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2 tests done in hospital settings were negative: Did I test too early?

Posted by kaitlynottum @kaitlynottum, Jul 23, 2022

I'm still feeling heaviness in my chest, diarrhea, and a slight cough. Am I testing too early? My symptoms started on the 20th. So far no fevers. My anxiety is probably just making me paranoid.

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mpeters | @mpeters | Jul 23, 2022

You might go to your local testing site and get a PCR test. Home testing is more reliable now, but getting the gold standard test might make you feel less anxious. Good luck.

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kaitlynottum | @kaitlynottum | Jul 23, 2022
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@mpeters

You might go to your local testing site and get a PCR test. Home testing is more reliable now, but getting the gold standard test might make you feel less anxious. Good luck.

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I had a PCR test in my doctors office and it came back negative but I also read that you can test too early. Then I was in the ER for the chest pain and they ran another test there and that was negative too. I'm still anxious about the symptoms but I'm thinking it's gonna be okay. Thank you for your reply! 🙂

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Jul 24, 2022
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@kaitlynottum

I had a PCR test in my doctors office and it came back negative but I also read that you can test too early. Then I was in the ER for the chest pain and they ran another test there and that was negative too. I'm still anxious about the symptoms but I'm thinking it's gonna be okay. Thank you for your reply! 🙂

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Hi @kaitlynottum, I can hear that you are worried about unexplained symptoms and that you recognize that your anxiety may be making you paranoid that this might be COVID. I noticed that some of your posts from last year also talked about the same symptoms of chest pain and heaviness. Did you receive a diagnosis at that time? Are the symptoms different this time that lead you and your care team to think it might be Covid related?

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