Saya found out that this article was really good for woman who get faint positive at their HPT.
Thank you for preparing such a good article.
Boleh refer pada item bawah sekali untuk tunjukkan berapa lama line tu akan getting darker, if you are really pregnant. So jangan panic ok kalau jumpa faint line.
Kalau betul-betul pregnant, line tu akan nampak 100% bright dia lepas 22 hari... Peace :)
I took a lot... these are just the ones I kept. I
ditched *all* the cheap internet tests which were awful. Either huge
evaporation lines showing up hours after the "valid test time" or no
positive when other tests were picking it up just fine.
Here are most of the tests, arranged in order from top to bottom
by date. They're next to each other if I took more than one on a
specific date. The rectangular tests with green or blue half-dots are
ovulation tests and pregnancy tests, respectively. Yes, ovulation tests
will pick up low concentrations of pregnancy hormone earlier than an
HPT, but not early enough to be useful or clearly enough to be
trustworthy. But interesting, nonetheless! There is one "late"
test (taken toward the end) which is negative. This was our "control"
test, which I was able to do with the help of a certain brave person who
donated for the cause while saying, "Ew, mom. Can I see the test?" She
got a neg during normal reading time and evaporation lines "around" the
place a positive would show up, but not on the test line itself.
The most interesting discovery is that there are two different
"box pictures" for the Dollar Tree New Choice brand tests, and two
different tests, but the picture on the box does not necessarily match
the actual test inside. The actual test above came out of the box with
the picture of a test with red printing on it. Another test just like it
came out of a box like the one next to it. But I got tests out of those
boxes on other occasions that looked like the picture on the
box. Confused? Me too. But I like the "mismatched" box/test sets
best--those tests have the strongest line, even when used on identical
urine samples, even though they actually need less urine. Go figure!
4/27/04 Dollar Tree New Choice, negative
I think this was the day I implanted. This test had the courtesy
to develop an evaporation line on the OTHER side of the control line,
which was nice, as it didn't make me turn my brain inside out trying to
figure out if it was "really" a line or not.
4/28/04 FRER, negative
This is a First Response test. You may or may not be able to see a
faint line. This line showed up 3 hours after I took the test, 13 days
after ovulation, 1 day before my "missed" period, which, according to
FR's box, should have gotten a positive. But FR does not take into
account late implanters... I implanted on day 12, we think, according to
my chart.
Note the *huge* dip on day 12. Might have implanted on day 11, that's
when the dip started. And I thought that meant my period was coming...
teach me to believe a silly chart before my own body! First Response, by
the way, is "top rated" by Consumer Reports. I think I'll cancel my
subscription.
4/29/04 Dollar Tree, POSITIVE
Yes, really. There's a line. And it showed up within 3 minutes.
Faint. Really faint. But a line. Here I was, by this point sort of
resigned to negatives, sure my period would show up that day (14 days
after ovulation), so I peed in the cup, started the test, and got in the
shower. At about 2 minutes I got out, looked at it, blinked, rubbed my
eyes, and got back in the shower. I got out a minute later, looked
again, and sure enough, there was that line, still. Got back in the
shower, finished up, got out about 10 minutes after the test was
started, and stared at that faint line until my daughter started
hollering at me that it was time to go to school. My first stop after
going to her school was my husband's office, where I told him. Then I
went back to the school to tell my daughter. And my friends online.
4/30/04 Dollar Tree HPT+, Dollar Tree OPK(faint), FRER (evaporation late line, very, very faint.)
I started to hate the First Response tests at this point. 2
negatives when I knew I was pg, after spending $18 on a pack of three
tests. Note the faint line on the ovulation prediction test in the
middle...darker actually than the positive HPT above it, but not
"positive" for an OPK, which is only considered positive if the test
line is actually as dark as or darker than the control line. You'll see
that later. So the $1 tests were doing better than the $6 tests!
5/1/04 Dollar Tree HPT, positive
This line, still faint, has actual color and definition compared to earlier lines.
5/3/04 Dollar Tree, positive
You can see this one more easily. hCG doubles every 2-3 days. See
the chart at the bottom for more on how this manifests on pregnancy
tests.
5/4/04 Equate, FRER, Dollar Tree OPK (all positive)
In the morning, I took a First Response test and was happy to see,
at last, a faint line, but annoyed at how faint it was. The OPK test
was, I believe, taken at the same time. Reassuring with the other faint
tests to see this one MUCH darker than it had been! Tired of seeing
faint lines, I splurged and spent $7 on two tests from WalMart. In the
afternoon I took one of the tests and was delighted to see a strong line
(more easy to see in person) show up quickly. Yay! The morning urine
was supposed to be "stronger" for a pg test, but apparently I got a
really lousy batch of tests from First Response. Bad.
5/6/04, Equate, OPK
Note that the line on the equate is actually about twice as strong
as the previous Equate test. Good news for testing 36 hours later! And
the OPK is clearly positive.
5/10/04 Dollar Tree New Choice positive
Same style as the previous tests I took, yet the same urine
produced MUCH stronger results on the "other" Dollar Tree test,
below. But note how very much darker this was than the darkest previous
of this brand. Encouraging!
5/10/04 "Other" Dollar Tree tests.
Mine is positive, my kiddo's is negative. Good thing, too, since
she hasn't gotten far enough into puberty to ovulate, let alone get
pregnant! (Said she,"Ew! But Mooommmmm... I'd have to have SEX to get
PREGNANT. EWWWWW!") Note the evaporation lines "near" the test area on
hers. These showed up maybe 4 hours after the test was started. My
result came up FAST. How fast?
This is from 5/13/04:
Each 2-second "stage" in the image represents about 10 seconds. The last two bits last longer because they took longer. Yes, the test line was coming up before the control line was finished! I did an OPK and HPT side by side. Here they are, without animation:
Note the top test, the ovulation predictor... the control line actually ends up lighter than the test line...
...by quite a lot!
Each 2-second "stage" in the image represents about 10 seconds. The last two bits last longer because they took longer. Yes, the test line was coming up before the control line was finished! I did an OPK and HPT side by side. Here they are, without animation:
Note the top test, the ovulation predictor... the control line actually ends up lighter than the test line...
...by quite a lot!
Now THOSE are what I call positives. They're what I kind of
expected to see at 14 days post ovulation (4 weeks pregnant.) But on
5/13/04, I am actually 6 weeks pregnant, 28 days after ovulation!
Here's a chart I designed that shows why it can take "so long" for a pregnancy test to get really dark.
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