Seeing lines?

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Registered: 09-04-2008
Seeing lines?
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Thu, 10-02-2008 - 8:06am
Hi Ladies,
I know they say a positive is a positive even if it's faint, but how can you be sure that the faint line isn't just the antibody strip? I meant to check to see if I could see the antibody strip before I took the test this time, but I forgot! (Too anxious to POAS!) Has anyone ever stopped to see if there are lines before taking the test (thereby knowing if a line is really a line)? This is my third possibly + test in 3 days, but they don't seem to be getting any darker, and I feel like I'm losing my mind! Another way of asking more or less the same thing: Can evaporation lines appear within the allowed testing time or only after?
Thanks for any input!
Hugs,
Lana



Edited 10/2/2008 8:25 am ET by lana_simone
Lana TTC#1 since July 2007 Miscarriage at 5 wks October 2008 Chemical pregnancy March 2009
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In reply to: lana_simone
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 10:19am

Hi lANA!! It sounds like a positive to me, since you have seen it 3 times. an evap CAN appear in the first 10 minutes, but MANY things are consider evaps, a funny dent, a bubble, a ghost line... a real BFP line has color to it, no matter how faint.

donrt worry too much about the darker lines - i had 2 questinable BFps, then finally on the 3rd day, i got a very very VERY faint BFP. then after than, they were definitely BFps. give it time!! but this sounds really promising.

do you have pics??



Jenny


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In reply to: lana_simone
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 5:24am
Hi Jenny,
Thanks so much for your reply. I am going nuts here! I took another this morning with FMU, but it's lighter than yesterday afternoon's. I really wish I knew what was going on, but I guess that only time will tell. I'm now about 7 days late if I O'd when I think I did. I sure am wishing I'd been temping! Anyway, I don't have photos because I can't get them to come out clear enough to see anything but the control line. I'm going to try to make it though the weekend without testing and do the dr. urine test on Monday if still no AF. This is not the longest cycle I've ever had (yet), but I have never experienced the pre-AF spotting come on time and then go away like this cycle, so I am trying to be optimistic.
Thanks again for answering my post!
Hugs,
Lana

Lana TTC#1 since July 2007 Miscarriage at 5 wks October 2008 Chemical pregnancy March 2009
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In reply to: lana_simone
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 12:35pm

This really sounds like a BFP to me, call the doc and ask if they have anything to say about them not being dark!! click on the link to my site, ah never mind, i will give you the link from my last time TTC - here is how light my BFp was at 11 dpo. you have to really stare at it to see it, but IT WAS A BFP (for my 2nd. no BFP for #3 yeet, LOL

http://home.nycap.rr.com/lory/pregnancy.html

baby dust!! keep me posted!!



Jenny


with DH Tighe, 4.5 yo Janey and 23 mo Edgar B





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11/1997 - Found my future husband!

5/2003 - Married my love! Life is Great!!

2/2004 - had my Jane, 9 months later ;-) Life just keeps getting better!

5/2004 - diagnosed with MS. Life Sucks!!

2/2006 - FINALLY got pg with #2, after 2 years of waiting for fertility to return, 6 cycles of trying.

11/2006 - Edgar B (GERB) arrived

10/2008 - looks like another 2 years of waiting.... I am on cycle 5 of trying!!

+ Jenny +

Dh Tighe
6.5 yo DD Jane
4 yo DS Edgar
1.5 yo DS Hugo
Baby #4 due 08/14/11