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FairyMagick

01-22-2006, 12:10 AM

Hi Ladies,
Anyone have experiences with false positive PG tests? How long before you got your postive after getting a negitive? Is this common?

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summertyme

01-22-2006, 01:53 AM

While I was still nursing my last baby (about 2 years ago) I thought I might be pregnant, took SEVERAL tests, and got some false positives. They were VERY faint, but for a time I believed the whole thing about "even if it's faint, congratulations, you're pregnant!" I went to the doctor, who confirmed my suspicions that despite the tests, I was not pregnant--I tested over a period of about 2 weeks, and the tests never got any darker, so I thought I must not really be pregnant, and I wasn't. My son was about 8 months old, but because I was nursing I retained some of the pregnancy hormones.

befer70

01-22-2006, 01:37 PM

oh summertyme, that's good info to know! thanks for that input!

WhyIsThisMyLife

01-23-2006, 10:12 PM

A pregnancy test is looking for HCG in your urine. There are no false positives. Either the HCG is there or it is not and it is there from a current or a prior pregnancy or from an injection of HCG.

Hi Ladies,
Anyone have experiences with false positive PG tests? How long before you got your postive after getting a negitive? Is this common?

summertyme

01-24-2006, 04:51 PM

Technically, I suppose you are right, WhyIsThisMyLife. However, since the test is called a "Pregnancy Test" and not a "Pregnancy Hormone Test" it is possible to take one and think you're pregnant when you're not. Especially with everyone around saying "If there's any line there at all, you're pregnant!!"

coldrain

01-24-2006, 05:08 PM

I am sure glad they don't call HPTs "human chorionic gonadotropin test", we would for sure sprain our tongues ;) I read that false positives are very rare. Some tumors can produse hCG and give false positive, but it's extremely rare.