Line Eyes Please ❤️

[pumpkinpatches22]

So I think I’m about 11-12 DPO today. Think AF is due Sunday but didn’t track ovulation this month. I did a test this morning with FMU that was a real squinter but felt I could see something - almost like a shadow of a line. Tested again a couple of hours later and there was definitely something there - even husband agreed but it was super super super faint. I tested again this evening and got this very faint line. It showed up within the time frame and it seems to be pink. It’s very faint but at least it’s visible on camera unlike the one this morning. I’m taking some comfort from the fact this was done about 5pm with less than a 2 hour hold so hoping that’s a good thing. But just want other people to see and make sure I’m not crazy. I don’t want to get my hopes up after 7 months of TTC and never even having a hint of a line. Hoping to do a clear blue tomorrow but terrified it will be BFN! Any advice please 🙏🏻🙏🏻

I can definitely see it 😍 I'd definitely do a digital with that line.

Thank you! Giving me hope now 😭 this was the line later tonight after it had dried. Do you defo think it’s not an evap or false pos? I’m so scared to get my hopes up!

Mine were like that at 8dpo but always got early positives. Definite positive test I agree to a digital test.

Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻 I’ll be doing a clear blue early response in the morning and hoping it gives a stronger line!

That looks positive to me OP 🤩

Well took a clear blue ultra early this morning and BFN 😢 there is still a line on my easy@home but it’s faint. I’m so confused. I did this with FMU but I did wait an hour to use it as wanted my husband to be awake when we did the test and I was desperate for a wee at 4am. It doesn’t help I’ve been up all night weeing. Either way I’m really gutted. Not sure what to make of this. Felt confident I’d get a positive (even if faint) on a clearblue.

I’m so sorry I know how devastating this is. Do you have any more easy@home left to test with?

I see a line on both!!!

I can see a faint line in the CB I’m sure?
wishing you luck OP! X

Thanks all. ❤️ The CB is defo negative but there is a faint line on the easy@home test. Don’t know if it’s a dodgy batch of easy at home or the CB just can’t pick up anything yet. If leaving my FMU to sit out for an hour before testing made a difference or not or if it still wasn’t concentrated enough as I’d been up and down all night. I’ve ordered some FRER that will arrive tomorrow which is when AF is due. Hoping I’m still in 🙏🏻🙏🏻

I'm sorry, I've never had evaps on easy at home ones. Maybe try another hold and retest x

I’ve done another test after approx 2 hour hold and there’s still a line on the easy@home. The clear blue also has line now when I went to the bathroom but I’m sure these are notorious for evaps!

Going to wait and see what tomorrow brings! 🤞🏻🤞🏻

I think the new easy@home is darker. Your clearblue has colour to it too. Test again with both this afternoon. All of my tests with both pregnancies were darker in the PM.

Just a PM update. I’ve done another easy@home test. It still seems so faint to me. Maybe even fainter than yesterday so I’m not confident of the progression. I’ve probably done about 10 tests and they all have a faint line so I feel like they can’t all be evaps or indents but I’m not seeing anything strong. I know HCG doubles every 48-72 hours so maybe it’s just slow rising. I don’t want to say I’m pregnant if this is going to be a chemical or just nothing at all. Classic that this is the cycle I didn’t track ovulation so I really dont know what DPO I am. My last two cycles were 26 days so in theory I should start AF tomorrow but if I ovulated later then my period could be later in theory. Any positive stories or harsh reality checks much appreciated ❤️

I really hope it gets darker for you tomorrow. Keep us updated x

There are def lines on the easy at home ones. I think to expect much progression in a day it's a bit unrealistic 🥰but it's hard not to test.
Hopefully will be a bit darker tomorrow, but don't stress if not a huge difference, it takes time.
Keep the updates! X

I just posted my own thread but can I join OP as you sound exactly the same as me! Terrified to use the CB I have stashed, or do more strip tests!

How are you doing today? Did you do anymore tests?

Hello @Wanderdust

Hope this can be a safe space for you as it’s certainly becoming for me with all these lovely people giving me reassurance.

So update! I did my final CB this morning and there is a line! It’s a faint one but it definitely came up at the 3 minute mark and I could see it within the 10 minutes. There are still lines on my Easy@Home tests too but these are so faint now. They’re not showing up on camera so I’m really not sure. I did drink 2 cups of peppermint tea last night and a glass of water before bed so maybe too
diluted? The fact clear blue has detected something today I’m hoping is good but I also had some (tmi) brown when I wiped last night. Just once but then this morning when I wiped after a wee there was some pink staining.

So I fear this may be a chemical. Especially considering my strip tests aren’t progressing. I have some FRER arriving today via Amazon which I’ll use tomorrow (official day of missed period if AF doesn’t arrive today).

If you're not sure when you ovulated then you might've ovulated later than you think. Do the tests have any colour in the line? Evaps are white or grey. My pregnancy test was dark pink the first day of my missed period. I used a FRER. They're expensive so it's worth waiting until you are a day late.

Thansk @Babaquestions

Yes it definitely could be a possibility that I ovulated later as I wasn’t tracking.

The lines on easy@home have been faint but they are defo pink and the line on the clear blue is blue. I’ve done so many tests in the last 48 hours I can’t imagine they would all be evaps.

All I can assume is I’ve either ovulated later and I’m still very very early or I picked up a chemical pregnancy on Friday and now it’s just a waiting game to see when my period will start.

FRER are coming today so will see if I get any result. I might give it a few days though.

Hi everyone (for anyone who’s still following).

So another faint line today! Doesn’t look any stronger compared to Friday but this was after a 2 hour hold. SMU. I know the line looks grey but it’s definitely pink in person and it came up within the time frame. For science I did an LH test and that came up very positive.

I haven’t done a FRER yet. I’m going to wait until Wednesday. Considering there’s not been much progress In the lines, I’m not feeling hopeful. But just got to wait and see now I guess.

How are you today OP? I meant to reply to you yesterday but was out trying to have a nice day out with family, and not obsessively Google things!

Have you had any more discharge/spotting? Unfortunately, my One Step strip was a squinter this morning, lighter than yesterday. I tried not to overthink but now I have spotting too, brown when I wipe and some spots on a pad :( I'm absolutely devastated but like you just having to stay hopeful / see what happens! Have told myself I was not test again until the discharge comes to a "conclusion"...

It's nice to have everyone here, I haven't told any of my friends yet. Feeling sad and lonely.

Hey @Wanderdust
I’m so sorry. Very similar situation over here. My test was very faint yesterday and me and my husband were trying to stay optimistic and saying “pregnant until proven otherwise” but this morning I’ve got red and brown spotting and cramping and very much feel like AF is on the way. I feel sad/disappointed but I felt like I knew it was probably likely because the results were staying so faint. It seems strange but the last 7 months have been a journey for us with my body and I’ve worked so hard to get my cycles to regulate since my IUD removal there’s a small part of me that is relieved at least my cycles haven’t been completely ruined. I once went 60 days without a period and it freaked me out and really messed my body up. Having a regular cycle is a really positive sign for fertility so I’m choosing to take that as a positive too.

But also we’ve been TTC for baby number 1 for 7 months without a sniff of a positive so we’re choosing to see this as progress and I’ve learned from my obsessive googling that chemicals are very common and lots of women conceive the next cycle. At least we know now we can actually get pregnant and now we’re just going to focus on making sure we’re doing as much as we can to make sure our eggs/sperm and my uterine lining are the best quality so hopefully the next one sticks. It also does help that we started doing some fertility investigations privately with Hertility as we didn’t want to wait a year or more to find out there was in issue with the NHS. I had a pelvic scan on Sunday and everything looked good but my lining was 7mm which is the minimum for a good implantation according to Dr Google so again I sort of had a clue this might not stick. I’ve got a list of things to help thicken that up hopefully but waiting to hear what the gynaecologist says.

But I’m sending lots of love and light to you Wanderdust and hope you have a good outcome but if you don’t, just remember it’s very common and theres no reason why you can’t get pregnant again and hopefully it will stick next time. Also remember there’s no time limit to share your experience and if you want to share with your friends what’s happened then you should! I’m going to tell my friends today because this bleeding is more than just a period to me. A positive test is a positive test no matter how faint so a miscarriage is a miscarriage no matter how early. Please do keep us posted ❤️ I’ll be sure to come back and update this thread if I get a sticky bean next time.

@pumpkinpatches22 I'm sorry to hear that you've woken up with spotting but I love how you're looking at it positively that your periods are regulating more etc. I really think having a positive attitude is important and it'll help. You'll get your baby soon I'm sure. Sending love x

You're wonderfully positive @pumpkinpatches22 ❤️

Feel I could have written some of your post. Hope is just about gone in our house, bright red blood now so no kidding myself it's just spotting... Have held strong and not tested as feel there's no point but will probably do final one when bleeding stops, just to close that chapter.

I know what you mean about feeling a little relieved/positive about the whole situation - this was cycle 12 for us (gulp) but never had as much as a late AF before. The only thing I did different was start a high dose of B6 about 6 weeks prior to getting the faint positive so I do wonder if that helped. Although my husband also pointed out we really went for it this time and DTD more than we usually manage so could be that too 😂It cheered me up a bit reading old MN posts about folks getting another positive quickly after a chemical so here's hoping it's our time soon!

I do already have a son so feel a little bad complaining... So grateful for him but it has been hard to accept this time hasn't been so easy. Bit of a shock to find myself here as he was conceived in 4/5 months and told myself I had plenty of time for DC2! I worry about a potential large age gap all the time, if I'm even lucky to have another now - beat myself up for not trying sooner but a pretty shitty time during the first few years of his life meant I wasn't even thinking about it so I need to go easy on myself. I've just turned 39 so that is another worry.

Interesting you mention Hertility, I had been looking at private options before this happened. I did go to my GP (posted on here about it) but they weren't great. Said they'd do a 21 day blood test and it turned out they only did a routine blood count! Wouldn't have known if I didn't ask for a copy of the results! They didn't seem too concerned about me, and said they'd only refer me for more tests once it's been a year (it will be in June). But I'll not either push for this now (because it's been 12 cycles) or go private. Was really hoping I didn't need to start down this road but hey ho 😔

Funny you mention your friends because I also said to my hubby just yesterday that I'm going to do the same! I know a lot of people with fertility issues, including one of my best friends, but weirdly I didn't want to bother them with my issues (which seem so bloody trivial compared to some of their struggles). My bestie had two miscarriages between DC1 and 2, and they were later... But then again, she will know better than anyone how hard it is so I really don't know why I felt I couldn't say...

Thank you for letting me get that out, do keep in touch! Your post made me cry and lifted me at the same time but that's just my hormones! 😂