Fortel Ultra HPT - Unreliable and false positives

I thought i should share what happened during my last cycle. I was 9dpo and couldnt hold out so used a fortel ultra hpt, got a feint line, thought ok, well i'll do it again tomorrow to confirm, anyway did the second test the next day 10dpo, got a darker feint line than the day before. Thought, well since this ttc has been going on for a year and a half now and FS said to get a blood test if i get a positive, i went to the gp on 11dpo, had a blood test..... and guess what..... not a drop of hcg in my blood, so negative I couldnt have been less pregnant!!!!.... thought ok, well i had bought two boxes of the useless fortel ultras, so the next day 12dpo i did one for the heck of it, and you guessed it, another positive.... So be warned everyone, before you waste your money on a test that is clearly useless. Resist this early hpt as it will only cause anxiety and false hopes, use a different brand.

Carys.

My GP wouldnt' do a blood test, and didn't want to know about me until I was 2 weeks late. LOL. She said the levels are too low until then to be sure.

Oh Carys, what a horrible experience for you!

WTF? That is terrible.......... How could it have come up positive that many times????

Hi Carys, I'd like to add that this test kept giving me negatives, when the Lullaby Conceptions 20 mius were showing positives. So I would second what Carys said about chosing another brand!

I got a negative on this hpt this moring on 13DPO and couldn't feel any more pg at the moment. I guess if they're giving false positives then I haven't got much hope if I'm getting a negative. Lol.

Sweety, don't forget they were giving Marydean a false negative when she was in fact Positive!

I had a false negative with two of these (I believe it was the same brand). I am wondering if it is more to do with the time of testing than anything. I will be wary in future of testing before I should.

I got a false -ve at 11 dpo with FMU with Fortel Ultra, but a blood test on 13dpo showed my hcg to be 73. So it was probably too early, and I would be wary now, too, of testing before AF is due.

How can it give a false +ve tho? Surely there is SOME hcg there for it to give a line? I read somewhere that even with blood tests.. they won't say it's +ve unless there's a certain amount of HCG.. so there could be some, but not enough for them to say you're pregnant.

i had that problem when i was trying to find out if i was pregnant with akira who is nearly 5 now. i had got hpt to see if i was preggie and it kept saying i wasnt and i was 2 mths late so i waited another month to see if that made a different nope still the same. so i ended up going to the dr's and they had the same problem. i need an u/s and found out i was 5mth preggie big shock.

this time round i went straight to the dr and had them do a blood test and all that. hpt are crap.

sorry to hear about your story carys. hope you get preggie soon keep shaking booty and you will get there.

Adele

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How can it give a false +ve tho? Surely there is SOME hcg there for it to give a line? I read somewhere that even with blood tests.. they won't say it's +ve unless there's a certain amount of HCG.. so there could be some, but not enough for them to say you're pregnant.

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thats right liz some people dont get enough till the very end of there preggie and thats what happened to me every blood test i had came back BFN until i had 2 weeks left. my dr thinks it the way the body works sometimes.

Funny you mention that aboll as my mother in law has told me that when she was pg all the BT kept coming back negative at the Drs, it was only once she insisted on a Ultra Sound because she felt sick and belly was growing that she discovered she was pregnant. That was over 30 years ago but i thought it was a freak one off...Interesting.

I never had a problem with these tests. I first tested 9dpo and got a +ve result and tested again 10 dpo and got a +ve result and went to the doc's and bloods came back +ve...

walkingart- i know it is a very rare thing to have happen to you. it was a big shock to the system to find out you have 4mths to get your mind and house ready for a baby lol.

I was getting very clear positives with this brand and crystal clear and I hadn't even ovulated yet!!! In my opinion they are cheap for a reason, always back it up with a well known brand.

Clare - Can I ask why you were POAS if you knew you hadn't O'd yet?

I'm like Ngala, I got a faint positive at 9 and 10 dpo, so for me, this brand was fine.

I didn't know I hadn't ovulated, it was the first cycle after AF following the lose of Max so my temp was doing silly things. FF had my o date originally at CD 15 so I started testing at CD 20 (silly I know), but the lines on both types of tests were coming up well within the time limit. I finally got a positive OPK at CD 22 and temp increased again and gave me a new coverline. Ultrasound has confirmed o date as around CD23.

I've read that the Fortel Ultra can give you a false positive if your urine is acidic. Very strange really.

When I used fortel the control never came up:confused: . ended up using clearblue - no probs

Lol. I am a new test-junkie and have been using the Foretel strips over the last few days and have been getting BFN's. I know it was a little too early to test, but couldn't help it. ;) AF is due on tuesday, and I am probably clutching at straws here, but has anyone had negative's with these strips and still been pregnant? Are they really that unreliable??
Thanks!

hi everyone, just thought i would pass on my experience with fortel ultra hpts. i would say i have done about 100 of these over the last few years trying to conceive (now have two boys, ttc #3). i have definitely had countless false positives with faint lines appearing well within the test time. it seems to happen more when using FMU.

My advice would be to only trust the result for the fortel ultra if there is a strong positive line - ive been tricked too many times!

I know this is an old thread, but what about fortel extra? are they just as bad as the ultras?

I'm interested in hearing comments on Fortel Extra too....

I have used Fortel Extra a week after I got my first +ve. It was strong and +ve.
I always had problems with Fortel Ultra though. I was 5 days late once and I got a +ve on their brand (I always used FMU and a sensitive test so I would be squinting to see the line)
Anyways, a second line came up straight away. I went to the DR's told him, he did BT came back -ve. Did another test (more expensive one) and it also came back -ve. Period came three days later.

I had no problems with the Fortel Ultra.

Had a weak +ve at 12 dpo and every day after that it got stronger till I went to the Drs and had my PG confirmed.

I just bought a "Fortel forelife" it was reduced at the supermarket for $9 and the girl at the counter put it through for $2...anyway bargain. I just used the Ovulation part of it (5 OPK, 3 HPT) and yesterday it was neg and today it is positive. Has anyone had problems with the OPK part or just the HPT part of fortel products.
Thanks
Heidi

I tried the Fortel Ultra this month and I got two positive results, but I am not pregnant. This test should not be on the market. It gives couples false hope and I believe it can be extremely damaging!

Hmmm, I am so sorry to all of you who have had negative experiences with Fortel Ultra, It definately seems that there is a flaw with these test.

However, my experience was very positive. I used this brand on DPO 9 and got a feint feint line, which only got stronger and I am indeed expecting.

Im sure others have had positive experiences but its disturbing that there are so many negative as they seem to be very popular saying that they can pick up the smallest amount of hormone in there test the only ones on the market..

Makes me wonder if the first test was actually a false positive (being so early) ??

Something really needs to be done about this problem as it is causing alot of unwanted hurt and anxiety amongst us.

I really do think that the best way to overcome this is to wait untill your period is late before testing.

I know how hard the TWW is but in all honesty waiting a few extra days to have a more accurate result has got to be better than such dissapointment.

When I was TTC for Angus I had a +ve HPT so when I went to the Drs and tested -ve there. It was heartbreaking and I bawled for hours!
The Dr reassured me that the tests they use test for a higher level of HCG than the early tests used on the market and to come back in a week for a repeat test if AF still hadn't come.
They test for a higher level of HCG because many (I don't have a stat in front of me right now so I'm saying many...) fertilised eggs do not develop into pregnancies for whatever reason.
Sure enough a week later I tested BFP at the Dr's and I didn't waste any more of my money POAS at home.


:hug: This isn't directed to anyone in particular. I'm just trying to be a help and I think that maybe if you are being upset by "false positives" then maybe change the way you test.
Chances are that there was a fertilised egg that was making the test show a feint positive but then the PG hasn't continued.