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I got the "cove eyed" as the mother calls it. I couldn't get a PCR test and I'm now healed.

  • 08-01-2022 10:38PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,578 ✭✭✭


    Got covid around New Years eve, tested positive multiple times with different brands of antigen. Fully vaccinated but no booster.

    No PCR tests available in the whole county, was checking every day. Now I'm grand, no symptoms.

    Can I get a booster now? Or do I have to wait 3 months?

    Apparently I can't enter a restaurant or pub without a booster, but according to the rules I can't get a booster until 3 months have passed since recovery.

    What the feck do I do now?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Your existing vaccination cert should be good for 6 months plus.

    Not sure if the 3 month restriction is on medical advice where it could do you damage of if it's because you will be grand as you are because recovered.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,019 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Or keep looking for a PCR test, apparently it keeps showing up recovered infections for several months. You will be asked to self-isolate for however-many days after the positive test - but you will also get a recovery cert, which can be used in place of the booster cert.

    Worth doing because the old one won't get you into pubs etc forever.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,578 ✭✭✭JackieChang


    Will try again in a week or two. Right now I'm completely "meithered" or however it's spelled. I give up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭Marty Bird


    🤣🤣cracking thread title.

    🌞6.02kWp⚡️3.01kWp South/East⚡️3.01kWp West



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    How would they know if you dont tell them



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    Ring your GP they'll get you a PCR test. I rang on Thursday I have an appointment for tomorrow. No sign of this COVID going away I'm in bits with it, I have all 3 vaccines.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    No injections and never tested positive for COVID. Therefore I could claim that non-injection is 100% efficacious against catching COVID.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,262 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭daydorunrun


    I was similar, paid for a private test. Mostly because

    vaccination-> infection->booster in the space of a few months seems a lot for the body to take so I wanted to be sure I had it and won’t now consider the booster for a few months.

    “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.” Homer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,019 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Calling them Satanic requires belief in Satan. So I might not quite go there.

    But I do agree that they are dangerously inappropriate, and the next step in the slippery slope toward totalitarianism. Personally I'm refusing to show one anywhere. At my age, I'd rather go without pubs, gyms etc than have to show medical record + government photo ID to get in.

    If more people would do that irrespective of vaccine-status, we'd get rid of them soon enough.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Risteard81




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,239 ✭✭✭HBC08


    When you've got Risteard thanking your posts you need to have a look at yourself.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,019 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    A belief that because you disagree with someone on one issue, you must disagree with them on everything is another symptom of the disturbing lurch toward group-think.

    At the moment, you cannot express even a mild concern about the Covid-19 vaccine regime without having people jump on you as a rabid anti-vaxxer. You MUST toe the party line at all times. Take this approach to its logical conclusion, and you end up with Nazi Germany.

    My own pick is that the compulsory medical treatment will we should draw the line at is abortion for pregnancies where a disability (eg Down Syndrome) is diagnosed. Some doctors certainly recommend it very strongly, and take it as a personal failure if a pregnancy they are involved with produces anything less than a 100% healthy baby. They would be delighted to make it compulsory.

    Of course we're no-where near that (yet), but it's the direction your comment is pointing us in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭snowcat


    If vaccines are made mandatory i would expect them to make blood donation a mandatory requirement in whatever country. It would save a lot of lives and is a harmless jab and a few minutes wait. Organ donation too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭Mrtm17




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,262 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi




  • Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "Can show up for several months", not "does show up for several months". At this stage it is unlikely the OP would still test positive after PCR.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭sekiro


    "Also if you want a booster go get one,you haven't officially had Covid."

    First of all, this is medical advice.

    Second, I do not think this is sound medical advice.

    My understanding even with the original vaccine doses was that if you had Covid in the previous few months you should not get vaccinated. At least this was on the leaflet I was given before my first jab and was part of the questionnaire also.

    You should not be telling someone to get a booster if they think that they have had covid recently. They would need to discuss this with their doctor.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    This - anyone who wanted a test just had to ring their GP, or Care Doc during out of hours. Wasnt hard.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,239 ✭✭✭HBC08


    Yeah OK thats fair enough,neither of us are doctors.

    However the op doesn't know that they actually had covid as they didn't do a pcr.No in all likelihood they did with the positive antigen but they don't know for sure.



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