Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Pregnancy

Talk about every stage of pregnancy, from early symptoms to preparing for birth.

Original poster

10 DPO strong line

3 replies

FrankieDoodle0103 · 02/03/2026 08:11

For context, I had a pregnancy of unknown location in November and miscarried.

Last night I took a test (Premom) at 10 DPO and there was a strong line. I also took a Waitrose own brand test and the line was very faint. I’ve taken another Premom today and the line looks about the same. Obviously after what happened previously I’m incredibly anxious and desperate to see line progression.

Has anyone had different line darkness on different tests? Are the Premom usually this dark so early on compared to others?

Top strip is 10 DPO around 6.30pm, bottom strip 11 DPO 6am so only 12hrs between them.

10 DPO strong line
OP posts:
aLogLady · 02/03/2026 08:35

Yes, don’t compare between brands, you definitely get different strength lines because they have different sensitivity thresholds, so sounds like premom is more sensitive than waitrose.

and if you want to see progression in your test line, I understand wanting to do it every day (I did!) but use tests taken 48 hours apart in order to see progression.

lastly, the tests are very much a LoFi version of blood hcg levels. I do think there’s value in progression tracking (I’ve had an ectopic and the very slow progression was one of my early indicators) but do your best not to read too much into each comparison. Over time, if they’re getting incrementally darker, that’s great.

In my most recent pregnancy EPAS gave me 48 hour hcg (due to history, maybe you can get this too?) From my tests I was convinced my progression had stalled or was only slightly increasing. But the bloods showed it had nearly trebled in 48 hours. So really, progression tracking has some value, but it’s not exact or definitive.

congrats on your positive! And best of luck in the coming weeks.

Original poster
FrankieDoodle0103 · 02/03/2026 08:40

aLogLady · 02/03/2026 08:35

Yes, don’t compare between brands, you definitely get different strength lines because they have different sensitivity thresholds, so sounds like premom is more sensitive than waitrose.

and if you want to see progression in your test line, I understand wanting to do it every day (I did!) but use tests taken 48 hours apart in order to see progression.

lastly, the tests are very much a LoFi version of blood hcg levels. I do think there’s value in progression tracking (I’ve had an ectopic and the very slow progression was one of my early indicators) but do your best not to read too much into each comparison. Over time, if they’re getting incrementally darker, that’s great.

In my most recent pregnancy EPAS gave me 48 hour hcg (due to history, maybe you can get this too?) From my tests I was convinced my progression had stalled or was only slightly increasing. But the bloods showed it had nearly trebled in 48 hours. So really, progression tracking has some value, but it’s not exact or definitive.

congrats on your positive! And best of luck in the coming weeks.

Thank you so much. I think I might just phone EPAU for bloods rather than keep testing at home. Mine was a suspected ectopic so they’ve said I’d need to go back at 6 weeks for a scan anyway.

Appreciate your reply xx

OP posts:
aLogLady · 02/03/2026 09:45

Of course :) it’s one of the only valuable things that comes out of these experiences, that you can help other women handling it and subsequent pregnancies too!

My ectopic was the same, officially recorded as PUL because they never saw the pregnancy material, but the tube was bleeding in two areas and a psudosac was in the womb so they said basically ectopic but officially a mystery! Great that you got pregnant again so soon ♥️ I imagine the pul took a wee while to resolve.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page