Covid positive- home test negative

[organicinna]

Hello all. I was terribly ill whole week with severe chest infection, high temperature, cough, loss of smell, taste, headache, sore throat and more. I never fell more ill in my life. But this Innova home rapid test showed negative all this time. Yesterday I hade enough of suffering and went to St. Hellier emergency because RM said they fully packed to take me in . They said go to local EA and ask them to check your WBC . So after 6hr suffering in waiting room queue and 2 hr with doctor I got the news that am Covid positive but my WBC is norm 3.5 . According to google norm is from 4 to 11 . But she said in their system 3.5 is norm......)))

I asked doctor what about this Innova home tests showing us negative all the time? She said may be you not doing it right? But AM doing it right. I red instructions, watched youtube videos on that. And my daughter who lives with me got very ill few days before me, she is negative as well with all this tests. Even this morning I took home test and its only one bright red line nothing else ! )))

So now am only worried that Marsden will delay my second of 6 rounds of Caelyx suppose to be on Tuesday, till am Covid negative.....How this Covid even get us after 3 jabs plus seasonal flue jab & )))

[Lyndy]

That’s awful organicinna, poor you, no wonder you felt so bad. Don’t worry about the chemo, if they reschedule it will only be a few days and you need to recover xx

[organicinna in reply to Lyndy]

Thanx Lyndy. Am slightly better today )) xx

[DinkyAnnecy]

Hoping you feel better soon. I am in the US and I and my immediate family members also tested negative with the home test and positive with the PCR test. It is not YOU doing it incorrectly.

[organicinna]

Hi Dinky .Yeah thanx )) But my son in law was of work for a month and always had 2 blue lines on his same home tests ))))))

[bamboo89]

The Innova brand of lateral flow tests is the one the USA stopped using because they considered it was not reliable enough - even in the UK, there are reports that its accuracy is not dependable. As far as I'm aware, the Innova ones were used largely within the NHS and care services for staff, not so much by the general public. That said, lateral flow tests do have at least a 10% margin for error, in other words, just not picking up an infection, although when you do the test is important - a higher viral load is more likely to produce a positive test than a lower one, and the viral load might be at its highest on day 3, and much lower on, say, day 4 or 5, even though you are still infected.

As for how you caught it even though you've been vaccinated 3 times, you'll have caught the highly infectious omicron variant (along with 1 in 15 other people, yes, the numbers are that high) and that one breaks through vaccine protection, unless you've had a vaccine in the last 6 weeks; the vaccines we have were designed to protect against previous variants, not omicron. Luckily, though, omicron appears to be less likely to cause severe illness and death in most people - and now you've had omicron plus previous vaccines, you are the proud possessor of what's known as 'super immunity'... for the next 6-9 months anyway, maybe longer, no one's 100% sure yet, or until a new, different variant appears, although you should still take precautions to avoid reinfection while you are having chemo. Hopefully you won't have to wait too long for your chemo to start...

Miriam

[Heart12345]

Hi organicinna have you had any chance to have antiviral therapy, I had monoclonal antibody infusion a couple of days ago and do feel it’s helping. If the nhs hasn’t contacted you after the pcr was done call your gp and ask them to refer you as vulnerable. X

[organicinna]

Oooh thank you/ I had a telephone appointment with GP last Monday but she did not offer me anything antiviral . She said said I v been given Doxycycline antibiotics and should just finish that for a week (( Now its Easter and till Tuesday I cant ask anyone for anything else. I do feel slightly better but still not 100% Plus on the top of that my tiny tumor in the pelvis they discovered recently is now started to play up and with nagging pulsating pain and paracetamol and codeine doesn't seem to numb it completely ((