is it a positive?
i have nausea
my period is a few days late
tender brests
what do you think?
2007-01-15 07:33:23 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
its faint but its there
2007-01-15 07:34:24 · update #1
it is in the morning here in australia
i took it at 7:05am
2007-01-15 07:39:59 · update #2
Hey. Hope your ready because thats how my test was..all 3 of them and now Im 25 weeks pregnant. But make sure to go to a clinic or doctor to have a pregnancy test done through them..that way you will know 100%. Good Luck.
2007-01-15 08:31:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nowadays, tests you can do at home are very sensitive and can pick up the presence of pregnancy hormones in your system even before you have missed a period. For a home pregnancy test to give you a positive result, your body has to be making a detectable level of the hormone human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). However, not all pregnancy tests can detect the same amount of hCG; a sensitive test is one which turns positive even if a low amount of the hormone is present. The more sensitive a pregnancy test is, the earlier it will show a positive result.
If the test you're using is only faintly positive, it may not be very sensitive. If you still have the box, it should say somewhere what the test's sensitivity is - the lower the number, the better the test. For example, a test with a sensitivity of 20 IU/L (milliInternational Units per Litre) will tell if you're pregnant sooner than a test with a sensitivity of 50 IU/L. Read the side of the box to see what it says.
Many women get a faintly positive result if they're not as far along as they expected. If this turns out to be the case for you, taking another test in two or three days should give you more exact results. Most home urine tests should be positive by the time your period is due if your body is making the normal amount of hCG.
Pregnancies with complications also produce hCG but in lesser amounts, so that could be causing the faint line. And if your test is faintly positive and then a few days later turns completely negative, you may have had a very early miscarriage. Experts estimate that about 20 to 30 per cent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, so unfortunately this is very common. It is only since pregnancy tests became so sensitive that people have realised how often early miscarriages can happen. In the past, these very early losses might not even have been noticed, and the woman would never have known she had been pregnant.
2007-01-15 15:41:44 · answer #2 · answered by criley27 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is very likely. Go to the doctor and get a blood test. If it has a second line then you should start taking prenatals. If it is very light it just means your hcg levels are low because you are not very far along. Congrats are most likely in order. The only way a false positive could occur is if you wait more than 5-10 minutes to read the result this can cause an evaporation line. However if you read it right away and there was a line and didn't wait longer than is recommended you are most likely pregnant.
2007-01-15 16:13:21 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is what happened to me with my fourth baby and Yes, I was pregnant. Found out I was only about 4 weeks along when I took the test. The line was faint, but it was there! Make an appointment with your doc. They can do a blood test that will give you a definite positive or negative on the subject. Sounds to me like you are though!
2007-01-15 15:39:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Congrats.. Sounds like your pregnant. Mine did the same thing so I took 5 more and they all had a line. Very faint but there.. A line is a line and I am now 6 weeks along. Best of luck, take care of yourself.
2007-01-15 15:41:51 · answer #5 · answered by bababoey24 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it really sounds like your pregnant all the signs are there. Leave it a few more days and take another, some people only ever get a very faint line when its positive.
I got a glaring big line when i was pregnant and still took three tests as i just couldn't belive it!
2007-01-15 15:47:54 · answer #6 · answered by cynical kitten 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you should take another one in a couple of days. Go first thing in the morning and check that is when the hormone is the most there. As time goes by it will get stronger than diminish. Congrats even if its too early to tell.
2007-01-15 15:39:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I say you are pregnant. That happened to me too. It was so faint that I just took it as negative. But I'm now 7 weeks pregnant.
Good luck
2007-01-15 16:09:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like it.I had the same thing happen when I found out I was preg. with my first daughter. My hubby and I had tried for 3.5yrs. to conciceve, so I thought I was just wishing too hard. But I said no there are 2 lines. I have to preg. took two more. And both came out pos.. Went to my ob the following day and he confirmed, I was in the "family" way.
2007-01-15 15:43:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I took 3 first response w/ very faint almost invisable lines and what do ya know...am now 14weeks!
2007-01-15 16:15:42 · answer #10 · answered by Kate B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋