COVID-19 testing survey

[Regan MacNeil]

Just curious. I've had my brain stabbed twice. Both were negative.

You need not reveal whether you tested positive or negative if you don't want to.

 

[Spartan Squad]

I think I've posted on this already, but I've been tested once. Wasn't a full lobotomy, but a thorough cleaning of my nostrils. I tested negative, but it was probably the most stressful five days I went through since the first three weeks of the shutdown in the Bay Area.

 

[MTM]

I got tested at the end of June just because. I didn't have any symptoms and working from home, I was not around people except for an occasional grocery run.

The test wasn't as bad as I expected, a little tickle when they jammed the Q-Tip up my nose. It took about 5 days for the result, which came back negative, as I expected.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

I increasingly believe I had it the first week of January after a party at Medieval Times the week before.

Won't know for sure until I get a serology test.

 

[Starman]

I've been going to doctors' offices an average of probably once a week since March, and never been formally tested. They run down their 10-item checklist, then do a temperature scan and blood oxygen check, and if any of those are seriously off, then you get the test.
So far, I haven't set off any warning bells.

 

[TigerVols]

Three times.

Tried to make it four but I'm on the road in Salt Lake City and there are no rapid result tests available w/o a 3-4 day wait for an appointment.

Maybe I'll sneak onto the Utah football team.

 

[John]

I work for an SEC school and there is free testing for all asymptomatic students, faculty & staff. I've done it twice, once in July just to see, and once a month later after I'd had a bad 12-hour bug or something a few days before, just to be sure. Negative both times.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Have not been tested.

Still wonder about the weird “flu” or “cold” that I had at the end of January.

 

[Fred siegle]

My volleyball club had a 17 year old test positive (he tested because he had a sore throat and a he also plays soccer and had a high school teammate test positive). So I made everyone get tested. I went in on Thursday afternoon and got the result tonight (Negative!). So far no more positives from the kids or coaches from the club.

 

[garrow]

Been tested twice. Both negative.

 

[Scout]

I’ve given blood twice. Both negative for antibodies.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Yes. Had surgery on 9/11. Had to test negative or the surgery was off. Came through with flying colors, BTW.

 

[ChrisLong]

I saw an ears, nose and throat doctor for other reasons. He stuck his scope deep into my nostrils. It was right on the verge of being painful, but it never reached that point. I asked him if having a Covid test is the same as that. He said no, it's worse because they don't know what they're doing.

 

[TrooperBari]

Nine in total, all negative. Two when I first got to Hong Kong in May (one upon arrival, the other at the end of my two-week quarantine), five in the US trying to get back to Hong Kong (one in Omaha, four in Dallas), and two more upon returning to Hong Kong.

Every Hong Kong test was a deep-throat saliva test where you spit into a bottle. Every test in the US was the Cotton Lance of Doom (TM). Didn't pay a cent for any of the tests, which was good because actually getting to them was quite another story.

 

[DanOregon]

4-0 baby!

 

[Cosmo]

Have not been tested.

Still wonder about the weird “flu” or “cold” that I had at the end of January.

Yep, I posted this before ... but my weird "flu/cold" came right before Christmas. I had a few sniffles on a Friday night, went out to happy hour, came home and went to bed, woke up at 7 a.m. the next day and felt like there were a ton of bricks in my chest. Could barely breathe. Managed to get to Kroger for some Mucinex and it really didn't help much. Was completely knocked out for two days and then lost my voice for close to a month. Had an unproductive cough for weeks. Could feel the mess in my chest but no amount of coughing could break it up. Only started to clear when I got an albuterol inhaler. Never did have a loss of taste or smell that I can remember. Got tested for antibodies in June and they came back positive, and the nurse at Patient First told me that I was about the seventh or eighth person to come back positive who said they were sick with something weird in late December/early January. I'm convinced it was here well before March. Obviously would have gotten tested for it if we had known about it.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I had something similar except the trouble breathing when I came back from Disney World after Thanksgiving. Was sick in various ways for three weeks. Then my wife was sick for three weeks.

I haven’t gotten the antibody test tho.

 

[Vombatus]

I take at least one every single day. So far, I can still smell.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I take at least one every single day. So far, I can still smell.

You definitely still smell.