It's only really worth investing in a higher price point test if you want to know roughly how far along you are straight away, but your GP will verify this for you anyway.
Question: Pregnancy tests work by measuring your levels of hCC, or human chorionic conatrophin, in full. Got you - close but not quite. Pregnancy tests work by measuring levels of hCG - that's human chorionic gonadotrophin , not conatrophin as we put it higher in the article.
Question: It's recommended you take a test when for the clearest possible result? Of course, you could totally take a test at midnight and still get a correct answer, but if you can stand to wait, you'll want to use your test at the beginning of the day for the clearest possible result. There's a reason the packet recommends you take the test during a morning wee. They can happen if you're on certain kinds of medication, such as tranquillisers, anti-convulsants or fertility drugs. In many instances, a false negative test means you've had a 'chemical pregnancy', where the sperm technically did fertilise the egg, but the pregnancy sadly did not continue.
However, if you know about it and you're freaking out, you should know that a chemical pregnancy does not impact your fertility or ability to carry a baby to term in any way, and just because you've had one, it doesn't mean you're more likely to have another. Question: The NHS recommends taking a test from which day of your missed period?
It's not just the time of day that has an impact on your pregnancy test result - the time of the month that you take your test can also affect what shows up on that panel. A negative test result, whilst usually accurate, can also sneakily pop up when you've taken a test too early for the levels of hGC to show, but you do still have a baby growing inside of you.
The NHS recommends taking a test from the first day of your missed period, or if your cycle is irregular, at least 21 days after the last time you had unprotected sex, so if your symptoms continue and the test says no on your first try, it's worthing waiting a few days and trying again. Not by magic, of course. There is a researched and exact science behind it all. But, to break it down, when you think you might be pregnant, you want to know when to take a pregnancy test, and how to use it.
If the pregnancy test finds the presence of hCG in your urine, you are likely pregnant, and if the test does not detect hCG, then you are likely not pregnant. To take a home pregnancy test, you must get your urine on the absorbent tip of the test stick. This is typically done one of two ways: by placing the tip of the test into your urine stream for five seconds while you urinate, or by peeing into a cup and dipping the tip of the test device into the collected urine for five seconds.
Still, most tests have a conclusive result, whether or not it is accurate; there are both false positives and false negatives, too. With blood pregnancy testing, sometimes a test does read as specifically inconclusive, instead of positive or negative, and this usually means that some levels of human chorionic gonadotropin hCG were detected, but not enough to confirm pregnancy or too high to register as a negative result.
There are numerous things that may be responsible for an inconclusive pregnancy test including the timing of the test, use of fertility medications, or a brief chemical pregnancy. An inconclusive pregnancy test from a home kit indicates retesting with another test, preferably of a different brand. Alternately, saturating a test with urine sometimes causes test malfunction. Resist the temptation. HCG or Human chorionic gonadotropin is a hormone produced by cells that are surrounding a growing embryo, which eventually forms the placenta after implantation.
The elevated presence of hCG is used to signal pregnancy. However, hCG takes time to build up in the body. So, even if implantation of an embryo occurred on a Monday, if you take a pregnancy test on Wednesday, it may still give a negative result.
If you think you might be pregnant and already missed your period, wait 3 days and take another test. If there is hCG in your body, indicating a pregnancy, it will build up in your urine overnight and peak in the morning. Using a pregnancy test first thing in the morning will help you get an accurate result. Most tests instruct you to hold the test under your urine stream, but this is messy and risks error, like not getting enough urine on the test strip.
This method also increases the likelihood of the test falling into the toilet by accident. Instead, collect your urine in a small, plastic cup and immerse the test strip in the urine for the amount of time indicated in the instructions. There is a time limit involved in reading an at-home pregnancy test—if you read the test outside the window of time outlined in the instructions, you could end up with inaccurate results.
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