B-1 83 said:
DannyDuberstein said:
Most will. Make sure it includes an N (envelope) test and an S (spike) protein test. The N are only infection antibodies, so if you are positive for those, indicates you actually had covid. S can be generated by infection and/or vaccine
My test (CVS) only showed IgG and IgM. Their explanation is that IgG shows antibodies not differentiated between infection resulting or vaccination resulting, while IgM is there if there was a COVID infection in the last 14 days.
My results were "high" for IgG, and negative for IgM. I was vaccinated in March, so either that vaccine is still doing all it can, or maybe I had a dose of COVID since and didn't know it.
IgM will only show up the first time you're infected with something new. It's made rapidly, but not as efficiently as IgG. Once the body has quality IgG, IgM isn't as good and the body doesn't make it.
That being said, if you get infected with a new enough version of COVID, your body may make IgM if its current IgG doesn't recognize the virus.
So, you could've still gotten infected. But it could also be that you were exposed to COVID, but not actually infected, and were infected with another virus.
