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Next time you should know that any test where the control isn't working, is a defective test. So the third test should have been ignored and redone.
There actually is a faint control line. I'm pretty sure it was so "positive" that there were not enough color particles left for the C line.
That's true.
I guess as long as the decision taken after the test is the safer option (I.E. not going outside), it doesn't matter much.
There was no doubt I was still positive, I was in bed feeling like crap and going absolutely nowhere. I actually did the test to see if these rapid tests actually give consistent results rather than to see if I still have covid. And because I'm a scientist and I just like measuring things.
Uh oh. A week ago I kept having headaches, fatigue, bit of a sore throat and was alternately sweating/freezing but no fever. I tested negative and proceeded as usual, minus doing anything. I’m still extremely fatigued, and doing little to nothing. I’m about to redo the test.
The tests can show negative no matter what your infection status. Some people don't shed enough of the virus in their sinuses to detect.
My wife is one of them. We had covid at the same time, same symptoms, everything. I tested positive while she never did.
That’s important to know, so I boosted you. Thanks.
You did what?
Kbinauts have an alternative to the Upvote button. It's called 'Boost'. It makes the comment show up higher in the thread. It's like a mega upvote which can get relevant info up faster.
I had the sweating/freezing thing too, didn't put it into the diagram because I thought it was a side effect of the fever.
Oh wow. Thank you for letting me know. Glad I got vaxxed. Can’t imagine how it may have gone not being vaxxed.
Yeah I had 3 shots, but the last one was two years ago. Had thought about getting a 4th one for months but there is no official recommendation for a 4th shot for people under 60 in my country so I didn't. I actually regretted that now, it was pretty nasty. But yeah, completely without vaccines it probably would have been horrible so I'm really glad I got those.
Thank you so much for this post and the information. I was planning to visit for the holidays, but I’m definitely rethinking, since vulnerables will be there.
Thank you for being responsible. Maybe another rapid test can clarify things. Whatever it is, I hope you get better soon!
Thank you so much. We have to be responsible. Others don’t deserve this.
For an unvaxxed perspective, I’m on day 1,276 of stuffy, runny nose with limited senses of smell and taste plus constant mild fatigue and brain fog. I was unable to carry a conversation or walk more than 7 or 8 steps the first 3 months due to breathlessness, and smelled nothing at all for 14 months.
I get EVERY vaccine now.
O gee. I’m sorry to hear that. Were you In a high risk category?
I was healthy, fit, worked from home for years, and strictly followed lockdown protocol. My only “high risks” were being married to a first responder and living in Texas at the time.
That state was a shit show.
Wow. I’m so sorry. Do you have adequate care? I really hope you do.
For future reference, if you're ever not sure, get a PCR test. The at-home rapid tests are great at proving a positive, but not so great at proving negative. These days, if your throat is soar, you more likely have Covid than not.
I wear a Garmin watch that monitors heart rate, stress, etc. That was fun to map out my COVID timeline on.
The stress was a bitch. I work full-time in a grocery store and had a wife and newborn isolated at home every day. Not only was I constantly exposed to the public, but every little symptom or perceived symptom (lot of psychological/false positive over two years) would get the anxiety brewing inside of me, fearing I would eventually bring it home and potentially lose one of them. Every wet cough out of that kid would keep me up at night. This got a little better as the pandemic went on, and I wouldn't say I was in a constant state of paranoia, but fuck me if it wasn't a slice of Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.
You could argue my wife has it worse, though, being isolated at home with a baby for so long with little to do over the long Canadian winters. It definitely wasn't how she imagined mat leave would be.
I've never seen "1" written like that. Is it a German thing?
I think it's a "Europe minus UK" thing, but I don't know for sure. Pretty certain though that the French write it like that too.
Maybe they are confusing it with ^ in your writing and don’t realize you’re just writing a regular 1.
I've never seen it written that way in Spain nor France, so maybe it's a Germanic language thing?
In France we write it both way and AFAIK there is no "recommanded" or "better" way.
Writing 1 the other way is an american thing.
That's how we write it in Italy, but northern, so I guess yes, it's a German thing.
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Nice visualisation, but the test on day five is useless. The control isn't showing so something has gone wrong (either on your end, production end or "we'll don't know" end).
If C doesn't have a dash, trash it, it won't tell you anything.
Furthermore, due to oxidation and other foreign influences, I'm not even sure if this diagram is useful if you've taken this photo in one go (lining up the tests). The results are also just valid for like 30 mins or so.
Source: the manual of the tests I had at home (various brands)
Edit: this is merely context. Always check your test and act accordingly. For this visualisation it's okay I guess.
That's so cool! Thanks for sharing. It's interesting to see that it takes a couple of days for the self tests to show positive
I swear 'test on the first day of symptoms' has been the worst advice every employer has ever given just in case it's not covid. I've never seen someone test positive day of symptoms. It's always days 2-4 or longer.
At no point did I ever test positive. In the end I want to get one of those professional PCR tests done, because I thought I was dying, and that came back positive, but the home test is never worked for me.
If I had been asymptomatic those tests would have been useless and I would have got everyone ill.
You need to yeet that shit FAR up your nose at least
That's not bad. Mine was - day one: a little tired and things taste funny.
Day two through 10: slept 23 hours a day and ate food in the 1 hour I was awake.
I have never felt so ill in my entire life as when I had covid. I basically had all of the symptoms except a headache which I suppose was some small comfort.
But it went on for like 3 weeks. One day before my first symptoms I'd gone on a 10 mile bike ride, 3 days after symptoms started I could literally not climb the stairs without a break.
But the worst bit for me was the brain fog. At one point I thought I was really cold but I couldn't really work out why I was cold and of course it turned out that the reason I was cold is because I was outside. But it took me at least 2 minutes of blankly staring around to work that out.
If you have a test lying around, or if they're cheap where you are, try one after a few weeks or a month.
Apparently you can test positive even long after you've recovered.
Even if it's negative now?
I like this layout
The symptoms fading out in particular was a nice touch
I had the occasional mild cough for like 3 months after I tested negative and felt a smell of onion and/or petrol everywhere.
I'm glad you're better.
Damn, dude. That test is unpleasant when you have to take it. You don't even have to take it anymore once you test positive.
I salute your sacrifice for science!
Thank you for this! Extremely interesting. I just got covid for the first time 3 weeks ago and I still have cough, so annoying.