A message to those naughty people who test too early and its negative then they fish test out of the bin the next day and its positive......

[Thandeka]

Yes I am one of those people. (Bad Thandeka!)

But this "positive" is a really obvious purple line not a faint one, and it is the right colour not a white evaporation line.

So my question is this:

If any of you have ever found yourself in same boat how many of you later went on to test properly positive or was it truly a false positive from reading it way too late!

(Am 32 days post an MMC so it may even be something annoying like residual HCG in system- although I was testing -ve from 14 days- but then I didn't fish those tests out of the bin)

Hi Thandeka just wanted to say good luck for testing on Tues, and hoping AF stays away. I read about your MMC, so sad. Fingers crossed!! Also, with this pregnancy I had a very, very, squinty faint positive line 9DPO, then 10DPO nothing! Then 11 DPO faint but visible line, so there is hope. Also with 10miu internet cheapies...

One month I gave all my HPT's to DH to guard from me so I couldn't test too early. He went out and I found myself turning house upside down for them . So Divvy your only option is to get a bank safety deposit box for them! (I did read about one woman who kept them in the glove box of her car- that way she wouldn't be bothered to go and get them in her jamas in order to test FMU! I doubt that would stop me!)

I know I should live on the step away from the first response thread but I just don't have the willpower. sigh

Thanks Katster and good luck for you- how far are you now?

hi Thandeka!
Sounds very promising. The only way we convinced ourselves that our HPT was positive was by using a CB digital but owch! they are so expensive. We held up our boots one at so many angles I think we were seeing lines where ever we looked. We drove ourselves crazy. Sound like you are almost there yourself
Fingers crossed for Tuesday! xxx

Morning Thandeka - here's to a BFP on Wednesday for you.

P.S. Almost everyone tests early on the step away thread but we try to persuade each other not to...so come on down.

Hiya,

Im just going to say with DS1 I did the test, looked at 3 mins, nothing... threw it in the bin,

took it out an hour later ... a line.

Went and got clearblue test ... +

Good luck for Wednesday!

Hi Thandeka, although I can give you no help over your poas dilemna (I've had no experience is this domain , I just wanted to know how were today and whether you had an update? I know you said your AF was due on Tuesday but I guess I'm as impatient to know your news as you must be! Good luck with the countdown to BFP!!

both my pregnancies started like this

as in, fishing tests out of the bin and finding that there was a line!

erm okay deep breaths here. Erm the lines are there on the sticks I weed on this morning . They are so so so so so so so faint but I swear they are there. They are not quite developing in the time but they are there although DH is refusing to commit to whether he can see them so it may be my imagination! But they are there within an hour which is better than in 24hours. (and the other day I did get a faint faint faint one that actually developed in the time)

Last time I had the lines this faint the next day I wee-d on a tesco HPT and got an obvious line so that is the plans for tommorrows morning loo visit. Then CB digital for wednesdays wee. I like planning increasing my quality of HPT as time goes on- like an HPT upgrade

AF due tommorrow and NO cramps at all that I usually get when she is on her way (even last time I was pregnant I had cramps)- but i was very irritable and PMS'y yesterday so I just don't know. Bah!

HI Thandeka

I am in same boat!

Af due tomorrow.... now got a drawer full of first reponses and CB digitals for HPT upgrade....

Unfortunately mine are always bfns until day af due so no faint line squinting for me yet.

PLanning on first reponse fmu tomorrow. Been frantically knicker checking for days tho

So far I have...sore boobs, weeing loads, lower back pain, nausea, high temp (still 36.9-37) and really dark wee (is that a symptom??)

Please let this be our month for BFPs (and 4th time lucky for a sticky one for me....) My fingers crossed for us both! x

Oh my cracking out the advanced artillery (tesco HPT) before the big guns (CD digital)
and the line is there and pink - faint but flipping obvious- you don't have to squint to see it anymore! I am 12DPO period due today. Absolutely no sign it is on its way (no cramps etc.). My temp is still up.

BUT I didn't also do cheapie ebay comparison tests to see if the line was stronger than yesterdays (as some tests give stronger lines than others) so there is a slim possibility all this is actually residual HCG from the miscarriage 38days ago but this is unlikely right since my scan showed no retained tissue?

So will see what happens today and tommorrow and then crack out the big guns on Thursday for the definitive- as will be 14DPO then.

Nargh argh argh!

Way to go Thandeka!!! Keep us posted on the digital BFP front. I'm jumping the gun (not really) by saying CONGRATULATIONS to you. You'll be able to join us on the post MC pregnancy thread. I'm currently 5 weeks and already paranoid. And so it goes on.....

Thanks Jardins we can virtually hand hold if this plan works out. Guess who has tickets for Glasto this year for first ever year! Shit! (last time I miscarried it was immediatly after honeymoon in Thailand- so swore to self I would not be going anywhere next time- looks like we may have to try and claim on insurance- will be 7-8 weeks if we get that far and not sure I want to take the risk)

Thandeka - as you had a scan and negative tests in the middle I bet this isn't leftovers from your previous pregnancy.
Tentative congratulations from me .

Don't go checking that the cheapies are getting darker. If you happen to pee on one with a bit less dye on it it will throw you into a panic.

You got your BFP by the sounds of it! Congratulations xx

I know where you're coming from Thandeka re: Glasto. My mc (end of March) has made me really cautious. I've even switched to decaff coffee! I'm a coffee snob but only usually indulge in one a day, but now, it's (good quality, thank God) decaff for me. How are you feeling this morning re: BFPs?

sounds positive to me!! However I don't blame you for doing the Clearblue one too. I'll be watching. Looks like Jardins you and I are all about the same timing post mc.

My head is all over the place! I'm really scared its too soon and my womb hasn't healed enough to hold onto this one. My MMC was 38 days ago but bleeding didn't stop until 26 days ago. I ovulated 12 days after the bleeding stopped (day 26) and currently the emby is maximum 12 days old. So am in the limbo zone. Since the MMC I will be entitled to an early scan but last time I had one at 6.3 and all was fine HB etc and I still lost it so am not sure what the point is. I guess if I can hang on til 9 weeks (MC risk drops massively here) then that will be okay but then that's only the week before the 10 week barrier I need to get past (MMC was 10.1).

My diet this month has been shocking- lots of chocolate and wine and comfort food so hardly the best start although since the very very faint late positive confusion on friday I haven't had any alchol and i have upped my fruit and veg intake and switched back to decaff. Oh and I was on metronidazole the course of which finished the day after I ovulated (and didn't know I had ovulated that day until 3 days later and my temp chart drew the line) so a bit worried about that but figure most of it will have been out of my system by the time fertilisation happened hopefully.

Oh my god I was a nightmare paranoid bundle of nerves last time I was pregnant- now its going to be 10 times worse! Oh and I just handed in my notice (but am getting paid til end of aug thankfully) so I have no sick benefit etc.

Okay Thandeka goes off to calm down and drink a cup of herbal tea. Sorry for the gabbled post! Will get self over to the Pregnancy after miscarriage thread pronto for some knicker checking support.

well i still have my bfn...and I did a first response and CB digital with fmu

No af though...

Congrats Thandeka

Thanks ILBAM (which amused me to shorten your name to! ;) sorry!)

Hope both of ours stay far away! Fingers crossed.

Can I gate crash?

AF due yesterday and she was a no show We only BD the once this month but it was about the time I ov.

To test or not to test, that is the question?

Hi Thandeka, I just wanted to give you some reassurance. The first time I mc'd at the end of Jan 2007, I went on to have a successful pregnancy straight away which resulted in my DS at the beginning Dec 2007. So I would say it is totally possible to have a successful pregnancy so soon after mc.

Take a deep breath, you will be fine. x

Ohh Thandeka that sound like a BFP but to me, I got a faint line with dc3 she 2.6 now!
Ilovebeingamummy will keep fingers crossed for you & feelingfrazzled

Good evening Thandeka. I've just read your post in which you express your post mc fears. We are virtually in the same boat and HappyBump too. So let's hold hands during the next weeks, ey? Also, don't forget another point in common: the fact we've both stopped teaching. As I said earlier this morning, I'm only in my 5th week and on that rollercoaster already. I'm with you and HappyBump .... and all the others too, of course .

Cheers Jardins

Lots of handholding for us all methinks. Will post proper tommorrow but unfortunately I am still teaching from next week (after half term) and for 7 more weeks so basically up until 12 flipping weeks PG! Balls! But at least my 6th form and Y11 have gone so only my Thursdays are my horrible day. And I am only in school 3 days a week and do other stuff the other days.

Update from the wee sticks this morn. Both brands ebay cheapies now registering a faint but definite line (Tesco's HPT gave the best result- even tho one of the ebay cheapies is supposed to be ultra early!). Oh and started feeling nauseous this morn and am exhausted and would quite like to go back to bed- also good signs I'm thinking! (I was never sick last pregnancy but did feel nauseous so bizarrely I want to be sick this one - but may change my mind if I start!)

So this means HCG definitely rising so definitely not residual from MMC. I will be 4 weeks tommorrow so still so so so early but oddly am not worried about losing it before I get to 6/7 weeks, as that's when I lost it last time but didn't actually miscarry until 10 weeks and the egg sac continued growing giving me a bump.
Decided I will probably hold off doing the CB digital until next week sometime in the hope it will give me some inication that HCG is rising properly as my doc refuses to do blood tests to check HCG levels.

So next dilemma is when to tell doc and refer to hospital for early scan...