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PSA: Pay attention when they say not to look at HPTs after more than 10 mins...

schmoodleschmoodle member
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ETA: I'm NOT pregnant...

BUT...Because I don't get a period ever, I test every month or two just so I don't end up on "I didn't know I was pregnant" or whatever that show is called...always with the 100% certainty that there's no way it will be +.

Well, last night using a Walgreens brand early result it looked like there may have been a line, but it wasn't really blue (like the dye) and was likely an imperfection in the test.

Fast forward to 6 am when I got up to pee again and the second line [ETA: on the test from last night] was clearly there (albeit faint) and blue. Color me WTF?! Googled and learned that with blue dye tests evap lines are more common and a bunch of stuff came up about not looking after more than 10 minutes becaues false positives are common that way. Just to be sure, got a FRER today and definitively negative.

As DH said, 90% relieved, 10% sad (we are not good candidates for 2 under 2 and would prefer not to have a second until Toodle is at least 3, although we would still be happy to not have to go through IVF again).

*** It's funny because I'm fat ***
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Re: PSA: Pay attention when they say not to look at HPTs after more than 10 mins...

  • madhatter2003madhatter2003

    hmmm was the 2nd test line there within the 10 minutes or after though?

     

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    Before the ten minutes = not a line, more a "if I turn it this way and that I think I can see where there would be a line if it were positive" kinda thing. Not blue, not really a line. Only a real line after sitting overnight.
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  • beebe929beebe929 member

    So are you going to pee on a NON-blue dye test, just to be sure???

    Blue dye (and walgreen's tests) are crap!!

    I think you need to POAnotherS!!!

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  • madhatter2003madhatter2003

    imageschmoodle:
    Before the ten minutes = not a line, more a "if I turn it this way and that I think I can see where there would be a line if it were positive" kinda thing. Not blue, not really a line. Only a real line after sitting overnight.

    Gotcha. I thought you meant you woke up at 6 am AND POAS, not that it was the same stick from the night before.

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  • schmoodleschmoodle member
    imagebeebe929:

    So are you going to pee on a NON-blue dye test, just to be sure???

    Blue dye (and walgreen's tests) are crap!!

    I think you need to POAnotherS!!!

    I did - pink dye FRER and it is clearly NEGATIVE...really, I promise. hehe.

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    imageschmoodle:
    imagebeebe929:

    So are you going to pee on a NON-blue dye test, just to be sure???

    Blue dye (and walgreen's tests) are crap!!

    I think you need to POAnotherS!!!

    I did - pink dye FRER and it is clearly NEGATIVE...really, I promise. hehe.

    oh okay.. sorry BFNs suck!!!

     

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