use bcp&condoms - false positive hpt?

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Registered: 12-08-2005
use bcp&condoms - false positive hpt?
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Wed, 08-30-2006 - 11:43am

Okay, this is kind of convoluted. My boyfriend and I have been on and off the whole summer. We decided to "get back together" after mid July. So between the end of April and the middle of July we didn't have "relations". We had sex again on the the day after for the first time since April on 7/16/06. That was the first day of my placebo week. I am on the pill and I use a condom (because I am paranoid about getting pregnant). Now, at the end of that week and sometime the following week I know that we had sex I just don't remember the days. I know I had diarrhea at the end of that week on the Friday (I take my pill at 7am and the diarrhea was probably around 8:00 - so I was a little bit nervous) The week after that we may have had sex at the beginning of the week but I can't remember. So that was the week of 7/30/06. Now my next placebo week was 8/13/06. I had been nauseous on 8/10, 8/11, and 8/14.

See where I am going with this?

I don't get "normal" periods because I am on the pill. They tend to be spotty and brownish since I started taking it (Yasmin) 4 years ago. So my last period was the week of 8/13/06 but it was only for a day or two and not really heavy (but it never is).

I have been extremely emotional lately so I thought about that and the nausea (no vomiting, though) and I decided what could it hurt to pee on the stick. I had one from December when I missed my period (probably due to my weight loss which was caused by extreme stress). So I peed on it last night (First Response) and the "it's working" line showed up and then a crooked smidge of another line showed up. I freaked out of course and when right to the OBGYN.

I mean, statistically speaking it's nearly impossible for me to be pregnant. I use a condom and I am on the pill (I don't miss them and I take them within a half hour of 7am each day) I let him in without the condom for mere seconds when we first got started once in July but then I start freaking out so I made him stop. then he pulled out and put on the condom and then we had "actual" sex.

I peed for the doctor and he did two tests that showed negative. I did two more this morning (first morning pee) and both were negative. I bought two new boxes last night and got two diffrent types of tests (First Repsonse and Clear Blue Easy) the line on the original test from last night only goes about a third of the way up and gets faint as it it rises. there was no preg lines on either of the docs tests or on the ones this morning.

So, needless to say I am freaking out. I have heard about countless false negatives but NEVER a false positive. I went online and found some info that tests can be defective and show a false positive. My doc didn't seem to be concerned and opted not to send me for a blood test.

I'm not symptomatic, either. I mean if I was prego enough for hormone to show in my urine I'd think that my boobs would hurt or something.

What do you think? Have you ever heard of a false positive or a defective Home Preg Test?

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Registered: 05-14-2004
Wed, 08-30-2006 - 1:39pm
I am going to say, you aren't pregnant. What you experienced sounds to me like an evaporation line. Check out peeonastick.com this will show you what that looks like. Reading your post, it does sound like you have a very very very small chance of pregnancy. Hope that helps. I wouldn't worry about it anymore, if you have continued to get negative tests afterwards.
Good luck

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Registered: 12-08-2005
Wed, 08-30-2006 - 4:41pm

I dont' think it was an evaporation line because it had color and it showed up immediately. It's just a weird line. It's pink but it doesn't extend all the way up like the control line does. I had the test under my sink and the bathroom tends to be hot and humid because there is no window or fan in there so I've read that it is possible for a test to become defective by being exposed to moisture / heat.

I don't know. I'm just freaking out. I actually ran out at lunch time abd bought another test - a digital one - and did it this afternoon. It said "not pregnant"

I'm just freaking out!

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Registered: 05-14-2004
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 8:48am
did you go to www.peeonastick.com that website is really helpful. I am pretty confident saying that you only got one bfp and tons of bfn's afterwards that you have nothing to worry about.

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Registered: 12-08-2005
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:14am

At the risk of sounding stupid what do BFN and BFP stand for? I know that the p and n stand for negative and positive, respectively, but what is the whole acronym?

thanks.

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Registered: 05-14-2004
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 10:28am
I believe it's 'Big Fat' Negative and Positive...and it's not stupid, I didn't know at first either! :-) Do you feel better today, less anxious?

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Registered: 12-08-2005
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 10:43am

I'm still a wreck! I did two more yesterday (EPT digital and EPT regular) and they were both negative. I've read so many posts where women have gotten 1 pos and 11 negative and were preg.

I just wish so could show you guys the stick so you could see what happened - LOL! I don't think it was an evap line because it was the same color as the test. The line, though, just stopped about 1/2way up.

I'm gonna freak out for weeks about this. I have to have an ultrasound for a fibroid next month so (God Forbid) the negatives are wrong (and I only say God Forbid because I am not ready to be a mom! - I love children and would like to have one at the right time) I guess the ultrasound would tell me.

thanks for checking in with me. BTW, I read through some older posts and saw that you had false positives. Were they defective tests?

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Registered: 05-14-2004
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 10:53am
yes I took a digital test and it said pregnant and then multiple tests afterwards said not pregnant so I agreed with them. It took me a while to give in and really believe that they were right and that the one test must have been defective of some sort, because my blood work was negative. And I still haven't gotten my period yet, the MD even put me on provera and I didn't get it. I am actively trying to get pregnant so it's very frustrating. Just an FYI, your period can be stunted based on worry so don't let yourself get too wrapped up in it.

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Registered: 12-08-2005
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 4:31pm
Well here is my update. It is now almost a week and I have taken 13 more tests of every brand I could get my hands on. Used them at all different times of the day. All negative. I called the OBGYN and they said that the way my "positive" test came up is a good indicator of it being a faulty test because the line was incomplete. It wasn't a light line but an incomplete one. They have chosen not to send me for bloodwork since I have taken so many pee tests and I have no other symptoms. I'm still freaked though!
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Registered: 12-20-2005
Tue, 09-05-2006 - 8:38am

I wouldn't worry. You've taken so many tests and they have all said negative. I

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