Absolutely no way I'm pregnant, but...

[NahNoWay]

DH had the snip about 9 years ago.

I am 36.

Very regular periods.

I am 10 days late.

5 days ago I thought I was starting because I had brown discharge. That carried on a couple of days and has now stopped.

I've had soft cramps for about a week but nothing starts.

I know it's completely ridiculous of me to think pregnancy but it's very much like my pregnancies!

I also usually have sore boobs before my period but not got that.

I feel ridiculous spending money on a test when my husband is sterile of 9 yrs.

I had exactly the same this month, the only pregnancy symptom I was missing was the sore boobs. I even had nausea.

thankfully aunt flow eventually turned up 10 days late

I do see a very faint line on that test - I would absolutely insist your DH/P goes to the GP for a sperm test before you have sex again. Just in case it was positive and a very early MC.

I'm currently in the same boat. I'll take a test later because I'm guaranteed to come on straight after. This happens about 3 times a year to me and I keep some pound shop tests for this exact reason.

I agree - that test has a line, you were late for your period and it sounds like it may have been heavier than usual?

Its very possible this was an early miscarriage.

Yes but she had cheated in the past so I don't blame him

Do a test just to make sure. Set your mind at rest.
Did your husband have several follow up tests to ensure vasectomy was successful?
I watched a DNA test show where the man had not followed up a yr later, but he was father of the child. Their whole situation it was about 1% chance of being his , but it was !

Happy for you that no difficult decision to be made. Have you had covid lately? That seems to be mucking up women's menstrual cycles.

Pleased you got the result you wanted op. I would echo others and get a test done by DH so you know it wasn't a chemical though. Best of luck

He really needs a sperm test. That was a line, and if it’s happened once it could happen again.

Also, without harping on (because I know you’d rather believe it was all done with) it’s possible to still be pregnant after a bleed, or to have an incomplete early mc.

I’d do another FRER in a day or two to check the line has gone fully.

Your husband should get a sperm test.

It's just as possible the 'period with a vengeance' and cramping equates to a miscarriage as many of us have experienced. You can still have a positive pregnant test after a miscarriage.

@1000Pieces - your points are very valid, and I do worry about some women who are obviously struggling and clinging to hope. I keep seeing these posts asking for "line eyes". I think there is a temptation nowadays to test very early, and it must contribute to disappointment.

I agree with the others that say your DH needs to do another sperm test. It is perfectly possible that you were pregnant and the line was faint because you were due to miscarry. This is compounded by the fact you say your period arrived with a vengeance.

best be safe than sorry.

Hear hear

BUT in many of these cases, the very reason they can see those lines is that it IS a chemical pregnancy that ends up not progressing and is a by-product of the ability to test so early. The first pic is a 10 or 11dpo test that I took whilst TTC my second, the second and third were a surprise second line from this March. In both cases I got my period a few days after those tests. No doubting those lines though.

I heard that @curliegirlie - that strong ‘evaps’ are positive tests which just dissolve into a chemical pregnancy. How are you getting along this month?

Well exactly. I think with pink dye tests in particular there are very very very rarely evaps. If you stare at a test long enough you may be able to just about spot the indent for where the line should be (but that wouldn't be caught on camera). So if you spot a pink line that is followed by a negative test or period, chances are you were briefly pregnant.

Blue tests though appear to be a law unto themselves and tend to often get evaps as the tests dry.

Testing early is great, but you just need to accept that if you do that you're more likely to hit upon the early pregnancies that don't progress. That doesn't mean the tests were wrong though.

Yeah, I'm ok. It's now been 4 cycles since the MC (I'm now properly on the TTC bandwagon again) and I still feel slight bitter about after 2 long TTC journeys (16 month and 12 months) I then somehow managed to get pregnant after being a bit lax taking the pill for a few weeks, but now that didn't work out, no idea whether it will again (we're giving ourselves until the end of the year, so there's a fair chance it won't happen in that time).

FRERs are honestly shit now and have been for at least a year. You can see the line before you dip them and negatives now look like faint positives. I really don't trust them. They used to be very reliable but are now pretty useless.