POAS addicts - that moment when...

[PineappleCocktail]

Don't you just love that moment when you've POAS. You're watching the dye cross the little screen. Maybe you're even shining the torch of your phone on it. And as it passes the test line you're convinced you see something. It definitely formed a line there, you convince yourself, despite being 7 dpo isn't that moment just lush?

Then the dye fades away, and the faint line goes with it, but you spend the next 20 minutes staring at it in different lights and taking photos for the pregnancy test checker app just to be sure. Is that a v v v faint green line on invert if I put one hand over my left eye and get on all fours?

Eventually, having given up after having posted your picture to Glow's 'faint lines/no bfp s' community and getting 72 bfns to 3 bfps, you eye up the next 50p test from B&M to pee on. Because maybe in a few yours your HCG will have built up a bit! And the cycle begins again.

My name is PineappleCocktail and I am a POAS addict. I buy cheap tests because I know they'll give me an hours false hope. And yes I am aware that I require a psychiatric evaluation 🙈

@PineappleCocktail sorry but this has proper made me giggle 😂 i can defo relate to the torch part! Shining the light through the back of the test convinced it will make a magic line appear!

I have never related to something so much ever in my life 😂!

This was 100% me last cycle!!! 😂 🙌

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I've got a stash of IC's too. I won't waste proper tests though....

OMG yes.

After years of peeing into cups, onto sticks directly, even into a toothbrush mug, wandering “casually” out into the garden in my dressing gown with a deliciously developing stick tucked into my pocket (much to the consternation of DH “where are you going? “Just to check the, erm..... bird feeders” “What, AGAIN?”) to check in direct sunlight/dappled shade/westerly wind, I now have two kids and don’t want any more. But I had a pregnancy scare last month, and peed immediately on a stick.... and another..... and another..... and was sucked right back in. Even contemplating having another sneaky try for a baby, partly kicked off by those few days of pee sticking. Absolute exquisite torture. Worst and best time of my life in some ways!

Yes, yes, yes, and again yes!
A complete insanity fuelled with hope. I can really relate to your every word.

I did this for a year. Moved around the bathroom to find the best light. Kept them all in a drawer in case something appeared after I stopped looking. Didn’t look at them for 3 minutes to turn it over for the line to just be there. Stared at them incessantly for the 3 minutes in case the test didn’t think I wanted it enough if I could just ignore it...

When I thought I was pregnant with DD, I took two tests simply because I thought I’d ruined the first one. Both came back positive and that was that.

I got a BFP in January this year and tested every day for weeks. I only stopped when I experienced the hook effect and thought I would only stress myself out more.

But, like the true addict I am, I now traipse through MN desperately looking for other people’s tests to squint at.

Totally get this!
I got a bfp 5 days ago and have tested 3 times a day since, why you ask? No bloody clue just can't stop 😂

100% accurate 🤣🙋‍♀️ I also am the same. I think I'm loosing my mind!!!