Evap lines.
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Topic: Evap lines.
Posted By: mum2ollie
Subject: Evap lines.
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 12:46pm
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Hey ladies.
I took an HPT this morning and while waiting for the result window to do it's magic my son had an accident (climbing a bookcase) so I didn't read the result in the required time (5 minutes). When I did finally get to look at it, it was positive. Not a BOLD positive, but not a discoloured or very faint one. (I googled evap lines a bit, images and regular) SO I thought. Blimey. And went to get another test. But this time I got just a regular cheap first response one (the first test was a dif brand quick response that you can test 10 days after Ov.) and it was Neg. So I'm thinking the first was just an evap line?? Should I test again tomorrow with first pee of the day with the same test brand? Has anyone else had evap lines and what did they look like? -------------   
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 12:49pm
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Oh and the test window where the results show up for the first test is covered with plastic not an open one, Don't know if that means squat lol. -------------
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:20pm
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What cycle day are you & are you late?
The best test for early testing is meant to be discovery. I would be inclined to use that if AF is not late or wait till it is & use a cheaper one. Do it first thing so to use FMU. I have never seen an evap line but if your test showed 2 coloured lines even a faint one I would be thinking pg... |
Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:24pm
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lots of people on here have found the first response dip sticks very sensitive (and more sensitive than the discover)... was the first test the first response midstream or a quickstick/card? I have never heard of quick response?? was the first one FMU? ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:30pm
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The first one was second pee of the day ^_^ and was the Quick Response. I got it from the pharmacy. The second test was a First Response (7 dollars from countdown) and was a dip in a cup one. I don't know when AF is due because I m/c first week in August. I know my hormone levels Def. went back to normal.
From what I can tell from good old google Evap lines are commonly a different colour and VERY faint. Faint enough that it BARELY shows up in a photo. my line is pink, and would show up in a photo I think. -------------
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:32pm
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Quick response are notorious for evap lines, I'd be more inclined to go with the first response they don't give evap lines. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:34pm
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Do you have another one to do in the am tomorrow?
Sound like it might be pos 
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:36pm
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I'm going to test in the AM lol.
I think that would be the best way to go. I may even shell out and spend more than 7 dollars on a decent test :o The quick response one cost 18 dollars :| Stupid evap lines. -------------
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Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:39pm
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I have never heard of quick response and can't find it on the net... is it the one with the purple cover over the pee part? I understand they are less suspectible to evaps with the plastic cover... but first response are pretty reliable. How long after the time did you read the first test? ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:40pm
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First response are great tests - you don't need to get one of the more expensive ones!! ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:41pm
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I counted my m/c as my first day of AF even tho it went on a lot long than AF usually did. So if you are UTD you could be a bit early for a dark line, FX
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:44pm
Quick response also do the OPK test pack so I'm sure I have seen them at the chemist. i think so anyway, lol |
freckle wrote:Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:45pm
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The only reason I even knew I had had a m/c was because I tested early and got what I thought was a evap line and went to have bloods done which came back UTD. I miscarried less than a week later which was the day after AF was due. It was no longer than a normal AF.
The quick response has a purple cap on it and the result window has a plastic cover which not all HPTs have. When I was UTD with my son I used a test with a purple cap but it wasn't a quick response. I read the test at about 10 minutes rather than 5 because I was putting plasters on a one year old ^_^ -------------
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:48pm
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If I had any idea on how to show you guys a photo. I would lol. -------------
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:53pm
| I think that is the problem with early testing. But with saying that it does sound like you are late & I would do another test, you could ask your Dr for a follow up blood test. |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:58pm
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 1:59pm
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Crap. I broke the page! -------------
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:02pm
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Hi mum2ollie, First Response tests are usually pretty sensitive. I used one at 10dpo and got a postitive (at 8 o'clock at night!). In saying that I haven't heard of that other brand so not sure which is more sensitive. Look forward to hearing your result tomorrow, hope it is positive!!! ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Oxy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:02pm
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Thats doesn't look like an evap line ------------- http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/250ed1" rel="nofollow">  TTC#1 Jan 2009 |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:03pm
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I just don't know when I would have ov'd. We have had so much BD lately that I just don't know what to think anymore. -------------
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:04pm
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Gosh. I may just go buy out the supermarket test supply and lock myself in the bathroom for the next...month.... Lol.
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:04pm
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Nice pic, is the vertical line in the larger circle window the positive line? Is there meant to be a plus sign or just the one line? If just that one line is the positive one then I can see it really clearly!!!! But if it's a plus sign, I can't see a line going across... ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:08pm
That is a pos pg not an evap line 
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:08pm
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Nope just meant to be the one line.
And dumb me, the test is called QuickStream not quick response. LOL Can test as early as 7 days after conception. The first response one says to test on day of missed AF. -------------
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:09pm
congrats woohoo....now go call your Dr 
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:11pm
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Lol. I think I may wait 5 days. And if no AF. I will test again with a regular test. I don't want to get my hopes up for an evap line :( -------------
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:14pm
| how long are your cycles usually? |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:16pm
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28 days long. Like clockwork. Lol.
I found this in another thread about evap lines where QuickStream tests are mentioned. never heard of quickfind, although I have heard of quickcard, quickstream, and quickstick (all the same company of course) Quickcard and quickstick are rather well known for evaps, but quickstream (the ones you hold in the urine stream while you pee) I have never heard of evaps are on... my understanding is that its because the window is covered, so theres no chance of the evaporation effect... I think I can safely say my mind is in over drive. -------------
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:23pm
| So if you count your days from your m/c you would be well & truly OD for AF. I have to say your test does not look like a evap line & it does say it picks up early +pg. |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:25pm
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I'm just second guessing because I didn't look until after 5 minutes and the second different brand test -ve. -------------
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:28pm
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I can understand why when you had a m/c last month but It does look pos to me. I have a test I did with DS1 who is 9yrs now & the test pos line (1 line not a x) came up before the test completed line & it is a dark today as it was then.
I would book an appt with your Dr 
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:31pm
It looks pretty pos to me too. Which is the frightening part. All I can find on google about evap lines say they look a dif colour and that tests with caps and covers over the result window are the least likely to get evap lines.
 I so want this to be real...-------------
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:33pm
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When did you do the test? Evap lines are just that they will eventually fade a +ve test won't ever fade. Looks like a +ve result to me. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:34pm
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About 10 this morning.
It hasn't faded from what I can tell. -------------
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Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:41pm
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I would say that is defo a BFP! and it didn't show on the First response cos maybe your pee was more diluted as it was later in the day... I'd do another first response in the morning and I'd put money on it having 2 lines on it! ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 2:46pm
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I did the first test at 10 am ish and the second at around lunch time so there was a decent time gap between...
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Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 3:20pm
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they recommend holding for 3-4 hours if ya can... and if you'd eaten or drunk anything it would have diluted ya pee more... ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 3:25pm
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I think I'll test thursday. if I can resist temptation tomorrow... -------------
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Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 3:35pm
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Good luck - although I don't think you'll need it ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 3:40pm
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Thanks freckle :)
FX... -------------
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 4:06pm
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Mum2ollie looks like a BFP to me too! Sorry to hear about your m/c. Hugs xx ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 4:07pm
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Mum2ollie looks like a BFP to me too! Sorry to hear about your m/c. Hugs xx ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 4:12pm
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Thanks tiggeriffic :)
I just sooo don't want to get my hopes up. I only tested today because I had a full blown breakdown yesterday (sitting in the hall crying for 40 minutes!) which only happens when I'm pregnant... -------------
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 6:24pm
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Ooh well that's another good (but sad!) sign what were you doing crying for 40 mins you silly! Let's hope you will be smiling your head off when you test next
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for ya xx ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 6:25pm
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I honestly have no idea. I was just coming down the hall and just burst into tears! I think DP was pretty shocked lol. -------------
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Posted By: Angs1982
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 6:27pm
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Looks like your pg to me!
Test tomorrow? |
Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 6:29pm
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Haha your poor dp! Lol kinda funny though, I could imagine the surprise on his face! Like what the heck...ohhh lol ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 6:30pm
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Yup testing tomorrow ^_^
I have to drop DS at daycare at 8am so will pick up a test on my way home (I'll have to go to a different pharmacy or supermarket, the closet to me are going to start thinking I'm mad) and will test when I get home. Hope I can hold on that long with out peeing! Lol. So...watch this space?? -------------
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 6:30pm
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Yeah he was pretty confused. I was a wreck.
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Posted By: Angs1982
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 7:21pm
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Can you do a pee in the cup of FMU?
You're female - thats enough of an excuse. |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 7:25pm
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Yeah I will ^_^
gosh I really don't want to get my hopes up but it's so hard not too :( -------------
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Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 9:18pm
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Sorry, had to LOL a little bit, I recognise the post you copied and pasted hehe.
That test you posted is darker than my 13 AND 16DPO tests on that brand with this baby, so I'd say you've got yourself a bfp!! Best of luck this time around chick! Looks like you might get to join the may 2011 thread with Caro
Heres my 13DPO one about 12 hours later 
my 13 and 16DPO ones about 24 hours after doing the 16DPO one  ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003  
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 9:20pm
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I really hope so!! If I get a BFP I'm going to go to the doc and have bloods done to make sure. After the m/c I'm a bit nervous. -------------
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Posted By: lil_lease
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 10:48pm
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I have to say I took a test at 13dpo on an Innovicon test (pretty much the same as a quickcard as far as I can tell) and I only checked it after the minimum amount of time passed and then put it off to one side thinking it was Neg.
I checked it an hour or so afterwards and it was showing a second line! I ran to Pak'n'save and got a First Response (which from the ladies on here I have heard to be the best for an early detection and at a pretty good price) tested with non-FMU and got a clear positive! Since then the FR line has faded slightly but the Innovicon line is barely there, though it was most definately pink when it was showing and theres still a thin pink line there now, and I am most definately UTD Anyway, moral to that novel is: Sometimes genuine pos results CAN fade depending on the test, but FR give a pretty reliable result. I'd say go with the result you get in the morning if you're using a FR
Good luck! ------------- Antony, gone but never forgotten 2-4-2010 
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 9:18am
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BFN.
Must have just been an evap line yesterday. Tested with first response this morning. I just wish AF would show up sometime soon so I can get my life sorted -------------
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Posted By: MrsMJD
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 9:21am
Aawww sweetie that sucks!!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 9:22am
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I just hate this waiting. I m/c on August 6th. I have never wanted AF so badly in my entire life. -------------
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Posted By: MrsMJD
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 9:28am
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Having never been through your kinda of pain before everything that springs to mind is cheesy or won't help. All I can offer is cyber hugs and a sympathetic ear. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 9:30am
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It's just so frustrating waiting for AF. I tried so hard to not get my hopes up yesterday. But it's hard not too. -------------
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Posted By: MrsMJD
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 9:40am
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if I could make them warm and squishy I would. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 10:29am
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hugs hun! -------------   
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Posted By: TwinnyBump
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 10:31am
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Loads of mum2ollie ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 10:34am
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Thanks everyone :(
I really thought it was be +ve -------------
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Posted By: Janie
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 12:17pm
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Oh no mum2ollie, I really thought that looked like a positive! Your body can take a while to get back to normal after a miscarriage, after my first miscarriage I got my period exactly 28 days later, but it was 47 days after the second one and 32 days after the last.
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 12:17pm
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Awww stink big hugs chick, I really thought you would have a bfp too
Hugs
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Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 1:38pm
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hmm... that was a pretty dark pink line for an evap... maybe test again in 2-3 days if AF is still a no-show? Have you had any bloods done to make sure? ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 1:40pm
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No bloods done.
I just feel so dejected right now. I really thought I was UTD :( -------------
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 2:24pm
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I really thought you were. I would got to the Dr anyway & get some bloods done anyway to see what your cycle is up to.
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Posted By: mountaingirl
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 2:36pm
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Hugs hun. Not to get your hopes up unnecessarily, but I have a close friend who got an early pos, and then a day or two later a neg, and her wee one is now 10 months old.
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 3:16pm
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I'm going to wait a week. If I can. I have such poor will power :( -------------
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 5:56pm
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How are you going mum2ollie, hope you are doing okay xx ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 6:10pm
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I'm okay. I think I'm angry at myself for getting my hopes up. I really should go get a blood test done but then I think, all this over a stupid evap line? -------------
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 6:41pm
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Im really sorry, I think im partly to blame for getting your hopes up as I was so sure you were too!
Hugs xx ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 6:47pm
nope I think this one was all me 
I have decided (though knowing me this is likely to change) if I haven't got AF by the Sept 30th I'll get bloods done. Because that would mean it's been two cycles using the m/c day as day one with no AF. -------------
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 6:53pm
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Good idea, that way it will tell you whats happening for sure too, and look at ways to kick start the system back into life if its being lazy :) ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 6:56pm
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That's what I thought.
Undoubtedly I will end up with a preggers test a few times before then. FX it isn't just being lazy. Even after I had my son my cycle returned to normal right away. -------------
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 7:00pm
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They are SO crossed for you!! Sounds pretty positive if it returned to normal straight away after having Ollie, have you done more than one preg test? just out of curiosity... this is not me getting your hopes up! xx ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 7:02pm
Well. I did the initial two I posted about here. Which were two dif brands. One neg and one evap (  ) and then I did two more. One FR. The pink capped one. And a clearblue. Both Neg.
Then I threw the second clearblue test (box has two in it) out so I wouldn't be tempted to test again. -------------
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 7:08pm
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LOL @ you throwing it out! must have cost you a bomb on tests, hate that aye xx
Big hugs for you xx ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 7:11pm
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oh it did. The one with the evap line alone was $20.
DP doesn't even know I've done all these tests and about the evap line. I didn't want to get his hopes up and have him hurt too, so right now he must think I'm a terribly moody cow. -------------
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Posted By: Tiggeriffic1
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 7:14pm
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Yeah thats understandable too, I think i'd do the same thing, its much nicer telling them when you have a BFP! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 7:18pm
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Yeah agreed. I hope we get it soon. And for you too!
Gosh, all of the ladies on here need a BFP! Mother Nature can be a total cow. -------------
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Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 17 September 2010 at 9:22am
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lol, next time you buy tests, just get the cheap FR dipstick ones, they have shown the best bfp's that I've ever seens, they showed up +ve better than those quickstream ones. And if they come up bfn, then you havent wasted quite as much $ as on the other tests oh and they come in 3 packs too, JIC you get one bfn, and one bfp, you have a tiebreaker hehe ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003
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Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 17 September 2010 at 11:36am
I'm sooo shocked to hear it was a bfn  that really sucks!!! and seems really strange as that quickstream really doesn't look even slighty like an evap.... I agree with BK the first response dip tests are defo the way to go!! I'd be temped to test again soon if af hasn't arrived... ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 17 September 2010 at 11:48am
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Af still hasn't arrived. I don't know what the heck is going on. I feel like it should have. If you know what I mean? -------------
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 17 September 2010 at 11:59am
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 17 September 2010 at 12:35pm
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Yeah I know. I'll go next week. I need to stop putting it off. I don't know why I am putting it off. I guess I still have a small amount of hope and I don't want a Neg BT to kill that off. -------------
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 17 September 2010 at 3:05pm
I so know how that feels...a lot of us do, FX
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Posted By: mum2ollie
Date Posted: 17 September 2010 at 3:08pm
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Thanks Jazzy. Gosh I am SO glad OhBaby exists. I'd go made without all you guys to bitch and moan and vent to! -------------
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