Pregnancy test in doctors

LegacyUser

Can anyone tell me how accurate the tests they use in the doctors are. Was there today and there was a faint line in the positive box, faint but there. Have to retest in a few days, but im a little stressed.

Cheers in advance

Cathmandooo

Wondering wrote: »

Can anyone tell me how accurate the tests they use in the doctors are. Was there today and there was a faint line in the positive box, faint but there. Have to retest in a few days, but im a little stressed.

Cheers in advance

Did they not do a blood test? I can understand you being a little stressed but I guess you'll just have to wait the few days and see again. Why not buy a home kit from the chemist and try it yourself?

LB6

Hi wondering,

Im not a dr, but from my own experiences, the line only shows up when the pregnancy hormone is present in the system, faint or not. No hormones, no line. Do suggest, as Cathooo said, that you go get a chemists test and do it first thing in the morning with 1st p, where homones will be stronger.

Wishing you all the best for whatever you want to happen.

Good luck.

bubblebutt

to be honest i think it means you're pregnant, as the person in the above post says the hormone needs to be present for the line to appear faint or otherwise.

contact marie stopes for all your options, keeping the child and your rights as a mother, adoption or abortion, you're not alone!

make sure you have someone close that you can tell how you're feeling

xxx

diamondp

wow same thing happened me 6 weeks ago. once the line shows at all it means the pregnancy hormone is there. Congrats.

Bottle_of_Smoke

diamondp wrote: »

wow same thing happened me 6 weeks ago. once the line shows at all it means the pregnancy hormone is there. Congrats.

Surely if you know that the doctor would? How do you know for sure?

Nevyn

It coud be that the low level of the hormone is due to the embryo just implanting or it could be that it implanted and your body then rejected it.

Giving it another two day you will either have a higher level of the hormone which mean you are indeed pregnant or you body will have passed the embryo and you will no longer test postive for the hormone.

Once you know then you can start planning what you can and are willing to do inlight of the confirmation.

http://www.positiveoptions.ie/index.php

l3LoWnA

My friend went through the same thing (she had a "feeling" she was pregnant even before her period was due and attended GP)

The line showed up very faintly and the doctor delcared it was "weakly" positive and that they couldn't be sure until she left it a few days/week and returned to be retested. I'm sure the pregnancy hormones can be there at the very beginning but many women probably miscarry (if you can call it that - thaedydal explained better) at an extremely early stage so if you're period comes you've no worries

My friend, who I mentioned, is now mammy to a 7 year old. (it turned out positively positive when she went back)

Hope you get the result you want. Would be a bad or a good thing for you if you were preg?

samo

Exactly as above, have a 7 year old daughter on the back of a 'weakly' positive test, doctor said exactly what Thaedyal said that is very possible to get just a faint line during the very very early stages of pregnancy but once their is any trace of HCG (the hormone that indicates pregnancy) - I never checked into the other thing he said which is that the only other way for that hormone to be present was if I was a male with prostate cancer!!

Try not to stress yourself too much but do hope you get confirmation of the result and all works out well for you.

Jeapy

The doctor should have taken a blood sample for hCG followed by a second when you go back in a few days. hCG rises very dramatically as pregnancy progresses and the development of the embryo can be monitored by this hormone up til about 12 weeks. After this time, it gradually decreases naturally.
The faint line is due to a small concentration of hCG in the urine. When the doctor tests again in a few days, he/she will expect the line to be much stronger, showing the level is rising.

Edit...good luck!

Oryx

Ive never heard of a doctor taking blood to do a pregnancy test. As its a condition thats either there or its not, I think its fair enough to be told to wait a few days and retest if your positive was only faint. I know your head may be wrecked but from the doctors pov its the right thing to do.

Any time Ive been to the doc to confirm a pregnancy, they didnt even do a test, just took my word for it that the one Id already used from the chemist was accurate. I was told their test has the same accuracy as the over the counter ones.

Jeapy

KtK wrote: »

Ive never heard of a doctor taking blood to do a pregnancy test. As its a condition thats either there or its not, I think its fair enough to be told to wait a few days and retest if your positive was only faint. I know your head may be wrecked but from the doctors pov its the right thing to do.

Any time Ive been to the doc to confirm a pregnancy, they didnt even do a test, just took my word for it that the one Id already used from the chemist was accurate. I was told their test has the same accuracy as the over the counter ones.

They do sometimes depending on the situation and patient history. Im not sure what the OPs feelings are about being pregnant or not, so I dont want to get into the circumstances of that. The chemist ones should be just as effective alright. If it would put your mind at ease, OP, you should use one.

lizzyvera

KtK wrote: »

Ive never heard of a doctor taking blood to do a pregnancy test. As its a condition thats either there or its not, I think its fair enough to be told to wait a few days and retest if your positive was only faint. I know your head may be wrecked but from the doctors pov its the right thing to do.

Any time Ive been to the doc to confirm a pregnancy, they didnt even do a test, just took my word for it that the one Id already used from the chemist was accurate. I was told their test has the same accuracy as the over the counter ones.

Blood ones are more accurate and show up sooner. If you're being precribed a medicine that can harm a foetus they always do them. I'm surprised the dr didn't but I don't know if they need special equipment or anything, maybe it needs to be sent to a lab in which case you may as well wait.

Hope it all works out for you.