2 positive...4 negative???

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Registered: 03-29-2003
2 positive...4 negative???
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Thu, 09-21-2006 - 12:10pm
I've never been pregnant before and am on birth control. I know that it still is possible, even though a very small chance, that you can get pregnant. For some reason, I started to think that there could be a chance. On Tuesday, I took a pregnancy test, but all that showed up was one line and then a faint pink line...all day long it haunted me that the instructions said that even if there was a faint line, it was still positive. So, last night, I stopped and got another one. This time I got the one with the digital readout. Not really thinking anything of it, I used it...just to see the word "Pregnant" pop up on the screen. I wasn't going to do this alone...so my husband had just fallen asleep and I woke him up and told him I need to talk. I do have to admit that I thought his reaction was funny--all the stages of denial, including acceptance in about 5 minutes. So, I tried to take the other test that was in the digital package and the thing wasn't ready, so went to the store and got 2 more kits. So, I used 1 pregnancy test out of one of the new kits, and the other test for the digital one that I had just gotten a positive from...and they were both negative. Took 2 more this morning and they were both negative.
I am ok with not being pregnant right now (finishing college), but was very happy for a short time last night--although in denial and shock, my husband did have a smile on his face. I know that a false-positive can happen...but what are the chances of it happening on 2 different days, with tests from 2 differen kits???
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Registered: 09-21-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:51am
that is really bizarre. But it happens. I would venture to say you are more than likely pregnant. If you got 2 positives back to back....that seems pretty likely. A false positive is almost non-existant. A false neg happens alot. A lot of factors can go into a false neg as well. You may have diluted the hormones in your urine when you took the neg tests. Or the new ones you bought could've had higher hcg thresholds. Give yourself a couple of days...i know it's hard and retest again. Good luck...i hope you get what you and your husband want.
Cara
mom to 5
pregnant with #6 DD 5/24/07
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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 8:46pm
Got my blood test results back this afternoon...negative. I guess I am ok with it...but now I realize that I had moved away from the nervous/scared emotions to excitement because I really felt sad after she told me it was negative. Essentially, the timing wasn't the best; however, the timing was perfect. Yes, I am not quite finished with school, but if I had been pregnant, I would be about 36 weeks at graduation time, so in a way it would be perfect.
Waiting for my husband to come home from work. I talked to him a little bit on the phone this afternoon...he was relieved but said that he would have been ok with it (not that he would have had much choice!).
The office did comment that the 2 positives were very strange.