Doctor said my tests weren't positive and doesn't know if they mean I am pregnant!

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I am currently ttc #2, just had my second cycle. DS is 14mo and was bf up until a month ago. I was last on on 13th March and I have a like clockwork 28 day cycle which means I was due on on 9th April counting from the first day of my lmp. The 9th came and went so I did a pregnancy test the next morning, Tesco own brand, which came back completely negative.

My last period was unsually long at 7 days followed by a few days of fresh blood streaked cm. I stopped bf after 13mo last month though so I wondered if it was just hormonal and didnt think too much of it. I wonder now if I ovulated late though because I had crampy feelings around 29th March.

With this in mind, I decided to test again on sunday morning with a Tesco own brand again, and got a faint but definately visible positive. Because it was quite faint, I bought a cb digital which I did that afternoon and I got "pregnant 1-2 weeks". Feeling more positive I decided to see if the line on the tesco test would be darker the next morning, but sadly it was fainter than the first one and really was quite faint.

I had a gynae appt on Monday afternoon about something else and brought the tests along. She said that she could see the line on both tesco tests but said that the second one did look like a weak positive and may or may not be a sign of miscarriage to come or that it might just be very early days. She thought I had tested too early (which did confuse me as I waited until I missed my period) and told me to wait TWO WEEKS to test again which sounds like torture!

I had already booked a doctors appt today about the tests I had taken and brought the tests along again. The doctor at first said that there was no line on either test! She then said that she'd never seen these types of tests before even though they are regular red dye tests with test and control line. I know im not going mad and there is definately a line on both, one admittedly pretty faint (she did eventually admit she could see a line on the stronger one). She pretty much blanked the fact that the digital test had said positive too.

I am just so confused, anxious and upset...I understand that I have had a faint line followed by a fainter line and that perhaps this isnt a good sign...I was prepared for her to suggest maybe a chemical pregnancy or impending miscarriage and perhaps advise on this, but she seemed completely dismissive of the fact I'd got three positives in the first place and said she was 50/50 as to whether I was pregnant.

I have to give a sample in tomorrow but I wont get the results until Monday. She finished by saying that she will treat it as I am pregnant until she knows otherwise based purely on the fact we had been trying and that I had missed my period so far. I know she cannot predict what is going on with the limited evidence so far and I accept the wait ahead, but to say she doesn't know if i'm pregnant with no explanation of why I have three positive tests of varying strength, seems odd and unhelpful.

I also worry that if this pregnancy isnt going to take off, I want to move on (even though I will be very upset) and try again but I am too scared to dtd incase I do any damage. I worry that maybe I didnt ovulate though and I am missing ovulation waiting for these results.

Please does anyone have any advise?

Is know it's frustrating, but you really just need to leave it a few days before testing again. The GP is behaving appropriately and treating you as though you are pregnant until she knows for certain one way or the other. There is nothing more she can do until the test results come back.

Congratulations you are pregnant.

However you may or may not be going through a chemical pregnancy, (early loss where the pregnancy is loss before anything could be seen on a scan)

Sorry you are going through this stressful time, but it is really a matter of being patient to find out what is going on.

It is possible that you ovulated late this cycle and therefore you are earlier than you think, and with early pregnancy, the dilution of your wee when you test, time of day you test, do make a big difference to the results.

IF you are doing a urine sample for the doctor, then this will be pretty much a waste of your time. If you are doing a blood test it might help give some answers, but you would need to repeat the blood test 48 hours later too.

If you want to get more of an idea over the next few days, then repeat the tesco tests, doing at the same time of day (as you did previously, if you did them same time of day?) Limit liquid intake for 3 or 4 hours before. This is not scientific, and will not give accurate results but might give an indication if the lines are getting darker or fading. If they are fading then you can expect your period soon. If getting darker, then the pregnancy is progressing.

I hope this helps a little.

Hi Littlefish thanks for your response, I know I am trying hard to be patient and I don't have an issue with the gp waiting for the pregnancy test result, but its the fact she denied my already positive results and didnt offer any advice or explanation of what might be going on or what might happen so that I could prepare myself.

She didnt offer any blood tests or explanation or suggestion of why my third test might be fainter. She didnt give any sort of options of how I might proceed if the pregnancy test comes back negative...what about the fact I have had positives, the fact I have no period, does this mean I might be about to miscarry/chemical pregnancy? I know this might be the case from what i've read on the internet, but I was seeking medical advice in going to see her.

Now I am thinking that if the test comes back negative she will just say I was never pregnant, ignoring my three positive hpts and I will never know what happened. If it is a chemical pregnancy I at least want it confirmed.

Thanks willitbe chemical pregnancy was what I was thinking, but havent done a test since Monday morning so I don't know what it looks like now. Im too scared to. I did the two tesco ones at the same time (fmu) on consecutive days (sun and mon). I did the cb digital on the sunday afternoon and got the pregnant result. I will wait until monday and do another test with fmu and see what it looks like.

It was just a pregnancy test the gp has asked for...I did wonder if there was a point myself as I have heard the doctor's tests are less sensitive than hpts and by the time I get the results, it will be almost a week since I did the test (will be tue because of the bank hol)!

From what I've read on here, results should not be read after about half an hour. This may be why your GP didn't want to accept the pregnancy test information.

Yeah perhaps that is why. Its just I had done a digital test too so that gave a definate yes answer, and with my last pregnancy they took my word for it that my hpts had been positive.

I guess what I am worried about is that I don't see what another test is going to tell us because presumably it will only give a yes or no too...