 days, and by day 7 symptoms are gone or mostly gone, but you are still positive on antigen, how long to you have to keep doing antigens?

This is from the HSE site:

"How long to self-isolate

You should self-isolate (stay in your room) as soon as you notice symptoms of COVID-19 or get a positive COVID-19 test result. Either of these are considered day zero when you’re counting your days of self-isolation.

You need to self-isolate (stay in your room) for 7 full days. You can stop self-isolating after 7 days have passed if you have no symptoms or your symptoms are mostly gone. It's OK to stop self-isolating even if you have a mild cough or changes to your sense of smell – these can last for weeks after the infection has gone.

After your 7 days of self-isolation

When you stop self-isolating after 7 days, you need to take extra care for another 3 days to reduce the risk of passing COVID-19 on.

Be especially careful in places that are:

crowded

enclosed

poorly ventilated

hard to avoid close contact with people

You should:

limit close contact with other people outside your household

wear a face covering

avoid contact with anyone who is at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19

work from home unless it is essential to go to work in person

follow all the usual advice on how to protect yourself and others from COVID-19"

But nothing about doing antigen tests.

pawdee

My 7yr old daughter tested positive (antigen) last Sunday so she was due to go back to school next Monday. I just got a positive antigen test this morning. Does this mean my daughter has to stay home from school again next week? She had a high temperature at the beginning but has had no symptoms since Monday. My partner who's been next to her a lot more than me has somehow escaped. I think I'll go for a PCR test to confirm.

eviltimeban

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118620033#Comment_118620033

On the HSE site:

"Your child does not need to isolate or restrict their movements if they do not have symptoms of COVID-19 and they:

• have had a booster vaccine more than 7 day ago - boosters are currently only available to people aged 16 and older
• have recovered from COVID-19 in the past 3 months and have had their first round of COVID-19 vaccine
• have recovered from COVID-19 after testing positive since 1 December 2021
• are aged 12 or younger and are a non-household close contact. This is unless they have been told to restrict their movements by the HSE."

Mam1996

I'm going to do another this evening and see how he goes, it would just be a shame for the rest of us to get infected now after avoiding it for so long. I guess the HSE are not recommending the use of antigens to leave isolation

stevek93

So it looks like I tested positive last night no symptoms negative today can I go to work Monday?

SouthWesterly

3 of us tested positive 10 days ago with the pcr.

Got another one done yesterday and I'm still positive

Edit:

Just got a call from hse. Seemingly I shouldn't have had another pcr done as antibodies remain jn the system for 6 months and show as positive.

I'm free to circulate.

Son came back negative after an infection and that says they didn't do the test correctly.

Eod100

Tested positive on an antigen test after having sore throat and then aches and pains. Was relatively mild sore throat, cough headache, fever, aches and pains for a few days.

Does anyone know how long after a positive antigen test you could test positive for? Tested positive on day 11. Hard to find definitive info on it on HSE site but seems to be case once it's over 10 days even if test positive on antigen low risk of still being infectious but just curious.

Panrich

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118619172#Comment_118619172

Tested positive on antigen last night. My wife has gone for a PCR because she has symptoms and is testing negative on antigen so far. Felt very tired on Friday but am ok since.

j@utis

I felt first symptoms last Monday, showed positive within couple of minutes on antigen test, PCR on Tuesday confirmed it. First 3-4 days I felt very fatigued and had this weird headache/brain fog, it was hard to focus on anything, just wanted to stay in bed and do nothing. Cold symptoms were very mild, I never had fully blocked nose or coughed a lot, and those went away within 4 days but then muscle pains started, especially in my legs, strong enough to wake me up at night.

Today is day 7 and I'm almost fully recovered, overall it was quite mild comparing to other flus and colds I've had in my lifetime. Handy week off work afterall after working non-stop through all of this as essential worker ☺️ I'm still testing positive on antigen but I'm returning to work next week.

Jafin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118624539#Comment_118624539

I suppose it's different for everyone really, same as any other illness. It all depends on how fast your body can fight it off. For me I tested negative the first day I got symptoms, then tested positive the next day. I did an antigen test 9 days after my first positive one and there was a faint line, and then on day 10 there was no line at all.

Panrich

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118624644#Comment_118624644

I have had my first negative test this morning (day 12 after symptoms) but I haven't been testing regularly (last test on day 9).

My experience was day 1 was very tired but only tested positive on the evening of day 2.

I had a couple of symptoms (very mild and infrequent headache, cough, fatigue). My wife had chills and back pain.

I was feeling ok by day 3 and apart from some coughing, fatigue and breathlessness on physical exertion, I feel mostly back to normal now.

I did have vaccine x2 and booster in December.

Steveimitation

I've got OCD and as such the pandemic has been particularly difficult as it has aggravated my symptoms quite a bit.

I've been tested several times over the past two years and most of these times I've been negative. I do manage to keep a bit of logic in the face of the OCD though and all of the times I've been tested i did actually have symptoms. They just turned out not to be covid (e.g I just had a sore throat or I was short of breath anyway as my weight wasn't in great condition).

I finally tested positive in December for real though and spent Xmas isolating. At the time I assumed it was omicron. To my bad luck though, I tested positive again 12 days ago having been in a pub during the weekend prior. It must have been Delta the first time and Omicron the second time.

Anyway the issue I'm having is that when I'm checking the antigen tests my brain or "my OCD' will relentlessly look for any trace of a red line. I was testing aggressively red until Sunday, no doubt about that. On Monday then there was a faint red line. However today and yesterday it seems to have cleared up but in the first few minutes of the test, I felt like I could see a faint second line appearing briefly before disappearing again. My family insist it is just the test "sorting" itself out but is that even a thing? Sorting itself out? They say I probably shouldn't check the test at all until after 15 minutes but then I get caught up with advice I've read that "any red line in first 15/20 minutes" should be taken as positive.

It's melting my head and I'm actually quite a rational person when my OCD doesn't come into play. I'm even good at resisting it in many cases but Covid was about the worst thing that could have happened to someone of my persuasion and it's difficult to repel something like this.

I don't even know it I'm allowed to ask for advice here and reassurance isn't exactly recommended for an OCD sufferer anyway. Nonetheless I suppose I was wondering in anyone's experience if these antigen tests do sometimes have to "sort themselves out" in the first few minutes. When I look very very hard too I feel like I see a very very faint red line after the 15/20 minutes but if I have to look that hard to see it, is it even valid?

fits

You had covid in last two weeks and it probably isn’t completely gone from your body yet. So yeah maybe the antigen is picking up something or perhaps not. It doesn’t really matter as you are past the contagious stage.

take care. I’d imagine the last two years have been difficult.

Steveimitation

Thanks for the reply. A fairly difficult time all right. Well particularly as time went on. Essentially being told to do what I had spent a long time learning to resist was challenging to say the least.

ACitizenErased

The COVIDs finally after getting me! Had a cough last night and had two positive antigens this morning.

ACitizenErased

Day 2 done. Super nasally, feels like a cold that’s sitting slightly lower than a normal one. Went from coughing to blowing my nose like a mad man. Hopefully further improvement tomorrow.

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118722940#Comment_118722940

Don't know for sure but think you said you were asthmatic ?

My inhalers were a godsend around day 4 and 5 but ended up on steroids and then a course of antibiotics a week later .

I have many many years more on the clock though 😊 ..hope you feel better soon.

ACitizenErased

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118722998#Comment_118722998

I’m asthmatic yup. Have been taking my inhalers as normal. Doctor told me the preventer should be of some help and I’d likely not need steroids!

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118723010#Comment_118723010

Yes its a mild topical steroid .

One of my lads the same and he was better in about 4 days , cough gone n all .

Ficheall

I am smitten. Sore throat, chesty cough, mild nausea. Fortunately, I can work from home for the week, so just have to focus on keeping warm and hydrated..

Micky 32

Hopefully i won’t be joining the club. Next couple of days will be tedious. During work yesterday i had some genius stuffed with a “ head cold” standing right up behind me . I maybe back in a few days here 😫😫

ms_wobbly

got covid before Christmas, tested positive again 2 days ago. just a sore throat this time.

Supercell

Seems like there is more of it going around than before, anecdotally three of my work colleagues (and their families at home ) are sick with it at the moment, in the last couple of years we only had one at a time out every few months.

My daughter is a snotasaurous at the moment and refusing to be tested (shes six)..hoping its the usual sniffles kids get.

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118767047#Comment_118767047

Someone came into work two weeks ago with a self diagnosed chest infection. Symptoms ignored by themselves and management. I worked right beside them for days coughing and spluttering. They eventually tested positive for covid and it's been two weeks since their symptoms and I still haven't showed symptoms or tested positive on an antigen.

They were allowed back into work after 7 days and they're not wearing a mask at all anymore. I thought they reduced the quarantine period, so long as people wear a well fitting mask. So they'll be more of that going on in every workplace.

It is a worrying time, expecting people to do the right thing and after two years, it's not happening.

Ficheall

"Just a mild cold" my **** arse.

Myself and the family have had it this week.

It was milder than a cold for me. I wouldnt have known I had it had the wife not made me take a test.

Few sniffles for her.

Samsgirl

Myself, Mr Sam and two minions all positive on PCR.

I was last Monday and the rest dropped day by day. My smell and taste gone. Mr Sam , no symptoms at all yet. Minions are sniffly and tired.