Clear Blue test not progressing

[Furmummy]

Hi there .. I have just gone through ivf treatment and had my BFP on the 7th. (15 days post transfer) According to dates I should be 5 weeks and 2 days pregnant .. I stupidly did a clear blue today and it shows 1-2 weeks. I tested early and on the 1st April I had a clear blue showing 1-2 weeks .. it’s now 13 days later and am totally freaking out as showing the same result ... I have a scan booked in a week today x

They're notoriously unreliable and you shouldn't use pregnancy tests to date pregnancy. It's positive so you're pregnant. Good luck for the scan x

They accurately predicted all 5 of my miscarriages so I do think they are accurate up to about 6 weeks which is when hcg gets so high it can throw the tests off a bit. I've also had blood tests before in conjunction with the tests and they've always generally followed the different clearblue levels (1-2. 2-3,3+)

All I would say is that it's possible your levels are really high or you could be someone for
Whom the test just doesn't work for but I would speak to your clinic and see if you can get a blood test?

hi @Furmummy - I had a very similar worry, I couldn't get the digital to jump from 2-3 to 3+ but after looking on the net they are very unreliable, I made it to my 7-week scan and had a heart beat (also an IVF pregnancy).

If you can get bloods done, I would but again that can be another thing to worry about - I can't say that your stress level will ease until you get to that scan and I wouldn't advise an earlier one as that can give you more worry as a heart beat may not be seen until week 7.

Everything crossed for you.

@ivfbeenbusy How do you mean, they predicted your MC? Did you see a pattern on the tests that indicated something was wrong?

Sorry for your losses, 5 MC is just horrendous to go through.

@TreeRoad thanks

Yes each time it took "too long" for clearblue to progress through the levels. Clearblue will show a BFP 1-2 weeks at a hcg level of 15 (in the U.K. but sometimes it's reported as 25). If you double roughly every 2 days then you can approximately work out which day when you should reach a level of 153 which is 2-3 weeks and the same principle for reaching 2753 (If I remember rightly!) for 3+ . In my miscarriages I didn't reach the next level soon enough to indicate a doubling of hcg every 2 days

When I was also having blood tests at the same time as testing then generally my blood level was about 25% higher than my urine level - I know this because I tested a lot and the morning I got a 3+ on one of my non viable pregnancies my blood level was a little over 3000. Althing the day I got a 2-3 weeks with my twins my blood level was 159 so very accurate to the clearblue test

The only time they didn't predict non viability was my 2 ectopics but they were pretty rare in that had normal hcg levels and heartbeats before they ruptured (taking my tubes with them 😢)

It's obviously not an exact science and it won't be like that for everyone but for me clearblue was very accurate

That’s not sounding good then ..

Just tested again and it’s gone to 2-3 weeks yayyyyyy x

@Furmummy

That's great! 🥳 must be such a weight off your mind.

Sadly it’s not progressed so think something in the clear blue test result ... referred to EPAU next week for management x

@Furmummy

So sorry to hear this xx

Thank you xx

@Furmummy
I do hope everything works out