Several very faint positives (evaps?) and a +CB digital

[SarahScone]

Hi Everyone

I am driving myself insane!!!!
I have taken 7 HPTs (they’re the ones you get at the doc - ‘borrowed’ them from the cupboard at work as work for health care provider) but they are not highly sensitive - in fact I am fairly sure they compare to the cheapos from Amazon. They have ALL had a VERY faint positive and have come up at around 10-15 mins so outside of the window. I have also done a clear blue early detection digital test which came up (after what felt like forever but within the time frame) with a resounding PREGNANT.

If I am, I would only be 3 weeks and 3 days and tests were all done at 3 weeks 1 day. I can’t relax - constantly in the loo checking for bleeding. I can’t bring myself to take anymore tests as am terrified they will be negative.
My partner has a VERY low sperm count and terrible morphology etc. That being said, we had an ectopic pregnancy last year, he already has a 5 yr old daughter and now this. So clearly something is working.
Be that as it may, I think I am even more nervous given the fact that our chances are so drastically reduced, that if this doesn’t work, would we ever get another go.

I’m 37 and this would be my first child.
I guess I’m just looking for some reassurance and some advice on how to calm down!!
I feel like I am just waiting to start bleeding and terrified of disappointing my partner.
How do people cope with this for nine months!!! 🤯🤯🤯

Well look, it's a good sign that you got a positive on a digital as they don't always show up early on.

I get the panic, I've had an MMC and a chemical and we've only been able to conceive via IVF so I have bee expecting it all to go wrong. You just have to try and stay as distracted as possible and maybe look into relaxation techniques, yoga etc.

Thanks CakeCake.
It baffles me that there is no conclusive way of immediately establishing the viability from the off. It’s 2022!!
Are you pregnant now? Hope everything goes swimmingly and that you are more relaxed than I am!

Stressing out is normal, try some meditation for fertility, and get distracted as much as possible these days, even though I know it's not easy.

Keeping everything crossed for you x

Thanks Isabel - good shout. My partner has been doing everything he can think of to keep me calm but it’s not down to him, poor man!!
I am still too utterly terrified to test again for fear of a negative.
My cycles can be anywhere from 24-28 days. Today is number 26 and no period… yet.
Do you think waiting 2 more days before testing is best thing to do?
My digital was positive but keep thinking the seven cheapo test strips only appeared out of time window. Im just trying to believe that surely I wouldn’t get 7 evaporation lines!!

Chances of 7 evaps and a false positive digital test are pretty slim really. I’d wait the 2 days and do another to reassure yourself. Fingers crossed for you!

Fingers crossed for you here OP. The digital test is a clear positive so that means you are pregnant, but of course early days to feel secure, I do understand that.
Test again in a day or so. I think many of us will have done umpteen tests as we simply couldn’t believe the result. I did ten or more when I was first pregnant.

Thanks Giraffe and SirVix. I have EVERYTHING crossed. I am a bit of a pessimist by nature, i think preparing for the work can be a bit of a protective factor.
I’ve had the feeling that my period is coming for about the last three days, but nothing. Obviously I have googled the hell out of this and it doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad sign. Here’s hoping!!

Keep us updated OP! I always liked to prepare for the worst too as I’d miscarried before, and I used to be on a pregnancy after miscarriage forum on here (my youngest DC is 4 now), and the mantra there was ‘today I am pregnant’, so try and allow yourself a few seconds to enjoy it too, regardless of the future outcome, because today you are pregnant!

I had a negative on 8dpo and a positive on 10dpo using a first response test. I didn't get a positive on the cheap tests until 14dpo. She is 7 months old now.
Fingers crossed for you

I love that!! ‘Today I am pregnant’
I will try and recite that to myself sometimes.

No period today and I would hazard a guess at today being when I would expect it.
I feel like it is about to start but then again I am intensely in tune to any little feeling in my body at the moment.
I’m pretty sure I have read the entirety of Google’s early pregnancy information and essentially, all I can do is wait and see.
Oh, the agony of uncertainty!

So I tested again. I think I am a day late today. Same test - clear blue digital early detection pregnant/not pregnant version (not the count the weeks one).
Still coming up as pregnant but again took the full 5 minutes to show a result, same as first one 4 days ago.
Am I over thinking or is this suggestive that HCG not rising as fast as perhaps it should?
The ambiguity of this whole thing is a nightmare! I don’t know how people go through the full nine months!!

I don’t no how those tests work precisely, but I would imagine that the result can’t be displayed until the urine has passed up the strip and hit the sensor to give the result, so
Regardless of your hormone levels it couldn’t give the result faster if you see what I mean?