Hook effect

[Ladylinks]

Hey ladies. This morning I thought I'd take a test even though I'm 8 weeks just felt my symptoms had disappeared. To my dismay my test line came up way lighter than the control line. So of course I googled '8 weeks lighter test' and came up with the hook effect. Basically hcg concentration is so high it confuses the test. So I diluted my pee (1:1) and my lovely dark line came back.

Just thought I'd share just incase anyone else was experiencing the same thing.

Top test taken without diluting.

 

[dan-o]

Ooh that's a lovely clear example of it! Thanks for posting!

 

[popchick75]

People talk about that a lot, but I've never seen a real example of it before. That's actually really cool