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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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Poppins2016 · 18/01/2018 09:24

I'm now on CD40 and tested earlier in the week with a negative result.

I got fed up waiting for my period (and suspicious!), so tested this morning with a Boots own brand '5 days early response' test and got this result, read after 3 minutes but before 15.

This is all feeling so surreal, I have endometriosis and PCOS and have been off contraception for a while with nothing happening, so I'm sat here shaking trying to get my head around the fact this might be a positive result?

So... MN jury, could this be a positive?

Is there a tried and tested brand that anyone recommends for a 'confirmation' test? I've read that Clear Blue aren't always that great?!?

Thanks in advance!

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Poppins2016 · 18/01/2018 14:17

Well, the First Response looks a bit more encouraging than the Boots test... And there's no arguing with the digital! I may have gone slightly test crazy at lunch...

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shakeyourcaboose · 18/01/2018 10:38

I always found the basic 'strip you dip' ones are the best! Congratulations!

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Poppins2016 · 18/01/2018 10:30

JustVent, I am nervous for exactly that reason... We last DTD 29th Dec as we were both ill after that and so I assume I ovulated around/just after that... Which means I've had long enough for hormones to develop. I would've liked a darker line, which is partly the reason for doubting myself and posting!

I guess you do hear of successful pregnancies with low hormones/negative tests, so I'm holding onto that. I have been flagged by GP as high risk for miscarriage though, so I'm only tentatively excited and mostly anxious. Fingers crossed it'll stick...

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JustVent · 18/01/2018 10:17

It certainly looks like a line but be cautious about the ‘congrats!’ Just yet only because CD40 would usually indicate a rather dark line.

Good choice getting a different brand of test though, you’re doing the right thing.

Good luck.

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Poppins2016 · 18/01/2018 10:14

Thanks everyone, just wanted to check I wasn't seeing things/that it wasn't just an evaporation line! I think I was in shock earlier, and it's still not sinking in...

My cycles are all over the place despite being on metformin and so it's quite possible I ovulated late.

Off to buy a First Response at lunch, then I'll tell DH this evening.

Congratulations twobambinos!

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blackberryfairy · 18/01/2018 09:57

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twobambinos · 18/01/2018 09:43

I can definitely see a line. Doesn't look that faint. Maybe you ovulated late this month.

I got my faint bfp yesterday. I used two cheapie one was positive the other was negative so went and got a first response there was no doubting it and it was middle of the day urine. Clearblue digital are less sensitive so don't be upset if it doesn't show for another few days on them

beckymad1x · 18/01/2018 09:34

I can definitely see a faint line! Congrats :) xx

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