After some help here as I am driving myself mad wondering if I am really pg or I just got 2 packs of dud hpts.
I tested with the First Response test strip on the afternoon of 24 December, I was 8dpo then. And got a very very super duper faint line, it came up within the 5 min timeframe. I tested again on the 25th December 9dpo with another First Response test strip with FMU and got another super duper faint line but DH could see it. So I got super excited because my temps on FF are high and staying consistantly high over the 3 days. I didnt have any tests yesterday to try with FMU so I tested about lunch time after I went to the shop and bought a First Response test strip and the First Response Early Result. I tested with the First Response Early Result because I thought surely I would get a result as AF is 1 or 2 days late and the First Response Early Result says that it can pick up from 6 days before your missed period. So I was utterly gutted when it came up as a BFN! I ripped open the First Response test strip and tried with that and again a BFN I left it at that yesterday and tested again this morning with FMU (11dpo) with the First Response test strip and there is a super duper faint line but its about as faint as the one two days ago and I thought that it would be darker!! And I cant be totally certain that it came up within the 5min time frame but you can def see it now that its dried.
So, I was just after people's experiences with their pos HPTs, inparticular the First Response brand - did you have a definite 2nd line at 11dpo or was it still pretty faint?
Could I be getting evap lines?? The 2nd line is the same shade of purple and surely I can't be getting evap lines on all 3 tests??!! The 8 & 9 dpo were from the same pack and the 11dpo was from a new pack.
As i mentioned above I am maybe 1 or 2 days late with AF. My cycles are either 25 or 26 days with my last cycle being only 25 days. On Saturday I had a backache, cramps and pains going through boobs and I was tired & needed an arvo nap. Yesterday I had a few cramps but sore boobs gone, I did have a headache that lasted all day. Today, I feel normal.
Feel free to look at my FF chart too.
TIA!!!
Last edited by Ngala; December 27th, 2010 at 02:09 PM.
The one I did today was with FMU (forgot to add that in) so I thought that it would be darker. Did you have a look at my pic? I got the 3 pos tests in my gallery..
I do have another 2 of the First Response Early Result but am too afraid to use them! I was going to pick up a digi one yesterdy but afraid of those NOT PREGNANT words...
ok from your chart i think your only 7dpo at the moment, you have a more consistent temp rise of 3 post EWCM than when it has marked you.
so that may be explaining the faint BFP's
When i invert the colours and play with the sharpness and contrast i can seen a second line in the bottom 2 more clearly than the top one.
i'd say give it 2-3 days re test and see how you go..
They don't look like First Response tests? My FR Early Respsonse were massive pink and white ones? I used tests like those ones once, they were Forelife? I got evap lines left, right and centre with the Forelife/Foretel ones!
Anyway, I also inverted and played around in Photoshop and saw a sort-of line in the bottom one, a kind-of shadow in the middl eone, and maybe-maybe something inthe top one, but if they were my tests I'd have said they were evap lines. Sorry Maybe test in a few days?
Oh, another thing to try is rather than peeing ON the stick, pee in a plastic cup and dip it in for the amount of time it says to pee on it. That's what I did with my FRER tests at 10DPO, 12DPO, and 14 DPO using FMU, and I got feint but clear positives getting steadily darker with each one. Peeing on them I find doesn't give it enough wee, but thats probably just a reflection of my aim and ability to pee on things more than anything else!
The one of the left is what I am getting these faint lines with and the one on the right I am too scared to use cause it showed the bfn on 10dpo..
And yes, I peed in a cup and dipped them for the time that they said.
I can definitely see lines on those tests, and to me they look like they are getting darker. I used test strips like those with both my DS's pregnancy and also with this little girl. Mine were a different brand though. Once I was sure I could see something on one of the test strips I did the First Response test (the big pink and white one) and always found they came up with a much stronger (and definite) line.
Ngala, I had an almost identical experience to yours. I'll write it down for you so you can see the similarities. BTW, I have a 24-25 day cycle too.
10 DPO - Test with FR strip with FMU - Very faint BFP. DH thinks Im seeing things and cannot see a line. Mine looked identical to yours in the pic, if not fainter. But I knew it was not a BFN after having them month after month.
11 DPO - Test with FR strip with FMU - Very faint BFP. No darker than the previous day. Worried because this happened in my chemical pg just 5 months before.
12 DPO - No more tests, so go out and buy FR early result, knowing it should be darker because these are more sensitve tests. BFN with concentrated urine. No hint of a second line. (I even took the test apart and held it upto the light) Absolutely gutted!
13 DPO - Test with FR early result. Very faint BFP or evap line. Second line has virtually no colour. DH says I should stop testing because there is no line and I am not pg.
15 DPO - AF now late. I buy another pkt of FR strips. BFP! DH can see it. I know it is a real BFP!!!!!!!!! The line is not as dark as the control line though, but is now visible.
16 DPO - Line is getting stronger, but still not as dark as the control line.
I hope this helps, because it is the same experience as I had with the exact same tests just 3 weeks ago!
Good luck. Let us know how you go!
Last edited by Diamond Girl; December 27th, 2010 at 04:16 PM.
I am getting quite frustrated and have been in and out of sleep since 3am!!
If these tests I have done are duds wouldn't the 'line' stay the same shade with each of the tests. The 'line' has gotten a teeny bit darker on each of the tests. I tested each of them in the same way - FMU in a cup stick dipped for 10 seconds and timer on for 5 mins. If they were duds or evap lines then it shouldn't get darker or have colour to the lines....
Seriously clutching at straws here aren't I?!!
I need to get in to see a doc cause I might need a tetanus shot so I'm going to ask for a blood test if my hpt still doesn't have a clear result tomorrow..
I do not trust those dip sticks! I would definitely try again with the First response in stream tests, IME they have been the most reliable & accurate.
I found first response temperamental and I got 3 BFN . With a crystal clear dip stick one I got a very obvious BFP in a minute at about 3pm day after FR. A digital 2 days after the FR test returned a result in about 1 min saying 2-3weeks. DP said FR must be imcopmpatible with my wee
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I left it at that yesterday and tested again this morning with FMU (11dpo) with the First Response test strip and there is a super duper faint line but its about as faint as the one two days ago and I thought that it would be darker!! And I cant be totally certain that it came up within the 5min time frame but you can def see it now that its dried.
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Maybe test in a few days? 
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