So latest on my covid

This happened to me at Christmas. I had Covid in October & symptoms hung around for weeks. I did a LFT on Christmas Eve, before going to see elderly relatives. Tested positive, so did PCR. Meant I missed Christmas with my family.. PCR negative result received on Monday.

 

Reading that it appears the negative tests are to reduce your period of self isolation, not required if you isolate for the full 10 days.

 

That’s how I read it, my 10 day isolation is up tomorrow, I’ve taken LFT every day from day 6, today is the first time I’ve had a negative test (day 9)

 

Requirement is to isolate for 10 days from date of a positive test (with the day of your first positive being day zero). You can take a lateral flow on days 6 and 7 and if they’re both negative you can end your isolation at that point (I.e the date of your second consecutive negative test on day 7). You don’t need to get a PCR for your day 6 and 7 tests, LFDs are fine.

Your isolation ends at midnight on day 10, regardless of what your lateral flow test is saying. The only situation where you would continue to isolate beyond ten days is if you still have a fever at that point.

Lateral flows are unlikely to detect very small amounts of the virus so shouldn’t return a positive result for an previous infection; PCRs are more likely to return a positive result for a previous infection due to how the process amplifies the amount of virus present in the test and is why you’re advised not to take a PCR within 90 days of a previous positive test.

 

The tests it refers to must mean LFT, because PCR tests have a time lag for the results. If they are saying you could leave isolation early on day 7 if you had 2 negative tests, but it takes until day 9 to get the result it would kind of defeat the object.

 

Loss of smell/taste is not associated with omicron nearly as much as with previous variants so I wonder if you had delta.

I lost my sense of smell pretty much completely but it came back. I thought I'd lost my sense of taste so I bit into a raw onion as an experiment. I hadn't. Nearly blew the top of my head off.

 

The advice is isolate for 10 days if you have tested positive (or are an unvaccinated close contact of someone who has). To end isolation earlier, you can choose to take LFTs from day 6. You need two consecutive negative LFTs, that are at least 24 hours apart, to end the isolation earlier. The previous sentences don’t count if you have a fever, as you should continue to isolate until you have been fever free for (I think) 48 hours. If you are a vaccinated close contact you are ‘strongly advised’ to take an LFT for 7 consecutive days.

 

I've not had a sense of smell since the mid 90's, apparently caused by a blow to the head. Nowadays I'm just starting to smell certain things, namely steel, wood and grass.... ohh how i long to smell bacon sizzling away! Lol

 

At least the government are giving clear advice

 

What's Covid smell like?

 

Thas never had any taste

 

Yep, tha does.

 

I felt sick for a couple of days back in September, I went to bed and stayed there for 10 days, I had all the symptoms but no fever. I felt so bad on the tenth day that my wife called for an ambulance. I was taken to the nearest medical center near Denver where they did a COVID test. I was told it was a positive test. I was sent back home and stayed in bed for another week. So my tenth day of isolation was the worst day I felt. I still haven't got my full taste and smell back. I have had 2 vaccinations back in May. Be careful everyone, oh and my wife contracted COVID a week after me, she is still off work sick.

 

Like it..ya s##t

 

Dogs can sniff it out apparently.

 

https://inews.co.uk/news/covid-hosp...ors-may-be-banned-stop-omicron-spread-1378633

Think I’m just gonna listen very carefully to owt Johnson says and do the opposite

 

It's fine, I'm the same.