Dye stealers/ovulation tests- it's all lies!

[notallmenbutalwaysaman]

Just thought I'd start this thread as I remember obsessing over how dark the lines were getting on my first pregnancy tests. I also remember using my ovulation tests as pregnancy tests and freaking out if they were negative.

Well, I'm currently 7 months pregnant and out of curiosity I did both a HCG and ovulation test this morning. HCG obviously positive but definitely not a dye stealer, and ovulation test probably the most negative I've ever seen one!

Hoping that puts someone's mind at ease if you're obsessively testing and comparing line colours.

while I agree people shouldn’t chase the dye stealer, 7 months isn’t really a fair comparison. After the first trimester hcg begins to fall again, so it could be that yours is lower than dye stealer level, or if you are on the higher end of the scale it could be the hook effect where the hcg is too high for the tests, if you dilute with water it would show a strong line again. Either way you can’t really compare with early pregnancy

It also varies depending on the person. I only found out I was pregnant as I was doing daily ovulation tests for a month as my cycle was abit odd. I had already ovulated but suddenly had a peak ovulation test again, I was infact pregnant. 29 weeks now. I also began to get dye stealers on the tests a few weeks after my first positive! So this isn't always true. I don't think any of it is a one size fits all situation