False Negatives Though Pregnant?

I would go to your OB for an HCG test. Good luck!!

K. - SAHM of 2 boys, 5 and 2

I experienced two false negatives with my first two children. I too was VERY regular but my blood tests were positive when I was a week late. With my third pregnancy, I went for a blood test a week after I was late. It was inconclusive. I went back the next week, it was positive, and the third week, I had a miscarriage.

Hello K.!!

With my 5th Pregnancy....We had some fun .....then the next day I ovulated...Then 9 months later our Beautiful little girl came along. I can not rem.. About the false Neg...But I suggest...to go get some blood work done!!! : O ) Good luck..I will say...4 isn't that bad...I have 5!!; o)

L.. B.

K.,
I felt as if I knew the minute I was pregnant w/ my first son. I was having strange pains and all the symptoms...went to the doc for the blood test....had one negative, one inconclusive before the postive result finally came. I found for me, I couldn't turn a test until the 5th week, and if a urine test..it had to be first morning urine(not any random time)
A second time this happend, though, I found out I actually had an ovarian cyst. The cyst 'tricked' my body and I started having all of the symptoms of pregnancy. I really thought it was a sure thing...but finally went for a doc visit, had the ultrasound and they found the cyst.
I do remember w/ my son, though, I could have had 100 negative tests and docs telling me I wasn't pregnant...I wouldn't have believed it...my body/ mind was already convinced...that feeling was not as strong w/ the cyst experience and I was nervous and stressed(the first time, I was confident that I knew)
Listen to your body, though, if you are convinced, no reason to take chances like taking meds., skipping vitamins. Go back to the doc for another serum...if it comes back negative, tell the doc you want an ultrasound to check for problems. That's the sure fire way to either see a baby...or not:)
Good luck,
L.

Hi K.

I went through the kind of same thing you did. I had very light spotting (instead of my usual flow) so I figured maybe I was, plus I had all the signs I did with my two previous pregnancies. You just know your own body and I knew I was pregnant. I took a home test and it came back with a very very faint second pink line, so that was no help. I took a digital home test and that came up positive, so we went to the doctor and the blood test came up negative. The doc said the digital tests are very sensitive and if you do not look at it right at the two minute mark, it can read a false positive b/c as your urine sits in it long enough, the HCG sinks in deeper and yada yada...I did not believe them, in my mind I knew I was pregnant! So I waited another week and took another home test, came back positive but again a very faint line, but again the doc said no...Finally after 3 weeks of this, the doctors test finally came back positive. Now my son will be 1 year on June 22nd. The funny thing was that the doc told me my due date based on when there test turned positive..so they say he was 3 weeks early...in my mind I know he was right on time based on when my body told me I was pregnant.

Hope this helps, I know it can be frustrating not knowing.

Hi K.,

Do you want to be pregnant?

Yes, there are false negatives. One thing for sure, if you are pregnant, you will know by the end of 9 months.

Don't worry, everything is a learning experience in life.

Good luck. D.

Hi K.,
Unfortunately I've been through that. With my first son, my cycle was 12 days late, I thought I was pregnant, but all tests came back negative. I did get my cycle that month, so I assumed that was not pregnant. I had regular cycles from that point on for a couple months, then what do you know, I woke up sick one morning, and had to be taken to the hospital, come to find out, I was already 18 weeks 4 days pregnant, and still had a false pregnancy test =) They found my son only because they did an ultrasound to find out what could have caused so much pain. Funny how things work =) But, good luck to you and I hope that it all works out for you.

This probably won't be your case, but just so you know it happened before, my mother had 4 pregnancy, with 3 live births. For me, she never once had a positive pregnancy test, not even the month before she delivered (they tried again just for kicks). She had positive test normally with the other 3 pregnancies, no idea why. One thing about the pregnancy with me, which I don't think is normal to this, I was a twin for about 8 wks. They heard a heart beat at a follow-up appt because she knew she had to be pregnant, that's when she found out. Good luck!!

Hi K.! You sound like me when I was pregnant with my son! I went through pretty much the same thing you are going through. I couldn't get a positive test when I was pregnant with my son until I was around 6 weeks pregnant. Make sure you are doing the home tests first thing in the morning, this may help if you're barely pregnant. Good luck!!