What if I am still positive for COVID after 10 days?

When is it safe to go back to your normal life?

[@Eloise_Please]

Thank you for this! It's so hard to find information for those of us who have immune issues, and a lot og the info out there for the general population is very black and white leading to extremely conflicting statements - some saying you're no longer contagious after 7 days, some saying as long as you have a positive lft you are contagious. I wish more news was less angled and more honest like this.

[@bbygrlpt2]

Wish they come up with a medicine or treatment for regular ppl bc the symptoms are brutal even if its for a few days.. The head and body ache for 3 days and then the horrible cough even after testing negative and with fever gone. The cough is like your lungs wanna come out thru your mouth

[@lorgnetteify]

I took a vacation to san diego from ny, no one wore masks in public places. No one seemed to care. I got it at a concert. What a nasty viral load, it doesn’t want to go. At least i fibally got it after 3 years of being good wearing masks and washing my hands, it took long. Covid is here. We got to live though, i was always isolating and anxious, now im not as afraid anymore. But i sure as do not want to get it again.

[@garypond3451]

I'm unsuccessfully trying to find out if with daily testing, does the test line start to fade in intensity in the days approaching a negative reading or does it just disappear one day. Day 9 and mine is just as intense as day 1.

[@peppermint911]

Any success in finding out? I am experiencing the same thing. Day 9 and still an intense line.

[@Eloise_Please]

This may no longer be useful to you, but it could come around again. I've been testing for 12 days (17 days since onset of symtoms, I didn't have access to a test at first) and one day it came out really faint and the next it was strong again. All the information I've found suggests that even a faint line can suggest high levels of the virus and it's not necessarily a signifier that you are less contagious or closer to beating it, I'm afraid.

[@garypond3451]

@@Eloise_Please Day 12, it was finally very faint and completely gone Day 14. I recently had a close encounter with a Covid positive individual and did not pick it up so hopefully picked up a bit of natural immunity.

[@linh8997]

This is my third week and I am still testing positive. But I am only allowed 5 days off at work

[@kylersmith5551]

i'm going on 2 weeks straight not including the infection time. I had it every year and it never lasted this long. The only improvemnts ive noticed is the nausea. All symptoms are still there besides that. Tylenol and iburpofen and nothing touches it.

[@wynetteabc]

I hope you are much better now.

[@samlev9208]

Time to live with it. Dogs /oil/goats/oranges/Pepsi/WATER…all test positive

[@pheonix406]

Is that true

[@Eloise_Please]

That's because putting a different substance on the test messes with its chemistry. If you follow the instructions, it will be accurate. We can live with it and stay safe at the same time by testing and taking precautions to protect people who might become severely unwell. Less people may be being hospitalised now, but long covid is no joke and we don't yet know if the current virus is still causing it.

[@sharoncox1734]

I just got it for the first time, and I think if I catch it again it could kill me. Can't live with it if you're dead.

[@christhompson6010]

doctor at my clinic said those tests can show positive for weeks or even months just go by symptoms . this could end up shutting the entire workforce down over a test. Also a lot of private companies are forcing isolation without pay and you can't go back to work with a positive test. that's not a good thing. covid pay law has been discontinued in 2023. Bottom line is if you feel well enough to go back to work and your employer allows you to you should. My job put me in no pay isolation for over 10 days or until i test negative. that's 2 weeks loss of pay. been feeling fine after 3 days' but Kept testing positive until the 11th day. doctor said i could've returned days ago under CDC guidelines

[@cookie22100]

Just because you feel better after day 3, doesn’t mean you’re no longer contagious. If you went back while still testing positive, a diligent use of an N95 mask would help to keep you from spreading.

[@christhompson6010]

@@cookie22100 CDC guidelines have changed. according to the doctor that tested me just because you show positive of the virus doesn't mean your contagious. you can show traces in your system via test for up to three weeks that doesn't mean you contagious she cleared me to go back to work. that's why they dropped a lot of mask mandates along with quarantine mandates. it's also why the sundowned mandatory shelter in place payments. it's up to private companies to set protocol

[@Brad.W]

Im still testing positive for Covid 7 months after my initial infection way back in July it's now January 2024 and still testing positive for it.

[@jongriffin2125]

I tested positive for 21 days. I was vaccinated and I took Paxlovid on day 2. Symptoms were coughing and severe nasal congestion. Never developed a fever, sore throat, or loss of taste/smell. Staying in quarantine for so long was the worst part but didn't want to risk infecting my family. Grateful for vaccine, Paxlovid and prayers of family and friends. They all worked for a good outcome.

[@Brad.W]

I'm still testing positive 7 months later and I'm in the same boat as you. Except day two and three I was running a fever and had some mad painful body aches but other than that nothing serious.

[@laurieleeman4600]

She doesn't know

[@krishm5116]

I tested every day almost for 10 days .... my results are always positive 🙂

[@Adriqnn]

Update?

[@whenyou1856]

@@Adriqnn dead

[@krishm5116]

@@Adriqnn When negative started coming after 2 weeks ... I stopped it :-) Botton line .. nothing to panic.

[@AlbertsSlotChannel]

@@krishm5116 Good to hear Krish! I'm on Day 6 - positive!

[@marylnmonroe]

@@AlbertsSlotChanneli tested at day 6 too and still was positive. im going to wait for another week before i try again.

[@CodCats]

i'm sick with covid and i'm scared to give it to my mom. my mom was healthy 53 years old and when she got covid, she just never got better.. she ended up being sick for almost 2 years straight as if she was as sick as day 1 of the flu, disgusting horrible experience and never knowing when it was, or if it was, going to end!! long covid is the real fear, thank god my mom got better because many don't, she also was denied disability pay cause all the tests said "shes normal"!!!! of course they'd be normal cause they know nothing about long covid. fk those evil insurance companies who don't help people with severe reactions to brand new virus' which they shutdown the whole fking world over. fk insurance companies!!! i had to pay the mortgage, food, bills alone and we barely made it through, luckily my mom got better 2 years in, she was on the coach and couldn't walk to get mail for 2 years!!! just venting

[@neondharma]

what's most important is you gotta go back to work

[@JMazur-op8do]

Day 11 🤦🏼‍♂️ I just want a haircut😫

[@_sunchildd]

you can go out. you’re not contagious anymore after 10 days they believe ❤️‍🩹

[@MsPopo81]

@@_sunchildd you should stfu...if its a positive rapid still you are still contagious duh

[@_sunchildd]

@@MsPopo81 yeah i’m gonna trust the professionals buddy

[@MsPopo81]

@@_sunchilddno dumb ass.. you trust your own body.. You feel sick and you test positive that means you are contagious ... You feel fine while still healing from the sickness and still test positive, then that means you are still contagious and healing from the virus and still able to spread that live virus along as you excrete it fully fu@ktard. A negative test means you have stopped healing and shedding it shithead lol

[@_sunchildd]

@@MsPopo81 not reading all that so congratulations! or i’m sorry that happened to you

[@hiroll8618]

Ick I like her voice better with covid

[@larrylandwehr7694]

Yeah, experts. We have had enough of "experts" I quit watching Main Stream Media...haven't had covid since.

[@raymondlong9324]

Where’d you find ten that actually work. Love the fact most are outdated and the government says there still good..

[@magiccheeseball]

All you ever get his BS when it comes to covid they never can give you straight answers

[@cookie22100]

Well that’s because we’re going through this in live time. This isn’t an illness of 50+ years ago, where we have it all figured out by now.

[@magiccheeseball]

@@cookie22100 true but they should just say that instead of saying we are right this is a fact and blocking anyone else from having a different opinion then later turns out that they were wrong and the people with the blocked opinion were right and sometimes they even purposely lied Anthony fauci admitted he lied and the opinions I had are just they are just now starting to talk about it made me cringe watching things they were saying on TV like they had no common sense

[@cookie22100]

@@magiccheeseball can’t fight you there, I guess welcome to the United States of America, we are a nation created on lies anyways.

[@belle2154]

😂

[@Dave-vt2mt]

🐑 😅😅😅😅 Muppets

[@nightwatch5843]

What if you're positive but you feel 100% Good & Normal. Its All BS .

[@turkonapoletano356]

🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@carllondonnuman7604]

Wear a mask hahaha

[@magiccheeseball]

It's proving masks don't do anything except for n95 mask which do 20% but what does 20% even mean?

[@belle2154]

Hokey Pokey….

[@Bill-vo1wn]

Just in time for the next Election. WAKE ⏰️ up PEOPLE.

[@meanbeotch]

I did test positive. 3 home test positive. CVS negative. My Dr. Positive. I still feel bad. Aches chills. Now I'm having cough phlegm. Good day then a bad day.

[@cookie22100]

There is no election this year. I’m pretty sure it’s common for Covid to start spreading during the holidays for very obvious reasons. Most of our holidays take place from October through January of the next year.

[@jongriffin2125]

This doctor said nothing.

[@katyaleenutaphong1751]

For me 3 days catch 🦠 it was extreme torture

[@beatricebarbaravranicar5851]

You hawe positive test yust 3 days?