Can Homemade pregnancy test make a mistake?

franc · Newbie Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 24

I need a help in understanding some rules about home pregnancy test.
I have not had a period for two months, but I have taken a pregnancy test, which came back negative.
That was a relief for me but my friend told me that these tests can sometimes make a mistake.
After that first testing I went and bought two more different pregnancy tests and they all came back negative. How much can I be sure now that I got an accurate result and that I’m not pregnant.
Can someone with any pregnancy testing experience help me providing such details?

delapena · Newbie Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 15

If you had this kind of problem 10 years ago, it would made me thinking but the modern pregnancy tests are very sensitive so it is unlikely that you are pregnant with a negative pregnancy test two months after your last period.
These modern pregnancy tests measure level of hormone hCG in your urine and that is the most sensitive indicator of pregnancy and gives you an early and accurate result.
Yes, it is true that sometimes this hormone is rising slower than usual but indicators on these tests can measure smallest concentrations of hCG so you have no reasons to be worry.
That points as to the fact that your missing period is not connected with pregnancy but with something else like inflammation of Fallopian tubes, ovarytis and similar diseases.

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i know this is post is three years old. But in case some one comes across it through a search engine, I just want you say that missing your period for a few months is not an indicate of a disease. I regularly missed period and it was found that my body produced way to much of the hormone prolactin. I was put on bromocripten and the problem has since been rectified so don't be too worred that you may have some terrible disease. It may just be an hormone imbalance

Can Homemade pregnancy test make a mistake?

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