how soon after implantation can i take a pregnancy test

Dear Guest post on 2/26/08:

It all depends on where you are in your cycle. Do you have regular cycles? If so, you can usually figure out when you ovulate by taking your waking temperature every morning. Your temp spikes up immediately after ovulation, and stays up until you have your period.

If you didn't have sex around the time of ovulation (like if you are just a few days into your cycle or a few days from getting your period), then chances are you aren't pregnant.

If you did have sex around the time of ovulation, you might be pregnant. About 6-10 days after ovulation is when the fertilized egg becomes implanted in the woman's uterus. At this stage some people have a little bit of bleeding -- not as much as a period, and it goes away within a couple of days. Others start to feel very early pregnancy signs such as tender breasts/nipples and fatigue. But some people have no symptoms at all, so you won't really know based on outward signs.

If you are regular and you miss a period, you should take a pregnancy test. If you are not regular, you should wait a little over two weeks after you had sex and test then.

Hope that helps.

I had implantation bleeding and knew it was too early for my period, so I asked my fiance to stop at the store and get an early detection test. One line was lighter but still there!!! I took another the next day, and the next day and the lines was darker each time.

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I had implantation bleeding about 8 days past ovulation. Just a light pink smear on tissue after you wipe. This lasted for around 3 days but only very light. I tested using an early response HPT around 12 days PO and again at 14 days PO, both tests negative. Thought my period was just around the corner but decided to test again today (16 DPO) and guess what...?! Big fat positive!
I've never written a reply before but just wanted to share my experiences, as you never know who might gain some positivity from them. Good luck to all of you TTC.

Thanks guest for your info above. i've read through hundreds of these posts, and this is one I can relate to. This past month is my 6th round of clomid 150mg. I went for labs on April 2nd, and came back at only 2.8. Doc said I didn't ovulate. But, on April 7 and 8th I had brown snotty like discharge, sorry tmi. AF was due April 9th, no show I had blood test done on April 8th and it was neg. I did HPT on April 10 BFN and April 11th BFN, I'm still convinced that I am Preggers!! I think I ovulated late like around April 2nd or 3rd and the brown discharge was implantation bleeding and I'm now only 9 or 10 dpo and maybe should wait few more days and test again. Please any comments would be helpful. We have had a tr in oct of 2005 and have been trying ever since. I have 2 dd from previous marriage and dh now has none, he had a varicocele repair last august and we want so bad to be pg this time.

HI,

I am responding to this because I now have 2 friends who were athletes and very strong and thin and healthy, but could not get pregnant. Even after they gained some weight. They both fouond out that is was not the weight they should be looking at, but the body fat. If you are under (a specific number) body fat, some people can not ovulate or ovulate, but do not get their periods, or concieve. After they gained some body fat, which helps with all sorts of womenly things.....they were able to concieve. I personally think it is your body protecting yourself, because if you were too thin you may not have the extra calories or fat to use for the pregnancy....it is almost more important to gain a little weight before youo get preg, then after. Most people think you need to gain a ton of weight when you are preg...that is not true. You should only gain what your doctor says is natural for your weight/height/age/and baby or number of babies in there.



Also as far as the spotting for the other posts. I have had spotting yeaterday, had sex during ovulation time, and my period should be due in about 5 days...So I could be pregnant...I am so happy. This happened to me a few months back, and I thought it was implantation bleeding, but I ended up getting my period very heavy and bad about a week later. My doctor said it could have been (I could have been preg) but a LOT of pregs happen and then do not hold after implantation and you lose it during your period....sort of like a pre-mis-carriage. Nothing has time to reallly develope, but something went wrong, some women have this happen month after month and do not even know they were pregnant!

It takes 3-5 days for HCG to enter the blood (longer for urine) after Implantation. If someone had implantation bleeding, let's say on Sunday...then the hormone HCG will not even be detectable in the blood & urine for 3-5 days. Some even longer. That's why the woman who said she had implantation for '6 days' tested positive on the 7th day. I bet even if she tested on the first or second day of implantation, it would have been negative.

I knew a woman who tested 'negative' for 4 entire months...meanwhile, she was 'truly pregnant'. Ultrasounds were watching this healthy happy little guy floating around & yet 'no hpt' would pick it up. I guess some women have lower HCG levels than others.

Always best to wait at least 1 week after missed period (or period due date) & then just go straight for the blood test! :-)

Cheers!

My partner and I aren't really trying for a baby but I really want one and know that it would be better to wait until we are more settled before we start trying. I have using the mini pill which I feel messes up my bodies periods so we agreed that I would stop taking it for a while until they were regular again and then I would start them again. I had one period which ended around the end of Dec 08 and on Jan 1st we had unprotected sex twice. I read a lot of information on the internet and worked out that ovulation would occur on Jan 6th and it was around then that I noticed the white discharge. We had unprotected sex again on Jan 8th, 11th and 12th. On Jan 12th and 13th I had a little tummy pain but have had no spotting at all. I was reading through these posts when I decided to quickly take my temperature which was 97.5. Does this suggest that I might be pregnant and if so when can I test to make sure?

I don't know if this is true.....first off, you CAN tell sometimes if implantation has occures, you can either feel it or sometimes spot.



The reason you don't take a test 14 days after sex is, for example, if you had sex the day after your period, you most likely have just ovulated and the egg may or may not have implanted yet, and you body definitally hasn't had the chance to build up the hCG that a home test detects.



My best advice...wait till AFTER your period, and if it is positive, you're prego, if it's negative, wait two-three more days and take another.

Hi,
My husband and I having been TTC for about 8-9 months now. I was charting my ovulation and was supposed to ovulate on January 10th '09. We had sex on the 9th and by the 13th (4dao)I had very tender/sore breasts at night when I took my bra off.

It has gotten worse everynight since and now they hurt all day even with out my bra on! I don't normally have these symptoms with my period, at least not nearly as severe. It hurts on the sides close to my armpits, and I have noticed my nipples are erect more often.

I have had a cold for almost two weeks now, but my only symptom now is a cough (not too much of one, just a little mucus). I have felt kinda light headed a few times and I'm not sure if it was from the cold or not?

Could this be a very early sign of being pregnant?
Here's Hopin...

I have a question. I have been trying to get pregnant for the past two years, which I have been diagnose with PCOS. I have been taken clomid and metformin. Now, I have missed my period it has been two weeks and 2 days. I want to know how long do I have to wait until I until I get a pregnancy test for a women who has PCOS?

I had unprotected sex March 21, 2 days before my missed period, and now my period is like 6-7 days late and It March 30. Am I pregnant. I have cramps every now and then, but they are really light, no blood. No other symptoms. Do you think it is too early to detect if I am or not. Took 3 pregnancy test...ALL negative. Please HELP...

yes you can still be pregnant. my last 2 baby's i didn't have my implantational bleeding until at least a week after my periods were due....had plenty of false neg tests (very frustrating) before and after gave up think the implantion bleedings both times were just light periods, then i'd missed my next period and have a poss preg test

Hi everyone! I'm new to this site, I just came across it today, however, I have been cruising baby, pregnancy and fertility sites for months reading every artcile, and post I can find hoping to educate myself more and share in personal experiences with others. My husband and I have been TTC for about 8 months, although admittedly, not trying as hard as we could or doing as much as we could be, and thats going to change pronto! I dont want to waste any more time, so as of NOW we are going to do anything and everything we can to conceive. I have spent most of today on the web collecting helpful hints about charting, BBT, ovulation predictor kits and strips, and even natural fertility enhancers. Im going full speed ahead, and joining some forms where i can share mt experiences and baby path with others will help, as i can interact with others going through the same thing, offer support, and hopefully receive some as well.

I notice a lot of timel, peoploe dont so much as answer previous posts and questions, as just post their own, I think we should all try to answer each others questions as well as ask our own!

Heres a little of my history, I am VERY irregular! I always have been, it runs in my family. Im in my mid 30's now, but when i was younger, i would get a period every other month, one time even went 6 months without one! Doctors said I was healthy and that was just how I was! I have never taken birth control pills. It seems in the past 4 years i have become more regular, I at least have a period very 6 weeks! they range from about 35 days to 48 days! They are normal in length and everything else, I have always had periods that were on the shorter side, between 3 and 5 days. I used to be able to tell when I ovulated, I always felt a sharp pain in my ovary, and knew i was ovulating, now I dont get that so much anymore, in fact, i dont know if I even ovulate at all! Thats why Im going to start charting and using the test strips and BBT in the morning, I even got one of those saliva microscopes! I figure, by charting for a few months, I will know if I do, and if so WHEN i do, and if not, i can go to the doctor and get a prescription for something to make me ovulate. I have always been very reproductively healthy and fertile i the past, and im still very healthy overall.My hubby is healthy as well.
So... now that my basic history is out there, sorry it was so long..lol.. here is what my dilemma is for the moment! I am so irregular, that i can never know when to expect my next period. I do know however that i never get it before about day 34, and usually lately its been a little longer. However, at day 29, (sunday) i started spotting. It felt out of nowhere, as I had not really had any PMS symptoms except for some very mild cramping for about 2 days prior. The spotting started as just very light pink on the TP when I wiped. There hasn't been any bleeding when I go to the bathroom, or on my pad, it only seems to be present when I wipe after going to the bathroom. The first day, it was very light pink, and only a very small amount, just a hint, later that day it was a little more of a brownish color on the TP, still real light, no volume, just a tinge. Then day 2, same thing, except in the middle of the day when I went to the bathroom, and wiped, there was a smear of bright red, still nothing in the toilet or on my pad, and then back to the light pink and brown tinges, today is day 3, and same thing, light brown mostly now, and still nothing anywhere but the TP after I wipe. Im wondering whats going on! It seems too early for my period, although who knows! and theres almost nothing to it! Usually AF starts out with the normal PMS symptoms FIRST, headache, backache, FATIGUE,bloating, anxiety, moodiness, nausia, cramps etc.. and then AF kicks in. When she does kick in, it isnt like this, 3 days of light spotting first. usually I will start out slow, and it picks up, but it always starts out red and more then whats here now, and there will be some on my pad and in the toilet after going to the bathroom etc.. Also, I havent had a whole lot of PMS symptoms before this started! I barely have any now! I feel a little bloated, and I feel a little crampy (felt that way for 5 days now) its off and on, varies in intensity, but never bad. I have some lower back pain, Suday, the first day I spotted, I felt a little nausious for a few hours, and had a headache that night but it went away.I dont have a high temp. But I DO feel really tired. I guess Im wondering, if this could be implantation bleeding, or just an odd period this month coming on weird, or if this is my period and its just real scanty and non existant..Im so confused! It seems everything i read says something different! I took a test, but its negative, but from what i read, it would be too early for a real rsult anyway, someone have any advice??
Also I have some questions that I am getting conflicing info on:
-Can a woman have a period if she did NOT ovulate? some say yes, some say no!
-I am also getting conflicting info on when a woman ovulates, some say always in the middlke of the cycle, others say anytim during the cycle is possible!
-Is there a way to tell if the egg is making it down the fallopian tube? If people have blocked tubes (I dont know if i do or not) they may ovulate and get the signs of it, but how can they tell if its making it down and out of the tubes????? no one ever addresses this! Its a good question!
-What is the best, by all of your opinions, fertility suppliment? I have heard of many, fertileAid, fertileTea, chastberry, false unicorn, do any of these work???
We want to give it an honest hard working 6 months TTC, if no luck we are off to the doctors to get checked, I would rather use natural fertility treatments as opposed to drugs and procedures if possible. Any advice anyone?
And most of all... why does this have to be so hard? Its so difficult every month, hoping and praying that we conceived only to have AF arive, I cry every month AF shows up. and every month before she does I go through the same thing, hoping I am pregnant, almost talking myself into believing what i am feeling could be symptoms, being late every month doesnt help, i feel hopeful, only to be crushed again and again when Af arrives. Im sorry this has been so long, but being new and having this be my first post, i wanted to get all my information out there, and also vent i think! If anyone has any advice, help, tips, please pass them on, Ill take whatever I can get! BTW does anyone think this could be implantation bleeding? or just a fluky ignorant AF? Thanks
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It's likely you implanted on the first of the 6 days, as it usually takes a few days after implantation for implantation bleeding to come out.



It takes days after implantation for HCG levels to build up enough to register positive in a test. You couldn't have implanted one day and tested positive the next, it's impossible. It takes several days for those quantities to build up.



Congratulations by the way!

Hi

Well I came off my contraceptive implant on 6th June. Not sure when my next period is due as I stopped bleeding 3 weeks before I had the implanon removed. I have been feeling dizzy and sick for the last couple days and very tired the last week or so!!!

I spotted on sat morning 4th July then stopped then sun then stopped and mon then def stopped.. Researched and it came up that this was implantation bleeding but not sure, so took a test this morning and it was neg.... Very confused as could this be the result of me simply coming off the implanon or could i be pregnant and if so when should i take my next test??

As assuming my cycle is 28days from 6th june I would be due on the 4th July when I spotted!!! I don't know some clarification would be apreciated thank you!!!