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I am 4 days late on my period so i took a pregnancy test and it was positive , but the line was a little faint , but not by much . that same day i went to the doctor and they did a urine test and the test had a very faint positive line , so they did a blood test to make sure . my question is , am i pregnant , the home one was normal but the doctor one was faint . im worried and confused .
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Jessica - posted on 07/17/2010
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Try the pregnancy tests where they say "pregnant' or "not pregnant" those are much easier to read and leave no confusion on the results
Nikki - posted on 07/15/2010
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my doctor told me the reason the line is faint is because the HCG levels are low meaning you are not that far along, when I took another test a week later the line was much darker
JoAnna - posted on 07/24/2010
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In my experience you are pregnant. I took a pregnancy test before I was even late it had a faint positive. Then, a few days later took another one. Same thing. The doctor took a urine test and it was negative, but the blood test showed I was pregnant. I was just very early in my pregnancy, two weeks actually. Now, I have a beautiful little boy! I was told by several doctors that it is very rare to come up with a false positive.
Gina - posted on 07/21/2010
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everyone keeps saying that you can't get a false positive but I had both false negatives and false positives. with my first 2 kids my test said that I wasn't pregnant but about 2 years after my 2nd kid I wasn't feeling to good so I took a test because I was not regular so missing periods meant nothing to me. that test came back positive. so I went to the dr a few days later and it turns out that I wasn't at all. no misscarraige either.
Jennifer - posted on 07/15/2010
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false positives are very rare. any positive, whether it is faint or not means that the test is picking up hCG which is the pregnancy hormone.
congrats!!!