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To you think 'early' pregnancy tests cause more harm than good??

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MiggleMoo · 18/09/2012 10:40

I have recently been speaking too so many women, and been there myself (so not criticising others at all - I have almost remortgaged us in early pregnancy tests I swear!!!), where women do an early test before AF, get positive and so often it results in a chemical pregnancy (I recently read 70% of conceptions end this way).

TTC is such a emotional rollercoaster and when I was reading the promotional material in the early tests it seems to play so much on women's emotions to buy really expensive tests, when it would just be so much better all round if women waited till after AF, when the likelihood of a healthy pregnancy increases dramatically.

Just my musings really, and i really hardly one to talk as I am one of the worst offenders using one of those tests this morning, 4 days before AF due!! And once again I start the rollercoaster of very faint line and off we go again (been here 5 times either ends in chemical or miscarriage!). I was just reading the website though and it started to make me feel a bit angry and playing on the emotions of couples trying to concieve, and though the technology may be there to test early not sure we should be using it or if it helpful that it is available....

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CakeMeIAmYours · 18/09/2012 13:10

p.s. happy ending for my friend - she has a gorgeous little girl now Smile

Bluegingham · 18/09/2012 13:23

Dowager, I'm not sure where you got that figure from tbh.

Birdsgottafly · 18/09/2012 13:24

"though the technology may be there to test early not sure we should be using it or if it helpful that it is available"

From a medical POV, ,it should be available, as before it was there was a spate of women who were going for sterilisation/investigation or a hysterectomy, only to find that they were pregnant and a misscarriage was caused, or an abortion done sometimes without consent.

If you are desperately ttc, every period brings about a sense of sadness, anyway.

If you are in a 'risk' group, as said, there are good reasons to want to know early.

They should be commercially available and being so has bought the price down of all pregnancy tests.

PinsAndNoodles · 18/09/2012 13:24

I think the existence of the early testd plus TTC boards can drive a group of women into a obsessional POAS frenzy. Step away now for your own sanity!

MiggleMoo · 18/09/2012 13:26

miscarriage.about.com/od/onetimemiscarriages/p/chemicalpreg.htm

Thats where the 70% figure came from but it is a very vague estimate!

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DowagersHump · 18/09/2012 13:27

From the OP!

HaveALittleFaith · 18/09/2012 13:27

sugar interestingly I wouldn't actually class the CBDs as 'early' because they only give you results form the day your period was due. I would class the 'early' ones as the Internet cheapies and the FRER that claim to be accurate from 6 days before your period is due etc. those are the ones that drive you crazy because even if they're negative you doubt them!

I understand what's being said about chemical pregnancies and yes most people have the odd one and don't even realise it. However if you're having a repeated situation where you test positive only for it to result in a late period, something is clearly going wrong at implantation and it would be worth asking for medical investigations.

MiggleMoo · 18/09/2012 13:28

Probably right Birdgottafly , I am just one of those women stuck as PinsAndNoodles says on TTC borards and POAS frenzy. Most the time I am a very sane, rational individual but at the end of each cycle I turn into an obsessive POAS frenzier!

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MiggleMoo · 18/09/2012 13:29

Hi DowagersHump crossed threads, added site where I saqw that figure.

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Bluegingham · 18/09/2012 13:30

Sorry I should have phrased that better - serves me right for mn-ing with the kids about! I meant I'm not sure where the 70% has come from, and multiple chemical pregnancies does warrant further investigation.

itsjustmeanon · 18/09/2012 13:49

I think some women have recurrent chemical pregnancies, and don't realise it. They just think they are having a period each month, when their hormone levels are too low, and they are missing to fix this.

I would want to know if I was having recurrent chemical pregnancies.

I'm no fertility expect, but have read about women not knowing they are having recurrent chemical pregnancies.

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