Do pregnancy tests stop working after you're a certain amount of weeks?

[Jadexclark]

Hi there, I was reading on the Internet that you can get a false negative if you've tested too late in your pregnancy because the tests only have a certain amount of HCG they pick up on.

How true is this? Thank you :)

[Jadexclark]

Yes it was my scan today ladies. But, the bleeding was much heavier this morning at 5am when the cramps woke me, they were so bad I couldn't drive myself to the hospital and was losing blood clots. They scanned me within fifteen minutes of me getting there and told me I was miscarrying. I'm absolutely gutted.

[fairgame]

I'm really sorry to hear that

[DinoSnores]

I'm sorry, jade.

[katandkits]

Oh that's awful. I'm sorry to hear that, it seems that you really wanted this baby.

[BertieBotts]

Oh no :( I'm sorry to read that. Hope you have someone around to look after you today.

[Standinginline]

Hcg decreases after about 7 weeks so you'll get a faint positive the later you are in your pregnancy but not a negative.

[DinoSnores]

That's really not the case, standing.

HCG levels are in the thousands from about 6 weeks and remain so throughout pregnancy. A pregnancy test should show a strong positive whenever urinary HCG levels are greater than 25!

[Standinginline]

I was suggesting at the very least you'll get some fainting but definitely not a negatibe

[BertieBotts]

Guys, please read the thread before posting. Insensitive at the very least.

[DinoSnores]

bertie, thanks for the telling off(!?) but I've actually been on this thread since the beginning.

jade, I will apologise to you though. It just irritated me that standing clearly hadn't read through the thread, both with her myths about the HCG dropping and to see how things sadly worked out for you. I hope you are doing as well as you can do today.

[Standinginline]

Well sorry about not getting my facts wrong. I'm just going by when I experienced the same earlier this year.

And I'm terribly sorry to hear the news, I didn't read the thread l.

[Jadexclark]

It's ok. Still in a lot of pain, and bleeding heavy, I've been bleeding 5/6 days so I hope I don't bleed for much longer... kat, I really did want this baby. I now have an angel baby, which is better than none. X

[jambd]

Hi I really confused I should be 15/16 weeks pregnant been doing hpt test every two weeks all positive my uterus is just under my belly botton which a friend who was a midwife exsamend for me well anyway goes to doctors he sez no send me for blooded ect but before I had bloods I took two more hpt test they were positive I also had a urine test done one hour before blood result and that was positive but bloods can bk negitive im so confused hcg must be in my blood to be in my urine ??? But my doctor won't give me a scan untill blood came bk positive have to wait till next Friday to do them know but I done a hpt test this morning and that was positive am I pregnant or a serious medical condiction im so bloody confused also this is third pregnancy not planned and didn't reallly have any plans to have anymore thanks in advance if anyone can help c