"The Hook Effect"

[jlh213]

Has anyone heard of this!? I just came across it on a webpage, and thought it was interesting!

Apparantley, you can have so MUCH hcG in your urine, as in a twin pregnancy, that it doesn't show up on tests! Theres something that binds to the hcG to make it unreadable in tests.

https://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijgo/vol6n2/test.xml

 

[Pinkee]

That's pretty fascinating.

 

[TTCbaby2011]

Thanks for the info.!

 

[Kalysia]

That is very interesting! It could explain why a good friend of mine never was able to get a BFP in her early pregnancy with twin boys! Thank you, very much, for sharing that! ~~!

 

[jenlouise]

ive heard about it but its suppose to be very rare??

 

[quail]

when i did a test at about 6-8 weeks in my last pregnancy it was soooo light i panicked then i heard about this and did another test diluiting it with water and i got a strong positive again.xxx