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Took two pregnancy tests. One said negative and one said positive.
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False negatives are quite common, especially testing too early or with less sensitive tests. But as the tests check for a hormone that is only there in testable quantities in pregnant women, false positives are very rare.
They're not false positives, though. They're true positives that gave up the ghost early, that before you would never even have known about.
Also worth mentioning that not using the test properly can leave you with a line that might look like a positive. If you read the result after the time you're supposed to, or if the test is past its sell by date, a line can appear where the positive line would have been (called ghost lines or evaporation lines). But these lines are generally colourless or grey, not the blue or pink that a true positive should be. In any case, a true positive will appear within the 3 minutes or whatever time the test specifies. Any results after that should be disregarded.
It is possible to get a true false positive, but these are very rare, and caused by things such as hormonal fertility treatment, and some rare forms of hormone-producing cancers.
If you have had one positive on a home test, and your period does not arrive, I would strongly recommend re-testing, as it is likely to be a true positive.
I guess you didn't go to the Brook centre then?
FFS
If you're not going to go to a doctor / Brook, buy another home test kit, and do it when you get up in the morning. Don't wanna bore you with science, but thats when your urine has the most hCG in and so is best for testing.
I don't know what forum you went on, but that information is totally wrong. False negatives are relatively common, caused by such things as testing too early, drinking lots of water and thus diluting the hormone in your pee, not putting enough pee on the stick - all very easy mistakes to make. In contrast, false positives are very rare.
Your ovulation theory is very sketchy too - generally you'd have a period even if you didn't ovulate, although they'd tend to be more irregular.
If I were you I'd get down to a clinic or your doctors sharpish! If you are pregnant, you need to make a decision about what you want to do as early as possible. This is not something that is going to go away!
The longer you leave it the more stressful it'll be in the long run. Surely not knowing either way is a horrible feeling?
I have to agree, Lolz uses quite a few of these and a lot of what is posted is a load of shit, so much so she even tells me and I laugh my ass off.. problem is, people given the wrong advice, when it comes to babies can be dangerous.
Although I am waiting for someone to suggest "thalidomide" for morning sickness....:yeees:
inb4 shitstorm, I wasn't being serious.
Just go to the doctors already.
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If you are pregnant (which from what you've said about the positive test - sounds likely) you're going to have to end up going sooner or later anyway.
LOL @ that.
Just go to the doctors already.
seriously, put the factors together....you have been having sex for about a month, no contraception and you havnt had a period since your last one......just because you dont feel pregnant doesnt mean you arnt.
What are you expecting, kicking from the baby?
Stop putting it off and go to the brooke/family planning/the GP, NOW
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By the sounds of things..your in denial about the fact that youve made a mistake and that your pregnant.
GO TO THE DOCTORS.
GO. TO. THE. DOCTORS.
Seriously.