Are early pregnancy tests always right?

Question

I did an ovulation test 2 weeks after my period and the result was positive, this was 3 and a half weeks ago and I still havent had a period. I done 2 early pregnancy tests and both tests were negative. Has any one ever done a test that was negative and later found out that they were pregnant?

Answer 1

Hi Honey, here are some symptoms of pregnancy, check them and then see your doctor

Tender, swollen breasts
One of the early signs of pregnancy is sensitive, sore breasts caused by increasing levels of hormones. The soreness may feel like an exaggerated version of how your breasts feel before your period. Your discomfort should diminish significantly after the first trimester, as your body adjusts to the hormonal changes.

Fatigue
Feeling tired all of a sudden? No, make that exhausted. No one knows for sure what causes early pregnancy fatigue, but it's possible that rapidly increasing levels of the hormone progesterone are contributing to your sleepiness.

You should start to feel more energetic once you hit your second trimester, although fatigue usually returns late in pregnancy when you're carrying around a lot more weight and some of the common discomforts of pregnancy make it more difficult to get a good night's sleep

Nausea or vomiting
If you're like most women, morning sickness won't hit until about a month after conception. (A lucky few escape it altogether.) But some women do start to feel queasy a bit earlier. And not just in the morning, either — pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting can be a problem morning, noon, or night.

About half of women with nausea feel complete relief by the beginning of the second trimester. For most others it takes another month or so for the queasiness to ease up.

Increased sensitivity to odors
If you're newly pregnant, it's not uncommon to feel repelled by the smell of a bologna sandwich or cup of coffee and for certain aromas to trigger your gag reflex. Though no one knows for sure, this may be a side effect of rapidly increasing amounts of estrogen in your system. You may also find that certain foods you used to enjoy are suddenly completely repulsive to you.

Abdominal bloating
Hormonal changes in early pregnancy may leave you feeling bloated, similar to the feeling some women have just before their period arrives. That's why your clothes may feel snugger than usual at the waistline, even early on when your uterus is still quite small.

Frequent urination
Shortly after you become pregnant, you may find yourself hurrying to the bathroom all the time. Why? Mostly because during pregnancy the amount of blood and other fluids in your body increases, which leads to extra fluid being processed by your kidneys and ending up in your bladder.

This symptom may start as early as six weeks into your first trimester and continue or worsen as your pregnancy progresses and your growing baby exerts more pressure on your bladder.

A missed period
If you're usually pretty regular and your period doesn't arrive on time, you'll probably take a pregnancy test long before you notice any of the above symptoms. But if you're not regular or you're not keeping track of your cycle, nausea and breast tenderness and extra trips to the bathroom may signal pregnancy before you realize you didn't get your period.

Your basal body temperature stays high
If you've been charting your basal body temperature and you see that your temperature has stayed elevated for 18 days in a row, you're probably pregnant

Good luck.

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Answer 2

Yes....home test are not always right. There are false negatives but no false positives. Last year about this time I was a week late and the doctors office gave me a urine test came back negative and then about a month later I found out that I was pregnant at the doctors just not far enough long for the home test to pick it up. Take it easy, dont do things that pregnant women arent suppose to just in case. And good luck

Answer 3

Early pregnancy tests can be used up to 4 days before the first day of a missed period, but they are less reliable in those 4 days. If you use it 4 days earlier, it only shows positive for 50% of women who are pregnant. This figure improves. By the day of the missed period, they give a positive result for 99% of women who are pregnant.
I got a negative result using one on what I thought was a day after my missed period, but my cycle was obviously a different length than I thought. 2 days later I got a positive test with one.
If you are 3.5 weeks past ovulation, they should be pretty accurate.

Answer 4

It is possible to get a negative pregnancy test and still be pregnant... but pregnancy tests that are positive are less likely to be wrong. Try again in a few days and if you still don't get your period, I would call the Dr.

Answer 5

Yes Yes Yes.........it has happened to me. I was 4 days late so did a early morning test and it was negative......I even had a bleed, alas a few weeks later (id have been 7weeks by then) I began feeling sick and since Id had a baby before I knew it was morning sickness. But until Id been to the doc who confirmed it by a blood test i couldn't believe I could have both a negative result and a period...but it was true so its not always as straight forward as it seems although I guess my case is fairly unusual??
Good-luck and hope you get what you wish for!!!

Answer 6

this happened to me i did an early testthe day before my period was due and it es negative, the next day my period didnt come so i did another test and that was positive. now 'm just waiting for that time again as i miscarried bout a month ago fingers crossed i'm due just b4 new yrs eve

Answer 7

You can get false negative results, but not false positive - either the hormone is there at a detectable level, or it isn't. Give it another few days and then re-test.

Answer 8

my mother has done this a few times and she has just had her 10th child 3wks ago!! she told me to do two tests as it has happend to her that often. if all else fails the doc can do a extra sensitive on one your blood which is always right (so im told)

Ps Im 24 my mother doesnt tell her young children to do pregnancy tests lol

Answer 9

some times we want some thing sooooo bad our minds get mixed up and our bodys start showing signs of pregnancy.....this happened to me for 9 months one time I had all the signs and was not pregnant.

Answer 10

It is possible