V faint line frer 3 days in a row 8-10dpo

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Hello, this is my first post so not sure if I’m doing it right but I’ve found lots of comfort reading others stories during my journey which I’ll go into another time but it’s been difficult and I’m now in my 2nd cycle ttc after loss and not being allowed to try for 6 months.

I’m now 10dpo and have had the faintest squinting move in the light and stretch to see it lines on frer the past three days which are maybe the teeniest teeniest bit less faint each day but still barely there. All came up within the 3 mins but I know frer can be notorious for Evap lines and indents and false hope. I know all I can do is keep testing and see if it gets darker but I feel so hopeless and just want someone’s advice, opinion, support.

i’ll try and upload pictures now not done this before but please if anyone could give their opinion/experience, am I seeing things? Is this nothing? Could this be the start of something?

first image is all three together but hard to see in the light top is 8dpo middle is 9dpo bottom is today 10dpo.

all done with fmu, I get nothing in the afternoon with few hour holds and these faintest lines with fmu all frer so don’t know if I’m being incredibly unlucky only getting indents in the morning?!

thank you

8dpo

9dpo

And today 10dpo

I'm sorry op but I'm not seeing anything. Maybe wait a few more days and test again?

I can see faint lines

Sorry op from those images I'd say they're all negative x

I see something on one of the tests but it looks like one of the many indents I've had with frer. Even a faint real positive line on frer is noticeably different than their indents. When is an actual positive you will def see the difference and know it's a real one. Sorry for your loss I've been there a lot in the last year and have spent many hours looking at indents and actual positives it's so hard they get these indents so much because it drives you mad

Thank you for your responses i need to not get my hopes up :(

it’s just so difficult when you want it so badly. I’d rather it be stark white than the hint of an indent I don’t think I’m going to use frer anymore, or test early, but when I don’t test early and try and wait till 13/14dpo I symptom spot so seeing a negative stops me obsessing and looking for every little symptom thinking I could be pregnant then getting devastated when it’s ultimately a negative at 13/14dpo after convincing myself I’m possibly pregnant, but when I do test early and see a negative every day it hurts. Deffo don’t need the added false hope of indents and I’ve only ever got this on frer.

i’m 10dpo today has anyone got what could be indents or bfn’s and still gone on to get a Bfp?

despite everything I’m trying to tell myself that it’s negative and bracing myself for my period (which still upsets me and reminds me of losing the baby all over again) there’s still a part of me that thinks there’s the tiniest possibility this could be the start of something and maybe it’ll be clearer and darker tomorrow.

@Faz469 thank you, will keep testing, 10dpo today and due af on Sunday do you think there’s still a chance?

@startingagain17 thank you I’m glad it’s not just me! they’re easier to see in real life I just don’t know if it’s an indent or the start of something?

@Ttcmumma ok, thank you, I need to not get my hopes up. It’s easier to see in real life but still squinting and probably indents.

@bringmearainbow i love your name and thank you for your kind words, it’s so difficult isn’t it and indents are so cruel. I hope you get your rainbow

I’ll upload a pic of the test today with the contrast turned up which helps you see it more that there is something there but I guess if it was a positive I wouldn’t have to edit the pic at all?

Todays test 10dpo with contrast turned up to see it more?

I'm going against the grain here and saying positive! I've had really subtle lines like this DPO and absolutely was pregnant. I bet you are too. Will keep everything crossed for you

May well be the start of something, my first positive last year wasn't showing on camera at all. Next day it was noticeable on camera. From the images I'd say negative but doesn't mean that's correct or you won't get a line in the coming days x

I can see something on the contrast one BUT I’ve had AWFUL lines on frer recently 😭 month after month and not been pregnant (grey so I don’t think cp). Just be cautious. I hope it turns into a bfp!

@katiekss oh I really hope so! Still clinging to hope, 10dpo and due af on Sunday so feel like if it’s not darker by tomorrow then its definitely an indent. what dpo were you when you had a faint line and when did it get darker? Thank you!

@Ttcmumma thank you, I’ve just got to hope for a darker line tomorrow. Same questions as above really What dpo were you when you had faint lines and when did they start to get darker? Do you reckon if it’s the same again tomorrow and not any clearer or darker then I’m probably out this month? Tomorrow will be 11dpo and af due on Sunday. Really appreciate being able to speak to people about this x

There are definitely lines there and you would be very unlucky to get so many indents.

You know already that the only way to know is keep waiting and keep testing, no easier answer, sorry.

This is how mine started though… had a few nervy days but the lines kept getting stronger.

It’s very early though. In my last pregnancy I didn’t get a positive till 16dpo.

@KittyAllTheWay I’m hearing so much about frer being awful for indents it’s so cruel! Sorry you’ve been through that too. Never experienced this before and I’ve taken a lot of pregnancy tests!! It’s so frustrating because I’ve heard a lines a line no matter how faint it is and a line is positive and it’s rare to get false positives, it even says that on some instructions, but apparently a lines a line unless it’s an indent and there’s no way to know other than keep testing and being in purgatory until it gets darker or af comes so what’s the point in testing before :(

3 days in a row now all with “indents” it’s so frustrating I’d rather it be stark white if it’s negative, my last month using frer will stick to IC and clear blue next month. I hope we all get our BFclear-as-day-undeniable-P’s

@Hazelnuttella thank you! that’s what’s so frustrating getting it three days in a row I don’t know if it’s bad luck or all frer have indents!

i keep going between it’s just indents to it must be something as it keeps happening. I know I know I know you’re right there’s nothing I can do but wait and try again tomorrow morning but it really helps speaking to people about it in the meantime until I can test again :)

ive tried testing in the afternoon and I get nothing not even an indent so that’s also strange that frer all have indents unless taken in the afternoon which makes me think maybe it is something as fmu for me is always stronger and hence the faint lines only showing in the morning. Otherwise it’s really bad luck that the one first response that I didn’t take in the morning was the only one that didn’t have an indent in?

so good to hear your experience! 16dpo seems late to me? I’m ready to write myself off after tomorrow if it’s still not clear at 11dpo!

Yes it was 16dpo with my DS (now 2yo) but it was clear blue which aren’t that sensitive.

This time round I used easy@home but didn’t get a very clear positive until 13dpo. Had very faint lines from 10dpo so I know how agonising the waiting is.

@Hazelnuttella ah so you may or may not have got a better line on a frer before 16dpo I guess.

Ooh I’ve got some easy@home but have only used them in the afternoon with not much hold so have been bfn’s not sure if that affects it too much? Only done frer with fmu as thought my best bet was frer until all this!

i think tomorrow with fmu I’m going to dip my final
ever frer and an easy@home and a 6 days early clearblue with dp is going to get me on his way home so I can try all 3 in the morning for indent comparison and hope I get something!!

I can definitely see the lines, and the idents I've seen with FRER are usually (for me at least) a lot less noticeable than the lines you've posted.

Tentative congratulations and hopefully with a FMU tomorrow you'll get a stronger line

I'm sorry op but those look like negative tests

My 10po test looked like yours exactly. Definitely there but so so hard to see and so hard to capture on camera.
Then by 11 more noticeable and by 12po it should have started to pick up pace. Will see if I can dig out some photos for you

This is from day 10 to day 15 (more than one test a day as I kept waking in the middle of the night and would do one).

You can see the first ones are barely visible

I have added pic from 10dpo, 11dpo and then 11dpo the following day (it dried darker) next to 12dpo fresh on the day