Pregnancy Test Questions?
Monday June 15, 2009
Taking a pregnancy test isn't supposed to be hard. But when you're taking about something this important, you want to get it right. What does that mean about medications you take? What about reading the results? Heck, we all read more into every test we take, in fact, in an interview Trista Sutter said it took 99 pregnancy tests with her first pregnancy before she believed it. (I've been known to hold my tests up against a white wall to see if a line popped up.) Anyway, I've tried to answer some of the most common questions about pregnancy tests. If you have more, let me know!
Some questions:
- What if the positive comes up after the time limit?
- What is a false positive?
- Do I need to use first morning urine?
- Can medicine effect the test results?
- If I take a test too early can it be wrong?
Related:
Is a cheap, dollar-store test less accurate than a twenty dollar pharmacy brand test?
It’s more a question of sensitivity than anything. They work the same way, so which detects more hCG? You’d have to compare specific brands, though many times they are very similar tests, and in some cases the $1 brands actually detect lower levels of hCG (meaning they are more sensitive).
I agree that cheap tests are just as good as expensive, although i would say that the only difference is that they can be a bit more confusing to read.
anne
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