HPTs are driving me nuts! Please help!

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Registered: 09-10-2003
HPTs are driving me nuts! Please help!
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Wed, 09-10-2003 - 10:01am
Hi Everyone!

This is my first post, and I don't have all the abbreviations down yet, so I'm writing in plain English. Here's my story: I should have gotten my period on Sept.4th, and it is now the 10th. I have taken 4 HPTs and they have all been negative. I am at my wit's end at this point because I am never this late, and I just want to know once and for all if I am pregnant! I took the mini-pill for a month, stopped, got my period on time, and now I'm late.

I live in Europe and there are only two choices of HPTs in the country I'm in, and I have no idea how sensitive they are to HCG levels. Every day I promise myself that I will wait a few more days to test again, but I am so anxious to know that I wind up testing anyway. Now it has to stop because I can't afford it! I am almost certain that I'm getting false negatives. I am normally so regular it's ridiculous, so being 6 days late is a big deal.

Could I be so late because of the mini-pills I took for a month? I wasn't taking the pill before that one month of the mini-pills, so it's not like my cycle has been regulated by pills for a long time. Each day that passes is so filled with anxiety and frustration! I'm not insured here, so I can't go to a doctor and get a blood test. Is anyone else going through this? Any advice? I feel like my entire life is consumed by this mystery!

Thanks in advance!

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Registered: 05-22-2003
Wed, 09-10-2003 - 10:09am
The same thing is happening to me, I'm never late, but the test was negative. With your confusion about the mini-pill (I took those while nursing my first, they sucked! I had bleeding if I didn't take it right at the same hour every day, which is impossible with a newborn!) I would just call the dr. and get it over with.

A

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Registered: 09-09-2003
Wed, 09-10-2003 - 10:23am
I have had 3 negative tests as well and am late. I am very irregular though so I don't know for sure if I have reason to worry. I am going to the Dr. today anyway just to make sure because my negative test were kinda weird. There turned pink but no line. Anyway, good luck in whatever you decide to do.

Ann

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