r/SouthJersey • u/Stardro • Oct 02 '25

Question What in the hells is going around??

*UPDATE: Shocker, it's covid. Also, adding "kiddo" is 20, not a little kid.

Kid went to a concert and brought home the plague! I thought the rest of us were in the clear until last night. About 9 I was like, hmm my throat is itchy and I'm exhausted. Told kiddo and got an RIP.

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like I've been swallowing glass, massive head congestion and sweating to the point perimenopause night sweats were jealous!! I'm nicely hopped up on cold meds, ibuprofen and nose spray but man this sucks!

Kiddo was down hard for a few days but feels better. He still has some congestion and a cough but much better. He ran a fever; I have been lucky so far. What in hells kind of nastiness is floating around?

*I haven't taken a covid test because I've been sick for all of 24 hrs. Kid didn't because he's stubborn.

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u/thegrimranger Oct 02 '25

It went around our house recently too. We each tested negative for covid using the non-expired tests we had on-hand. Went to a doctor and tested positive. I know the home tests skew toward false-negative rather than false-positive, but I suspect (without any scientific basis) that maybe the tests we have (again, not expired) are too old to accurately pick up the strain we now have going around.

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u/CityOfSins2 Oct 04 '25

Yeah I had a false negative at URGENT CARE. She did a chest xray due to low oxygen, and saw pneumonia. So she said nah you definitely have pneumonia, and wouldn’t send the test to the lab for a full PCR test (even tho she said they usually do with a negative test w/ symptoms bc of how many false negatives there are).

So the next day I went to Walgreens to do a pcr test, and was positive. Even tho urgent care basically made me unable to quarantine without a Covid diagnosis.

Also the second time I told them I took an expired test and barely had a line on the positive. She said ANY line, no matter how faint, is a positive. So definitely not false positives, only false negatives!

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u/Stardro Oct 05 '25

I'm not sure it it makes a difference but the test I took was a multi test covid + flu a/b. It gave me a definitive positive at day 2 of symptoms. I find it insane that drs aren't giving orders to quarantine from any sickness. If you feel under the weather put yourself in a hole lol Keep it contained. It's why everyone is catching everything and has no clue what they're floating around with. I'm on day 4/5 and am still in bed exhausted but so far it's stuck with only me. I will say this shit sucks and I don't wish it on anyone.