Notice I am not asking for myself.....So no congrats here....
My Best Friend however called me just delighted this afternoon.
She had taken two tests that both came up positive......She decided to go to the Lab and make sure she was right with this....
She just called me from the Lab saying that the test they took(urine test if that matters)came back negative.
I was under the impression false positives seldom happened on Pregnancy tests......I thought it was more often you would get a false negative before you would ever get a false positive.....
So in trying to help through what to do next.......I feel like maybe I am misguided.....
I told her she should stop by the store and pick a two more tests....One to take tonight again before she goes to bed(Peace of mind more or less)....and one to take first thing in the morning.....Then no matter what the tests end up saying again she needs to make a doctors appt with her doctor.........And they will know what to do from there.......
I never had one come up false positive....Or negative...I passed those tests with flying colors on the first try and on......
Help me help her until she gets into her doctor's office.....:) Thank You.........:) So excited to be an Auntie again(hopefully)!!!
I also had a false positive, at the doctor's office. Sometimes you can have a one time spike in the hcg that is read and it makes a positive result. I have a friend that totally swears the only way to have a false positive is to do it wrong. I would tell her to wait a day actually and then do another test to see.
I am the other freak who's had a false positive. I never had heard of it happening, either. Mine was even on a digital pregnancy test, too, so I had the word Pregnant. It's not like I misread a line.
I went to the ER thinking I was having a miscarriage and it was my period. Talk about embarrassing! When I said, "I didn't think you could get a false positive," they said, "Well, someone has to be the 1% in the 99% accuracy rate."
It happens.
Early on in the pregnancy, it's better to use first morning's urine for the testing.
Next week, maybe she could go in for a blood test.
Good luck to her and her Auntie!! :)
Dawn
What happens, isn't a 'false' positive (unless she's on fertility drugs, or has certain kinds of cancer (that's where one WILL get false positives)....
... What happens is a 'chemical pregnancy'. Women having unprotected sex, on average, are 'pregnant' 4-6 times a year. What happens? The ovum AND the uterus (and every other organ), CONSTANTLY check for screwed up DNA. When eggs fertilize, MOST of the time, the DNA dosen't zipper correctly. These wouldn't be 'birth defects', but instead are fatal zippers that code for 'no bones' or 'acid for blood' or 50 arms and nothing else, or, or, or, or.
But the body constantly self monitors. No matter what, a fertilized ovum starts the chemical process for pregnancy. BUT if the ovum notices bad zippering, it self destructs (so does every other cell in our body, when the DON'T AND the backup fails... Neighbor cells also check adjacent cells... When the self check AND the backup fails? That's known as cancer. And the cancerous cells keep replicating, and replicating the bad DNA.). If it DOESN'T self destruct, then when it implants, the uterus does the normal 'backup check' on neighboring cells, and calls a destruct sequence on both the fertilized egg, and itself (the lining).
The body is VERY good at these checks and backup checks (we typically have dozens of cancerous cells in any given minute, but either the cells self destruct, or when the bad coding disables the check the neighboring cells catch it, phone for help, and then several hindered neighboring cells all self destruct.
SO.... In the first 2-4 weeks MOST 'pregnancies' self correct. But the chemical process is already started, so even though there is no more embryo, a woman's blood and urine dtill register as 'pregnant' because the chemicals we test for are still there.
Hence: Chemical Pregnancy.
No embryo, period on time or a week or two late, and ready to try again the following month (unlike miscarriage, which has weeks of bleeding and up to several months of wacky hormones, and is a HUGE stress on the body... Chemical pregnancies are super common and don't even blip our fertility cycle).
We have the tech to test for pregnancy super early, but that will never make the market. There's not only nothing to be done, not only do we not want to do anything -no live baby possible-, but even though they don't mess with our bodies like miscarriage does, they'd be devastating to most peoples minds and hearts each and every single time fertilization results in bad zippering of the DNA. As it is it's usually only those TTC and testing early and often end up with a positive one day and negative (or period) the next.
No such thing as a false positive unless you have some cancers or are on fertility meds. You're either pregnant or not (if you're not, there's no HCG in your system to register). Here's the kicker with the OB office - the drug store tests are actually more sensitive, so they will inform you that you are pregnant before an OB urine test will. OB should have done a blood test.
That being said - a lot of people think they had a false positive when they get their period. What really happens is that they have a very early miscarriage, also known as a chemical pregnancy.
I had the same thing happen at home positives then a disappointing negative at the hospital. Turns out I was pregnant just not as far along as I should have been going off my cycle. So when I took the hospital test I didn't have enough of the hormones to get a positive, for I didn't use the first urine of the day, it was in the middle of the day. At my first ob appointment they did a dating ultrasound, for I was measuring smaller, turns out my due date was two weeks later then going off my cycle.
If she decides to continue testing The Dollar Store's tests are just $1 and are as accurate as the more expensive ones.
Maybe she used a more sensitive test than the lab......I'd say keep testing!!
Huh..
...disappointing. I'd take more tests too.
I wish I had advice to help you support your friend. : (
I have had TWO false positives at different times. Both urine and one was even at a lab. So, yes it can happen. However after reading Riley's post, I know nothing about chemical pregnancy so may be that is what is was?? Please let us know what happens
I read something last week that said that it's possible for certain beverages to give you a false positive...like apple juice. (The woman tested it by having her husband drink a ton of apple juice, and then taking a pregnancy test the next morning. He tested positive! haha)
Definitely tell her to do it first thing in the morning, and avoid apple juice. ;-)
Sounds like she is pregnant! She should just get a blood test to be sure.
