Fake faint line madness?!!

[happycupcake]

It's good you seem to have pinpointed a pattern with darker OPKs. I don't know how reliable they are an indicator of pregnancy though, it seems to vary between people and most don't think to use an OPK as well

 

[josephine3]

Do u remember me saying i only had the one surge this cycle instead of 2? Maybe thats why. Something is happening here im sure of it! Something is very off with my body.

 

[josephine3]

I kno this is gross but i saved my sample from this morning cos it was so so dark. Do u think it would be ok to use a better test on it later? Or should i use the fresh even tho that will def be more diluted? It will be approx 10 hrs old. Gross i kno.

 

[happycupcake]

I have done this before, it's fine but any hCG in there can diminish over time the longer it's left, but within a day is fine so I have read

 

[josephine3]

Got to sit thru dinner at my moms now tho im desperate to get home and test! Picked up a couple of 'acutest early sign' tho i think they are a 25, some green dipsticks and an answer brand (doesnt state sensitivity, looks like an frer but isnt).

 

[robo123]

Answer are 25mui I think hun x

 

[josephine3]

Yeah i thought they probly were. I might get frer or cb tomorro. As soon as i got in i dipped 2 of the green dipsticks in the old saved urine. Annoyingly one looks pos, one neg!! Heres the one that looks pos irl

 

[josephine3]

I also dipped the one accunews but it all went wrong. Dont think i dipped it in far enuf. So nothing happened. I re-dipped right down and the mix finally started to travel down the strip. When i went back to it i picked it up and tilted it to get a better look (the case casts terrible shadows) all the extra pee ran down flooding the entire strip again. So im discarding that one as a dud test. Its annoying too that wednesday is a busy day for me and its thrown off my test-hold-pee schedule lol so wheras usually id have a good dark pee now its too dilute. I cant see me getting much from it tonight.

 

[happycupcake]

What I'm seeing looks too thin? I know sometimes they do look darker to the left for some reason, but I can't see the width of the line extending to the right? It's difficult to judge

 

[margeandmom]

Still not seeing much sorry. Just a suggestion, but please don't use old pee samples for accurate results. Fresh is always better. I had a bad experience where I got a BFP with a fresh sample, and ran out to get digital tests. A lot of stores didn't have them. So two hours later, when I returned, I retested with an old sample and it was BFN. I called FRER, and they said the levels of HCG can drop quickly (in early pregnancy) when left out. They said that two hours was probably just enough time for the HCG to dilute. Sure enough, when I tested later with a fresh sample, I got BFP with digitals.

 

[josephine3]

Its so hard to photograph! My bfps always stay darker to the left even when they get dark.

 

[robo123]

I would expect to see better progression on the green ones by now if it was anything. Have u done any blue handled today? X
I had a pretty decent line on the answer at 9dpo

 

[josephine3]

I think i posted the one step from this morning im all out of plain blue. Just used a fresh sample was quite dilute as expected. The answer i could see the antibody strip before dipping . I also dipped a one step in it looks the same as earlier (only one of them left now) heres the answer and the accunews from earlier that was spoiled somewhat. Both wet in timeframe

 

[josephine3]

I kno what u mean about the green progression but i only got a squinter bfp at 11dpo on them with dd. Im only max 11dpo today. Also iv been testing like every 5 minutes lol so it would be hard to see x

 

[laila 44]

But what is it that you are seeing exactly Josephine? I'm not even catching a smidge of an indent line on these tests at all IRL what do you see?

 

[josephine3]

Couple of dry pics

 

[josephine3]

I see a shimmery maybe grey very faint line when wet and a slightly pinker faint line when dry ( on the cheap dipsticks). Not sure on the better tests. The accunews on my screen i can see a silvery line. Maybe you and i just have totally different screens?!! Im on my phone

 

[happycupcake]

I can see what looks to me like an indent line, a fine white line. If you think you are 11dpo and have few tests left perhaps wait until Friday and then if you are pregnant this should be plenty of time for any hCG to double.

Also the green has the finest line there but in my experience these don't mean anything. Positives are, from every test I have seen so far, thick lines rather than skinny lines. I have had plenty of these thin lines and some which are the right width but are shadowy and grey and they haven't been positive. Cheapie tests, I have found, readily display this kind of line which is incredibly annoying because it can get your hopes up, but I don't think these are positives. I'm sorry, I know that isn't what you want to hear. I do think though that if you honestly are seeing something which you can't photograph, wait it out until Friday and test then because if you are pregnant, it will show up much more obviously by then

 

[Becca_89]

Something is catching my eye on the answer test, can see it when dry on the green too.

 

[josephine3]

Im going to mark some tests for u laila i think
See the dried green one above? On my screen on here i see a thin faint pink line. Before the upload killed the photo i could see the other half of it on my screen too.