Has anyone else had this happen??? My husband and I have been TTC for 1 1/2 years with no luck. We've been working with a specialist for about 4 months and are almost done with the diagnostic phase. I have PCO and a unicornuate uterus (1/2 a uterus, 1 tube, 2 ovaries...)and my husband has a low # of normal sperm--sheesh! Anyway, I have very rare AF and my last one was in June. The doctor told us to wait 6-8 weeks, if no AF, call for script for provera to induce AF so they can perform last test before we start fertility treatments. I got my script last week but I felt kind of crampy & puffy, thinking it was impending AF I waited to begin the pills. Last Wednesday, still no AF so I decided to take HPT as a precaution before starting provera. Lo and behold HPT was faint positive! I didn't really believe it, and pitched it--figured I'd try again Friday. Friday AM--another faint positive!! I showed hubby & he saw the line too. I called DR for blood test--waited for results on Monday. (ugh!) Meanwhile I needed to KNOW so I took another test SUnday afternoon--Positive!! But Monday Dr called and said blood test was neg. Much crying ensued--I really thought I was, etc. Nurse seemed stumped (I think she thinks I'm nuts) and said to wait a week, take another HPT and then call. I am impatient, sothis morning I took another HPT--darker (still fainter than the control line). I took one this evening and it is darker still. HELP--I'm going batty here!! I have other symptoms too--tender BB, fatigue, nausea, but I'm so afraid I will have my heart broken again. Has any one else experienced this?
I think that might be the strangest thing I've ever heard of! I am so sorry for this stress on you. Try (yeah right) not to be too stressed as it can hurt the baby if you have too much. Take it easy and go get another blood test. Maybe they had the wrong person's blood, or the test strip was tainted with something. I would say that if you took that many hpt's and they were all +, then you probably are pg. Good luck and keep us posted!!!
Nicole
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Isaiah 5/21/99
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Thank you for the advice and support. I will call the DR this morning and schedule another blood test. (I had another +HPT this morning...) I will write as soon as I know anything!
SOMETIMES the hpt tests are better then the blood test when it is very early in the pregnancy. I had a positive hpt when I was only two weeks pregnant!! The blood test showed negative... they look for a certain level of hcg in your blood and the hpt test can detect lower numbers. The following week, another blood test was done and showed a hcg level of 79... very low, but positive none-the-less. I wish you the best of luck!!
__________________ Ethan James born May 26th, 2004 at 3:55 p.m. weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces.
Are you taking any fertility drugs or hormones? Those can give false positives on home pregnancy tests. It is veyr strange, though, to have that many positive test but a negative blood test. Hang in there and see what the results of the next blood test are. I hope it works out the way you want it to!
I'll post the answer as soon as I know. I will have the blood test tomorrow morning and the DR said I should know the results by 5. The (very kindly) nurse put STAT on it--bless her! (This is my regular gyn's office, not the RE.) Apparently my regular Gyn is stumped too. I am cheered up by the response from the other posters, though! My husband is very supportive but he isn't a woman and I don't think he can fully understand what this feels like, you know? Thank you for your prayers, I will post as soon as I have any answers.
I am sooo excited for you!! CONGRATULATIONS!! I am hoping to get my own BFP this weekend!! Now you are the resident expert on positive hpt/neg blood tests!
Again, Congrats!!
Nicole
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Isaiah 5/21/99
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If there's one thing I'm trying to learn from all of this it's to trust my intiution. The RE's office gave me the negative result on Monday and told me to take another HPT and it would be neg. Then I could start the provera. The next day I had two very positive results and the nurse at the RE's office brushed me off--I know they must deal with a lot of people and probably assumed I read the test wrong, looking for a glimmer of hope. Anyway, the day after that (Wed) I had another pos HPT and on my way to work I thought, "Geez, I can't wait until next Monday for another test". (That's what the RE's nurse said.) Then I realized that if I can't advocate for myself, how will I ever advocate for our child? I called my regular OB as soon as I got to work...see above for the rest.
Trust yourselves!! Thank you all for your congrats and good luck on your upcoming test, Nicole!!
Well, Sugary, I took the test the next morning, and thought my urine was darker than usual. It was, b/c I started . I guess we'll try again next month. I'm going to try and not get all worked up, though. I will just let whatever happen happen. It's really hard when you think you might be and hope that you are, and end up not being. I have never gone through this, and my heart goes out to all of the people that have been trying for years. We decided almost a year ago that we were ready, but b/c of Depo Provera, it took 9 months for me to get my AF back. Now, we can start trying finally. Thanks for all your support!
Nicole
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EDD 6/29/05
Isaiah 5/21/99
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost
Hey Nicole, I know how you feel. Me and my hubby have been trying for a while now also. We don't stress over it, gets our hopes up or get disappointed... but I'm beginning to get impatient. Every ovulation predictor test that I take shows I'm not ovulating. It gets a little frustrating, but I don't let it get to me too much. They say the worse you stress and concentrate, the harder it is to get that BFP! Well good luck to all of you, I wish you the best!
Pos HPT, Neg Blood test 
Much crying ensued--I really thought I was, etc. Nurse seemed stumped (I think she thinks I'm nuts) and said to wait a week, take another HPT and then call. I am impatient, sothis morning I took another HPT--darker (still fainter than the control line). I took one this evening and it is darker still. HELP--I'm going batty here!! I have other symptoms too--tender BB, fatigue, nausea, but I'm so afraid I will have my heart broken again. Has any one else experienced this?
I would say that if you took that many hpt's and they were all +, then you probably are pg. Good luck and keep us posted!!!
Ethan James born May 26th, 2004 at 3:55 p.m. weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces. 
My husband is very supportive but he isn't a woman and I don't think he can fully understand what this feels like, you know? Thank you for your prayers, I will post as soon as I have any answers.
Re: Pos HPT, Neg Blood test 
Re: Pos HPT, Neg Blood test 
. Yup, invalid, it didn't show a line in either side. 
