Does pregnancy always show up on OV tests?

[peekaboo]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question or not. I'm a LTTCer (since April 08) and never had a .

My is always very regular, and was due on Friday, so am now two days late. I have never been a tester, as personally I always felt I would just 'know' - mostly due to being late, and I imagined I would have symptoms too.

Yesterday morning I peed on an OV test (that was the only type of test I had, due to trying them once - and I've heard that they show up pregnancy as well as ovulation) and there was only a very very faint line, which I understand OV tests always have, due to us always having a very small amount of LH in our systems, so I took that as a negative.

If I was pregnant would it have definitely shown up on the OV test, or is there a chance that it wouldn't have picked it up?

I don't particularly 'feel' pregnant which is why I haven't been out and bought a HPT test - I just keep thinking is going to arrive any minute, because I don't feel any different to usual - no sore boobs, no sore nipples, nothing else at all really.

I took EPO for the first half of my cycle this month and also took prenatal vitamins and am wondering if that's why is late - another reason I'm not getting my hopes up.

Can anyone help?

 

[peekaboo]

Not sure why the cool face appeared after April in my first post. It was supposed to say 2008.

 

[Rumpskin]

Not sure sweety. A good website to check out is pee on a stick.

I know they have info on using OPK as HPT.

Good luck xxxx

 

[Redfraggle]

Some people don't get any symptoms!! Think you are just going to have to go for it and buy a HPT. Very best of luck with it.

 

[peekaboo]

Thanks ladies. I'm going to wait until tomorrow morning and if no witch by then, I'll go get a HPT. The latest she's ever been for me is two days, so might start to get my hopes up if I make it to three! x

 

[peekaboo]

Have just looked at that pee on a stick site, and it's great - thanks very much! It showed a cycle in which a woman was pregnant and even at 11dpo the line on her OPK was really faint. Gives me hope - thanks!!

Good luck to all. xx

 

[Redfraggle]

Good luck tomorrow. Hope the evil stays away and you get your

 

[CurlySue]

Not sure. As a nervous 'newbie' I decided to do an experiment today with OPKs. I got positives on HPT on Thursday so I thought I'd have a go with OPKs today. It was positive at 13dpo, not sure if it had been positive before.

Depends on the OPK though. Some people never get positives on OPK when pregnant. Some people do.