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Feeling exhausted by confusing pregnancy tests after two years TTC

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mp0416 · 20/07/2026 19:36

Sorry to be a moany miserable poster.

Bit about me:
My cycles are typically 24-28 days.
I am currently day 28
We have been TTC for 2 years
I have 2 beautiful children which I am grateful for, which makes this time round feel just a tad silly.
We had a MMC last year at 9 weeks and detected at 12 week scan. That broke us.

The moan:
So late last week I felt 0 of my typical PMS symptoms so decided to do a test. The pink dye first - without knowing it was 25mgU and the clear blue 10mgU 48 hours later. (These are the two in the collage) I feel like I can see a greyish reddish/blueish line, I posted on a facebook group I'm on and members said the same. I get so excited but try to contain it until I get a beautiful bold line.

Over the weekend I have a bit of nausea, watery discharge (usually stickier and dryer around PMS time) and I am thinking this is it.
Fast forward to this morning, I come to do another clearblue 10mgU (Yes i know, they absolutely suck but it was the only one I had). Straight away a blue light starts showing. I flip the test over to build anticipation, to look at it again within the same minute. And I am met with this...

Can't be evap as came up within approx 2 minutes surely?
possible indent but there's colour to it (camera hasn't picked it up that well) so not sure about that.
I guess just a dye run. We have been trying for so long and I don't think it's ever gonna come, feel like just giving up. I can't go through another month like this one. I'm exhausted of getting let down.

Just noticed the quality of the pics I uploaded are rubbish sorry.

Feeling exhausted by confusing pregnancy tests after two years TTC
Feeling exhausted by confusing pregnancy tests after two years TTC
OP posts:
Notsurenotsurenotsure · 20/07/2026 20:52

I feel like there's something on the collage pics, but nothing valid on the more recent one, which makes me suspect this is a chemical pregnancy and you'll start to bleed soon. Hopefully that's not the case, but that would be what I'd make of it all. The line on the second test is incomplete and very narrow (although I wouldn't have put it face down when it was trying to work).

Silverglass · Today 09:17

the newest test looks faulty so I don’t think it shows anything either way. Can you pick up another pink dye sensitive test?

stackhead · Today 09:24

Is it possible that when you flipped the test mid development it flooded the test and spread the dye out? It does say not to move it while it's developing.

I can see a shadow on the pink dye test so i'd pick another early detection one and then leave it alone when developing!

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