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So confused!

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hayleyfx · 22/02/2018 11:56

I’m 12 or 13dpo today. Since yesterday morning I have had 3 faint but definitely there positives on internet cheapies! The lines have colour and show up in the time frame Hmm They’re called one step pregnancy tests from eBay. They’ve never been wrong for me before and I’ve never had false positives with them so I thought I could trust them. I also took one with very diluted urine last night, just to check and it was totally negative so I felt pretty confident that I was pregnant.
So I used my last frer this morning to confirm that I was pregnant, expecting a second line for sure and BFN. It’s totally negative. With the same urine sample I used a cheapie too and that one is positive!?
I’m so confused. 3 positives now on the cheapies, I don’t think I’m actually pregnant? Don’t feel any signs of af (no cramping or spotting) but I still feel like a frer should definitely be positive by 12/13dpo. If I am pregnant, then my hcg levels must be soo low, right?

I’m going out of my mind here! I just want to know. I really thought this month was my month, started planning on how I would tell my SO. I feel absolutely gutted Sad

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unicorncow · 22/02/2018 19:46

I had positives on internet cheapies the day before I got a very faint positive on a frer! Wait a day or two and try again with frer, good luck

dontquit · 22/02/2018 19:55

Weird! I'm using one step ics and frers too. Getting positives on frers last few days and only starting to see very faint second line on the ics today. Are u soaking the frers in urine for the whole 20 seconds? The ics say only 5seconds. Wonder did u just get bad batch of frers.

Imnotposhjustquaint · 22/02/2018 20:52

I always tend to pee in a pot and dip the tests in now as have wasted so much money on FRER’s that can’t have got enough urine on and have turned out invalid/inconclusive.

From my experience as a prolific POAS addict, I have found that FRERs need a fair bit more soaking that a lot of other tests.

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hayleyfx · 22/02/2018 21:00

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the frer is a false negative but really losing hoping now. I only soaked the frer in the urine for 5 seconds and the internet cheapie for 10 seconds, could that affect the results?
Thanks for the advice ladies, going to try to hold off for a couple days, af is due tomorrow (I think) so hoping it stays away! 🤞

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dontquit · 22/02/2018 21:03

Ild say that's the problem. Def the frers say to soak for 20 seconds. If I look at the window while soaking it is just starting to seep up the screen at 20 seconds

peeonastickaddict · 22/02/2018 21:06

I found this on google that might help

www.checkpregnancy.com/sensitive-pregnancy-tests-2018/

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hayleyfx · 22/02/2018 21:13

Okay well I definitely only soaked for 5 seconds top so I think I’ll try again in a couple days! I thought it was only 5 seconds you were meant to, oops! 🤦🏻‍♀️
@peeonastick thank you! So it seems that the internet cheapies are very sensitive but FRER even more so... Confused this is all so confusing! Lol

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peeonastickaddict · 22/02/2018 21:31

I know 😫 it's such a minefield!!

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hayleyfx · 23/02/2018 13:34

Just thought I’d update - seems like I’m having a chemical pregnancy Sad so gutted, just had a miscarriage 2 months ago at 11 weeks and now this. Getting worried that this is going to happen a third time Sad going to continue TTC again once this over, midwife said to treat it like a normal period. Fingers crossed for a sticky bean next time 🤞🏼

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