Yeah mine was completely negative one day and very quickly positive the next.

Quick recovery~ma, Vortex.

Hi sumi! Always nice to see your pixels. I hope the weekend crowds are ok.

Hope the symptoms stay mild and it doesn’t last too long, Vortex. Same for M, askye, fingers crossed you can continue to escape.

Yeah I figured it was like that. I know when I'm deluding myself that I don't have a UTI and it's something else the test strip turns color almost immediately.

I haven't cooked in a while and it's nice making soup, I kind of wanted to get creative but I'm keeping it pretty simple, just put in potatoes and some fresh green beans so they'll cook down really soft and just waiting for it to come to a boil and then I'll simmer it for awhile and throw in the frozen veggies and simmer some more and call it done.

I don't know how long it took (I set the timer and walked away), but it was definitely very dark pink.

Side note - does anyone (Teppy) know the post-expiration efficacy of the free COVID tests the goverment sent out? I used my expensive proctored one for the test I just took, but I have some of the gov't ones that expired in March. Theoretically, I'm safe after Tuesday (5 days after symptoms began, according to the latest guidance), but don't want to waste the pricey test checking to make sure.

Side note - does anyone (Teppy) know the post-expiration efficacy of the free COVID tests the goverment sent out? I used my expensive proctored one for the test I just took, but I have some of the gov't ones that expired in March.

I don't actually know how effective they are after the expiration date; as a matter of fact, I took a government-provided Covid test 2 weeks ago,* and the expiration date was the very next day, and I was wondering how accurate the test would be at minus 1 day before expiring.

*(Everything I ate tasted metallic for a couple of days, and I didn't have any other symptoms, but I figured Covid is weird, and we had a pile of tests in the bathroom, so I might as well check. It was not Covid. [Or it was a false negative.]) (Still have no idea why everything tasted metallic, but that went away, so whatever.)

They've pushed the expiration date of those tests out a few times.

They've pushed the expiration date of those tests out a few times.

I hadn't heard that and was wondering the same thing as mine expired in July.

I definitely felt like I had a very bad flu with Covid despite being vaxed and boosted until about a day after I started Paxlovid, and then I was just exhausted and had the disgusting Paxlovid taste in my mouth.

Here's test info from the FDA: [link]

Thanks, Dana!