Pretty sure that my family and I returned from Austria with it back in March. No testing available at the time but we had all spent the week sharing food and drinks, as families do. We isolated as soon as we were home on advice of the austrian government (while Boris was still singing happy birthday and washing his hands) - and thankfully we did....I lost all taste and smell. Minimal symptoms for my wife, and my son had a cough and temp.
Fast forward 9 months - we are in isolation again because a lad in my son's year has tested positive for COVID...so he's self isolating for a fortnight. And now he isn't feeling well. Has a temperature and says his tummy hurts.
As I am writing this I am thinking...probably best to get a test... But given we are pretty certain that we had it.... has anyone been unlucky enough to get it twice?
Stop guessing… get the test.
You don't even know if you've had it once.
If you have symptoms, get tested
Can you get a test without symptoms? I couldn't recently. The symptoms then followed a few days later along with a positive test result.
Point being, without symptoms, I believe there's more chance if a false negative.
He says his lad has symptoms.
Gaviria had it twice - as others have said, get a test, good luck
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cycling-gaviria-idUSKBN2761E3
Sorry, yes, if the lad has symptoms, he should get a test.
Those without symptoms will have to isolate and wait it out.
The first case of covid wasn't proven. We're finding a fair few people at work who thought they had it are now getting positive results.
Where in Austria were you in March?
Fast forward 9 months – we are in isolation again because a lad in my son’s year has tested positive for COVID…so he’s self isolating for a fortnight. And now he isn’t feeling well. Has a temperature and says his tummy hurts.
As I am writing this I am thinking…probably best to get a test… But given we are pretty certain that we had it…. has anyone been unlucky enough to get it twice?
How will it change your life?
Assuming the lad is still at school and he is self isolating regardless of the number of negative tests.
It's debateable if having a temperature will allow him to legally leave the house to get tested.
(the letter we got said symptoms plural) but you and any siblings can. Indeed the siblings MUST go to school or be fined.
That said some parents at school illegally got their children tested and as far as I can tell nothing happened to them.
Doctors currently think my better half has had it twice and her postal kit was a false negative, given she had a reoccurance of breathing issues in mid October that are still ongoing and has meant another prolonged period off work (now on half day phased return), not quite as bad as what she had from late March to early May.
I had mild symptoms of something that started ~5 days after her March symptoms started with a continuous cough, which then developed into something resembling a form of "long Covid" until around the end of May, which massively increased post z4+ interval ride fatigue from ~24 hours to ~96 hours. I then started getting chest tightness fatigue again in late September, but again mild enough not to show the three principal symptoms that require isolation and a test. I took October very easy, then started training again in early November, a month on I'm not making anything like the fitness regains I had in June but there's been a little progress.
A picture tells a thousands words etc, last two years, peak in Jan/Feb before the suspected Covid plus then letting a golf ball sized lanced abscess on my back heal from end of July to early September...
So, we think we have had twice.
Two of the nurses on our lasses ward have had it twice, got clear of symptoms and got the all clear for a number of tests as they are testing weekly, also both pos for antibodies but 3 months later both positive and with symptoms again
As above^
and going by some comments on the long Covid thread (with a bit of personal experience),I sometimes feel it has never quite gone away. It may be that this virus can hang around for a long time, then resurface again with some odd symptoms.
I had positive antibodies after being asymptomatic and then a few months later got a positive swab after a routine test at work whilst again asymptomatic. Had to self isolate etc after the swab but I think it was probably a false positive. I thought occ health might want to test me more given the potentially I might’ve asymptomatically had it twice but they didn’t. Tests were more scarce then so may have played a part. I work across 3 hospitals and 3 hospices so pretty high potential for exposure regardless. I’ve since had 3 other negative swabs through routine ones at work. Who knows!
If I was the OP I’d get tested though for sure.
Partner who is a nurse most likely has.
First time (around April I believe) she had all the symptoms whilst I had almost none, and when she went to get checked, they couldn't test her (since she's not a footballer), but told her they were 99% it was Covid.
Second time was some weeks, ago, she wasn't feeling great, we both got tested in the test and trace facilities, she got positive and I got negative.
What's even more bizarre, is that a friend who lives outside the UK, has also likely had Covid twice. With symptoms very similar to my partners at also similar times.
The first time, the main symptom was severe breathing problems and tiredness. The second time, it was dizziness and pain in the lungs, but much milder than the first time.
The Vicar in our village has.
Positive test in late April/early May - made full recovery - positive test again in November.
Mild, flu-like symptoms for approx 1 week each time.
Late 40s, fairly fit and healthy (does a lot of walking and cycling)
Pretty sure that my family and I returned from Austria with it back in March. No testing available at the time but we had all spent the week sharing food and drinks, as families do.
I returned from a ski trip Feburary 2019 with a bug. 3 of the 5 of us had it to varying degrees. If that had been this year, we would have thought it was covid. Other easily transmissible repiritory viruses haven't taken the year off.
He has been asked to isolate having been in contact with someone who has tested positive, and is now showing symptoms (if that is a sustained high temperature). So now he is showing symptoms you and Mum have to self-isolate. So request a test. Worst case he is positive and you and mum will also have to isolate for 14 days. The quicker you get the test result, you may be able to see other people around (just after) Christmas. Best case is he is negative and while he will have to continue isolating for the 14 days from the original exposure, you and Mum don't have to. As everyone upthread has said, there are lab confirmed cases of multiple infection.
In the vaccine videos and discussions I've seen, the reported antibody affect lasts approx three months before you're then very susceptible to getting it again. Basically no one is safe!
Like a few above, I know of nurses that have had it once at the beginning and again recently. Some have been confirmed with positive tests each time too.
It does raise questions about the vaccines we've made so far, I think it'll be like the flu where every year we have a different vaccine.
and is now showing symptoms (if that is a sustained high temperature)
Pretty sure that symptom singular.
Best case is he is negative
Uh? How is that the best case?
Get a test and be sure...nothing about this virus has said that once you have it once you won't get it again...
Where in Austria were you in March?
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You don’t even know if you’ve had it once.If you have symptoms, get tested
You're right. I wasn't tested back in March but my Austrian and German friends were. Because they had plenty of testing. And they were all positive. And we all had the same symptoms. Taste and smell being the key one - and we had all been with one another until 4 days before....so I would estimate that there is a very good chance!
My lad has a temp. But ultimately a test isn't going to change anything. We are all stuck at home right now, and he doesn't have siblings. But yes - we will get one to be sure.
The first time, the main symptom was severe breathing problems and tiredness.
Tiredness..... I was narcoleptic for a good couple of months. Would just sit down and be asleep within 2 mins!
Could just be my age though.
Weird, I'm in the same position. Early Feb I went down with cough, fever, odd taste and epic fatigue. Slept for 5 days basically. NO test as hadn't been to Wuhan. But i had been to Morzine, Copenhagen, Madrid and Paris.
Last week daughter had snots for a day. Sat I had an epic sore throat, no fever , sunday throat easing, tuesday started to notice everything smells of cigarette smoke. ITs really weird. Anyway, off for a test ay 6 to be sure !
Madame's colleague. Positve PCR test and a host of symptoms in the Summer, positive PCR test but only loss of taste and smell now, other than that she feels fine the second time around.
Uh? How is that the best case?
A friend of mine who is currently in a developing country was told - "good news..... you tested negative for Covid-19! Bad news.... you have Tuberculosis".
I've told him to look on the bright side, at least it's old school cool and he can be hipster/brag about it.
I read somewhere that this year there was also a really nasty flue going on at the start of the year (which was not COVID).
You don’t even know if you’ve had it once
This is a pertinent point.
I read somewhere that this year there was also a really nasty flue going on at the start of the year (which was not COVID).
So many people say they think they had covid before the first lockdown.
A nasty "bug" went round my workplace in February, one lad in particular was really hacking his lungs up for a good couple of weeks. Most people had bad cold-like symptoms.
As we work in a hospital microbiology lab, we were tested when we had symptoms. No-one tested covid positive, one person was positive for Mycoplasma and I personally had rhinovirus. A cold.
A few months later, we were all tested for antibodies, only one person tested positive (not the lad with the particularly bad cough!!)
So anecdotally, based purely on my limited experience, a lot of people think they had it before lockdown, they probably didn't.
