Five Home Tests Showed Positive
QUESTION
Dear Midwife,
On Friday I bought an hpt. I took it (1:30pm) and it came back positive with a very dark line. Then I waited some hours later (8pm) and took another one but this time the line was very light and around (9:35pm) I took another one -- the same thing. I waited until the next morning and took 2 more and those lines where very light as well. I went to the hospital and took one on Monday and their test came back negative.
Can you please tell me what's wrong. I have been trying for 8 years now. I been having the symptoms left and right.
Could I possibly be pregnant? Do I need to take a pregnancy blood test?
ANSWER
My experience is that if a woman takes a good urine blood test and then has her blood drawn right after that, the results come out the same, either both positive or both negative.
If you have been trying for 8 years, than you are about 7 years overdue to find out what the problem is. It is long past time to find out!
-- Cynthia, CNM. PhD.
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Cynthia Flynn
Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, teaches in the College of Nursing at Seattle University and is President of the American Association of Birth Centers. She also practices midwifery at Valley Medical Center where she cares for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer.
Cynthia hosts a monthly "Ask the midwife" chat as well as answers questions via our expert section.
Listen to Cynthia live on Pregnancy.org Live: Before, During and After.
