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Of course it turns up with a very faint (but not ignorable) positive, so that's me back in the cage for another 2 days.
Use another brand of test. Flowflex were still giving me false positives four months after having it when I'd always been clear pre-Covid.
Innova (NHS branded), Orient Gene (who sounds like a character from a panto) and Xiamen Biotime all good for me.
If you wait for Flowflex to give you an all clear you could be waiting for months!
Fox
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Day 8. Following yesterday's negative lateral flow I thought today was going to be a formality.
Distracted by my daughter at breakfast I drank the glass of orange juice I was going to have after my test. I'd been doing the NHS branded lateral flows that swab both throat and nose, and they say to wait 30 minutes after having anything to eat or drink. No problem, we also have a box of FlowFlex branded LFTs, which only require swabbing of the nose, so did one of those instead.
Of course it turns up with a very faint (but not ignorable) positive, so that's me back in the cage for another 2 days.
(Who knows, the NHS branded test might also have given me a faint positive today. I'm not trying to game the system, I want to make sure I'm not going to infect anyone else.)