To think this locum was useless today!

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I've been getting more and more ill with severe headaches since last Summer. At the minute I've got nausea and extreme tiredness to add to my symptoms. I'm weepy and irritable. My boobs are swollen and painful. Doctors took me off the depo in January and my periods haven't yet returned. I'm on a waiting list to go to the hospital for tests for the headaches but I may have another six weeks to wait.

We're using condoms.

The locum I saw today was trying to tell me that I couldn't possibly be pregnant if a stick test I bought from a shop is negative!

I've had two miscarriages where the stick tests were negative up to the point of losing the baby. I told him this, he just told me to go and buy another stick test. Then fobbed me off with more painkillers and anti nausea pills.

AIBU to think he was totally wrong?

Of course you could be pregnant - get a better test, ask the surgery to do one, arrange a blood pregnancy test if the urine ones keep showing negative.

If still negative then you need blood tests including hormones & prolactin

He refused to give me a blood test. Said they don't do them anymore and they're only as accurate as a urine test. I know that's a load of rubbish.

To be fair on the locum, a year would be a long time to be pregnant if this has been going on since last Summer. The stick tests are phenomenally accurate if you are testing properly. If you are about to lose a baby then they can be negative but that can't be going on for months.

I am sorry that you feel ill and so sorry about your miscarriages. It is good you have a hospital appointment booked.

Beyond the nausea and tiredness are only in the last two months. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.

So you think you are at least two or three months pregnant? If that was the case the pregnancy test would very very probably be positive, I'm afraid.

You can get the early response first response tests that test even before your period is due. Even with expensive IVF treatments only a standard pharmacy pregnancy test such as clearblue or first response is used to determine a pregnancy, so I'd keep testing using early morning urine for another few days.

Hope you're feeling better soon

When I had was pregnant Dd I had several negative POAS tests (after missed period) so it is possible!

I had many many negative pregnancy tests, probably six or eight in total, over a period of about three weeks when I was in fact pregnant. So I am very much of the opinion that a negative test can sometimes be wrong. The child sitting beside me is my constant reminder that the tests were wrong. When pregnant with my second I got a negative test too (after getting a positive one the day before - I was so excited I wanted to test again )and I didn't even bother testing again because I knew it was wrong.

You can get a negative pregnancy test if you test too early as there may not enough HCG in the urine. OP has had nausea and tiredness for two months though. If these symptoms were due to pregnancy this would suggest that she is more than two months pregnant. The tests do not give false negative results at two months as the HCG concentration in the urine is high.

Test was negative, just like every other one. Thank for the advice, my neurology referral finally came through this morning. Hopefull we'll get to the bottom of this soon.