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Postby madhatter » June 20th, 2022, 12:40 am
I also think that I may have had it, despite a negative LF test.
The reasons being:
What ever it was must have been contagious enough for me to have caught it, even though I was still avoiding crowded places and using a face covering in shops, and largely avoided public transport, and similarly wearing a face covering on the odd occasions I did.
The symptoms were quite unlike nearly any cold I can recall, with just a few hours occasional cough, no runny nose, etc., food tasted mostly okay, though tea with one sugar just tasted like it was stewed and had no sugar, but with complete loss of appetite or pangs of hunger, even when I tried skipping several meals. There was also a very slight odd feeling occasionally of, not unsteadiness, but as if on turning my head, it ended up not exactly where I expected! Odd, and difficult to describe, but being also of the very few side effects from both the vaccinations.
Also, at the time Phil Spector for the Zoe study was saying that if you have cold symptoms, the chances were fifty-fifty that it was Covid.
I didn’t have any LF tests to hand, and by the time I thought I ought to test, ordered some tests and had them arrive, it was already a few days after starting symptoms. Also the tests were of the “up the hooter” variety, and there were reports at the time that some people were getting a negative test with those, shortly after a positive PCR test, and suggestions that the nose and throat test might have given a more accurate result.
So I don’t know if I had it, but have reasons to suspect I might, negative tests not withstanding.
(Edited to correct symptoms, after looking up note made at the time.)