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Not sure where to post.... the other thread told me to post here. Help would be wonderful though! :)
I wanted to start off by saying, hello and thank you for the help! 
Edit:: We are going Monday or Tuesday to have a blood test taken. The mixed results from the urine tests are not reassuring. We want to be 100% sure and a blood test seems to be the most accurate way of telling. I will update next week, thank you for your help and comments/message! You are all amazing!
My son is almost 10 months old. I haven't had a period since November 2011. I have been breastfeeding and supplementing formula (I can't seem to produce enough for him to purely breastfeed), so I still haven't gotten my period.
A week ago, I noticed I had very light spotting. It seemed like a few drops of blood only. The same thing happened when I was pregnant with my son, my doctor said it was implantation last time. I'm not sure if that is what it is now as well.
I took a few pregnancy tests this week, 6 days after the bleeding, and 3 have come up with faint pregnancy lines and the the other 4 have come up with just the control line. They are extremely faint, but there is something there. I should mention I'm not using store bought pregnancy tests, I am using the hcg pregnancy test strips, nothing fancy.
I'm not sure when I should be testing or if I should just get a blood test taken to be sure. I have PCOS and with my son I didn't show a positive test for a few weeks after the implantation.
I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong section 
I tried Googling the answer, but everything kept coming up with 'last missed period' and my last period was November 2011, so I can't really go by that. Plus, I got pregnant the first time AFTER my missed period date. My periods have always been irregular, so I'm not shocked.
TTC thread told me to come over here and possibly first trimester, so I'm posting here. Thank you for your help
Thanks again for the help!
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Re: Not sure where to post.... the other thread told me to post here. Help would be wonderful though! :)
PCOS only interferes in the sense that my hormone levels are naturally low and my testosterone levels are extremely high. So, there's a chance it could not pick up the HCG.
The strips I bought said they were sensitive (as in early detection). I had planned on waiting 10 days but I'm too nervous/excited. I've been taking a test every day since Tuesday (twice a day on the positive ones). Thankfully I found testing strips sold in bulk for cheap on Amazon. I took digital with my first pregnancy and a positive result didn't how until almost 3 weeks after my missed period, which is why I'm always wary of the digital tests.
I had implantation bleeding with my son, which is the only reason I assumed it could be that last week.
Since I haven't had a period since November 2011, I'm just not sure when I would even ovulate.
I understand the reasoning for the digital. If It's positive then I know for sure, whilst if it is negative, then there is still a chance.
Yes, i read the 'freakin' direction on my tests kit. Multiple times. I work in the medical field as well (unfortunately not the L&D or gynecology department), I do U/A's often.
There is the control line which will let me know if the test worked or not and then below the control line will be the test line. The line will either be there or not. If the line is there, then it's considered positive and if it isn't then negative. Lines were faint, but there.
I've just read a lot about false positives with strips and digital tests and seeing as I took multiple digital tests while I was pregnant the first time and they didn't show a positive until much later than normal, I thought HCG strips would be a better way to go.
I haven't had a period since 2011, I wasn't sure when or if I even ovulated.
That is not exactly true. You could have an evaporation line which would implicate a positive but it is not. They are notorious with blue line test and I had fell victim to it when I was TTC.