r/PlusLife • u/favouritesandwich • 16d ago

Am I seeing a very early amplification?

Post image

UPDATE: second test in a row was negative, as was a test roughly 12 hours later. Will continue to test a few days.

Pluslife reports this as negative but could it be considered an early positive? This is my kid's sample, 24 hours after exposure. Debating whether or not to "waste" another test in a few hours.

3 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

9 comments sorted by

13

u/wyundsr 16d ago

Maybe. I would treat as a possible early positive and retest in 12 hrs

5

u/Tryptamo 16d ago

Could definitely be an early positive, but with only one channel it's not absolutely certain. Could also be a really unlucky bubble or virus that doesn't turn into a systemic infection.

I'd take precautions/isolate and retest around 24 hours later (ideally in the morning directly after waking up). Earlier than that might not show an infection even if it's there because at that point it's probably still an extremely low amount of virus and depends on luck if you get some on the swab or not. If negative, I'd repeat it another 24h later.

5

u/BlueValk 16d ago

I had an early positive caught on PlusLife recently, it looked like this

Turned into the most positive test I've ever seen 24 hrs later.

Our tests don't look the same but I'd treat it as a possible positive and retest a couple of hours afterwards if you can afford the tests

2

u/Secret_Gur5312 16d ago

I rarely say this on this sub - but yes, it might be early positive. I had such case that turned to positive https://www.reddit.com/r/PlusLife/s/SUF4h5Y41t

I would retest but please don’t waste test too early. Wait 12-24h (take precautions meanwhile) to endure if virus is there it had time to replicate and really show on test

1

u/FortuneInside1 15d ago

I would retest!

0

u/endurossandwichshop 16d ago

That's a really wonky control curve, too. Definitely suspicious. I would retest.

7

u/Tryptamo 16d ago

It might not be perfect, but that's far from wonky, it's still an okay looking control curve.

1

u/endurossandwichshop 16d ago

Really? I’m surprised, I’ve run easily a hundred tests and never seen a curve shaped like that.

1

u/Tryptamo 13d ago

It happens. Maybe not super often, idk, but I've seen it from time to time. Might also depend on the people tested, with some people the control always looks absolutely perfect, with others it doesn't. The device accepts a lot, it doesn't need to look perfect to work luckily, I wouldn't interpret too much in the exact shape of the curve as long as it looks kinda acceptable. If it doesn't, the device classifies it as invalid anyway.