Negative/faulty test at 7wks pregnant - help?

[awkwardjellyfish]

Hi everyone.

I tested positive on the day of my missed period. Did another test (different brand) several days later to double check, also positive.

Now at around 7 weeks and waiting for my first appointment with the midwife and in total limbo until then.

I’ve had lots of the typical symptoms over the last few weeks; queasiness, being able to smell EVERYTHING, cravings, tiredness and the most horrific constipation. Isn’t pregnancy fun??!

However, the last few days I’ve felt … different. Aside from some mild twinges and constipation I’ve felt pretty much normal and not at all pregnant, which has me worried. Because i’m a weirdo I decided to do another pregnancy test.. and I didn’t get the result I was expecting.

I basically got 0 result. Nothing happened. Not even a control line appeared on the test - it didn’t look like the pee had traveled down the stick (I did use it correctly). I assumed it was faulty and put it aside. A few hours later I used the other test from the pack and the exact same thing happened. I had a moan to my BF about wasting my money on faulty tests and went about my day.

When I got home later, I took another look at the tests. One hadn’t changed and still showed nothing, but one now had a very visible control line and no test line. I’m now terrified that this indicates a negative result.

Is this likely to be the case, or should I ignore it as it appeared over 6 hours or so after I’d done the test?

It just sounds like a faulty batch of tests. I’d ignore as the control line didn’t come up to indicate the test had worked correctly.

Its not unusual for pregnancy symptoms to completely disappear. I remember being similarly concerned but my hulking teen is currently dancing around the living room! Try not to worry-easier said than done I know.

@awkwardjellyfish you can't draw any conclusions from faulty pregnancy tests - even on the tests themselves, it says that if the control line doesn't appear, the result is invalid - same with reading the test outside of the given timeframe. Your tests are clearly faulty, and results shown hours later are bogus.

If your hcg levels were really zero, you would be most probably miscarrying already - ie bleeding, pain etc (MC usually happens when hcg levels are still enough to give BFPs - that's why midwives/GPs will tell you to wait for 2-3 weeks after MC to test and get a BFN). If you've not had that, you're overwhelmingly(!) more likely to still be pregnant.

Symptoms do fluctuate - I know that even 100s of threads with people describing exactly that and being totally fine doesn't settle the worry; I was worrying myself around 6 weeks pregnant that I was starting to feel better when you were supposed to start feeling worse. In a week or so I got everything ramping up with vengeance. You will probably feel horrid again in a few days' time. When I was getting all worked up about symptoms not being strong enough, one explanation from a midwife really stuck with me: we imagine hormone levels constantly rising === constantly increasing symptoms, while in reality it's more like an increase body gets readjusted and you might feel easing of new increase and you start feeling crap again. It's coming. x😅