Thread: getting nervous

Actually, your tests look very similar to mine. I didn't take tests on 17-18dpo but today's (19 dpo) was darker than control but weren't up until then. I hope that yours gets darker to give you some reassurance. Fingers crossed for you!!!

yesterday afternoon I was really crampy and completely gave up.
I'm out of HPTs, but took one of my two remaining OPKs today and it was blazing. I mean really dark. The test line was almost black. Up through yesterday I had only gotten almost/barely positive OPKs. This is weird. I think I might pick up some more FRER and test tomorrow. DH and I plan to wait until I'm 6 weeks and if I don't have my usual raging m/s by then I'll try to get an u/s.

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Just wanted to say that I am in the process of waiting for my levels to drop down to 0 after a miscarriage and I had some dollar store tests (which are like the ICs) and my test when my levels were just under 10,000 and my test when they were around 600 looked identical, and still had very dark control lines - I was hoping that like FRER, that the control line would be lighter when the test line was darker (and in my case vice versa) but that is not the case!

Just letting you know to hopefully ease your mind about your beautiful looking tests!!

(and for the poas- aholics - my dollar store tests are supposed to be able to pick up levels as low as 25, and my test when it was about 80, showed a faint line, not a squinter, definately seeable, but quite light, I thought it would be darker once it was that much higher then the sensitivity of the test)

That FRER looks awesome! I think you are perfectly fine. My MW doesn't do betas either The whole office is very hands off they just in the past year started doing routine u/s at every first appt. I know how hard it is not to worry just try to kkeep busy. And it's super normal for symptoms to come and go they say that happens when hcg plateaus for a little while then it will jjump up and you'll feel sick again.

I got a darker FRER today, so that's good. This whole things has been weird. With all my others, my tests started off really light and got progressively darker. This time my tests started out darker than I'd expect, plateaued, and are now getting darker again. I kind of wonder if it started as a twin pregnancy or something. I'll probably never know. I'm not sure my mw does an u/s at the first appointment. I hope so. I've always had one before 8 weeks in the past because my m/s seems to make doctors nervous about multiples.

Audrey - thanks so much. It really does help to know that. I'm sorry about your loss.